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Subject: Re: [PIATT] John Pyatt, SC 1790
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 04:16:28 +0000

From the Piatt Family Newsletter, Volume 3, 1988:

Jean Vail contributed information from a book, "Family Tree Book, Genealogical and Biographical," by W Thomas Smith in which Mr Smith discusses the Carolina Piatts. In addition to mentioning Peter Piatt who we think was from the Path Valley of PA, Smith also mentioned Joseph Pyatt born in Warwickshire, England, and John Pyatt of Georgetown. Concerning the last:

"One John Pyatt settled early at Georgetown SC, and his will is dated 1760. He married Hannah LaBruce. He left an estate of considerable size at Georgetown. He also in his will makes mention of lands at 'North Pasture'and 'Colliehill,' England."

Lou Martin Mohler provided further information with part of the family traced several generations:

".JOHN PYATT I m 1744 HANNAH LA BRUCE (The LaBruce family were also planters of note.)

...JOHN PYATT II (1750-1795) m 1765 CHARLOTTE WITHERS

.....JOHN FRANCIS PYATT (1790-1820) m 1812 MARTHA ALLSTON (1789-1869) d/o Benjamin Allston

......CHARLOTTE JOSEPHINE PYATT (1814-1906) m 1846 Major WILLIAM HEYWARD TRAPIER (1805-1872) (Owner of 'Ingleside' and 'Turkey Hill' plantations.)
......JOHN FRANCIS PYATT JR (1817-1884) m 1857 HARRIETT NOWELL ([He?] owner of 'Kensington' plantation)

........JOHN SAVILLE PYATT (1859-1927) m ELEANOR MAY SMITH

.........JOHN SAVILLE PYATT JR (1888-1928) never married
.........JULIA PYATT (1900-1971) m HAROLD KAMINSKI (1886-1953) [he] born in Prussia of Jewish parents
.........CHARLOTTE PYATT, never married

......JOSEPH BENJAMIN PYATT (1820-1910) m JOANNA WARD (1831-1882) (Owned 'Rosemont' on the Black River and 'Colly Hill' at Fletcher NC)"

Lou also wrote that "A townhouse was maintained [by the family] in the city for relief from the summer's heat at the plantation, and for the social season of the year. The KAMINSKI HOUSE was given to the city of Georgetown by its last owner JULIA PYATT KAMINSKI, who died in 1971. It is open to the public and is filled with family heirlooms. It is the essence of gracious living, situated on the banks of the Sampit River on Front Street. I visited it today, a sun bright April morning, and walked past blooming azaleas to the columned porch of this lovely brick and shuttered home. In the dining room was the dinnerware with the PYATT crest in gold in the center of the lovely English china."

Perhaps one of our listers knows whether the Kaminski House is the same as the Pyatt-Allston house, the Pyatt-Doyle House, and/or the 1790 House, now a bed and breakfast in Georgetown.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~sccyauha/land/gtowndeed.htm

The link above gives this deed from Deed book D:

D-266 J. J. Hamlin to R. C. Grier (Topsaw) In consideration of $ 4,000....Georgetown District....All that tract of land on the west side of Pee Dee River containing 615 acres by a survey of John Hardwick dated 6 January 1798, known by the name Topsaw, bounded on the North by land formerly of Mr. Laird Swanston, East by Pee Dee River, South by land assigned at the same time to Benjamin Huger, Esq. Now or late belonging to James Elliot and West by land now or late of Mr. J. Saunders, being 1/2 of 3 tracts of land divided by writs of partition from the Court of Common Pleas for Georgetown District bearing date April 1798 and assigned to Miss Mary Pyatt and described in the marriage settlement between the late Dr. William Allston of the District above stated and his wife Mary Pyatt as a moiety or 1/2 part of 3 tracts of land on Pee Dee River which Labruce bought of James Coachman and which the said Thomas Labruce by his Last Will and Testament devised unto his daughter Elizabeth!
the mother of the said Mary Pyatt. Signed: J. J. Hamlin......Dated: 1863 (no day or month) Witness: Jas. C. McLeod, T. C. Capell

Release of Dower: Clarendon District....Anna M. Hamlin.....C. G. Capell, Magistrate

http://www.rootsweb.com/~sccyauha/wills/allstonjos.htm

gives the lengthy will of Joseph Allston who names his cousin John Pyatt as one of his executors.

An excellent account of the rice plantations of the Waccamaw River and the intertwined families who owned them is found in "Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community" by Charles Joyner, University of Illinois Press, 1984. A couple of passages from page 23:

"The next plantation up the river was Oatland, owned by Martha Hayes Allston Pyatt, widow of John F Pyatt (1791-1820). Mrs Pyatt continued to manage Oatland herself."

"Bordering Oatland was Turkey Hill, owned in 1860 by William Heyward Trapier, who had acquired it by marrying into the Pyatt family."

--
Laverne Ingram Piatt
Ontario, OH

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