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THE PLATT LINEAGE
A GENEALOGICAL EESEARCH
AID RECORD

By G. lewis PLA-TT, S.T.D.

FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION

NEW TOKK:
THOMAS WHITTAKEE
1891

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CONTENTS.

l.-

-Why?

5

2.-

—Our Fathers.

6

3.-

—The Twilight Outlook.

10

•1.-

—The Clear Day — Eichakd 1st.

13

5.-

—His Daughters.

19

6.-

— Nokwalk Branch.

23

7.-

—Older Huntington Branch.

29

8.-

—Younger Huntington Branch.

43

9.-

—Dr. Zophar Branch.

55

10.-

—Josiah Branch.

63

11.-

—Younger Milford Branch.

75

12.-

—Fairfield Branch.

81

13.-

— Eedding Branch.

95

14.-

— Plattsburg Branch.

99

15.-

—Judge Jonas Branch.

117

16.-

—Oswego Branch.

127

17.-

—Sharon Branch.

133

18.-

— Ehinebeck Branch.

141

19.-

- Poughkeepsie Branch.

147

20.-

—Winchester Branch.

155

21.-

—New Hayen Branch.

161

22.-

— Meriden Branch.

167

23.-

—Washington Branch.

175

24-

—Gideon Branch.

179

25.-

— Waterbuey Branch.

185

26.-

—Westchester Branch.

191

iv CONTENTS.
27.— Tioga Branch. 19^
28. — Steuben Branch. 207
29. — Scioto Branch. 211
30.— Le Eoy Branch. 219
31. — Lake Shore Branch. 223
32. — Fort Dodge Branch. 233
33. — Jersey Branch. 237
34. — Burlington Branch. 243
35. — binghampton branch. 249
36. — Vermont Branch. 253
37. — QuBECHE Branch. 259
38. — Bethel Branch. 263
39. — Danbury Branch. 267
40. — Saybrook Branch. 273
41. — Scranton Branch. 281
42. — Norwich Branch. - - 287
43.— Tivoli Branch. 293
44. — Western Branches. 299
45. — Huntington Marriages, Baptisms, and
OTHER Data. 303
46. — MiLFOED Eecords. -; 313
47. — English Branches. 327
48. — Valuable English Data. 335
49. — Ancestral Tablets, and Inscriptions on
Tombstones. 345
50. —Facts, Traditions and Dates. 355
51. — Index op Platt Names. 373
52. — Index of Collateral Branches. 387

I.
WHY?

Wherefore ? Let Lord Macaulay answer when he
says that those "Persons who take no pride in the
noble acliievements of their ancestors, will never
achieve anything worthy to be remembered with
pride by their remote descendants." When an
angry dispute arose in the House of Lords between
a peer of noble lineage and one of a new creation,
it is reported that Bishop Warburton made this re
mark, " That high birth was a thing which he never
knew any one disparage, except those who had it not,
and he never knew any one to make a boast of it who
had anything else to be proud of." In the spirit of
these passages, is it not a duty to aid in preserving
any worthy memorials of one's ancestry and kindred ?
In this instance, the writer testifies, it has been a
special and an absorbing pleasure. He was led to
undertake this work by finding a manuscript of a
relative highly esteemed, in which there were many
interesting details gathered together some twenty-
five years since. He thought a full record would be
valuable as a matter of history and awaken interest
in family groups now widely extended.

II.
OUR FATHERS.

Who were they ? Where did they live ? and what
inspiriting influence for good have they left their de
scendants, as a help in life? These enquiries^ will
find some answer in these pages. Yet, imperfec
tion must iu some degree mark any work of this
kind, for the heads of new families go out from
every home circle, like the rays of light from a
luminous centre. What has been done herein may
stimulate others to a more extended research, and
to a more complete record. There has been a spe
cial effort to secure accuracy in the details, so far as
they go- The writer or compiler, like one of Virgil's
characters, " Patulae reenbaus snb-tegmiue fagi,"
has been reclining at his leisure, looking up at the
wide-spreading branches of the fahiily-tree, which
has been planted in our soil now over two hundred
and fifty years. The result of his studies, he hopes,
will interest those who are kindred, and who bear
the family name. Good examples among our fore
fathers must have an excellent influence among
thoughtful descendants. He would not have spent
the time and labor he has, if he did .not think his
work would be welcomed by large numbers, and be

OUR FATHERS. 7
the means of much good iu tlie widening circle of a
numerous kindred.
His authorities are the New England Genealogical
Dictionary, town records, church records, wills and
deeds, admirable papers by the late Prof. Johnson T.
Platt, of the Yale Law School ; also letters with full
details from Prof. North, of Hamilton College ; from
Frank H Platt, Esq., of New York ; from Dr. T.
Hull Platt, of Lake wood, N. J.; from Jonah H. Platt,
Esq., and tlie Hon. Henry C. Platt, of New York ;
from Dr. Walter B. Platt, of Baltimore ; also from
Messrs. Joseph C. Platt, of Waterford; J. Cheney
Platt, of New York ; James Augustus Platt, of Bucks
County, Pa.; Jesse Platt, of Moiitclair; Cyrus Platt,
of Delaware, O.; Lewis C. Platt, of White Plains ; C.
H. Platt, of New York ; and H. C. Platt and N. G.
Pond, of Milford. Many data have been received
from Mrs. C. P. Underwood, of Auburn ; from Mrs.
L. J. Atwood, of Waterbury ; from Mrs. Mary P.
Parmele, of Greenwich, Ct.; from Mrs. J. G. Mitch
ell, of Columbus, O.; from Miss Anua Platt, of
Washington, D. C; and from Miss A. E. Platt, of
Marcellus, N. Y., beside valuable details from many
other correspondents who have kindly aided in these
researches. Indeed there is a large number of others
whose names might be given, who have sent import
ant data to aid in fllling out this extended family
record ; to all whom the writer thus wishes to ac
knowledge his indebtedness and convey his thanks.
Many correspondents have expressed great pleasure
that the work has been undertaken, and they have
spared no pains in helping to make it full and accurate.

8 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Mrs. A. C. Maltbie, of Syracuse, N. Y., has kindly
sent her " Eescript," entitled, " Down Seven Gene
rations," treating of the genealogy of the Platt and
Treadwell families, and giving valuable details,
specially in the line of Judge Charles Platt, of
Plattsburg. It has materially helped the writer,
aided by valuable communications from Mrs. S. H.
Bailey, of Plattsburg, and Mrs. Diell, of Hamilton,
N. Y. Mrs. Maltbie's work is very creditable, and
he is glad to say that she is among the first who
have sought to put in order and preserve in print
the records of the family. She is a grand-daughter
of Judge Charles Platt.
" The Platt Chart," by the late Mrs. A. M. Eed-
field, of Syracuse, a cousin of Mrs. Maltby, kindly
sent to the writer by Mrs. M. T. Smith, her daugh
ter, is the first extended effort to preserve the fam
ily records. It was photographed, and it has been
widely circulated. By the aid of a magnifying
glass it opens to the view many interesting details.
It has been a help in these researches.
Eespecting the correctness of the details, it
should here be remarked, that this will depend
largely upon the accuracy of those who have kindly
contributed many of the names, dates and events.
Discrepancies, sometimes observed, have been care
fully examined, and if possible, reconciled or cor
rected. The tracing of the ancestral lines has
chiefly been by the aid of some public or legal re
cord. Mr. Charles W. Platt, of Montclair, N. J., a
student in the Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.,
has given me many valuable extracts from rare

OUE FATHERS.

books in the college library, respecting the English
branches of the family, for' which I feel greatly in
debted. They will aid those who wish to trace the
ancestral lines in the mother country.

III.

THE TWILIGHT OUT-LOOK.

Sir Hugh Platt, who lived in the days of Shaks-
peare and Bacon, was a noted agriculturist in Eng
land. He wrote several treatises on subjects suited
ta his taste and growing out of his engagements.
He was very successful in the culture of fruits.
There is an interesting sketch of him in Donald G.
Mitchell's " Wet Days at Edgewood." He has left
on record this eloquent passage : " That rare and
peerless plant the grape." The writer of these
memorials has often, in humorous moments, re
garded himself as a lineal descendant of Sir Hugh,
for the special reason that he has in his grounds
more than eight hundred grapevines, most of which
he has propagated and planted himself. The old
chronicles have not been consulted, and their testi
mony cannot be brought in to decide this family
question ! It doubtless will remain among the un
determined problems of the past. Moreover, we
are conscious that the age of fable precedes the age
of fact. Therefore we look for remarkable nara-
tives in the dim twilight period. Herodotus and

THE TWILIGHT OUTLOOK. 11
Livy tell many a classic story before they get into
the realities of history. It is generally conceded, too,
that Plutarch had great inventive powers. This in
spiriting fancy respecting lineage, may hence not be
out of place in a record like this. Indeed, were all
facts known, it might prove, in the fatherland, that
the family there, more fully than in this country,
could trace their origin to a single individual. In
this connection it is well to say that there are sev-
eriil traditions. One, that the first ancestor came
from Poland, another, that one branch originated in
Germany. True, our forefathers were Britons,
supplemented by the Saxons, and these reenforced
by the Normans under William the Conqueror.
The Teutonic element, hence, is there in any view.
But history pushed too far back often runs into
myth or story. We propose to speak mainly in the
line of authenticated fact.
The name was sometimes written with one " t," an
economy which has not been followed in our extrav
agant day, by the later descendants. Those who
claim a German origin, say that it was first spelled
Platz, which then became Plats, and Platts, then
fully anglicized Platte, and finally as we now have
it. In the Norman French it was Pradt, then Pratt.
In each instance it means an open, level piece of
land, showing a unity of origin.* Thus from the start
it seems to have an agricultural outlook. This is
primitive. By a slight change it might come from
the German " Blatt," a leaf. Leaves and flowers
have much to do with the fruit of the circling years.
* Lozelle J. Platts, Deep River, Ot.

12 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
In the old English records the name is written
" Playter." The termination " er," is German, in
dicating activity, as we have in the Saxon, helper,
maker, doer. The Greek word, plasso or platto, to
do, might suggest a Helenic origin to our family
name. It is an honor to be ranked among the
world's workers.

IV.

THE CLEAR DAY.

Eichard First.

COAT or ARMS.

It is well known that our family
name is quite frequently found in
various parts of England. There
is good evidence that coats of arms
have been granted to six or seven
of the familj' from the time of Ed
ward IIL, 1326, to the twenty-first
year of Queen Elizabeth's reign.
In the records of the Heraldry
Office in London, it is called " the ancient and honor
able family of Platt." The first ancestor of by far the
most of those who bear the name in the United States,
was Eichard Platt, who came from the very heart of
the old country. We have reason to think that he
was born in the same year that Queen Elizabeth died,
if the following statement really applies to him:
" Eichard Platt, son of Joseph Platt, was baptized
Sept. 28, 1603." This is claimed as an extract from
the parish records of Bovingdon, a village near

14 the platt lineage.
Hertford, Eng. There are more Eichards than one.
Some have thought that Eichard 1st, as we shallcall
him, came from Huntingdon or Norfolk, Eng.,
but the meagre evidence does not establish either of
these statements as a certainty. Indeed, the research
-in England has been quite limited. The late Prof.
Platt, of the Yale Law School, w'rote a few weeks
before his death, that " a certain Eichard Platt
founded a free Grammar School between Oldenham
and Elstow, in Hertfordshire, during the last decade
of the sixteenth century, and it is now in successful
operation, or was so quite lately, on the original
foundation. This is shown in Causick's History of
Hertfordshire. There is also a description of the
school in Cluterbuch's History of Hertfordshire."
The precise locality of our ancestor's birth hence
may be a question that needs more thorough re
search. But our progenitor, Eichard Platt came to this
country in 1638, and landed at New Haven. In the
records of the colony of New Haven we read that
Eichard Platt had eighty-four acres of land in and
around New Haven. In the Milford records we read
that he was enrolled among its first settlers, Nov. 20,
1639, having four in his family. " He had probably
brought with him from England his children, Mary,
John, Isaac and Sarah ; for his first child bap
tized in Milford, by the record, was Epene-
tus, July 12, 1640. Subsequently were baptized,
Hannah, October 1, 1643 ; Josiah, 1645, and
Joseph in 1649." After his arrival in New Haven,
Eichard Platt acquired possession, among others, of

the clear day. 15
several acres of land in what is now the best part of
the Elm City ; (it was on the south side of Chapel
street, near College street, adjoining the ground of
Peter Prudden,) in what was called the " Hertford
shire quarter." But the project of founding the
township of Milford, nine miles west of thecitj^, was
soon after matured, and he threw in his lot among
the sixty-six who formed themselves iuto a church
organization, August 22, 1639, before they departed
from New Haven, and proceeded to carry out the en
terprise of settling that flourishing township. Eichard
Platt is on the records as a landowner. His name is
on the list of free-planters made out in 1646 ; he was
chosen a deacon in the first church in Milford in 1669.
It is recorded that his wife, Mary, died in January,
1676. His daughters, Mary and Sarah, too, probably
died before the father made his will, in 1683, for in
it he makes bequests to their children instead of to
them. He leaves something to each of his five sons
in addition to what he had given them before. It is
quite noteworthy that he left to one of his heirs a
legacy " towards bringing up his son to be a scholar."
This thought and this expression betray a profound
interest in the best things in life. The fact, too,
that he left by will a Bible to each of his nineteen
grand-children, shows in rough pioneer days how
sincere and earnest he was in his Christian profes
sion and life, and that he regarded the divine word
as a precious legacy to his descendants. He appears
on the records as one of the witnesses to the will
of Peter Prudden. Eichard Piatt's estate was esti
mated at about 600 pounds sterling. He died in

16 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
1684. The place where he was buried is not known,
as no stone has been found to mark his grave. It
was probably in his orchard.
In August, 1889, at the late interesting and note
worthy commemoration of the settlement of Milford
250 years ago, his name was mentioned with honor,
and among the coping stones of the beautiful me
morial bridge erected over the Wapawaug, to per
petuate the memory of the early settlers, a stone was
placed with this inscription :
' ' DEACON
KICHAED PLATT,
Obit 1684.
MAEY, HIS WIFE."
This among the cap-stones in the bridge was
placed there by the liberality and thoughtfulness of
one of his descendants, the late Prof. Johnson T.
Platt, of New Haven.
The sons and daughters of Eichard as nearly in
the order of their precedence as we are able to de
termine, were Mary, John, Isaac and Sarah, then
those who were baptized in Milford, Epenetus, Han
nah, Josiah and Joseph. It should be stated that
Eichard and his sons John and Josiah are recorded
among the original purchasers and proprietors of
New Milford. But John finally went to Norwalk,
Isaac and Epenetus to Huntington, L. I. ; only Josiah
and Joseph remained in Milford, the first home of
the family.

MBMOKLAD BETDGB OVER THE WAPAWATJO.

V.
KIS DAUGHTERS.

No RECORD is full, and we may say just, that does
not embody some memorials of the daughters as well
as the sons. We give the first place to those of
Eichard 1st in this record. It is a privilege to
honor the "mothers in Israel." His oldest daughter
Mary married Luke Atkinson, of New Haven, May
1, 1651. A second marriage was to Thomas Wet-
more, January 3, 1667. His daughter, Sarah, w^as
also twice married, first to Thomas Beach aud after
ward to Miles Merwin. It was recorded many years
ago in the New England Genealogical Dictionary,
that " six Merwins had graduated from Yale College."
His third daughter, Hannah, married and resided in
Norwalk. The records give us but a few details of
the descendants of Mary. There are more traces of
those of Sarah and Hannah.
Martha, daughter of Miles Merwin and Sarah
Platt (widow Beach) born January 23, 1666, married
James Prime, son of James, Sept. 20, 1685 ; Mary,
twin sister of Martha, married Mr. Hull. Hannah,
third daughter, born Nov. 6, -1667, married Abel
Holbrook, Dec. 20, 1683. Deborah, fourth daughter

20 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
of Miles and Sarah Merwin, born April, 1670, mar
ried Samuel, son of Samuel Burwell. Sarah Platt
Merwin, the mother, died in 1670. N. G. Pond, Esq.,
of Milford, says " that the late Samuel Irenaeus Prime.
is a descendant from the Sarah Platt Merwin mar
riage by Martha Merwin who married James Prime."
Hannah, daughter of Eichard 1st, baptized Octo
ber 1, 1643, married Christopher Comstock, October
6, 1663. Their children were : Daniel, born July
21, 1664; Hannah, born July 15, 1666 ; Abigail,
born July 27, 1669, who died in her 20tli year.
Mary, born February 19, 1671 ; Elizabeth, October 7,
1674 ; Mercy born November 12, 1676, and Samuel,
February 6, 1679. Norwalk was his residence. At
a town meeting in 1673, " Christopher Comstock
was chosen and approved of to kepe an ordinary for
the entertayning of strangers." The excellent cus
tom of appointing some " reputable householder to
entertayne ye stranger," shows how wisely our
fathers managed in their day.
— Daniel, son of Christopher Comstock, married
Elizabeth Wheeler, daughter of John, of Fairfield,
at Blackrock, June, 13, 1692.
— Samuel, youngest son of Christopher Comstock,
married Sarah, daughter of Eev. Thomas Hanford,
December 27, 1705. Their children were : Sarah,
born March 25, 1707 ; Samuel, born November 12,
1708, and Mary, born August 5, 1710.
We hence see that the collateral branches of
some of our first ancestors were the Atkinsons, the
Wetmores, the Beaches, the Merwins, the Primes,
the Hulls, the Holbrooks and the Comstocks.

HIS DAUGHTERS. 21
From the sons and daughters of Eichard Platt,
the family branches have extended far and wide
throughout our country, touching the Gulf, the Pa
cific Coast, and spreading in many of the interme
diate States, as will appear by the record.

VI.

NORWALK BRANCH.

John Platt was probably the oldest son of Eich
ard 1st, of Milford, as he is first mentioned in his
father's will. He married Hannah Clark, of Milford,
June 6, 1660, the ceremony being by the magistrate,
Mr. Treat. He returned to Norwalk, Ct., his name
appearing on the records soon after 1660. His chil
dren were: John, born June, 1664 ; Josiah, born De
cember 28, 1667 ; Samuel, borh January 26, 11570 ; Jo
seph, born February 17, 1672; Hannah, born Decem
ber 15, 1674; and Sarah, born May 20, 1678. John Platt,
according to the record in the first book of grants
and deeds, had a lot of four acres, two roods. The
date is 1663. He bought of Thomas Lupton four
acres in 1665. It is recorded that he drew a lot for
winter wheat. In the early days of the town history
an estimate was placed upon each one's possessions.
John Piatt's estate was rated about =£170 sterling. In
1675, in the Indian troubles, it was determined that
the meeting-house should be fortified and garrisoned
for the security of the town. John Platt was on the
committee " for carrying on this work."
John, son of John 1st, married Sarah, daughter
of Ephraim Lockwood, May, 1695. They had chil-

24 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
dren : Sarah, born March 30, 1697 ; Elizabeth, born
June 11, 1699 ; John, born April 2, 1702 ; and Abi
gail, born February 12, 1708.
Samuel, third son of John 1st, (deacon) married
Eebecca, daughter of Samuel Benedict, of Danbury,
June 18, 1712. He had one daughter, Eebecca, born
April 9, 1713. He died December 4, 1713.
Sarah Platt, daughter of John Platt 1st, mar
ried Samuel Kellogg, September 6, 1704. The chil
dren were : Sarah K., born September 26, 1705 ;
Samuel, born December 23, 1706 ; Mary, born Janu
ary 29, 1708 ; Martin, born March 23, 1711 ; Abigail,
born January 19, 1712 ; Lidiah, born October 30,
1713 ; Gideon, born December 5, 1717 ; and Epene
tus, born June 26, 1719.
Joseph, fourth son of John the first, married,
November 6, 1700, Elizabeth, daughter of Matthew
Merwin, 2nd. Had issue : Elizabeth, born Decem
ber 2nd, 1701. His wife died April 9th, 1703 ; Jan
uary 26th, 1704, he married Hannah, daughter of
Eev. Thomas Hanford. He had : Hannah, born Oc
tober 29th, 1704 ; and Joseph, born September 9th,
1716, if there be not a suspected mistake of ten
years. This, the youngest son of John Platt 1st, seemed
to be highly esteemed among his fellow citizens. A
grant to Joseph Platt is recorded January 11, 1699,
" of sixteen acres lying at West Eocks, west side of
highway leading up to said Eocks." In the Indian
troubles that annoyed the early settlers in New Eng
land, he, as a soldier, bore himself admirably well.
He was too young to be in the " dismal swamp fight,"

NORWALK BEANCH. 25
which was a fearful struggle ; 300 Indians were slain,
and nearly as many taken prisoners. It was a dearly
bought victory, for six captains and eighty men were
killed or mortally wounded. One hundred and fifty
afterwards recovered from their wounds. But the
savage enemy were fully overcome. This was in
King Philip's war. Some years after this fight,
we find this in the town record, dated February
21, 1698 : " Granted unto Joseph Platt, as he
was a soldier out in the common service against
the enemj', the town as a gratification for his
good service, do give and grant unto him ten acres
of land, to take it up a mile from the town, and
where it lies free, not yet pitcht upon by any other
persons." We find him called Captain Joseph in
1713. "Ye worshipful Joseph Platt, Esq.," was one
of a committee to fix the limits of an upper village.
After a visiting clergyman was at Norwalk, he was
appointed to " attend ye Eev. Mr. Dickinson home
into ye Jersies." He was a Justice of the Peace in
1726-7. These positions show the estimation in
which he was held.
Abigail Platt, daughter of John Platt 2nd, born
February 12, 1708, married Jabez Sanders, August
1, 1753. Children : Samuel, born February 22, 1754;
Platt, December 14, 1756; Thomas, December 28,
1758; Aaron, December 23, 1760: Polly, born
March 30, 1762 ; Esther, June 14, 1764 ; and Samuel,
born May 16, 1767.
John Platt, son of John Platt 2nd, married Char
ity Morehouse, September 13, 1758. Their children
were : Sarah, born September 4, 1759 ; Hannah, born

26 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
April 30, 1761 ; Anna, born February 12, 1764 ;
Sukey, June 17, 1770 ; Esther, born November 12,
1772 ; and Jonathan, born April 14, 1775.
Samuel Platt married Ann Eaymond, March 2,
1757. Children: Justus, born December 4, 1757,
(died under seven years); Jabez, born November 22,
1761 ; Esther, born August 11, 1763 ; Joseph, born
June 25, 1765 ; Justus 2nd, born September 10, 1768 ;
Hannah, born May 24, 1771 ; Betty, born November
27, 1773 ; John, born December 17, 1777 ; and Ann,
born February 6, 1781 ; Ann, wife of Samuel Platt,
died February 20, 1781.
The Eev. C. M. Selleck, in a foot-note to his Cen
tenary Address in 1886, at St. Pauls, Norwalk, re
marks " that John Platt was the owner in 1792, of pew
No. 12, in the old St. Paul's Church, Norwalk," which
is believed to be the first church consecrated by
Bishop Seabury.
John H. Platt, of Norwalk, whose grand-father
was named Joseph, gives the following data: "My
grand-father had five sons and four daughters, their
names were : Alfred M., Jonathan (who was my
father), Joseph, Charles, and Chauncey C. and daugh
ters, Laura, Susan, Emily, and Minerva. Alfred M.
was born October 6, 1800, died March 6, 1876. He
had three sons, Giles, Cornelius and Frederick M.,
and five daughters ; one son was drowned. Jonathan
had three sons : David M., Augustus, and John H.,
and three daughters. Joseph had two sons, George
M., and Edward, and two daughters. Charles had no
sons ; Chauncey C, had one sou, Chauncey, and one
daughter.

VII
OLDER HUNTINGTON BRANCH.

Isaac Plait.

His name is mentioned second in his father Eich-
ard's will. He and his younger brother Epenetus
are enrolled among the fifty-seven landowners of
Huntington, L. I., in 1666. They were doubtless
residents there some years before this date. In
1646 Gov. Theophilus Eaton, of the New Haven
Colony, purchased of the Indians a tract of land on
Navy Island, now called Eaton's Neck, and within
the present limit of the town of Huntington. In 1653
conveyances were made by the Indians to actual set
tlers who founded the town. Connecticut claimed the
jurisdiction of Long Island, under the charter of
1662, and did not relinquish it until the decision of
the commissioners appointed to determine the bounds
of the Duke of Yule's patent, in the fall of 1664. At a
general assembly held at Hartford, May 12, 1664, Isaac
Platt, Epenetus Platt, and many others residing on
Long Island, were made free planters, " with liberty
to act in the choice of public officers, for the carry
ing on of public affairs in that plantation." The in
habitants of Huntington were yet obliged to take out
a patent of confirmation f lom Gov. NicoU, November

30 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
30, 1666, in which the names of both Isaac and
Epenetus Platt appear as patentees. In 1688, also,
a new patent was taken out, the names of the
brothers appearing among the patentees. Here it
is well to say, that a very interesting history of this
old township is found in the Centennial Address of
the Hon. Henry C. Platt of New York, entitled " Old
Times in Huntington." Many of the details of this
branch I find in its rich pages so full of names,
dates, events, and manners and customs of a past
century. Isaac with his brother Epenetus and
others was imprisoned in New York by Gov. An- ¦
drews in 1681, for attending a meeting of delegates
of the several towns to devise means to obtain " a
redress of grievances under his arbitrary rule."
After their release, at a town meeting a vote was
passed to cover their expenses. He and his brother
were among the sterling patriots of their time, fully
recognizing and claiming their civil and religious
rights. Their descendants showed themselves
worthy of their parentage in the Eevolutionary
struggle which separated the colonies from the
mother country iu 1776 and 1783.
In the town records of Huntington we read that
" Isaac Platt, September 2, 1679, received a deed of
land from John Green ;" also " a deed of land from
Jonathan Hamet, May 15, 1683." We also read that
" Isaac Platt was Eecorder of Huntington in 1687."
In the census records of Huntington, in 1755,
Isaac Platt appears as a holder of slaves ; as also,
Epenetus 1st, Dr. Zophar and Mary Platt.
In the records of Milford, Ct., we find that " Isaac

OLDER HUNTINGTON BEANCH. 31
Platt and Phebe Smith were married March 12,
1640." He made a second marriage according to the
records of Huntington, to Elizabeth, daughter of
Jonas Wood, twenty odd years afterward. We find
no record of children by his earlier marriage. This
doubtless, is one of the gaps which often come in to
puzzle the antiquary in his researches into the dis
tant past.
Isaac Platt was a captain of militia, and it is said
of him that " he held every office of consequence in
the gift of his townsmen." He lived in Huntington
till his death, July 31, 1691.
By the town records his children were : Elizabeth,
born September 15, 1665 ; Jonas, born August 10,
1667 ; John, born June 29, 1669 ; Mary, born Octo
ber 26, 1674 ; Joseph, born September 8, 1677 ; and
Jacob, born September 29, 1682. We know little of
John, Joseph and Jacob.
Jonas Platt, eldest son of Isaac, married Sarah
Scudder ; they had four sons: Obadiah, Timothy,
Jesse and Isaac. Obadiah and Timothy went over
and settled at Fairfield, Ct., (See Fairfield Branch).
Jesse and Isaac 2d, remained in Huntington. Jesse,
son of Jonas Platt 1st, had three children : Jesse 2d,
Isaac 3d and Zophar.
Isaac Platt 3d, son of Jesse Platt 1st, married
Esther Ketcham February 27, 1744-5, died Decem
ber, 1772. Children : Obadiah, baptized March
23, 1745-6, died 1829 ; Elizabeth ; Mary and Sarah
twins ; Jesse, baptized August 30, 1761, married
Deborah Titus, died May 25, 1827 ; and Isaac 4th,
born June 14, 1754, died August 8, 1849.

32 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Obadiah Platt, son of Isaac Platt 3d, married
Mary Platt, daughter of Epenetus Platt, in 1769.
He died December 7, 1829, aged 84. She died June
7, 1825, aged 85. Seven children : Elkanah, 1770,
Philetus, Daniel, Esther, Eebecca, Phebe and Sarah,
the latter born 1783. This Obadiah Platt lived in
the period of the Eevolution, after which he made
his home on his farm at West Hills.
Isaac Platt 4th, son of Isaac Platt 3d, married
Eunice Platt, who died in Huntington in 1862, at
the age of 97, leaving no issue. She was a daughter
of Obadiah Platt, of Fairfield, Ct.
Jesse Platt 3d, son of Isaac 3d, had children :
Lewis, David, Ira, Jesse 4th, Ansel, Sarah, Isaac
5th, and JoeL Elkanah, son of Obadiah, of Hunt
ington, married "Dency" Wood, daughter of Jere
miah, 1795, aud had children : Elizabeth, born
February 19, 1796; George W., late of New
York city, born August 2, 1798 ; David, born May 4,
1801 ; Brewster W. and Daniel, twins, born July 1,
1804; Nathan C. (late Chamberlain of New York
city), born December 20, 1806 ; Debora W., born
February 4, 1809, and Hannah C, born February 2,
1812. Of these, Elizabeth married Mr. Mortimer;
George Wood married Eliza Eoshore, July 7th,
1821 ; David married Sarah Gould ; Brewster died
unmarried ; Nathan married Jane Plumber — he died
May 23, 1863 ; Debora married Curtis Merritt, and
Hannah married Clark Merritt. The following de
tails in this line are given by Charles Slason Platt,
from the family Bible: George Wood Platt, the
oldest son of Elkanah, born August 2, 1798, and his

OLDER HUNTINGTON BRANCH. 33
wife Eliza, left five children: Henry Mortimer, born
July 7, 1822 ; Maria E., born April 20, 1825; George
Washington, born August 27, 1833 ; Mary N., born
November 19, 1835, and Eliza A., born June 15,1838.
George Wood Platt came from Huntington, L. I., to
New York about 1810 or 1812. He w,as a jeweler,
and established Piatt's Gold and Silver Smelting
Works, which are still in operation. He was asso
ciated with his brothers, Nathan and David.
Henry Mortimer Platt, married Caroline A. Weed,
July 7, 1843. Their children were : Ella Louisa,
born May 10, 1844 ; Charles Slason, born December
7, 1846 ; Grace A, born June 18, 1850 ; Frank Hen
ry, born April 15-, 1852. Caroline A. Platt died Aug
ust 3, 1864. Charles Slason Platt, oldest son, mar
ried Florence Wemple Bissell, June 2, 1887.
- — Grace A., second daughter, married Frederick
Stallknect, October 22, 1872. Their children are
four daughters : Caroline A., Laura, Alice, and Ella
Platt. — Frank Henry, second son, married Sarah E.
Wiley, April 18, 1877." Their children are : Emelie
Louise, Estelle Cooper, Frank Wood, Charles Henry
and Sidney, who was born December 11, 1889.
Maria E. Platt, eldest daughter of George Wood
Platt, married Isaac C. Withington, September 18,
1844. Their children are': Charles Sumner, born
April 13, 1848; Laura E., Annie Louise, Irving
Platt, Isaac Chandler, Maria E-, who married Mr.
Bellman, and Eliza Platt.
Georgft Washington Platt, second son of George
Wood Platt, married Mary Coles, September 18,

34 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
1857. They have one daughter, Mary Eliza, who
married T. G. Aller. Their children are — Georgette
and T. Gusten Aller. The son was born in 1885.
Mary N. Platt, second daughter of George Wood
Platt, married James W. Todd, September 5, 1860.
Their children : William Platt, born June 4, 1861; (he
married Margaret Chrystal, but died without issue iu
July, 1886) ; Henry Hartman,born October 14, 1863;
Walter Herbert, born 1865; George D., born February
13, 1869 ; aud Irving Todd, born October 13, 1872.
— Henry Hartman Todd married Ella Grinzeback,
April 27, 1889. They have a son, Clinton, born
February 1, 1890.
— Walter Herbert Todd has a sou, Harold, and a
daughter. His wife's Christian name is Clara.
They were married July 1, 1886.
The descendants of the late David Platt, second
son of Elkanah Platt, live mostly in Huntington,
L. I. He himself was a jeweler in New York many
years. His son, Henry C. Platt, lives in New York
where he was born in 1840. He graduated from Prince
ton in the class of '58. He married Jenny Dusen-
berry, daughter of Isaac A., of Glenville, Ct.; had
one son, who died in '87, in the 21st year of his
age. He is now in the full practice of law in his
native city. He is United States Assistant Attorney
for the Southern District of the State of New York.
He has his summer home in Huntington. He has
kindly contributed important data for this record.
In his family Bible it is recorded that Clarissa Platt,
born August 29, 1788, married David Munson, (born
December 3, 1776) October 29, 1808.

