David Carnegie Andrew Agnew, Protestant Exiles from France… (1886)
“ From the ancient Norman family of Petit des Etans descended Louis Petit, lieutenant in La Caillemotte’s (afterwards Belcastel’s) Foot, who rose to be a Brigadier in our army, and died in 1720. His son was John Petit, Esq., who, with his family, and with a brother, Captain Peter Petit, an officer in the army, inhabited the mansion of Little Aston, in the parish of Shenstone, Staffordshire, from 1743 to 1762. This family’s munificence is glowingly described by Rev. ”
