PETT, Peter (1610-72), of Chatham, Kent.

Family and Education

b. 6 Aug. 1610, 5th but 4th surv. s. of Phineas Pett (d. 1647) of Chatham, and 1st w. Anne (d. 1627), da. of Richard Nichols of Highwood Hall, Hendon, Mdx.The Autobiography of Phineas Pett ed. W.G. Perrin (Navy Rec. Soc. li), 78. m. (1) 8 Sept. 1633, Katherine (bur. 12 July 1651), da. and coh. of Thomas Cole, merchant, of Woodbridge, Suff. 6s. (2 d.v.p.) 4da.;Phineas Pett ed. Perrin, 151-2, 154. (2) Mary (d. 1664), da. of William Smith of Greenwich, Kent, sjt. at arms to Charles I, s.p.; (3) lic. 11 Dec. 1665, Elizabeth, da. of George Pitt of Harrow, Mdx. wid. of Sir Henry Hatton of Mitcham, Surr. s.p.H.F. Burke and O. Barron, ‘The builders of the Navy’, The Ancestor x. 169-72. d. 1672.PROB11/340/443.

Offices Held

Mercantile: asst. to master shipwright, Chatham 11 May 1633;CSP Dom. 1633–4, p. 53. master shipwright, Chatham by Apr. 1644–67.Bodl. Rawl. A.222, f. 29.

Local: commr. sequestration, Kent 29 July 1648.CJ v. 652a. J.p. Kent 20 Mar. 1649-Aug. 1670;C231/6, p. 145; C231/7, p. 376; C193/13/3, f. 34. Hants June 1652 – bef.Oct. 1653; Essex June 1652 – bef.Oct. 1653, by c. Sept. 1656 – Mar. 1660; Mdx., Surr. June 1652-bef. Mar. 1660.C231/6, p. 237–8; C193/13/4, ff. 37, 64v. Commr. assessment, Kent 14 May 1649, 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653, 9 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660, 1661; Surr. 9 June 1657;A. and O.; SR; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28). ejecting scandalous ministers, Kent 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. poll tax, 1660;SR. sewers, Gravesend Bridge to Penshurst, Kent 1 Dec. 1660.C181/7, p. 70.

Central: commr. navy (Chatham), 16 Feb. 1649–67.CJ vi. 144a, 148a-b. Gov. Chatham Chest by Dec. 1653.ADM82/1, f. 172; NMM, SOC 16, p. 181.

Civic: freeman, Queenborough 12 Jan. 1659.Cent. Kent. Stud. Qb/JMs4, unfol.

Academic: FRS, 17 Sept. 1662.M. Hunter, The Royal Society and its Fellows (1982), 180.

Parlimentarian

PETT, Peter (1610-c.1672), of Chatham, Kent.

: Kent.

Likenesses

Likenesses: oil on canvas, P. Lely, c.1645-50;NMM. oil on canvas, aft. P. Lely.NPG.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

PETT, Peter (1610-72), of Chatham, Kent.

Will

13 Apr. 1663, pr. 2 Dec. 1672.PROB11/340/443.

Estates

at death, owned manors of Woodbridge, Offort and Kettleborough, Suff.PROB11/340/443.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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