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From: "Robin Pyatt Bellamy" <>
Subject: [PIATT] Abstract of Stapleton's information on Piatts
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:22:53 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)


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MEMORIALS OF THE HUGUENOTS IN AMERICA
.By Rev. A. Stapleton.
>From Chapter 15, p129
Piatt, Pyatt.--this family seated in Dauphiny, fled to Holland at the
Revocation period, and later came to New Jersey. the name of the father is
not known. Of the sons, John Piatt was a prominent citizen of Somerset
county, New Jersey, of which he was sheriff in 1732. He died in 1760, while
on a visit to the Island of St. Thomas, where he owned a sugar plantation.
All his sons, five in number, were soldiers in the Revolution, under the
following grades: John, b. 1739, a private; Abraham, b. 1741, a
quartermaster; William, b. 1745, a captain; Daniel, b. 1745, a major, and
Jacob, b. 1747, a captain. The Piatt family were great pioneers. John, at
the close of the Revolution removed to (now) Lycoming county, in
Pennsylvania, where a township is named in his honor. Abraham removed to
(now) Centre county, and was Judge of the Courts of Northumberland county in
1786. (3) He died in 1791, and his family all removed to Ohio. Jacob Piatt,
youngest son of John the immigrant son, removed to Kentucky.
Jacob Piatt, evidently a second son of the immigrant, appears in Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, as an Indian trader at an early day. Jacob Piatt, Jr.
was a pioneer on the frontiers, and was dispossessed of his lands in Path
Valley as an intruder in 1750.
Lischy's Lists.--In 1742 arrived Rev. Jacob Lischey, a Moravian minister,
and who soon afterwards was married to a daughter of John Stephen Benezette,
of Philadelphia.
FOOTNOTES: PAGE 129:
(1). See Pa. Mag. of Hist. Vol. III
(2). Will at York, Pa.
(3). Pa. Arch. 2nd Ser. III, p. 760.
Robin Pyatt Bellamy
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