When Samuel Pyatt was born about 1687, in Piscataway, Middlesex, New Jersey, British Colonial America, his father, Rene Piatt, was 39 and his mother, Elizabeth Sheffield, was 34. He married Mrs Pyatt about 1707, in United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter.
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English (mainly Staffordshire): nickname either from Middle English piot ‘magpie’ (Old French pïot, a diminutive of Old French pie), commonly used to denote a chattering woman, or alternatively from an unrecorded Middle English pyard, an uncomplimentary term derived from the same Old French word + -(h)ard. Compare Pye .
Variant of Piatt , a surname of French and Walloon origin.
History: This surname (see 2 above) is listed along with the variant Piatt in the (US) National Huguenot Society's register of qualified Huguenot ancestors.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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