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William Petty (b. 1760, d. Aft. 1821)
Notes for William Petty:
WILLIAM PETTY-UNKNOWN
Not much is known of Bill.He was probably born in North Carolina.His brother Zachariah is mentioned as being born 1767 in North Carolina in the 1850 Fayette County Georgia census, William was deceased by this time.His mother, Elizabeth Hood, in a will written and probated at Jones County, Georgia in 1817 mentions him along with siblings Zechariah, Winney Dinsdale, and Lucretia Burton (Jones County Georgia Will Book A 1809-1864).We first see records of him in Georgia on a tax digest roll in 1811 as owning 50 acres of land (Tax Digest Jones County Georgia 1811).By 1813 he aquired 101.5 acres of land and one slave.The land was originally granted to Mr. Laramore and was adjacent to Mr. Cox on Commissioner's Creek (1813 Tax Digest). Then he was a defaulter of taxes in 1816 (Williams, 1957; Taylor, 1986).He also served as a private in the War of 1812 between August 23, 1813 to March 8, 1814 with the 2nd Regiment Jenkins Georgia Volunteers and Militia (Kratovil, 1986).William received $52.78 for serving 6 months and 18 days (Compiled service record group 94).
He is in the 1820 Jones Co. Georgia census in Captain Waller's District where there are two females age 26-45 (Susan and Elizabeth) and one other male age 16-26 (unknown) in the household.William is shown to be over 45 years old in 1820.He won a parcel in the Georgia land lottery of 1821 in Fayette County (Lucas, S.E., 1986).The land lot was granted November 15, 1825 and William probably moved to that county along with his brother Zachariah.In 1821 William had 75 acres on Wolf Creek next to Mr. Duncan and owned one slave in Jones County (Reynolds, 1970).He is not mentioned in any 1830 Georgia census and is probably deceased by that time.The last record we have of William is where he is granted on February 5, 1827 guardianship of William O. Daniel an "idiot" to cake care of his person and property (Guardian Bonds 1821-1841, Jones County, Georgia).
Children of William Petty and unknown are:
- +Luke Petty, b. August 11, 1792, Kershaw County (Craven), South Carolina, d. February 23, 1865, Walton, Layafette County, Mississippi.
- +George Petty, b. 1796, Kershaw (Craven) county, South Carolina, d. Aft. 1860, Bibb county, Georgia.
- +Susan Petty, d. Abt. 1831, Harris county, Georgia.