English Immigrant 1200-1500 » Lt Col Col. Robert Pitt (1607-1674)

Persönliche Daten Lt Col Col. Robert Pitt 

• Er wurde geboren am 16. März 1607 in Bristol, Dorset, England.
• Beruf: Captain of the Thunder, the V a merchant ship out of Bristol and a Colonel in Virginia Militia, Colonel/ Captain of "Thunder"/Large dealer of land and servants. Plymouth Colony., Mariner, Merchant.
• Er ist verstorben am 9. Januar 1674 in Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Verenigde Staten, er war 66 Jahre alt.
• Ein Kind von Capt William Pitt und Mary Marlowe Gibbs

Familie von Lt Col Col. Robert Pitt

(1) Er ist verheiratet mit Hester Stevens.

Sie haben geheiratet im Jahr 1631 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Colonial America, er war 23 Jahre alt.

Spouse: Robert Pitt

Kind(er):

1. Robert Pitt  1628-1670
2. Hester Martha Stevens Pitt  1631-1711 
3. Capt. Henry Pitt  1645-1715 

(2) Er ist verheiratet mit Martha Lear.

Sie haben geheiratet in Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Colonial America.

Spouse: Robert Pitt

Kind(er):

1. John Pitt  1634-1702
2. Elizabeth Pitt  1637-± 1725
3. Mary Pitt  ± 1638-1685
4. William Pitt  ± 1642-????
5. James Pitt  ????-± 1672

Notizen bei Lt Col Col. Robert Pitt

1649-60: member of the Virginia House of Burgesses

 

Member of the Governor's Council

 

1662: Lt. Colonel of the Isle of Wight Militia

 

 

 

Colonel Robert Pitt born circa 1607 in England was, like most of his family a sailor, and a captain of the ship “THUNDER,” a privateer out of Bristol aiding the Huguenots in the war against France in 1628 (Bristol Privateers, Powell, p. 84).

 

 

 

As a sea merchant, he owned a fleet of ships which sailed out of the port at Bristol, England. He had moved to the colonies about 1637 as he had patented 550 acres of land in Isle of Wight, Virginia, on 14 February 1637. This land was located on the New Haven River, also called the Pagan River On 17 April 1648 he patented 300 acres adjacent to the original land. On 7 Jun 1654 he patented an additional 1200 acres. In 1664 he patented 3000 acres on the Blackwater with his son-in-law, Captain Joseph Bridger, and William Burgh. He patented 1000 acres in Accomac on 12 March 1662 and 3000 acres in Accomac on 2 Oct 1663. He owned at least 9050 acres of land in Virginia.

 

 

 

Between 1649 and 1660 he served as a member of the House of Burgesses for isle of Wight, served as Lt. Col. in 1662 commanding the Isle of Wight militia, and on the Governor's Council.

 

 

 

It is said that Col Robert was married twice, first to Elizabeth Stevens (some say Hester Stevens), and last to Martha Lear.

 

 

 

Colonel Robert Pitt died before 9 January 1674, as his will was recorded on that date, It imas dated 6 Jun 1672 and wittnessed by Richard Jones and Thomas Hill. His wife, Martha, had died before that date as he left, in her memory, a parcel of land with the stipulation that his executor would build one house of twenty-five feet within four years of his death on the land to be used for poor women. He also left in memory of his daughter, Martha, “two cows and two female cows, which cattle and their increase are to be put upon the aforesaid land and not any to be disposed of until they increase to a number of twelve whichnumber is to be continued upon the aforesaid land, and what shall be over that number of cattle shall be disposed of by the Sheriff, then one half of the benefit of the cows and the whole benefit of the land to be for the estate of poor women and the other half of the benefit of the cattle to be for the estate of poor female orphans” (will of Col Robert Pitt recorded in Isle of Wight Co., VA.).

 

 

 

PITT LINEAGE:

 

1. Gervase de la Puette of c. 1182 Normandy (first to go to England from Normandy).

 

2. Thomas de la Pitte of c. 1225 Sommerset, England (first born in England).

 

3. Simon de la Pitte, soldier of King Henry III 1216-1272.

 

4. Thomas Putte, living near Worcestershire in 1278.

 

5. Robert Pyte 1284-1361.

 

6. Simon Atte Putte, soldier for King Edward III 1327-1377.

 

7. Richard Pyts, soldier of King Henry IV 1399-1433.

 

+ Johanna De La Poole

 

8. Johannes (John) Pitt of de Curvyard died 1438, Crusader.

 

+ Dorothea

 

9. William Pitt of de la Perry died early 1400's.

 

+ Katherine Broughton

 

10. Sir Edward Pitt of Kior in Worcestershire died 1455.

 

+ Elizabeth Nicholai Willford

 

11. William Blithe Pitt died 1528.

 

+ Elizabeth

 

12. Nicholas Pitt of Blandford in Dorset, born 1474, died after 1545.

 

+ Elizabeth Cooke

 

13 William PITT b: c1535 d: 1595

 

+ Helena HAVILAND b: c1538 d: 1600

 

14Thomas PITT b: c1555 d: 1613

 

+ Priscilla SEARLE

 

15 William PITT b: Abt 1575 d: 1622-1624

 

+ Mary GIBBS b: 1583 d: 1634

 

16 Robert PITT b: 16 Mar 1605 England d: 1673 Isle of Wight Co., Virginia

 

+ Martha LEAR (or Eliz. Stevens?)

 

17 John Pitt

 

+ Olive Hardy

 

18 Henry Pitt

 

+ Mary Calloway

 

19 Charles Pitt

 

+ Katherine Hunnicutt (or Sarah Ann Hardy?)

 

 

 

Generations 1-12 from:

 

"Visitation of Worcestershire 1560"

 

"Visitation of Shropshire 1623"

 

and "Visitation of Surrey 1662/69"

 

Generations 12-17 from:

 

"Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight" by John Bennett Boddie

 

Generations 16-19 from:

 

Pitts Family (1950) by Leonardo Andrea

 

Pitts Family (1955) by Doreecie Pitts Pierce

 

Bicentenniel History of Newberry County, S.C.

 

Pitts Family in America (1978) by Hazel Pitts Anderson

 

The Burton, Bridgforth, Harrington, Hustead, Jeffus, Pitt(s),Pierce and Whiteside families Families by Olivia Ann Burton Harrington

 

My Pitts and Affiliated Families of Lincoln County, Tennessee (1998) by James R. Pitts

 

My Reid and Harrison Families in North America from Their Arrival to Present (2006), by Larry E. Reid pp. 35-37.

 

 

 

Jamestowne Society

 

First Families of Virginia

 

 

 

Family Members

 

Parents

 

Photo

 

William Pitt

 

1575–1624

 

 

 

Mary Gibbs Pitt

 

1582–1634

 

 

 

Siblings

 

Photo

 

Maud Pitt Russell

 

1617–1652

 

 

 

Children

 

Hester Pitt Bridger

 

1631–1711

 

 

 

John Pitt

 

1634–1702

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