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NameJacob Pyatt 
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249Birth14 Jan 1705, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey
Death1755 (alt date 1784 in NJ), Path Valley, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Occupationtrader with natives
FatherJacob Pyatt (1678->1750)
MotherMary Hull (1681-ca1755)
Spouses
Marriageca 1724, Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, USA
ChildrenJacob (1725-1784)
Marriage2 Jul 1734, Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Notes for Jacob Pyatt
Jacob (Piatt)
Jacob Piatt and his son Jacob were involved in a number of interesting encounters with those trying to keep intact the delicate balance of peace with the Indians. Father and son were Indian traders, and lived near them, even when there was a serious threat of trouble from red or white man alike ---
In "HUGUENOTS IN AMERICA; MEMORIALS OF THE HUGUENOTS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR EMIGRATION TO PENNSYLVANIA," by Rev. A. Stapleton, AM, MS, 1969 (p. 129) there is a statement, "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."
Again, in "HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY AND ADAMS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA", 1886 (p. 18) there is an account of the 1750 ejection from Path Valley of Jacob Pyeatt, Jacob Pyeatt, Jr., James Blair, and others. There are similar accounts in the minutes of the Provisional Council, found in the Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, Vols. 4 & 5:
"In the early development of Pennsylvania when there was much land available for settlement and much danger to be apprehended from trespassing upon the lands of the Red man which had not yet been bargained for, laws were enacted prohibiting the people from going into this country beyond the Kittochtinny Mountains for the purpose of settlement. These laws were evoked from the fear that such actions would precipitate serious trouble, if not war, with the Indians; or as the prohibition said, 'A breach might ensue between the Six Nations of Indians and this Province.' And yet, as more and more people came into the eastern parts of the Province, the stories circulated of the wondrous wealth of fine lands there were just over the mountains, we cannot wonder that the adventurous spirit of the times incited some of the more adventurous settlers to flout the law — even as they do in this enlightened age — where they saw a chance of adventure and profit.
One Richard Peters, having been directed by Governor Hamilton to give information to the magistrates against all who had presumed to violate the law, wrote the governor by letter dated July 2, 1750, as follows:
'On Wednesday, the 30th of May, the magistrates and company, being detained two days by rain, proceeded over the Kittochtinny Mountains and entered in the Tuscarora Path, or Path Valley through which the road to Alleghany lies. Many settlements were formed in this valley and all the people were sent for, and the following persons appeared, viz: Abraham Slack, James Blair, Moses Moore, Arthur Dunlap, Alexander McCartie, Felix Doyle, Andrew Dunlap, Robert Wilson, JACOB PYATT, JACOB PYATT, JR., William Ramage, Reynold Alexander, Samuel Patterson, Robert Baker, John Armstrong and John Potts who were all convicted by their own confession to the magistrates, of the like trespasses with those at Sherman’s Creek and were bound in the like recognizances to appear at court, and bonds to the proprietors, to remove with all their families, servants, cattle, and effects and all having voluntarily given possession of their houses to me, some ordinary log houses, to the number of eleven, were burnt to the ground; the trespassers, most of them cheerfully, and a very few of them with reluctance, carrying out all their goods. Some had deserted before, and lay waste.'
The next we learn about The Valley is when, in 1767, 'verbal applications in behalf of a few in Path Valley' were made. Presbytery. Rev. Robert Cooper was directed to preach to that people a Sabbath 'at discretion' ... meeting-house to be designated near James Montgomery’s, ..."
BIRTH: Births of Piscataway <New Jersey>; Town Register: 1668-1805.
BIRTH: Dally, Joseph W. Vital records of Woodbridge, New Jersey. Lambertville, NJ : Hunterdon House, 1983. Call# US/CAN 974.9 A1 no.74 (Book); p. 31; surname spelled PEATT.
In the Piscataway town records, the identification mark for his cattle is registered on 14 May 1706 (microfilm# 888,837 #2). Probably died in Cumberland Valley, PA.
MARRIAGE: Town Register; Piscataway, New Jersey.
Jacob and Mary Hull Pyeatt
Jacob Piatt was born October 31, 1678, in Piscataway, New Jersey, to Rene and Elizabeth Sheffield Piatt and died in Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania after 1750 (or Woodbridge, Middlesex Co, NJ, according to some researchers). Jacob married June 7, 1703, in Piscataway, Mary Hull who was born in Flushing, Long Island, New York, February 4, 1681/1682, the daughter of Samuel and Mary Manning Hull. Mary probably died in Pennsylvania.
