BIRTH: Microfilm # 16,576. Drake, Lewis Lincoln. Piscataway, NJ Town Register from 1668 to 1805. Made from a copy in the library of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; presented to the New Jersey Historical Society. 1906. p.24.
BIRTH-DEATH: Monnette, Orra Eugene. First settlers of ye plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge, Olde East New Jersey 1664-1714 : a period of fifty years. Los Angeles, Calif. : Leroy Carman Press, 1930; pt. 6, p. 1045 "Private Dunham Cemetery"; he died in his 84th year.
BIRTH-DEATH: Monnette, Orra Eugene. First settlers of ye plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge, Olde East New Jersey 1664-1714 : a period of fifty years. Los Angeles, Calif. : Leroy Carman Press, 1930; pt. 6, p. 1045 "Private Dunham Cemetery"; she died, aged 61 years.
John Piatt, the eldest son, whom we shall designate as John the II, was
evidently born on the Island of St. Thomas, the date of his birth being
1739. In 1763, three years after the death of his father, he was married to
Miss Jane Williamson, daughter of William and Jane Van Nest Williamson, who
was born in 1745; and at Trenton, New Jersey he founded his home. He served
as High Sheriff of Middlesex county, which, in 1838, was sub-divided into
four counties; and at the close of the Revolution, in which he played his
part as "minute man" in the New Jersey militia, he removed with his family
to Milton, on the Susquehanna river, in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania;
and later, to White Deer Valley, where he died in 1820, at the age of eighty-
one years.He fell heir to the old Dutch Bible which the family brought from Holland to
America, and which bears the date 1710; and when his daughter, Frances, the
wife of William McKinney, senior, was leaving Pennsylvania for her new home
in Ritchie county, he came out with this old Bible, and said, "Here,
Frances, take this with you, as you are the only one that can read it."
Mrs. McKinney accepted the proffered treasure, and it is now in the
possession of the family of her late grand-daughter, Mrs. Drusilla Wanless.(From History of Ritchie Co, WV written by
Minnie Kendall Lowther, and published in 1910.)John Piatt, the eldest son, whom we shall designate as John the II, was
evidently born on the Island of St. Thomas, the date of his birth being
1739. In 1763, three years after the death of his father, he was married to
Miss Jane Williamson, daughter of William and Jane Van Nest Williamson, who
was born in 1745; and at Trenton, New Jersey he founded his home. He served
as High Sheriff of Middlesex county, which, in 1838, was sub-divided into
four counties; and at the close of the Revolution, in which he played his
part as "minute man" in the New Jersey militia, he removed with his family
to Milton, on the Susquehanna river, in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania;
and later, to White Deer Valley, where he died in 1820, at the age of eighty-
one years.He fell heir to the old Dutch Bible which the family brought from Holland to
America, and which bears the date 1710; and when his daughter, Frances, the
wife of William McKinney, senior, was leaving Pennsylvania for her new home
in Ritchie county, he came out with this old Bible, and said, "Here,
Frances, take this with you, as you are the only one that can read it."
Mrs. McKinney accepted the proffered treasure, and it is now in the
possession of the family of her late grand-daughter, Mrs. Drusilla Wanless.(From History of Ritchie Co, WV written by
Minnie Kendall Lowther, and published in 1910.)
Abraham Piatt (1741-91) was captain, 1777, of the 2nd company, Middlesex County, New Jersey militia, in Colonel Neilson's regiment. He was born in New Jersey; died in Watsontown, Ohio.
Abraham Piatt served in the Revolutionary War as a Quartermaster from Somerset County, New Jersey, a Captain of the 2nd Regiment of Middlesex County, New Jersey Militia, Col. Neilson's Regiment, on duty at Cranbury, New Jersey, 1 Feb 1777 to 2 Apr 1777, and later, in 1778, as a Captain in the 5th Batallion, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania Militia under Col. John Kelly. He moved from New Jersey to Penn's Valley, Pennsylvania and settled on land obtained in exchange for doing some surveying jobs. He was Judge of the Courts of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania in 1786. He died in 1791, and all of his family moved to Ohio.