Pettigrove Researchers

Pettigrove Researchers

Most Pettigroves in the United States seem to have originated in Maine, coming before that from Lanarkshire in Scotland. According to Mary J. Williams in a study of some years ago, Thomas and Francis Pettigrove of Kittery, Maine, were among the very early settlers of the St. Croix River. They settled there in 1784. Each bought 100 acre tracts of land on the river, on a site that is now the St. Croix Country Club. Thomas Pettigrove, Jr., married Mary McCurdy from the eastern shore (Canada), and raised a very large family, ten of whom survived to adulthood. One son, Francis William Pettygrove, was born in 1812 at Calais, Maine. It was this man who named Portland, Oregon, having arrived there by sailing around Cape Horn with goods to start a general store. Thomas, Sr. (I may have this confused with Thomas, Jr.) had children Francis, Thomas, John, Nahum, Benjamin, Martha (who married Daniel Bohannon), Nancy (who married a Hunter), Mercy, and Betsy. Francis (brother of Thomas, Sr., I believe) married Triphena Brown from Canada and they had children John, Triphena, Benjamin, Betsey, Anna, Temperence, and Isabella. Temperence married Daniel Lane and had eight more children and moved to Alexander, Maine. John, son of Francis, married Hannah Bugbee and had Francis (1831), Eliza (1833), James (1834), Abigail (1835), Elizabeth (1838-1844), and Triphena (1841-1845). Hannah died in 1843. John remarried to Rebecca and had Eugene (1849), Alphonso (1850-1852), Emeline (1855-1855). Rebecca died in 1862 and John the following year at age 54. James married Mary Dennison (1840-1929) from New Brunswick. They had six sons and daughters: Minnie (1864-1944), John (1865-1953), Gorham (1869-1951), Lucy (1871-1962), Carrie (1874-1963), and Ernest (1883-1885). Minnie married John Allen and had one daughter Sadie (1888) who also married someone named John Allen. Gorham married Lora and had daughters Marion (1895-1978), Ruth (1901), and Margaret (1910). Carrie married Fred Young. Francis W. Pettigrove (b.1812 of Portland Oregon fame) m. Sophia and they had sons Alfred Pettigrove (Sandwich Is.(HI) 1843- ) and Benjamin Pettigrove (Oregon, 1846-). Francis W. had a sister Mary Charlotte Pettigrove who married Philip Foster in 1833 and had several children.