Pettibone, Roswkll, a Presbyterian minister, was born in Orwell, Vt., Aug. 26, 179G. He had limited fa- cilities for an early education, entered Middlebury Col- lege in 1817, graduated in 1820, taught in the academy there in 1821, studied divinity with Dr. Hopkins, and was licensed by the Addison County Association in 1822. He commenced preaching in Hopkinton, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., in 1823, and was ordained July 22, 1824; here he labored with great acceptability and success till poor healtb induced him to seek a milder climate, and in September, 1830, he went West, and preached at Ann Harbor, Mich., through the winter, and in the spring received a unanimous call to take charge of the Church, but ill-health prevented his do- ing so. During 1831 he was invited to the Church in Evans' Mills, Jefferson County, N. Y., which he served with great fidelity and success until, in November, 1837, he was called to Canton, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., and installed Feb. 14. 1838. Here he labored until April 1, 1854, when he became chaplain of Clinton State Prison, where he died, Aug. 15, 1854. Mr. Pettibone was pre-eminent in every relation and in the discharge of every duty; in spirit and conduct a progressive con- servative, and strongly attached to the Calvinistic doc- trines of grace; very active in organizing different benevolent societies and churches in his own and sister counties. See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 18G4, p. 310. (J. L. S.)
Pettigrew, Ciiakles, a prelate of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born about 1755, in Ireland, whence his father immigrated about 1770. The family was of Scottish origin, and possessed those marked char- acteristics of Scotch genius which have distinguished so many of the Presbyterian brethren who have come to this country from Scotland. In 1773 Pettigrew be- came a teacher at Edenton, but two years later he took holy orders, and was ordained pastor of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Loudon. In May, 1794, at a con- vention held at Tarborough, he was elected bishop. He died at Bonaron, Lake Scuppernong, where he settled in 1774. Pettigrew took a leading part in founding the University of North Carolina. (J. H. W.)
Petto (or Pepto), Samuel, an English Noncon- formist divine, the date of whose birth is not known, nourished near the close of the 17th century. He was educated for the Church Establishment at Catharine Hall, Cambridge, and afterwards became rector of Sancroft, in Suffolk. When the Act of Uniformity was passed in 1GG2 he was ejected from his living as a Non- conformist. Afterwards he became pastor in a Dissent- ing Church at Sudbury, where he passed the remainder of his life. He died probably about 1708, at an advanced age. His work entitled The Revelation Unveiled (1693) dealt with Scripture prophecies. The plan of the work was to inquire : 1. When many Scripture prophecies had their accomplishment. 2. What are now in process of fulfilment. 3. What are still to be fulfilled. His other works were, The Difference between the Old and the New Covenant (the preface of this work was written by Dr. Owen): — The Voice of the Spirit: — Infant Baptism A ppointed % < 'h rist : — Scriptu re < 'atech ism : — Narra- tive qftht Wonderful and Extraordinary Fits of Thorn. Ipatchel under the Influence of Witchcraft.
Petty, John, an eminent minister of the Primitive Methodist Connection in England, was born in L807, and died in 1868. His ability, piety, and devotedness won for him some of the most important and responsi- ble positions in the connection. For seven years he was editor of the Primitive Methodist magazines, "and VIII.— D
did good service in sustaining the efficiency and useful- ness of these periodicals throughout the connection.'' He was the author of several works having a large cir- culation, of which the most important was The History of the Primitive Methodist Connection, a work performed by request of the Conference, and with great thorough- ness and ability. During the last three years of his life he was governor of Elmfield School, the principal educational establishment among the Primitive Meth- odists. In that position he was especially useful in moulding the character and promoting the scholarship of the students for the ministry. As a Christian, Mr. Petty aimed with strong faith and blessed success at eminent personal holiness. As a scholar, " his learning was varied, accurate, profound, sanctified." As a preach- er, he evinced a deep insight into Christian life and experience, and his style combined elegant simplicity with intense earnestness. Among his last words were, " ( ) ! what boundless stores of fulness there are in Jesus." (G. C. J.)
Petursson, Hallgrimur, a noted psalmist, was born in Iceland in 1614. While Hallgrimur was yet a boy, his father was appointed chorister at the cathedral in Hole (the old northern episcopal residence in Iceland), having been called thither by bishop Gudbrand Thor- laksson, who is known as the first translator of the Bible into Icelandic, and as the real founder of Protestantism in Iceland. Hallgrimur got his elementary education in the school at Hole; but for some unknown reason he was expelled from this school, whereupon he, aided by some of his friends, went abroad, first to Gluckstad, in Sleswick, and later to Copenhagen. In Copenhagen he worked for a blacksmith until Brynjolf Sveinsson (af- terwards bishop of Skalholt, in Iceland), about the year 1632, got him a place in the school of Our Virgin. Here Hallgrimur made rapid progress, and in 1636 we find him studying the so-called " master's lesson." In t he year 1G27 Iceland was visited by Mohammedan pirates from Algeria, in the northern part of Africa, who at that time extended their tyrannical ride of the sea from the shores of the Mediterranean to the most western and northern islands of the Atlantic. A number of Icelanders were slain by them, while others were carried away as slaves. By the interference of the Danish king, Christian IV, some of the prisoners who had not already perished in the land of the barbarians were ransomed, and in 1636 thirty-eight Icelanders were brought from Algeria to Copenhagen, where they had to remain a few months until merchant-ships in the spring of 1G37 could take them back to Iceland. While prisoners in Algeria they had imbibed various Mohammedan ideas, and hence it was thought necessary during their stay in Copenha- gen to instruct them in the principles of Christianity ; but, not understanding Danish, an Icelandic teacher had to be found for them. Hallgrimur Petursson was se- lected. Among those set free was a woman by name Gudrid, who had formerly been the wife of an Icelander in the Westmann Isles. Hallgrimur fell in love with this woman so much that when the people were sent back to Iceland in the spring, he left the school and returned home with his beloved. The ship which carried them landed at Keflavik, in the southern part of Iceland, and lure Hallgrimur remained through the summer, doing the work of a common laborer for the Danes. Gudrid got a place to work on the farm Njardvik, not far from Keflavik, and here she gave birth to a son, whose father was Hallgrimur. Soon afterwards he married Gudrid, and lived for some time in the most abject poverty in a lonely cottage at Sudemess, until the above-mentioned Brynjolf Sveinsson, who meanwhile had become bishop of Skalholt, persuaded him to enter the service of the Church, ordained him for the ministry, and gave him the poor parish of Hvalness, in Guldbringe Syssel. He entered the ministry in 1G44, and remained in Hvalness until 1651, when he was removed to SaurbaT, in Bor- garfjord. At Saurbser he found some relief from his poverty until Aug. 15, 1662, when the parsonage and all