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Subject: [PIATT] Re: Elias & Elizabeth Piatt Baldwin & son Abraham
Date: 3 Jul 2002 12:16:08 -0600

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As you state, parents of ELIZABETH PIATT were ABRAHAM PIATT and ANNABELLE ANDREW. Abraham Piatt was born in NJ c1741 and died in Penn's Valley, Watsontown, Northumberland Co PA (now Centre Co PA) om 13 NOV 1791.

Annabelle Andrew Piatt was born c 1748 in NJ and died 16 Apr 1822 in Butler Co OH and is buried there.

Abraham and Annabelle had 12 children, the first 8 of whom, including Elizabeth, were baptized in NJ. Child #8, JANE, was born 1783 in Somerset Co NJ. Child #9, John, was born c1784 in Potter Township, Northumberland Co PA. We can conclude that the move from NJ to PA was made about 1783-4. Certainly a ten-year-old Elizabeth went with her family to PA.

Abraham, father of the family of 12, died in 1791 in PA. His 12th child had been born the year before. At some point after his death the widow, Annabellel Andrew Piatt, moved to Butler Co OH. At the time of her father's death Elizabeth was 18. Was she married yet? Did she go to Butler Co OH before she married Elias Baldwin? Again studying the 12 children we find that child #4, Jacob, married for a second time in 1808 in Centre Co PA. This would indicate that he did not go to Butler Co OH with his mother and younger siblings. Child #5, Abraham, did go to Butler Co where he married Jane Hageman in 1807.

But child #3, Elizabeth, could have married in PA or in OH. The Butler Co OH records are complete from the formation of the county (Ohio became a state in 1803) and housed in a wonderfully accessible records center in Hamilton OH. If there is no record of Elizabeth's marriage there it is possible she married in PA. PA marriage records at that time are very difficult to come by. You would have to be very fortunate and find a list such a one kept by a minister.

Regardless of the place of Elizabeth's marriage she certainly went to Butler Co OH by the time her son's guardianship was filed in 1808. With so many of her family in Butler Co I would think that she died there and was buried there. You might check cemetery inscriptions for Butler Co and concentrate on where her mother Annabelle Andrew Piatt might be buried as she died there in 1822.

Land records might also be a clue as to which cemeteries have Piatts. People were not buried far from where they lived. You might narrow the search for cemeteries by contacting genealogists in Butler Co because there couldn't have been many cemeteries started by 1808 only 5 years after statehood.

And you might also follow the track of Elias Baldwin. Did he stay in Butler Co, die there? Also, if the marriage is not in Butler OH, you might check the 1800 census for Northumberland Co and neighboring counties in PA for the Baldwin name. If the Baldwin name is found there, that would increase the probability that the marriage occurred there.

Source Piatt Family Newsletter, Volume 7, 1992

Laverne Ingram Piatt
Ontario, OH

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