Eldest son of Thomas Pitts and wife Elizabeth Mountfort
Husband of Sarah Merrill
Known children:
Julia Pitts
Elizabeth Pitts
Thomas Pitts
Frances Pitts
Caroline Pitts
Isabella Pitts
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Samuel Mountfort Pitts, b. 1810; d. 1868. Married at Cambridge, 1836, Sarah Merrill, born at Vassalboro, Me., daughter of Joshua Merrill, b. May 7; 1780; d. Nov. 17, 1860; and Elizabeth Bradford, b. April 26, 1785; d. January 19, 1856. Julia Merrill, twin sister of Sarah, married, in 1845, Daniel Goodwin, then Judge of the Supreme Court of Mich. Joshua M., was son of Gen. James Merrill, of Portland, Me., and Hannah Merrill. Gen. James M. was son of Joshua Merrill and Mary Winslow, daughter of James Winslow, said to be a descendant of Gov. Edward Winslow of the Mayflower.
Elizabeth Bradford was daughter of Peter Bradford, b. 1745; d. 1833, son of Hon. Gamaliel Bradford, b. 1704, d. 1778, one of the King's Council, with James Pitts and James Bowdoin, from 1766 to 1770, and Judge of the County Court. He was son of Samuel Bradford, b. 1668, d. 1714, son of Maj. William Bradford, b. 1624, d. 1704, who was son of Gov. William Bradford of the Mayflower. (See New Eng. Gen. Reg., Vol. IV, pp. 39 and 239.)
Gamaliel's mother, Hannah Rogers, was daughter of John Rogers and Elizabeth Peabody. Elizabeth was dau. of William Peabody, b. 1619, d. 1707, and Elizabeth Alden, b. 1624, d. 1717, and she was dau. of John Alden, b. 1597, d. 1687, and Priscilla Mullins, both of the Mayflower, and who were the first man and woman who stepped on Plymouth Rock, as has been popularly supposed, December 21, 1620, but as argued in Atlantic Monthly for November, 1881, on the 4th of January, 1621.
Samuel M.Pitts graduated at Harvard in 1830, being a classmate and friend of Charles Sumner, Thomas C. Amory, John B. Kerr, E. R. Potter, Franklin Sawyer, Jonathan F. Stearns, George W. Warren and Samuel T. Worcester. Among other college mates were his kinsman, Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, also George S. Hilliard, C. C. Emerson, George T. Bigelow, James Freeman Clarke, Benjamin R. Curtis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Pierce, the historian Motley, George T Curtis and George E. Ellis.
He studied law in Detroit, Mich., with Gen. Charles Lamed, and became executor of his estate upon the death of Larned, and succeeded to his law business; devoted himself to his profession and editing a newspaper for twelve years, and was compelled, by loss of health, to abandon his profession. He then engaged in the manufacture of lumber and salt and in the purchase of pine lands, and accumulated a large fortune. He died in 1868, and before his death admitted his only son, Thomas, and the husband of his oldest daughter, Julia, Mr. Thomas Cranage, Jr., into partnership, under the firm name of Pitts & Cranage. He was a devoted Presbyterian, and extremely liberal and helpful to his church and its varied societies, and to the poor and sick of all races and colors. He was a thoroughly educated man, of fine presence and handsome face, with a musical voice; always spoke and wrote with great elegance and precision; conversed fluently in English, French and German, and quoted freely from the Latin. When in health he was celebrated for his good stories and apt illustrations. At the time of his death there were four very full eulogistic notices of him, one by the Rev. Dr. George Duffleld, published in the New York Independent, May 14, 1868, and one by Judge Daniel Goodwin, President of the Constitutional Convention of Michigan of 1850, published by the Detroit Free Press.
Dr. Duffleld said, " He was an enlightened, consistent, faithful follower of Christ, an useful, public-spirited and benevolent dispenser of his means for the benefit of the suffering poor and the cause of evangelical piety. He loved to minister to the wants of the needy, who came in his way, but averse to anything like display or show of charity, he let not his left hand know what his right hand did. Prominent among those who bore his remains to their last resting-place, were members and cotemporaries of the bar, with which profession his tastes, liberal culture and social intercourse, kept him identified to the time of his death."
Judge Goodwin said of him, "He possessed an intelligent mind, and was a good scholar. He was a man of high integrity and of exemplary character; was liberal in support of objects of public utility, and kind and generous to the poor, many of whom will, with grateful recollections shed tears over his memory."
