Tom Pettus

Ancestors

Son of Reg Pettus esq and Anne (Early) Pettus

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Purpose

I'm working from autosomal hits to confirm all of my putative ancestors by analyzing the genetic distance. This works to 6-8 generations max at the present time. Deeper looks require Y(111) for paternal or mitochondrial for maternal.

Biography

Thomas Pettus is and professor of organic chemistry at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He grew up in Keysville in Charlotte County Virginia, which is home to the Richardson family plantation known as Maple Roads. His cousin William Walker Pettus IV wrote a 2 volume book on Thomas Petyous (Pettus) and his Pettus Descendants, tracing Pettus roots to Thomas Pettus (1598 in Norwich England). His Aunt Katherine (Early) Holden wrote a book on the Early's of Virginia.

Sources, I have 2 that I'm using

• [1] William Walker Pettus IV "Thomas Petyous of Norwich, England and His Pettus Descendants in England and Virginia (Volumes 1 & 2)" Baltimore, Maryland: Otter Bay Books, 2011. For Pettus's I'm using his numbering systems in my comments and on source pages. <https://www.vialibri.net/years/items/1222692/2011-william-walker-pettus-iv-thomas-petyous-of-norwich-england-and>

• [2] Katherine Kent Early Holden "The Earlys of southwest Virginia", 1981 <https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Earlys_of_southwest_Virginia.html?id=m2hIAAAAMAAJ>

DNA

DNA Circles: according to ancestry.com, the group I manage of my kids, my sisters, my 1st cousins, my 2nd cousins and my 3rd cousins. I'm in the following 29 DNA circles (Thomas White Cecil, 4th GGF, 51 members), (Nancy Grayson, 4th GGM, 31 members), (Ira Howard, 3rd GGF, 29 members), (Sebastian Wygal, 4th GGF, 20 members), (Sarah Strickland, 4th GGM, 40 members), (Peter Howard, 4th GGF, 39 members), (Rhoda Stevens, 3rd GGM, 23 members), (John R Early, 3rd GGF, 23 members), (Eleanor Collinsworth, 4th GGM, 20 members), (William O'Bryan, 4th GGF, 26 members), (George William Tuck, 4th GGF, 26 members), (John Davis Richardson, 4th GGF, 18 members), (Rebeckah Davis, 4th GGM, 16 members), (Mary Yancy, 4th GGM, 42 members), (Catherine Plickenstalver, 4th GGM, 66 members), (John Lester, 4th GGF, 75 members), (Rhoda Holland, 4th GGM, 25 members), (Joseph Lane Howard, 2nd GGF, 8 members), (Ann Amanda Smith, 2nd GGM, 8 members), (William Vermilyea, 4th GGF, 18 members), (Permenila Lester, 3rd GGM, 8 members), (Willmuth Rudd 4th GGM, 15 members), (James Gordon Wygal, 3rd GGF, 7 members)

Y DNA

• Pettus-324, aka William Walker Pettus IV has completed a Y(111). Pettus-324's FTDNA kit #329341 intercepts both Pettus-295, aka Tom R. Pettus, FTDNA kit #793447 and Pettus-315, aka Robert Pettus, FTDNA kit #369442 at Pettus-60, aka John Pettus, Sr. (1736-1799). In view of oral history, and secondary source [2] above, we believe this secures the separate Pettus lines to Pettus-60 married to Winston-714, which we have set as DNA confirmed.

• Regarding other Y(111) intercepts: Pettus-295, aka Tom R. Pettus, FTDNA kit #793447 and Pettus-315, aka Robert Pettus, FTDNA kit #369442 intercept at Pettus-311, aka Richard Emerson Pettus, which we have set as DNA confirmed for both descendants.

Autosomal

• So if we find several solid hits with GEDmatch numbers on a particular ladder rung, with folks not at lower rungs, and the generation predictor is +/- 20%, and there is no other surname overlap, then we set the beneath rungs to DNA-certified. 8 generations is about the limit.