Joshua Pettit married Martha Green before 1725 she was the daughter of Richard Greene Sr. and Elizabeth Edwards of England.

A record of a Will was discovered in which it names Martha Greene as the wife of Joshua Pettit who was a landowner in Jamaica town NY and names her mother as Elizabeth Edwards an heiress who was the wife of the late Richard Greene (d. Aug 1710) merchant & rope maker from England. Pettit research believes that the Greens were neighbours of the Petitt's and Carpenter families.

Record Bristol Archived reference no AC/WO/12/85

1) Elizabeth Greene of the town of Jamaica, Queens County, Island of Nassah, New York, widow of Richard Greene of Barton Regis, rope maker, and the sole heir of Jonathan Edwards of Bristol, haulier; Richard Greene her son; Joshua Pettit of Jamaica town, yeoman and Martha his wife (n,e Green) 2) Thomas Eldridge. One moiety of messuage and closes called Downend, Marshleaze, Townend, the Paddock, Great Ore and Little Ore, and common for 30 sheep, in the tithing of Shirehampton (purchased by Jonathan Edwards from Walter Lord Aston, heir of Ralph Sadier) Considerations £245,1725 April 1/2

In a Brooklyn library a 1861 letter was discovered that had been written by G.W. Pettit which included a Pettit Family linage of his uncle the great grandson of Increase Pettit. Joshua Pettit his great-great grandfather married a rich "English Lady" and settled at Springfield Gardens a neighbourhood of Queens County New York located three miles from Jamaica Town New York. They had two sons and two daughters (only Increase Pettit named the other three not named)- This letter and research on the Greene family can be found on the Pettit Family and History/from Virginia. The Pettit Family of Spartanburg S.C. From Virginia website.

It has been several years that researchers have thought that Johua Pettit married Susanna Carpenter. This was because of the record that is in the book Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut being the ancestry and kindred of Hurbert Furman Silversmith Volume 2

"John Carpenter jr. recorded in Jamaica New York 1676, rated 78 pounds, Jamaica, married Mary Rhodes in 1680 was influential and was chosen townsman and called and designated Capitan of the troops and acquired a bit of land. Will written the 10th of June 1731 issue, John, Joseph, Increase, Soloman, Mary, Hannah, Nehemiah, Susanna b.1699 considered to have married Joshua Pettit."

There seems to be a family lore that the Pettit family immigrated from France. These families had no idea of their linage. It could be that this idea passed down through generation's because an ancestor with the French surname of Pettit purchased farmland in New Rochelle New York. New Rochelle NY was established in 1688 by French Huguenots (Protestants) who fled the port city of La Rochelle in southwestern France following their failed rebellions. La Rochelle is the only deep-water port of the French Atlantic coast. Generations have been inspired by the marine potential of the area--fishing is the villages main activity.

Thomas Pettit III the son of Thomas Pettit II and Sarah Perry was a widower with a five-year-old son when he married Catherine Branch in New York the year of 1698. There is not much known about the family of Catherine Branch, but the origin of the surname Branche is French.

Thomas & Catherine Pettit were faithful members of the Presbyterian Church of Newtown and were on a committee who welcomed the new Reverend Samuel Pumroy who arrived in 1708. In early spring of 1715 Thomas Pettit purchased 68 acres of farmland from French Huguenot Théophile Forrestier who died in May of 1715. In his Last Will and Testament Théophile Forrester demanded that Thomas Pettit pay for the land and pay interest to his widow and grown children. Thomas Pettit of New Rochelle died on July 24, 1715. Source "Records of the town of New Rochelle, 1699-1828.

Queens County Sessions of Peace pg. 54, The first Tuesday of Dec 1715 Thomas Pettit of Jamaica NY informed the court that Thomas Pettit of New Rochelle, deceased being the father to said Thomas, having left behind him five small children and a moveable estate prays that speedy care be taken of said children and movables, the creatures being of want of fodder (food). The court ordered that said Thomas Pettit take the said children and moveable estate under his care and put out the children according to his discretion.

The first record of Joshua Pettit in Jamaica Town New York was when his name appears on an affidavit (sworn statement) he was witness to the church tax rebellion in Jamaica town when was eighteen years old.