Wayne County IN Archives Biographies.....Perry, Josiah May 10, 1790 - April 15, 1878
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Author: History of Wayne County, Indiana;Volume II, (1884)

Perry Township
p. 710

Josiah Petty, deceased, was born in Surry County, N. C., May 10, 1790, a son 
of Zachariah and Nancy Petty, natives of England, who came to America prior to 
the Revolutionary war. Our subject's early life was spent in assisting his 
father on the farm and in the distillery, and his educational advantages were 
limited. In 1811 he came to Wayne County, Ind., and carried on a distillery, 
but, subsequently, on account of the troubles incident to the war of 1812, he 
went to Ohio, remaining there nine months, when he again came to Wayne County. 
He built a distillery in Perry Township and ran it till 1834 or 1835, and then 
went to Randolph County and remained three or four years. He returned to Wayne 
County and located in Cambridge City, and in 1840 moved to Miami County and 
settled near Peru. In 1851 he returned to Wayne County. He was married in 1817 
to Sally Sheets, a native of Ohio, of Scotch descent. They had a family of 
nine children, eight sons and one daughter, seven of whom are living. Mr. 
Petty was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church many years, but in later 
1ife he united with the United Brethren church. He died April 15, 1878. His 
wife died in 1840.

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