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From: Laverne Piatt <>
Subject: Re: [PIATT] PIATTs at BURNT CABINS, PA
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 22:36:30 -0400
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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


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