OLDER HUNTINGTON BEANCH. 35
Isaac Platt 5th, son of Jesse 3d, married Sarah
Matthews, and afterwards Elizabeth Doty, of Cold
Spring Harbor, L. I. He was born 1785 at Hunting
ton, and died at Geneva, N. Y., 1880. His second
marriage was at Oyster Bay. His wife died at Ge
neva, 1875, aged 83 years. They had five children :
Stephen H., Ananias D., Sarah E., MaryF., and Isa
bella E. 1. Stephen Hendrickson Platt married
Phebe Eudman, of Penn Yan ; their only child, now
Mrs. Carll, resides at Cincinnati, 0. He died about
1850. 2. Ananias Doty Platt married Parmelia Hall,
of Geneva. He died in New York, 1885. Their chil
dren are : Sandford Hall, Wilbur Fjsk (who died
1887), Mary Belle, Lillie E., and Adelaide Platt. 3.
Sarah E. Platt married William Eudman, of Penn
Yan. She died 1844. They have a son living there,
John J..; a second son, Isaac P., died aged 19. 4. Mary
Fowler Platt married James M. Soverhill, of Geneva,
N. Y., where she now resides. 5. Isabella E.
married Charles D. Morris, of Phelps, N. Y. He
died 1867. A son, Charles L. Morris, resides at
Eochester. A daughter prettily writes : " My father
and my brothers were respected in the circles of
church aud business in which they moved, and of
each it might be said,
"He bore without abuse
The grand old name of gentleman."
Joel Platt, son of Jesse 3d, married Miss Suydam
of Centreport, L. I.
Jesse Platt 4th, son of Jesse 3d, married Maria
McChesney, of New York City.

36 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Sarah Platt, daughter of Jesse 3d, was very beauti
ful ; she had three husbands : Thomas Steele, John
Scudder, of Vernon Valley, L. I., and Joshua B.
Smith. Philetus, son of Obadiah, of L. I., married Con
tent Sammis, of Huntington, and had children : Oba
diah, Zophar, Stephen, Oliver, Watts, Polly, Amelia,
Sarah, Phebe and Nancy Platt.
Daniel Platt, son of Obadiah, of L. I., married
Miss Smith, of New York city, and had children.
Esther Platt, daughter of Obadiah, of L. I., mar
ried Stephen Fleet, of Huntington, and had chil
dren : Platt, Euth, and Mary Esther Fleet.
Eebecca Platt, daughter of Obadiah, of L. I., mar
ried a Mr. Duryea, and had one son, John Duryea ;
she then married Jonas Sammis, of West Neck, L. I.,
and had four children : Nelson Sammis, of Hunting
ton ; Daniel P. Sammis, of New York City ; Mary
Sammis, deceased, and Sarah Sammis, wife of Jonah
Denton, of Lloyd's Neck, L. I.
Phebe Platt, daughter of Obadiah, of L. I., mar
ried Nathaniel Chichester, of West Hills, L. I., and
had children : Nathaniel, Eliphalet, Platt, and Mary
Ann Chichester.
Sarah Platt, daughter of same Obadiah, married
Jesse Eogers, of Huntington, and had one daughter,
Elizabeth Eogers.
Zophar Platt, son of Jonas 1st, son of Isaac first,
was born near 1734. He married Esther Platt of
Huntington (Platt was her name before marriage) ;
they had four children. Phebe, married Nathaniel
Smith ; Eichard, (his second wife was Harriet E.

OLDER HUNTINGTON BEANCH. 37
Kirk); Anna Eogers, aud Medad Platt. Anna
Eogers Platt, born at Huntington November 26,
1793, died at Poughkeepsie October 31, 1861. She
married Amos Platt Ketcham of Huntington, Sep
tember 9, 1811 ; a second marriage was to Warren
Skinner of Poughkeepsie, February 7, 1832. Medad
Platt married Ann Eliza Gantz ; a second marriage
was to Mary Baker.
— Phebe Platt and Nathaniel Smith had four chil
dren : Phebe Smith, who married George Smith.
The other three died in youth or infancy.
— Eichard Platt and his wife Harriet had children :
Eichard and William now deceased ; Harriet, who
married George W. Wright, of Moriistown, N. J.;
Augusta, deceased, and John Platt and Fred Platt,
both in Mexico.
— Anna Eogers Platt, who married Amos Platt
Ketcham, had five children : Esther Emily, Alonzo
E., Zophar Platt, Andrew J., and Eebecca Ketcham.
The children, two, by her marriage to Mr. Skinner,
died in infancy. Esther E. Ketcham, born July 27,
1812, at Huntington, married John F. Parker, of
Poughkeepsie, May 16, 1837 ; died February 7, 1839.
They had eight children : Ann Augusta, Mary Vas-
sar (married M. O. Dutton), George Parker (married
Louisa Beach), Alonzo E., Elizabeth, Emily Platt
Parker (married William B. Fox), Louise S. Parker
and Matthew V. Parker, who married Eliza Augusta
Wines. George Parker has one surviving child,
y orge Parker. Emily Platt Parker had four chil-
' \ William Fox, Harry (not living), Bessie and
-p. ^ b ox Parker.

38 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Medad Platt (son of Zophar), who married Eliza
Gantz, had six children who reached maturity ;
others died in infancy. No issue by the second
marriage. They were : Caroline, deceased ; Eliza
beth, Emily Platt, now Mrs. T. J. Owen of New
York ; Maria and Charlotte, both deceased, and
Annie Platt, now Mrs. Peter Moller, Jr., of New
York. — Alonzo E. Ketcham, son of Amos Platt, born Au
gust 6, 1814, died January 15, 1890, married Cathe
rine Bogardus, March 19, 1831. A second marriage
was to Sarah Hinsdale ; a third to Anna M. Davis.
No issue by first. The children of Sarah H. were
four : Amos Platt (1842), lost at sea ; Edward, who
married Elizabeth Eamsdell ; Alonzo C. aud Sarah
Ketcham, who married George Gatchell. There
were five by the third marriage: William P., de
ceased; Emih', Anna F., Albert and Samuel Ketch-
ham. Zophar Platt Ketcham, born April 30, 1817, died
June, 1822.
Andrew J. Ketcham, fourth child of A. P. Ketcham
and his wife Anna Eogers Platt, born March 18,
1819, married Sarah Anderson October 25, 1842.
Three children : Andrew Golding, born July 7,
1844, died May 24, 1854; Eichard Platt and Annie
Ketcham. A record marriage was to Frances
Cowles. Issue : One son, Charles. Mr. A. J.
Ketcham is a banker in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Eebecca Ketcham, fifth child, married Samuel P
Johnston, May 18, 1841. They had one child, M/igj
who in 1867 married Edward Elsworth. Th§g^ jj

OLDEE HUNTINGTON BEANCH. 39
four children : Grace Varick, Mary Johnston, Ethel
Hinton and Edward W. Elsworth.

Eobert Platt, U. S. N., (son of William Platt, of
North Carolina, formerly of New York), was born in
1836. His father moved South in 1832. His mother
was Margaret Ann Potter, daughter of Eobert Pot
ter, of North Carolina. He was true to the old flag
in the war, and was in the South Atlantic Blockad
ing Squadron ; piloted the fleet into Charleston har
bor, South Carolina, and was wounded in the fight.
He was many years on the Coast Survey, and is now
in command of the steamer Fish Hawk, in connec
tion with the United States Commission on Fish and
Eisheries. His family reside in Washington, D. C.
His grandfather was William, of New York, who had
three brothers, George, Samuel aud Abraham. Eob
ert Platt had a brother Samuel, deceased ; his brother
Henry is living in North Carolina. Eobert Platt
gives these data.

Oliver Platt, ( son of Philetus, sou of Obadiah,
son of Jonas, son of Isaac 1st), married Hulda Hand.
Their children were : George, Edward and John, all
deceased; Timothy and Sarah, who died in child
hood ; and Mary, also deceased ; Charles S., Oliver
2d, Ezra and Isabella. The father died in Brook-
haven, July 2, '83, aged 81.
— Ohas. S., second son, born January 1, 1826, mar
ried Urania M. Gerard. Their home is in Bellfort,
L. I. Their children — two daughters — Kate G., who
married H. W. Post, and Frances A., who married
H. M. Goldthwait.

40 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
— Oliver Platt 2d, left five children, the oldest of
whom, is Frederick W. Platt. The father died fifteen
years ago, leaving the family to the care of his oldest
son, who married Emily L. Eodman, August 7, 1882,
and has two children : Warren Nelson, born in 1886,
and Irving Voorhis, born September, 1888. Their
home is in Brooklyn, L. I.
Other details of the descendants of Isaac Platt, of
the Older Huntington Branch, will be found in the
Fairfield, Meriden, Washington, New Haven, and
New Jersey Branches.

VIII.
YOUNGER HUNTINGTON BRANCH.

Epenetus Platt.

He removed from Milford with his older brother
Isaac, and was recorded as one of the land-holders
of Huntington in 1666. With him, he was imprison
ed by the tyrannical Andros. In 1667, he married
Phebe Wood. He died 1693. He has numerous de
scendants. His children were : Phebe, born March
19, 1669; Mary, born January 11, 1672; Epenetus,
born April 4, 1674; Hannah, born August 23, 1679;
Elizabeth, born March 1, 1682; Jonas, born April
24, 1684 ; Jeremiah, born November 25, 1686 ; Euth,
born June 13, 1688; and Sarah, born February 4,
1692. Phebe Platt married John Treadwell ; Eliza
beth married Jonathan Smith ; and Mary Platt mar
ried Timothy Treadwell. The Huntington records
say that Epenetus Platt received a deed of land from
Gabriel Finch, February 24, 1666, and a deed of land
from Thomas Skidmore January 22, 1672. Epenetus
Platt filled many public positions with ability and
credit. He was called Captain, and sometimes Lieu
tenant. His son Epenetus 2d was Major Platt.
Jeremiah Platt, the third son of Epenetus 1st, born
1686, married Hannah  , and had a son Jeremiah

44 the platt lineage.
2d, born December 12, 1747, who married Mary, a
daughter of Miles Merwin, of New Milford. He,
Jeremiah 2d, was buried in Bridgewater, 1805. His
wife, Mary, died February 17, 1825, and was buried
there. They left a daughter, Hannah, who married
Colby Chamberlain, and a son, Newton Platt, born
October 18, 1779, eighteen months after the sister.
Newton married Elvira Canfield, daughter of Philo.
Their children were James N. and Evelina C. Platt.
In the grave-yard a,t Bridgewater, there is a stone in
memory of Jeremiah Platt 3d of the name, buried
1839, aged 67. There is also a stone to " the memory
of widow Sarah Merwin, late of Milford. She was
the mother of Samuel and Capt. Epenetus Platt, and
grandmother of Jeremiah Platt of Bridgewater."
Newton Platt lived in New York and died there
April 28, 1861.
James N. Platt above, born February 3, 1817, is a
lawyer in New York. He traces to Newton, son of
Jeremiah 2d, son of Jeremiah 1st, son of Epenetus 1st,
son of Eichard 1st of Milford, Ct. His only sister,
Evelina C. Platt, born December 15, 1822, married
December 26, 1845, Justin A. Bliss. They have two
children, Justine Adele, who married William
Frederick Stofford, and Ida C. Bliss. All reside in
New York.

Jeremiah Platt, whose wife was named Abigail,
was one of the founders of the Tontine Coffee House
in New York in 1792. Of the 203 shares he owned
two, and had them placed, one in the name of his
son Sydney, born April 19, 1781, and the other in

younger HUNTINGTON BRANCH. 45
the name of his daughter Amelia, born .July 20,
1782. Jeremiah Platt was a merchant in New York.

Epenetus 2d, son of Epenetus 1st, generally called
Major Epenetus Platt, born April 4, 1674, was distin
guished as a member of the Colonial Assembly from
1723 to 1737. He died in 1744, at the age of 70. His
children were: Epenetus 3d, Zophar, Uriah, and Solo
mon, and Elizabeth and Phebe. Elizabeth married
M. Townsend, Phebe married Col. Benjamin Tread
well. Their daughter, Phebe Treadwell (1730-1801),
married Hendrick Onderdouk, and was the grand
mother of the distinguished Bishops of that name.
The repetition of the same names is almost con
fusing. Some make out that he also had a daughter
Mary, who married Timothy Treadwell. But this
Mary, was the daughter of Epenetus 1st, was she not?
- — Epenetus 3d, was a captain of militia, owned a
large landed estate, but nothing has been learned of
his sons, if his line be not extinct.
Jonas Platt, second son of Epenetus 1st, pur
chased the farm of Sunk Meadow, L. I., in
1717, (which in 1843 was owned by Jeremiah,
one of his descendants,) it is now in the family.
He spent his last days there, and left his estate
to Zephaniah, of L. I., an only son. This one
married Hannah Saxton, at Huntingtou, in 1730.
His children were : Jonas, Zephaniah, of N. Y. ;
Nathaniel, Charles, Hannah and Elizabeth. A second
marriage was to Anna Smith, widow of Eichard
Smith and daughter of Job Smith. He had child
ren : Jeremiah, Daniel, Sarah and Dorothea.

46 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
" When Zephaniah was 74 years old, during the oc
cupation of Long Island by the British, he, with
many of his neighbors, was taken prisoner and driv
en into New York and confined in the old prison
ship. His daughter Dorothea (Brush) hearing that
he was ill with small-pox, drove, with a colored wo
man, into the city, and asked Sir Henry Clinton to
allow her to take him home, as he could not live. 'He
is an arrant rebel,' said Sir Henry. She answered him
with tears in her eyes : ' He is an old man and can
never more injure your cause.' Her tearful beauty
and filial affection prevailed. The old gentleman lived
only four days after his release ; he is buried in the
family plot at Sunk Meadow." (This is related .by
Mrs. Hugh McCuUoch, of Washington D. C.)
The " Old Platt Homestead," of Sunk Meadow,
now at King's Park, L. I., is the home of the family
of the late Elias Smith Platt, who died December
27, 1890, at Lakewood, N. J. In this historic home
six generations of Platts have been born. The
widow's maiden name was Caroline Child, born in
Brooklyn, May 11, 1848. She was married October
24, 1867. The children are : Lucien A., born Septem
ber 27, 1869 ; Milton L., born February 20, 1872 ;
Ellis S., born November 17, 1873; and Caroline
Child Platt, born March 15, 1885, the first daughtei*
born on the place since 1754. The Old Homestead
is very interesting in memorials. In the spacious
hall there hangs a portrait of Col. Eichard Platt, the
Aide of General Montgomery at Quebec. The grand
father of the present children was Jeremiah C., son
of .Jeremiah. Their uncles were : Lucien, dieil aged

YOUNGEE HUNTINGTON BRANCH. 47
three ; Herman, who was ill at Princeton College,
and died soon after he was brought home ; Eugene
J., the second son, is still living. The searcher for
old historic lore will find much to interest him in
the Old Homestead.
During the occupation of Long Island by the'BTit-
ish in the Eevolution, many young men crossed
over to the Connecticut shore to enlist in the patriot
army. Their hardships were severe. Mrs. McCul-
loch gives this narrative of some of the young men
from the aforesaid meadow home. They came over
from the mainland for food : "The mother left the
window facing the Sound open a very little. They
rowed over at high tide, and took the provisions
from the panti-y placed there for them. They asked
her ' Is all well ? ' she answered ' all's well,' but
did not see them, for when the sentinel came in the
morning to inquire if any rebel had been seen, she
could say ' no ' without uttering a falsehood.
Once, Jerry, the youngest of the four sons who were
in the war, came over to see his mother and his
young wife. An officer found him there, he ran for
his boat, and the officer fired. Jerry fell, his wife
fainted, and his mother thought him killed, but in
the night he returned to let them know he was safe,
that his foot was caught in the long grass, and he
fell without the shot touching him. The officer sup
posed him dead, and did not take the trouble to
wade into the salt marsh to see. The young man
remained hidden until after dark, so as to free them
at home from sorrow." How this lets in light upon
the trials of our patriot fathers.

48 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Jonas, oldest son of Jonas Platt 1st, married Tem
perance, daughter of Ebenezer Smith, settled in New
York city, and died iu 1775, aged 44. His children
of whom we have record were : Eichard, Elizabeth
and Ebenezer. Eichard married Sarah Aspinwall,
and left two sons, Alexander Hamilton and Eichard
(who diedyoung), and a daughter, Sarah Matilda, who
died in infancy. Alexander Hamilton married and
left one son. Eichard Platt, the father of these,
was a colonel and an aide-de-camp to General Mont
gomery at the storming of. Quebec, December 31,
1775. There is a tradition that Montgoiner3'died in
his arms. He was the venerable marshal of the day
when the General's remains were received iu New
York and re-interred in front of St. Paul's church in
Broadway, July 8, 1818 ; and he was for a number
of years Commissary General of the State of New
York. Ebenezer was taken prisoner in the Eevolu
tionary war and, it is said, carried to London. Ee-
gaining his liberty, it is related that he married the
sister of the wife of Sir Benjamin West.
— Jeremiah, fifth son of Jonas 1st in this branch,
occupied the family estate at what is now called
King's Park, L. I. His wife's name was Hedges, of
Easthampton. He left a son Zephaniah, of L. I.
For a continuance of this history, the Plattsburg
Branch gives interesting details of his four sons r
Zephaniah, of N. Y., Nathaniel, Charles and Daniel,
and their numerous descendants.
— Dr. Zophar Platt, second son of Epenetus 2d,
heads the Zophar Branch, following this.
- — Uriah Platt, third son of Epenetus 2d, was born

YOUNGEU HUNTINGTON BRANCH. 49
January 5, 1734, aud died July 21, 1803. He settled
in Queen's County, L. I., married Mary Smith, and
had five children : Margaret, Epenetus 4th, Philip
Smith, Uriah 2d, and Catharine Platt. Their home
was at Hempstead. So far as names and dates can
be reconciled, it seems a second marriage was to
Sarah Treadwell in 1761. She was born January 1,
1740, and died December 24, 1788. Benjamin Platt
was their son, born July 11, 1762.
—Philip Smith Platt, (1732-1801) married Phoebe
or Elizabeth Mott, (1733-1776) at Hempstead, L. L,
June 29, 1766. Their children were : Phoebe, Mary,
^ and Margaret Kissam Platt. Phoebe, (1768-1855,)
married Daniel Kissam, (1770-1846) ; Margaret mar
ried Benjamin Treadwell Kissam. Phoebe and Dan
iel Kissam had eight children : Daniel, Philip, Eliz
abeth, (these died in childhood); Daniel 2d, -Marga
ret, Benjamin T., and Philip S. Platt Kissam.
The will of Philip S. Platt, dated December 13,
1747-8, mentions his wife Phoebe, and children,
Phoebe, Mary, John, Elizabeth, Selah, and Obadiah.
— Margaret Platt, the first born of Uriah 1st, mar
ried Isaac Smith at Hempstead. Long Island, Jan
uary 2, 1744. There were children : Mary, Jacob,
Uriah, Freelove, Platt, Phoebe, Elizabeth, Catharine,
Philip, Isaac and Margaret. Catharine married
Jacob Bockee, the father of Judge Bockee of Duch
ess County, N. Y., who married Martha Oakley.
Their daughter Catherine J. married Augustus Flint,
the father of Miss Margaret Bockee Flint, of New
York. — Epenetus 4th, M. D., is said to have been a sur-

50 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
geon in the Continental Army. After the war he
lived at White Plains, Westchester County. He died
of yellow fever in New York in 1796. His children
were : Epenetus 5th, who removed to New York,
and Sarah, who married Josiah Man, of New York.
— Benjamin Platt, son of Uriah 1st, born 1762,
married September 7, 1783, Hannah WooUey, born
October 5, 1763. Their children were : Sarah, Uriah,
Eliza Treadwell, and Henry WooUey Platt born Aug
ust 2, 1791. Sarah Platt, born October 20, 1784, mar
ried Charles Hewlett. Their children were: Eliza
Ann, born March 28, 1808; Benjamin Platt, born
September 17, 1809, died the next day ; and Benja
min Platt, born August 4, 1811, died August 11, 1815.
Charles Hewlett died January 31, 1829. Sarah, his
wife, died 1817. Uriah Platt, oldest son of Benja
min, married Eliza Ann Peters. Their children were :
Hannah Ann, born October, 1816, died 1886; Sarah
Elizabeth, who married Benjamin Wiggins ; Mariam
Frances, born September 29, 1820, who married Jo
seph WiUiams, she died August 24, 1873; Jane Lou
isa Platt, born April 24, 1824. who married James
Valentine; and Benjamin T. Platt, born March 24,
1826, died July 4, 1857. Eliza Treadwell Platt,
daughter of Benjamin, born March 20, 1788, mar
ried PhiUp Allen, October 14, 1817. Their children
were : Benjamin Platt Allen, December 24, 1818; Sa
rah Elizabeth, January 1,1822; Emeline, April 2,
1824; Margaretta, born October 25, 1825. Emeline
Allen married Bloodgood H. Cutter at Flushing,
November 12, 1840 ; Sarah E. Allen married John
WooUey, December 22, 1842; Margaretta married

YOUNGEE HUNTINGTON BRANCH. 51
Benjamin WooUey, January 29, 1845 ; Benjamin Platt
Allen married Catharine Bergan. The old Platt
homestead at Little Neck, north of Hempstead, is
now occupied by Bloodgood H. Cutter, " the Long
Island Farmer Poet," who married a descendant of
Uriah Platt 1st. His wife departed this life March 24,
1881. He has at the homestead many of the old books
in the Platt library. He gave some of these data :
Frederic Augustus Platt, of Brooklyn, L. L, traces
back to Epenetus 1st, of Huntington. ' His father,
Epenetus 5th, a merchant in New York, died there,
1843, leaving : WiUiam Epenetus, who died 1888 ;
Maria E., who married Thomas Eodman Appleby,
still surviving her husband ; Caroliije W., who died
in 1888, and Frederick A. Platt, as above. He was
born in 1817 ; married 1852, Mary Augusta Hull, of
Derby, Ct. His children were : Frederick A., who
died in infancy, Isaac Hull, and Mary Augusta, who
died 1884, aged 26.
—Isaac Hull Platt, M. D., of Lakewood, N. J., born
May 18, 1853, was named after his mother's paternal
uncle. Captain Isaac Hull, of Constitution and
Guerierre memory. He was admitted to the bar as
a lawyer, but finally graduated.in medicine from the
Long Island College Hospital, 1882 ; married Sep
tember 2, 1886, Emma, daughter of Aaron G. Havi-
land, of Brooklyn. His children are : Frederick
Epenetus, born October 17, 1887, and Haviland Hull,
born April 6, 1889. He is well established in his
profession. His mother died January, 1890. His
son Epenetus is the seventh of this name in the an
cestral line.

IX.
DR. ZOPHAR BRANCH.

Dr. Zophae Platt, second son of Major Epenetus
2d, heads this branch ; born 1705, married Novem
ber 19, 1738, Eebecca, daughter of Joseph Wood, of
Huntington. He was quite eminent in his profes
sion, aud distinguished as a man of enterprise and
influence in his day. He died 1792. His children
were seven : Jeremiah, David, Ebenezer, Elizabeth,
Phebe, Sarah and Hannah. Jeremiah died in New
Haven ; David was born 1754 ; Elizabeth married D.
Phoenix ; Phebe married Samuel Broome ; Sarah
and Hannah successively married Eobert Ogden, of
Elizabeth, N. J. The late Cornelius DuBois, of
New York, was his grandson. Mrs. Nichol Floyd, of
Mystic, L. I., is a daughter ot Mr. DuBois.
— Mrs. T. C. Doremus, nee Sarah Haines, mother of
Professor Doremus, of Columbia College, New York,
is gladly accorded a place in this ancestral line.
She was a great-grand-daughter of Dr. Zophar
Platt, of the younger Huntington Branch. Her grand-

56 THE platt lineage.
mother was his daughter Sarah, who married Eob
ert Ogden, of New Jersey, whose daughter Mary was
the wife of Elias Haines, a prominent New York
merchant. He was the father of Mrs. Doremus,
who was the sister of Daniel Haines, Governor of
New Jersey, and a sister of Henrietta, who estab
lished "the Miss Haines school," so well known in
Gramercy Park, New York. Mrs. Doremus was
the founder, in 1860, of the first distinctive Woman's
Missionary Society in our country, the parent of all
the others, which have already contributed over ten
millions of dollars for foreign missions, and Avhich
unitedly have at this time an annual income of one
million dollars to aid in lifting up the less-favored
of their sex in heathen lands. These facts are de
rived from Dr. A. T. Pierson's " Crisis of Missions."
He says : " The Woman's Union Missionary Soci
ety, organized in New York in 1860-61, under the
leadership of the lamented Mrs. T. C. Doremus, and
with the Missioiiary Link as its organ, is the pioneer
in this country. This undenominational society led
the way, and was the parent of the various boards
now found in connection with all the great Chris
tian bodies." The " Missionary Year Book " calls
this the "mother society " of all the Woman's Mis
sionary organizations in America. These are sterl
ing facts.
—Ebenezer, third son of Dr. Zophar Platt, born in
Huntington, 1754, married Abigail, daughter of Jo
seph Lewis. She was born in 1761 and lived to the
age of 67. He was elected to the Legislature in 1784-
85. In 1794 he was appointed first Judge of Suffolk

DE. ZOPHAE BRANCH. 57
County, which place he held five years. In 1799 he
removed to New York, and was in the Custom House
many years. He was able, courteous and hospitable.
He died June 26, 1839, at the age of 85. His children
were : Isaac Watts Platt, many years settled as a
clergyman in Bath, N. Y.; Ebenezer, bank cashier.
New York ; Elizabeth, who married James Eogers ;
and Eebecca, who married Edmund, a brother of
James, of New York. The children of the latter
were : The late Eev. E. P. Eogers, D.D., of New
York ; John N., Sarah Platt, Julia and Harriet
Eogers. Isaac Watts Platt, (1788-1858) son of Ebenezer 1st,
married Anna McClure, of Philadelphia. He was a
pastor of a church in Bath, N. Y. He died 1869.
They had five children : Ebenezer, born 1823 ; Jo
seph Sloan, deceased ; James McClure Platt, Archi
bald A. Platt, deceased ; and Elizabeth Platt.
— Ebenezer 3d, the oldest, married Anna, daughter
of Dr. Charles Davis, of Elizabeth, N. J. Their chil
dren were Charles D. Platt, Anna McClure Platt, Wil
liam Clifford, and Luther D. Platt. Charles D. Platt,
A.M., graduated at Williams College in the class of
'77. He is principal of Morris Academy, Morristown,
N. J., where he has taught the last seven years. He
married Mary Jane West, August, 1883. Their chil
dren are : Eleanor W., Dorothy, and a son, Eichard
Huntingtou, born 1890.
— James McClure Platt, D. D., son of Isaac Watts,
born 1826, married Frances E. Upson, of New York.
Issue : William Alexander and Alice McClure Platt.
WiUiam A. married Julia Hawkinson ; two children.