CHILDREN OF SAMUEL MOUNTFORT PITTS AND SARAH MERRILL:
* Julia Larned Pitts, b. July 29, 1837; m. October 20, 1863, Thomas Cranage, Jr., then of Detroit, now of Bay City.
* Elizabeth Pitts, b. May 26, 1839; d. May 6, 1842.
* Thomas Pitts, b. October 11, 1841; m. June 21, 1871, Louise Chapin Strong, of Detroit.
* Prances Pitts, b. October 9, 1843; m. December 29, 1863, Henry Martyn Duffleld, of Detroit.
* Caroline Pitts, b. October 9, 1843; m. July 13, 1864, Henry Billings Brown, who went from Connecticut to Detroit in I860, graduated at Yale College 1856, studied law at Harvard University in the class of 1860 ; was Judge of the Circuit Court of Wayne County in 1870, and appointed Judge of the Eastern District of Michigan, by President Grant in 1875.
* Isabella Duffleld Pitts, b. August 9, 1845; m. July 7, 1875, Daniel Goodwin, Jr., lawyer of Chicago.
~Memorial of the Lives and Services of James Pitts and his Sons, by Daniel Goodwin, Chicago, Feb 1882, pp 39-41
Husband of Sarah Merrill
Known children:
Julia Pitts
Elizabeth Pitts
Thomas Pitts
Frances Pitts
Caroline Pitts
Isabella Pitts
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Samuel Mountfort Pitts, b. 1810; d. 1868. Married at Cambridge, 1836, Sarah Merrill, born at Vassalboro, Me., daughter of Joshua Merrill, b. May 7; 1780; d. Nov. 17, 1860; and Elizabeth Bradford, b. April 26, 1785; d. January 19, 1856. Julia Merrill, twin sister of Sarah, married, in 1845, Daniel Goodwin, then Judge of the Supreme Court of Mich. Joshua M., was son of Gen. James Merrill, of Portland, Me., and Hannah Merrill. Gen. James M. was son of Joshua Merrill and Mary Winslow, daughter of James Winslow, said to be a descendant of Gov. Edward Winslow of the Mayflower.
Elizabeth Bradford was daughter of Peter Bradford, b. 1745; d. 1833, son of Hon. Gamaliel Bradford, b. 1704, d. 1778, one of the King's Council, with James Pitts and James Bowdoin, from 1766 to 1770, and Judge of the County Court. He was son of Samuel Bradford, b. 1668, d. 1714, son of Maj. William Bradford, b. 1624, d. 1704, who was son of Gov. William Bradford of the Mayflower. (See New Eng. Gen. Reg., Vol. IV, pp. 39 and 239.)
Gamaliel's mother, Hannah Rogers, was daughter of John Rogers and Elizabeth Peabody. Elizabeth was dau. of William Peabody, b. 1619, d. 1707, and Elizabeth Alden, b. 1624, d. 1717, and she was dau. of John Alden, b. 1597, d. 1687, and Priscilla Mullins, both of the Mayflower, and who were the first man and woman who stepped on Plymouth Rock, as has been popularly supposed, December 21, 1620, but as argued in Atlantic Monthly for November, 1881, on the 4th of January, 1621.
Samuel M.Pitts graduated at Harvard in 1830, being a classmate and friend of Charles Sumner, Thomas C. Amory, John B. Kerr, E. R. Potter, Franklin Sawyer, Jonathan F. Stearns, George W. Warren and Samuel T. Worcester. Among other college mates were his kinsman, Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, also George S. Hilliard, C. C. Emerson, George T. Bigelow, James Freeman Clarke, Benjamin R. Curtis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Pierce, the historian Motley, George T Curtis and George E. Ellis.
He studied law in Detroit, Mich., with Gen. Charles Lamed, and became executor of his estate upon the death of Larned, and succeeded to his law business; devoted himself to his profession and editing a newspaper for twelve years, and was compelled, by loss of health, to abandon his profession. He then engaged in the manufacture of lumber and salt and in the purchase of pine lands, and accumulated a large fortune. He died in 1868, and before his death admitted his only son, Thomas, and the husband of his oldest daughter, Julia, Mr. Thomas Cranage, Jr., into partnership, under the firm name of Pitts & Cranage. He was a devoted Presbyterian, and extremely liberal and helpful to his church and its varied societies, and to the poor and sick of all races and colors. He was a thoroughly educated man, of fine presence and handsome face, with a musical voice; always spoke and wrote with great elegance and precision; conversed fluently in English, French and German, and quoted freely from the Latin. When in health he was celebrated for his good stories and apt illustrations. At the time of his death there were four very full eulogistic notices of him, one by the Rev. Dr. George Duffleld, published in the New York Independent, May 14, 1868, and one by Judge Daniel Goodwin, President of the Constitutional Convention of Michigan of 1850, published by the Detroit Free Press.
