Ann Pettypool, "The Female Tobacco Rustler"

Immigrated c.1660 to York Co, Virginia

Ann Parham SMITH, born 1645 England, Died in Virginia; m.c. 1661 in York Co., Virginia

Pettypool Immigrants to America (William [1])

Samuel and Alice's son, William, and his wife Ann, reportedly had a son, William, whose birth was registered in 1660 in Stepney. They are suspiciously similar to a William Pettipoole and Ann Smith who were in York County, Virginia in 1660 and released in 1661 from indenture to John Davis, suggesting that they had been in America several years. William and Ann were involved in a tobacco stealing incident (5). Ann (Nann) was named as the wife of William Pettipoole, and both were described as "thieves" with "scandalous and dangerous behavior".

In 1664, across the James River from York County, a William Petepole was empaneled on a jury in Surry County, Virginia, to view the body of a man who drowned at Upper Chippoakes Creek, a short distance from the homeplace of our proven William and Elizabeth Pettypool.

Additionally, a William and Ann Pettipool demanded headright in 1665 for themselves and son William in Talbott County for immigrating to Maryland. In 1668, Ann filed a civil suit in Baltimore. They were likely William and Ann Smith Pettypool of York and Surry County, Virginia. It is also likely that they were the same William and Ann with son William whose birth in 1660 was registered at Stepney, England, since St. Dunstan's Parish registered all births ocurring on the high seas, and it is possible William was born during an earlier passage across the Atlantic to York County, Virginia, or across the Chesapeak, from York Co., VA to Talbott Co., MD.

• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Oct 28 2018, 0:51:46 UTC

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• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Oct 28 2018, 0:54:47 UTC
• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Nov 1 2018, 19:03:09 UTC