Thomas Moore’s Genealogy Site - Person Sheet
Thomas Moore’s Genealogy Site - Person Sheet
NameThomas Pitts 
ResidenceEssex County, Virginia
Deathabt Oct 1806
Documentation
The will of Thomas Pitts was dated 19 April 1806. Son Thomas Pitts. Daughter Elizabeth Andrews and her two sons Archibald and Robert Pitts Andrews, not of age. Daughter Elizabeth Andrews’s daughter Ann Andrews, not of age. Grandson Thomas Andrews. Daughter Rose Coghill, her two sons Benjamin and Richard M. Coghill, and “all the children of my said Daughter Rose.” Daughter Sally Green and all her children. Daughter Molly Wright and all her children. Loving wife. Daughter Margaret Harrison and all her children. (But “In case my daughter Margaret Harrison shall die without leaving a child or children living at the time of her death…”) Son in law Spencer Harrison. Son Thomas Pitts to be executor. Signed Thomas Pitts. Witnesses: George Taylor, Joseph Taylor, Obed Gray. Presented and proved on 20 October 1806. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 16, pages 435–438.]
On 20 October 1806, Thomas Pitts, Edward Wright and Spencer Harrison were bound in the penalty of $15,000 for Thomas Pitts’s executorship of the last will and testament of Thomas Pitts deceased. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 16, page 438.]
The estate of Thomas Pitts deceased in account with his son Thomas Pitts from 1806 to 1808 was ordered recorded on 20 June 1808. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 17, pages 77–79.]
On 14 November 1806, an inventory and appriasal of the estate of Thomas Pitts was made by Obed Gray, Reuben Atkinson, and Joseph Taylor. Ordered recorded on 19 June 1810. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 17, pages 190–193.]
On 24 November 1806, sales of the estate of Thomas Pitts were made. Ordered recorded 19 June 1810. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 17, pages 194–196.]
On 18 October 1806, slaves belonging to the estate of Thomas Pitts were divided between Spencer Harrison, in right of his wife Margaret Harrison, and Thomas Wright, in right of his wife Molly Wright. Received by the court and ordered recorded on 20 April 1818. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 18, pages 476–477.]
The estate of Thomas Pitts in account with Thomas Pitts, executor, from 1807 to 1821 was settled on 15 March 1821 by James M. Garnett, Muscoe Garnett, and James M. Garnett, Jr. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 19, page 278.]
In an undated petition from about 1826, orators and oratrices [here the name Thomas Pitts is crossed out] Thomas Coghill Thomas Wright senr & Molly his wife, Edward Brooking & Margaret his wife, Edward B. Wood and Ann his wife Robert P Andrews, & Samuel Anderson & Mary E his wife, complained that Thomas Pitts late of the County of Essex father of orators and oratrices [here the name Thomas Pitts is crossed out] & Molly Wright & the grandfather of your oratrices and orator Margaret Brooking Ann Wood, Mary E Anderson & Robert P Andrews died in ____ having published a last will and testament having devised to daughter Margaret Harrison negroes, and to three children of Elizabeth Andrews, now Ann Wood, Archibald Andrews and Robert P. Andrews. Elizabeth Andrews the mother of your oratrices Margaret Brooking and Ann Wood and orator Robert P. Andrews died in ____ and that Archibald died in ____ an infant leaving brothers and sisters of the whole blood your orators Robert P. Andrews and Thomas P. Andrews and oratrices Margaret Brooking and Ann Wood, and one Mary Pollard who has since died leaving two infant children Betsy Pollard and Temple Pollard. That Rose Coghill another daughter of the said Thomas Pitts wife of your orator Thomas Coghill died in ____ leaving your orator. That Sally Green another daughter of the said Thomas Pitts died in ___ leaving a husband Richard Green who has died intestate leaving three children Thomas P. Green, George Green and your oratrix Mary Anderson. The death of Margaret Harrison is expected “as she is at this time very infirm and far advanced in life.” [Essex County, Virginia, Box Chancery No. 36, item 36-A-29.]
On 20 October 1806, Thomas Pitts, Edward Wright and Spencer Harrison were bound in the penalty of $15,000 for Thomas Pitts’s executorship of the last will and testament of Thomas Pitts deceased. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 16, page 438.]
The estate of Thomas Pitts deceased in account with his son Thomas Pitts from 1806 to 1808 was ordered recorded on 20 June 1808. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 17, pages 77–79.]
On 14 November 1806, an inventory and appriasal of the estate of Thomas Pitts was made by Obed Gray, Reuben Atkinson, and Joseph Taylor. Ordered recorded on 19 June 1810. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 17, pages 190–193.]
On 24 November 1806, sales of the estate of Thomas Pitts were made. Ordered recorded 19 June 1810. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 17, pages 194–196.]
On 18 October 1806, slaves belonging to the estate of Thomas Pitts were divided between Spencer Harrison, in right of his wife Margaret Harrison, and Thomas Wright, in right of his wife Molly Wright. Received by the court and ordered recorded on 20 April 1818. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 18, pages 476–477.]
The estate of Thomas Pitts in account with Thomas Pitts, executor, from 1807 to 1821 was settled on 15 March 1821 by James M. Garnett, Muscoe Garnett, and James M. Garnett, Jr. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 19, page 278.]
In an undated petition from about 1826, orators and oratrices [here the name Thomas Pitts is crossed out] Thomas Coghill Thomas Wright senr & Molly his wife, Edward Brooking & Margaret his wife, Edward B. Wood and Ann his wife Robert P Andrews, & Samuel Anderson & Mary E his wife, complained that Thomas Pitts late of the County of Essex father of orators and oratrices [here the name Thomas Pitts is crossed out] & Molly Wright & the grandfather of your oratrices and orator Margaret Brooking Ann Wood, Mary E Anderson & Robert P Andrews died in ____ having published a last will and testament having devised to daughter Margaret Harrison negroes, and to three children of Elizabeth Andrews, now Ann Wood, Archibald Andrews and Robert P. Andrews. Elizabeth Andrews the mother of your oratrices Margaret Brooking and Ann Wood and orator Robert P. Andrews died in ____ and that Archibald died in ____ an infant leaving brothers and sisters of the whole blood your orators Robert P. Andrews and Thomas P. Andrews and oratrices Margaret Brooking and Ann Wood, and one Mary Pollard who has since died leaving two infant children Betsy Pollard and Temple Pollard. That Rose Coghill another daughter of the said Thomas Pitts wife of your orator Thomas Coghill died in ____ leaving your orator. That Sally Green another daughter of the said Thomas Pitts died in ___ leaving a husband Richard Green who has died intestate leaving three children Thomas P. Green, George Green and your oratrix Mary Anderson. The death of Margaret Harrison is expected “as she is at this time very infirm and far advanced in life.” [Essex County, Virginia, Box Chancery No. 36, item 36-A-29.]
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