Dear John, I have Benjamin F Piatt as dying in Bartholomew Co where you have Shelby Co. Do you know which is correct? Also, on the other Benjamin whose father was James Piatt: I have no information on that line - other than one descendant and a three line family generation list (James, Benjamin, Clarissa). Could you provide more please? Thanks, Marianne On Tue, 04 Dec 2001 19:02:49 -0800, PIATT-L@rootsweb.com wrote: > HI, MARIANNE -- > > See the extract below (from another email) for my reasoning about > Benjamin F. and William Peatt/Piatt/Pyatt. Benjamin was presumably > the male under 10 in William Peatt's household on the 1810 census of > Hampshire County, VA, page 24. > > -- JOHN > > At 01:52 PM 12/4/01 -0800, you wrote: > >John, > > Do you still have the records which you referenced (tax lists, etc.) > >pulled - so that you could give us the exact abstracts by year with original > >spelling, etc? Thanks, Marianne > > At 12:35 PM 12/4/01 -0800, you wrote: > >This may be one of 4-5 emails as I can only deal with so much at one time. > >ha ha. I have Benjamin F Pyatt with parents unknown: > >http://www.angelfire.com/ar/pyeatt/BFP1809.html > >What is the source/proof for his father being William Piatt/Peepyat of > >Hampshire County, Virginia? Thanks, Marianne > > > >The only evidence so far that identifies William Piatt as the father > >of Benjamin F. Piatt (born ca 1808) is found in the Augusta County, > >VA, personal property tax lists for 1830 and 1831. There are two > >Benjamins listed: "Benjamin Pyatt (of William)" is distinguished from > >"Benjamin Pyatt (of James)." The first Benjamin must have been the > >son of William Peepyat/Peatt/Piatt, who was the only William in the > >vicinity old enough to be this Benjamin's father. The second Benjamin > >(born ca 1807 in Rockbridge VA, died 1863 St. Louis MO) was the son of > >James Peatt and Mary Donaghoe, who were married in 1805 in Rockbridge > >County, VA. The Piatt extracts from these tax lists were published in > >the Piatt Family Newsletter, vol. 5, page 103-105. It might be > >worthwhile to examine again the original records if you can get them > >on microfilm. > > > >It is hard to disentangle these two Benjamins: they were both about > >the same age, they both lived in Augusta County, VA, and later they > >both lived concurrently in Bartholomew County, Indiana. > > > >Below is a summary of what I know about your Benjamin, just in case > >there is a tidbit you don't have. The last 5 lines are references > >to information about this Benjamin in the Piatt Family Newsletter, > >which I suspect you have already seen. > > > >BENJAMIN F. PIATT (son of William) > >Farmer > >b ca 1808 Hampshire(?) VA > >d1875 Shelby IN > >m1833 Bartholomew IN > >= Ann Carter > > (she b1814 Gloucester NJ, > > d1881 Bartholomew IN) > >1830,1831 tax Augusta VA > > -- "Benjamin (of William)" > >1840 census Bartholomew IN > >1850 census Johnson IN > >1860 census Bartholomew IN > >PFN 3:66,69,70 > >PFN 4:92,116 > >PFN 5:103-108 > >PFN 6:72 > >PFN 8:74 > > > > > > > >-- John F. Keilch > > Berkeley, California > > > > > ==== PIATT Mailing List ==== > The PIATT mailing list archives can be searched at > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/PIATT-L/ > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237 > ______________________________________________________________________________ Send a friend your Buddy Card and stay in contact always with Excite Messenger http://messenger.excite.com
HI, MARIANNE -- See the extract below (from another email) for my reasoning about Benjamin F. and William Peatt/Piatt/Pyatt. Benjamin was presumably the male under 10 in William Peatt's household on the 1810 census of Hampshire County, VA, page 24. -- JOHN At 01:52 PM 12/4/01 -0800, you wrote: >John, > Do you still have the records which you referenced (tax lists, etc.) >pulled - so that you could give us the exact abstracts by year with original >spelling, etc? Thanks, Marianne At 12:35 PM 12/4/01 -0800, you wrote: >This may be one of 4-5 emails as I can only deal with so much at one time. >ha ha. I have Benjamin F Pyatt with parents unknown: >http://www.angelfire.com/ar/pyeatt/BFP1809.html >What is the source/proof for his father being William Piatt/Peepyat of >Hampshire County, Virginia? Thanks, Marianne >The only evidence so far that identifies William Piatt as the father >of Benjamin F. Piatt (born ca 1808) is found in the Augusta County, >VA, personal property tax lists for 1830 and 1831. There are two >Benjamins listed: "Benjamin Pyatt (of William)" is distinguished from >"Benjamin Pyatt (of James)." The first Benjamin must have been the >son of William Peepyat/Peatt/Piatt, who was the only William in the >vicinity old enough to be this Benjamin's father. The second Benjamin >(born ca 1807 in Rockbridge VA, died 1863 St. Louis MO) was the son of >James Peatt and Mary Donaghoe, who were married in 1805 in Rockbridge >County, VA. The Piatt extracts from these tax lists were published in >the Piatt Family Newsletter, vol. 5, page 103-105. It might be >worthwhile to examine again the original records if you can get them >on microfilm. > >It