William McKinney Piatt, Sr. was a prominent surveyor and ran many of the lines for the counties in Pennsylvania. He was the surveyor for Lycoming County in which Brady and Piatt Township are named for his family. He married Mary Brady on April 4, 1805. She was the daughter of Sheriff John Brady. She was the granddaughter of Captain John Brady. The children of William M. Piatt, Sr. and Mary Brady Piatt:
1.Jane Piatt (1806-1851)
2.Mary Piatt (1808-1809)
3.Frances Brady Piatt (1810-1902)
4.John Brady Piatt (1812-1860)
5.Major William McKinney Piatt, Jr. (1814-1889). William McKinney Piatt was born on a farm, and his early education was secured by the light of pine knots on the kitchen floor. His first hundred dollars was earned as a boy of nineteen years boating stone for the Muncy dam on the Susquehanna River. This money was kept for him by his mother, and afterwards used in paying his expenses at Lewisburg Academy, where he did chores for his board, and received a diploma at the end of his course. He followed the profession of his father, and studied civil engineering, and secured a position in the prothonotary's office at Williamsport, Penna. Later he surveyed for the state canal, Stephen C. Foster, who wrote "The Suwanee River", being on the same corps with him at Athens, Penna. After graduating from Lafayette College in Easton, PA with a degree in electrical engineering, William M. Piatt, Jr. studied law under Judge William Elwell . In 1842 he was admitted to the bar and moved to Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, PA. He was elected State senator from his district in 1853, chosen speaker of the Senate in 1855, and re-elected to the Senate by his district. He was for many years a prominent member of the bar as the senior member of the firm of Piatt & Sons and was one of the leaders of the Democratic party in the county. He was chosen by Governor Packer a member of his staff, with the rank of major. The known children of William McKinney Piatt, Jr. and Rebecca Heston McClintock Piatt:
i. Robert McClintock Piatt
ii. Frank Hammond Piatt
iii. JAMES WILSON PIATT, ESQ. (1850-1914) was born at Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, February 9, 1850. He was the son of William M. and Rebecca McClintock Piatt. He was graduated from Lafayette College in 1870. His early life was spent as a student and school teacher. He was afterwards admitted to the bar and practised his profession in Tunkhannock. He was district attorney of Wyoming County from 1875 to 1878. He was a director of the Wyoming National Bank in Tunkhannock and a trustee of the Tunkhannock Cemetery Association. He was an active Mason. Mr. Piatt married Miss Frances Overfield March 4, 1876. He died at his home in Tunkhannock, after a long illness, on November 17, 1914.
iv. Joseph Wood Piatt
6.Catherine Piatt (1816-1847)
7.Hannah M Piatt (1818-1848)
8.Samuel T Piatt (b.1821)
9.Nancy M Piatt (1824-1864)
William McKinney Piatt, Sr. was named in honor of William McKinney, Sr. (1723-1777); Find A Grave Memorial# 56827994, the father in law of his sister, Frances Piatt McKinney (1770-1847) who was the wife of William McKinney, Jr. (1760-1848). William McKinney, Jr., the son of William McKinney, Sr. and Hannah Ten Eyck McKinney, was next to the youngest member of a family of six children (viz., Sarah, who married a Mr. Haggerty, Jemima, Jacob, John, and Cathrine). Though so young, he served as a soldier during the latter part of the American Revolution; and on July 14, 1789, he was married to Miss Frances Piatt, and from this time until he came to Ritchie County, West Virginia, his home was at White Deer Valley, on the Susquehannah River in Pennsylvania.
Frances Piatt McKinney (1770-1847), the sister of William McKinney Piatt, Sr. (1778-1857), on April 21, 1789, when General Washington was enroute from Mr. Vernon to New York City, for his first inauguration to the Presidency, when he reached the old bridge at Trenton over which he had retreated before Lord Cornwallis' army, a few years before, a beautiful triumphal arch under which he was to pass, greeted his eye. This arch had been prepared by the ladies of the town in honor of the occasion, and was supported by thirteen pillars, wreathed with flowers and evergreen, and it bore the inscription, "The Defender of the Mothers will be the Preserver of the Daughters."
Beneath the arch stood a party of thirteen loyal young ladies, laden with baskets of flowers, and as the hero of the Revolution approached, they showered the flowers in his pathway-singing. Frances Piatt was one of this number, and in the presence of the writer, in later years, she sang the little ode, reviving the feeling of her youth and her loyalty to her Chieftain.
[NOTE] The historical site as well as a piece of the original arch are preserved and honored in Trenton, NJ. Captain John Piatt (1740-1819), their father, 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, Sr. 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.
SOURCES: History of Ritchie County, written by Minnie Kendall Lowther, and published in 1910.