The children of Jacob and Mary:
Dinah Piatt b: 3 Feb 1702/03 (or 1704/05) Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ d: 1789 Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ m: c1722 Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ, Jonathan Martin b: c1709 Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ d: Aug 1768 Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ (Dinah was his third wife)
Jacob Piatt b: 14 Jan 1704/05 Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ d: ?March 1784 Washington Co, PA (or PA) m1: c1724 Joan Jean Paul m2: July 02, 1734, Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA Jane Young
Peter/Pierre Piatt b: 19 Jan 1706/07 (1707/08) Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ d: Woodbridge, Middlesex Co, NJ
Rachel Piatt b: 25 Sep 1709 (or 1707) Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ (baptized 15 Oct 1717, First Reformed Church, Somerville, NJ) d: Woodbridge, Middlesex Co, NJ
Thomas Piatt b: c1710, Bound Brook, Somerset Co, NJ (moved to Elizabethtown, ?Union Co, NJ)
John Piatt b: c1712 Bound Brook, Somerset Co, NJ d: c7 Jul 1760 St. Domingo - St Thomas West Indies m: c1739 Somerset Co, NJ, Frances Van Vliett b: 1713 Trenton, Somerset Co, NJ d: 26 Dec 1776 Trenton, Somerset Co, NJ
Mary Piatt b: c1714 Bound Brook, Somerset Co, NJ d: 1776 Bridgetown, Cumberland Co, NJ m: October 20, 1738 Somerset Co, NJ, Peter Soullard
William Piatt b: c1716 Bound Brook, Somerset Co, NJ (went to Westchester Co, NY)
Samuel Piatt b: c1717/18 Bound Brook, Somerset Co, New Jersey
In "Vital Records of Woodbridge, New Jersey, by Rev. Joseph W. Dally 1983 (p.31) appears: "Jacob Peatt ye Son of Rene Peatt Born ye Last of October 1678".
Sources:
Laura Glass clwlass@mindspring.com
Ruth and Bill Schooley rbsch@open.org
"The Hull Family in America"
Piatt Family Newsletter Vol 1, 1986 [cited: "Ye Colonial Kinsmen", 1978 Joseph N Kerney; "First Settlers Of Ye Plantations Of Piscataway and Woodbridge, Olde East New Jersey, 1664-1714" Orra E Monnette; "Family Of Piatt, Pyatt, Pyeatte, Pyeatt, Etc," 1958 Ruth Thayer Ravenscroft; "Vital Records Of Woodbridge NJ", Hunterdon House, Lambertville NJ, 1983 Rev Joseph W Dally]
2. Jacob PYATT. Born Oct 31, 1678 in Piscataway, NJ. Died After 1750 inWoodbridge, NJ.
He married Mary HULL, Jun 7, 1703 in Piscataway, NJ. Born Feb 4, 1681 inPiscataway, NJ. Died ? in Woodbridge, NJ.
They had the following children:
i. Dinah PYATT; Born Feb 3, 1703 in Piscataway, NJ.Died 1789 in Piscataway, NJ.
ii. Jacob PYATT; Born Jan 14, 1705 in Piscataway, NJ.Died After 1755 in Woodbridge, NJ.
iii. Pierre PIATT; Born Jan 19, 1707 in Piscataway,NJ. Died ? .
iv. Peter PYATT; Born Jan 19, 1707 in Piscataway, NJ.Died ? in Woodbridge, NJ.
v. Rachel PYATT; Born Sep 25, 1707 in Piscataway,NJ. Died ? in Woodbridge, NJ.
3 vi. John PIATT
vii. Thomas PIATT; Born About 1712 in Piscataway, NJ.
viii. William PYATT; Born About 1716 in Piscataway, NJ.
ix. Samuel PYATT; Born About 1718 in Piscataway, NJ.
Source:http://www.genealogy.com/users/f/l/i/Ronald-L-Flieger/FILE/0007text.txt
Source: RonaldL. Flieger, 2000
Ancestry.com shows an additional marriage for this Jacob as Nancy Schahl
Jacob Piatt and his son Jacob were involved in a number of interesting encounters with those trying to keep intact the delicate balance of peace with the Indians. Father and son were Indian traders, and lived near them, even when there was a serious threat of trouble from red or white man alike ---
In "HUGUENOTS IN AMERICA; MEMORIALS OF THE HUGUENOTS, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THEIR EMIGRATION TO PENNSYLVANIA," by Rev. A. Stapleton, AM, MS, 1969 (p. 129) there is a statement, "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."