Dr. Duffleld said, " He was an enlightened, consistent, faithful follower of Christ, an useful, public-spirited and benevolent dispenser of his means for the benefit of the suffering poor and the cause of evangelical piety. He loved to minister to the wants of the needy, who came in his way, but averse to anything like display or show of charity, he let not his left hand know what his right hand did. Prominent among those who bore his remains to their last resting-place, were members and cotemporaries of the bar, with which profession his tastes, liberal culture and social intercourse, kept him identified to the time of his death."
Judge Goodwin said of him, "He possessed an intelligent mind, and was a good scholar. He was a man of high integrity and of exemplary character; was liberal in support of objects of public utility, and kind and generous to the poor, many of whom will, with grateful recollections shed tears over his memory."
CHILDREN OF SAMUEL MOUNTFORT PITTS AND SARAH MERRILL:
* Julia Larned Pitts, b. July 29, 1837; m. October 20, 1863, Thomas Cranage, Jr., then of Detroit, now of Bay City.
* Elizabeth Pitts, b. May 26, 1839; d. May 6, 1842.
* Thomas Pitts, b. October 11, 1841; m. June 21, 1871, Louise Chapin Strong, of Detroit.
* Prances Pitts, b. October 9, 1843; m. December 29, 1863, Henry Martyn Duffleld, of Detroit.
* Caroline Pitts, b. October 9, 1843; m. July 13, 1864, Henry Billings Brown, who went from Connecticut to Detroit in I860, graduated at Yale College 1856, studied law at Harvard University in the class of 1860 ; was Judge of the Circuit Court of Wayne County in 1870, and appointed Judge of the Eastern District of Michigan, by President Grant in 1875.
* Isabella Duffleld Pitts, b. August 9, 1845; m. July 7, 1875, Daniel Goodwin, Jr., lawyer of Chicago.
~Memorial of the Lives and Services of James Pitts and his Sons, by Daniel Goodwin, Chicago, Feb 1882, pp 39-41
Eldest son of Thomas Pitts and wife Elizabeth Mountfort
Husband of Sarah Merrill
Known children:
Julia Pitts
Elizabeth Pitts
Thomas Pitts
Frances Pitts
Caroline Pitts
Isabella Pitts
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Samuel Mountfort Pitts, b. 1810; d. 1868. Married at Cambridge, 1836, Sarah Merrill, born at Vassalboro, Me., daughter of Joshua Merrill, b. May 7; 1780; d. Nov. 17, 1860; and Elizabeth Bradford, b. April 26, 1785; d. January 19, 1856. Julia Merrill, twin sister of Sarah, married, in 1845, Daniel Goodwin, then Judge of the Supreme Court of Mich. Joshua M., was son of Gen. James Merrill, of Portland, Me., and Hannah Merrill. Gen. James M. was son of Joshua Merrill and Mary Winslow, daughter of James Winslow, said to be a descendant of Gov. Edward Winslow of the Mayflower.
Elizabeth Bradford was daughter of Peter Bradford, b. 1745; d. 1833, son of Hon. Gamaliel Bradford, b. 1704, d. 1778, one of the King's Council, with James Pitts and James Bowdoin, from 1766 to 1770, and Judge of the County Court. He was son of Samuel Bradford, b. 1668, d. 1714, son of Maj. William Bradford, b. 1624, d. 1704, who was son of Gov. William Bradford of the Mayflower. (See New Eng. Gen. Reg., Vol. IV, pp. 39 and 239.)
Gamaliel's mother, Hannah Rogers, was daughter of John Rogers and Elizabeth Peabody. Elizabeth was dau. of William Peabody, b. 1619, d. 1707, and Elizabeth Alden, b. 1624, d. 1717, and she was dau. of John Alden, b. 1597, d. 1687, and Priscilla Mullins, both of the Mayflower, and who were the first man and woman who stepped on Plymouth Rock, as has been popularly supposed, December 21, 1620, but as argued in Atlantic Monthly for November, 1881, on the 4th of January, 1621.