Year Book of the Pennsylvania Society, By Pennsylvania Society, New York
Swope's 1905 McKINNEY-BRADY-QUIGLEY
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1.Jane Piatt (1806-1851)
2.Mary Piatt (1808-1809)
3.Frances Brady Piatt (1810-1902)
4.John Brady Piatt (1812-1860)
5.Major William McKinney Piatt, Jr. (1814-1889). William McKinney Piatt was born on a farm, and his early education was secured by the light of pine knots on the kitchen floor. His first hundred dollars was earned as a boy of nineteen years boating stone for the Muncy dam on the Susquehanna River. This money was kept for him by his mother, and afterwards used in paying his expenses at Lewisburg Academy, where he did chores for his board, and received a diploma at the end of his course. He followed the profession of his father, and studied civil engineering, and secured a position in the prothonotary's office at Williamsport, Penna. Later he surveyed for the state canal, Stephen C. Foster, who wrote "The Suwanee River", being on the same corps with him at Athens, Penna. After graduating from Lafayette College in Easton, PA with a degree in electrical engineering, William M. Piatt, Jr. studied law under Judge William Elwell . In 1842 he was admitted to the bar and moved to Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, PA. He was elected State senator from his district in 1853, chosen speaker of the Senate in 1855, and re-elected to the Senate by his district. He was for many years a prominent member of the bar as the senior member of the firm of Piatt & Sons and was one of the leaders of the Democratic party in the county. He was chosen by Governor Packer a member of his staff, with the rank of major. The known children of William McKinney Piatt, Jr. and Rebecca Heston McClintock Piatt:
i. Robert McClintock Piatt
ii. Frank Hammond Piatt
iii. JAMES WILSON PIATT, ESQ. (1850-1914) was born at Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, February 9, 1850. He was the son of William M. and Rebecca McClintock Piatt. He was graduated from Lafayette College in 1870. His early life was spent as a student and school teacher. He was afterwards admitted to the bar and practised his profession in Tunkhannock. He was district attorney of Wyoming County from 1875 to 1878. He was a director of the Wyoming National Bank in Tunkhannock and a trustee of the Tunkhannock Cemetery Association. He was an active Mason. Mr. Piatt married Miss Frances Overfield March 4, 1876. He died at his home in Tunkhannock, after a long illness, on November 17, 1914.
iv. Joseph Wood Piatt
6.Catherine Piatt (1816-1847)
7.Hannah M Piatt (1818-1848)
8.Samuel T Piatt (b.1821)
9.Nancy M Piatt (1824-1864)
William McKinney Piatt, Sr. was named in honor of William McKinney, Sr. (1723-1777); Find A Grave Memorial# 56827994, the father in law of his sister, Frances Piatt McKinney (1770-1847) who was the wife of William McKinney, Jr. (1760-1848). William McKinney, Jr., the son of William McKinney, Sr. and Hannah Ten Eyck McKinney, was next to the youngest member of a family of six children (viz., Sarah, who married a Mr. Haggerty, Jemima, Jacob, John, and Cathrine). Though so young, he served as a soldier during the latter part of the American Revolution; and on July 14, 1789, he was married to Miss Frances Piatt, and from this time until he came to Ritchie County, West Virginia, his home was at White Deer Valley, on the Susquehannah River in Pennsylvania.
Frances Piatt McKinney (1770-1847), the sister of William McKinney Piatt, Sr. (1778-1857), on April 21, 1789, when General Washington was enroute from Mr. Vernon to New York City, for his first inauguration to the Presidency, when he reached the old bridge at Trenton over which he had retreated before Lord Cornwallis' army, a few years before, a beautiful triumphal arch under which he was to pass, greeted his eye. This arch had been prepared by the ladies of the town in honor of the occasion, and was supported by thirteen pillars, wreathed with flowers and evergreen, and it bore the inscription, "The Defender of the Mothers will be the Preserver of the Daughters."
Beneath the arch stood a party of thirteen loyal young ladies, laden with baskets of flowers, and as the hero of the Revolution approached, they showered the flowers in his pathway-singing. Frances Piatt was one of this number, and in the presence of the writer, in later years, she sang the little ode, reviving the feeling of her youth and her loyalty to her Chieftain.
[NOTE] The historical site as well as a piece of the original arch are preserved and honored in Trenton, NJ. Captain John Piatt (1740-1819), their father, 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, Sr. 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.
SOURCES: History of Ritchie County, written by Minnie Kendall Lowther, and published in 1910.