is hard to disentangle these two Benjamins: they were both about >the same age, they both lived in Augusta County, VA, and later they >both lived concurrently in Bartholomew County, Indiana. > >Below is a summary of what I know about your Benjamin, just in case >there is a tidbit you don't have. The last 5 lines are references >to information about this Benjamin in the Piatt Family Newsletter, >which I suspect you have already seen. > >BENJAMIN F. PIATT (son of William) >Farmer >b ca 1808 Hampshire(?) VA >d1875 Shelby IN >m1833 Bartholomew IN >= Ann Carter > (she b1814 Gloucester NJ, > d1881 Bartholomew IN) >1830,1831 tax Augusta VA > -- "Benjamin (of William)" >1840 census Bartholomew IN >1850 census Johnson IN >1860 census Bartholomew IN >PFN 3:66,69,70 >PFN 4:92,116 >PFN 5:103-108 >PFN 6:72 >PFN 8:74 > > > >-- John F. Keilch > Berkeley, California
John, Do you still have the records which you referenced (tax lists, etc.) pulled - so that you could give us the exact abstracts by year with original spelling, etc? Thanks, Marianne On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 23:00:32 -0800, PIATT-L@rootsweb.com wrote: > HAPPY THANKSGIVING > > (1) Piatts, Pyatts, Pyeatts, and Peyatts everywhere, as well as other > descendants of Rene Piat, may want to give thanks that one of the > most unusual spellings of the surname did not endure -- Peepyat. > > In its list of land grants in Hampshire County, VA, Sims Index to > Land Grants in West Virginia shows the following entry: > > NAME OF GRANTEE / ACRES / LOCAL DESCRIPTION / YEAR / BOOK / PAGE > > -->> Peepyat, William / 50 / Mill Creek / 1796 / 9 / 119 > > Source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvminera/sims29.htm > > Maybe the recorder misheard a name that was really William P. Piatt. > Or maybe Peepyat was some sort of nickname. Or maybe someone in the > transaction had a stutter. In any case, once it had been entered in > the record books, the Peepyat spelling was repeated several times by > the recorder(s) in records pertaining to this land grant. > > William Peepyat's 50-acre tract was surveyed in 1794 and the grant > was issued in 1796. The record of the survey conducted by John > Mitchell Jr. reads in part, > "December 2nd, 1794. By virtue of part of a land office Treasury > Warrant No. 415 dated April 28th, 1794, and entered August 6th, 1794, > I have surveyed for William Peepyat assignee of William Fox a tract > of land in Hampshire County on the middle ridge adjoining Thomas > Lazenby on the drains of Mill Creek. . . ." > > This William Peepyat survey document was witnessed by Cornelius Peepyat > and Wm. Lazenby. A summary and scanned images of the survey record > can be viewed at the following Web pages: > http://eagle.vsla.edu/cgi-bin/lonn.gateway?bib=0145-03160&conf=010000 > http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-1/315/315_0289.tif - [begins] > http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-1/315/315_0290.tif - [continues] > > The record of the 1796 grant issued to William Peepyat by Robert > Brooke, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, can be > viewed at the following Web page: > http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-3/303/303_0524.tif > > William Peepyat's survey is mentioned again in an adjoining 1795 > survey and 1799 land grant issued to Frederick Finks (Fink). > http://eagle.vsla.edu/cgi-bin/lonn.gateway?bib=0138-65460&conf=010000 > http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-1/315/315_0499.tif - [survey] > http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-3/304/304_0050.tif - [grant] > > Immediately following the Finks survey (on page 499) is the record > for a 1795 survey for William Fox, presumably the same man who > had assigned William Peepyat his Mill Creek tract. > > Study of the land descriptions in these documents might disclose > the physical configuration of the parcels of William Peepyat and > his neighbors. To conduct additional online search of Virginia > Land Office Patents and Grants, go to the following Web page: > http://eagle.vsla.edu/lonn/virtua-basic.html > > ----- > > (2) William Peepyat was apparently William Piatt, who appeared on the > tax records of Hampshire County from 1797 through 1813 as William > Peyatt, Peayatt, and Peatt. William Peatt appeared on the 1810 > Hampshire County census, page 24. In that census record he apparently > lived with his (first?) wife, whose name is unknown, and three children > less than 10 years old. (The son was Benjamin F. Piatt, born 1808, who > later married Ann Carter. The daughters were Mary Elizabeth Piatt, > born about 1805, who later married John C. Ward, and perhaps Rachel > Piatt, who married George Bowman in 1827.) Subsequently, William Piatt > and his wife (or wives) apparently had 12 or 13 more children. His > widow appeared on the 1850 census for Nicholas County, VA, as Margaret > Piatt, age 58; if Margaret's age was correct, she was on the verge of > being too young to have borne William's oldest children. > > (In 1814 in Augusta County, VA, a William Peatt married Mary Smith, > the daughter of Martin Smith, and