Pettigrew family.
Biographical notes:
Represented are four generations of the Pettigrew family of Washington and Tyrrell counties, N.C. Prominent family members included James Pettigrew (d. 1784), who emigrated from Scotland, eventually settling in Charleston, S.C., where the family name was changed to Petigru; James's son, Charles Pettigrew (1744-1807), Anglican minister, and Charles's son, Ebenezer Pettigrew (1783-1848), state legislator, who established plantations in eastern North Carolina; and Ebenezer's children, including Charles Lockhart Pettigrew (1816-1873), planter; William S. Pettigrew (1818-1900), politician and Episcopal minister; and James Johnston Pettigrew (1828-1863), lawyer and Confederate Army officer; and James Louis Petigru, lawyer of Charleston, S.C.
From the description of Pettigrew family papers, 1685-circa 1939. WorldCat record id: 25754488
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- Belgrade Plantation (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Washington County (N.C.) (as recorded)
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- Bonarva Plantation (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Edenton (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Magnolia Plantation (N.C.) (as recorded)
- North Carolina (as recorded)
- Confederate States of America (as recorded)
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