Article by Richard Pettigrew, Alexandria, Virginia

I wish to emphasize that there were two groups of Pettigrew's in Northern Ireland in the early days of the Ulster Plantation. The French Huguenots from France, who mostly wove linen, arrived in the 1600’s. This group would include the Abbeville line [South Carolina] and probably some of the NC [North Carolina] line. The Scottish line, on the other hand, had probably been in Great Britain since the 1200's and therefore had much time for DNA mutation. I believe I had seen some DNA signatures, such as Abner's, to indicate that a few of the N.C. Pettigrew's were actually of the old Scottish line as opposed to the French Huguenot line. Therefore, the time difference between the arrival of the lines would very much affect your [Pettigrew DNA Project] DNA program.
RP