in 1815 William Peat was listed on > the Augusta County tax records. Piatt genealogists have supposed that > this was William of Hampshire County marrying Mary as his second wife. > However, this conclusion has not yet been proven. The only real > evidence for this supposition is the 1864 Mason County WV marriage > record of John S. Piatt, born about 1841, who supposedly said his > parents were "William and Mary". However, at the age of 8 this same > John had appeared on the 1850 census of Nicholas County, VA, with his > mother, Margaret Piatt (recorded as Poatte). (See page 384a, lines 5-9, > family number 573, at the following Web page: > ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/wv/nicholas/1850/pg0382b.txt > I wonder if an inspection of John's original marriage record might > disclose that his parents were actually identified as "William and Marg".) > > (An alternative possible identity for the William who married in 1814 > is William Piatt/Pyatt the basketmaker, who was born about 1790 in VA, > migrated to Ohio prior to 1820, and later lived in IN, TN, and MO. > This William's first child Benjamin is said to have been born about > 1813. This William's first wife has been thought to have been > Catherine Glass, but without any confirming evidence, as far as I know. > Is it possible that the 1814 William and Mary moved to Ohio, perhaps > with relatives, while the older William remained in Hampshire County?) > > ----- > > (3) William Peepyat/Piatt who received the Hampshire County land grant > was born about 1770-1775, probably in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. > The identity of William's parents is uncertain. > > William was undoubtedly related to Cornelius Piatt, who had acquired 50 > acres of land on Beaver Run in Hampshire County in 1792 and who witnessed > the 1794 Peepyat survey. In the Hampshire County tax records for 1795 > and 1796, two males over 16 were listed in Cornelius's household; one > of them was presumably William Peepyat. Only one male over 16 had been > charged to Cornelius in 1792 and 1794, and once William started appearing > on the tax list in 1797, Cornelius again was charged with only one male > over 16 in 1797 and 1798. > > How was William related to Cornelius? He might have been a son, in > which case the unidentified female over 45 in Williams's household > in 1810 might have been his widowed mother. But alternatively, William > could have been brother, cousin, or nephew to Cornelius. It is possible > that William's father was James Piatt, born before 1765, who was listed > near William on the 1810 Hampshire County census, page 23 (recorded as > James Peate, and sometimes transcribed at James Peale). > > I believe Piatt genealogists have studied the surviving tax records > of Hampshire County. But there are land records for Hampshire County > that have not been thoroughly researched. Further research in these > records might disclose more about the relationships of William, > Cornelius, and James. > > > -- John F. Keilch > Berkeley, California > > > ==== PIATT Mailing List ==== > The PIATT mailing list archives can be searched at > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/PIATT-L/ > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237 > ______________________________________________________________________________ Send a friend your Buddy Card and stay in contact always with Excite Messenger http://messenger.excite.com
This may be one of 4-5 emails as I can only deal with so much at one time. ha ha. I have Benjamin F Pyatt with parents unknown: http://www.angelfire.com/ar/pyeatt/BFP1809.html What is the source/proof for his father being William Piatt/Peepyat of Hampshire County, Virginia? Thanks, Marianne On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 23:00:32 -0800, PIATT-L@rootsweb.com wrote: > HAPPY THANKSGIVING > > (1) Piatts, Pyatts, Pyeatts, and Peyatts everywhere, as well as other > descendants of Rene Piat, may want to give thanks that one of the > most unusual spellings of the surname did not endure -- Peepyat. > > In its list of land grants in Hampshire County, VA, Sims Index to > Land Grants in West Virginia shows the following entry: > > NAME OF GRANTEE / ACRES / LOCAL DESCRIPTION / YEAR / BOOK / PAGE > > -->> Peepyat, William / 50 / Mill Creek / 1796 / 9 / 119 > > Source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvminera/sims29.htm > > Maybe the recorder misheard a name that was really William P. Piatt. > Or maybe Peepyat was some sort of nickname. Or maybe someone in the > transaction had a stutter. In any case, once it had been entered in > the record books, the Peepyat spelling was repeated several times by > the recorder(s) in records pertaining to this land grant. > > William Peepyat's 50-acre tract was surveyed in 1794 and the grant > was issued in 1796. The record of the survey conducted by John > Mitchell Jr. reads in part, > "December 2nd, 1794. By virtue of part of a land office Treasury > Warrant No. 415 dated April 28th, 1794, and entered August 6th, 1794, > I have surveyed for William Peepyat assignee of William Fox a tract > of land in