Hi again list...You know after reading the last newsletter listed below from Laverne, I feel my missing unplaceable Elizabeth HANNAH Piatt, whose parents are susposed to be Moses and Jane? She born in Ohio and parents from WV.?as per family memories given to me from a found cousin in WI., may have belonged to this first family of children.? Hannah as the name she went by, was born 1828.,in Hamilton co. Ohio. JUST maybe some day a newby in genealogy will come aboard and have the missing key! Does anyone on this list live in this area? Be willing in their Spare! time to look at any public records to see if they can find any info on my 3rd grt grandmother? I would be very thankfull to compensate you for your work. Anita For Carolyn in the deep south: (Sorry it's taken me this long to work backwards in my e-mail to your posting to the PIATT-L list last November 2. Here's the lineage up to WILLIAM PIATT and ELLA [PRECIOUS] (MARY?) KEENE, then we run into a snag: .Rene Piatt and Elizabeth Sheffield (NJ) ..Jacob Piatt and Mary Hull (NJ, PA) ...Jacob Piatt and Jean Paul (PA) ....Jacob Piatt and Elizabeth Dunham (Washington Co PA) .....James Piatt Sr and Nancy Coleman (Monroe Co OH) ......James Piatt Jr and Catherine Moffett (Monroe Co OH) .......William Piatt and Mary Keene (Monroe Co OH) [was she also known as Precious and/or Ella?] William's family is really confused because his first wife died while there were several young children. Those young children apparently were sent to live with others. William then married a widow, Hannah Ferrel Dixon, who had three children of her own. Only the Dixon children and the children William had with Hannah lived with him afterward as far as I can tell. To complicate matters, the birth date for William and Ella [Precious] (Mary) Keene Piatt's son John is "about 1855." He is also listed as John H rather than John N. This John did marry a Jane and was living with her in Green District, Wetzel Co WV in 1880 with their son Harry aged 1 month. Is this a match for your John Nelson Piatt? If so you fit right in with these Monroe Co Piatts listed in David Eckert's posting of November 3. [Source: Piatt Family Newsletter, Volume 9, 1994] -- Laverne Ingram Piatt Ontario, OH

For Anita, Sometimes I think we might as well play "Pin the Piatts on the Map." This blindfolded game might work as well as anything else. And the repetition of names throughout the various lines helps nothing but confusion. I don't think that ELIZABETH HANNAH PIATT ARMFIELD had any connection to the Piatts of Monroe Co OH other than to be quite a distant cousin that they didn't know. I looked in my e-files and found a posting from way back in 2002 that I'd like to include at the end here. My SPECULATION is that ELIXABETH HANNAH PIATT's family originated in New Jersey, migrated to Virginia and also that part of Virginia that is now West Virginia (Augusta, Rockbridge, Rockingham areas and Hampshire and Mineral in WV), to Ohio (Stark, Franklin, Knox, Seneca Co) and on to IN. We know that the family of the younger MOSES PIATT and wife ELIZABETH PARKER did move from Seneca Co OH to northern IN. In addition, since the original posting of the clip below, the name of MARTIN SMITH has been found in militia records for Hunterdon Co NJ during Revolutionary times. As mentioned in the clip below, if we could find a sale of land in Ohio by a MOSES and JANE PIATT we would be back on the trail of these people. Discussion of this speculation is welcome. We've got to keep digging. <<Congratulations to Anita and her relatives for obtaining and posting the information about ELIZABETH HANNAH PIATT ARMFIELD which gave Hannah's parents as MOSES PIATT and JANE SMITH of Virginia. This would make a second PIATT/SMITH connection in Virginia, the other being the marriage of WILLIAM PEATT [sic] and MARY SMITH on 17 Nov 1814 in Augusta Co VA. The marriage record gives MARY SMITH as the daughter of MARTIN SMITH. It would be an understatement to say that we have to wonder if these two sets of people were closely related. It might help to begin looking at Smith families in Virginia and New Jersey. I notice that HANNAH's birthplace is given as Canton, Stark Co OH, 1828. Although that is possible, by 1830 two MOSES PIATTs were listed in the census records as living in different places: 1830, Franklin Co OH, Truro Twp (near Port Columbus airport) Moses Piatt 1 male 50-60 2 males 20-30 1 female 40-50 2 females 15-20 1 female 10-15 2 females 5-10 1 female under 5 neighbors were George W Calp and William McComb (could this be a three generational family?) 1830, Seneca Co OH, Adams Twp Moses Pyatt [sic] (appears in one index as Moses Ryatt) 1 male 20-30 1 male 10-15 1 male under 5 1 female 20-30 1 female 10-15 neighbors were Jacob Whiteman, John Petticord, and John Elder It would appear that the Seneca Co OH MOSES PYATT would not be the family of Hannah's parents. There is no 2 year old female. I believe a county history refers to this family as that of MOSES and ELIZABETH PARKER PIATT later of northern Indiana. Deed records of Seneca Co show that all of the sales made by this Moses were with a wife Elizabeth. If we could find a deed record of MOSES and JANE or JANE PIATT selling land in Franklin Co OH we would have reasonable proof that the 1830 Franklin Co family is the right one to be the family of HANNAH. If anyone has access to Ancestry.com's databases or another such source, could you make a quick check to see if any land records are available for Stark or Franklin Co OH? I don't believe birth records were kept anywhere in Ohio until 1867 so that avenue of research for Hannah's birth is out.>> -- Laverne Ingram Piatt Ontario, OH