Piatt History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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England

Early Origins of the Piatt family

The surname Piatt was first found in Cornwall where Symon Pyot was recorded in 1297. Later in Cambridgeshire, John Pyet was recorded in 1308 and in Somerset, William Pyatt was listed in the Subsidy Rolls for 1327. In Hampshire, early records show John Pyard and Nicholas Piarde in the Subsidy Rolls of 1327 and 1332, respectively. 1

"Pyatt was the name of an old family of gentry of Streethay, in the reign of Charles I. Pyott was often the early form of the name. Richard Pyott, whose father was a London alderman, was High Sheriff of the county in 1636." 2

Early History of the Piatt family

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Piatt Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Pyott, Pyatt, Pyot, Pyat, Piatt, Piott, Pyet and many more.

Early Notables of the Piatt family

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Piatt Ranking

In the United States, the name Piatt is the 7,656^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 3

Piatt migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Piatt Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Reune Piatt, who arrived in New Jersey in 1680 4

Contemporary Notables of the name Piatt (post 1700) +

William M. Piatt, American Democratic Party politician, Member of Pennsylvania State Senate 17th District, 1854-56
William Piatt, American politician, Mayor of Cumberland, Maryland, 1871-72
W. H. H. Piatt, American Republican politician, Alternate Delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, 1912
John T. Piatt, American Democratic Party politician, Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Illinois, 1908
John James Piatt (1835-1917), American politician, U.S. Consul in Queenstown, 1884
Greg Piatt, American Republican politician, Member of Oklahoma State House of Representatives 48th District; Elected 2002
Frederick B. Piatt (b. 1873), American politician, Prohibition Candidate for Michigan State Attorney General, 1940, 1942; Prohibition Candidate for Michigan State Senate 23rd District, 1944
Frank H. Piatt, American politician, Member of Pennsylvania State House of Representatives from Wyoming County, 1893-94
Benjamin Piatt Runkle (1836-1916), American officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, one of the seven founders of Sigma Chi fraternity, Chief Superintendent of Freedmen's Affairs in Kentucky, plaintiff in the Supreme Court case Runkle v. United States
Abram Piatt Andrew Jr. (1873-1936), American Republican politician, Director, ; U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1910-12; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 6th District, 1921-36; Delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1924, 1928 5

Citations +

Reaney, P.H and R.M. Wilson, A Dictionary of English Surnames. London: Routledge, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-415-05737-X)
Guppy, Henry Brougham, Homes of Family Names in Great Britain. 1890. Print.
"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, February 2) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html