Brief Life History of Moses
When Moses Pitman was born about 1740, in Isle of Wight, Virginia, United States, his father, Benjamin Pittman, was 33 and his mother, Fortune Ann Foster, was 32. He died after 24 March 1759, in Edgecombe, North Carolina, United States.
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- Benjamin Pitman will - 1755, Edgecombe County, North Carolina
- Will abstract of Benjamin Pitman. Edgecomb County, NC Will Book SS, 880/154. 23 Aug 1755.
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1758 · Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon Plantation was the home of George Washington. It started off as 2,000 acres and was later expanded to 8,000 acres. The house itself started off as a six room building then got extended to twenty-one rooms.
Name Meaning
English (mainly southwestern): nickname from Middle English pit, pit(t)e, put(te) ‘hollow, pit’ + man, signifying one who lived or worked at such a location. See Pitt .
Americanized form of German Pitmann: variant of Pittmann (see Pittman ).
Dutch: variant of Putman 2.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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