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Subject: [PIATT] Caroline Jane SMITH KEMPTON PIATT d before 1849
Date: 17 Nov 2002 15:19:23 -0700
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Surnames: PIATT, KEMPTON, SMITH, KELSO, CHURCH, SHERRY, SHIBLEY
Classification: Query
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The records of Piatt family do not show the lineage of Caroline, wife of William PIATT. She was a widow at the time of her marriage. She was the daughter of Captain Andrew HALL SMITH and Sarah SHERRY. If anyone is interested I will send scanned copies of related papers. I am a descendant of Eugene through his son, Thomas Eziekel SMITH, who was born in Brooklyn in 1852, so they did find Eugene. However, the 1860 census shows and city directories show Eugene was a sailmaker, married to Margaret SHIBLEY, had a daugher Anne, born in 1843, Thomas and two small boys. He is listed in the 1840 city directory living next door to Jane SHIBLEY, a widow. I would, of course, appreciate any information that fits that data. My family pictures include Thomas' sister Elizabeth who married Harry BULLARD. The 1880 census indicates Thomas, single at age 28, a sailmaker, with a 16 year old boy, William G. ARMSTRONG, living with him, Thomas married shortly after the census.
Andrew's daughter Susannah, is listed as Susan KELSO CHURCH at her Greenwood Cemetery grave, where her mother, who died at the age of 91, is also buried. Checking LDS records I find a Ferdinand Cortez KELSO born in 1822, the son of Caroline KELSO and Noah KEMPTON. I found the maiden name of Sarah SMITH in the 1814 records of the Dutch Reformed Church in New York when she joined. It was listed as "Sarah SHERRY, wife of Andrew SMITH." He was in the War of 1812 at the time, so his not being listed is consistent. Eugene is listed in the 1860 census as being born in 1817 in France, also consistent with Andrew being a mariner. The three daughters were born much earlier.
THE PROBATE RECORD:
To the Surrogate of the County of New York:
The Petition of James C Church of the City of New York, repsectfully showeth That your petitioner is a executor in the last Will and Testament of Andrew H. Smith, late of the County of New York, deceased. was at or immediately preceeding his death an inhabitant of the County of New York. and departed this life at Bucksport in the State of Maine on the 27th day of September last and that said last will and testament relates to both real and personal estate.
Your petitioner further shows that the widow, heirs and next of kin of said deceased are Sarah Smith, the widow of said deceased of the City of New York, and Susannah C. Church the wife of your petitioner severally residing in said City of New York and Mary A. Haskins, wife of John Haskins, severally residing at Brooklyn, Kings County and State of New York, and Eugene T. Smith, whose place of residence upon diligent inquiry made cannot be ascertained. The children of said deceased and Ferdinand C. Kemption, Sarah Jane Kempton and Eliza C. K. Piatt, the children of Caroline J. Piatt, deceased, daughter of testator of the said city of New York and that all the above named persons are of full age except said Eliza C. K. Piatt who is a minor having no general guardian residing within the state of New York. That said deceased left no other descendants than the above named him surviving.
Your petitioner therefore prays that the said last Will and Testanment my be proved and Letters Testamentary granted thereon according to law.
Signed James C. Church
City and County of New York ss.
I James C. Church, the Petitioner in the foregoing Petition, being duly sworn, do depose and say, that I have read the foregoing Petition to which I have subscribed my name and know the contents thereof, and the matters of fact therein stated are true and that the mattere therein stated of my information and belief, I believe to be true
signed James C. Church.
Sworn this 21st day of February AD 1850
signed by the Surrogate.
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