Again, in "HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY AND ADAMS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA", 1886 (p. 18) there is an account of the 1750 ejection from Path Valley of Jacob Pyeatt, Jacob Pyeatt, Jr., James Blair, and others. There are similar accounts in the minutes of the Provisional Council, found in the Colonial Records of Pennsylvania, Vols. 4 & 5:
"In the early development of Pennsylvania when there was much land available for settlement and much danger to be apprehended from trespassing upon the lands of the Red man which had not yet been bargained for, laws were enacted prohibiting the people from going into this country beyond the Kittochtinny Mountains for the purpose of settlement. These laws were evoked from the fear that such actions would precipitate serious trouble, if not war, with the Indians; or as the prohibition said, 'A breach might ensue between the Six Nations of Indians and this Province.' And yet, as more and more people came into the eastern parts of the Province, the stories circulated of the wondrous wealth of fine lands there were just over the mountains, we cannot wonder that the adventurous spirit of the times incited some of the more adventurous settlers to flout the law — even as they do in this enlightened age — where they saw a chance of adventure and profit.
One Richard Peters, having been directed by Governor Hamilton to give information to the magistrates against all who had presumed to violate the law, wrote the governor by letter dated July 2, 1750, as follows:
'On Wednesday, the 30th of May, the magistrates and company, being detained two days by rain, proceeded over the Kittochtinny Mountains and entered in the Tuscarora Path, or Path Valley through which the road to Alleghany lies. Many settlements were formed in this valley and all the people were sent for, and the following persons appeared, viz: Abraham Slack, James Blair, Moses Moore, Arthur Dunlap, Alexander McCartie, Felix Doyle, Andrew Dunlap, Robert Wilson, JACOB PYATT, JACOB PYATT, JR., William Ramage, Reynold Alexander, Samuel Patterson, Robert Baker, John Armstrong and John Potts who were all convicted by their own confession to the magistrates, of the like trespasses with those at Sherman’s Creek and were bound in the like recognizances to appear at court, and bonds to the proprietors, to remove with all their families, servants, cattle, and effects and all having voluntarily given possession of their houses to me, some ordinary log houses, to the number of eleven, were burnt to the ground; the trespassers, most of them cheerfully, and a very few of them with reluctance, carrying out all their goods. Some had deserted before, and lay waste.'
The next we learn about The Valley is when, in 1767, 'verbal applications in behalf of a few in Path Valley' were made. Presbytery. Rev. Robert Cooper was directed to preach to that people a Sabbath 'at discretion' ... meeting-house to be designated near James Montgomery’s, ..."
BIRTH: Births of Piscataway <New Jersey>; Town Register: 1668-1805.
BIRTH: Dally, Joseph W. Vital records of Woodbridge, New Jersey. Lambertville, NJ : Hunterdon House, 1983. Call# US/CAN 974.9 A1 no.74 (Book); p. 31; surname spelled PEATT.
In the Piscataway town records, the identification mark for his cattle is registered on 14 May 1706 (microfilm# 888,837 #2). Probably died in Cumberland Valley, PA.
MARRIAGE: Town Register; Piscataway, New Jersey.
Jacob and Mary Hull Pyeatt
Jacob Piatt was born October 31, 1678, in Piscataway, New Jersey, to Rene and Elizabeth Sheffield Piatt and died in Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania after 1750 (or Woodbridge, Middlesex Co, NJ, according to some researchers). Jacob married June 7, 1703, in Piscataway, Mary Hull who was born in Flushing, Long Island, New York, February 4, 1681/1682, the daughter of Samuel and Mary Manning Hull. Mary probably died in Pennsylvania.