Year Book of the Pennsylvania Society, By Pennsylvania Society, New York
Swope's 1905 McKINNEY-BRADY-QUIGLEY
Angelfire.com
William McKinney Piatt, Sr. was a prominent surveyor and ran many of the lines for the counties in Pennsylvania. He was the surveyor for Lycoming County in which Brady and Piatt Township are named for his family. He married Mary Brady on April 4, 1805. She was the daughter of Sheriff John Brady. She was the granddaughter of Captain John Brady. The children of William M. Piatt, Sr. and Mary Brady Piatt:
1.Jane Piatt (1806-1851)
2.Mary Piatt (1808-1809)
3.Frances Brady Piatt (1810-1902)
4.John Brady Piatt (1812-1860)
5.Major William McKinney Piatt, Jr. (1814-1889). William McKinney Piatt was born on a farm, and his early education was secured by the light of pine knots on the kitchen floor. His first hundred dollars was earned as a boy of nineteen years boating stone for the Muncy dam on the Susquehanna River. This money was kept for him by his mother, and afterwards used in paying his expenses at Lewisburg Academy, where he did chores for his board, and received a diploma at the end of his course. He followed the profession of his father, and studied civil engineering, and secured a position in the prothonotary's office at Williamsport, Penna. Later he surveyed for the state canal, Stephen C. Foster, who wrote "The Suwanee River", being on the same corps with him at Athens, Penna. After graduating from Lafayette College in Easton, PA with a degree in electrical engineering, William M. Piatt, Jr. studied law under Judge William Elwell . In 1842 he was admitted to the bar and moved to Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, PA. He was elected State senator from his district in 1853, chosen speaker of the Senate in 1855, and re-elected to the Senate by his district. He was for many years a prominent member of the bar as the senior member of the firm of Piatt & Sons and was one of the leaders of the Democratic party in the county. He was chosen by Governor Packer a member of his staff, with the rank of major. The known children of William McKinney Piatt, Jr. and Rebecca Heston McClintock Piatt:
i. Robert McClintock Piatt
ii. Frank Hammond Piatt
iii. JAMES WILSON PIATT, ESQ. (1850-1914) was born at Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, February 9, 1850. He was the son of William M. and Rebecca McClintock Piatt. He was graduated from Lafayette College in 1870. His early life was spent as a student and school teacher. He was afterwards admitted to the bar and practised his profession in Tunkhannock. He was district attorney of Wyoming County from 1875 to 1878. He was a director of the Wyoming National Bank in Tunkhannock and a trustee of the Tunkhannock Cemetery Association. He was an active Mason. Mr. Piatt married Miss Frances Overfield March 4, 1876. He died at his home in Tunkhannock, after a long illness, on November 17, 1914.
iv. Joseph Wood Piatt
6.Catherine Piatt (1816-1847)
7.Hannah M Piatt (1818-1848)
8.Samuel T Piatt (b.1821)
9.Nancy M Piatt (1824-1864)
William McKinney Piatt, Sr. was named in honor of William McKinney, Sr. (1723-1777); Find A Grave Memorial# 56827994, the father in law of his sister, Frances Piatt McKinney (1770-1847) who was the wife of William McKinney, Jr. (1760-1848). William McKinney, Jr., the son of William McKinney, Sr. and Hannah Ten Eyck McKinney, was next to the youngest member of a family of six children (viz., Sarah, who married a Mr. Haggerty, Jemima, Jacob, John, and Cathrine). Though so young, he served as a soldier during the latter part of the American Revolution; and on July 14, 1789, he was married to Miss Frances Piatt, and from this time until he came to Ritchie County, West Virginia, his home was at White Deer Valley, on the Susquehannah River in Pennsylvania.
Frances Piatt McKinney (1770-1847), the sister of William McKinney Piatt, Sr. (1778-1857), on April 21, 1789, when General Washington was enroute from Mr. Vernon to New York City, for his first inauguration to the Presidency, when he reached the old bridge at Trenton over which he had retreated before Lord Cornwallis' army, a few years before, a beautiful triumphal arch under which he was to pass, greeted his eye. This arch had been prepared by the ladies of the town in honor of the occasion, and was supported by thirteen pillars, wreathed with flowers and evergreen, and it bore the inscription, "The Defender of the Mothers will be the Preserver of the Daughters."
Beneath the arch stood a party of thirteen loyal young ladies, laden with baskets of flowers, and as the hero of the Revolution approached, they showered the flowers in his pathway-singing. Frances Piatt was one of this number, and in the presence of the writer, in later years, she sang the little ode, reviving the feeling of her youth and her loyalty to her Chieftain.
[NOTE] The historical site as well as a piece of the original arch are preserved and honored in Trenton, NJ. Captain John Piatt (1740-1819), their father, 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, Sr. 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.
SOURCES: History of Ritchie County, written by Minnie Kendall Lowther, and published in 1910.