Hampshire County on the middle ridge adjoining Thomas > Lazenby on the drains of Mill Creek. . . ." > > This William Peepyat survey document was witnessed by Cornelius Peepyat > and Wm. Lazenby. A summary and scanned images of the survey record > can be viewed at the following Web pages: > http://eagle.vsla.edu/cgi-bin/lonn.gateway?bib=0145-03160&conf=010000 > http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-1/315/315_0289.tif - [begins] > http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-1/315/315_0290.tif - [continues] > > The record of the 1796 grant issued to William Peepyat by Robert > Brooke, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, can be > viewed at the following Web page: > http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-3/303/303_0524.tif > > William Peepyat's survey is mentioned again in an adjoining 1795 > survey and 1799 land grant issued to Frederick Finks (Fink). > http://eagle.vsla.edu/cgi-bin/lonn.gateway?bib=0138-65460&conf=010000 > http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-1/315/315_0499.tif - [survey] > http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-3/304/304_0050.tif - [grant] > > Immediately following the Finks survey (on page 499) is the record > for a 1795 survey for William Fox, presumably the same man who > had assigned William Peepyat his Mill Creek tract. > > Study of the land descriptions in these documents might disclose > the physical configuration of the parcels of William Peepyat and > his neighbors. To conduct additional online search of Virginia > Land Office Patents and Grants, go to the following Web page: > http://eagle.vsla.edu/lonn/virtua-basic.html > > ----- > > (2) William Peepyat was apparently William Piatt, who appeared on the > tax records of Hampshire County from 1797 through 1813 as William > Peyatt, Peayatt, and Peatt. William Peatt appeared on the 1810 > Hampshire County census, page 24. In that census record he apparently > lived with his (first?) wife, whose name is unknown, and three children > less than 10 years old. (The son was Benjamin F. Piatt, born 1808, who > later married Ann Carter. The daughters were Mary Elizabeth Piatt, > born about 1805, who later married John C. Ward, and perhaps Rachel > Piatt, who married George Bowman in 1827.) Subsequently, William Piatt > and his wife (or wives) apparently had 12 or 13 more children. His > widow appeared on the 1850 census for Nicholas County, VA, as Margaret > Piatt, age 58; if Margaret's age was correct, she was on the verge of > being too young to have borne William's oldest children. > > (In 1814 in Augusta County, VA, a William Peatt married Mary Smith, > the daughter of Martin Smith, and in 1815 William Peat was listed on > the Augusta County tax records. Piatt genealogists have supposed that > this was William of Hampshire County marrying Mary as his second wife. > However, this conclusion has not yet been proven. The only real > evidence for this supposition is the 1864 Mason County WV marriage > record of John S. Piatt, born about 1841, who supposedly said his > parents were "William and Mary". However, at the age of 8 this same > John had appeared on the 1850 census of Nicholas County, VA, with his > mother, Margaret Piatt (recorded as Poatte). (See page 384a, lines 5-9, > family number 573, at the following Web page: > ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/wv/nicholas/1850/pg0382b.txt > I wonder if an inspection of John's original marriage record might > disclose that his parents were actually identified as "William and Marg".) > > (An alternative possible identity for the William who married in 1814 > is William Piatt/Pyatt the basketmaker, who was born about 1790 in VA, > migrated to Ohio prior to 1820, and later lived in IN, TN, and MO. > This William's first child Benjamin is said to have been born about > 1813. This William's first wife has been thought to have been > Catherine Glass, but without any confirming evidence, as far as I know. > Is it possible that the 1814 William and Mary moved to Ohio, perhaps > with relatives, while the older William remained in Hampshire County?) > > ----- > > (3) William Peepyat/Piatt who received the Hampshire County land grant > was born about 1770-1775, probably in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. > The identity of William's parents is uncertain. > > William was undoubtedly related to Cornelius Piatt, who had acquired 50 > acres of land on Beaver Run in Hampshire County in 1792 and who witnessed > the 1794 Peepyat survey. In the Hampshire County tax records for 1795 > and 1796, two males over 16 were listed in Cornelius's household; one > of them was presumably William Peepyat. Only one male over 16 had been > charged to Cornelius in 1792 and 1794, and once William started appearing > on the tax list in 1797, Cornelius again was charged with only one male > over 16 in 1797 and 1798. > > How was William related to Cornelius? He might have been a son, in > which case the unidentified female over 45 in Williams's household > in 1810 might have been his widowed mother. But alternatively, William > could have been