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From: Christine <>
Subject: [PIATT] [Fwd: {not a subscriber} Jacob Piat]
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:28:35 -0400


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Christine in Lexington

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Subject: {not a subscriber} Jacob Piat
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:41:09 -0600
From: "Hansen" <>
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I am not a Piat/Pyeatt descendant but in my travels in the SL Family
History Library I came across an interesting document in the Donegal
Presbytery records referring to Jacob Piat. It may be helpful to note
that most of the people in this area were Scotch-Irish:

"1736 - Jacob Piat appeared before ye pby desiring admission to church
priviledges having been debarred heretofore on acct of the rumor of his
former wifes being still alive, or at lest not certainly dead, and also
because of his Clandestine marriage with his present wife. Ye pby upon
inquiry found that so far as we can discover his former wife was guilty
of wilful disertion and therefore yet he doth not appar to be guilty of
bigamy; ordered that upon his apparing in publick with his wife to
acknowledge their sin of Disobedience to hr parents they may be admitted
to priviledges."

Donegal Pby took in much of Pennsylvania at that time.

Linda Hansen

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