Chat
|
Daily Search
|
My GenForum
|
Community Standards
|
Terms of Service
|
|
|
It seems worth noting, in the context of the statement of Mr. Charles Pate of Occoneechee Neck that he is descended from Taylors, and that the Taylors (as the old folks used to say) “had something”. The Taylors were millers in Northampton County. The old Taylor mill was not far from Pate’s Delight.
The Northampton County Taylor Pate connection ties back into the North Carolina Pate Caswell family connection. From the will of Phineas Pett of Chatham we learned:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?Elizabeth,Taylor::pate::4043.html
“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.”
Note the Pett/Pate association with millers. The Pate historical mill and miller tie goes back to the Edward Pate wind-driven mill in Chestershire in England (inspired I believe by Arthur Pett’s mill at Newport, Rhode Island), and on back presumably to ancient Egypt and Syria. The ancient Paetus family of Patavium (mother of Venice) had Roman wheat monopolies and state bread concessions, that were the envy of other Roman consular families.
Here we should note that Petts and Pettuses were investors in the Virginia Company. The old Roman Paetus surname was pronounced by the ancient Romans as Pate-us. The etymology of the surname Pate, as it derives from Latin is developed in the “Discussion” of the Pett Dynasty Wikipedia article, at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Pett_dynasty
Notify Administrator about this message?
Followups:No followups yet |
| http://genforum.genealogy.com/pate/messages/4076.html | ||
 |
Link to GenForum Add Forum |
|