This couple is easy to confuse with William's nephew, William Piatt, born January 29, 1795, in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania (son of John and Elizabeth Cline Piatt) and died January 6, 1876 Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, who was married to Mary's sister, Hannah Brady, born April 2, 1799, and who died April 26, 1847, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. Their other sister, Charlotte Brady, born May 18, 1808 was married to H. C. Piatt (son of John and Elizabeth Cline Piatt). H C and Charlotte Brady Piatt had no issue).
The known children of William Piatt and Mary Brady are:
William Piatt was a prominent surveyor, and ran the lines for many of the counties in Pennsylvania. He was surveyor for Lycoming county in which are Brady and Piatt townships, named for this family. He took an active part in a number of public enterprises, and resided in Lycoming county. He is buried beside his wife in the graveyard at White Deer Church, Union County, Pennsylvania.
William appeared on the 1830 census in Washington Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania as follows:
They were enumerated on pg 208 #415 (Ancestry.com image 1/20; sometimes indexed as Elkland which is on the same page) next door to his brother's widow, Elizabeth Cline Piatt. Their other neighbors were Peter Beber, Jacob Frock, William Piatt Jr (son of John and Elizabeth), William Sedam, Jane Sedam, Robert Hamelton, John Shutt, Susannah Whitsett, Alexand B???rd, James Welleschultree, Amos Addes, George Darling, Robert Fordman, Gebiral Yount, John Nickel, Francis Hamelton, Moses Hood, * , Cornelius Lamilson, Joseph Lamilson, James Russell, and Margaret Oakey. Also in Washington Township was Rachel Piatt on pg 209 and Mary Foresman Piatt (widow of John and Elizabeth's son). This would appear to be William (male 50-60); his sons, Samuel (male 5-10); Brady (male 15-20); and William (male 20-30); daughters, Nancy (female 5-10), Hannah and Catherine (female 10-15), Jane and Francis (female 20-30); and wife, Mary (female 40-50).
By the 1840 census he appears as follows i Washington Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania:
On the 1850 census William's household appears as follows in Washington Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania:
Also in Washington Township were James B Piatt and William Piatt Jr (William's nephew) and the James H Whitson family which included Wiliam's great-neice, Catherine Whitson, daughter of John and Mary Foresman Piatt. In Williamsport Township were Robert Piatt and John Piatt who were sons of John and Mary Foresman Piatt. My searches of the 1850 census index turned up no matching individual for Samuel T Piatt. I also cannot find William and Rebecca Piatt in 1850. I believe they were married by this time as I did not locate Rebecca McClintock with her McClintock family.
By the 1860 census, I find Mary living with her youngest daughter and family in McEwensville, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, as follows:
This family was enumerated 771/758 pg 368 (Ancestry.com image 1/10). Edward Derickson and William Hayes were next door neighbors. I'm sure the Catherine Manger age 7 in 1850 is the Catharine Mengas age 17 on this census. Was she a family member?
In, "Union County PA: History: Annals of the Buffalo Valley by John Blair Lynn" (Pg 376)....."John Brady, the third, died several years ago. James, the youngest, died in Franklin county, in 1829. He was a man of fine intellect, and was thought to be the most talented of the family. Of the daughters of Sheriff John Brady, Mary married William Piatt, uncle of Judge Piatt, of Brady township, Lycoming county; Hannah married Judge Piatt; Charlotte married H. C. Piatt; Jane married Roland Stoughton; her descendants, Mrs. Lyndall's children, still live in Lewisburg; Nancy married George B. Eckert, of Lewisburg.
I am indebted to O. N. Worden, late of the Lewisburg Chronicle, for the following narrative he took down at the time. He says: In June,
1857, I took the following notes of a conversation I had with Mrs.
Mary Brady Piatt, aged seventy-two, born in 1785:
"My father was a brother of Sam Brady, the Indian fighter. I saw him once. He was then on a visit to my father's, at Sunbury. I went
with them over to Northumberland. On the way over, my father asked Sam
if he could jump as well as ever? He said he could not, but coming to a
high fence in a few minutes, he sprung clear over it, with but little
effort. 'I never could do that,' said my father. 'You could, if obliged to,' said Sam.
Sam killed three Indians after peace was declared, and a reward of
$300 was offered for his apprehension. Shortly after, he was sitting
with a tavern-keeper, in West Virginia, when two strangers, Virginians, rode up, alighted, and asked for horse feed and dinner.
They laid their pistols upon a table, near which sat Sam, rolling his
rifle upon his knees. In the course of conversation with the land-
lord, they found out that he knew Brady, and that he lived in that
region, and was very popular. They told the landlord that they had
come to arrest him, and if he gave them assistance, they would share
the reward with him. The landlord said they could never take him, nor
could any one take him alive. They declared they could. 'I am Sam
Brady,' said the man at the table. They were startled. They looked at
him for a minute, and, estimating his power, waived the attempt.
After dinner, they went to the table to get their pistols. Brady said
they could not have those pistols, nor could the landlord's entreaty
or their threats prevail. 'Go back to your homes, and tell them Sam
Brady took your pistols,' was all the answer he made. He afterwards
gave their pistols to his sons.
"After awhile he delivered himself up for trial at Pittsburgh. He (Pg 378)was defended by James Ross. Brady laid the scalps on the bar. 'There they are; I killed them.' A great many women attended this trial, or rather men in women's clothes, ready to rescue him, if convicted; but there was no occasion for their intervention."
Mrs. Piatt, like her brother, the late William Perry Brady,
remained a Federalist to the last. She said when Washington was burned,
through the inefficiency of a granny President, her blood boiled, and she
longed to go that she might shoot at least one British invader.
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