58 the platt LINEAGE.
WiUiam Wallis and James McClure Platt. WUliam
Alexander, the father, is on the editorial staff of the
Evening Mail and Express. The grandfather, the
Eev. Dr. Platt, was a successor to his own father in
the Church of Bath, N. Y., but after an interval of
nearly twenty years. He died in 1884.
— Mary Gildersleeve Platt, daughter of Ebenezer
Platt 2d, married Eev. John G. Johnson, of Upper Eed
Hook, Duchess County, N. Y. She died November
15, 1854, leaving two children, E. Platt, and Ellen
G. Johnson. The father, whom the writer of this
knew very well, was an able minister of the gospel,
and his memory is gratefully cherished by many in
his church, neighborhood. He died July 3, 1870.
His daughter Ellen Gray, married Henry L. Under
wood. She diedinNewark,N. J., July3, 1880. Mr.
Underwood lives in Birmingham, Alabama.
— E. Platt Johnson, the oldest son of John G., is a
graduate of Williams College, in 1869. He is a law
yer of twenty years' practice in New York City.
— Amarintha N. Platt, daughter of Ebenzer 2d, mar
ried Eev. George E. Williamson, late of Amity, N. Y.
He died in his 30th year, September 6, 1852, from
injuries received in the explosion of the steamer
"Eeindeer" on the Hudson, near Tivoli, N. Y., on
that day. His wife and his oldest son were fatally
injured, too, the former dying September 15, and
Norman, the five-year-old son, in a few hours after the
explosion. An only son remains, Edwin B., born
April 5, 1852. He graduated from Eutgers College,
New Brunswick, N. J., in 1871, and from the Colum
bia Law School, New York, 1873, and he was admit-

DR. ZOPHAE BEANCH. 59
ted to the bar the same year. He is in the practice
of law in Newark, N. J.
— Sarah Platt, daughter of Dr. Zophar Platt, born
September 27, 1750, married May 19, 1772, Eobert
Ogden 3d, son of Eobert and Phebe (Hatfield), of
Elizabeth, N. J. Their children were five : Elizabeth
Platt, who married Col. Joseph Jackson, of Eockaway,
N. J.; Eobert Ogden 4tli, who removed to New Orleans,
was Justice of Supreme Court of Louisiana, and an
cestor of the Ogdens of that State ; Mary, who mar-
ried_^Elias Haines, of New York City, grandfather of
Eev. Alanson A. Haines, of Hamburg, N. J.; Jere
miah, who was drowned in boyhood; and Sarah Platt,
who married Cornelius DuBois, of New York City.
She is the mother of Henry A. DuBois, of New Ha
ven, Cornelius DuBois of Staten Island, and George
W. DuBois, D. D., rector of a church in Essex, N. Y.
Eobert Ogden 3d lost his wife Sarah Platt, 1781
soon after the birth of his daughter Sarah. He was
obliged in 1776 to remove his family to Morristown,
and a year later to Turkey, (now New Providence,)
to escape the raids of the British from Staten Island.
He resided here until near the close of the war.
— Hannah Platt, sister of Sarah, was the second wife
of Eobert Ogden 3d. They were married at Hunting
ton on Sunday, just after service, at the parsonage,
by Eev. Nathan WoodhuU, Dr. Piatt's family not
being aware of the marriage, until the parties walked
home and announced it. Their children were : Ee
becca Wood Platt, who married Dr. Samuel Fowler,
of Franklin Furnace ; Hannah Amelia Jarvis, who
married Judge Thomas C. Eyerson, of Hamburg, N.

60 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
J.; Phebe Henrietta Maria, who was Judge Eyerson's
second wife; Zophar Platt, WiUiam Henry Augustus,
and John Adams Ogden. In 1786, Eobert Og
den 3d, and his wife Hannah removed to Sparta, N. J.,
where she died. He afterwards went to Franklin
Furnace. He died at Hamburg, February 14, 1826.

X.
THE JOSIAH BRANCH.

The fourth son of Eichard 1st, Josiah, is the found
er of this line. There were many of his name, and
numerous descendants. He remained in his native
town ; he was baptized in 1645, the probable year of
his birth. The town records say that "Josiah Platt
and Sarah Camfield, both of Milford, were married
December 2, 1669, by Mr. John Clark, Qommis-
sioner." It is stated, too, in the church records that
" Josiah Platt and Sarah, his wife, were admitted to
membership October 22, 1672." Their family were
four sons and four daughters. His eldest, Josiah Platt,
was born June 29, 1671. He probably died in in
fancy or early youth, as within eight years another
son bears his name. Sarah, the oldest daughter
was born September 17, 1673 ; Mary was born No
vember 13, 1675 ; John, a favorite name in most of the
branches, was born September 5, 1677 ; a second
Josiah was born January 12, 1679 ; Eichard Platt
was born August 9, 1682 ; Hannah Platt was bap
tized November 29, 1685 ; Abigail was baptized
March 4, 1688 ; and Joseph, January 15, 1693.
Eichard Platt 2d, son of Josiah 1st, married Ester
Buckingham, November 7, 1706 ; Ester Platt, his
oldest daughter, was born April 18, 1708 ; Ann Platt

64 the PLATT lineage.
was born November 14, 1710; Mary, September
4, 1713, and Eichard Platt 3d, was born February
2, 1715. This Eichard married Mehetable Fisk, daugh
ter of Ebenezer, March 1, 1737. The first Fisk Platt
was a son of Eichard 4th and Sarah Camp, born 1768.
" Eichard Platt," it is recorded, " son of Eichard
Platt, jr., was born March 30, 1742." This was the
fourth in the ancestral line, the father of Fisk.
" Mehetable, daughter of Eichard and Mehetable
Platt, was baptized August 30, 1741." Eichard Platt
had a son Joseph, " who was baptized September 5,
1784." So much, for the Buckinghams and the
Eichards in the old time before us.
Sarah Platt, daughter of Josiah 1st, married Eich
ard Bryan. Their children were : Sarah, who mar
ried a Nettleton; Eichard, who married Mehetable
Clark, daughter of Samuel, afterwards, in 1721,
Sarah Treat, daughter of Joseph ; Frances married,
1725, Jeremiah Gillett, afterwards, Stephen Miles;
Augustus, born January, 1707 ; Alexander, October,
1709 ; Hannah, born January, 1712, married a Bald
win; and Nathan, born December, 1714, married
Elizabeth Whitman, daughter of Zechariah, June
27, 1739.
Mary Platt, daughter of Josiah 1st, married Jo
seph Clark, son of Thomas. Their children were :
Mary, born March, 1704, married Joseph Sanford,
afterwards Thomas Baldwin ; Hannah, born Janu
ary, 1706, married Jonathan Fowler, son of William,
January 9, 1729 ; Joseph, born October, 1708, mar
ried Mary Sanford, daughter of Andrew; and Daniel,
baptized AprU 8, 1716, married AbigaU, daughter of

THE JOSIAH BRANCH. 65
Samuel and Silence Buckingham. Prof. J. T. Platt
wrote that the town records of Newtown, Ct., give
these data following : " Josiah Platt, of the town
and county of New Haven, in consideration of love
and affection to his son Josiah Platt, of Newtown,
willed him half his land on Gelding Hill in New
town, October 18, 1758. (Vol. 7, p. 157.) Josiah
Platt, of Milford, Ct., in consideration of love aud
good will which I have and do boar unto my grand
son Josiah Platt 3d, now of Newtown, October 18,
1758," willed him land in Newtown. (Large vol. 7,
p. 155.) Josiah Platt, sr.. of Milford, to his son
Josiah Platt, jr., of New Haven, willed " 108 acres
on Gelding HiU in Newtown." Id, 1-49.
The wUl of a Josiah Platt, dated October 26, 1758,
is on record in the Probate Court of New Haven.
The testator mentions his wife, Sarah, and sons Jo
siah, Nathan, Isaac, Jonas, and daughter Frances,
(Peck) and grand-daughters, Sarah, Abigail and Mary.
He gave lands iu Newtown to his sons Josiah and Jo
nas, and to his grand-son Josiah. He gave lands in
Waterbury to his sons Nathan and Isaac.
" Nathan Platt and Amos Platt conveyed to Mary
Platt, wife of Isaac Platt, lands in Zoar, descended
to them from their mother, Sarah Platt."
John Platt was an early settler in Newtown. On
February 7, 1721-2, he conveyed to his brother Jo
siah Platt, of Milford, the one-fourth part of a whole
right of commonage in undivided land throughout
the whole township, (Bk. 1. foi. 26). John Platt, of
Newtown, conveyed land to his brother Eichard Platt,
of MUford, AprU 20, 1725, (Vol. 3 and 4, page 462).

66 THE PLATT LINEAGF,.
John Platt, of Newtown, conveyed land in that
town to his sons, Ebenezer, John and Moses, in 1741.
In Newtown it is recorded, March 11, 1766, that
Josiah Platt was aged 91 ; January 3, 1769, his widow
was about 91 years of age.
In the Newtown Eecords (Vol. 8th) this is found :
" Josiah Platt and Sarah Sanford were joined in mar
riage covenant, November 13, 1758. Children : Han
nah, born October 3, 1759; Nathan, born March 8,
1761 ; Isaac, born December 24, 1762 ; Louisa, born
May 28, 1765 ; Amos, born January 12, 1768 ; Jonas,
born January 11, 1770."
It is on record in Newtown that Nathan Platt, of
Waterbury, Amos Platt, of Southbury, Isaac Platt,
Josiah Platt, Hannah Platt and Lois Mallery, of
Newtown, obtained from Lidia Platt, of Newtown,
widow of Josiah Platt, late of Newtown, a release of
her dower interest in his estate, February 10, 1804,
(Vol. 23, page 38). This shows a second marriage
by Josiah Platt. " Woodmont," the house his grand
father built about 1700, is still standing ; in archi
tecture, a fine specimen of the American anti'que,
with its long retreating roof.
Nathan Platt, eldest son of Josiah Platt and Sa
rah, (Sanford) tracing back to the Milford Josiah
stock, was born in Newtown, March 3, 1761 ; he mar
ried Euby Smith of same place. He lived many
years in Waterbury, Ct. He was " a soldier of
the Eevolution." A second marriage was to Char
lotte Dickerman. He died in Wallingford, 1845, in
his 84th year. His children by his first marriage
were : Levi Smith, Alfred, Ely, Almon, Anner, Leon-

THE JOSIAH BEANCH. 67
ard, Sarah and Martha. He was buried in Water
bury. His wife, Euby, died 1829.
— Levi Smith, his eldest son, born 1787, married
Patty Hawley, of Danbury. He spent his closing
days on his farm there. He died, aged 58. His
children were: Emmon, Mary Ann, William, Lorin,
and Elizabeth. His son William, born 1814, mar
ried Fanny Sherman, of Danbury, (born 1817).
He resides in Newtown, Ct. William's children
were : Francis, Emily, Charles, Fanny and Eoger.
Of these none survive but Charles S. Platt, born May
1, 1846 ; he married March 31, 1879, Ella E. Ingra
ham, of Bridgeport, and has three children : Charles
E., born January, 1880; Arthur P., born February 22,
1882; and Agnes E. Lorin, the next son of Levi S.
Platt, was born in 1817 ; married Jane Sherman, of
Danbury, 1844; he died in Springfield, Mass., May
16, 1875, leaving two children living, Annetta and
Joseph. He had a farm in Pennsylvania.
— Elizabeth, Smith Piatt's youngest daughter, mar
ried Harrison Weed, of New Haven. They are resid
ing there now. They have four children : DeWitt,
Lorin (deceased), Harry, and Libbie.
— Alfred Platt, second son of Nathan Platt, and
Leonard Platt, his youngest son, give rise to the
Waterbury Branch.
— Ely Platt, third son, heads the Norwich Branch.
— Almon Platt, fourth son, married Alvina Allen, of
Waterbury, March 6, 1817. She died 1837, aged 41,
leaving five children: Albert, Martha S., who died in
her 18th year ; Mary Jane, Elizabeth S., and Ely Platt.
A second marriage was to Volutia Hall, of Walling-

68 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
ford ; she died aged 62, leaving children : Euby Al
vina, died aged 11 ; Harvey Almon, died in infancy ;
Harvey Almon 2d, born in 1842, died in his 15th
year; and Emily Hall Platt. Almon Platt died De
cember 29, 1882, aged 86. His oldesi son Albert,
born December 24, 1818, married Jerusha Ives about
1840. They had two daughters, Martha and Sarah
A. Albert married in succession, Lucy B. Barrows,
of Pawtucket, Ehode Island, then Paulina Pickett, of
Litchfield, and Mary Tuttle, of Southington. His
daughter Martha married Charles Braithwaite ; two
children, Albert and Wesley. They live in Shab-
bona. Ills. His daughter, Sarah A., married Fay
Tiffany, of Berkhamstead. They have children,
Mary and Arthur. The family now live in Albion,
Nebraska. Mary Jane, second daughter of Almore Platt, born
June 25, 1824, married Junius Brown, of Waterville.
He died without children.
Elizabeth S., born August 23, 1827, married Lewis
J. Atwood, of Waterbury, January 12, 1852. Three
children : Lizzie Alvina, born July 22, 1853, died
May 12, 1856 ; Fannie Finette, born March 25, 1856;
and Irving L., born May 17, 1861. The second
daughter, Fannie, married Albert I. Blakesley, De
cember 11, 1879 ; she died October 10, 1884, not long
after the birth of a daughter, Beth Margaret, who
died in infancy. Irving L. married Jennie M. Ford,
December 28, 1882. Their children are : Lewis Ir
ving Atwood, born November 14, 1884, and Carlton
F. Atwood, born October 3, 1886. The Atwood home
is in Waterburv, Ct.

THE JOSIAH BEANCH. 69
Ely Platt, second son of Almon Platt, born March
4, 18.30, married Frances Harrison, of Wallingford,
Ct., September, 1851. They have children, Harry
and Alice, and others ; residing at Carbondale,
Kansas. Emily Hall, youngest daughter of Almon Platt,
born July 3, 1844 ; married Jerome Wedge. They
have Alice M. and Minnie. The family reside at
Morris, Ct.
— Of the daughters of Nathan Platt, Anner, unmar
ried, lived to the age of 79. Sarah married Daniel
Tuttle ; she lived to her 89th year ; died at Keno
sha, Wis., 1889, leaving children : Edward, Eebecca
Ann, Euby Smith, Aaron, Elizabeth, Sarah Irene,
and Eliza Grace. Of these Eebecca Ann married
David Hull of Newtown, Ct. They have five chil
dren ; they are living in Dunlap, Iowa. The second
daughter, Euby Smith, married Alanson Craw; they
live in Waterbury. (A son, Edwin Craw, is married.)
Aaron, son of Daniel and Sarah Tuttle, born iu 1823,
died in youth. Elizabeth M., third daughter, born
1824, married John A. Smith, of Dunlap, Iowa ; both
deceased. Sarah Irene, born 1826, married Horace
Osborne, 1852 ; both deceased. Eliza Grace,, fifth
daughter, married Hiram Smith ; she died 1857. The
family removed to Dunlap. The youngest son, Ed
ward Tuttle, born 1835, marriedHannahCurtiss, 1858;
they have three children living ; their oldest daugh
ter, Lizzie, married W. H. Fuller ; living in Passaic,
N. J. Edward Tuttle, his wife, and Josiah and Louise.
His children, are living in Kenosha, Wis.
— Martha, daughter of Nathan Platt, married Asahel

70 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Judd. Their children are: Franklin, Calvin, Leonard,
and one daughter, deceased. Calvin, born 1824, is
living in Iowa. Franklin resides at Plattville, where
his mother died, August 22, 1886, in her 89th year.
George Fowler Platt, born 1841, deacon of the First
Church, Milford, traces from Eichard 1st, through
Josiah 1st, Joseph, then deacon Joseph, and Captain
Joseph, to Nathan, his grand-father, and Nathan his
father ; his farm has come down to him through five
generations. He married Elizabeth Addis ; has one
son, William F., born 1867. His brother, Norman S.,
resides in Cheshire, Ct., who married Estelle Beers,
of that place. Has no surviving children. A third
brother is N. Dwight Platt, of Milford, who married
Elizabeth ManvUle, October 13, 1869. Frank N.
Platt, their only child, was born December 14, 1875.
E. B. Platt and Eichard Platt are ex-deacons of the
Eirst Church in Milford ; G. F. Platt and H. N.
Platt are now the acting deacons. This honorable
distinction in the First Church in Milford, has con
tinued among those of our name from the time of
Eichard 1st.

Other descendants of Josiah 1st, now resident in
Milford are:
Eichard Platt, son of Eichard, born December 29,
1821 ; he married Angelina Bedell, of Elizabeth, N. J.
David Baldwin Platt, also son of Eichard, born
1823, married Mary Camp, daughter of Elias.
Henry Newton Platt, son of Newton, born No
vember 25, 1830, married Susan Tomlinson, daugh-

THE JOSIAH BRANCH. 71
ter of Nathan (widow Isbell). His brother Jonah
C. Platt resides in Ansonia, Ct.
George Fisk Platt, son of Nathan, born April 10,
1835, married Mary Montague, of Northampton, Mass.
Elliot Baldwin Platt, son of Joseph and Elizabeth,
was born April 2, 1833.
Joseph E. Platt is the son of Eichard Willis Platt
and Abigail (Clark).
WiUiam Platt, son of William, born November 17,
1823, married Sarah Oviatt, daughter of Curtis;
afterwards, Almira A. Hand, of Watertown.
Phineas Platt, son of William, born, February,
1833, married JaneElmira Clark, daughter of Eogers.
He has a brother Eichard in New Haven.

Willis Platt, son of David, 1795, and grandson of
Benjamin, says that his father left Milford about
1812, and located at Skaneateles, N. Y. His mother's
maiden name was Betsey Higby. The children were :
Charles, Harvey, Hannah, Eliza, Daniel, Martha
(Eeed), Abigail (Avery), Elizabeth, Isaac E., and
Willis. Daniel, Elizabeth, Isaac and Willis only
are living. Their home is in Skaneateles.

Eev. William H. Platt, D.D., of Petersburg, Va.,
is a son of Henry Jarvis Platt, who, born at New
Bedford, Ct., married Sarah Dakin at Amenia, N. Y.
They had six children. The son above, and his
brother George Fisk Platt, of Crawford, Ga., 'are the
only ones living. The former married Cornelia
Outhbert, of Mobile, Ala., but formerly of Georgia.
Three children : Charles W., Horace G. and Ed-

72 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
ward C. Platt. A second marriage was to Emily
Beverly Meade, of Petersburg, Va. Two children :
Cornelia G. Kent, of New York, and John Meade of
Anacortes, Washington. His present wife is In
diana Meade of Petersburg. One daughter, Mary
Meade Platt. He received his degrees of D.D., and
LL.D. from William and Mary College, Va. He
was rector some years in San Francisco, Oal., a
professor of legal ethics in Hastings Law College,
Cal. He was rector of a church in Eochester, N. Y.,
for several years. He has written " Hand Book of
Art Culture," " Influence of Eeligion in the Devel
opment of Jurisprudence," " Legal Ethics," " God
Out and Man In," a reply to E. G. lugersoU; " Is Eeli
gion Dying ?" and the " Philosophy of the Supernat
ural," the Paddock Lectures in '86, before the Gen
eral Theological Seminary, New York.
— George Fisk Platt, of Crawford, Ga., born in 1812,
married Mary A. E. Smith of Georgia, November 1,
1836. He has one son onlj' living, E. H. Platt, who
makes his home in Atlanta, Ga.
The family of Henry Jarvis Platt, in full, is as fol
lows : George Fisk, Ephraim Hamlin, Elizabeth H.,
William Henry, Edward, and Edwin. The grand
father of these was Ephraim Hamlin Platt, sen., of
New Bedford, Ct. The ancestral line is not fully
traced. " Fisk" is a name for the most part belong
ing to the Josiah stock, whilst the name " Jarvis"
comes in the Fairfield branch from the older Hunt
ington line of Isaac 1st, son of Eichard 1st. The
true line it is difficult to determine ; the marriage in
Sharon Branch may be a clue.

XL
YOUNGER MILFORD BRANCH.

Joseph.

He is often called Lieut. Platt. Eichard 1st left
the homestead to Joseph, his youngest son, with a
share of the arable and pasture lands to Josiah, next
older. Joseph, baptized 1649, married Mary Kellog,
of Norwalk, May 5, 1680 ; Joseph 2d, his son, born
February 4, 1683, married Elizabeth Woodbury,
January 19, 1702 ; (Sarah Platt, daughter of Joseph 2d,
was boi-n March 28, 1703); Epenetus Platt, 2d, son of
Joseph 1st, was born May 7, 1696 ; Mary, daughter
of Joseph 1st, was born May 6, 1704 ; Samuel Platt
1st, son of Joseph Platt 1st, was baptized September
7, 1690 ; " Samuel, son of Samuel Platt, was baptized
March 17, 1723."
— Samuel Platt, jr., son of Samuel 1st, married Han
nah Prudden, May 13, 1742. Issue : Hannah, born
May 24, 1743 ; Samuel 3d, born October 22, 1744 ;
Hester, born May 17, 1747 ; Mary, born January 29,
1749, and Gracie, boru August 12, 1750. Samuel, it
seems, was of the house and lineage of Joseph.
In the Milford records we read that "Joseph Platt,
jr., and Mehetable Fenn were" married -Inne 16,
1720 ;" if this is Joseph 2d it is a second marriage.
Their children were : Sarah, born September 4,
1721 ; and Joseph, born November 13, 1724. This is

76 the PLATT LINEAGE.
another record : " Joseph, son of Joseph Platt, was
baptized May 13, 1711. " This Joseph it is difficult to
place ; it may be Joseph 3d ; possibly dying young
he may have left his place and name to Joseph 3d,
just mentioned, the son of Mehetable Platt.
The descendants of Joseph 1st, now resident in
Milford, Ct., are : Nathan C. Platt, son of Clark, born
April, 1828, married Virginia Brown, daughter of Hor
ace ; also, Luke Platt, son of Clark, born 1833, mar
ried Ellen Cad well, of Eome, N. Y.; Theodore, also
son of Clark Platt, born November, 1837, married
Marrietta Newton Driver, June 12, 1861.
Also, George E. Platt,. son of William and Mary,
born 1837, married Miss Wakely, then Nellie Merwin,
daughter of Miles Merwin.
Henry C. Platt, of Milford, descends from Lieut.
Joseph, the youngest of Eichard's sons. This Jo
seph had a son Joseph, and his son Ebenezer, late in
life married Hannah Green. These had, among
others, a son. Jonah who left eight children : Clark,
William, Jonah, Charles, Maria, Aurelia, Eliza, and
Mary ; of these there are now living only Jonah, in
his 82d year, (who resides with his only son, Henry
C. Platt,) and Mary, who married Jared Merwin, she
surviving her husband. Her sister, Maria, married
Isaac Treat, of Orange, who has eight children. Au
relia married Charles Merwin. Eliza married Abram
Marks. Of the brothers Charles Platt left one son
only, Howard B. ; William Platt left two sons, George
and Albert ; Clark, the eldest, left three sons, Na
than C, Luke, and Theodore Platt. These are still
living. WiUiam Platt left two daughters : Catharine,

YOUNGEE MILFOED BEANCH. 77
deceased, and Laura, wife of Isaac C. Smith ; Clark
left one daughter, Esther, who married William H.
Cox. H. C. Platt, above named, married Emma Treat, a
direct descendant of Eobert Treat, the celebrated
Colonial Governor of Connecticut. His oldest son,
Harrison Gray Platt, graduated from Yale in the class
of '88. He taught a year in the Bishop Scott Acad
emy at Portland, Oregon. He is now in the Yale
Law SchooL The youngest son, Eobert Treat Platt,
graduated from Yale in the class of '89. He is now
teaching in the Betts Academy, Stamford, Ct. Mr.
H. C. Platt has a law office in New Haven, Ct. His
residence is at Milford. He delivered an address at
the 250th anniversary of the settlement of Milford,
August 20, 1889.
Joseph 1st continues his line of descendants
through the Gideon Branch, and through a portion
of the Vermont record.

XII.
FAIRFIELD BRANCH.

This is an offshoot from the older Huntington
stock. Obadiah Platt andhisbrother Timothy, sons
of Jonas, the oldest son of Isaac 1st, crossed the
sound and located at Fairfield, Ct. The name of
Obadiah is mentioned in its records, about the year
1724, and he is described as from Huntington. Ac
cording to the book of marriages (p. 109), Obadiah
Platt and Mary Smith were joined in marriage Au
gust 10, 1722. Their ohUdren were : Abel Platt,
born August 2, 1723 ; Sarah, born June 25, 1725 ;
Jonas, born October 9, 1727, ancestor of Hon. O. H.
Platt ; Obadiah, born August 8, 1729, ancestor of
Prof. Johnson T. Platt ; Ann, born November 5,
1731 ; David, born September 15, 1734 ; Mary, born
January 7, 1736, and Elizabeth, born May 10, 1737.
Mary, wife of Obadiah 1st, died at Eidgefield, No
vember 16, 1771. Abel lived in the parish of Eed
ding, in the northerly part of Fairfield, and in Eidge
field, to which he removed about 1756. Tradition
says he was taken prisoner during the Danbury
raid, and carried to New York city, where he died.
Obadiah Platt, son of Obadiah and Mary, was born
August 8, 1729, and died November 25, 1784. He re
sided in the parish of North Fairfield, and the house
in which he lived is still standing, although somewhat

82 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
altered. He first married Miss Treadwell but he
had no issue ; a second marriage was to Thankful
Scudder, of Huntington, who was baptized there
May 18, 1735. Miss Scudder's mother died when
she was a year old and Thomas and Abigail Jarvis,
of Huntington, brought her up. She died at Dan
bury 1816, in her 82d year. She was buried at
Starr's Plain cemetery. Their children were : Jar
vis, born 1759 ; Jesse, Obadiah, Alexander Smith,
Sarah, who died in infancy, Eunice, Polly, and
Abby. There is great probability that all who bear
the name of Jarvis will be able to trace their ances
try in this line.
Jarvis Platt, son of Obadiah, of Fairfield, was born
September, 1759, and died at Fayetteville, Va., in
1841 ; His wife was Annie Nichols, of Newtown, Ct.
He lived for a time in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., also
in Newtown, Ct., and in Virginia. They had chil
dren : David, 1782-1814; Philo N., 1795-1871 ; Alex
ander Smith 1800-1826, unmarried. Sallie married
E. Sanford, then A. Wilcox, (she was born 1780) ;
Charlotte, who married Lemuel Sanford; and Abi
gail, who married Norman Tyler. David had two
children : Philo Toussey and Alesia or Elosia.
Philo N. Platt, son of Jarvis, born January 11,
1795, married Paulina Edwards, November 30, 1811.
ChUdren : Eunice, 1818-1834 ; Albert G., 1820, mar
ried Jane Eoss, May, 1856 : Nicholas, born May 23,
1823, married Ehoda N., 1855; Paulina, born July 5,
1826, married J. C. McDaniels, May, 1853 ; and Eu
nice M., born March 31, 1832, married Flemming
Huddleston, 1848, (the latter name not very legible)

FAIEPTELD BEANCH. 83
Jesse Platt 1st, son of Jonas, lived at Huntington.
His children were : Jesse 2d, who lived at Hempstead
and died in 1769, (two children, Hannah and Mary);
Isaac, who died 1772, and Zophar, born 1734, died
March 27, 1811.
Isaac Platt, son of Jesse, married Esther Ketcham,
Feb. 27, 1744^5. Their children were: Obadiah,
Elizabeth, and Mary and Sarah (twins), Jesse and
Isaac. The last was baptized June 14, 1754. He
died Aug. 8, 1849.
— Obadiah Platt, son of Isaac above, married Mary
Platt, daughter of Epenetus, 1769. He died Dec. 7,
1829, aged 84. She died June 7, 1825, in her 85th
year. — Jesse Platt, born 1762, second son of Obadiah,
of Fairfield, and Thankful Scudder Platt, married
Hannah Eaymond, of Norwalk, Ct., settled at Weston,
Ct., and left one child, Clarissa Platt, born Aug. 29,
1788, who married Judge David Munson, of Dan
bury, whose daughter, Caroline A. Munson, was the
wife of Isaac A. Dusenberry, of Port Chester, N. Y.
— Obadiah Platt, third son of Obadiah of Fair
field, married Elizabeth Hawley, of Newtown, Ct.
He lived at Ogdensburg, N. Y., and had children:
Eunice, Mary, Elizabeth, Catharine, Samuel, Jesse,
Jarvis, Obadiah, Smith and David M. Sherman
Platt, of the Treasury Department, Washington,
D. C.,and Miss Bessie Platt, of Chicago, are descend
ants of this Obadiah Platt.
— Smith Platt, fourth son of Obadiah of Fairfield,
settled at Galway, eight miles from Ballston, N. Y.;
married Annie Wakeman, of Greenfield, Ct., and had

84 THE PLATT LINEAGE.'
children : Polly, Abby, Eliza, Wakeman, Jarvis and
Obadiah H. Platt. The last two, dec, were minis
ters. Obadiah H., a lawyer, was some time in gov
ernment service at Washington, D. C.
¦ — Abigail Platt, youngest daughter of Obadiah, of
Fairfield, married Peter WiUiams, of Weston, Ct.,
and r-emoved to Ballston, N. Y. Her children were :
Smith, Jonathan, Moses, Platt, Abby, Eunice and
Clarissa Williams.
— Eunice, born July 9, 1767, married Isaac Platt,
of Huntington, Oct. 18, 1787. She died without
issue, Aug. 22, 1862, in her 96th year.
¦ — PoUyPlatt, second daughter of Obadiah, of Fair
field, married Denny Hull, of Greens Farms, Conn.,
April, 1786, and had children Isaac P., EunicQ, Den
ny and Polly Hull. She died October 9, 1850, in her
81st year.
It is stated that of the children of Obadiah Platt
of Fairfield, David, Amos, and Jonas, died during
the revolution. Amos and Jonas were taken pris
oners by the British army, and confined in the old
" Sugar House " prison, in consequence of which
both died. David left a large farm at Eidgefield.
He had one daughter and four sons, who all died
just before or soon after their father's death, Sept.
19, 1776. The tradition is, that he visited the
American camp at New York, where he contracted
the " Camp distemper," so called. Eeturning home,
the disease proved fatal to him and his children.
Their names were John, David, Sarah and Nathan.

Timothy Platt, son of Jonas Platt, of Hunting-

FAIEFIELD BRANCH. 85
ton, L. I., who came over with his brother Obadiah
about 1723 or 4, settled in Fairfield, in the parish of
Eedding. In the book of marriages and births, in
the town clerk's office, at Fairfield, this record ap
pears (page 143) : " Timothy Platt, son of Jonas
Platt, and Margery Smith, daughter of John Smith,
were married August 22, 1728." Timothy Platt, son
of foregoing, was born June 26, 1729. Also, Hezekiah,
born AprU 22, 1732 ; Abigail, born April 14, 1736;
Anne, born August 26, 1739 ; Jesse, boru July 4, 1741;
and Zebulon, born Feb. 28, 1743. His will was dated
Sept. 22, 1784, and in it he mentions his wife Eebekah
(a second marriage, it seems), also his children Timo
thy, Hezekiah, Jesse, Zebulon, Abigail and Anne.
Abigail married Nathaniel Hull, and Anne mar
ried Hezekiah Whitlock. Jesse and Zebulon were ex
ecutors. Jonas, son of Isaac 1st and father of Timo
thy, was born August 10, 1667, Huntington, L. I.
Six persons of the name of Platt signed the
Eedding Association, Conn, (to uphold the Continen
tal Congress), viz. : Abel, Joseph and Josiah, of-Fair-
field.Co.; Obadiah, of Fairfield, and Isaac, Hezekiah,
and Timothy, of Eedding.
Zebulon Platt died .July 23, 1816, aged 72. Phebe,
his wife, died Jan. 30, 1790, in the 39th year of her
age. Elizabeth, his second wife, died March 14,
1811, aged 59.
In the Fairfield land records there are nearly thirty
transfers of land to and from those of the name of
Platt — Obadiah, Timothy, Abel, Hezekiah, Jonah,
and several others.

