Paternal Line of Robin Bellamy - pyan718 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File

Piatt/Pyatt/Peyatte of all spellings

Notes


Theunis Thomasson Quick

Mason, Original land on Manhattan Island, Castello Plan, Block D plot 1
sold to Frederick Artenson. The original lands were adjacent to Fort Amsterdam, lying at the southernmost tip of the fort and on the east side. Site of the Produce Exchange, NE side of Whitehall Street in 1942.


John James (Piatt)

John James Piatt, the poet and journalist, who was born at
Milton, Indiana, on March 1, 1835(eleven years after this school was
taught), and who entered the journalistic field early in life, and later
served as clerk of the House of Representatives, and of the United States
Treasury Department, and who, also, filled the position of consul at Cork,
Ireland from 1882 to 1894


Special Collections at Yale University
Overview
Creator:
Piatt family.
Title:
Piatt Family Papers, 1834-1909 (inclusive).
Physical Description:
1 linear ft.

Biographical Overview:
John James Piatt, the son of John Bear Piatt, was born in Milton, Indiana, on March 1, 1835. John J. Piatt was educated at public schools continuously until he was fourteen and intermittently afterwards. He attended Ohio State University and Kenyon College at times. Moving with his family to Illinois, Piatt submitted one of his poems to a journal and it was published. Soon after, he published a volume entitled, Poems of Two Friends, with William D. Howells. Between 1861 and 1867, he was clerk for the U.S. treasury department. In 1871, he became librarian for the U.S. House of Representatives and in 1882, U.S. consul to Cork, Ireland, where he stayed for a decade. Throughout his life, he published poetry in journals and books. He was married to Sarah Morgan Bryan, also a poet, on June 18, 1861. The couple had at least four children, including Cecil Piatt, a banker who was also appointed to be U.S. consul to Cork. John J. Piatt died February 16, 1917.

Summary:
Correspondence, literary notes, clippings, photographs, and an album of poems and drawings on Edinburgh compiled (1898-1899) by Cecil Piatt. The correspondence consists mainly of letters to John Bear Piatt from family members on the frontier in Montana, Dakota territory, and Kansas. There are also letters from his son, John James Piatt, who served as the United States Consul in Cork, Ireland from 1882-1893.