This post is being sent to the Cumberland Co PA, Franklin Co PA, and Piatt surname lists. The following road record was found three or four years ago by a fellow researcher interested in the two men named Jacob Piatt/Pyatt who were in the Path Valley and/or Burnt Cabins area from the time of the eviction of the squatters by the PA militia to about 1775. Reference for the record is Cumberland Co Road Records, Volume 1, page 32, County Clerk's Office, Carlisle. The road runs north and east consistantly and therefore I will leave out the direction, degrees, and perches in the interest of readability. It is believed that the road was laid out from the narrows at Concord northeast to the Juniata, being approximately what is now PA Route 75. The beginning point is in question and centers on the location of the residence of John Fleming. If any of the residences listed in 1774 could be identified and located by today's landmarks, it would be a great help in understanding this record. Information and comments would be welcome. ***** April session 1774, Public Road from John Fleming's to Mr Patterson's, now Kepler's in Juniatta [sic]: The persons appointed at last January Sessions to view and lay out a road ....[1 word unclear] leading from John Fleming's to Mr Patterson's now Keppler [sic] on the Juniatta have returned to this court the said road as viewed and laid out by them according to the following courses and distances, viz Beginning at FLEMING'S north... to PYAT'S, thence north... to JOHN ARBUCKLE'S, thence north... to GEORGE MCCONNELLS, thence north... to JOHN MCINTIRE'S field, thence north... to WILLIAM MORRISON'S, thence north... to DAVID BEAL'S mill, thence north to MILLIGAN, thence north... to JOHN HER'S(?) run, thence north... to JAS CHURCH'S or JAS CHARTIER'S run, thence north... to CROZIER'S run, thence north... to RUNION'S(?), thence north... to SOLOMON BU...FIELD, thence north... to MR PATTERSON or KEPPLERS which road viewed and laid out as aforesaid the said persons viz Wm Arbuckel [sic], John Ron(?), Wm Graham, Robert Hogg, David Beale & Hugh Quigley now returned to the court as a road highly necessary and of public utility and is laid out in a manner the least injurious to private property, which said road being taken into consideration is accordingly approved of and confirmed by the court, and it is further ordered by the court that the said road laid out as aforesaid be cut, cleaned and bridged and if necessary by the several Supervisors of the townships through which said road passes of the breadth of thirty three feet wide. By the Court No Draught or petition ***** Laverne Ingram Piatt Ontario, OH