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Subject: [PIATT] Elizabeth Hannah Piatt Armfield
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 00:13:33 +0000


For Anita,

While in Indiana last week for some research I thought I
would swoop into the courthouse in Hamilton Co IN and
solve the HANNAH PIATT ARMFIELD question. I found her
marriage record just as it appeared in the Piatt Family
Newsletter Volume 5, 1990.

HANNAH PEATT [sic] to ISAAC ARMFIELD
22 Dec 1851 Bk 1:42
License issued to ISAAC ARMFIELD and HANNAH PIATT, both
of Lawful Age and she a resident of Hamilton County,
Indiana, proven by affidavit of PETER CASE, Daniel R
Brown, Clerk of Circuit Court, Noblesville, 22nd Dec
1851. Minister's Return - 24 Dec 1851 - William W Boyden

Nothing new there. But why did HANNAH have to prove her
residency? Was she new to the area? And who was PETER
CASE?

I went to the Noblesville library which has a wonderful
Indiana Room to check on Peter Case. I found this:

1850 Census, Hamilton Co IN, White River Township
Page 094m family 193/193

Case, Peter 40 M farmer 1000 PA
Ann 30 F VA
Mary 11 F OH
John 8 M (twin) OH
Jacob 8 M (twin) OH
Ann 6 F OH
Josephine 2 F OH

And I thought that I had struck out because there was no
HANNAH PIATT living in this family a year before her
marriage in 1851. But when I checked the Piatt Family
Newsletter for CASE I found this in Volume 6, 1991:

>From EARLY MARRIAGE BONDS OF OHIO, 1803-1864, (Franklin
Co, OH) DAR typescript, 1938

12 Jul 1838 ANN PIETT [sic] m. Peter Case, by Alexander
Cameron, JP [Bk 3:197] [Indexed PRATT]


What a coincidence! The Peter Case in the 1850 census
has a wife ANN born in VA. In 1850, 12 years after the
marriage, all the children are under 12 and all born in
OH. So the Case family itself had been in OH until 1848
if the birthplaces can be believed. Is it a stretch to
think that ELIZABETH HANNAH PIATT had gone to live with
her older sister and help out with the children? (That's
now my mother left home.)

What PIATTs were in Franklin Co OH in 1830? Only:

Truro Township, Franklin Co OH
MOSES PIATT
1 male 50-60
2 males 20-30

1 female 40-50
2 females 15-20
1 female 10-15
2 females 5-10
1 female < 5

Would this family have been able to produce a female who
married in 1838 and one who married in 1851? Yes. If
ANN was born in 1820 and was 10 in 1830 she would fit in
this family. We don't know HANNAH's age at marriage but
there are females in both age groups younger than ANN's.

Is this enough to solve the question of the parentage of
HANNAH PIATT? No, but there are indications that HANNAH
could be a daughter of MOSES if the information listed
above. And, I belive, Anita's family tradition says
that MOSES could be HANNAH's father. Maybe we are on
the right track here.

Anita, do you have a birthdate for HANNAH or know how
old she was when she died?
--
Laverne Ingram Piatt
Ontario, OH


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