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From: John Keilch <>
Subject: Re: [PIATT] Peter Pyatte's Tennessee land
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:57:57 -0700


Hi, Laverne --

(1) There is also a reference to Peter Pyeatt in North Carolina Grants in
Tennessee, 1778-1791, page 86. Here are my notes:
Pyatt, Peter, Sgt. -- 428 acres, 1786 Davidson, on the East fork of
Mill Creek, assigned grant to James McCuistien [III:253]

There is a fuller description in Nancy Maxwell's "Peter Pyeatt Timeline,"
which may be the complete abstract:
"Assigns warrant for 428 a. on E Fork of Mill Creek, a S branch of
Cumberland R. in Davidson Co., TN, to Thomas McCuistion [[Nancy's note:]
McCuistions lived in same are as Pyeatts in Rowan and Guilford Co.]"

I also kept a note from North Carolina Grants, III:1061:
"margin note: soldier John Campin, pvt." [I think that may refer to
McCuistien, but I am not sure]

(2) Following is the disposition of some Tennessee land owned by Peter Pyeatt:
Pyatt, Peter -- 1802 Montgomery Co., TN, land sold for non-payment of
taxes for 1799; 508 acres, watercourse: Southside Cumberland
(River). [Source: Eddlemon, Sherida. Genealogical Abstracts from Tennessee
Newspapers, 1791-1808. Heritage Books, 1988]

(3) I have copies of Nancy Maxwell's detailed 4-page "Peter Pyeatt
Timeline" and also her 7-page article, "The Pyeatts & Finleys of Rowan &
Guilford Counties, NC" from The Guilford Genealogist, vol. 16, no. 3,
Spring 1989. They were not published in the Piatt Family Newsletter,
although the article may have been echoed in the material in volume 10 of
the newsletter. But the timeline for Peter Pyeatt is much more detailed
than what appeared in the newsletter. I would be glad to send you copies,
if you don't already have them.

-- John Keilch
Berkeley, California


>From:
>Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 01:19:03 +0000
>To:
>Subject: [PIATT] Peter Pyatte's Tennessee land
>
>Found on microfilm at the East Tennessee Historical Society in Knoxville
>TN last spring:
>
>
><<North Carolina Grants, Book C-3, p 21
>
>Peter Pyatte, State of No Carolina, No 1524
>
>To all whom these presents shall come, Greeting. Know ye that we pursuant
>to an Act of our Genl Assembly intitled [sic] An Act for the Relief of the
>Officers and Soldiers in the contl line, and in consideration of the
>signal(?) bravery and perservering zeal of Peter Hadsock a private in the
>said line, have given and granted and by these presents do give and grant
>unto Peter Pyatte, assignee of said Hadsock, a tract of land containing
>six hundred and forty acres lying and being in our county of Tennessee on
>the South Side of Cumberland above Armstrong's Survey on Yellow Creek,
>Beginning at a Red oak, sd Armstrong's South East corner Running East with
>a line three hundred and twenty poles to a Dogwood Corner South one
>hundred and Sixty poles to a hickory East one hundred and Sixty poles to a
>stake then North three hundred and twenty poles to a stake West four
>hundreed and Eighty poles to Armstrong's line South one hundred and sixty
>poles to the Beginning. To hold to the Pet!
> er Pyatte, hs heirs and assigns forever, which land was surveyed for the
> sd Pyatte Feb 15, 1792 by Robert Nelson D[eputy surveryor] consequence of
> a Military warrant No 449 dated Feb 7, 1792 the grant Signed Alexander
> Martin, Dated Apl 10, 1792 counter Signed J(?) Glasgow, Secy >>
>
>A shorter version of the same grant is given in Book C-3, page 207.
>
>Yellow Creek meets the Cumberland in present day Montgomery Co TN, near
>the Stewart Co TN line.
>
>--
>Laverne Ingram Piatt
>Ontario, OH
>
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