Laverne, This is wonderful information. Thank you so much. I really appreciate your sharing. Betty Weatherly At 03:09 AM 3/2/06 +0000, you wrote: > >For Betty Weatherly: > >Jane Pyatt who was wife of Rev Jonathan Dunham is a part of the Piatt family that I am researching. Here's what little I have: > >JANE/JOAN PYATT (d/o RENE PIATT and ELIZABETH SHEFFIELD) >b 15 Sep 1695 >d 15 Sep 1779, Piscataway NJ (on her birthday??) >m 5 Aug 1714, Piscataway NJ > >to >Rev JONATHAN DUNHAM (s/o Rev EDMUND DUNHAM & MARY BONHAM) >b 4 Mar 1692/3, (16 Aug 1694 per Joe Kearney) >d 1777, Piscataway NJ > >children (DUNHAM): >1. Elizabeth, b 1715; d 1771; m 1739, Col Micajah Dunn >2. Col Azariah, b 9 Feb 1718; d 22 Jan 1790, will dated 23 Dec 1789, will probated 19 Feb 1790; m/1 Jane Thomas or Mary Truxton; m/2, 21 May 1753, Mary Ford >3. Jonathan, b 20 May 1721; d 1752; m Kezia FitzRandolph >4. David, b 17 Mar 1723; m 1750, Rebecca Dunn >5. Isaac, b 16 Aug 1725; died young? >6. Ruth, b 3 Jan 1727/8; d 1766+; m 1747, James Martin >7. Samuel, b 27 Mar 1730; d 1801+; m 1750, Mary Lucas >8. Jane, b 2 Apr 1734 > >Source: Piatt Family Newsletter, Vol 1, 1986. The issue cites researchers Joe Kearney, N Louise Lodge, and Ruth Thayer Ravenscroft as sources for the information. > > >Jane is buried in the Dunham Burial Ground in Piscataway NJ. > >While looking at the papers of the late Oliver B Leonard, longtime SDB researcher, at the New Jersey Historical Society a couple of years ago I found two interesting items concerning Rev Jonathan Dunham, Jane Pyatt's husband. First, Leonard believed that Rev Jonathan Dunham was ordained at Conococheague in south central PA in the mid 1700s. If true, it was a very early time to be that far west in PA. The Conococheague settlement, I believe, refered to a large area centered around Greencastle PA. Indeed if he was there, he wasn't a stranger as Jane's brother Jacob Pyatt I was a licensed Indian trader in the area. > >Also among Leonard's papers was a copy of a letter from the church at Conococheague to the church at Piscataway. The church at Conococheague was seeking assistance as its congregation was plagued by an inability to get along with each other. > >The second interesting item about Rev Jonathan concerned his long ministerial apprenticeship before assuming his father's pulpit. (Rather like Prince Charles today.) To fill the time, Rev Jonathan became a supply preacher filling in for other ministers from time to time around the area. Several times he went over to the church in Shrewsbury NJ to spell Rev William Davis. > >I find the latter amusing as my husband is descended from Jane Pyatt Dunham's brother, the Indian trader, on his father's side, and from Rev William Davis on his mother's side. And while Jane Pyatt Dunham was acquained with Rev William Davis in the 1700s, the particular branches of the two families did not cross paths again until 1933 in OH. > > >-- >Laverne Ingram Piatt >Ontario, OH >lapiatt@att.net > > > >==== SDB Mailing List ==== >Your listowner is Audrey_Ann@comcast.net > > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.1/272 - Release Date: 3/1/06 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.1/272 - Release Date: 3/1/06