86 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Charles H. Platt, son of Allen, born at Stepney,
Ct., May 30, 1850, is a descendant of Timothy, the
brother of Obadiah. His grandfather was James,
of Eedding, Ct. His great-grandfather was also a
James, the son of Zebulon Platt, son of Timothy
2d. The family after the burning of Danbury re
moved to New Fairfield, Ct. Zebulon Platt lived at
one time at Lonetown, west of Danbury and Bridge
port turnpike. James 1st had two sisters, Margaret
and Martha. His children were eight : Joseph,
1794; James 2d, boru 1800; David Montgomery,
1808; and Abel, 1814; Hulda, 1812; Betsey, 1801;
and Deborah, 1803. Joseph, the oldest, died in
1841, David died at Buffalo, Montgomery at New
Fairfield. James 2d, died at Bethel, Ct. C. H.
Platt, grandson of James, has been a railroad mana
ger many years. He is now General Manager at
the Grand Central Station, New York. He married
Emma J. Burritt, of Southington, Ct., iu 1870. He
has a son Allen Hemingway, who was born at Fish-
kiU, N. Y., Feb. 11, 1885. He gives the following
data: The children of James 1st were all born at New
Fairfield, Ct., he having removed to that place with
his father Zebulon in 1791. The house the family
occupied is still standing.
Joseph Platt 1st, eldest son of James 1st, married
Lydia Mirick, at New Lisbon, N. Y., March 21,
1824. She died September 14, the following year.
A second marriage was to Olive Earl, May 10, 1826.
She died November 24, 1881. Joseph died at Ham
burg, N. Y., May 11, 1841. Their children were

FAIEFIELD RRANCH. " 87
Charles M. Platt, son of Lydia, born March 4,
1825, died January 23, 1875 ; Lydia M., daughter of
Olive, born March 9, 1827 ; WiUiam C, son of same,
born at Vernon, N. Y., September 21, 1828 ; Horace
J., born January 14, 1830, died March 28, 1832;
Francis M., October 30, 1831, died March 11, 1832 ;
Horace J., born at Hamburg, N. Y., March 1, 1833 ;
David W., 1835, died 1837; Sarah A., born Decem-.
ber 11, 1836 ; and Francis H., born January 3, 1840,
died August 17, 1865.
— Charley M., oldest son of Joseph, born 1825,
married Asenath A. Dayton, at Eden, Nov. 9, 1847.
Their children were : John D., born March 30, 1851;
Frank L., 1852 ; M. Louise, Nov. 13, 1854; Nettie D.,
Feb. 18, 1856 ; and Lewis D., May 29, 1859. Of these
John D. died Sep. 4, 1852 ; M. Louise married Frank
L. Barnet, attorney at Hamburg, N. Y., Sept. 8,
1881 ; Lewis D. married Anne A. Hawthorne, at Al-
den, N. Y., Oct. 18, 1887.
— Wm. C. Platt, second son, married Julia E. Dart,
July 3, 1852. Their children were : Ward D., born
AprU 21, 1853; Ida M., AprU 19, 1855; Carrie F.,
April 9, 1859. Of these Ward married Mary J. Bar
nard, of Buffalo, July 9, '78 ; (one child, Mary born
May 1, 1888, died 12th of same month.) Ida M.
married Adelbert Eobert, of Evans, A^Dril 29, 1875,
and Carrie F. married Oct. 26, 1887, G. C. Hardesty,
President of Bank of Angelica, N. Y. Ward D. Platt
is a clergyman at Hornellsville, N- Y.
Ida M. and Adelbert Eoberts have two children :
Olive Daisy and Grace Henrietta.
— Horace J., third son, married Pamelia F. Church

88 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Oct. 10, 1867. Their chUdren are : Clarence W.,
born May 16, 1870; Eva M., Oct. 5, 1878; and
George Asa, Feb. 6, 1881.
— Lydia M., oldest daughter of Joseph Platt, mar
ried Dr. L. E. Leach, Hamburg, September 5, 1858.
Their children are : Willis E., Frank P., Frederic,
and Joseph E. Frank P. is a clergyman.
— Sarah A., second daughter, married Myron
Walker, at Hamburg, December 10, 1885.
James 2d, second son of James Platt 1st, married
Mary Jacobs, November 25, 1818. Their chUdren
were: Orriu,born October 27, 1819; Silas B., boru
AprU 22, 1821; Allen, January 15, 1823; Sarah,
August 12, 1825 ; Hulda J.^ June 7, 1831 ;
Lorintha, May 12, 1833; William H. and Syl
vester, born March 27, 1840. Of these Orrin mar
ried Betsey Purdy; they had one daughter, Lydia,
who married Henry Fairchild. Betsey P. died at
Stepney depot, 1863. Her husband married again,
and he is living at Stepney. Silas B. died at Mace-
don, leaving one unmarried son, James, who
was born February, 1845. AUen married Har
riet Hemingwaj', October 9, 1844. He died at
Stepney August 30, 1863. She died at Shelton, Ct.,
April 7, 1890. Their chUdren born at Stepney
were : Theodore F., born January 4, 1846 ; Charles
H., born May 30, 1850 ; Mary E., born July
3, 1855; and Ella J., May 1, 1862. Of these,
Theodore married H. Augusta Bristol, Novem
ber 15, 1866; Charles H, married E. J. Burritt,
of Southington, June 8, 1870 — one son, Allen H.
Mary married J. C. Fields, September, 26, 1876;

FAIRFIELD BRANCH. 89
two children, Hattie and Julia ; the mother died
December 20, 1889. Ella married Dr. J. D. Patter
son, of Brooklyn, L. I., January 20, 1885 ; one son,
Theodore. Sarah Platt, oldest daughter of James 2d, mar
ried Charles Fowler, now living at Mill Plain, Ct.;
two children, Frank and Emma. Hulda married
Eev. W. H. Stebbins ; she survives her husband.
Lorintha, her sister, married Edwin Whaley, now
living at Danbury; two children, Chester and
AUce. Of the youngest sons of James 2d, Sylvester
died when a soldier in the Union army, unmarried.
His brother William Henry married Mary J. Taylor,
of Eedding, now living at Bethel, Ct.; one son,
George, born July 4, 1866, who has one daughter,
Grace, born January 6, 1889.
Betsey, Deborah and Montgomery, children of
James Platt, 1st, remained permanently at New
Fairfield, Conn. The first married Ethal Wheeler :
Debora, married Nelson Porter ; and Montgomery,
married Lucy Whaley, Dec. 19, 1832. The latter
has three sons : Lorenzo D., Edward C, and La
fayette W.
Hulda, the youngest daughter of James 1st, mar
ried Leander Beers. She is now a widow, living at
Danbury, Conn. Two children living : Clark and
Emma. Abel, the youngest son of James 1st, married
Phebe Porter, of Buffalo, N. Y., in 1835. He died at
Dixon, 111., Jan. 13, 1877. Their children were :
Julius A., born May 28, 1836 ; Homer, Dec. 4, 1837 ;
Charlotte, Dec. 1, 1838 ; Jerome, May 2, 1847 ; and

90 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Imogene, born Feb. 9, 1858. Of these Julius married
Hannah S. McDonald, Jan. 9, 1868. Their children
were : Albert D., born Feb. 24, 1869 ; Ada May and
Charles J., born April 20, 1872. Homer died Aug.
17, 1839. Charlotte M. married Elias A. MiUer, at
Dixon, III, Dec. 28, 1864. They have one child
Anna, born in 1866. Jerome married Carrie L.
Hutchings, at Chicago, IU., Dec. 18, 1872.

Miss Bessie Platt, of Chicago, 111., gives the^edata:
Her grandfather, Obadiah H. Platt, married Eliza
beth Hawley. Jesse Platt, his oldest son, was her
father. Her uncle is Jarvis E. Platt, living in Mani
towoc, Wis. Her brother, Jarvis H. Platt, is of Lis
bon, N. Y. A cousin, O. H. Platt, a lawyer, lives in
Hyde Park, 111. A part of the year he resides in
Tampa, Florida. His brother was the Eev. Wake
man Platt, formerly of New York city. The latter
has several daughters. One is a teacher in the
musical conservatory iu Dubuque, Iowa; one
married a Mr. Boardman, a lumber merchant,
who has an island near Mackinaw, stocked with
blooded horses. Miss Bessie Platt says : A
short time ago thirteen cousins visited me.
They were from Trumansburg, St. Louis and
New York City. At a wedding in Chicago I met a
Mr. Henry Platt, of St. Louis. My father's
cousin Philo moved to Virginia. I have an Aunt
Eunice living in Lisbon, N. Y*., quite aged, who at
one time lived on Long Island with her uncle Isaac
Platt, whose wife was named Eunice. My father's
brother, O. H. Platt, died in Lisbon nearly a year

FAIRFIELD BRANCH. 91
since. I have a cousin, Sherman Platt, living in
Washington, D. G; he has been in the Treasury
Department ever since the war. He married Miss
Emma Carpenter, who was a daughter of my
father's sister Catherine. I have also a cousin in
Manitowoc, Mrs. Joseph Vilas, daughter of my
father's brother, M. S. Platt. Our family originally
settled in Fairfield Co., Ct. I have a sister, Mrs.
Dr. J. P. Webb, who lives in Oakland, Cal.; another,
Mrs. Dr. MacEae, living in San Francisco. I have
a nephew, L. C. Collins, in Collins, Tex. I have
always understood that the name of Jarvis became
a family name in this way : "My great-great-grand
mother was Thankful Scudder. She was left an
orphan very young, and went and lived with a relative
whose name was Jarvis. She not liking her Puritan
name, took the name of Fannie Jarvis." — From a
letter to Prof. J. T. Platt, of New-Haven.

Philo E. Platt, son of Albert J., was born in Fay
etteville, W. Va., in 1856. He lived there nearly
thirty years. In 1885 he removed to Moundsville,
W. Va., and in 1887 married Jennie Israel, of the
latter place, where he now resides.

XIII.
REDDING BRANCH.

This is not fully traced. The first name is that of
Isaac Platt, located in the northern part of the town.
The Eedding town records give these data : Isaac
Piatt's children : Philip Picket Platt, born February
13, 1766 ; Sally, May 19, 1767 ; Huldah, November
12, 1769 ; Ehoda, June 8, 1772 ; Mary, June 5, 1775 ;
David, born AprU 3. 1784, died November 27, 1784.
The burial place of this family is Starr's Plain in
the southern part of Danbury. The following in
scriptions were copied from the stones in the ceme
tery there : " Issac Platt died March 5, 1830 in his
88th year." " Mercy, wife of Isaac Platt, died May 5,
1827, aged 84." " PhiUp P. Platt died July 25, 1840,
74 years." "Elizabeth, wife of PhiUp P. Platt, died
July 1, 1847, aged 81." " David Platt, died JtUy 1,
1855, aged 63 years and 5 months." "Elizabeth,
wife of David Platt, died March 28, 1876, aged 82
years and 14 days." David was a son of Philip P.
Platt. The present representative of the family is
Henry Burr Platt, as singularly one male' member
only has perpetuated the name. He told Prof. J. T.
Platt that they were related to a Mr. Samuel Platt.
The Eedding records show that Samuel Platt and
AbigaU Hall were married October 17, 1770. The

96 the platt LINEAGE.
will of the above Isaac Platt, dated August 23, 1814,
proved at Danbury March 22, 1830, mentions his
wife Mercy, his children : Philip Pickett Platt, Sally
Eusco, Huldah, widow of Ezra Bates ; Ehoda, wife
of Solomon Warren ; and Mercy, wife of Cornelius
Hull. On page 241 of Vol. II, Fairfield land records,
is recorded a deed from Samuel Gold to Josiah Platt,
of land in the Parish of Eedding, north of Starr's
Eidge, dated April 8, 1754. It is quite possible that
this Josiah Platt was the ancestor of Isaac Platt
above, and if Josiah died before 1782, his estate
would have been settled at Fairfield. These facts
were sent to the writer bj^ the late Prof. J. T. Platt.

XIV.
PLATTSBURG BRANCH.

This traces its origin to the younger Huntington
branch of Epenetus 1st, Long Island. Zephaniah,
Charles, Nathaniel and Daniel, sons of Zephaniah,
of Long Island, were the first settlers and proprie
tors at Plattsburg, N. Y. Having purchased, soon
after the Eevolutionary war, a number of military
land warrants, they located them on Cumberland
Bay, on the northwestern shores of Lake Cham-
plain, Clinton Co., N. Y. They in person surveyed
and marked out the patent- in 1784. To induce a
rapid settlement a hundred acres were offered to
each of the first ten settlers who should come on,
bringing their families with them, and a hundred
acres also as a donation to the first male child born
on the patent. It is now a large and flourishing
township, with a population of nearly 10,000.
1. Zephaniah Platt, the oldest of the brothers
who settled Plattsburg, was born in Huntington,
L. I., May 27, 1735. He purchased a farm at
Po'keepsie about the year 1764. There is an inci
dent occurring near 1775, which marks his love of
right and his sterling patriotism. When the first
open revolt against the English rule began to mani
fest itself, at an inn east of Po'keepsie just beyond

100 the platt lineage.
the turnpike, the people had erected " a liberty
pole." The Sheriff, who represented the King's
authority, with his deputies and constables came
and cut it down. A sharp altercation took place
between the Sheriff and Zephaniah Platt, one of the
leaders, during which the Sheriff accused him of
treason and . threatened to arrest him. Mr. Platt
seized a club and said he would defend himself if
he touched him. The Sheriff drew his sword, but
was persuaded to withdraw and leave the patriots
unmolested. The incident created much excitement.
After the Eevolution was in full progress Zepha
niah Platt became an active and prominent man in
Duchess County. He at once reached the position
of a trusted leader. He was a delegate to the Pro
vincial Congress, also to the Congress under the old
confederation. He was elected a member of the
New York Convention of 1776, for framing a Consti
tution for the State. In 1777 he was one of the
Committee of Safety, with John Jay as a colleague,
for Duchess County. In 1778 he was elected a
State Senator. He was one of the seven delegates
from Duchess County to deliberate respecting the
acceptance of the Constitution of the United States.
He with De Witt, Gilbert Livingston and Melanc-
thon Smith voted for its adoption. There were
thirtj^ votes in favor and twenty-seven against it.
Their votes thus secured its ratification. He was
made first Judge of the Court in Duchess County
soon after the court was organized, which position
he held till 1795. He was also a Eegent of the
University of the State.

PLATTSBURG BRANCH. 101
Thus his positions and honors show that he
ranked as an able and efficient leader in his day.
He married Hannah Davis, and had a son Zepha
niah and a daughter Hannah, who married Peter
Comstock. She left five children : Zephaniah, Platt,
Hannah, Daniel and Sarah Comstock. Zephaniah
Platt 2d, in this branch 2d, married Bertha Ward,
and left six children : Mary, Elizabeth, Anne, Jere
miah, Daniel and Harvey Platt. A second marriage
of Zephaniah, (1st in this branch) was to Mary,
a daughter of Theodorus Van Wyke, of Fishkill-on-
Hudson. Their children, all boru in Po'keepsie,
were twelve in number : Theodorus, Elizabeth,
Mary, Jonas, William Pitt, Charles, Nathaniel, Eob
ert, Mary 2d, Levi, David and James. Among the
closing works of an active life was the founding of
Plattsburg. Here he died September 12, 1807. His
wife, Mary Van Wyke, died 1809, at the age of 66.
She may well be regarded as "a mother in Israel."
Her remains are in the family tomb at Platts
burg. — Theodorus Platt, the eldest, was born March
23, 1763. He married Charity, daughter of Henry
Peltze. Issue : Elizabeth, who married Thomas
Green, of Plattsburg; Henry, who married Char
lotte Elmon ; Mary, who married Heman Cady ;
and Charles T., -who married Eliza Walworth.
There were four other children, who died in infancy
or under 20 years of age. A second marriage was
to Julia Sailley; issue, a daughter, who married
George Marsh, of Plattsburg. Theodorus Platt was
the first Surrogate of Clinton County, 1788.

102 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Charles T. Platt, son of Theodorus Platt, was ap
pointed a midshipman in the United States Navy,
June 18, 1812. In 1817 he was ordered to the
"Hornet." He was promoted to lieutenant, March
28. 1820. He was on the " Guerierre " and then on
the "Shark." He was on duty with Commodore
Porter on the "Beagle"; then on the "Java," and
afterward on the " St. Louis." In 1838, he was
on the lighthouse service. September 8, 1841, he
was promoted to commander. From October 15,
1850, he was two years in command of the "Albany."
His last service was in charge of the navy yard at
Memphis, on the Mississippi. He died at Newburg,
N. Y., December 13, 1860.
The record given above is from the Navy Depart
ment in Washington, D. C. He married Eliza Wal
worth, sister of the Chancellor. They had three
children : Charles Henry, Sarah Walworth and
Eliza Platt. Charles Henry Platt, his only son,
graduated from Hobart College in the class of '39.
He delivered the Master's oration at the Hobart
commencement in 1842. He was rector of the Episco
pal Church in Lockport for some years, then at Bing
hampton, N. Y., five years. He was chaplain of the
28th New York Vols., from July 4, 1861, to Septem
ber 13, 1862, resigning on account of failing health.
He died in Binghampton, February 24, 1869. He
ranked as a fine scholar in college and showed de
cided ability in his pulpit and parish duties. He
was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.
He married Mary Louisa Jackson, of Lockport,
N. Y. One daughter, Mary Walworth, who mar-

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ried C. N. Webster, of Binghampton, N. Y, She is
now Mrs. F. S. Peabody, and is residing iu Chicago,
111. By her father's second marriage there were
three daughters. The eldest is Mrs. W. B. Mc
Laughlin, of Austin ; her husband is a physician.
The youngest is the wife of James V. Campbell, son
of Judge Campbell, of Detroit, Mich. The second
daughter is not married. The widow, Mrs. Emma
T. Platt, resides in Lyons, N. Y.
The writer of this was in college with Charles
Henry Platt, and he is very glad to speak good words
in remembrance of his faithful fellow-student.
— Elizabeth Platt, oldest daughter of Zephaniah
Platt 1st, married Gen. John Smith, of Mastic, L. I.
No issue.
— Mary Platt, second daughter, married Abraham
Brinkerhoff, of New York. She died in 1812.
James Augustus Platt, her nephew, has a well-pre
served oil portrait of her at his daughter's, Mrs. J.
Morton Brown, of Norristown, Pa. Her children
were: Abraham, who died aged 32; Mary; Peter,
who married Maria Lawrence, of New York ; Doro
thea and Charles Brinkerhoff.
— Jonas Platt, the second son of Judge Zepha
niah, heads the Judge Jonas Branch.
— William Pitt Platt, third son, a large landowner
on Lake Champlain, born April 30, 1771 ; married
Hannah, daughter of Moss Kent, and a sister of
Chancellor Kent. They had six children : James
Kent, Zephaniah, Mary, William, Elizabeth, and
Moss Kent Platt. 1. James Kent Platt was a gradu
ate of Middlebury College, Vt.; studied medicine.

104 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
and was a Professor in the medical department of
Burlington CoUege, Vt. He died April 4, 1824. His
two children died young. His wife died in Phila
delphia, 1883, aged 82. 2. Zephaniah Platt, second
son, born August 12, 1794, married Lucretia, daugh
ter of Thomas Miller. Two children : Elizabeth,
who died young, and Mary, who married James
Westcott, then Edmund Hathaway. No issue. 3.
Mary Platt, born July 15, 1796, married Benjamin J.
Movers, December 30, 1813. A lady of marked abil
ity and cultured taste. She died April 8, 1869. They
left ten children : Eliza, Susan, Hannah Maria, Wm.
Platt, Mary, John Henry, Moss Kent, Benjamin, So
phia, and Eobert Platt Movers. 4. William, born
February 25, 1799, died aged 30. 5- Elizabeth Platt,
born May 15, 1806, married May 29, 1824, Henry
Ketchum AveriU. She died aged 35. Chancellor
Kent says of her in writing to his mother (his sis
ter) : " She was a woman of strong mind, and of
strong feelings, and of great energy and decision of
character." They had three children : James Kent,
Henry Ketchum, and Mary Elizabeth AveriU. 6.
Moss Kent Platt, boru May 3, 1809, was a State Sen
ator, a Eepublican Presidential Elector, 1868 ; in '72,
Inspector of State Prisons, an elder in the Presby
terian Church. He married, October 14, 1830, Eliz
abeth Freligh ; a second marriage was to her half
sister, Margaret Freligh. He had five children :
Hannah K, Lucy, John F., Sarah E., and Margaret
F. 1. Hannah Kent, born October 27, 1832, married
September 26, 1853, Joseph M. Myers. They had
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1835, married Lemuel Stetson, a lawyer in Platts
burg, November 27, 1856. He was kUled in the bat
tle of Antietam, while in command as Lieutenant-
ColoneL 3. John F. Platt, died a senior in college,
1858, in his 21st year. 4. Sarah E. born October 6,
1839, married William A. Fuller. Three children
survive : Margaret Platt, Moss Kent Platt, and Eliz
abeth. 5. Margaret F. Platt, born November 30, '43,
married 1866, Michael P. Myers, now living in Platts
burg. No issue.
— Charles Z. Platt, fourth son of Judge Zepha
niah,' born July 22, 1773, married Sarah, daughter of
James Bleeker, of Albany. Their children were :
Hetty, Bleeker, Van Zant, Mary Platt, Charles Ed
ward, Joseph, Eobert, and Eachel. Hetty Platt
married Dr. Peter Staats, of Albany. Nine children :
Sarah, Elizabeth, Charles, Edward D., Bleeker, Mary,
Platt, Ettie, and Edward. Bleeker Platt married
Ellen Jerolomon. Three children : Charles Platt,
Lansing, and Bleeker. Mary Platt, daughter of
Charles Z., married James Wilder. Three childreu :
Bleeker, Hettie and Josephine Wilder.
— Nathaniel Z., fifth son of Zephaniah, of Po'keep
sie, born December 16, 1775, died 1820. He was
a member of the State Assembly for Clinton Coun
ty, 1807. He married Sarah Keyes, 1802. Six chil
dren : Elizabeth, Mary Van Wyck, Theodorus,
Stephen, Samuel Keyes, aud William Platt. Of
these Elizabeth married Captain Samuel Eussell, U.
S. A. A second marriage was to Frederick C. Sailly.
Mary Van Wyck married General C. A. Waite, U. S.
A. Theodorus married Marietta Nichols. Stephen

106 THE PLATT. LINEAGE.
and William died young. Samuel married Sarah J.
Cady first, then Lydia Mount. He is living in Pktts-
burg, — the only one surviving of his father's family.
Williain Nichols Platt, M.D., a son of the late
Theodorus and Marietta Platt, of Plattsburg, mar
ried November 23, 1880, Elizabeth L. Jones, of
Shoreham, Vt. This is the place of his residence.
Henry EusseU Platt, M.D., of Eutlaud, Vt., is
also son of Theodorus. He was born March 4, 1866.
He is unmarried.
— Eobert Platt, sixth son of Zephaniah, owned
nearly a thousand acres of land on Cumberland
Head, near Plattsburg. He gave about 200 acres to
his brother. Judge Jonas Platt, on condition that he
should reside there after retiring from the practice
of law. He was a member of Assembly for 1814-15.
He married Mary, daughter of Nathaniel Dagget, of
New Haven. No children.
— Levi Platt, seventh son of Zephaniah, born in
Po'keepsie, April 17, 1782, died March 31, 1849. He
married Eliza H. Miller, January 1, 1834. They had
twelve children : David, who died young ; Margaret,
Mary, John M., Eobert, who died in infancy; Helen,
Levi, Jonas, Susan H, James, Peter M., and
William Pitt, twins. Margaret married Cyrus Cady;
Mary married James B. Campbell, then John Mor
gan. Helen married J. Douglas Woodw£),rd. Jonas
married Isabella Morris, then Mary Fames. Susan
H. married James Bailey ; Mrs. Bailey resides in
Plattsburg. Peter M. married Charlotte Morgan.
William Pitt married Jane McNiel, then Mrs. Mary
Hammond. The father, Levi Platt, was many years

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Judge of Clinton County. He was eight years post
master of Plattsburg. His son, Levi Sid, following
his father, was postmaster nearly twenty years.
— David Platt, next to the youngest, was boru June
6, 1784 ; died May 30, 1805.
— James Platt, the youngest son of Judge Zepha
niah Platt, of Po'keepsie, heads the Oswego branch.

2. Nathaniel Platt, the second of the brothers of
Plattsburg, a son of Zephaniah, of Long Island, was
born in 1741. He married Phebe, daughter of Eich
ard Smith, of Smithtown, L. I., November 10, 1766.
At the breaking out of the Eevolution, he, Nathaniel
Platt, is credited with having raised the first com
pany of troops on the island. He was attached to
General WoodhuU's brigade in the battle of Long
Island. He was very active as a partisan officer in
preventing Tory risings in Suffolk County, until
finally the garrisoning of Setauket and other places,
and the arrival of the British fleet in Lloyd's harbor,
obliged him and many others to cross the sound into
Connecticut. He was afterwards transferred to the
commissary department, and was quite efficient in
getting both supplies and recruits for Washington's
army on the line of the Hudson Eiver. His sword,
bearing the name of '" Nathaniel Platt, 1776," is in
the possession of his grandson, N. P. Bailey, Esq.,
of New York. Captain Platt died at Plattsburg,
1816. His children were : George W., Isaac S.,
Hannah, Phebe, and Maria Platt.
— Isaac S., second son of Nathaniel Platt, married
Dorothy daughter of Eichard Smith, and had issue :

108 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Sarah A. Platt, who married Eear Admiral Theodo
rus Bailey.
— Hannah Platt, oldest daughter of Nathaniel,
married Gen. Benjamin Movers, distinguished in
the Eevolution as major and adjutant of General
Haven's brigade, and in the war of 1812, as general
commanding the militia forces at the battle of
Plattsburg, September 11, 1814. Their children
were : Benjamin, Charles, Charlotte and Ann
Movers. — Phebe Platt, second daughter of Nathaniel, mar
ried Judge Wm. Bailey, and had issue Phebe A.
Theodorus, John W., Nathaniel P., James Q., Henry
and Mary Bailey.
— Maria Platt, youngest child of Nathaniel, mar
ried Albon Man, M.D., having issue Albon P., Susan
Maria (two by this name), Hannah Maria and Phebe
Alida. A second marriage was to Eev. Theodoric
Halsey, leaving one daughter, Letitia. A third mar
riage was to Isaac B. Platt, of Plattsburg.
Phebe A. Bailey, eldest daughter of Phebe Platt
and the Judge, born 1799, married Capt. Sidney
Smith, U. S. Navy. Issue, William Sidney, Margaret
and Catherine. A second marriage was to Asa Mas-
call, of Malone. Bailey and Theodorus B. are his
children. Admiral Theodorus Bailey, son of Phebe Platt and
Judge B., born at Chatanugay, N. Y., April 12, 1805,
entered the navy as midshipman, Jan. 1, 1818 ; be
came captain 1855, commander 1865, and rear-admiral
1866. He was engaged in the capture of slaves on the
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on theVincennes in 1833-36; and again on the Con
stellation. He served on the west coast of Mexico in
theMexican War; iu 1861-2, commanded the Colorado
in the gulf-blockading squadron. He commanded the
van division of Farragut's fleet, having left his own
frigate — the Colorado, which was unable to cross the
Mississippi bar — and hoisted his flag on the Cayuga,
April 24, 1862; he "led up the river past Forts Jackson
and St. Phillip, brushing away and destroying the
enemy's fleet, capturing with his flag-gunboat three
of the rebels' steamers as well as the Chalmette re
giment of infantry, and the next day, the 25th, was
sent by Farragut to land and pass through a hostile
population, to demand the surrender of New Orleans
which he did successfully." He afterwards com
manded the East Gulf blockading squadron, captur
ing 156 prizes, large and small vessels, entirely stop
ping the rebel commerce on the station guarded by
his squadron. He afterwards served in command of
Portsmouth naval station, N. H. He married Sarah
A,, daughter of Isaac S. Platt, June, 1831. Issue :
Annie B. (who married Walter E. T. Jones), Theo
dora, Sarah E., Margaret S. and Edmund S. The
admiral died Dec. 10, 1877, leaving an honorable
name in the annals of his country.
—John W. Bailey, born 1807, son of Phebe Platt
and William Bailey, married Emily Thurber. Issue:
Thurber, William, Eobert and Phebe (who married
C. J. Ames.) Nathaniel P., son of WUliam and
Phebe Bailey, married Eliza M., daughter of Jacob
Lorillard, of New York. Issue : Mary, James M. and
Lorillard. Of the children of Marie Platt by her

110 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
first husband. Dr. Albon Man, Albon Platt Man, a
lawyer in New York, married Mary Louise Brower,
of Wilkes Barre, Pa. Issue: WiUiam, Frederick Hal
sey, Albon Platt, Jr., and Laura Gardiner, deceased.
A second marriage was to Mary Elizabeth, daughter
of Alrick Hubbell, of Utica ; he had issue Mary,
Alrick Hubbell, Edward, Mary, Gertrude and Arthur
Man. Alrick H. Man is a lawyer in Wall Street, New
York. Susan Marie Man, daughter of Albon Man, M.D.,
of Plattsburg, married March 21, 1838, the Hon.
Hugh McCuUoch, secretary of the treasury under
Presidents Lincoln and Johnson. They celebrated
tlieir golden wedding in 1888 at their home in Wash
ington, D. C. Her grandfather on her mother's side
was Nathaniel Platt, of the Armj^ of the Eevolution.
Her grandfather on her father's side was Dr. Eben
ezer Man, brigade surgeon at the battles of Mon
mouth and Yorktown ; both holding commissions
from W^ashington. Her children are Charles Haw
kins, born September 3, 1840 ; Fred. Halsey, born
May 22, 1842 ; Louise, born January 18, 1856 ; and
Marie Stewart, born January 19, 1867. Charles H.
McCuUoch married Sadie Eoss, of Vincehnes, lud..
May, 1865. Their children are John Eoss, born
November 15, 1869 (a banker at Fort Wayne), and
Fred. Halsey, born July, 1885. Fred. H. McCuUoch
married Carrie Eiddle, of Cincinnati, April, 1867.
Children : Hugh McCuUoch, born March 9, 1869 (at
Harvard in the class of '91) ; Charles, born June 7,
1873, and -LUly, 1879. Louise McCuUoch married
J. B. Yale, June 3, 1884. Mrs. McCuUoch has an

PLATTSBUEG BRANCH. Ill
excellent portrait of her grandmother, Phebe Platt,
at her home in Washington.

