The End of the Trail

What We Know


Several events have conspired against us in our search for Jacob Pittman's ancestry.  Below, you will find everything that I know about him, gathered together in this one place.  It isn't very much data, but hopefully it is enough to connect him to the rest of the family tree some day.

• He lived in Mississippi by 1830.  From the federal census, we have this image.  It doesn't directly tell us much.  There were six people in his household, and he was the head. Males: 1 < 5.  1 >5 < 10. 1 > 20 < 30. Females: the same as the males, actually.  It is also noteworthy, that this census tells us who his neighbors were.  Two in particular are noteworthy.  One was John S Pittman, who by DNA is shown to be at least a cousin, potentially closer.  The other, is James Gill, who might be either his father-in-law, or brother-in-law.
• Still in Marion County MS at 1840.  By 1840, the federal census shows his household at eleven members.  There is not much else to glean from this census.  He no longer shares a page with John S Pittman and James Gill.  John is two pages back.  James seems to be gone, and may have already moved to Louisiana at this point.  Neither of the household members over twenty years of age could read or write.  Five of the household were employed in agriculture.
• He was in Marion County MS until at least 1845.  I have only abstracts from the Mississippi state census, but he is listed in both 1841 and 1845.  This is the last that I've seen of him on any official record.
• His family is in Louisiana without him by 1850.  As we said in previous posts, his wife went to live with the Gill families in Louisiana sometime between 1846 and 1850.  That is where they show up on the census records.
• His Y-Chromosome: Through DNA testing, we know that if he was indeed my ancestor, he was a descendant of Thomas Pittman.

HAPLOGROUP	DYS19a	DYS385a	DYS385b	DYS388	DYS389I	DYS389II	DYS390	DYS391
R1b	14	12	14	12	13	29	23	11
	DYS392	DYS393	DYS426	DYS437	DYS438	DYS439	DYS441	DYS442
	13	12	12	15	12	12	14	17
	DYS444	DYS445	DYS446	DYS447	DYS448	DYS449	DYS452	DYS454
	12	12	13	21	19	30	30	11
	DYS455	DYS456	DYS458	DYS459a	DYS459b	DYS460	DYS461	DYS462
	11	15	17	9	10	11	12	11
	DYS463	DYS464a	DYS464b	DYS464c	DYS464d	DYS635	GGAAT1B07	YCAIIa
	24	15	15	15	17	23	10	19
	YCAIIb	Y-GATA-A10	Y-GATA-H4
	23	15	12