brother, cousin, or nephew to Cornelius. It is possible > that William's father was James Piatt, born before 1765, who was listed > near William on the 1810 Hampshire County census, page 23 (recorded as > James Peate, and sometimes transcribed at James Peale). > > I believe Piatt genealogists have studied the surviving tax records > of Hampshire County. But there are land records for Hampshire County > that have not been thoroughly researched. Further research in these > records might disclose more about the relationships of William, > Cornelius, and James. > > > -- John F. Keilch > Berkeley, California > > > ==== PIATT Mailing List ==== > The PIATT mailing list archives can be searched at > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/PIATT-L/ > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237 > ______________________________________________________________________________ Send a friend your Buddy Card and stay in contact always with Excite Messenger http://messenger.excite.com
The only Gene Piatt of Olean that I know is my cousin. She was born June 9, 1925. Her father was Morton A. Piatt, mother, Ruth Andrews. In May 1959 she married Carl Lanni in Florida. No issue. Jim Piatt ----- Original Message ----- From: <pwilliepot@aol.com> To: <PIATT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 10:57 PM Subject: [PIATT] Re: FATHER-LESLIE PIATT > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Z.2ACBAEB/165.1 > > Message Board Post: > > I am looking for a Gene A. Piatt . She lived in the Olean, New York area around 1957. She would be about 60 yrs. old now. > > > ==== PIATT Mailing List ==== > Postings that have all SURNAMES in ALL CAPS are easier > to skim. And descriptive Subject line help, too. > Send postings to PIATT-L@rootsweb.com > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237 >
My Pyett interest is in the UK mainly, I have gone back to c1630, all local to East Anglia, an awful lot of Pyatt, Piot,Pyett and the like in Canada, started from Samuel Pyatt, who was born in Debenham and emigrated in c1830, also a branch in the Prince Edward Island, (New Zealand and Back) I do have a lot of info on UK pyett, Piot, Pyet, Pyat, Pyott from the UK, any one who knows ancestors from that area, please get in touch.
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Z.2ACBAEB/165.1.1 Message Board Post: My Father was named Leslie Allen Piatt, and I am Allen Gene Piatt. Many times people who send something to me will write (Gene A. Piatt) Family is basically centered in the Midwest, from Paton, Iowa, Grand Junction, Iowa. >From a recent gathering of information on Piatt Family Tree, I find no reference to birth of Gene A. Piatt (Female) during a time period that would match her approximate age. If I may be of further help, please send an e-mail. Gene Piatt gpiatt@cox-interenet.com
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Z.2ACBAEB/165.1 Message Board Post: I am looking for a Gene A. Piatt . She lived in the Olean, New York area around 1957. She would be about 60 yrs. old now.
William P. Pyatt. Do you know this name to exist and have a birth date for him?
We are dealing with two or possibly three William Piatt-Pyatt-Peepyat-Peatt-Peyat. I researched some of these deeds from 1991 to 1993. In 1777 there was a William Pyatt (therefore born probably 1755 or before) that purchased 150 acres in Frederick County, VA . Names mentioned were Littler's Run, Licks Run and Opeckon Creek. I would assume this is Clarke County, VA today. I also feel this was in an area south of Brucetown today, on or near Rt. 761. This William sold this property in 1802 and died in 1804. There was quite some CARTER families in the area. William left his estate to Sarah, Rebecca and Rachel, daughters of John Donaldson, an Innkeeper. William had cared for these three girls earlier. Cornelius Peyatt-Piatt then shows up in 1791 on the Hampshire tax list. In 1796 William Peepyat (Pyatt-Piatt-Peyatt-Peatt) purchases 50 acres on Mill Creek therefore probably born before 1774. On the West and north sides of this property was Benjamin Parker with 327 acres. This William Piatt property had to be located on the South side of present day Rt. 50, west of Romney and probably slightly east of Burlington. The Frederick Finks name was mentioned in both of the above two properties. William Piatt who married Mary or Mary Margaret Smith in 1814 does not seem to fit to be the same person as William Peepyat, unless it was a second marriage, according to the date of birth we have for this William. In 1991 I was told by an area historian that the original land warrants and surveys existed but he no longer knew where they were at that time. In 1993 I was again told by another historian near Keyser that they did exist in the near past, but now unknown. The supposed reason for this was due to the breakup of the Historical Society, who had them originally. They were trying to locate them so that they could be placed with the Burlington Library. If anyone has questions pertaining to this and would like to further the research, please inquire and I may be able to add some tidbit. Dick Piatt, PA.