3. Charles Platt, the third of the Plattsburg broth
ers, was appointed a Judge on the organization of
Clinton County, and he held the first court in 1780.
He held office till he was sixty, the constitutional
limit. He had been educated as a physician in Paris.
He practiced medicine in Plattsburg for many years,
gratuitously among the poor. He was upwards of a
year in the army under Washington. He was born
in 1744, and lived to the venerable age of 87. He
married in 1772 Caroline Adriance, of Fishkill. Their
children were three daughters and five sons : Marga
ret, Letitia, Hannah, Zephaniah, Isaac C, Charles
C, Nathaniel, and Nathaniel 2d. Margaret, born
1793, married N. H. Treadwell, in 1813 ; she died
April 8, 1859. Letitia married Eev. Frederic Halsey
in 1798. Hannah married Eliezer Miller.
— Isaac C. Platt, second son, born April 11, 1781,
died aged 91. He was offered his father's judgeship
but declined. He married Anne Treadwell, January
13, 1802. She died 19 years after. He married Nan
cy Bristol, January 20, 1823. A third marriage was
to Mrs. Maria Platt Halsey, October, 1848. His
children by his first wife were : Anne Treadwell,
born November 10, 1803 ; Zephaniah C, born July
30, 1805 ; and Caroline Adriance, boru July 1, 1807.
Anne Treadwell Platt married Dr. Lyman Foote, U.
S. A. They had seven childreu. Zephaniah C. Platt
married Anna Eliza Miller, January 14, 1829. Their
children reaching mature years, were : Ann Eliza-

112 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
beth, Caroline, John Diell, and Mary Platt. Caro
line A. Platt, daughter of Isaac C, married Eev. John
Diell, eight years Seaman's Chaplain at Honolulu,
Sandwich Islands. He died at sea, homeward bound,
January 19, 1841. They had four children : Anna
M., Eliza G., Mary (now Mrs. Spear), and Caroline
Platt Diell. Mrs. John Diell's home is in Hamilton,
N. Y., with her son-in-law, Eev. P. B. Spear, D.D.
Caroline Platt Diell married James M. Armistead,
of Eichmond, Va.; both deceased. Their children
were : Maria Terese, Caroline A., Annie "D., and
William Johnson Armistead. Her sister Anna mar
ried Charles Eathbun, of Buffalo. Eliza G. Diell,
married F. B. Blanton, of Farmville, Va, The Armis-
teads reside in Eichmond, Va.
Mrs. Carrie Platt Thompson, widow of the late
Judge John Thompson, of Po'keepsie, is a grand
daughter of Eev. Frederic Halsey, whose wife was
Letitia, daughter of Judge Charles Platt, of Platts
burg. — Zephaniah C, oldest son of Judge Charles Platt,
died of yellow fever in 1805, at St. Thomas, W. I.
— Charles C, second son, married Eliza Eoss.
He died in 1809, leaving two daughters, Caroline
and Elizabeth. The latter was Mrs. B. Shumway.
She had six children.
— Nathaniel, youngest son of Judge Charles Platt,
married Maria Nase, 1814. One son. A second
marriage was to Pamela Grant. Four children.
He died 1854.
Samuel, son of Nathaniel, and grandson of Judge
Charles Platt, is now living in Plattsburg.

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Zephaniah C. Platt, son of Isaac G, had a son
John Diell Platt, who married Susan D. Phelps, Oc
tober 1, 1867. Their children were : Anna Mary,
Zephaniah C, William Phelps, and James P. Platt.

4. Daniel, the fourth of the Plattsburg brothers
married Charlotte Graham, of New York. They had
four children : Maria, Daniel, Jeremiah, and Char
lotte Platt. Maria married Jovette Thompson, of
Troy, N. Y. Daniel and Jeremiah died at Platts
burg, unmarried. Charlotte married Wells Cliff, of
New York. She died a few years since. Neither of
the daughters had children.

xv.

JUDGE JONAS BRANCH.

Jonas Platt, second son of' Judge Zephaniah
Platt, and Mary Van Wyke, was born in Po'
keepsie, N. Y., June 30, 1769. After he had finished
his preparatory studies at a French academy in
Montreal, he entered the law office of Eichard Var
ick, in New York, and under his able guidance pros
ecuted his legal studies. He was admitted to the
bar iu 1790. The same year he married Helen, the
youngest daughter of Henry Livingston, of Po'
keepsie, a sister of Dr. John H. Livingston, President
of Eutgers College, N. J. Soon afterwards he was
made clerk of Herkimer County. He made his home
in Whitesboro', near Utica, in 1791. Oneida was set off
as a county in 1798, and he was made the first county
clerk. He had previously, in 1796, represented this
district and Onondaga in the Legislature at Albany.
He was General of Cavalry in the State militia. He
was two years a member of Congress, from 1799. He
was four years in the State Senate, from 1809. In 1814
he was made Judge of the Supreme Court, with
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118 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
this high office with distinguished ability upwards
of eight years. He was a member of the Conven
tion which framed the State Constitution of 1821.
Under its amended provisions he lost his judicial
position. He returned to the practice of his profes
sion, and opened a law office with his oldest sou, Ze
phaniah, at Utica. In three or four years he re
moved to New York, where he prosecuted his profes
sion with assiduity and success. But warned by
coming infirmity, he retired in 1829, to his farm,
seven miles from Plattsburg, on the shores of Lake
Champlain. It should be recorded that in 1810, he
was the popular candidate of his party for the gov
ernorship of the State, and though beaten by his
opponent, Daniel D. Tompkins, he made a well-con
tested canvass. It should be stated, too, that he
was the earliest of the promoters of the Erie Canal
enterprise. When Thomas Eddy applied to him as
a leader in his party, for his influence to authorize
the building of a canal from Oneida Lake to the
Seneca Eiver, he said : No; a canal should be con
structed from Lake Erie to the Hudson. The Sen
ator persuaded him that this was the true plan. At
Mr. Piatt's suggestion they invited to their coun
sels De Witt Clinton, a prominent leader of the de
mocracy. He approved the project. Senator Platt
then moved the first resolution, preparatory to build
ing it, which was seconded in the Senate by Clin
ton ; and this was finaUy passed by both houses
of the legislature. Eenwick, the biographer
of De Witt Clinton, says of Judge Platt,
" he was well entitled to the merit of having made the

JUDGE JONAS BRANCH. 119
first efficacious step towards the attainment of the
great object of uniting the lakes with the Atlantic."
His honors and his public positions show how he
was appreciated, as a man, a jurist and a statesman.
He had a well-trained intellect, a well-stored mind
and a well-balanced character. A strict regard for
what was just, eminently distinguished him. His
life, public and private, is without spot, and his dis
tinguished career still sheds honor upon those who
bear his name, and those who are numbered among
his kindred. He died at his home near Plattsburg,
February 22, 1834, in his 65th year. Helen Living
ston his wife, died at the residence of her son Zeph
aniah, at Yonkers, N. Y., April 8,- 1859, aged 93.
Most of these facts are derived from Dr. M. M.
Bagg's "Pioneers of Utica."
It is with reference to Judge Jonas Platt and
his father's family that the N. Y. Genealogical Eec-
ord justly says: " Few families have furnished so
many distinguished names, and all in close proximi
ty to each other, to the civil service of the State."
Every one of the nine sons of Judge Zephaniah
Platt and Mary Van Wyck, with one exception, held
prominent positions in public life.
Mrs. Bayard Boyd, nee Manetta Lansing, has very
valuable portraits of Judge Jonas Platt, and his
wife Helen Livingston, painted shortly after their
marriage. Another one of the Judge, painted later
by Trumbull, is in the possession of her sister,
Mrs. Judge Willard. These paintings are at the
residences of the grand-daughters in Washington, D.
C. There is an interesting incident about the last

120 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
portrait. Trumbull's wife was an English lady, and
he petitioned the New York Legislature to allow
her to own property in this country. On the final
vote, (it was in the midst of the excitement just be
fore the war of 1812), Senator Platt stood alone in
favor of granting the petition. He deemed it just,
and though it periled his popularity when he was
in nomination for the governorship of the state,
yet he strenuously defended his position. Trum
bull put on the back of his portrait of the Judge the
date of this vote, and this motto — " Justuiii et tena-
cem jivopositi virum, non civiuin ardor j)rava j'uben-
tium mente quatit solida." A just man and tenacious
of the right, no popular passion shakes him from
his firm purpose. This is an admirable estimate of
his character. Trumbull, who had been an aid to
Washington, was indignant at the refusal, and
highly appreciated his friend's wisdom, justice and
courage. Judge Jonas Platt left two sons and six daughters:
Mary, Susanna, Zephaniah, Cornelia, Mary 2d, Eliza
beth, Helen, and Henry Livingston Platt.
— Susanna, his second daughter, married Eichard
E. Lansing, of Utica. They had thirteen children :
Edward, Jonas Platt, and Gerrit, all deceased ; two
named Eichard and Francis Tappan, also deceased;
Manette, Helen and Charlotte ; Cornelia Platt, Me-
lancthon Wolsey, and Phillipina, deceased; and
Susan Lansing. Manette Lansing, the oldest daugh
ter married Bayard Boyd, surviving her husband,
and residing in Washington, D. C. Charlotte mar
ried Willard Smith, and resides in Washington also.

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Helen, (deceased) married Judge Sylvester Larned,
of Detroit. None of the sons are living. The father,
E. E. Lansing, at one time resided in New York.
His place of business was burnt out in the great fire
of 1835, and his insurance company was ruined. He
removed to Detroit, Michigan, and became inter
ested in the growth of that young State. Lansing,
which later became the capital, was named after
him. He died in Detroit, September 29, 1855.
The children of Edward E. Lansing, his oldest son
were : Marie, Manette, wife of Judge Eeilly, of De
troit; Eichard E., a physician living in Detroit;
and Philip lately residing in Boston, Mass. The
children of Manette Lansing Boyd are : Anna M.,
wife of Eev. Thomas Nichols, of Milford, Pa. ;
Helen Livingston, wife of Wells Isbell, of Chicago ;
Charlotte L., wife of George C. Webb, of Fulton, N.
Y.; Elizabeth L., and Susan Platt, wife of James T.
Sweetman, M. D. The children of Helen Lansing
Larned, of Detroit, are : Helen Livingston, wife of
Frank Bowen, living in London, Eng., and Jennie,
wife of Wm. Fitch, of Louisville, Ky. The children
of Charlotte Lansing Smith, are : Margaret Norvell,
widow of Forrest Norvell, of Detroit ; Helen Liv
ingston, wife of Wm. N. P. Parker, of Va.; Man
etta L., wife of JohnMcKinuey, of Washington, D. G;
Eliza Belle, wife of Edwin McKeever, of Washington,
D. C; and Louise, wife of Eev. T. McB. Nichols.
Tho children of Susan Lansing Eeeve, are : Christo
pher, living in Chicago, and Manette, wife of Wm.
Valk, of Washington, D. C.
The chUdren of Anna M. Nichols, of MUford, Pa.,

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are: T. McB., living in Nyack, N. Y.; Bayard Boyd,
living iu Chicago ; Manette L., wife of Joseph Car
penter, late of Chicago ; Samuel Hall, and Susan
Baldwin. The children of Eichard L. Boyd, are : Caroline,
Manette, Bayard and Louise.
The chUdren of Charlotte L. Webb, of Fulton,
are : Manette L., Harry, Chandler and Bayard
Boyd. Margaret Norvell's children are : Willard S.,
Emily, and Bayard Boyd.
Helen Parker's children are : Charlotte, Helen,
Henry and Sarah
Eliza B. McKeever has one son Edwin.
Manette Valk's children are : Helen Livingston,
Ealph and William.
The children of Jennie Fitch are : Julia and Ed
ward. Helen L. Bowen's children are : Florence, Fred
eric, Ethel, Arthur and Sylvia.
— Zephaniah Platt, oldest son of Judge Jonas,
graduated from Hamilton College, in 1815. He prac
ticed law in Utica with his father, then in Detroit
and Jackson, Michigan. He was attorney general
of the state. After the civil war, he removed
to Aiken, S. C, aud there was chosen U. S. Circuit
Judge. He discharged his high duties with impar
tial ability, as witnessed in the estimate of him in
the Charleston Courier. He married Cornelia Jen
kins, of N. Y. They had seven children : Anna, now
living in Washington, D. C. ; Cornelia ; John How
ard, who died young; Helen; Mary Ann, who also

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died young ; Mary Platt ; and Howard Jonas Platt.
Cornelia married J. Blackwell first, then A.
J. Willard, who after the war went to South Carolina,
and became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
that State. Mary married S. J. Agnew, son of Prof.
Aguew of the Michigan University. Two sons : How-
erd and Holmes. Afterwards, she married Theo
dore W. Parmele, grandson of Judge Jonas Platt.
Howard Agnew married Marion Wester of New York.
He has a little girl named Myrtle. Helen Livings
ton Platt, grand-daughter of Judge Jonas, married
H. O. Weed, of Newburg, N. Y. Their children are :
Josephine, Isabel, Benedict, Nina, Lulu and Marcus.
Howard Jonas, the youngest son, entered Yale Col
lege, but ill-health compelled him to go to sea. He
entered the Coast Survey Service. He was on the
U. S. ship Arctic at Halifax to receive the first tel
egraphic cable. He materially assisted Capt. Bar-
ryman in the preparation of his report on "deep sea
soundings." The following year, he was on the edi
torial staff of the N. Y. Evening Post, and he gave
promise of early excellence as a public journalist.
But he died suddenly at Yonkers in 1838, at the age
of 22. His father. Judge Zephaniah Platt, died at
Aiken, S. C, April 20, 1871. His mother died, at
the remarkable age of 96, in Washington, D. C, in
the autumn of 1890. She had rare and excellent
'qualities. — Helen Platt, the youngest daughter of , Judge
Jonas, married Truman Parmele, a prosperous mer
chant of New York. They had seven children:
Theodore' W., Howard, Alfred, Platt, Mary, Helen

124 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
and Frederic. Theodore W. married Mary Platt,
grand-daughter of Judge Jonas in 1870. They had
oue only son, Henry Livingston, who died within his
first year. Their daughter, Helen Livingston, is
Mrs. J. Holmes Butler ; their sou, Charles E., who
married Miss Alice Butler, has a son Charles and a
daughter Alice. Mrs. Butler has a son Holmes.
Howard Parmele, second son of Truman, married a
iieice of S. F. B. Morse. Their children are : Bessie,
Mary, and Howard. Alfred, third son of Truman,
married Miss Andarine. Their children are : Marie,
Edward, Truman and AUie Parmele.
— Mary Platt, the oldest daughter of the Judge,
died in her j'outli. Also, her sister Elizabeth.
— Henry Livingston Platt, the second son of
Judge Jonas, born 1807, married Sarah M. Morey.
They had two sons : Eobert, who died in his youth,
and Jonas H. Platt, of New York. Jonas H. mar
ried Sarah Oilman, of Plattsburg. They have two
sons : John Bailey Platt, born 1863, and Arthur
Livingston Platt, born 1871- John B. married Kit-.
ty Snyder, 1884. They have a son and a daughter,
Jonas H. and Edith Platt. The grandfather, Hen
ry Livingston Platt died in 1844. Jonas Piatt's
place of business is in Wall street. New York.

XVI.

OSWEGO BRANCH.

This is an offshoot from the Plattsburg stock.
James Platt was the youngest of the twelve children
of Zephaniah and Mary Van Wyck ; born in Pough
keepsie, N. Y., January 2d, 1788 ; married Eliza,
daughter of Wm. and Joanna Floyd, of Western, N. Y.
His children were four : Wm. Floyd, James Augus
tus, Eobert and Elizabeth. (The last died in in
fancy.) He subsequently was twice married, to
Susan Katharine Auohmuty, of New York, then to
Saran Breese, widow of Bleeker Lansing, of Utica,
N. Y. By these marriages there was no issue.
Utica was his residence for some years. He was
postmaster there under President J. Q. Adams.
He was also a director in the Ontario Branch Bank
at Utica. At length he went to Albany, and in
1836, he removed to Oswego on Lake Ontario, where
he was prospered. In this place he was made
Mayor under the new city charter ; and in 1852-3
he was State Senator from his district. He was
also President of the Lake Ontario National bank at
Oswego. He was of the Alexander Hamilton school

128 the PLATT LINEAGE.
of politicians, a Henry Clay Whig, unostentatious
in manners, and sociable in disposition. He has
been justly described, as " earnest, affable, public-
spirited and high-principled." His death was at
Oswego, May 8, 1870, at the age of eighty-three.
- — Wm. Floyd, oldest son of James Platt, born at
Utica, N. Y., 1814; married, at Oswego, January 2,
1838, Catharine Amelia, daughter of Henry L. and
Unice Woolsey, of Geneva, N. Y. Children : Wm.
Floyd, Jr., died in infancy; James, died in 1889 in
New York, (twice married.) Wm. Floyd Platt, 1st,
died at Oswego, 1844.
— J^mes Augustus Platt, second son, now of Pine-
ville. Pa., was born at Utica, N. Y., July 25, 1816.
He graduated at Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y.,
in the class of '35, taking the first honor, the valedic
tory. He is a member of the Greek letter association
of Alpha Delta Phi. He married April, 1852, Eliza
beth, daughter of James Sellers, of Upper Darby,
Pa. Their chUdren are three : Isidor Elizabeth,
Samuel Floyd, and Charles Sellers. They were
born at Mineral Point, Wisconsin.
1. Isidora E., born October 7, 1855, married J.
Morton Brown, of Philadelphia, now of Norristown,
Pa ; they have two daughters and a son living :
Mary P., Isidora E. and Charles P.; Elizabeth and
Evangeline died young.
2. Samuel Floyd Platt, born July 14, 1857 ; mar
ried Macre A. Cadwalader, of Upper Makefield, Pa.;
they have a daughter and a son, Hannah C, and
Floyd Sellers Platt.
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OSWEGO BEACNH. 129
ried March 12, 1883, Martha Eyre, daughter of
Preston Eyre, of Upper Makefield, Pa.; two sons,
Samuel Platt and Joseph E. Platt.
— Eobert, third son of James Platt, born at Utica,
September 20, 1818 ; graduated at Union College ; a
member of Kappa Alpha ; died at Oswego in the
spring of 1838.

XVII.

SHARON BRANCH.

This crosses the State line into Duchess County,
N. Y. It claims Stephen Platt as its head. He w.is
baptized at Huntington, L. I., March 20, 1731; and
Israel Platt (supposed to be his brother) was bap
tized 1740. They are descendants of Isaac 1st, or
Epenetus 1st. They moved from Huntington, in the
early part of the Eevolution, settling, Stephen in
Sharon, Ct., and Israel in Pleasant Valley, an ad
joining township in Duchess County, N. Y. There
were three brothers, Epenetus, Stephen, and Peleg,
baptized at Huntington, 1775, supposed to be sons of
Stephen Platt, ahd to have removed with their father
to Sharon, Ct. The father died there about 1798.
Israel Platt above, who lived sometime in Pleasant
Valley, or Amenia, Ducliess County, N. Y., was a
captain in the militia iu the Eevolution. He mar
ried Elizabeth Scudder of Huntington, L. I. He died
of yeUow fever in New York, 1796, aged 58. He had is
sue : Stephen born March 28, 1762, baptized at Hunt
ington, July 26, 1762 ; Edwin, who died young ;
Sarah, who married D. Cyrenius Crosby ; Zilla,

134 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
born 1773, who married Egbert Barton ; Euth, born
1778, who married Samuel Eeynolds ; Betsy, (1781-
1848,) who married Ariovistus Pardee ; Harriet, born
1785, who married Walter Perlee ; and Nancy, born
1768, who married Eufus Herrick. This Isreal
Platt by deed dated Amenia Precinct, Duchess Co.,
N. Y., (in which he is designated, " Yoeman ") con
veys to his son Stephen, fifty acres of land. May 14,
1785, for 230 pounds sterling.
— Stephen Platt, eldest son of Israel Platt, above
mentioned, removed to Freehold, Albany Co., (since
Green), about 1788, and there he was drowned in a
freshet, December 12, 1800. He was a lieutenant in
the army of the Eeyolution at the age of 19; later
was a justice of the peace, and a member of the leg
islature for Albany County 1793-5. He left among
others, twin sons, born April 5, 1793, Isaac L. and
Jacob L. The former lived in New York. He mar
ried Marion Erskine Euthren. His children were ;
John E., Mary Jane E., Samuel Eeynolds, Lydia
and Isaac S. Platt. John E. lives in New York. Mary
Jane E. Platt married John P. Adriance of Pough
keepsie. Their children are : Isaac Eeynolds, born
in N. H, January 1, 1851 ; John Erskine, born in
New York, December 1853 ; James E. born 1856,
died 1879 ; Marion E. born 1858, married Silas
WodeU, January, 1887 ; Harris Ely ; WiUiam Allen ;
and Francis Henry Adriance. The home of the
family is iu Poughkeepsie. The other twin son of
Stephen Platt, namely, Jacob L., married Catherine
Waldron ; issue, a daughter, Mary Jane. Platt
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SHARON BRANCH. 135
Platt. Samuel E. son of Issac L., had one son. Fur-
man Nefis, born April 18, 1853. Lydia, daughter of
Isaac L , married Geo. Ackerman, June, 1864.
We here remark, as a help to trace the line, that
Treadwell, Stephen and Peleg, Elizabeth, Mary and
Hannah, were children of oue Epenetus Platt, of
Hempstead, but what one, it is not determined.
His wife's name was Hannah. An Epenetus Platt
was baptized at Huntington, L. I., 1730. The line
is probably the younger Huntington Branch of Epe
netus first.
— Henry, second son of Israel Platt, of Amenia,
born 1764, removed to Stephentown, Eensselaer Co.,
N. Y. He was a member of the Legislature of New
York. He died October 9, 1842, leaving three sons:
Israel, Henry and Alonzo. Israel married Margy
Schermerhorn ; resided some time in Hudson, N.
Y. Henry married a Graves, and had a son res
ident in Stephentown. Alonzo, M. D., married Lo-
rilla Smith, and removed to Grand Eapids, Michigan,
or Ann Arbor.
Stephen Platt above, son of Israel, married Dor
cas Hopkins, daughter of Eoswell. Besides his
sons, Isaac L. and Jacob L., twins, he had other
children: Fanny, who married Charles Griggs;
Abigail or Abby, who married John House, of
Waterford, N. Y.; Sarah, who died 1811, unmarried;
and Dorcas who married Eev. Samuel Eobertson.
A second marriage was to Lydia Southerland. Their
children were : Harriet, who married Bela Brew
ster ; Eliza, who married Gerard Van Skaick ; and
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136 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
of Mr. Van Skaick. A second marriage was to
Mr. L. Adams.
John House, who married Abbey Platt, daughter
of Stephen, had two sons, Samuel E. and John C.
House. Samuel E. House, M. D., of Waterford, N.
Y., born 1817, married Harriet Pettit, (born 1820).
He was a missionary in Siam from 1846 to 1876.
His brother married first Lucy Gaylord, then Mrs.
Jennie V. Lewis. Dr. S. E. House gives these inter
esting data : Dorcas Platt, daughter of Stephen,
married Eev. Samuel Eobertson. Their son was
Eev. Wm. S. Eobertson, missionary to the Creek
Indians, whose wife translated the New Testament
into the Creek language. Their son, Henry M., is a
D.D. Julia, a daughter, was the wife of Gov. Pierre-
pout, of Virginia. Stephen Platt, born 1762, had a
brother, Henry Platt, whose son Israel, of Hudson,
N. Y., had a daughter Elizabeth, who married Eev.
Abram Van Zandt, D.D., Professor in New Bruns
wick Theological Seminary. Henry's sister, Nancy
Platt, married Eufus Herrick ; and their son, Eich-
.ard P. Herrick, of Greenbush, N. Y., was a member
of Congress in 1846-7. Another sister, (Elizabeth
Betsey), married Ariovistus Pardee, who died 1843,
and their son, Ario Pardee, gave an endowment
of $500,000 to found the scientific department of
Lafayette College at Easton, Pa. This munificent
gift to learning makes him a princely benefactor to
our race and country. His oldest son is General
Ario Pardee of Philadelphia, Pa. The father, who
is the owner of extensive coal mines, residing at
Hazelton, Penn., was born November 19, 1810. He

SHARON BRANCH. 137
m_arried Elizabeth Jacobs. A second marriage was
to Anna M. Eobinson. His children number five
sons and five daughters : Ario, Calvin, both civil
engineers ; Ellen E.; Israel Platt, of Stanhope,
N. J. ; Anne ; Barton, of Lockhaven, Mich.; Frank,
Bessie, Edith and. Gertrude — the last six by his
second marriage. Bessie is Mrs. Augustus Van
Wickle. The two older sons graduated "C. E." at
the Eensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y.

John Platt, born in Huntingtou, L. I., Jan. 2, 1735 ;
married Mary Blydenburg, born May 23, 1733. A
second marriage was to Phebe Husted, widow, whose
husband was taken prisoner in the Eevolution, and
died in New York, December 15, 1777. John Platt
died at Alder Creek, BoonvUle, N. Y., July 30, 1810,
in his 76th year. He had ten children : William,
born 1759, Elizabeth, Eichard, Mary, Samuel, May
3, 1766, Phebe, Abigail, Obadiah, John, jr., and the
last. Experience, born February 22, 1777. John Platt,
jr., was born in Duchess County, N. Y., AprU
3, 1774. His wife was Phebe Hoyt, of New Canaan,
Ct. They had eleven children : Sarah, William L„
Louise, Mary, Abigail, Matthew H., Esther, Sarah
B., Chauncey, and Eliphalet, born at Trenton, N. Y.,
February, 1817. Most of these were born in Oneida
County, N. Y. William L. Platt, son of John, jr.,
was born in Steuben, N. Y., October 25, 1802; mar
ried Jane McElroy, October 28, 1824 ; lived in Boon-
ville, N. Y. Their children were: Eliza, John Bly
denburg, Mary, Abbia, Jane (Scott), James M., Chaun
cey A., and William A. Platt, who was born in Boon-

138 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
ville, N. Y., August 8, 1840. Louise Platt, aged 86,
and her sister Esther, aged 72, reside in Hamilton,
N. Y.
John Blydenburg Platt married Elvira A. Shover,
of Canandaigua, N. Y., September 30, 1851. Three
children, two only living: Eddie and Jennie. The
family reside in Delaware, O.
Wm. A. Platt has two children: Arthur McElroy,
born 1871, and Mary Emily, not yet in her teens, liv
ing in Sherburne, N. Y. He gives the above data
respecting John Platt aud his descendants.

XVIII.

RHINEBECK BRANCH.

This traces closely to Sharon, Ct., and then fur
ther on to the younger Huntington branch, L. I.
John Platt, son of Eliphalet; of Pleasant Valley,
made his home near by, in Clinton, Dutchess Coun
ty. He was a deacon in the Presbyterian Church,
Pleasant Valley. He served in the War of the
Eevolution. He married Catherine Barnes,
and had three children : Dr. Eliphalet Platt,
Wm. Barnes, and Isaac I. Pratt. A second mar
riage was to Jerusia Spencer : one son, Henry,
who made his home in Philadelphia. The two
brothers. Dr. Eliphalet Platt and Wm. Barnes Platt,
a banker later in life, made Ehinebeck their home
near 1835. The other brother, Isaac I., married
Augeliue Baldwin and lived in Poughkeepsie. They
had no children. Dr. Eliphalet Platt took his degree
of M. D., about the time of his coming to Ehinebeck.
He was liberally educated, kind and courteous, a
skillful physician and a worthy citizen. He married
Mary Ann Dibble ; he has left two daughters, Julia
and Cornelia, and a son, J. Warren, born in Ehine-

142 the platt lineage.
beck. The son has removed to New Orleans. He
writes me that his father. Dr. Eliphalet Platt, late
of Ehinebeck, N. Y., was born in Pokeepsie,
1796. The son was born April 16, 1836. He went
to Louisiana early in 1855; married, Januarj^ 6, 1862,
Halmaida Bremond, of New Orleans, born there
October 10, 1840- She died March 5, 1887. Eight
children : Mary Julia, born August 10, 1866 ; John
W.. born in Bay St. Louis, October 17, 1868; Joseph
Bremond, December 16, 1872 ; Adele, January 29,
1875 ; Ernest, born at Bay St. Louis, December 16,
1876 ; Alma, January 7, 1879 ; aud Catherine, Febru
ary 9, 1881. Most of these were boru in New Or
leans. The father is a merchant in his adopted
city. John Platt, the head of this branch, son of Elip
halet Platt 1st, died in 1851.
¦ — William Barnes Platt, the brother of Dr. E.
Platt, was born in Pleasant Valley, N. Y. ; he mar
ried Miss Stautenberg, of Hyde Park. His children
were John H. and Elizabeth. John H. Platt, born
in Ehinebeck, removed to New York. He married
Mary Cheney, May 27, 1858. His chUdren are ; John
Cheney, Charles Adams, Eichard Goodman, Eliza
beth and Wm. Barnes Platt, 2d. Charles A. Platt,
on the 17th of March, 1886, married Annie C. Hoe,
daughter of Eichard M. Hoe, of New York. She
died on the 18th of March, 1887. No issue. John
H. Platt, the father, died in New York, May 21, 1886.
— Elizabeth Platt, the only daughter of William
Barnes Platt 1st, married Charles H. Adams, of
Cohoes, N. Y,, a manufacturer, and at one time a

EHINEBECK BRANCH. 143
member of Congress. Their children are WiUiam
Platt Adams, and Mary Egbert Adams. Wm. Platt
Adams married Katherine W. Elseffer, of Eed Hook,
N. Y., January23, 1884, the daughter of J. W. Elsef
fer, Esq. They have two daughters, Elizabeth Platt
Adams and Katherine Elseffer Adams. Wm. Platt
Adams for a time took his father's business. He
graduated from Union College in the Class of '79.
He is a member of the Greek letter association of
Alpha Delta Phi. His only sister, Mary Egbert
Adams, born in Ehinebeck, married Eobert Johnston
of Cohoes in 1881 ; he was a graduate of Union Col
lege in the class of '77 ; he also was an Alpha Delta
Phi. He died in 1883, leaving an only son, Eobert
Johnston, born August '82. Mrs. Johnston now
occupies her pleasant home in her native village in
Duchess County, N. Y.

