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From: John Keilch <>
Subject: [PIATT] Jacob Pyeatt: Jake's Spanish Passport
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 21:55:43 -0700

Hi, Laverne --

I suspect that that 2 different Jacob Pyeatts were recorded in the 1788
Spanish passports to Natchez, since the travellers were recorded as coming
from two entirely separate regions:

(1) Jacob Pyatt, single man, from District of Kentucke. He was probably
Jacob Pyeatt IV from Ohio Co., VA, and Jefferson Co., KY, travelling alone;
this Jacob, born ca 1765 Path Valley PA, was the son of Jacob Pyeatt III
and Nancy Dunham/Dunning?. This Jacob was later (1792) recorded as a
settler in the District of Bayou Pierre, near Natchez, with with a woman,
two young males, and another man (who was probably his brother, Benjamin
Pyeatt Sr.) Jacob returned to his farm in Ohio Co., VA, later in the 1790s
after Benjamin Sr. had been imprisoned by the authorities.

(2) Jacobo Piat, man, woman & child, from Dist of Tensi or Cumberland. He
was probably Jacob Pyeatt of Guilford Co. NC; this Jacob, born ca 1760 Path
Valley PA, was the son of John Pyeatt and Martha Jane Blair. His
travelling companions may have been his first wife (suspected to have been
Rachel Tatum) and their son, Nathan Pyeatt Sr. (born ca 1787, died 1812
IL). Jacob's oldest brother, Peter Pyeatt of Charleston, SC, was involved
in land transactions in the Cumberland River District of Tennessee in the
late 1780s and early 1790s. Benjamin Drake, another member of the group
travelling with Jacobo Piat to Natchez, was probably the same Benjamin
Drake who received NC land grants in the Cumberland District in the 1780s.

Please let me know if you have any other thoughts on these travellers.

-- John Keilch
Berkeley, California


>From:
>Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 01:37:29 +0000
>To:
>Subject: [PIATT] Jake's Spanish Passport
>
> >From the book Passports of Southeastern Pioneers 1770-1823: Indian,
> Spanish and other Land Passports for Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia,
> Mississippi, Virginia, North and South Carolina, by Dorothy Williams Potter:
>
>page 14
>
>District of Tensi or Cumberland
>
>families
>Jorge Cook -- 1 man, 1 woman, 1 child, 3 negroes, 1 plough, 2 spades, 2 axes
>Benjamin Drack (Drake?) -- 1 man, 1 woman
>
>Juan Gaskins -- 1 man, 1 woman, 3 children
>Thomas Behr -- 1 man, 1 woman, 2 children, 2 negroes
>
>Daniel Hardigill -- 1 man, 1 woman, 3 children
>Martin Fremtham -- 1 man, 1 woman, 3 children
>
>James Spawlins -- 1 man, 1 woman, 1 child
>Madm Scogings -- 1 woman, 3 children
>
>JACOBO PIAT -- 1 man, 1 woman, 1 child
>
>[then a list of single men]
>Juan Ormsby
>Roberto Creton
>
>Juan Marney with one horse
>Daniel Strickling
>
>Benjamin Flecher
>Tomas Sneed
>
>Guillermo McDugal
>Jayme Pynn
>
>Hugh McGune
>Juan West
>
>Enrique Green
>
>Natches, July 5, 1788
>Carlos de Grand-Pre
>
>
>The next entry is a paragraph describing a personal request by Benjamin
>Drake for a passport made to Governor Miro on the same date.
>
>
>Sharolynn, or anyone with access to this book, would you please look at
>page 13? I found this book at the East Tennessee Historical Society in
>Knoxville TN last spring. I failed to notice there was a second listing
>for a JACOB PYAT on the same page, but in the first column, as a single
>man. The heading for this left column of page 14 is on page 13 which I
>did not copy. Knowing the heading for this section, date and location of
>request, would help determine if there were one or two Jacob Piatts
>requesting passports to travel in Spanish Territory. Thanks.
>
>--
>Laverne Ingram Piatt
>Ontario, OH
>

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