from The Pettit Correspondent, Vol. 1, No. 3, page 38
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                                  Miscellany
       
       Ohio CW Vets
       
       The following is taken  from  a  letter sent to me by Jean Schumm
       (RR #1 Box 547, Lawrence, NE  68957).   It  was  written  by  Sam
       Myers  of  Stillwater, OK to Mrs W.H. Michler of Kansas City, MO.
       and is dated October 29, 1974.
       
       In the Office of the  Adjutant  General, Capitol Bldg., Columbus,
       Ohio, there is an Index for War 1812, and  War  of  1861-65.  For
       the former is listed the following with service in 1812:
       
       Petite - Amos, Samuel, Thomas, Joseph, Joseph.
       Pettit - James.
       
       And for War 1861-1865:
       
       Pettit - Allen, Eli, James, John, John A.
       Petit  - Alva, David, Ephraim, Franklin, Joseph, Levi.
       Pettet - Albert,   Alonzo A.,  Alphonse,   Bronton,  Burton   J.,
                Cornelius, Daniel.
       Pettit - David, David,  David,  Ebenezer,  Edward  L.,  Edwin L.,
                Enoch H.,  Isaac,  Jacob F.,  Jacob  F.,  James,  James,
                James,  James, James R., James R., John, Joseph, Joseph,
                Joseph, Levi, Levi, Levi I., Major A., Milton F., Nathan
                R.,  Samuel A., Samuel S., Simon  L.,  Stacy, Thomas F.,
                Thomas T.,  Wesley, William W., Thomas, Walker, Francis,
                Henry.
       
       An Early Newsman
       
       These  items  can  be found in Pioneer Ohio Newspapers, 1802-1818
       having been abstracted from The Western Spy of Cincinnati.
       
       M.S. Pettit  will print a  newspaper,  Spirit  of  the  West,  at
       Cincinnati (16 April 1814).
       
       Thomas Palmer has purchased the newspaper,  "The  Spirit  of  the
       West"  (16  June  1815).  Thomas Palmer says his purchase of "The
       Spirit of the West" has  fallen  through  and thepaper remains in
       the hands of Mr. Pettit.  He will start a  new  newspaper  called
       the "Cincinnati Gazette" (23 June 1815).
       
       M.S. Pettit,  editor  of the "Spirit of the West", is confined in
       the prison for debt,  and  asks  those  indebted  to  him to make
       immediate payments (30 June 1815).
       
       M.S. Pettit again asks those indebted to him for  the  newspaper,
       the  "Spirit  of the West", to make payments to Samuel M'Henry or
       J.H. Piatt (22 December 1815).
       
       A Divorce
       
       Volume  2  of  Pennsylvania   Vital  Records,  published  by  the
       Genealogical  Publishing Co., has an article  entitled  "Divorces
       Granted  by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania from December 1885,
       until 1801".  This entry is found on page 431:
       
       Eleanor  Pettit from  Samuel  Pettit,  late  of  Chester  County;
       married about seven years ago; divorced 19 March 1800.
       
       Father Petit
       
       In  early  September  Shirley Willard, President  of  the  Fulton
       County  Indiana  Historical  Society  (R.3  Box 89, Rochester, IN
       46975), sent a four page  news  release  regarding festivities to
       have been held in September to observe the  150th  anniversary of
       the  "Trail  of  Death".   This  march,  a  forced  emigration of
       Potawatomi Indians from  Northern  Indiana  to  Kansas,  occurred
       between  September  4 and November 4, 1838.   The  following  are
       brief  excerpts.   I  have  since written to Ms. Willard for more
       informati on.
       
       Ever since the Black Robes came as missionaries to the Potawatomi
       in  the  early 1800's, most of the Potawatomi  tribe  are  devout
       Catholics.  Father Petit went with them on the Trail of Death and
       died on the way back.  He is buried at Notre Dame.....
       
       On  April 30 the Indian  Awareness  Center,  a  branch  of  FCHS,
       planted 39 cedar trees in memory of the Indians  who  died on the
       Trail of Death, plus a pine tree for Father Petit.
       
       1870 Census Entry
       
       Marianne  Montgomery  (4106  N. 27th St., Tacoma, WA  98407-5215)
       submitted the following:
       
       Chickasaw Co. Iowa - 1870 census - Bradford Twp - p.492
       
       180/177  Pettit, Leander     49      Bl'smith    PA
                  "     Lois        41      h'keeper    NY
                  "     Nellie      16      at home     IL
       
       A 1719 Will
       
       From  Vol.  II, p. 222  of  Beverley  Fleet's  Virginia  Colonial
       Abstracts:
       
       The   Records   of   Essex   County,  Virginia.    Originals   at
       Tappahannock,  Essex  Co.,  Virginia.  Contributed by Mrs. Martha
       Woodroof Hiden, Newport  News,  Virginia.   Will  Book 3, p. 144.
       Will of Thomas Pettit of So. Farnham Par.   Dated  November  18th
       1719.
       
       Plantation of 280 a. where I now live to son George, if he d.s.p.
       then to son Benjamin;  to  son  Thomas the land in King and Queen
       Co. adj Col. Peter Beverley's line thence to Robert  Woolfolk and
       Robert  Powell;  the  300  a.  in  King  and Queen County where I
       formerly  dwelt to son  Benjamin.   Wife  Rachel.  Six  children,
       George,  Thomas,  Benjamin, Rachel, Elizabeth  and  Mary  Pettit.
       Land  in  King  William  Co. being 500 acres patented with Larkin
       Chow and others, lying  in  Middle River. Wit: Edward x Faulkner,
       P. Godfrey.  Exors, wife, Abram Wilson, Col.  Jas  Taylor,  Major
       George Braxton.