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From: John Keilch <>
Subject: [PIATT] William Piatt & Benjamin F. Piatt [Pyatt] -- Hampshire County, VA
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 19:02:49 -0800
In-Reply-To: <8606404.1007498154045.JavaMail.imail@chilly.excite.com>
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
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