Valentin Pierrat
Research Sources
#1
Salt Lake film 1075494 filmed in Epinal, France 1974
La Bresse, France Church Records 1686 – 1750
Valentin Pierrat born 21 Mar 1750 Valentin father
Barbe Aubert mother
#2
Archives National, Paris, France
Colonies D2c32: Controles, Lauzun’s Legion, 1780 – 1783 provided by Robert A. Selig
Enlistment record into Volontaires Etrangers De Lauzun Legion
Valentin Pierrat father Valentin
mother Barbe Haubert, born in Latresse, providence
Lorraine, jurisdiction Remiremont, age 27 years, enlisted 13 Jan 1779
#3
HR24A-D20.1 Committee Papers House of US Representatives
24th Congress Mar. 3,1836
Copies of original discharge papers obtained in 1991 by IVP
Pierrat, Valentine (8E3/1/26)
Age 30 years, Canonnier in Blondeau Company, Second Legion
Willmington, DE 1st of May 1783.
#4
Appendix 3: Soldiers of the Volontaires Etrangers De Lauzun who did not return
to France when the Legion sailed from Philadelpha in May 1783, pg 190 and
footnotes 129 and 130
Pierrat, Valentin
Enlistment 1779 Jan 13 to Discharge 1783 May 1.
Pierrat was discharged par grace and after he paid 150 livres to buy off time
remaining in his enlistment.
#5
Maryland Marriages, 1778 – 1800
Marriage Licenses Returns of Rev. John Hagerty, Scharf Papers, MS. 1999, at MHS
Compiled by Robert Barnes, Genealogical Pulblishing Co., Inc., 1979 Baltimore
Peret, Valentine
6 Nov 1791, Elizabeth Earce
18 BA-3
#6
St. Pauls Prodestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland
Original records are in the possession of the Maryland Historical Society and only
copies have been searched. I have seen four different versions of the record for
Valentine and Elizabeth spellings.
Valentine Perret married Elizabeth Earee, Nov 6, 1791 by Rev, Bend.
Issue Barbara and James.
Barbara Peret, born Jan 10, 1793: bap. May 2, 1794: dau. of Valentine and
Elizabeth, Vol. 1, pg 286.
James Peret, born Apr 16, 1795; bap. Nov 7, 1795, son of Valentine and
Elizabeth. Vol 1, pg 312.
The unusual copies are in the Harris file and Baltimore County Records of St Paul’s
Parish by Reamy, v.1, 1988:
John Earce of Edward Morris and Elizabeth. She is now Elizabeth Peret.
Born Dec 14, 1793; Bap May 2, 1794
Another copy of the original records has:
John of Edward Morris and Elizabeth Earce – now Peret. John born Dec 14,
(handwritten 1793). A genealogist I hired viewed this copy and believes
this was the record that others above copied with a 1793 date. John’s own census
and the Valentine bible state a birth of 1790. This would suggest that John was
adopted when Valentine married Elizabeth in 1791 or may have been son of Elizabeth.
Asa Burton Pieratt, born 1848, gr. Grandson of Valentine, copied a record
left by Valentine in 1929 and John Dimmit in 1965, family bible in possession
of Virginia Duff of Mt. Sterling, KY:
The ages of Valentine Peiratts children
John Peiratt was born the 13th day of December 1790.
Barbara Peiratt the 10th Jan 1793
James Peiratt was born the 16th day of Apr 1795
Valentine Peiratt and his loving consort, Elizabeth Peiratt.
#7.
Maryland, Births and Christenings Index, 1662 – 1911 FHL Film 13696]
John Morris, male, birth 14 Dec 1793, Christening 2 May 1794, age 0
Saint Paul Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore, Maryland
Father’s name Edward Morris
Mother’s name Elizth Earce [Elizth Peret
FHL Film 13696]
#8.
Bath County History
Clayton Genealogical Library, Houston, TX
John Owings of Baltimore purchased the Slate Furnace just 3 miles south
of Owingsville and sent his son Thomas D. Owings to manage it. The Owings
were also members of the St. Paul Protestant Episcopal Church. He brought
skilled workers with him from Baltimore in 1795. Three Bourbon Furnace
ledgers and one account book, dated Jan 15, 1796 – Nov 30, 1797 are in
the East Library archives at University of Kentucky, Lexington. 1M87W1,
email SCLRELSV.UKY.EDU
(check for Valentine)
#9.
History of Kentucky, edition 8-B, 1888. Biographical sketches – Hon. Raney M.
Pieratt.
“The great-grandfather of the R.M. Pieratt, Valentine moved to Bath
County, KY. Worked as a foundryman at the furnace at Slate Creek.”
#10.
Montgomery County Tax Lists
1797
1798
1799
1800
1801
1802
1803
1804
1805
1806
1807
Sep. 4
no tax book
Jun 17
May 26
Jun 20
Jul 9
Apr 27
Jun 25
1808 Jul
1809 Aug 24
1810
1811
Pyret, Alentine
1 white over 21
0 horses
Peratt, Valentine
1 white over 21
book 2, p 19 Perat, Valentine
1 white over 21
p. 37
Peratt, Valentine
1 white over 21
1 horse
no Peratt
No. 2
Peratt, Valentine
1 white over 21
2 horses
No. 2, p. 31
Peratt, Valentine
1 white over 21
4 horses
No. 2, p. 28
Peratt, Valentine
1 white over 21
3 horses
No., 2
Peratt, Valentine
1 white over 21
4 horses
p 31 Peratt, Valentine
white males >21
5 horses
White males <21
No. 2, p 24
Peratt, Valentine
1 > 21, 1 < 21>
4 horses
nd
Peratt, Valentine
100 acres 2 rate
watercourse Slate
No land record in Mt. Sterling Courthouse.
Perat, Valentine
1 > 21, 0 > 16
4 horses
Bath Co. formed
#11.
Federal Census
1800 Montgomery Co., Aug 22
1810 Montgomery Co.
Valentine Perat
Volentine Perat
#12.
Bath County Tax Lists
1811 to 1824 Valentine appeared on tax lists.
#13.
Marriage consent of son James to Sally Shultz March 14, 1814
Valentin Pierrat (hand signature) wit. by John Shultz and John Peratt
#14.
Bath County Court Records April 1821
Summons for Valentine Peratt to appear with others about their list of
taxable property for the year 1819 – 1820.
#15.
Judge Richard French, Jan. 18, 1836, Congressman from Mt. Sterling, KY made
a motion to the 24th Congress for a Revolutionary War Pension on behalf of
Valentine Pierrat. As evidence of his service, discharge papers by the French
Government were submitted. Pension was not approved and papers were
returned to Richard French to be transmitted to Valentin Pierrat May 29, 1848.
Judge Richard French of Mt. Sterling, Eleventh Congressional District. Born
Madison Co., 1792. Member of Legislature from Clark Co., in 1835, elected as a
member of Congress. 1840 defeated for Governor. Lawyer – died in Kenton Co., 1854.
#16.
List of Private claims presenter to the House of Representatives of the United
States from the 1st to the 31st Congress
Peiratt, Valentine
Revolutionary pension 24 Congress
Session 1
Page of journal 216 Rev. Pensions committee
Mar 3, 1836
Adverse Report
Laid on table
#17.
Mt. Sterling Advocate 1947,
Harry Mills, “early families of Montgomery Co., KY
Valentine was married twice. John, Barbara and James were by his first wife and
Mariah, 1799, Elizabeth 1802, George, 1804, Aery, 1806, and Henry, 1808 were
By Elizabeth Aery.
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