Henry Platt, merchant, son of John Platt, of Clin
ton, by a second marriage ; born August 8, 1808, in
Pleasant Valley, Duchess County, N. Y., resided in
Philadelphia, Pa. ; married Abigail Hart Knowles of
TitusviUe, N. J., April 11, 1833. He was kiUed by
the falling of a tree as he was traveling near Thom-
astou, Ga., August 27, '49. His children, five :
Edwin Knowles (died in his third year), Edward Au
gustus, William Henry, Eliza S. and Mary Knowles ;
all born in Philadelphia. ,
— Edward Augustus, born August 25, '38 ; married
Annie E., daughter of John Scherzer of Annville,
Pa. ; has a daughter, Effie Abigail.
—Eliza S., born April 15, '43 ; married Wm. H.

144 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Chaffee, February 1, '71 ; residing in New York ; one
child. Bertha Eliza.
— Mary Knowles, born February 2, '46 ; married
Charles J. Carroll Taylor, November 25, '68, residing
in New York ; one daughter, Mary Platt Taylor.
— Wm. Henry Platt, born June 18, 1841 ; married
Hannah Jeffries, of Philadelphia, December 12, 1872.
They have one daughter, Cornelia M. Early. They
reside in Philadelphia.

XIX.

POUGHKEEPSIE BRANCH.

This traces closely to Sharon, Ct., and thence to
the younger Huntington branch, L. I. Its head is
EUphalet Platt, who was born July 12, 1733. He
married Miss Scudder, of Huntington, and made his
home in Pleasant Valley, Duchess County, N. Y,,
near 1780. They had four children : Henry, John,
Jemima and Betsey. A second marriage was to
Hannah Cansteu. Her father, Joseph, was one of
the " nine partners," who owned a large track of
land east of Poughkeepsie. She inherited one-fourth
of her father's estate. Eliphalet's children by this
marriage were four : Joseph, born September 25,
1771, died 1836; Isaac, born November 23, 1774 ; Is
rael, born February 6, 1777 ; and Sarah Franklin,
who died June 30, 1779. Isaac died November 11,
1802. Eliphalet Platt 1st, married as a third wife,
the widow Bunce, who had two daughters by her
former marriage, Dibbie and Betsey. Dibbie mar
ried her step-father's oldest son Henry.
— Heniy Platt, son of Eliphalet, had by this mar
riage with Miss Bunce, seven children : Eliphalet,

148 the platt lineage.
Fanny, Betsey, Nancy, Joseph, Jermima and Henry
S. Their home was in Marcellus, N. Y. Fanny
married E. Eice, Betsey a Mr. Hopkins ; Nancy
married Silas Crane; Joseph, Emma Dodge, after
ward Ann Ocherman. Jermima married Henry
Combs, afterwards, Joseph Eliodes. Henry S. mar
ried Miss Wood, afterwards, Mrs. Dickerson.
Henry S. Platt, of Marcellus, died October 21,
1829, aged 69 yearg. Debora, his second wife, died
January 19, 1833, aged 69 years. Eliphalet, brother
of Henry S., died May 2i, 1809, in his 21st year.
Betsey (or Frances) Platt, died April 20, 1816, aged
69. Jemima, daughter of Henry S. and Debora
Platt, married Allen Cook ; she died April 16, 1826,
in her 23d year. Henry S. had a son Joseph, who
died October 22, 1851, aged 57 years. Emma, Jo
seph's wife, died December 16, 1838. Dr. Henry
Combs, grandson of Jemima Platt, and son of Henry
Combs, resides in Eome, Mich. Mrs. Frances
(Crane) Wright resides in Adrian, Mich. Also, Mrs.
Ann Elizabeth (Hopkins) Van Brunt, resides iu the
same place.
— Jemima Platt, oldest daughter of Eliphalet 1st, ,
married C. Ackerman. Their children were : Han
nah, Caty and Eliphalet. The first two, were in
succession, first and second wife of Samuel Thurs
ton. Eliphalet married Ann Verplank, of Queen-
land's Patent.
— Betsey, the second daughter of Eliphalet 1st,
did not marry.
— John Platt, the second son of Eliphalet 1st,
heads the Ehinebeck Branch.

POUGHKEEPSIE BRANCH. 149
Eliphalet Platt (1st), was a ruling elder in the
Presbyterian Church in Pleasant Valley, N. Y., in
the year 1789. He died in that place in 1795.
— Joseph Platt, son of Eliphalet and Hannah
Cansten, married Hannah Barnes, Jan. 4, 1800. They
had two sons : Isaac Platt, born July 17, 1803 ; and
.loseph Cansten Platt, boru Sept. 25, 1805; and a
daughter, Catharine, born- 1801, who died 1836.
Joseph Cansten Platt married -Elizabeth Bowne,
Aug. 30, 1836. Seven chUdren: Mary Scofield,
Catherine, Susan B., Cornelia B., Anna E., Cansten,
and Susan E. A second marriage was to Almira
Parsons, Sept. 9, 1854. Their children are : Isaac,
Caroline, Almira, Adeline, and Frances. Cansten
Platt was born Feb. 4, 1851 ; he died AprU. 7, 1874.
Isaac Platt, son of Jos. Cansten, died in childhood.
Elizabeth B. Platt, wife of Joseph G, was born
.July 25, 18 — , died June 4, 1853 ; and his second
wife Almira was born March 9, 1817, and died Jan.
10, 1890.
— Mary S., oldest daughter of Joseph Cansten
Platt, married Harrison Bishop ; they have two
daughters, Josephine and Cornelia. Catherine, the
second daughter, married James Chapman ; they had
three children, Lewis, Elizabeth and Gertrude ;
Lewis died aged 27. A second marriage was to
Egbert Sherwood ; they have one daughter Abbie
Ann. Susan B., the third daughter of Joseph C.
and Elizabeth Platt, died in her tenth year: Cornelia
B, fourth daughter, married Theodore Alvord. Anna
E. the fifth daughter has not married. Of the chil
dren by his second wife, Caroline died in infancy ;

150 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Almira married Joseph Tallcot, a descendant of the
first Joseph Cansten. The home of the family is
Marcellus, N. Y. Joseph Cansteu Platt, died ^an.
24, 1890.
Isaac Platt, son of Joseph, was boru at New Balti
more, N. Y., July 17, 1803. He learned printing.
In 1828, he became the editor of the Duchess Inielli-
gencer, which, in 1838, was changed to the Po'keepsie
Eagle. He was editor and proprietor of this during
the rest of his life. He was appointed postmaster of
Po'keepsie under General Taylor's administration.
He was on the commission to locate the boundary be
tween New York and Connecticut, 1859 and '60, Pro
vost Marshal of the 12tli Congressional District of
New York for 1863 and '64. He was an early advocate
for the Hudson Eiver Eailroad. He was an editor 44
3^ears. He married Harriet Bowne, September 19,
1837. Their children are : John Isaac, born June
29, 1839.; James Bowne, born August 11, 1841; Ed
mund Pendleton, December 2, 1843 ; Henry Barnes,
boru January 12, 1847, and Harriet B. Platt, the
youngest. The father died 1872. His widow is still
living in Po'keepsie.
— John I. Platt, son of Isaac, married Susan F.
Sherwood, June 3, 1862. Their children are : Ed
mund, Eliza Strong, Sarah Sherwood, Isaac, Francis
Wheeler, and Edith May. One, Susan, died in
babyhood. — James Bowne, second son of Isaac, married
Emma Bartlett, October 23, 1875. Their children
are : Elizabeth Otis, Louise Bartlett, and Anna
Margaret.

POUGHKEEPSIE BEANCH. 151
—Edmund P. Platt, married Mary E. Bartlett,
June 22, 1870. Their children are : Emily Bartlett,
Wnii. Vedder, Howard, and Mary AUetta. Edmund
P. is a merchant.
These four families reside in Po'keepsie. John
I. and James B. Platt are the publishers of the
Po'keepsie Eagle (daily and weekly). John I. was a
member of the New York Legislature, 1886-7 and 8.
He is President of the Po' keepsie Board of Trade.
— Henry Barnes Platt ; married Mary Estella
Smith, of Pleasant VaUey, N. Y., June 12, 1875.
Their children are : Eaymond, Mabel and Henrietta.
He is a chemist at 36 Platt Street, New York.

XX.

WINCHESTER BRANCH.

John Boyd in his annals of Westchester, Ct., has
these data : "Daniel Platt from Danbury, bought of
Benjamin Benedict a lot of land on Waterbury
Eiver turnpike, a little south of the Potter place, in
1771, which he conveyed to Philip Priest in 1776.
He and his wife Thankful had a son, Stephen, who
was baptized March 13, 1774."
Joseph Platt, from Da,nbury, uncle to Levi Platt,
lived on a lot north of the Ed. Eugg farm. He had
a fulling mill on the brook a little south of the Pot
ter tenement house. He sold in 1787, and moved to
Ohio. Levi Platt came from Danbury to Winchester
when he was a boy. He was a school teacher in
his early manhood. In 1790 he bought of Martin
Hulbut land, it is now thought part of Henry An
drew's farm, where he lived four years ; then bought
and occupied for the residue of life, the farm re
cently owned by his son Sylvester Platt, deceased.
He was characterized as a puritan of the puritans,
with intense convictions, and withal a man of hum-

156 the PLATT LINEAGE.
ble and earnest piet}'. Eeligion with him was the
dominant thought — 72 j'ears a member of church —
a deacon, in many respects a model Christian. He
was Town Clerk and Eecorder. He was a member
of the Convention of 1818, which formed the Con
necticut State Constitution. He married, February
5, 1792, Esther Alvord, daughter of Eliphaz. She
died March 28, 1840. He died August 14, 1856, in
his 91st year, his mental and bodily forces unabated
to the last. He is described "as gigantic iu form,
of stern stuff, a patriarch and a puritan." His child
ren were : Abi, born July 25, 1793 ; Eliphaz Alvord,
May 3, 1796, died in his 12th year ; Ezra Hart, born
September 18, 1798 ; Sylvester, born May 17, 1800 ;
Levi, born April 11,, 1802; Lucy, born October 31,
1804 ; Elizabeth, born September 19, 1806 ; Eliphaz
Alvord, born February 6, 1809 ; and WUliam born,
December 16, 1816, died February 28, 1840. Abi
married Hiram Eoyce, of Norfoll^, widower, the
husband of her late sister Lucy. Levi went to Col-
linsville, Ct., thence to Hartford. Sylvester filled
the office of Justice of the Peace and that of Eepre-
sentative. He died at Winsted, September 18, 1870.
He married Mary, daughter of Wilcox Phelps, at
Norfolk, September 4, 1833. His children : Levi
Wilcox and Helen Eebecca, both died in early youth;
and Edwin Sylvester, born September 30, 1839, who
married Elizabeth Brooks, February 12, 1863.
Levi Platt, 2d, married Pamelia E. Munger. Child
ren : Helen Esther, born December 27, 1824 ; Euthy
Smith, born October 10, 1826 ; Elizabeth, born
September 5, 1828 ; and Mary Jane, August 22, 1831.

WINCHESTER BRANCH. 157
Sarah Platt married Daniel Andrews ; she died
1848, aged 72, leaving children : Platt, born March
6, 1799 ; Amos, Augustus, Hiram Lewis, Hulda,
and Harriet, the last born November 4, 1819.
Joseph Piatt's name is among those who took the
oath of fidelity to the State in 1778, and Obadiah
Platt was among the new electors, in Winchester in
1801.

XXI.
NEW HAVEN BRANCH.

The late Prof. Johnson T. Platt, of the Yale Law
School, heads this branch. He was a descendant
of the older Huntington stock of Isaac 1st. The
oldest son of Isaac, Jonas, had a son Obadiah, whose
son Obadiah 2d, left a son Jarvis, born September 6,
1759, who married Ann Nichols. Their son David
married Lucretia Tousey of Newtown. They had a
son Philo Tousey Platt, who married Jeanette E.
Tuttle, of Southbury, Ct. He was the father of
Prof. Johnson Tuttle Platt ; this one married Mary
Jay Pettee, of Pittsfield, September 3, 1867. He
left no children. His ancestral line from Eichard
of Milford is through Isaac, of Huntington, Jonas,
Obadiah, Obadiah 2d, Jarvis, David and Philo Tou
sey Platt.
He was born at Newtown, Ct, January 12, 1844.
He graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1865,
and entered into the practice of his profession at
Pittsfield, Mass. After a six months residence, he
removed to New Haven, and soon became quite
prominent in his profession. On the reorganization
of the Yale Law School in 1869, Mr. Platt, and Profs.
Eobinson and Baldwin, were placed mainly in charge

162 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
of the institution. In 1873, he received the degree
of Master of Arts from Yale. He was a member of
the Court of Common Council for several years,
and in 1874, was made Corporation Counsel. He
revised the city ordinances, and did a large amount
of other valuable work for the city. He was Eegis-
trar in Bankruptcy, Master of Chancery of Connecti
cut for a number of years ; and he was U. S. Com
missioner up to the time of his death. He died sud
denly January 23, 1890, of cerebral hemorrhage. He
was just going to his class in the Law School when
he was strickeu, and soon becoming insensible, he died
in a few hours after reaching his home. AU testify
that he was a man of fine intellectual abilities, and
many noble qualities. As a lawyer he was able and
ready. As an instructor, he was thorough, gentle,
helpful and sympathetic. He won the hearts of all
his students. His literary culture was extended and
full. He was fond of history and poetry, and was
often ready with an apt quotation. He was a good con
versationalist, sincere and agreeable in his manner,
aud he had hosts of friends. In the Law School, his
range was first equity and pleadings, then " torts,"
or criminal law, and finally general jurisprudence
and the history of law. The New Haven County
Bar, iu a minute approved by them, January 24,
1890, used these fitting words : " He was not only
well read in the ordinary literature of his profession,
but long and loving study had made him familiar
with the science of Jurisprudence in its widest
range. His sympathies were warm, and his friend
ships true and deep-rooted. During nearly a quar-

NEW HAVEN BRANCH. 163
ter of a century at the Bar, and twenty years in the
Yale Law School, he had been honorably known as
a learned lawyer, an independent thinker, a public-
spirited citizen, a kind-hearted and high-minded
man." His course of lectures on Jurisprudence, it is
hoped, will soon be given to the press. He published
two valuable essays, one on "The Assertion of
Eights," and the other on "The Opportunity for the
Development of Jurisprudence in the United States."
This science was his favorite legal study. A brief,
but admirable sketch of his life was written by Mor
ris F. Tyler, Esq., a member of the New Haven Bar.
It should be stated, that Professor Platt had been,
during twenty years, gathering facts about the
"Platt Lineage," and the writer of these memorials
is exceedingly indebted to him for important and in
teresting contributions to the accurate history of the
family. By the courtesy of his wife, he has had ac
cess to his manuscripts also. His age was 46. He
was summoned in the maturity of his powers. His
brief but energetic and successful life, is an honor to
the family name.
His only brother Theron Eugene Platt, lives on
the old place at Newtown, where both were born.
His brother, born May 16, 1848, married Mary Cathe
rine Eussell, of Southbury, November 26, 1873. He
has one son, Philo T. Platt, born May 20, 1880. A
son Clifford, born March 9, 1884, died May 13, 1889.
Their only aunt, Elosia, married Erastus Pierce,
of Southbury. Two sons, Granville T., of South
Britain, Ct., and David F., who married Eliza Brad-

164 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
ley, of Southbury. They have two daughters and
one son : Mary E., born December 20, 1875, Fred
erick E., March 11, 1878, and Anne H., born May 17,
1880.

Eichard Platt, resident of New Haven, son of
William, is of the Josiah Branch. His wife, now
deceased, was the daughter of Eichard Platt, of Mil
ford. Her brother, in Milford, is also a Eichard.
There seem to be six Eichards in the field. All honor
to those who honor the first in the line. Eichard
Platt of New Haven has a son and a daughter. The
latter is married and resides in New Haven.

XXII.

MERIDEN BRANCH.

This traces to Fairfield, then to the older Hunt
ington Branch of Isaac 1st, the son of Eichard 1st.
Orville H. Platt, U. S. Senator from Ct, is its
oldest li^'ing representative. The ancestral line
comes from Obadiah, of Fairfield. This Obadiah
was son of Jonas, oldest son of Isaac 1st, and
EUzabeth Wood, of Huntington, L. I. In 1724,
Obadiah Platt, of said town, purchased lands in
Fairfield, and soon alter removed thither. He married
Mary Smith, August 10, 1722. They had eight chil
dren : Abel, boru August 2, 1723 ; Sarah, born June
25, 1725; Jonas, born October 9, 1727; Obadiah,
August 8, 1729, ancestor of the late Prof. Johnson
T. Platt; Ann, born November 5, 1731; David,
September 15, 1734; Mary, born January 7, 1736;
and Elizabeth, born May 10, 1739. Mary, wife of
Obadiah, died at Eidgefield, November 16, 1771.
Abel purchased lands in Eedding, and in 1756 at
Eidgefield in company with his father. He is said
to have died while a prisoner of war at New York.
Jonas Platt settled at Eedding, and on October 17,

168 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
1747, married Elizabeth Sanford, daughler of
Ehpraim, of that place. Both were admitted church
members at Eedding, July 5, 1749. Their children
born at Eedding were : John, baptized February 5,
1752; Daniel, baptized August 11, 1754; Eunice,
baptized May 30, 1756. The two following named
are recorded as born at Eidgefield : Obadiah, May
17, 1758 ; and Isaac, born April 13, 1760. Jonas had
other children, namely : Samuel, Jonas, William,
Jehu, and a daughter Hulda. Jonas was taken
prisoner during the Danbury raid, AprU 25 and 28,
1777, and is said to have been carried to New York.
His name appears among those who marched to
Fishkill to reinforce Gen. Putnam, during the Bur-
goyne campaign in October, 1777. John, son of
Jonas above mentioned, was in the army, and was
taken prisoner at Fort Lee, November 16, 1776. He
settled at Washington, Ct. He married Elizabeth
Parmle, July 7, 1775. Their children were : John,
born February 21, 1776; David, born August 31,
1778 ; Euth Ann, born March 30, 1782 ; Betsey, born
May 8, 1790; and Daniel Gould, born July 25, 1797.
— John Platt 2d, son of John and Elizabeth, mar
ried Larenda Warner, November 24, 1800. Their
children : Lavinia, born May 22, 1802 ; Eobert S.,
born May 22, 1804 ; Eurotus, born December 29,
1806; Laurren E., born June 29, 1809; Fanny
Janette, born September 27, 1814 ; and John
Taylor, born July 8, 1820, residing iu Washing
ton, Ct.
— David Platt married Jerusha Lewis, November
19, 1806. His sister, Euth Ann. married Leman

MERIDEN BRANCH. 169
Canfield, November 8, 1802. The children of Euth
were : Daniel N. ; Betsey A., born March 24, 1806 ;
Lewis A, born March 31, 1809 ; Daniel N. 2d, born
September 9, 1812 ; and Julia, born 1819.
— Betsey Platt, 2d daughter, married Harvey
Smith, November 17, 1813. Issue : a son Henry, born
January 4, 1815. A second marriage was to Elisha
Garret. — Daniel G., of Washington, Ct., youngest son
of John Platt 1st, married Almyra Hitchcock, Jan 3,
1817. Their children are : OrvUle, born March 11,
1822, died 1826; OrvUle Hitchcock, born July 19,
1827; and Simeon D., born February 12, 1832. A
second marriage was to Harriet Davis, Cold Spring,
N. Y., September 26, 1857. She died December 18,
1885. He died October 26, 1871.
Orville H. Platt, Senator, married Ann Bull, of
Towanda, Pa., May 15, 1850. Their children are :
James Perry, born at Towanda, March 31, 1851, and
Daniel Gould, born at Meriden, February 7, 1858,
died Januarj^, 1864.
— James Perry Platt, his son, is a lawyer of Meri
den. He married Hattie Ives, of that place, Decem
ber, 1885. They have oue daughter, Margery Platt.
The head of this branch, OrviUe H. Platt, U. S.
Senator, was born at Washington, Ct, July 19, 1827.
After a thorough academic course, he studied law at
Litchfield, and was admitted to the bar in 1849. He
has since practiced law at his present home, Meri
den, Ct He was Clerk of the State Senate in 1855
and 1856 ; was Secretary of State of Connecticut in
1857 ; a member of the State House of Eepresenta-

170 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
tives in 1864 and 1869, serving the last year as
speaker. He was elected to the U. S. Senate, a Ee
publican member, and took his seat March 18, 1879.
He was re-elected in 1885. His steady advancement
in public life is a creditable recognition of his ability
and efficiency, and his twelve years in the Senate
show a long, faithful and honorable service in our
highest legislative body. He is justly ranked among
our rising statesmen. In January 1891, he was re
elected for a third term of six years as United States
Senator from. Connecticut.
Simeon D. Platt, brother of Orville H, residing in
Torrington, married Helen M. Logan, of Washing
ton, December 10, 1855. They have one son, Wm.
Logan Piatt, born at Washington, April 20, 1859.
— Wm. Logan Platt married Eose Cook, of Wash
ington, January 11, 1882. They have a son, Daniel
PhiUip, born March 29 1886, and one daughter. Wil
liam L. is a physician in Torrington.

Isaac Platt, born April 3, 1760, son of Jonas aud
Elizabeth, had children : Mills Platt, born August 1,
1789 ; Hulda, Lydia, aud Aaron. This last Uved at
Westport, but at length went West MUls Platt
married Lucy Frost, December 1, 1814. He died
March 2, 1865. Hulda died single. Lydia married
Isaac Bertram, of Eedding, Ct
— Mills Platt and Lucy Frost had seven children :
Jerome M. Platt, born December 3, 1815, died March
1, 1816; Curtis F. Platt, born June 25, 1817, of New
Haven ; Hulda E., born July 22, 1819 ; Daniel M.

MERIDEN BEANCH. 171
born December 29, 1823, died February 22, 1888 ;
John D., living in Sharon VaUey, N. Y., born May
12, 1827 ; Mary S.,born March 4, 1830, married Wm.
Wheeler, living at Litchfield, Ct, and Charles E.
Platt, born December 20, 1833. Isaac Platt above,
died in 1797.

XXIII.
WASHINGTON BRANCH.

Benjamin S. Platt, Clerk of the U. S. Senate,
Washington, D. C, son of Lauren E. Platt, of Wash
ington, Ct, was born in 1839, at Albany, N. Y. ;
married there 1865, Julia H Feltham, from Eng
land. He was thirteen years in the Government
Printing Office ; in 1879 he went into the publication
office of the War Eecords ; in 1885 he was made En
grossing Clerk of the U. S. Senate, his present of
ficial position. He was treasurer of the Washington
Topograph. Association, also a delegate to the Na
tional Topograph. Convention in Baltimore, 1872. He
has three children : Gertrude, (born in Albany, N.
Y.), Mabel and Harry. The latter two born in Wash
ington. — His brother Amos E., born in Ct, 1842, married
Mrs. Kate Eeynolds, (nee Cochran) of Washington,
D. C, now deceased, leaving one son. He is in the
Government service.
— His sister, Lavinia E., born in Albany, married
James M. Christian in 1864. She is still living there.
— His second sister Fannie E. is living in
Albany, N. Y'.
John Taylor Platt, an uncle of Benjamin S. Platt

176 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
resides in Washington, Ct He has two daughters
living. He is a son of John Platt 2d, in the Meriden
line.

The Hon. Orville H. Platt, Senator from Connec
ticut, is a resident of Washington, D. G, most of
the year. There are others of our lineage who
make their home at the Capital — several from the
Plattsburg aud Judge Jonas Branches, also one or
more from the Tioga and the Lake Shore Branches.

XXIV.
GIDEON BRANCH.

This starts from Joseph Platt, of Milford, the
youngest son of Eichard 1st. Joseph Platt, often
called Lieut Platt, baptized April 1, 1649, married
Mary Kellogg, daughter of Daniel Kellogg, of Nor
walk, May 5, 1680. Gideon Platt, son of Lieut.
Joseph Platt, we read in the Church records, was
baptized September 29, 1700. This Gideon Platt
married Mary Buckingham, February 28, 1726.
Their oldest son Gideon Platt was baptized March
24, 1734. This name has been kept in a number of
the families to the present time, 1890. Gideon 1st
and Mary made Middlebury, Ct, their home. Their
children were : Gideon, Asa and MabeL
Gideon 2d who married Hannah Clark, had three
sons, Gideon 3d, Merrit, and Joseph.
— Gideon 3d married Lydia Sperry, of Waterbury,
November 8, 1807. They had children : Joseph,
Anson, Gideon Lucian, Merrit, Maria and Luther S.
Gideon 3d, died October 22, 1846.
— Joseph Platt, son of Gideon 3d, resides in South
ington. — Luther S. Platt, of Naugatuck, married Dianthe
Thompson, still living. They have one son, Fred.

180 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Gideon, who married Thankful F. Lee, in August,
1879. He had a son Howard Luther, and a daugh
ter Bertha D. A second marriage in 'March, 1885,
was to Lilian Eockwell. They have two children by
this marriage, Lula F., and Helen E. Platt.
— Anson, second son, died in California, 1849.
— Gideon Lucian, third sou of Gideon 3d, was
born in Middlebury, Ct, July 20, 1813; graduated
from the Yale Medical College, 1838 ; established
himself in practice iu Waterbury, held a high
rank in his profession ; he was in succession
President of the County and State Medical Asso
ciations. He married Caroline Tudor, of Wind-
sor^ Ct, December 18, 1844; he died November 11,
1889. She is still living. Their children are Dr.
Lucian Tudor, Medora Caroline, Dr. Walter Brews
ter, and the youngest, Charles Easton. Charles
Easton, born October, 1856, resides in Detroit, Mich.
Dr. Walter Brewster Platt, born December 20, 1853,
married Mary Perine, daughter of E. G. Perine, Esq.,
of Baltimore, December 4, 1889. He has one son,
Washington Platt, born October 6, 1890. He took
the scientific degree of Ph.B., from Yale CoUege in
1874, his M.D. from Harvard in 1879, and his F.E.
C.S. in London in 1883. He resides in Baltimore
in the full practice of his profession. His sister
Medora C, married Dr. W. Hamlin Holmes, of
Calais, Me., April. 6, 1881, a nephew of the Hon.
Hannibal Hamlin, late Vice-President Their home
is in Waterbury, Ct Dr. Lucian Tudor Platt, born
in 1845, graduated from Yale College in 1864, took
his M.D. in 1869, from the University of Penn-

GIDEON BRANCH. 181
sylvania, Philadelphia. He married September 15,
1871, Eebecca Hurlbut, of Winchester, Ct One
daughter, Theodora H. Platt His home is Vine-
land, N. J., where he is practicing medicine.
— Merritt Platt, fourth son of Gideon 3d, married
Mary Bronson, of Middlebury, November 25, 1838-
Have had two children, Edward Bronson and Mary
Eliza. Eesidence, Waterbur}', Ct
— Maria H., second daughter, of Gideon 3d, mar
ried Elan P. Osborn, of Camden, N. J., both de
ceased ; their children are : Lydia M., who married
Isaac P. Treat, of Orange, and Platt D. Osborn, of
New Britain, Ct.

XXV.
W.ATERBURY BRANCH.

Alfred Platt, second son of Nathan Platt, of
Newtown, Ct, wjis born April 2, 1789. He founded
the manufacturing hamlet of Plattsville, near Water
bury. He married Irene Blackman, of Brookfield,
in 1816. He died December 29, 1873. She died
November 2, 1863, aged 72. Their children were :
Nirom B., Charles Sanford, Williain Smith, Clark
Murray, Alfred Legrand aud Seabury B. Platt.
— Nirom, eldest son, born September 1, 1818,
married Eliza Kirtland, Waterbury, September 17,
1810. Children : Fanny, Margaret, Ida and Wil
liam. Fanny married Charles Eussell, who died
Christmas, 1889, at Los Angeles, Cal. Margaret mar
ried W. N. Osborn ; they reside in Waterbury. Ida
K. married Lewis Perkins, of same place. Wil
liam's home is in California.- The father died Octo
ber 14, 1863.
— Charles S. Platt, second son of Alfred, was boru
in Waterbury, July 30, 1820 ; he removed to West
Stockbridge, Mass., 1848, and built the " Eockdale
Mills." He was a member of the State Legislature
in 1841. He married Mary M. Tobey, of West
Stockbridge, September 4, 1861. Their children

186 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
are: Mary J., born November 17, 1862 ; Frederick
T., born October 15, 1864, residing in Troy, N. Y.;
Charles E., born October 31, 1866, and Jeannette E.
His public life is marked hj his opposition to saloon
politics and saloon influences. His home is in Stock-
bridge, Mass.
— William S. Platt, third son of Alfred, born in
Waterbury, January 27, 1822, married Caroline Or-
ton, daughter of William, October 1, 1844, born the
same year as her husband. He was a manufacturer,
and he showed a very remarkable aptitude in the
adaptation of new means to desirable ends. He in
vented -many admirable appliances of great practical
value, as his very handsome estate proves. In brief,
he was an " inventive genius." His factories em
ployed over 200 workmen, and his industries have
greatly enlarged Plattsville. The business of his
firm is now one of the largest in Waterbury. He
died March 27, 1886, in his 64th year. His chUdren
are : Orton William, died in infancy ; Helen Irene
W. ; Caroline Amelia ; William Hubert, died in his
7th year, and Irving Gibbs, born June 18, 1860.
Helen Irene Wilhelmina, boruMarch 4, 1849, married
Wallace H. Camp, October 17, 1878 ; their home is
in Waterbury. Mrs. WUliam S. Platt survives her
husband, and lives at the homestead with her
daughter and son.
— Clark Murray, fourth son of Alfred Platt, born
January 1, 1824, has long been in business in com
pany with his brother William S. He married.
May 20, 1846, Amelia M. Lewis, born January 3,
1826, of Nangatuck, Ct His children are : Bertha

WATERBURY BEANCH. 187
Louise boru May 10, 1851, and Lewis Alfred, boru May
31, 1854. Edward Legrand, the youngest, died 1862, in
his 6th year. Lewis A. Platt married Ellen Brain-
ard, June 20, 1882. Bertha Louise Platt married
Jay H. Hart, May 20, 1873. Their children are :
Amy Louise Hart, born October 4, 1874 ; Bertha
Murray, born October 10, 1876 ; Lewis Jay, born
August 21, 1878; Alfred Lucius, December 10, 1880 ;
Euth Spencer, born September 22, 1882 ; and Dor
othy Nettleton Hart, born February 27, 1889. Lewis
A. Platt is a graduate of Yale.
- — Alfred L., fifth son of Alfred Platt, boru Janu
ary 1, 1825, married Sarah A. Sherman, of Danbury,
July 28, 1847. Their children are : Alfred S., born
November 12, 1854, and a daughter, Sarah Jane,
older, born January 8, 1849. She married. May 10,
1870, Jared P. King. Two children : a daughter,
Lillie, born June 10, 1872, died same year, aud a son,
Eupert Vivian, born October 17, 1877. The son Al
fred S. Platt, married Eugenie A. Nettleton, Decem
ber 18, 1876. They have a daughter, Alice E., born
October 7, 1879. They reside in Waterbury.
— Seabury B., sixth son, born October 8, 1828, is
a lawyer, living lately in Birmingham, Ct. He was
three years at Yale College. Ill health prevented
his graduation. He was chosen a judge of the Dis
trict Court, but has recently returned to the practice
of his profession. He is now resident in Lakeville,
Florida.

