Peter Jett was born 1613 in Saint James Parish, London, England, and died 1688 in Old Rappahannock (Richmond) Co.,Virginia. He married Mary Felt Triplett.
Notes for Peter Jett: Biography: The Immigrant of the Jett Family
Peter Jett brought his family from England in 1663.
It is accepted that he received a grant of six hundred acres of land on 21 or 23 Jan 1666 from Governor William Berkeley. The land was located on the high ridge of the freshets, on the north side of the Rappahannock River, three miles back.
The freshets are now (1994) known as the branches of Pepertocks Creek and shown on Virginia maps as such. (See number 6, page 23 of the Virginia Land Grant Records.) It is accepted by "THE COLONIAL DAMES", XVII, that he was an ancestor who settled in Virginia before the year of our Lord 1700 A.D. This area is in and about Leedstown, Westmoreland (1994), VA. Leedstown was first known as Bray's, then Bray's Wharf and later Leeds.
The area has been in several counties over the years: Northumberland in 1648, Lancaster in 1651, Old Rappahannock (now extinct) in 1656, Richmond in 1692, King George in 1721 and the town of Leedsville in Westmoreland since 1777/1778.
On 25 Jan 1675/1676 during a bitterly cold winter, the last Indian raid occurred in the Northern Neck. The marauding Indians came down the Rappahannock River Valley with some local Indians joining them and attacked the few hundred settlers with devastating effects. More that thirty settlers were slain and in over a twenty-mile area, the Indians set most of the houses, barns and granaries on fire. More than a hundred settlers were driven from their homes. And when spring came, this part of the county lay in ruins.
It is known that Peter and two of his sons survived. The fate of the rest of his family has not been proven.
It is said that he was a tailor by trade.
Source: The Jett and Allied Families Title: A genealogical reference book of "The Jett and Allied Families". Author: Jeter Lee Jett of Kilmarnock, VA 22482 Publication: Baltimore, Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press Inc, printed in 1977, Library of Congress CN 77-88844
Children of Peter Jett and Mary Felt Triplett are:
Peter Jett (b. 1613, d. 1688)
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