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Subject: RE: [PIATT] Richland Co OH Piatts
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:57:25 -0400 (EDT)



I've read that a light colored (yellow) transparancy film on top of a document will improve the quality of faint writing on a copy. I would think this would also work on a microfilm if you cut a piece the right size to fit. Let us know if it works. Marianne



--- On Fri 02/15, Laverne Piatt wrote:
> 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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