No, I do not know if he existed, I'm just offering a suggestion, based on your comment about 2, maybe 3 Williams. That, plus our experience with many misspellings, just made it seem like a reasonable possibility. Sorry that I can't give you anything more substantial, but it looks like a possible way out of the puzzle of 'Peepyatt'. Goodness knows, we've seen stranger things than this in dealing with our name. Ed
I know it may seem a bit facile, but could William Peepyatt possibly have been William P. Pyatt? Just wondering. Ed
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Z.2ACBAEB/231 Message Board Post: Elias & Elizabeth (or Betsy/Betsey) Piatt Baldwin According to LDS records, Elizabeth Piatt (b 18 June 1773, daughter of Abraham and Annabella Andrews Piatt of Somerset Co, NJ, and then Northumberland Co, PA) married Elias Baldwin 23 Jan 1797. According to the Butler Co, OH, Testamentary Record of 19 Apr 1808 (Vol I, p 40), they had one son, Abraham, born 11 Sept 1800. Does anyone know where they married? Does anyone know when and where she died and was buried? She was obviously dead prior to the time guardianship of Abraham was granted to his father Elias “by his late wife Elizabeth Piatt[,] one of the Daughters and heirs of Abraham Piatt late of Northumberland County. . . Pennsylvania” on 19 Apr 1808. Marti (Baldwin) Swanson at cygnetnest@aol.com
John-- If you were here I would kiss you. I have a lot to get through in this email, but I'm a John S of Mason Co. WV Descendant and you have certainly given me something to be Thankful for this Thanksgiving. Robin Pyatt Bellamy Toronto, Ontario John Keilch wrote: > HAPPY THANKSGIVING > > (1) Piatts, Pyatts, Pyeatts, and Peyatts everywhere, as well as other > descendants of Rene Piat, may want to give thanks that one of the > most unusual spellings of the surname did not endure -- Peepyat. > > In its list of land grants in Hampshire County, VA, Sims Index to > Land Grants in West Virginia shows the following entry: > > NAME OF GRANTEE / ACRES / LOCAL DESCRIPTION / YEAR / BOOK / PAGE > > -->> Peepyat, William / 50 / Mill Creek / 1796 / 9 / 119 > > Source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvminera/sims29.htm > > Maybe the recorder misheard a name that was really William P. Piatt. > Or maybe Peepyat was some sort of nickname. Or maybe someone in the > transaction had a stutter. In any case, once it had been entered in > the record books, the Peepyat spelling was repeated several times by > the recorder(s) in records pertaining to this land grant. > > William Peepyat's 50-acre tract was surveyed in 1794 and the grant > was issued in 1796. The record of the survey conducted by John > Mitchell Jr. reads in part, > "December 2nd, 1794. By virtue of part of a land office Treasury > Warrant No. 415 dated April 28th, 1794, and entered August 6th, 1794, > I have surveyed for William Peepyat assignee of William Fox a tract > of land in Hampshire County on the middle ridge adjoining Thomas > Lazenby on the drains of Mill Creek. . . ." > > This William Peepyat survey document was witnessed by Cornelius Peepyat > and Wm. Lazenby. A summary and scanned images of the survey record > can be viewed at the following Web pages: > http://eagle.vsla.edu/cgi-bin/lonn.gateway?bib=0145-03160&conf=010000 > http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-1/315/315_0289.tif - [begins] > http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-1/315/315_0290.tif - [continues] > > The record of the 1796 grant issued to William Peepyat by Robert > Brooke, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, can be > viewed at the following Web page: > http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-3/303/303_0524.tif > > William Peepyat's survey is mentioned again in an adjoining 1795 > survey and 1799 land grant issued to Frederick Finks (Fink). > http://eagle.vsla.edu/cgi-bin/lonn.gateway?bib=0138-65460&conf=010000 > http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-1/315/315_0499.tif - [survey] > http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-3/304/304_0050.tif - [grant] > > Immediately following the Finks survey (on page 499) is the record > for a 1795 survey for William Fox, presumably the same man who > had assigned William Peepyat his Mill Creek tract. > > Study of the land descriptions in these documents might disclose > the physical configuration of the parcels of William Peepyat and > his neighbors. To conduct additional online search of Virginia > Land Office Patents and Grants, go to the following Web page: > http://eagle.vsla.edu/lonn/virtua-basic.html > > ----- > > (2) William Peepyat was apparently William Piatt, who appeared on the > tax records of Hampshire County from 1797 through 1813 as William > Peyatt, Peayatt, and Peatt. William Peatt appeared on the 1810 > Hampshire County census, page 24. In that census record he apparently > lived with his (first?) wife, whose name is unknown, and three children > less than 10 years old. (The son was Benjamin F. Piatt, born 1808, who > later married Ann Carter. The daughters were Mary Elizabeth Piatt, > born about 1805, who later married John C. Ward, and perhaps Rachel > Piatt, who married George Bowman in 1827.) Subsequently, William Piatt > and his wife (or wives) apparently had 12 or 13 more children. His > widow appeared on the 1850 census for Nicholas County, VA, as Margaret > Piatt, age 58; if Margaret's age was correct, she was on the verge of > being too young to have borne William's oldest children. > > (In 1814 in Augusta County, VA, a William Peatt married Mary Smith, > the daughter of Martin Smith, and in 1815 William