Surry County NcArchives Biographies.....Petty, Josiah May 10, 1790 - April 15, 1878
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Source: Inter-state Publishing Company (Chicago, Ill.). 
History of Wayne County, Indiana Together with Sketches of 
Its Cities, Villages and Towns ... and Biographies of 
Representative Citizens : History of Indiana and Northwest 
Territory. Chicago: Inter-state Pub. Co, 1884.
Author: N/A

Josiah Petty, deceased, was born in Surry County, NC, 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 there 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 life he 
united with the United Brethern church.  He died April 15, 1878.  His wife died 
in 1840.

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