In Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, John W. Jordan writes: “Thomas Pettit, son of Thomas and Christian (Mellows) Pettit, was born at Exeter, Massachusetts in 1645, and accompanied his parents to Newtown, Long Island, in 1655. On April 23, 1668, he was granted ten acres of land in Hempstead meadow. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and on September 13, 1673, is on record as refusing to take the oath of allegiance.”