Person:Richard Pettingell (1)

web site where this info. was found: http://personal.linkline.com/xymox/roh/pettinge.htm RICHARD PETTINGELL MASSACHUSETTS (1610/11-1695)

Investigation in 1986 by a professional genealogist in England showed that Richard PETINGALE was baptized in Shotesham All Saints parish, Norfolk, England on 6 Jan 1610/11 to Mathew PETINGALE and his second wife, Mary COOKE. Richard was the second son born to Mathew PETINGALE. Richard’s older brother, Robert, remained in England, while, Richard decided to go to New England. Richard was not in line to inherit his father’s land as the second son. This was also a period of heavy war taxation, economic depression, overpopulation, war with France and Spain and the determination of the government to force the Puritans to conform to the Established Church. Passengers that could not pay for their passage became indentured servants or apprentices to obtain passage.

According to an article in the journal, Americana, on board the ship, “Lion’s Whelp” was a passenger listed as Richard PENGIL, arriving in Newbury on 29 June 1629. Richard PENGIL is believed to be Richard PETTINGELL although the Norfolk county emigrations or shipping records are incomplete for that time period.

Richard was a member of the First Church of Salem in 1637. On June 2, 1641 he was made a freeman upon the recommendation by his minister, being over 20 years of age and worth at least 200 pounds in real or personal property. He had a grant of 10 acres at Enon (Wenham) in 1642 and was a witness to the will of Samuel SMITH of Enon in December of that year. He soon married Joanna INGERSOLL, (no record found), daughter of Richard INGERSOLL of Salem who named him as one of his sons-in-law in his will of 1644.

Richard was still a member of Salem church when on July 7, 1644, he and his brother-in-law, John INGERSOLL, were appointed to arrest Sabbath day violators. His first child, Samuel, was baptized at Salem on 9 Feb 1644. He was constable of Wenham in 1648 and in that year he was a witness against George NORTON for “scandalizing” the church. Matthew, his second child was born about 1648 in Enon. After Wenham had a church, Richard was received by letter from Salem on Aug. 4, 1649.

In 1651, having sold his house and land in Wenham to Samuel FORESTER, Richard bought a tract of land in the plantation of Newbury, about 15 miles north of Wenham, on the High Road, near “The Upper Green”. The town gave him 14 acres of marsh in 1651 in exchange for a right-of-way on Ocean Avenue or Rolfe’s Lane. Later the town committee to settle a land dispute with John EMERY granted him an island in Plum Island River near Sandy Beach. He was chosen as a trial juryman in 1654 and 1671 and a grand juryman in 1658, 1665, and 1672. He took the Oath of Allegiance in 1678.

In King Philips War Richard supplied for the troops cheese, a pair of bandoleers, bullets, a pound of powder and a worm, a horse for 20 weeks, a knapsack, and a saddle and bridle. He asked 5 shillings for curing a horse as well.

Richard PETTINGELL did not make a will but divided his houses and lands between his three sons by deeds. On July 15, 1695, he granted to his son Matthew the two acres on which he lived, several other small acreages and one-third interest in the third of the farm of 70 acres in Salem which his father-in-law, Richard INGERSOLL, had conditionally willed to him. Two days later, on July 17, he granted to his son Samuel the upland where Samuel dwelt and other small lots, but the one third of one third of the INGERSOLL farm was to go to Samuel’s son Samuel. On the same day his own homestead of five acres and other small lots went to his youngest son Nathaniel together with a third of a third of the INGERSOLL farm in Salem. He died soon afterwards.

-In 1651 the town of Newbury granted to Richard Pettingell1, fourteen acres of marsh in consideration of his yielding to the town a way four rods wide through his land. That way is now Green street, formerly called Rolfe's lane.

-In 1673 gave testimony as age 52 regarding relationship among "Fullers". He said he knew Giles FULLER, late of Hampton & Mr. Matth. FULLER of Barnstable, doctor, both of them in old England & in New England and that they [Giles Fuller and Matthew Fuller] were near kinsmen. [Pioneers of Massachusetts]

1. ↑ Richard Ingersoll entry, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

   Children... v JOAN, bp. Sutton 3 March 1624[/5?]; m. by 1644 Richard Pettingill.