Ebenezer Pettigrew (March 10, 1783 – July 8, 1848) was a

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from

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. He was born near

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, March 10, 1783. He studied under tutors at home and later attended the

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where he was a charter member of the Debating Society, which became the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies. He was a planter slaveholder, and later became a member of the

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in 1809 and 1810. He was elected as an

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to the

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(March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837), afterwards resuming his agricultural pursuits. He was also a slave owner. He died at Magnolia Plantation on Lake Scuppernong, July 8, 1848, and was interred in the family cemetery. He was the father of Confederate General J. Johnston Pettigrew.

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* Wall, Bennett H. “Ebenezer Pettigrew’s Efforts to Control the Marketing of his Crops.” Agricultural History 27 (October 1953): 123–32.
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