Ka Okee "Jane" Pettus - Relationships

Ka Okee "Jane" Pettus Is a controversial “person of legend” and does not have descent on Geni.

Good luck with FamilySearch.

We actually have some information about Ann, mother of your John Martin. She remarried to Peter Johnson.

Ann Johnson

Notes

1663-1668 Old Rappahannock County, Virginia Deed Book 3; [Antient Press]; Page 463-464 KNOW ALL MEN by these presents that I ANN MARTYN Widdow Doe by these presents make and Ordeyne DR. RICHARDSON my true & lawfull Attorney for the Recording of six head of catle in manner and forme following Vizt, two heifers with Calfe the one Cole Black and the other Browne and a Browne yearling cropt on both Eares and underkeeled on the right eare to be recorded for the use of JOHN MARTYN the Sone of JOHN MARTYN Deced MOREOVER one Red pyed Heifer & one pyed black heifer and one cole black heifer yearling marked as abovesd only one under-keele in the left eare more then aforesd to be recorded for KATH: MARTYN Daughter of the aforesd John Martyn deced WITTNESSETH my hand this 30th of June 1668. Test JOHN DEANE. Ann Martyn

Old Rappahannock County, Virginia Wills
JOHNSON, PETER, 4 December, 1683; 2 January, 1683/4.

My will is that my son-in-law Jno Martin go free and be for himself and that he have the tuition of my son Peter Johnson until he be twenty years of age alwaies Provided that the said John Martin give my son Convenient Education and Maintenance and take no ill Courses wherein if he falters in any Respect my will is that my executor James Jackson to take my son Peter into his Guardianship and that he remains with my executor the terme aforesaid. All my estate to my son Peter Johnson to remaine in the custody of he that keeps my Child Care being taken to pay my debts. Executor my friend James Jackson.

References

• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I8228...
• http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/b/a/l/Bart--angela-Baldwin/WEBSITE-000...

Yes, I’m familiar with his work. We don’t agree on this family.

I have nothing but appreciation for Mr. Deyo, he’s a lovely and helpful person. Just don’t find the evidence holds up in this particular instance.

In fact, Ka Okee is theoretically associated with an entirely different Martin family.

Christian Waddington

Is theorized as daughter of Col. Thomas Pettus &
Ka Okee "Jane"

Christian married 1) John Martin and 2)
Francis Waddington, I

As you can see, these are not the same Martin’s.

Private User - here’s a cross post that has some more details:

https://www.geni.com/discussions/227471?msg=1539542

From the Family Bible of the Fugates

From an e-mail from Freda Combs Rowlett:

I am very happy to hear from you cousin! I have a lot of info from Nancy Ann Fugit/Fugitt/Fugate's Bible. She spelled it Fugitt but the spelling was changed in the Clay County KY courthouse in the late 1790's/early 1800's to Fugate. (The area now Breathitt County KY was first part of Floyd County, then Clay County, then Perry County and finally Breathitt County. So the area our ancestors lived in was at the now Breathitt County/Perry County borders encompassing Lost Creek and Troublesome Creeks. They did branch out in the 1800's to other parts of Breathitt and Perry Counties.

Nancy Ann's father was John Zachariah Fugitt and her mother was Sarah Henley.
John Zachariah's father was Josiah Fugitt and his mother was Mary E. Martin.
Josiah's father was James Lawton Fugitt and his mother was Dorothy Pettis
James Lawton's father was Peter Fugitt and his mother was Armelies Lawton.
Peter Fugitt immigrated from France. (Fr. Philip says: a discussion with Bill Deyo, the genealogist and tribal historian for the Patawomeck Tribe, has Mr. Deyo believing that Peter Fugate was not the Father of James L. Fugate, but a 1/2 brother. There are depositions in the records of Virginia that show James Fugate's father to be James Fugate and Ameline Lambe....we speculate that Armelies Lawton is a corruption of Ameline Lambe). They were from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, England which was a have for French Huguenots who settled in England and later America. The Fugate family were probably Huguenot and Peter could indeed have been born in France while his brothers were from England and emigrated to America from there)

Private User - anyone on geni is welcome to contribute, that’s what a collaborative tree is all about.

The Fugate, Pettus, Martin etc families have a lot of legend and speculation attached. A rigorous documentation approach will benefit everyone.

I’m confused by the “Lawton” reference also. There weren’t middle names in England in this period.

Thank you, James. This is a “very” problematic genealogy, so keeping our heads on helps.

What do you think of the France vs England origins? I’ve seen more Huguenots emigrating via England and Ireland or even the Netherlands to Virginia than from France.

Joseph Raymond Burke - thank you, done.