Peat was listed on > the Augusta County tax records. Piatt genealogists have supposed that > this was William of Hampshire County marrying Mary as his second wife. > However, this conclusion has not yet been proven. The only real > evidence for this supposition is the 1864 Mason County WV marriage > record of John S. Piatt, born about 1841, who supposedly said his > parents were "William and Mary". However, at the age of 8 this same > John had appeared on the 1850 census of Nicholas County, VA, with his > mother, Margaret Piatt (recorded as Poatte). (See page 384a, lines 5-9, > family number 573, at the following Web page: > > ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/wv/nicholas/1850/pg0382b.txt > I wonder if an inspection of John's original marriage record might > disclose that his parents were actually identified as "William and > Marg".) > > (An alternative possible identity for the William who married in 1814 > is William Piatt/Pyatt the basketmaker, who was born about 1790 in VA, > migrated to Ohio prior to 1820, and later lived in IN, TN, and MO. > This William's first child Benjamin is said to have been born about > 1813. This William's first wife has been thought to have been > Catherine Glass, but without any confirming evidence, as far as I know. > Is it possible that the 1814 William and Mary moved to Ohio, perhaps > with relatives, while the older William remained in Hampshire County?) > > ----- > > (3) William Peepyat/Piatt who received the Hampshire County land grant > was born about 1770-1775, probably in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. > The identity of William's parents is uncertain. > > William was undoubtedly related to Cornelius Piatt, who had acquired 50 > acres of land on Beaver Run in Hampshire County in 1792 and who witnessed > the 1794 Peepyat survey. In the Hampshire County tax records for 1795 > and 1796, two males over 16 were listed in Cornelius's household; one > of them was presumably William Peepyat. Only one male over 16 had been > charged to Cornelius in 1792 and 1794, and once William started appearing > on the tax list in 1797, Cornelius again was charged with only one male > over 16 in 1797 and 1798. > > How was William related to Cornelius? He might have been a son, in > which case the unidentified female over 45 in Williams's household > in 1810 might have been his widowed mother. But alternatively, William > could have been brother, cousin, or nephew to Cornelius. It is possible > that William's father was James Piatt, born before 1765, who was listed > near William on the 1810 Hampshire County census, page 23 (recorded as > James Peate, and sometimes transcribed at James Peale). > > I believe Piatt genealogists have studied the surviving tax records > of Hampshire County. But there are land records for Hampshire County > that have not been thoroughly researched. Further research in these > records might disclose more about the relationships of William, > Cornelius, and James. > > > -- John F. Keilch > Berkeley, California > > > ==== PIATT Mailing List ==== > The PIATT mailing list archives can be searched at > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/PIATT-L/ > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237 > > >
HAPPY THANKSGIVING (1) Piatts, Pyatts, Pyeatts, and Peyatts everywhere, as well as other descendants of Rene Piat, may want to give thanks that one of the most unusual spellings of the surname did not endure -- Peepyat. In its list of land grants in Hampshire County, VA, Sims Index to Land Grants in West Virginia shows the following entry: NAME OF GRANTEE / ACRES / LOCAL DESCRIPTION / YEAR / BOOK / PAGE -->> Peepyat, William / 50 / Mill Creek / 1796 / 9 / 119 Source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvminera/sims29.htm Maybe the recorder misheard a name that was really William P. Piatt. Or maybe Peepyat was some sort of nickname. Or maybe someone in the transaction had a stutter. In any case, once it had been entered in the record books, the Peepyat spelling was repeated several times by the recorder(s) in records pertaining to this land grant. William Peepyat's 50-acre tract was surveyed in 1794 and the grant was issued in 1796. The record of the survey conducted by John Mitchell Jr. reads in part, "December 2nd, 1794. By virtue of part of a land office Treasury Warrant No. 415 dated April 28th, 1794, and entered August 6th, 1794, I have surveyed for William Peepyat assignee of William Fox a tract of land in Hampshire County on the middle ridge adjoining Thomas Lazenby on the drains of Mill Creek. . . ." This William Peepyat survey document was witnessed by Cornelius Peepyat and Wm. Lazenby. A summary and scanned images of the survey record can be viewed at the following Web pages: http://eagle.vsla.edu/cgi-bin/lonn.gateway?bib=0145-03160&conf=010000 http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-1/315/315_0289.tif - [begins] http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-1/315/315_0290.tif - [continues] The record of the 1796 grant issued to William Peepyat by Robert Brooke, Esquire, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, can be viewed at the following Web page: http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-3/303/303_0524.tif William Peepyat's survey is mentioned again in an adjoining 1795 survey and 1799 land grant issued to Frederick Finks (Fink). http://eagle.vsla.edu/cgi-bin/lonn.gateway?bib=0138-65460&conf=010000 http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-1/315/315_0499.tif - [survey] http://image.vtls.com/LONN/NN-3/304/304_0050.tif - [grant] Immediately following the Finks