Samuel M.Pitts graduated at Harvard in 1830, being a classmate and friend of Charles Sumner, Thomas C. Amory, John B. Kerr, E. R. Potter, Franklin Sawyer, Jonathan F. Stearns, George W. Warren and Samuel T. Worcester. Among other college mates were his kinsman, Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, also George S. Hilliard, C. C. Emerson, George T. Bigelow, James Freeman Clarke, Benjamin R. Curtis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Pierce, the historian Motley, George T Curtis and George E. Ellis.
He studied law in Detroit, Mich., with Gen. Charles Lamed, and became executor of his estate upon the death of Larned, and succeeded to his law business; devoted himself to his profession and editing a newspaper for twelve years, and was compelled, by loss of health, to abandon his profession. He then engaged in the manufacture of lumber and salt and in the purchase of pine lands, and accumulated a large fortune. He died in 1868, and before his death admitted his only son, Thomas, and the husband of his oldest daughter, Julia, Mr. Thomas Cranage, Jr., into partnership, under the firm name of Pitts & Cranage. He was a devoted Presbyterian, and extremely liberal and helpful to his church and its varied societies, and to the poor and sick of all races and colors. He was a thoroughly educated man, of fine presence and handsome face, with a musical voice; always spoke and wrote with great elegance and precision; conversed fluently in English, French and German, and quoted freely from the Latin. When in health he was celebrated for his good stories and apt illustrations. At the time of his death there were four very full eulogistic notices of him, one by the Rev. Dr. George Duffleld, published in the New York Independent, May 14, 1868, and one by Judge Daniel Goodwin, President of the Constitutional Convention of Michigan of 1850, published by the Detroit Free Press.
Dr. Duffleld said, " He was an enlightened, consistent, faithful follower of Christ, an useful, public-spirited and benevolent dispenser of his means for the benefit of the suffering poor and the cause of evangelical piety. He loved to minister to the wants of the needy, who came in his way, but averse to anything like display or show of charity, he let not his left hand know what his right hand did. Prominent among those who bore his remains to their last resting-place, were members and cotemporaries of the bar, with which profession his tastes, liberal culture and social intercourse, kept him identified to the time of his death."
Judge Goodwin said of him, "He possessed an intelligent mind, and was a good scholar. He was a man of high integrity and of exemplary character; was liberal in support of objects of public utility, and kind and generous to the poor, many of whom will, with grateful recollections shed tears over his memory."
CHILDREN OF SAMUEL MOUNTFORT PITTS AND SARAH MERRILL:
* Julia Larned Pitts, b. July 29, 1837; m. October 20, 1863, Thomas Cranage, Jr., then of Detroit, now of Bay City.
* Elizabeth Pitts, b. May 26, 1839; d. May 6, 1842.
* Thomas Pitts, b. October 11, 1841; m. June 21, 1871, Louise Chapin Strong, of Detroit.
* Prances Pitts, b. October 9, 1843; m. December 29, 1863, Henry Martyn Duffleld, of Detroit.
* Caroline Pitts, b. October 9, 1843; m. July 13, 1864, Henry Billings Brown, who went from Connecticut to Detroit in I860, graduated at Yale College 1856, studied law at Harvard University in the class of 1860 ; was Judge of the Circuit Court of Wayne County in 1870, and appointed Judge of the Eastern District of Michigan, by President Grant in 1875.
* Isabella Duffleld Pitts, b. August 9, 1845; m. July 7, 1875, Daniel Goodwin, Jr., lawyer of Chicago.
~Memorial of the Lives and Services of James Pitts and his Sons, by Daniel Goodwin, Chicago, Feb 1882, pp 39-41
Husband of Sarah Merrill
Known children:
Julia Pitts
Elizabeth Pitts
Thomas Pitts
Frances Pitts
Caroline Pitts
Isabella Pitts
*******************
Samuel Mountfort Pitts, b. 1810; d. 1868. Married at Cambridge, 1836, Sarah Merrill, born at Vassalboro, Me., daughter of Joshua Merrill, b. May 7; 1780; d. Nov. 17, 1860; and Elizabeth Bradford, b. April 26, 1785; d. January 19, 1856. Julia Merrill, twin sister of Sarah, married, in 1845, Daniel Goodwin, then Judge of the Supreme Court of Mich. Joshua M., was son of Gen. James Merrill, of Portland, Me., and Hannah Merrill. Gen. James M. was son of Joshua Merrill and Mary Winslow, daughter of James Winslow, said to be a descendant of Gov. Edward Winslow of the Mayflower.
