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The genealogy and history of the Pett/Pate family of shipbuilders is in the article, THE BUILDERS OF THE NAVY, A GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF PETT by H. Farnham Burke and Oswald Barron, from the public domain Google book The Ancestor (a magazine), A Quarterly Review of County and Family History, Heraldry and Antiquities, edited by Oswald Barron, F.S.A., Number X, July 1904. Published in London by Archibald Constable & Co., Ltd..
The history of Pett descent in America is from Joseph Pett of Limehouse, which accounts for the movements of members of this family from Virginia to the Neuse River Valley in North Carolina, because of Pett/Pelt (Lanen van Pelt)/Peete/ Pate family ties to the Caswell family in England. The English surname Caswell (also spelled Cashwell) is an ancient and famous one in North Carolina. A Richard Caswell was the first governor of the State of North Carolina. Caswell was preceded by colonial era governor Josiah Martin (surname of the captain of the the ship Unity, owned by Arthur Pett in Virginia). The wife Sarah of Richard Caswell had the odd and interesting birth surname Heritage (Herritage). The wife of a Phineas Pett descendant of Joseph Pett of Limehouse was Rabsey Caswell.
No family in English history has a more glorious heritage than the builders of the English Navy, the Pett dynasty. The Pett family of Limehouse was represented in America by the Quaker Joseph Pate of Patetown, builder of the Quaker meeting house at the old Tuscarora Fort Neeooherooka (pronounced N’hooky), descendant of Major Throughgood Pate, who died in the so-called Tuscarora War. Christopher is the given name of a Pett family shipwright, whose Pett surname is also spelled Pate in Stepney Green church records. It is also the given name of my physician, Dr. Christopher Pate, descendant of Major Thoroughgood Pate. Dr. Christopher Pate now practices medicine in Wayne County, North Carolina.
The Burke and Barron Pett genealogy of the descendants of Joseph Pett of Limehouse follows below:
iv. Joseph Pett, christened at Chatham 4 April 1630. He was probably the Joseph Pett, ' a young man' buried at Chatham 19 November 1652, and the Joseph Pett of whose goods admon. was granted 2 September 1653 to Eleanor the relict.
v. Christopher Pett, christened 18 June 1632, of whom
we know nothing more.
By his second wife Elizabeth, Joseph Pett of Chatham had issue :—
vi. Thomas Pett, christened 16 April 1649 at Chatham.
iD. Rose Pett, christened 8 March i6|£ at Chatham, and buried there 26 November 1640.
iiD. Margaret Pett, christened 19 December 1641 at Chatham.
iiiD. Elizabeth Pett, christened 5 August 1645 at Chatham.
IV
Captain Phineas Pett of Chatham (son of Phineas Pett of Chatham, grandson of Peter Pett of Deptford, and great- grandson of Peter Pett of Harwich), was christened 24 January i6i| at Chatham. When captain of the Tiger he took a French prize laden with brandy and wines, and making for home with her he met, on i or 2 May 1666, with a Dutch man-o'-war of forty guns. The Dutchman engaged with two or three broadsides, and sought to board the Tiger, guessing from the character of her prize that the crew would be drunk and helpless. The Tiger, however, was well defended, and the Dutchman at length fell off and ran for it. Five Englishmen were killed in this affair, and Captain Pett was the first to fall. This account is taken from the letters of Thomas Waltham and John Lanyon to the navy commissioners [Dom. State Papers]. He married at Chatham 10 April 1642 Frances Carre of Maidstone, who was probably of the family of Robert Carre, who was curate of Maidstone 1559-1620, his son William, who died in 1618, having been some time his assistant and parish clerk. She is said by Le Neve to have remarried one Roche of Ireland. Several petitions in her name are found amongst the Domestic State Papers. On 31 September 1667 Frances Pett, widow of Phineas Pett, who was slain in the Tiger, petitions for a gift of one of the old vessels late sunk at Woolwich. About the same time she addresses Lord Arlington, reciting that her children have lost a dear father, and one who whilst he lived had a large share of his sovereign's favour, which favour, she hopes, is not lost by his dying for his king.