survey (on page 499) is the record for a 1795 survey for William Fox, presumably the same man who had assigned William Peepyat his Mill Creek tract. Study of the land descriptions in these documents might disclose the physical configuration of the parcels of William Peepyat and his neighbors. To conduct additional online search of Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants, go to the following Web page: http://eagle.vsla.edu/lonn/virtua-basic.html ----- (2) William Peepyat was apparently William Piatt, who appeared on the tax records of Hampshire County from 1797 through 1813 as William Peyatt, Peayatt, and Peatt. William Peatt appeared on the 1810 Hampshire County census, page 24. In that census record he apparently lived with his (first?) wife, whose name is unknown, and three children less than 10 years old. (The son was Benjamin F. Piatt, born 1808, who later married Ann Carter. The daughters were Mary Elizabeth Piatt, born about 1805, who later married John C. Ward, and perhaps Rachel Piatt, who married George Bowman in 1827.) Subsequently, William Piatt and his wife (or wives) apparently had 12 or 13 more children. His widow appeared on the 1850 census for Nicholas County, VA, as Margaret Piatt, age 58; if Margaret's age was correct, she was on the verge of being too young to have borne William's oldest children. (In 1814 in Augusta County, VA, a William Peatt married Mary Smith, the daughter of Martin Smith, and in 1815 William Peat was listed on the Augusta County tax records. Piatt genealogists have supposed that this was William of Hampshire County marrying Mary as his second wife. However, this conclusion has not yet been proven. The only real evidence for this supposition is the 1864 Mason County WV marriage record of John S. Piatt, born about 1841, who supposedly said his parents were "William and Mary". However, at the age of 8 this same John had appeared on the 1850 census of Nicholas County, VA, with his mother, Margaret Piatt (recorded as Poatte). (See page 384a, lines 5-9, family number 573, at the following Web page: ftp://ftp.us-census.org/pub/usgenweb/census/wv/nicholas/1850/pg0382b.txt I wonder if an inspection of John's original marriage record might disclose that his parents were actually identified as "William and Marg".) (An alternative possible identity for the William who married in 1814 is William Piatt/Pyatt the basketmaker, who was born about 1790 in VA, migrated to Ohio prior to 1820, and later lived in IN, TN, and MO. This William's first child Benjamin is said to have been born about 1813. This William's first wife has been thought to have been Catherine Glass, but without any confirming evidence, as far as I know. Is it possible that the 1814 William and Mary moved to Ohio, perhaps with relatives, while the older William remained in Hampshire County?) ----- (3) William Peepyat/Piatt who received the Hampshire County land grant was born about 1770-1775, probably in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. The identity of William's parents is uncertain. William was undoubtedly related to Cornelius Piatt, who had acquired 50 acres of land on Beaver Run in Hampshire County in 1792 and who witnessed the 1794 Peepyat survey. In the Hampshire County tax records for 1795 and 1796, two males over 16 were listed in Cornelius's household; one of them was presumably William Peepyat. Only one male over 16 had been charged to Cornelius in 1792 and 1794, and once William started appearing on the tax list in 1797, Cornelius again was charged with only one male over 16 in 1797 and 1798. How was William related to Cornelius? He might have been a son, in which case the unidentified female over 45 in Williams's household in 1810 might have been his widowed mother. But alternatively, William could have been brother, cousin, or nephew to Cornelius. It is possible that William's father was James Piatt, born before 1765, who was listed near William on the 1810 Hampshire County census, page 23 (recorded as James Peate, and sometimes transcribed at James Peale). I believe Piatt genealogists have studied the surviving tax records of Hampshire County. But there are land records for Hampshire County that have not been thoroughly researched. Further research in these records might disclose more about the relationships of William, Cornelius, and James. -- John F. Keilch Berkeley, California
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Z.2ACBAEB/169.174.1 Message Board Post: No, wrong William. Mine was born in 1826, died 1899.
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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Z.2ACBAEB/1.6.8.10.16.29.1 Message Board Post: Dora Piatt Harrison is my Great Great Aunt. Her Sister Mary Jane Piatt Decamp is my Great Grandmother. There were 6 other siblings, I have their names. Their parents were John Piatt and Mary Elizabeth Puterbaugh. Mary Elizabeth was born in 1847and passed away in 1906.
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Z.2ACBAEB/1.5.7.17.89.151 Message Board Post: My Great Grandmother, Mary Jane Piatt Decamp was Mac-o-chee. As was her brother Virgil. There were 8 children total in their family. I only have pictures of Mary Jane and Virgil. Their parents, John Piatt,born 1837 and Mary Elizabeth Puterbaugh Piatt (she could have gone by Liza) born 1847. John's parents were Jacob Piatt and Elizabeth Willhaven Piatt born 1807. That is as far back as mine goes. I have no evidence where the Mac-o-chee blood comes in. Though I suspect Mary Elizabeth Putterbaugh may hold the key, Please reply with further info - anyone, I am very interested to find out how this fits.