Pettigrew, Charles, 1744-1807 (Personal Name)
- Philanthropos, 1744-1807
Last advice of the Rev. Charles Pettigrew to his sons, 1797, 2001.
His A series of letters, 1807: t.p. (Philanthropos)
Dict. of North Carolina Biography, v. 5, 1994 (Pettigrew, Charles; b. 20 Mar. 1744; d. 8 Apr. 1807; clergyman, planter, educator, settled in Granville Co., N.C.; originally Presbyterian, he became an Anglican and was ordained 1774; served on the first Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina)
Finding aid for Pettigrew family papers, via UNC University Libraries WWW site, Apr. 16, 2020 (Represented are four generations of the Pettigrew family of Washington and Tyrrell counties, N.C. Prominent family members included James Pettigrew (d. 1784), who emigrated from Scotland, eventually settling in Charleston, S.C., where the family name was changed to Petigru; James's son, Charles Pettigrew (1744-1807), Anglican minister, and Charles's son, Ebenezer Pettigrew (1783-1848), state legislator, who established plantations in eastern North Carolina; and Ebenezer's children, including Charles Lockhart Pettigrew (1816-1873), planter; William S. Pettigrew (1818-1900), politician and Episcopal minister; and James Johnston Pettigrew (1828-1863), lawyer and Confederate Army officer; and James Louis Petigru, lawyer of Charleston, S.C.) https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/00592/