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Subject: Re: [PIATT] Has anyone read this one?--John James Piatt
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 01:58:27 +0000


John James Piatt was a poet of some renown during his day, but he kept his day job and was counsul to Ireland for a while. His wife Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt was also a published poet. Her work is seeing a renewed interest and one or two scholarly books have recently been published about her. She was related to Daniel Boone through her father Morgan Bryan, if I remember correctly. Daniel Boone's wife was Rebecca Bryan.

This might be a good place to mention that the Worthington Papers, also held by the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus OH, contain some Piatt papers among them. These papers refer to the Castle line of Piatts as there were three marriages between that line of Piatts and the Worthington family. One diary contains the notation "Crisis! Went over to Ella's." Likely this was Ella Piatt Kirby and one wonders what kind of crisis could intrude into the pleasant Mac-O-Chee Valley.

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Laverne Ingram Piatt
Ontario, OH


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