Leonard Platt, youngest son of Nathan, born in
March, 1804, married Clarissa Hosmer, of Vermont.

188 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
He was senior warden of the Episcopal Church in
Waterbury for several years ; aud chairman of the
building committee to build a new stone church.
His children are : Henry, Maria, Eichard, George
L. and Clara. They live- iu Waterbury. He was
very much interested in the ancestry of the family.
While in Europe, he sought facts, aud made a valu-
ble record, which, indeed, suggested the compilation
of these memoranda. He invented several valuable
machines. He died suddenly at Shrewsbury, N. J.,
July 4, 1858, in his 55th year. His remains were
brought to Waterbuiy for burial.

There are several of the family from other branches
residing at Waterbury. Some of the descendants
of the late Dr. Gideon L. Platt are there, also his
brother Merrit and family of the Gideon Branch.
Mrs. Lewis J. Atwood, residing in Waterbury, is
Elizabeth, daughter of Almon Platt, of the Josiah
Branch.

XXVI.
WESTCHESTER BRANCH.

In this the name of Benoni Platt comes first.
He resided in Northcastle, Westchester Co., N.
Y., as early as 1730, since he is then registered
in the records as a town officer. His Christian name
seems to be a new one in the famil}'. He died
iu Northcastle in 1763, leaving his widow Han
nah Platt, two sons, Jonathan and Benoni 2d,
and oue daughter Abigail. His will is recorded
in the Surrogate's £)ffice in New York (lib. 6,
p. 31,) dated May 20, 1761, proved May 14, 1763 ;
iu which he mentions his wife, two sons, his daugh
ter Abigail's childreu, his grand-daughter Abigail
daughter of his son Benoni 2d, and his son Jon
athan's oldest daughter, also his grand-daughter
Hannah, then under 16. The will of his widow,
Hannah Platt, is also on record, (lib. 25, p. 427,)
dated March 8, 1764, proved February 25, 1767, iu
which she mentions her sons as above and her
daughter Abigail, and her grand-daughter Hannah,
the daughter of Abigaih There is also on record
the will of Benoni Platt 2d, of Northcastle, recorded
liber K, p. 271, dated May 26, 1824.

192 THE PLAIT LINEAGE.
There is no Benoni Platt among the family rec
ords in Huntingtou, L. I., or in Milford, Ct, that the
compiler of these memorials has discovered. There
is a Jonathan in the Norwalk Branch, but it was
after Benoni Piatt's oldest son was so named. There
was a Jonathan Platt au early settler in Eowley,
Mass. Jonathan Platt 2d in this line, went east
ward to Greenwich, Ct, to find his bride. This
slight clue is the only one we have. Judge Platt, of
White Plains, is of the opinion that Benoni was a
grandson of Isaac 1st, of Huntington.
Col. Jonathan Platt 1st, of Bedford, N. Y., re
moved in 1793 with his son Jonathan 2d to Tioga
Co., N. Y., where he died in 1795, the founder of au
important branch of the family. Consult the Tioga
records. Benoni Platt 2d, remained on the home
stead place at Northcastle. He died November 3,
1796, in the 63d year of his age. His children were :
Stephen, Cynthia, Hannah, Abigail, Debora, and
Benoni Platt 3d, who was born August 8, 1764. Of
these, Stephen married Miss Green, both dying
young, leaving no issue. Debora never married.
— Cyuthia Platt, daughter of Benoni, 2d, married
Charles Bundle. They lived in Greenwich, Ct
Their children were : Hannah, Jarvis, William and
Benoni. — -Hannah Platt married Mr. Dibble, who left a
daughter, who married Mr. Hubbard. Their des
cendants live in New York City.
— Abigail Platt, third daughter, married Benjamin
Tripp, of Northcastle. Four children : Isaac,
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and Debora, who married Williain Pulmer. Of
these, Hannah Hopkins lived and died in North
castle. They left oue child, Hannah, wife of John
P. Tripp. Debora Palmer died in New York, leav
ing children now residing there.
— Of the grandchildren of Benoni Platt 2d, Benoni
Bundle had a son Charles, and a daughter, Eliza
beth of Northcastle. James Bundle resides in
Brooklyn, L. I. Charles Bundle died leaving a
daughter Mary. Isaac Tripp, of Northcastle, left a
son John Platt Tripp, lately of Bedford. Benjamin
Tripp, jr., left David, aud Sarah, now residing in
Middletown, N. Y.
— Benoni Platt 3d, who died May 13, 1824, married
Charity Eeynolds. His children were : Orsomus,
boru July 4, 1785, dying without issue, April 19,
1831 ; Eachel, born October 15, 1787, who married
Mr. 0. Marvin, but died without issue in her 24th
year ; Cynthia, born July 9, 1790, died in her
18th year ; Horton, born August 9, 1792, died De
cember 18, 1867 ; Stephen, born June 24, 1794 ;
Charity, boru April 10, 1796 ; Eeynolds, boru Oc
tober 15, 1798 ; WiUiam, born December 1, 1801 ;
and Jane Ann, born Feb. 4, 1804. These were by
his first wife. A second marriage was to Betsey
Brush. His children were : Edward- Brush, born
October 9, 1811; Lewis C. Platt, born March, 7,
1818 ; and Jesse Holly, born December 31, 1820.
— Stephen Platt, the third son, married a Miss Un-
derhiU. He died July 11, 1861. His children : Wm.
Platt, Edwin, and Emily (Keller), all of Po'keep
sie ; Eachel (Wealtheav), of Montrose, Fannie

194 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
(Mosher), and Ann Eliza (Van Anden), both of
Amenia, N. Y.
Benoni Platt 4tli, married Jennie E. Ham, of Pine
Plains, N. Y. Their children were : Frank Platt,
of Hartford, Ct., and Charles H. Platt, of New York.
Benoni P., died in El Paso, 111., 1860. Charles H.
Platt, of New York, January 29, 1884, married Frar-
cis J. Jauriet
The widow of Benoni Platt 4th, married C. M.
Clute, of El Paso, where she now resides.
— Charity, born April 10, 1796, married Stephen
Sands, (still living a widow residing at Aurora, N. Y.)
Her children are : Alexander, (married), Marcus,
Alanson, Eachel and Samuel, of Aurora.
— Eeynolds, born October 15, 1798, died aged 73,
leaving a son Ebenezer G. Platt, who married and is
residing at Northcastle ; and a daughter Sarah E.,
(Mrs. W. H. Green.)
— ^Wm. Platt, born December 1, 1801, died in his
38th 3'ear, leaving Horton .and Francis, both de
ceased. — Jane Ann, married Augustus Cliff; died without
issue, AprU 24, 1825.
— Edward Brush Platt, died October 9, 1811, leav
ing Edward Lewis Platt, of Mt Kisco, and Mary,
deceased. - — Lewis C. Platt, married Laura S. Popham, May
1, 1853. His children are : Mary S., Eliza, Benoni,
Wm. Popham, Jane H., Alethea Hill, Lewis C. jr.,
Julia Ward, and Theodora Platt Judge Lewis C.
Platt is a lawyer, residing in White Plains, N. Y.
He sent me most of these data.

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— Jesse Holly Platt, died July 8, 1884, leaving two
children, Lewis Holly and Alice, who married Eev.
Wilberforce Wells.
Jonathan Platt 1st, when he removed to Tioga
Co., left one son, Charles, at Bedford, N. Y.
Charles Platt, of Bedford, N. Y., son of Jonathan
1st, was born February 10, 1771. He married Han
nah Leek, November 23, 1791. Their children were:
PhiUp L. Platt, born in Bedford, July 22, 1795, died
in California, April, 1852 ; Joseph S. Plait, Febru
ary 6, 1798 ; Eleanor M., May 27, 1800, died Novem
ber 16, 1851; Charles S., born July 9, 1802; Han
nah L., born August 18, 1804, died July 9, 1841;
Samuel H., born May 6, 1806 ; Jonathan and Mary
A., born October 14, 1807, died in infancy ; Erastus
E., born October 10, 1809 ; Catherine M., March 1,
1813, died September 8, 1820 ; and Deborah E., born
June 6, 1815. She (Mrs. Holly) only is living. She
resides with her niece Mrs. Kate M. Smith, Middle-
town Ct The father, Charles Platt died March 17,
1839. — Joseph S., son of Charles, married Esther Mills,
daughter of Jonathan, of Bedford, N. Y. Their
children are : Eachel A., Joseph M., Kate M., and
Mary E. The youngest died, leaving no children.
Eachel married Wm. C. Merritt, living in New York.
They have six children : Charles Anderson, born 1853 ;
Wm. Platt, February 12, 1857 ; Edith Augusta, Car
oline Warren, Anna Bertha, and Henry M., the last
born September 12, 1867.
Joseph M. Platt, married and has one daughter.
Flora, who married Albert Bendall; they are now

196 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
living in Brooklyn, L. I. Kate M. Platt, married J.
Lincoln Smith, of Lanesboro, Westchester Co., N.
Y. One son, Howard M., who is residing in New
York. The father, Joseph S, Platt, died at his
daughter's home in Middletown, July 7, 1873.
Edward Erastus Platt, late of Albany, N. Y., son
of Charles Platt, of Bedford, N. Y., married Maria
Leek Knapp, near 1835. Their children were : Jo
seph Hall, Edward Erastus, May Elizabeth, Charles,
Hubert, Eleanor, E. Harvey, and Virginia. Two
others died quite young. Four of these only sur
vive : Edward E., Mary E., E. Harvey, and Virginia.
The youngest son and the two daughters reside with
their venerable mother in New York. The father
was in the service of his country in the late war,
aud after its close, he was still retained in service in
the Freedmen's Bureau. He died, 1869. Edward
E., his son, was also in the war. He married Seraph
N., daughter of Marshall Newton, of Vt, May 5,
1865. Their children are : Mary Leek, James New
ton, and Grace Platt, born in Springfield, Mass.
They reside in Worcester, Mass.

XXVII.
TIOGA BRANCH.

This is an offshoot of the Westchester stock. Col.
Jonathan Platt, of Bedford, N. Y., went with his son
Jonathan, to Tioga County, N. Y., in 1793, and died
there two years later. Both the father and the son,
doubtless, served in Gen. Sullivan's army, which in
1779 crossed from Trenton, N. J., to the Susque
hanna Eiver, and drove the Indians out of the Wy
oming Valley, and it was that expedition which in
all probability led them later to move back into the
Susquehanna Valley. Jonathan Platt, the father,
was a prominent patriot in the Eevolution. He was
a member of the Provisional Congress of 1775, from
New York. He is referred to in Lossing's Field Book
of the Eevolution, (vol. 1, p. 691,) as one of the
" distinguished patriots " who constituted the Com
mittee of Safety at White Plains, N. Y., 1776. His
father was Benoni Platt, of Northcastle, Westchester
Co., N. Y. The Colonel lived long enough to see his
son well established in his Tioga home. Jonathan
Platt, son of Jonathan 1st, was born April 20, 1764 ;
he married Anna Brush, born October 8, 1766, of
Greenwich, Ct. .Their children were : Jonathan 3d,
born 1783 ; Mary, born May 20, 1785 ; Benjamin,

200 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
born June 5, 1787 ; Edward, August 19, 1789 ; Wil
liam, October 29, 1791 ; Brush, born August 6, 1795;
Nehemiah, July 25, 1797 ; Charlotte, born January
25, 1800 : Benjamin, April 2, 1803 ; Deborah, born
August 6, 1805 ; Charles, May 11, 1808 ; and Sarah,
May 9, 1811, who is still living. Jonathan Platt 2d,
was prominent and influential in his neighborhood,
and he is well remembered by people still living.
He acquired a fair property in his day. He died
December, 1824.
Jonathan Platt 3d oldest son of Jonathan 2d, was
born in Bedford, N. Y., October 13, 1783, ten years
before the family removed to the Susquehanna Val
ley. He made his home in Nichols, Tioga Co., N.
Y., ^and he became a leading man in his neigh
borhood. He married Betsey Goodrich. She died
1878. He died January 16, 1857, leaving seven child
ren: Charlotte, Mary, Charles, and George, who
died 1851, aged 27 ; and Frances Sarah, who died
1883, aged 52, and Elizabeth Caroline, and Edward
Jonathan Platt.
— Charlotte Platt, the first, born August 7, 1817,
married George Underwood, a lawyer of Auburn, N.
Y. He was a graduate of Hamilton College, in the
class of '38 ; a member of the Greek letter fratern
ity of Alpha Delta Phi. He established a success
ful practice in his profession ; he was attorney of
the N. Y. Central Eailroad ; a member of the N.
Y. Legislature 1850-2 ; aud Mayor of Auburn in
1854. He died May 25, 1859, in his 44th year. His ¦
wife survives ; she is occupying the homestead in
Auburn. Their children were : George Platt, Char-

TIOGA BRANCH. 201
lotte Platt, and William, who all died uearly two
years of age ; and Jonathan Platt, George Under
wood 2d, and Fanny Goodrich Underwood. Jona
than Platt Underwood, born September 14, 1849, is
a graduate of Hamiltou College in the class of '70.
He is an Alpha Delta Piii. He married November
5, 1890, making his home in Chicage, 111. His wife
Caroline, is the daughter of George Trumbull, of
that city.
— George Underwood 2d, born July 17, 1855, is a
lawyer in Auburn, N. Y. He is a graduate of Yale,
in the class of 1875. He married, October 20, 1880,
Grace Kennard, of Boston, Mass., born July 27,
1858. The name and mantle of his father fall upon
him in his native place. Their children are : Grace,
born 1882, died in infancy ; George Underwood 3d,
born September 29, 1883 ; Kennard, born August
16, 1886; and Eosamund Underwood, born October
8, 1887. Fanny Goodrich, the youngest of the
children of George Underwood 1st, boru Juh' 12,
1857 ; married June 6, 1888, Joseph C. Anderson, a
banker in Auburn, born March 25, 1853.
— Mary Platt, second daughter of Jonathan Platt
3d, born September 17, 1819, married September 3,
1845, Henry Morgan, of Aurora, N. Y., born August
22, 1810. He died, January 30, 1887. He left oue
daughter living, Kate Morgan ; Chas. Henry, born
September, 1848, died May, 1851; and John Platt
Morgan, born May, 1851, died September, 1852. Mrs.
Morgan resides in New York. Her daughter Kate
Morgan born January 5, 1847, married June 23, 1870,
Wm. Brookfield, of New York, formerly of Brooklyn.

202 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
They have five sons : Henry Morgan, born October
17, 1871; Fritz James H, born AprU 25, 1874;
Frank, November 18, 1875 ; Edwin Morgan, Septem
ber 22, 1877 ; and Herbert Brookfield, born July 4,
1880. Harry, the oldest, is in the class of '93 in
Columbia College, and is also a member of the
fraternity of Alpha Delta Phi.
—Charles Platt, oldest son of Jonathan 3d, born
March 19, 1822, married May 10, 1848, Nancy H.
Ely, of Binghamton, N. Y. He died June 18, 1869,
leaving one daughter living, Louise Tivers. His
sou William H., died 1873, aged 24; Charles Henry
died 1870, aged 13 ; Fanny E., died May 3d, 1878,
in her 18th year ; aud Frederick Platt, born 1868,
died same year. Louise Tivers Platt, born April
16, 1851, married Aaron Putnam Storrs, of Owego,
now residing there. They have children : Charles
Platt Storrs, boru September 25, 1874, and Fanny
Platt Storrs, 1878.
— Elizabeth Platt, fourth daughter of Jonathan
3d, born June 6, 1833, married September, 1858,
Silas Condit Hay, residing iu New York. They
have two children living, the youngest, Charles
Cortland Hay, born May 7, 1876, in New York.
Two, Elizabeth Platt and Fanny, died in infancy in
1865 and 1866. The oldest, Louis C. Hay, boru
November 29, 1859, married November 2, 1887,
Jennie Burt, of Saginaw, Mich. They have one son,
Wellington, born August 4, 1888.
— Edward Jonathan Platt, youngest son of Jona
than 3d, born September 3, 1838, married Emma
Ketchum, of Owego, N. Y. They lived in San Fran-

TIOGA BRANCH. 203
Cisco, Cal., nearly twenty years. They returned to
their old home in Owego, in the fall of 1890.
Nehemiah, sixth son of Jonathan 2d, ha's a son,
George Platt, living in Owego.
Charlotte Platt, second daughter of same, mar
ried Gurden Hewitt. Their children are : Gurden,
Jr., Frederick, both living in Owego ; and a daugh
ter, who married Stephen Arnot, of Elmira, N. Y.
Debora, third daughter of Jonathan 2d, has a son,
Edward Turner, living iu Flint, Michigan. He is a
banker. William, fourth sou of Jonathan 3d, born at Bed
ford, N. Y., October 19, 1791, two years before the
removal to Tioga, married Lesbia Hinchman, of L. I.,
of the family of that name prominent in the Eevo
lution and in the old French War. His home was
at Owego. He was a law;yer. He died January 12,
1855. His children, still living, are: Frederick E.
Platt, of Owego ; Emily Platt, who married Mr.
Skinner, of Owego ; and the Hon. T. C. Platt, of
New York.
Thomas Collier Platt, youngest child of William,
was boru at Owego, July 15, 1833. His first studies
were at the Academy in his native place. He en
tered the class of '53 at Yale. In his junior year he
left on accouut of illness, wdiich prevented him
from graduating ; but the college granted him an
honorary degree in 1876. In 1852 he married Ellen
Lucy Barstow, daughter of Hon. Chas. E. Barstow,
of Owego. He entered into business, becoming
interested in lumbering in Michigan. He became
President of the Tioga Bank. He took an active

204 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
part in politics. He was clerk of Tioga Co. three
years. He was member of Congress from the
29th District, 1872 to 187.6. In 1879 he became
general manager of the U. S. Express Co. From
1880 he was several years quarantine commissioner
of the port of New York. January 13, 1881, he
was elected U. S. Senator from his native state.
He resigned his seat in the Senate May 16, the same
year. His prominent and responsible positions iu
public life indicate that he has marked ability in
the conduct of affairs. He has been an influential
leader in his party. His children are : Edward
Truex, Frank Hinchman, and Henry Barstow. Ed
ward resides in Washington, D. C.
— Frank H. Platt is a lawyer in New York. He
married, November 1, 1881, Caroline Elizabeth Liv
ingston, daughter of Alan Camerou Livingston.
They have a son, Livingston Platt, born March 7,
1885, and a daughter, Ellen Barstow Platt.
— Henry B. Platt, the youngest son of the ex-
Senator, married, November 9, 1887, Grace Lee
Phelps, of Wilkesbarre, Penn.

XXVIII.
STEUBEN BRANCH.

Nathan Platt, of 'Hornellsville, N. Y., was boru
in Prospect, Ct, August 20, 1809. He was the son
of Joseph born December 14, 1778, in Milford, Ct,
son of Capt. Joseph born 1754, son of Joseph born
November 13, 1724, son of Joseph baptized Jan
uary 15, 1693. This Joseph was the son of Josiah
baptized 1645, the son of Eichard 1st.
Nathan Platt, above, gives these data of Joseph
his father. He had ten children: David Miles,
born May 12, 1802; Martha M., June 15, 1803;
Joseph, Jr., January 15, 1805 ; Eliza, August 3,
1806; Charlotte, January 9,1808; Nathan himself,
1809; C.atharine, November, 1811; Emily, March
29, 1814; WiUiam, July 22, 1816, and Nancy
Spencer, October 7, 1819. David Miles lived in
Wisconsin, deceased ; left sons and daughters. One
is Lucius C. Platt of Chicago. Joseph jr., died in
Michigan. His son, Nathan Platt, resides in Mus
kegon, Mich.
Henry N. Platt, lawyer, Buffalo, N. Y., is the
youngest child of Nathan Platt, of Hornellsville.
He married, December 12, 1887, Julia M. Peck,
daughter of Myron H. Peck, of Batavia, N. Y. One

208 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
son, Myron Nathan, born June 12, 1889. Nathan
Platt married, January 7, 1842, Caroline M. Eich
mond, of Livonia, N. Y. Seven children : Eichmond,
Susan, Susan 2d, Annette, Lucia, Charles and Henry
Nathan. Eichmond J. Platt lives in Cedar Eapids,
Iowa, and has a son W^alter, also a second sou.

Joseph Platt went to Hamburg, N. Y., about 1830.
Three sons, Charles M., William aud Horace, and
three daughters, Mrs. Leach, Mrs. Walker and
Fanny deceased. Charles M. married Asenath A.
Dayton, of Eden, N. Y., now residing in Alden, N. Y.
They have four children living : Frank L. in Eich
mond, Va. ; Lewis D. in Alton, low.i ; Nellie Platt
and Mrs. F. L. Barnet, of Alden, N. Y.
Joseph Platt above had brothers: Abel, who went
to Dixon, 111. (two sons and two daughters.) David
died iu Buffalo ; James and Montgomery, who re
mained East. William, brother of Chas. M., has a
son,. Eev. Ward D. Platt, in Hornellsville, N. Y.
Horace resides ou the old place in Hamburg.
The father of Joseph above was James Platt, of New
Fairfield, Ct 
— Charlotte Platt, born January 9, 1808, daugh
ter of Joseph Platt, of Prospect, Ct., (?) married F.
D. Benham, in that place, April 6, 1828. Their
chUdren were : Edward F. S. Benham, born Septem
ber 14, 1832; 0. J. Benham, September 22, 1834 ;
George C. (died 1887) ; Daniel W., born December
13, 1837; AmeUa C. and Floriuda, Wm. W. and
Eobert B. Benham, the last born April 6, 1852. 0.
J. Benham resides iu Cleveland, Ohio.

XXIX.
THE SCIOTO BRANCH.

This traces to the Josiah stock, by William Aug
ustus, William, Benjamin, Ebenezer, John, son of
John, son of Josiah 1st, son of Eichard 1st, of Mil
ford, Ct. Benjamin Platt, born in Danbury, Ct,
January 3, 1757, heads this branch. March 31,
1776, he married Adah Fairchild, born September
28, 1758, died August 14, 1833. He removed to
Lanesboro', Mass. ; then to Ohio, and about 1817
made his home in Columbus, on the borders of the
Scioto. His grandson, Wm. Augustus, born in
Lanesboro', Mass., March 7, 1809, was with his
grandfather in Columbus in early boyhood. Ben
jamin Platt was a worker in gold, silver and brass.
He made clocks, and invented a surveyor's compass,
movable, for running lines over hilly land. He was
fond of medical studies, and among relatives showed
much skill in applying his knowledge. He had
nine children : Hannah, born February 20, 1778 ;
William; Cyrus; Ely, October 8, 1784; Sarah, born
June 6, 1778 ; Benjamin, May 24, 1791, died March
3, 1812 ; Augustus, born August 4, 1793, married
Elsa Chase, November 24, 1816 ; Hiram, July 6,
1796, married Henrietta Summers, November, 1815,

212 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
and Maria, April 22, 1805, married Erastus Luce,
October 10, 1825. Sarah married Jarod Brace Feb
ruary 20, 1815. Hannah, the oldest, married Eufus
Ferris, May 7, 1801. Their children were : Harriet,
Hiram, 1805 ; Cornelia ; Dan, born November 26,
1810, and Eufus, March 4, 1813.
— William Platt, son of Benjamin, born November
19, 1780, married February 7, 1804, Pamelia Eoyce,
of Lanesboro', Mass. Their children were: Pam
elia, born June 25, 1805, married 1821 ; David
Gregory, died March 24, 1885, in California ; Laura
Ann, January 7, 1807, married Dr. Wm. C. Hicock,
and is still living in Burlington, Vt. ; Wm. Augustus;
and Sarah M. Platt, born August 27, 1811, who mar
ried Matthew J. Gilbert, died May 26, 1837, in
Columbus, O. A second wife of Wm. Platt was
Harriet Little, married December 4, 1817. Their
children were : Cyrus, born 1818 ; and Harriet
Little, October 17, 1820, married September 28,
1884, Theodore SoUace. Wm. Platt died January 7,
1814. His brother Cyrus, born 1783, married, June,
1812, Laura Eoyce ; he died September 7, 1824.
— WiUiam Augustus Platt, son of William, mar
ried in Delaware, O., September 2, 1839, Fanny
Arabella Hayes, only sister of ex-President Euther-
ford B. Hayes. They had six children : Sarah
Sophia, Laura, William Hayes, Fanny, Emily, and
Eutherford Hayes Platt 1. Sarah Sophia, born
October 5, 1840, died iu infancy. 2. Laura, born
April 1, 1842. 3. WiUiam Hayes, born March 3,
1844, died January 27, 1851. 4. Fanny, born April
12, 1847. 5. Emily, born July 18, 1850. 6. Euther-

THE SCIOTO BEANCH. 213
ford Hayes Platt, boru September 6, 1853. A
second marriage of William A. Platt was to Sarah
Fqllet, of Sandusky, O. Their children were : Susan,
Lucy, aiid Sarah. Susan married Hermon M. Hub
bard, of Columbus, O. ; two sons, Hermon Milton,
and Platt WiUiam A. Platt died August 8, 1882.
—Laura Platt, his oldest daughter living, married
Gen. John G. Mitchell, October 3, 1862. He served
in the Ohio Volunteer Infantr}' during the war of
the Eebellion, and was made Brigadier-General
while in active service. Their chiLlren are: Eliza
beth, born October 2, 1864 ; Fanny, April 13, 1869 ;
Jane Andrews, June 10, 1871; and John Grant, born
June 17, 1874. The home of the family is in Colum
bus, Ohio.
^Fanny Platt, next daughter, married Dr. Ers
kine B. FuUerton, October 19, 1871. They reside
in Columbus, O. Their children were five : Wil
liam Platt, November 23, 1872, died January 28,
1873 ; Laura, born October 30, 1873 ; Dorothy, July
9, 1877; Eutherford, June 30, 1880; and Fanny,
born December 2, 1882.
— -Emily Platt, youngest daughter of WiUiam A.,
married Gen. Eussell Hastings, June 19, 1878. The
ceremony was at the White House, Washington,
D. C. Their children are : Lucy Webb, born May
26, 1880; Fanny, born AprU 1, 1882; and Platt,
born January 25, 1885. Gen. Hastings, during the
Eebellion, was in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and
reached his military honors in active service. The
home of the family is in Hamilton, Bermuda Islands.
It is one of the very charming places iu the Island

214 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
group, jits lily gardens, oleander hedges, beauti
ful walks and drives makes it indeed a "fairyland."
I have heard of many who have enjoyed the hospi
talities of their pleasant home.
— Eutherford Hayes Platt, only son living of Wm.
A. Platt, born in Columbus, O., September 6, 1853, a
graduate of Columbia Law School, New York, in
1879 ; married Maryette Smith, January 5, 1887.
Their son William Andrews was born December 24,
1887. Anne Swan, their four months old little daugh
ter, died in mid-January, 1890. " He is a lawyer of
promise and good repute in his native pity."
Cyrus Platt, of Delaware, O., gra^w^son of Wm.
Platt, and Smx of Benjamin, born in Columbus, 0.,
^September 20, 1818, married November 9, 1847.
Jeaiiptte Hulme, of Burlington, N. J., born February
25, 1816, (died August 21, 1877.) Their children
were eight : Ellen H., Howard, F. W. Platt, Jeanette
H., Harriet L., Franklin Cyrus, Martha Canfield,
aud Clara I. Ellen born August 9, 1848, married
April 13, 1874, L. C. Sayre of Lawrence, Kansas.
Howard, born May 13, 1850, married September 30,
1875, M. E. Andrews. F. W. Platt, born July 29,
1852, married April 27, 1882, H. Cross ; residing in
Delaware, O. Jeanette Hulme, August 10, 1854,
married December 12, 1877, A. C. Watson of London,
Ohio. Harriet, April 10, 1857, married November
23, 1881, E. J. Mitford, of Garden City, Kansas. F.
Cyrus, born November 14, 1859, is residing in Gar
den City. Clara I, born August 2, 1865, died August
25, 1866.
— Howard Platt, son of Cyrus, had four children :

THE SCIOTO BEANCH. 215
Kennett A., born October 14, 1876, died September
19. 1880; Jeanette H., born December 25, 1877;
Mary, born July 2, 1880 ; Clara D., April 26, 1882,
died October 14, 1886. Howard Platt resides in
Leadville, Col. He is a civil engineer.
— F. W. Platt, F.on of Cyrus, has four children :
Warren Cumming, boru December 6, 1883 ; Malcolm
Cyrus, September 27, 1885, and Marguerite Alice,
and Jeanette Hulme. The family reside in Dela
ware, O.

