Editing Nathaniel Pitcher (section)

==Family==
Pitcher's first wife was Margaret Scott (1782–1815).{{sfn|''The Stebbins Genealogy''|pages=295–296}}  Their children included sons Augustus (1808–1876),{{sfn|"Death Notice, Augustus Pitcher"|page=7}} Matthew Scott (1810–1858),{{sfn|"Cemetery Records Kingsbury, New York: Baker Cemetery"}} and Montgomery Pike (1813–1841).{{sfn|"Cemetery Records Kingsbury, New York: Baker Cemetery"}}

On March 15, 1823, Pitcher was married to Anna B. Merritt (1791–1824) of [[Freedom Plains, New York]].{{sfn|"Marriage Notice: Nathaniel Pitcher and Anna B. Merritt"|page=3}}  She became ill and died soon after giving birth to their son Edward Merritt (1824–1860).{{sfn|"Death Notice, Anna B. Pitcher"|page=3}}{{sfn|"California Pioneer and Immigrant Files, 1790–1950"}}  Edward Merritt Pitcher moved to [[California]] in the 1840s, where he was an early settler of [[Sacramento]], and a member of [[Sacramento County, California|Sacramento County]]'s first board of supervisors.{{sfn|"California Pioneer and Immigrant Files, 1790–1950"}}{{sfn|"Roseville’s first Postmistress was a trail blazer"}}{{sfn|"Death Notice, Edward M. Pitcher"|page=3}}

Pitcher's siblings included [[Zina Pitcher]], a prominent physician and [[List of mayors of Detroit|mayor of Detroit]].{{sfn|''National Cyclopedia of American Biography''|pages=214–215}}