Year Book of the Pennsylvania Society, By Pennsylvania Society, New York
Swope's 1905 McKINNEY-BRADY-QUIGLEY
Angelfire.com
1.Jane Piatt (1806-1851)
2.Mary Piatt (1808-1809)
3.Frances Brady Piatt (1810-1902)
4.John Brady Piatt (1812-1860)
5.Major William McKinney Piatt, Jr. (1814-1889). William McKinney Piatt was born on a farm, and his early education was secured by the light of pine knots on the kitchen floor. His first hundred dollars was earned as a boy of nineteen years boating stone for the Muncy dam on the Susquehanna River. This money was kept for him by his mother, and afterwards used in paying his expenses at Lewisburg Academy, where he did chores for his board, and received a diploma at the end of his course. He followed the profession of his father, and studied civil engineering, and secured a position in the prothonotary's office at Williamsport, Penna. Later he surveyed for the state canal, Stephen C. Foster, who wrote "The Suwanee River", being on the same corps with him at Athens, Penna. After graduating from Lafayette College in Easton, PA with a degree in electrical engineering, William M. Piatt, Jr. studied law under Judge William Elwell . In 1842 he was admitted to the bar and moved to Tunkhannock, Wyoming County, PA. He was elected State senator from his district in 1853, chosen speaker of the Senate in 1855, and re-elected to the Senate by his district. He was for many years a prominent member of the bar as the senior member of the firm of Piatt & Sons and was one of the leaders of the Democratic party in the county. He was chosen by Governor Packer a member of his staff, with the rank of major. The known children of William McKinney Piatt, Jr. and Rebecca Heston McClintock Piatt:
i. Robert McClintock Piatt
ii. Frank Hammond Piatt
iii. JAMES WILSON PIATT, ESQ. (1850-1914) was born at Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, February 9, 1850. He was the son of William M. and Rebecca McClintock Piatt. He was graduated from Lafayette College in 1870. His early life was spent as a student and school teacher. He was afterwards admitted to the bar and practised his profession in Tunkhannock. He was district attorney of Wyoming County from 1875 to 1878. He was a director of the Wyoming National Bank in Tunkhannock and a trustee of the Tunkhannock Cemetery Association. He was an active Mason. Mr. Piatt married Miss Frances Overfield March 4, 1876. He died at his home in Tunkhannock, after a long illness, on November 17, 1914.
iv. Joseph Wood Piatt
6.Catherine Piatt (1816-1847)
7.Hannah M Piatt (1818-1848)
8.Samuel T Piatt (b.1821)
9.Nancy M Piatt (1824-1864)
William McKinney Piatt, Sr. was named in honor of William McKinney, Sr. (1723-1777); Find A Grave Memorial# 56827994, the father in law of his sister, Frances Piatt McKinney (1770-1847) who was the wife of William McKinney, Jr. (1760-1848). William McKinney, Jr., the son of William McKinney, Sr. and Hannah Ten Eyck McKinney, was next to the youngest member of a family of six children (viz., Sarah, who married a Mr. Haggerty, Jemima, Jacob, John, and Cathrine). Though so young, he served as a soldier during the latter part of the American Revolution; and on July 14, 1789, he was married to Miss Frances Piatt, and from this time until he came to Ritchie County, West Virginia, his home was at White Deer Valley, on the Susquehannah River in Pennsylvania.
Frances Piatt McKinney (1770-1847), the sister of William McKinney Piatt, Sr. (1778-1857), on April 21, 1789, when General Washington was enroute from Mr. Vernon to New York City, for his first inauguration to the Presidency, when he reached the old bridge at Trenton over which he had retreated before Lord Cornwallis' army, a few years before, a beautiful triumphal arch under which he was to pass, greeted his eye. This arch had been prepared by the ladies of the town in honor of the occasion, and was supported by thirteen pillars, wreathed with flowers and evergreen, and it bore the inscription, "The Defender of the Mothers will be the Preserver of the Daughters."
Beneath the arch stood a party of thirteen loyal young ladies, laden with baskets of flowers, and as the hero of the Revolution approached, they showered the flowers in his pathway-singing. Frances Piatt was one of this number, and in the presence of the writer, in later years, she sang the little ode, reviving the feeling of her youth and her loyalty to her Chieftain.
[NOTE] The historical site as well as a piece of the original arch are preserved and honored in Trenton, NJ. Captain John Piatt (1740-1819), their father, 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, Sr. 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.
SOURCES: History of Ritchie County, written by Minnie Kendall Lowther, and published in 1910.
Year Book of the Pennsylvania Society, By Pennsylvania Society, New York
Swope's 1905 McKINNEY-BRADY-QUIGLEY
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