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From: Laverne Piatt <>
Subject: [PIATT] Richland Co OH Piatts
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:34:58 -0500

It's so very rare to find brand new information on Piatts that I have to say
that I'm quite pleased at running across these tidbits, no matter how small,
Wednesday at the Ohio Genalogical Society.

OGS has a bound photocopy from microfilm of the record the original of which
is housed at the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus in their manuscript collection.

Sturges Family Papers, Mss539, Box 1, Folder 15
Sherwood and Sturges Daybook, October 1815-July 1817, Mansfield OH

The records found in the daybook of this early store in Mansfield are believed
to pertain to Thomas Piatt, b 1767, Path Valley PA, d 1850 Grant Co IN and to
his son John, b 1800, Belmont Co OH, 1867, Grant Co PA. Thomas Piatt married
Catherine Bell daughter of Robert Bell who founded Bellville in the southern
part of Richland Co OH. For a time between 1812 and 1820, Thomas Piatt was an
owner of land on (present day) Linn Road north of Mansfield.

The photocopy, made from microfilm of the original, does not enhance the
handwriting which was already difficult to read. The best interpretation is a follows.
The entries:

p 1081 June 1816, Thomas Piatt, [unreadable], 4 [...] 10 oz butter 59 [cents]
[ditto] [ditto]1 oz snuff scotch 4 [cents]

p 115 10 June 1816, John Piatt, due on [unreadable] 24 [cents]

p 12222 June 1816 John Piatt pr cotton socks 75 [cents]
[ditto] [ditto] [unreadable] 25 [cents]

Most notable is the additional entry indicating that a famous Richland County
resident, visited the store just a few weeks before:

p 100 18 May 1816 John Chapman or as some say Appleseed 2 (plugs?) tobacco 1.00

The librarian at OGS told me that this record is the only one known to be in
existance that was made about Johnny Appleseed, by that name, while he was
living. Do you suppose that the Piatts and Johnny........?

--
Laverne Ingram Piatt
Ontario, OH

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