The children of Jacob and Mary:
Dinah Piatt b: 3 Feb 1702/03 (or 1704/05) Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ d: 1789 Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ m: c1722 Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ, Jonathan Martin b: c1709 Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ d: Aug 1768 Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ (Dinah was his third wife)
Jacob Piatt b: 14 Jan 1704/05 Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ d: ?March 1784 Washington Co, PA (or PA) m1: c1724 Joan Jean Paul m2: July 02, 1734, Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA Jane Young
Peter/Pierre Piatt b: 19 Jan 1706/07 (1707/08) Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ d: Woodbridge, Middlesex Co, NJ
Rachel Piatt b: 25 Sep 1709 (or 1707) Piscataway, Middlesex Co, NJ (baptized 15 Oct 1717, First Reformed Church, Somerville, NJ) d: Woodbridge, Middlesex Co, NJ
Thomas Piatt b: c1710, Bound Brook, Somerset Co, NJ (moved to Elizabethtown, ?Union Co, NJ)
John Piatt b: c1712 Bound Brook, Somerset Co, NJ d: c7 Jul 1760 St. Domingo - St Thomas West Indies m: c1739 Somerset Co, NJ, Frances Van Vliett b: 1713 Trenton, Somerset Co, NJ d: 26 Dec 1776 Trenton, Somerset Co, NJ
Mary Piatt b: c1714 Bound Brook, Somerset Co, NJ d: 1776 Bridgetown, Cumberland Co, NJ m: October 20, 1738 Somerset Co, NJ, Peter Soullard
William Piatt b: c1716 Bound Brook, Somerset Co, NJ (went to Westchester Co, NY)
Samuel Piatt b: c1717/18 Bound Brook, Somerset Co, New Jersey
In "Vital Records of Woodbridge, New Jersey, by Rev. Joseph W. Dally 1983 (p.31) appears: "Jacob Peatt ye Son of Rene Peatt Born ye Last of October 1678".
Sources:
Laura Glass clwlass@mindspring.com
Ruth and Bill Schooley rbsch@open.org
"The Hull Family in America"
Piatt Family Newsletter Vol 1, 1986 [cited: "Ye Colonial Kinsmen", 1978 Joseph N Kerney; "First Settlers Of Ye Plantations Of Piscataway and Woodbridge, Olde East New Jersey, 1664-1714" Orra E Monnette; "Family Of Piatt, Pyatt, Pyeatte, Pyeatt, Etc," 1958 Ruth Thayer Ravenscroft; "Vital Records Of Woodbridge NJ", Hunterdon House, Lambertville NJ, 1983 Rev Joseph W Dally]
2. Jacob PYATT. Born Oct 31, 1678 in Piscataway, NJ. Died After 1750 inWoodbridge, NJ.
He married Mary HULL, Jun 7, 1703 in Piscataway, NJ. Born Feb 4, 1681 inPiscataway, NJ. Died ? in Woodbridge, NJ.
They had the following children:
i. Dinah PYATT; Born Feb 3, 1703 in Piscataway, NJ.Died 1789 in Piscataway, NJ.
ii. Jacob PYATT; Born Jan 14, 1705 in Piscataway, NJ.Died After 1755 in Woodbridge, NJ.
iii. Pierre PIATT; Born Jan 19, 1707 in Piscataway,NJ. Died ? .
iv. Peter PYATT; Born Jan 19, 1707 in Piscataway, NJ.Died ? in Woodbridge, NJ.
v. Rachel PYATT; Born Sep 25, 1707 in Piscataway,NJ. Died ? in Woodbridge, NJ.
3 vi. John PIATT
vii. Thomas PIATT; Born About 1712 in Piscataway, NJ.
viii. William PYATT; Born About 1716 in Piscataway, NJ.
ix. Samuel PYATT; Born About 1718 in Piscataway, NJ.
Source:http://www.genealogy.com/users/f/l/i/Ronald-L-Flieger/FILE/0007text.txt
Source: RonaldL. Flieger, 2000
Ancestry.com shows an additional marriage for this Jacob as Nancy Schahl
Notes for Jacob Pyatt
Jean Paul Pyeatt evidently deserted her husband and Jacob Piatt Sr married second Jane Young on July 2, 1734, in Christ Church, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
In 1736 at Derry Church, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Jacob petitioned the Donegal Presbytery for reinstatement. The petition mentions his "clandestine" marriage in 1734 and also indicates that his first wife deserted him rather than died. This would explain why in 1784 (after son Jacob 1725-1784 died) a deed was signed by Jean Pyeatt. This indicates that she was still living and involved in Pyeatt family affairs to some extent. Presbytery records are at the Presbyterian Historical Society south of Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
In 1736 at Derry Church, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Jacob petitioned the Donegal Presbytery for reinstatement. The petition mentions his "clandestine" marriage in 1734 and also indicates that his first wife deserted him rather than died. This would explain why in 1784 (after son Jacob 1725-1784 died) a deed was signed by Jean Pyeatt. This indicates that she was still living and involved in Pyeatt family affairs to some extent. Presbytery records are at the Presbyterian Historical Society south of Independence Hall in Philadelphia.