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Pitt Origins

The Pitt/Pitts family is said to derive from the Norman Gervase de la Puette, born about 1160 in what is now the Normandy province of France. Following are the reported generations after Gervase: 

*	Thomas de la Pitte was born about 1200 in England
*	Simon de la Pitte was born about 1230 in England
*	Thomas Ithe Putte was born about1260 in England
*	Robert Ithe Pyte was born about 1284 in England and died about 1361 in England
*	Simon Atte Pitte
*	Richard Pyts, who married Johanna de la Poole
*	Johannas (John) Pitt was born in DeCurvyard, DeLaPyrne, married Dorothia _____, and died in 1438
*	William Pitt was at Stoke, married Katherine Broughton and died after 1400
*	Sir Edward Pitt, Sir, who married Elizabeth Nicholai Willford, and died in 1455
*	William Bithe Pitte was born in 1477 in Dorset and died in 1528
*	Nicholas Pitt was born in 1474 and died after 1545
*	William Pitt, who married Helena Haviland,and who died October 14, 1540 and was the ancestor of British Prime Minister William Pitt, the Earl of Chatham, through his son John
*	Thomas Pitt who was born in 1547 and died in 1613. He was a merchant in Bristol and Chamberlain.
*	William Pitt who was born in 1573, and married Mary Gibbs


The source of the preceding line is unknown and is not documented. 

Robert Pitt, Captain of the Thunder

The first Pitt to emigrate to America was Robert Pitt, who was born in England in 1607. Robert was captain of the Thunder, a merchant ship out of Bristol. He must have liked what he saw in Virginia and decided to emigrate. He married Martha Lear. He served as a Colonel in the Virginia Militia. Robert died on June 16, 1672 in Virginia. 

Robert and Martha's son John was born in 1637 in Bristol, England. He died about 1702 in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. He first married Sarah Moone and second Olive Hardy. It appears that the Pitt, Bridges, Driver, and Holladay families, all of whom emigrated to Isle of Wight, Virginia, seem to have been neighbors and intermarried in Gloucester. John served as a Lt. Col. in the Virginia Militia. 

John and Olive's had the following children: 

*	Martha Pitt, who married George Norsworthy and died before 1706
*	Mary Pitt, who married a Drury
*	Robert Pitt, who married Sarah Smith
*	Sarah Pitt, who married Tristam Norsworthy and died before 1724. Their daughter Sarah Norsworthy married John Pitt III, son of Sarah's brother John Pitt, Jr.
*	William Pitt
*	Prudence Pitt, who was born before 1698 and married Charles Driver
*	John Pitt, Jr. (see below)
*	Henry Pitt, who was born before 1711 and died February 09, 1747/48
*	James Pitt, who born before 1711 


John and Olive's son John Pitt, Jr. was born in 1705 in Virginia and died in 1761 in Isle of Wight Co., Virginia (North Carolina?). He married Priscilla _____. Their children were: 

*	John Pitts III, who was born in 1740 in North Carolina d: 1787 in Effingham Co, Georgia. He served as a Captain in Revolutionary War. He married first his cousin Sarah Norsworthy, daughter of Sarah Pitt, and then Frances Griffin. 
*	Elizabeth Pitts ..... 
*	William Pitts