Sir Thomas Pettus, Sheriff of Norfolk, 1st Bart of Rackheath, died November 21, 1654. He was the grandson of Sir John Pettus, a member of The Third Virginia Charter Company. It set up Jamestown, the first colony in America.

National Archives (UK)
Reference: KNY 613 372 x 5
Elizabeth Pettus (daughter of Sir Thomas Knyvett jun.)
Family news, (nd).

Reference: D231M/T403
Feoffment by Nathaniel Knyvett of Rackheath, esq., and Edward Shepley of Rackheath, gent., to Sir Thomas Pettus, baronet, of Rackheath and Lionel Gurling of the City of Norwich, gent., in consideration of 20s of Lords Meadow in Thorpe, (1654).