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