Phineas Pett had issue by Frances his wife :— i. Phineas Pett, christened 3 May 1646 at Chatham. Le Neve speaks of him as Judge Advocate under Sir John Holmes, and says that he died on the Sous- dyke yacht in Ireland. Admon. of his goods, he being late of Dublin in Ireland, was granted 14 December 1694 [P.C.C.] to Philippa Pett the relict. Admon. d.b.n. was granted 28 July 1698 to Anne Baron, spinster (sister to the said Philippa), the aunt and guardian to Samuel Pett, the son of the deceased. The name of his first wife is uncertain. He married as a widower at St. Matthew, Friday Street, i April 1687, Philippa ' Barnes.' Le Neve describes her as daughter of ... Bacon, of Canterbury. She was really Philippa Baron, daughter of the cavalier plotter Hartgill Baron of Windsor, a royalist squire who was the first to kiss hands at Breda with the news of the restoration of monarchy. He was comptroller of Windsor Castle, and at one time secretary to Prince Rupert. Philippa Pett, the widow, probably followed her mother to Ireland and married as her second husband James Weekes of Dublin, gent., to whom admon. of her goods was granted 23 November 1702 [P.C.C.]. Phineas Pett had issue Samuel Pett, named in the grant of administration to Anne Baron in 1698. Le Neve says that he had two daughters by Philippa Baron, but gives no names or details, ii. Richard Pett, buried at Chatham 17 October 1656. iii. Richard Pett, buried at Chatham 16 June 1660. iD. Frances Pett, born 22 December 1649 at Chatham,
and living in 1663, when she is named in the herald's visitation of Kent. iiD. Jane Pett, born i March 165^ at Chatham, and
buried there 9 October 1660.
iii". Anne Pett, born 8 September 1653 at Chatham, and
living in 1663, when she is named in the herald's
visitation pedigree.
iv". Martha Pett, buried 30 June 1655 at Chatham.
Vd. Jane Pett, born 27 and christened 28 December
1664 at Greenwich.
Phineas Pett, posthumous son of Captain John Pett, who was cast away on the return from Rochelle, son of Phineas Pett of Chatham, and grandson of Peter Pett II., was christened 23 November 1628 at Chatham. He had a grant March i66f of the office of master shipwright at Chatham dockyard, following his petition in which he recited his father's death at sea in the late king's service. He described himself as having been brought up to shipbuilding by his grandfather, ' old Captain Phineas Pett.' Great difficulty has been found in distinguishing him from others of his name, a difficulty which is increased by the reckless identifications of the editors and indexers of that series of Domestic State Papers to which we must look for details of the careers of the Petts. He was buried 2 March 167^ at Woolwich. He made a will 18 January 167!, being then of Woolwich, naming his four daughters Hannah, Katherine, Elizabeth, and Mary, to whom he gave 35^. each. He gives all his residuary estate to his wife Elizabeth, ' considering the great losses and impoverishing my deare faithfull, most loving and most virtuous, my dearly beloved wife Elizabeth hath susteyned . . . leaving to her charity and wisdom without prejudice to herselfe, if things happen better than is expected, to cast an eye upon any of my relations that may fall in distress.' This will was proved 22 March 167$ [P.C.C. 27 Reeve], He was probably married three times. His first wife, Mary, was buried 20 October 1660 at Chatham. His second wife, Rabsey Caswell, was daughter of Richard Caswell, of St. Swithin's, London, a white baker, by Mary, daughter of Richard Slaynie
of Shropshire, gent, (married to Richard Caswell 9 February
i6i| at St. Michael's, Cornhill). Her marriage with
Phineas Pett of Chatham is recorded in the herald's visita-
tion of London in 1663. His third wife, Elizabeth, was
probably Elizabeth Taylor of Charlton, who married Phineas
Pett of Chatham 31 March 1668 at Greenwich.
Phineas Pett had issue by Mary his first wife :—
iD. Hannah Pett, born1 13 August 1649 at Chatham.
iiD. Mary Pett, born 19 September 1650 at Chatham,
iii". Catherine Pett, born 22 January 1653- at Chat-
ham.
iv°. Elizabeth Pett, born 31 January 165!- at Chatham.
VD. Mary Pett, born 7 April 1654 at Chatham.
vi°. Anne Pett, born 21 November 1655 at Chatham,
and buried there 31 January 165^.
viiD. Anna Pett, born 29 October 1657 at Chatham,
and buried there 7 March i6H.
Phineas Pett had issue by Rabsey Caswell, his second wife :—
i. James Pett, buried 8 February i66j at Chatham,
ii. Charles Pett, buried 6 April 1662 at Chatham,
viii". Mary Pett, christened 30 May 1662 at Chatham,
and buried there 10 June 1662. By his third wife, Elizabeth Taylor, he had issue :— iii. Peter Pett, christened 9 July 1669 at Chatham, and
buried there 30 December 1672. iv. (?) William Pett, ' son of Phineas Pett,' buried
28 July 1672 at Chatham.
ix. Elizabeth Pett, christened 13 December 1670 at
Chatham.
The article was signed by:
H. FARNHAM BURKE.
OSWALD BARRON
Much work is needed in digging out and bringing to light the convoluted connections of Petts of England to their Peyto kin in France, and to their Pate kin in Scotland and America, but we no longer have an excuse for not moving forward with it. Petts were much in Scotland in acquisition of timber for shipbuilding. The Pett family found England intolerable after the Battle of Medway River.
Note that Christopher Pett (son of Joseph Pett of Limehouse), christened 18 June 1632, simply disappears from all history and genealogy of the Petts of England. I believe he was the father of Dr. Samuel Peete (also spelled Pette in records), of Pate’s Delight, in Northampton County, in North Carolina.
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