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From: madrene collins <>
Subject: [PIATT] Piatts
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 18:44:03 -0700

Did you receive my last message? While we were in Ohio we saw the Piatt
Castles, there are two. Have you seen them?
We had someone give us a tour by the name of Angela J. Warye, Director
of Education, The Piatt Castles.

She gave us a handout that says:

The Piatt Castles Oral History Project:

Over the years, the Piatt Castles have been the subject of all kinds of
folklore and legend, some delightful - some disturbing. In order not to
lose these stories, we are asking folks with stories about the building
and the family to please write them down for future reference and study.

(Address: The Mac-A-Cheek foundation for the Humanities, P.O. Box 166,
West Liberty, Ohio, 43357, ph: 937/465-2821.

Dear Piatt Family Member,

Congratulations! You are possibly one of a great number of people who
are descended from Rene Piatt, a French Huguenot who came to America
about 1680. Your relatives can be found in every state in the
continental U.S. and have their own family newsletter, Piatt
Photogravure, published by Mary Joan Piatt Lauer.

In Albert F. Koehler's book, The Huguenots: The Early French in New
Jersey, an entry about Rene reads as follows:

Renune Piatt, a native of Dauphiny, France, fled to Holland and later
came to America, settling at Piscataway before 1680. The New Jersey
Archives state that in early deeds he is designated as "Renune Piatt,
alias La Flower." Letters of administration of October 16, 1705,
granted to his widow Elizabeth give his name as Reyneer (Regnier) Peatt,
alias "Le Flure" of Piscataway. His son John was of Somerset County.

Note the different ways in which Rene's name is spelled. Another
interesting spelling you may find in your research is Pyott.

The Piatt family history is full of intriguing, intelligent, and
eccentric characters. Two of whom are Colonel Donn Piatt and Brigadier
General Abram Sanders Piatt, the brothers who built the Piatt Castles
outside of West Liberty, Ohio Abram's descendents still call
Mac-A-Cheek Castle home; his great-great grand-daughter Margaret is
president of the Piatt Castles Company.

Often a family member will ask us what we know about their relation to
the brothers or ask if we have any information about their branch of the
family. Mary Joan Piatt Lauer has graciously donated 12 bound issues of
Piatt Family Newsletter, published in recent years by Eleanor M. White
of Rockledge, Florida. Should you want to look throught the volumes for
your research, please call the Piatt Castles' Director of Education,
Angie Waryne, at 937-465-2821 to schedule an appointment to come and
study during our business hours.

Carrying on Ms. Whites fabulous work, Mary Joan Piatt Lauer can be
contacted at:

Piatt Family Photogravure
4223 Tacoma Avenue
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46807

It is through her you may subscribe for current issues of the family
newsletter.

Another source is the Woodward family of California. Most of their
research is on the Piatts west of the Mississippi. However, they
visited the Castles this past spring, and we were able to help them find
information on the family back east. Presently, they are working on a
CD Rom which catalogs all of their Piatt research. Hopefully, we will
have a copy for family members to use here in the future. Their address
is:

The Woodwards
P.O. Box 502
Lebec, California 93243

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