Chapter XV, Trans-Susquehanna (Area)- Huguenot Settlers West of the Susquehanna River-The Conewago Colony-Pittsburg-The Genevan Colony on the Monongahala River-Western Maryland-The Shenandoah Valley.
Page 129 Piatt, Pyatt.---This family seated in Dauphiny, fled to Holland at the Revocation period, and later came to New Jersey. The name of the father is not known. Of the sons, John Piatt was a prominent citizen of Somerset County, New Jersey, of which he was sheriff in 1732. He died in 1760, while on a visit to the Island of St. Thomas, where he owned a sugar plantation. All his sons, five in number, were soldiers in the Revolution, under the following grades: John, b. 1739, a private; Abraham, b. 1741, a quartermaster; William, b. 1745, a captain; Daniel, b. 1745, a major, and Jacob, b. 1747, a captain. The Piatt family were great pioneers. John, at the close of the Revolution removed to (now) Lycoming county, in Pennsylvania, where a township is named in his honor. Abraham removed to (now) Centre county, and was Judge of the Courts of Northumberland county in 1786. (3) He died in 1791, and his family all removed to Ohio. (***) Jacob Piatt, youngest son of John the immigrant son, removed to Kentucky. 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. (3). Pa. Arch. 2nd ser. III, p. 760 (That was all on this family. It does say (***) that a Jacob Piatt removed (moved to) Kentucky. )
