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Col.Thomas Pettus was “of the Governor's Council” 1641-60. (Stanard).
In 1643, “Thomas Pettus, Gent.” had a land grant for 886 acres bet. Jamestown and Middle Plantation ( now
Williamsburg), “a part being by reason of intermarriage with the relict of Richard Durant who patented it in 1636. This
is about the time he bought “Littleton” whose owner died in 1642. ((“Littleton” in 1633 was residence of Cant. Menifee
of the Council, a Virginia merchant. In 1661, Littleton was the residence of Col. Thomas Pettus of the Council, who had
married the widow of Richard Durant. Later, she married Capt. John Grove who died in 1671. When Capt. Thomas Pettus's
widow, Mourning married James Bray, Jr., “Littleton” passed from possession of the Pettus family.
Col. Pettus, was vestryman of old Harrup Parish, called Bruton after 1674. He was living in 1662/3.
He left a will but James City records burned in 1865. A York Co. record, 1698, refers to “a difference bet. Mr.
Edmund Berkeley and Maj. Lewis Burwell, one of the surviving executors of the will of Col Thomas Pettus. Edmund
Burkeley was Col. Pettus's grandson. His mother was Mary Pettus Berkeley Mann.
CHILDREN OF COL. THOMAS PETTUS and - ( ) PETTUS
a.) Capt. Thomas Pettus
b.) Mary Pettus
m.(1) ?
m.(2) ----- Berkeley
m.(3) ...... Mann
c.) Ann Pettus
? dau - ----- m . ....... Freeman.........
?Stephen Pettus
?John Pettis of Rappahannock & New Kent
NOTE: With Col. Pettus or before came a Stephen Pettus (here by 1637)
He had land grants 1655 & 1667.