For David Eckert: Jacob Pyatt Sr and Jacob Pyatt Jr, believed to be father and son, but not necessarily proved to be such, were among those listed as having been disposessed of their lands west of Tuscarora Mountain in PA and having their cabins burned by the PA militia. Settlers had violated the treaty boundaries in several valleys west of the Susquehanna in the 1750s. The Indians, rather than taking matters into their own hands, made a request of PA Colonial Governor Hamilton that he solve the problem before they did. So Hamilton sent the PA militia under the command of one Richard Peters to round up the squatters. The list which includes the Pyatts appears in a couple of PA county histories including the <History of Cumberland County and Adams County, Pennsylvania, 1886> which quotes Richard Peters in a report to Hamilton dated 2 July 1750 as listing the Pyatts as among those disposessed from Path Valley on 31 May 1750. >From the lineage from Rene we can speculate which were the two Jacobs listed based on their birth years but the two could have been any of the three: .Rene Piatt and Elizabeth Sheffield (NJ) ..Jacob Piatt (b 1678) and Mary Hull (NJ, he to PA) ...Jacob Piatt (b 14 Jan 1705) and Jean Paul ....Jacob Piatt (b 18 Nov 1725) and Elizabeth Dunham The settlers returned to the area several years later after the rights to settlement were secured from the Indians. A small community called Burnt Cabins, a mill, and a campground lie just north of and can be seen from the PA turnpike in Fulton Co today. Source: Piatt Family Newsletter, Volume 1, 1986 -- Laverne Ingram Piatt Ontario, OH