Elizabeth Bradford was daughter of Peter Bradford, b. 1745; d. 1833, son of Hon. Gamaliel Bradford, b. 1704, d. 1778, one of the King's Council, with James Pitts and James Bowdoin, from 1766 to 1770, and Judge of the County Court. He was son of Samuel Bradford, b. 1668, d. 1714, son of Maj. William Bradford, b. 1624, d. 1704, who was son of Gov. William Bradford of the Mayflower. (See New Eng. Gen. Reg., Vol. IV, pp. 39 and 239.)
Gamaliel's mother, Hannah Rogers, was daughter of John Rogers and Elizabeth Peabody. Elizabeth was dau. of William Peabody, b. 1619, d. 1707, and Elizabeth Alden, b. 1624, d. 1717, and she was dau. of John Alden, b. 1597, d. 1687, and Priscilla Mullins, both of the Mayflower, and who were the first man and woman who stepped on Plymouth Rock, as has been popularly supposed, December 21, 1620, but as argued in Atlantic Monthly for November, 1881, on the 4th of January, 1621.
Samuel M.Pitts graduated at Harvard in 1830, being a classmate and friend of Charles Sumner, Thomas C. Amory, John B. Kerr, E. R. Potter, Franklin Sawyer, Jonathan F. Stearns, George W. Warren and Samuel T. Worcester. Among other college mates were his kinsman, Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, also George S. Hilliard, C. C. Emerson, George T. Bigelow, James Freeman Clarke, Benjamin R. Curtis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Pierce, the historian Motley, George T Curtis and George E. Ellis.
He studied law in Detroit, Mich., with Gen. Charles Lamed, and became executor of his estate upon the death of Larned, and succeeded to his law business; devoted himself to his profession and editing a newspaper for twelve years, and was compelled, by loss of health, to abandon his profession. He then engaged in the manufacture of lumber and salt and in the purchase of pine lands, and accumulated a large fortune. He died in 1868, and before his death admitted his only son, Thomas, and the husband of his oldest daughter, Julia, Mr. Thomas Cranage, Jr., into partnership, under the firm name of Pitts & Cranage. He was a devoted Presbyterian, and extremely liberal and helpful to his church and its varied societies, and to the poor and sick of all races and colors. He was a thoroughly educated man, of fine presence and handsome face, with a musical voice; always spoke and wrote with great elegance and precision; conversed fluently in English, French and German, and quoted freely from the Latin. When in health he was celebrated for his good stories and apt illustrations. At the time of his death there were four very full eulogistic notices of him, one by the Rev. Dr. George Duffleld, published in the New York Independent, May 14, 1868, and one by Judge Daniel Goodwin, President of the Constitutional Convention of Michigan of 1850, published by the Detroit Free Press.
Dr. Duffleld said, " He was an enlightened, consistent, faithful follower of Christ, an useful, public-spirited and benevolent dispenser of his means for the benefit of the suffering poor and the cause of evangelical piety. He loved to minister to the wants of the needy, who came in his way, but averse to anything like display or show of charity, he let not his left hand know what his right hand did. Prominent among those who bore his remains to their last resting-place, were members and cotemporaries of the bar, with which profession his tastes, liberal culture and social intercourse, kept him identified to the time of his death."
Judge Goodwin said of him, "He possessed an intelligent mind, and was a good scholar. He was a man of high integrity and of exemplary character; was liberal in support of objects of public utility, and kind and generous to the poor, many of whom will, with grateful recollections shed tears over his memory."
CHILDREN OF SAMUEL MOUNTFORT PITTS AND SARAH MERRILL:
* Julia Larned Pitts, b. July 29, 1837; m. October 20, 1863, Thomas Cranage, Jr., then of Detroit, now of Bay City.
* Elizabeth Pitts, b. May 26, 1839; d. May 6, 1842.
* Thomas Pitts, b. October 11, 1841; m. June 21, 1871, Louise Chapin Strong, of Detroit.
* Prances Pitts, b. October 9, 1843; m. December 29, 1863, Henry Martyn Duffleld, of Detroit.
* Caroline Pitts, b. October 9, 1843; m. July 13, 1864, Henry Billings Brown, who went from Connecticut to Detroit in I860, graduated at Yale College 1856, studied law at Harvard University in the class of 1860 ; was Judge of the Circuit Court of Wayne County in 1870, and appointed Judge of the Eastern District of Michigan, by President Grant in 1875.
* Isabella Duffleld Pitts, b. August 9, 1845; m. July 7, 1875, Daniel Goodwin, Jr., lawyer of Chicago.
~Memorial of the Lives and Services of James Pitts and his Sons, by Daniel Goodwin, Chicago, Feb 1882, pp 39-41
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