XXX.
LEROY BRANCH.

This traces to the Josiah Branch. Ezra Platt, son
of Ezra, removed from Lanesboro', Mass., and finally
settled in Leroy, N. Y., 1802. In the following year
he was made first Judge of Genesse county, Avhich
office he held till his death, in 1811. The first Epis
copal services in Leroy were held in his new barn.
He married Lois Baldwin. No issue. -4. second
marriage was to Margaret Bunnell, of Lanesboro',
Mass. Nine children : Lois, who married Stephen
A. Wolcott ; Oliver, who married Sarah Todd ; Ira,
who died aged 30 ; Ezra 3d, who married Sally De-
pue; Elijah; Nancy; George, who married Eachel
Lyman (he died aged 84) ; and two who died in in
fancy. Elijah Platt, son of Ezra 2d, married Harriet
H. Jordan in 1823. Six children : Lafayette, who
married Caroline Spencer ; Martha, who married E.
B. Hinsdale ; Horatio, who died aged 28 ; Margaret
Platt, residing in Gettysburg, South Dakota ; Henry
A., who died in infancy ; and George Norton. (See
the Danbury Branch.) It was said of Judge Elijah
Platt that " he was ever the friend of Eeligion, Edu
cation, Law and Order." He was 19 years a warden
of the Episcopal church in Leroy. His son, George

220 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Norton Platt, formerly of Leroy, N. Y., finally located
at Vacaville, Solano county, Cal. He married Eliza
beth A. Wiard, of Leroy. He has two sons : Ealph
Hilton and Frank Lafayette, twins. The latter has
just graduated from the Dental College at Philadel
phia. This family traces its ancestral line through
Elijah, Ezra 2d, Ezra 1st, Ebenezer 1st, John and John
and Josiah 1st to Eichard Platt 1st, of Milford, Ct
These data, in the main, were sent me by Miss Mar
garet Platt, of Gettysburg, S. D., and by Frank
Lafayette Platt, of San Francisco.

XXXI.
LAKE SHORE BRANCH.

Miss Ella Maey Platt, of Cleveland, Ohio, gives
the following data. Her father, Alfred Cowles Platt,
seventeen years a resident of Sandusky, O., was born
in Milford, Ct, April 3, 1828, in that part of the town
ship now called Woodmont, lying between Milford
proper and New Haven. The old log-house is still
standing, on what is called " The Flat Iron," a lot be
tween three cross roads near the Sound. He married
Harriet Ella Paige, of Oberlin, O., September 30, 1857.
She died March 6, 1864, leaving four children: Eriola
Cowles Platt, EUa Mary Platt, Clayton Winfield Platt,
and Harriet Paige Platt. A second marriage was to
LenoraE. Shattuc, of Kipton, O. Two children by this
marriage: Eegina M. Platt and Frederick D. Platt.
Mr. Alfred Cowles Platt died in Sandusky,October 2,
1884. His widow is still living in Cleveland, O.
Her daughter, Eegina M., born in Sandusky, Febru
ary 22, 1869, married James O. Hamilton, of Cleve
land ; now living there. Frederick D. Platt, born
in Sandusky, November 16, 1872, also resides in
Cleveland. Of the older children, Eriola C, born in
Oberlin, June 22, 1858, lives in Sandusky; Ella
Mary Platt, born in former place, December 3,

224 THE platt lineage.
1859, is a well-known artist in Cleveland ; Clayton
Wiutield Platt, born in Oberlin, July 16, 1862, mar
ried Flora Palmer, of same place, in August, 1883.
One daughter, Winnifred Harriet Platt Their home
is in Sandusky, O. Harriet Paige Platt, born in
Oberlin, resides in Cleveland, O.

Isaac Smith Platt, of Fremont O., now over eighty
years old, traces his line from Eichard first, of Mil
ford, through his son Josiah, and Josiah 2d — then
his son Isaac, through two other Isaacs, to himself,
the fourth. He chiefly gives these data. The first
Josiah built a house near "Mortimer Tract," about
1700, still standing, though quite a ruin- (It has a very
antique look, and would doubtless please Euskin.)
Josiah 2d lived in the old house. Then Isaac suc
ceeded him, whose wife was Phebe. He died early.
The children were Grace and Isaac 2d in this branch.
Grace married Joseph Merwin, and they removed
to New Milford, about which place and Mer-
winville North, many of the descendants still live.
Isaac 2d married Amy Eells. Their children were
nine : Isaac 3d, born 1783 ; Amy, Phebe, Asahel, Al
anson, Abigail, Maria, Theresa, aud Merit, the last
born 1802. Isaac 3d iu this branch married Abigail
Smith, daughter of a revolutionary officer. A second
marriage was to Eebecca Powell, of Washington, Ct
He removed to Franklin, N. Y., aud died there iu
1854. His children were : Abigail Gratia, born 1804.
Isaac S:nith, born July 22, 1806,' and Harriet who
died in 1811. Abigail G., married Jas. A. Grant in
Franklin, N. Y., aud died in Washington, Ct, 1879.

LAKE SHOEE BEANCH. 225
Her two surviving childreu live there. Amy Platt,old-
est daughter of Isaac 2d married Elias Burwell. A
second marriage was to Eobert Burwell, whose
sou Eobert M. lives in New Haven. She died in
Mercer, Pa., where some of her family were living.
Sidney Platt Burwell, her 'son, now lives iu Cleve
land, 0. Another sou went to Seattle, Washington.
Phebe Platt, second daughter of Isaac 2d, married
Amos Smith, of North Milford, and went to Coscli-
octon, O. She had seven children. Asahel Platt,
second son of Isaac 2d, went to Ohio, where he
married Mary Barrett, and died there.
— Alanson Platt, third son of Isaac 2d, married
Betsey, daughter of David Beach, of North Milford.
They left the old homestead and went to Attica, N.
Y., and then to Oberlin, O., where he died 1765 (?).
Their children were eleven : Alanson S., Landra
Beach, Lester Ward, Charlotte, Mary, Samuel Isaac,
M. Fayette, Albert Cowles, Phebe, Gratia, aud Henry
M. Platt, the last born in Oberlin, the others in the
old home. Alanson S., clockmaker in Bristol, Ct,
died in Cincinnati, O. Lester Ward, printer in Cin
cinnati, went to Keatskotoos (Indian name for Platte
Eiver), and died there in 1876. Charlotte married a
Winters and lives in western Iowa. Clarissa, or
Theresa, (?) married a Goodell, and she lives, too, in
western Iowa. Mary married a Darwin, and she was
for many years a teacher of Greek in the college in
Burlington, Iowa. Samuel Isaac, boru August, 1819,
died in Oregon about 1854 ; his grave is marked at
Oberlin. M. Fayette, a Congregational minister,
lived in Lincoln, Neb. ; but at last removed to Los

226 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Angeles, Cal. Asahel died in Oregon about 1852.
Phebe married Dr. Coxhead, and died in Oakland,
Cal., 1886. Gratia married Mr. Mill, and she now
lives in California. Henry M. Platt resides in Bir
mingham, Ala.
— AbigaU, third daughter of Isaac Platt 2d, mar
ried Alfred Cowles, of Bristol,Ct., and died there 1836.
— Maria, fourth daughter, married Isaac Gillett, of
Burlington, Ct, and died there about 1865.
— Merit, youngest son of Isaac 2d, was a scientist.
He was an assistant to Professor Silliman in New
Haven. He married Abigail Merwin in Milford, be
came a teacher there, and died in 1842. His daughter
Abbie is the wife of Professor Henry Upson, of New
Preslon, Ct.
— Merit W. Platt, son of Alanson S., resides in
Toledo, O.
— Herman Smith and his brother Willie reside in
Baltimore. They are sons of Landra B. Platt
— Lester, another son, is a Congregational minister
in Flint, Mich. He has no children.
— Fayette Platt has six ; the oldest, Alfred C. Platt,
is a lawyer in Lincoln, Nebraska.
— Charlotte C. married Asahel Johnson, of Man-
lins, N. Y., at which place he died. She returned
east, and died at Ferryville, Ct Archer Platt and
his sister Fannie (Mrs. Hull) reside in Toledo, 0.;
Merit W., their father, also. Clayton Platt, son of
Alfred, resides in Sandusky, O.
Isaac S. Platt thinks the descendants of Isaac and
Phebe Platt number at least one hundred ; he has
personally known seventy-five. Miss Ella M. Platt,

LAKE SHOEE BEANCH. 227
of Cleveland, gives these additional data : Henry M.
Platt, of Lakeside, O., has two daughters, Augusta
and Frances. Gracia M. Platt married a Nash, living
near Los Angeles, Cal. Betsey C. married a Eicketts,
living in Iowa. Mary Abigail (Darwin) had children:
Charles Carlyle, of Washington, D. C. ; Wm. P., of
Keokuk, Iowa, and Mary C, of Waco, Texas. Alan
son S. Platt, late of Cincinnati, O., left children :
Ellen F. (Johnson) ; Merrit W. Platt, of Toledo, O.,
who has daughters, Jesse Platt and Fannie M. (Hull),
of same place, and tlieir brother, Archie W. Platt.
Mrs. Phebe E. (Coxhead), of Oakland, who died in
1884, left four children : Minnie G. (Lynch), Ella
Platt (Bouton), Ealph S. and Edith, all living in or
near Oakland, CaL It should be recorded of Mrs.
Mary A. Darwin, late of Burlington, Iowa, that she
was an accomplished and successful teacher and an
effective and ready speaker. She died July 30,1886.
Her husband. Will L. Darwin, now resides in San
Francisco, Cal. One of the main roots of this branch
was Alanson Platt, born in Milford, Ct., January,
1792. He married Elizabeth Beach, daughter of
Samuel, April 18, 1810. He died in OberUn, O. He
was a son of Isaac Platt 2d, in this branch, of the
Josiah stock.
Landra B. Platt, of Baltimore, son of Alanson,
born in Milford, Ct, September 8, 1812, married
March 29, 1838, Harriet Hemmingway, born in East
Haven, Ct, AprU 5, 181L He died February 27,
1887. She died September 4, 1887. Their chUdren
are : Herman S., Harriet M., James B., Jane Esther,
Lester Beach, and William D. Platt.

228 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
— Herman S. married Emily McComas, of Mary
land. Their children are : James B., and Herman S.
— Harriet M. married Lyman E. Casey, late of
New York, just elected U. S. Senator from North
Dakota. Their children : Harry P., died May 21,
1863 ; Frank, Carl, and Theodora Casey.
— James B. Platt married Kate B. Hawley, of
Maryland. Children : Eavaud C, died July 7, 1872;
and Adele T., who died May 15, 1874.
— Lester B. married Lucy B. Tillotson, of Michi
gan. One son. Beach Platt.
— Jane Esther Platt married Marvin C. Stone, of
Ohio. Their children are : Chester, died October
24, 1876, and Lester M. Stone.
— William D. Platt, the youngest, married Anna
E. Washburn, of Maryland/ Their children are :
Anna, and William D. Platt. Their home is in
Baltimore.

N. M. Platt, of Cleveland, O., gives these data.
His father, David H. Platt, sixty-five years ago lived
at North Fairfield, Huron Co., Ohio. He married
Betsey Smith there. He is now residing at Cleve
land, seventy-five years of age. The grandfather
was Samuel Platt, born in New Milford, Ct, as his
father before him. Samuel Platt died about 1880,
aged ninety-four. His brother was Philo. David
H. Platt had six sisters ; all were married. He had
one brother who died in Michigan without heirs.
N. M. Platt was born at North Fairfield, O., Decem
ber 5, 1844. In 1873 he married Ida McGuillicudy.

LAKE SHOEE BEANCH. 229
One little girl. Belle J., born May, 1883. He has a
brother, Corwin H. Platt, residing in Cleveland.
He married Mrs. Sarah Moulton near 1863 ; one
son, William G. Platt. This family doubtless trace
to old Milford, Ct.

XXXII.
FORT DODGE BRANCH.

James Lawrence Platt, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, is
the son of Theodorus J. Platt, the son of Stephen,
who came from Connecticut Theodorus J. Platt
was born in Alleghany County, New York. He mar
ried Mellissa Anne Bellinger, near 1798. Maria, the
eldest daughter, is Mrs. E. G. Montony, of Aurora,
III. John D. Platt, a son, resides in Eichland, Kala
mazoo County, Mich. Henry S. Platt, of St. Louis,
is another son. Two other daughters are Emily, re
siding in Kewaunee, IU., and Julia A., residing in
New York City. The father, Theodorus, died in
Livingston Co., N. Y. James L. Platt, of Fort Dodge,
is the President of the Chicago and Van Meter Coal
Mining Co. The mines are at Van Meter, Iowa.
There are several Stephen Platts in the Milford and
Huntington Branches.

XXXIII.
JERSEY BRANCH.

This traces to the -oldest Huntington Branch.
Jesse 3d, sou of Isaac Platt 3d, born September 15,
1762, died in Huntingtou, November 24, 1827. He
married Debora Titus, born January 12, 1766, died
December 30, 1849. Their children were : Isaac,
born August 1, 1785, died October 30, 1880 ; Joel,
born October 12, 1787; David born April 1, 1790,
died June 27, 1822; Ira, born December 29, 1792,
died 1795 ; Ira 2d, born March 5, 1795, died August
25, 1825 ; Daniel, born July 29, 1797, died January
17, 1831; Jesse 4th, born July 25, 1800, died Decem
ber 24, 1857; Sally, born August 27, 1802, died Feb
ruary 17, 1851; Ansel, 1808, died in infancy.
— Jesse 4th, married November, 1828, Elizabeth J.
Brown, of New York, and soon removed to Jersey
City. These are his children born there : Jesse
5th, born August 24, 1829, Joel Stafford aud Benja
min G.; Theodore S., born February 24, 1835, died
at sea January 7, 1857; Charles P., born April 24,
1837, died from wounds received at battle of Gettys
burg, July 28, 1863; Edwin Franklin, born in 1845,
died 1875,was also at battle of Gettysburg ; Frederick

238 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
G., born 1857, died 1878; and Ansel, born, 1841, died
1843. — Jesse 5th and Amelia Adelaide Chazoth, born
September 16, 1831, were married in Jersey City,
July 5, 1853 ; living at Montclair. Their children
are: Mary Isabella, Amelia Elizabeth, Grace Ade
laide, deceased, Jessie Maude and Charles Wiltber-
ger, born March 16, 1869. Mary Isabella, born
1854, was married to George I. Wichman, of Mont
clair, October 17, 1878; one sou, Frank Maxwell.
Amelia Elizabeth was married in Montclair to John
N. Solomons, same day. They have tw^o children :
Grace Nelson and Kermeth Platt Solomons.
— Joel S., second son of Jesse 4th, married Harriet
Eliza Downer, of New York, July 3, 1856. They are
living in Jersey City. Their children are : Charles
Heur}', born May 5, 1857, died in his 14th year ;
Jesse Stafford and Harri^Amelia, died in infancy ;
Elizabeth Jane ; Edwin Porter, born November 15,
1866 ; Grace Adelaide, 1869 ; George B., born March
24, 1872, died in his third year ; Walter Gorton, died
in his second year; Georgietta Emeline; Benjamin
Franklin, died aged seven ; Mary Bell ; Harry Au
gustus, born June 3, 1881 ; and Alonzo Freeman,
born .January 3, 1883.
— Benj. G. Platt, third son of Jesse 4th, married
Julia Lopez, April, 1857 ; residing in Jersey City.
Their childreu are : Lottie Isabelle, 1861, married
February 21, 1884,Wm. H. Armstrong, of Jersey City;
Frederick Gorton, born April 14, 1864, married Sep
tember 5, 1889, Addie Wake, of East Orange, N. J. A
second marriage of Benj. G. was to Mary Frances

JERSEY BEANCH. 239
Higgins, of New York. Childreu : Jesse Amelia and
Florence Irene.

Abraham Platt located at Potter's Creek, Ocean
County, N. J., early in the century. His children
were : William, Alexander, Amy and Elmira. William
Platt left one son. Job, and a daughter. Charity. Job
Platt left eight children : Andrew J., Wm. Henry,
Job Hamilton, Debora E., Caroline L., Eachel A.
and Sarah H.
— Charity married a Mr. Stockton, and had thir
teen children.
Geo. C. Platt, son of Joel, of Huntington, married
Sarah Allen, 1851. Six children. Living in New
York.

XXXIV.
BURLINGTON BRANCH.

Thomas Platt, born 1740, is among the first of his
name resident in Burlington County, N.J. John Platt,
his son, formerly of New Hanover, married Alice
Stevenson, September 23, 1784. Their children were :
Elizabeth, born July 9, 1785, married John Irwin ;
Martha, born December 27, 1787 ; William, born
March 13, 1790 ; Mary, born January 21, 1793, died
1871 ; George, born July 19, 1795 ; and John, born
September 24, 1802. A second marriage was to
Mary Conrow. Children : Franklin, born January 1,
1810, died August 19, 1871 ; Samuel, born July 11,
1811 ; au-d Clayton, born March 23, 1817, died Octo
ber 21, 1879.
Franklin, son of John, married Clara Ann Green
ough, of Suubury, Pa., December 16, 1837. She is
living in Philadelphia. Children : Helen AbigaU,
born November 18, 1839, died 1883; Annie, born
February 10, 1841, died 1860 ; Ebenezer Greenough,
boru January 28, 1843 ; Franklin, born November 19,
1844; Clara Greenough, born November 13, 1848;
Wm. Greenough, born June 9, 1851, died 1885 ; and
Mary Eliza, born August 4, 1854.
— Clara Greenough Platt, married J. B. Canby, of

244 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Philadelphia. Children : Clara Greenough, boru
March 15, 1881; Franklin Platt Canby, born April
25, 1884, and James Benjamin Canby, born Septem
ber 22, 1887.
William Platt, son of John Platt, of New Hanover,
married Maria Taylor. Children : Emily, born 1817;
Clayton T., born 1819, died 1877; Sarah, born 1821;
WilUam, Jr., born 1827 ; Charles Piatt, born 1829 ;
and Fanny.
— Emily Platt, married David Pepper. Died 1876,
leaving two sons, William Platt and David. William
P. Pepper married Alice Lyman. Three daughters:
Emily, Marian, and Martha. David P. married Sally T.
Newbold. A son David and a daughter Mary, dec.
Elizabeth Platt, oldest daughter of John Platt, of
New Hanover, married John Irwin. They had eleven
children : Mary Ann, Elizabeth, Lydia, Alice, Maria,
John W., George W., Samuel, Edwin, William Platt,
and Charles Irwin. The last died in his youth. The
family live in Ohio ; some in Indiana.
John Platt, second son of John, married Mary
Jackson. He died 1854. His children were : George,
Lavinia, Elizabeth, A.lice, Susan, Franklin, Edward
(died young), John 3d, Alfred and Charles, and two
dying in infancy. Of these, George, from the fall of
his horse, died in his 15th year ; Franklin married
EUa B. Ford. John Platt 3d died in 1862, aged 21,
from wounds in the battle of Fair Oaks. Charles
Platt married Eachel H. Lincoln. Children ; Mary,
Florence, Bessie E., John Lincoln, and Helen Platt
Clayton Taylor Platt, oldest son of William Platt,
married Amelia Lockwood (nee Cooley.) A second

BUELINGTON BEANCH. 245
marriage was to Martha D. Lucas. By this, two
sons, John, born 1875, and Clayton, born 1879.
— Sarah Platt, daughter of William, married Wil
liam Pepper, 1840. Their childien are : George,
married Mehitable Wharton ; died leaving George
and Frances) ; WiUiam (who married Frances
Perry ; three sons, William, Franklin, and Oliver
Perry Pepper) ; Maria (who married John S. Ger
hard ; four children) ; Emily (who married E.
Watts ; four children : Ethel, Marion, Henry, and
Carlton) ; Eathaum (who married James B. Leon
ard ; three children — one deceased, Sarah, and
Eathaum) ; and Fanny (who married Sidney Wright ;
one child, Henrietta.
William Platt, Jr., died 1862, unmarried.
Fanny Platt married John D. Shaaff. No issue.
Charles Platt, born 1829, youngest son of Wil
liam, residing in Philadelphia, married June 5, 1851,
Laura Newbold. Their chUdren: Clayton, who
niarried Jessie Bates ; Charles, who married Eliza
beth Norris, (two children, Charles Platt 3d, and
Henry Norris); William A., who married Christine
Chambers ; and Laura Newbold Platt.
George Platt, son of John of New Hanover, mar
ried Sarah Taylor, of Philadelphia. Both deceased.
Their children were : Henry, Laura, Maria, Louis
Taylor, George, and Emily. Of these, none are
living but George and Emily. Their home is in
Philadelphia. This branch in its founder is closely
related to the one which follows.

XXXV.
BINGHAMTON BRANCH.

Eev. William Henry Platt, late rector of Trinity
Church, Carbondale, Pa., is a descendant from
Jacob Platt, who was born March 10, 1743, and who,
with his brother Thomas, born December 28, 1740,
appear to be the first settlers of their name in Bur
lington Co., N. J. His grandfather, son of Jacob,
was Daniel Piatt, who resided near New Egypt, in
that county. Daniel married Mary Kirdy, of Eng
lish parentage. She died aged ninety. Their chil
dren were : Elisha, Martha, Mary, Jacob, and
Eichard Platt Jacob, the grandfather of these,
died July 16, 1816, and was buried iu Wrightstown,
N. J. Elisha, son of Daniel, died at Wilmington,
Del., 1860, aged seventy. Jacob Platt 2d died 1876,
in his 56tli year. Eichard died 1865, aged about 42.
Mary married John Holbert, of Philadelphia ; died
1880, aged 68. Martha married Geo. Flenard, of
N. J. She survives her husband.
— Eev. Wm. Henry Platt, son of Jacob 2d, married
September 30, 1874, Francis Hart, daughter of Joseph
Hall, of Philadelphia. Their children are : Dallas
Hall, and EUzabeth Hall Platt The head of this

250 THE platt lineage.
branch and that of Burlington beyond a doubt were
brothers. The distant ancestry of these two branches is not
traced. The first "Jacob Platt" iu the famil)' was a
son of Isaac 1st, of Huntingtou, his youngest son,
Jacob, born September 29, 1682. Little is known
further about him or his descendants. In the Mil
ford or Huntington record, there is no trace of a
Jacob Platt, born in 1743 or a Thomas Platt in 1740,
or near these dates. These brothers were early set
tlers iu Burlington Co., N. J. Franklin Platt, of
Philadelphia, who has been searching into the his
tory of the Burlington Branch of the family says :
" There was another Thomas Platt of New Hanover,
Burlington Co., N. J-, because when -my grandfather
John was married iu 1784, he was named in the
wedding certificate, as the son of Thomas Platt,
deceased. Whereas, Thomas, of 1740 married in 1770,
and the last of his niue childreu, Ciiarles, was boru
in 1787." He thinks that this Thomas Platt was pro
bably the father of Thomas, Jacob aud John, and
born near 1718. " Thomas " in the early record of
the family does not appear to be a common name.

It will be noted, that the Eev. Charles Henry
Platt, of the Plattsburg Branch, was five years a
resident and a rector iu Binghamton, N. Y. The
Eev. Wm. Henry Platt above is now the rector of
the Episcopal church in this city.

XXXVI.
VERMONT BRANCH.

It is stated, in Orcutt's History of New Milford,
that "Epenetus Platt, of that town, was one among
the first tenon tlie tax list in 1802-9. He was at the
time the wealthiest man iu Lower Meryall, owning
hundreds of acres of laud."
Epenetus Platt, sou of Gideon aud Mary (Bucking
ham), born February, 1738, married Susannah Mer
win, daughter of Joseph. They had a sou, Epenetus,
born at MUford, August 13, 1760 ; also, Gideon, Fow
ler, and Sheldon, and Susannah, Mary, Mabel,
and Margaret Epenetus married Molly Stone,
August 10, 1783. Their childreu were : Laura, mar
ried to Nathan Terrill ; Avis, who married Sylvester
Wheaton, of Camillus, N. Y., 1809 ; Hervey'; Polly,
who married Silas Hill, 1813, and Elmore Platt, late
of Glens Falls, N. Y. A second marriage was to Sarah
Lobdell, Ma.rch 17, 1803. By this marriage, one child,
Marshall Platt,wlio married Trypliena Merwin, of Mil
ford, March 20,1825. Elmore Platt, late of Glens Falls,
born iu Milford, Ct, August 18, 1797, married Betsey
Peck, February 2, 1825. He'died July 26, 1880, leav
ing four children : Myron, Sarah Trypliena, Harriet,
who married O. L. Baldwan, Mav 1, 1855, and Har-

254 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
vey Platt. Myron Platt, born August 15, 1830, mar
ried Sarah Elizabeth Larrabee. They live at Larra-
bee's Point, Vt. They have children : Fred. Elmore
Platt, born June 28, 1859 ; Nellie Eay Platt, of same
place, and Mary Larrabee Platt, born August 22,
1857. The latter married Eobt O. Bascom, a lawyer
of Fort Edward, N. Y., December 20, 1882. Their
children are : Wyman Samuel, born February 14,
1885, and Eobt. Platt Bascom, born December 29,
1886, both at Fort Edward.
— Har-vey Platt, youngest son of Elmore Platt,
born at Glens Falls, February 23, 1838, married
Anna W. Morgan ; now residing in Philadelphia, Pa.
They have : Alonzo Willoughby Platt, born at the
Falls, June 22, 1868 ; Harvey Elmore Platt, born at
same place, February 18, 1870 ; and Anna Bessie
Platt, born at PhUadelphia, 1879.
This Epenetus stock traces to the Gideon Branch ;
then to Joseph 1st, j'oungest son of Eichard 1st, of
Milford.

Victor M. Platt, son of Isaac Platt, lately of
Kingsbury, N. Y., and grandson of Epenetus of same
place, formerly of Milford, Ct, had a brother, Eoyal
B., and three sisters, EmmaS., Caroline A., and Jane
Platt Victor M. Platt married Jemima Brown. He
died 1877 at the residence of his son, Charles W.
Platt, at East Shoreham, Vt., leaving five children ;
two only are now living : Carrie P. and Charles W.
Carrie P. married Mr. Treadway. They are now
living at Grand Eapids, Mich. They have three
sons : Howard, John and Alfred Treadway. Charles

VERMONT BRANCH. 255
W. Platt married Florence A. Wright, of Shoreham,
March 10, 1864. Their chUdren are : Clarence W.,
Phebe E., Emma A, Thirza A., Mary I., Lucius W.,
Eugene B., and Florence. Of these, Emma A. mar
ried Geo. P. LeBrocq, of Nasbeth, Pa. One child, a
daughter. Clarence W. married Delia Sweeny, of
Whiting, Vt, now living at East Shoreham. Charles
W. Platt was two years in the union army during
the civil war.

James C. Platt, a merchant of Winooski, Vt., is the
son of James Satterlee Platt (the latter died August
16, 1889, aged 73). His grandfather was of Poultney,
Vt, also James Satterlee Platt, originally from Con
necticut James C. Platt, born May 27, 1842, mar
ried Emma A. Allen, of Winooski, May 24, 1870.
His childreu are : William E., born February 22,
1872 ; Arthur E., born September 27, 1878 ; Stella
A., born November 6, 1880 ; Martin H., born Febru
ary 23, 1886.
His uncle. Col. L. B. Platt, raised and equipped,
by order of the U. S. Government, the first Vermont
cavalry regiment for the late war, the only oue —
1,200 strong — from the State. His son, L. B. Platt,
resides in Winooski.

Miss Eloise C. Platt is in the class of '91 iu
Smith's College, Northampton, Mass. Her grand
father was Samuel B. Platt who died in Burlington,
Vt, in 1879. Her father was Zephaniah Platt, born
in Colchester, Vt He married Susan Chubbuck,
born in Wellsborough, Pa. The home of his daugh-

256 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
ter is Burlington, Vt Her sisters, Ada and Clara,
are in the class of '94 in Smith's college.

Edward Webster Platt, of Worcester, is the son of
D. E. Platt, Barre, Vt
Alanson Platt, of Highgate Springs, Vt., the son
of James H. Platt, late of Swanton, Vt, had two
uncles named Jehu and Nathan. Alanson Platt had
three brothers younger, Hiram, Daniel, and George,
and a sister, Lorina. His grandfather lived in Clar-
enden, Vt Alanson has a daughter, Ella M. Platt,
who is now Mrs. Lovell, of Brockton, Mass. She
has one daughter. Daniel Platt resides in Cresco,
Iowa. His children are : Carrie Louise, now Mrs.
Martin ; Mattie Irene, and James Leroy.

XXXVII.
QUEECHE BRANCH.

Edward E. Platt, son of James, late of Queeche,
Vt, born in Burlington, 1826, graduated at West
Point, 1849, served iu the artillery on frontier to 1855 ;
assistant Professor in French at West Point four
years to 1859; Captain Second Artillery, May 15,
1861 ; commanded his battery at Bull Eun ; brevetted
Major for gallantry ; Judge Advocate-General Army
of Potomac from November, 1863, to July, 1865;
brevet Lieutenant-Colonel for gallantry at Fred
ericksburg ; transferred to staff as Assistant Adju
tant-General with rank of major. Died June 17,
1884, at Ft Leavenworth, Kan.
Jas. H. Platt (son of James, late of Queeche, Vt.),
born 1837 at St. Johns, Ca., his parents being tem
porarily there ; graduated from the Medical School
of the University of Vermont in 1859 ; served during
the civil war as Captain of Fourth Vermont Volun
teers ; on staff of General Sedgwick as acting chief
quartermaster Sixth Corps ; a prisoner of war May
30 to December, 1864 ; appointed Lieutenant-Colonel
and chief quartermaster, which he declined ; at the
close of the war he settled in Virginia. He was a
member of the Petersburg City Council ; member

260 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
also of the State Constitutional Convention ; in 1869
he was elected to Congress, and re-elected for three
following sessions. He is now aresident.of Denver,
Col. He married Sarah Sophia Chase, of Holyoke,
Mass. He has one sou, George F., born 1867, and a
daughter, Florence, by a first marriage to Sarah C.
Foster in 1859. His second marriage was in 1884.
One daughter. His grandfather was of Plattsburg,
removing to Sandy Hill, where he died about 1800.
His only sister living is Mrs. Geo. P. Bugbee, of
Hartford, Vt. His sister Ella Sophia, wife of Eev.
Levi Eogers, of Georgetown, Mass., died 1883, with
out children.

XXXVIII.
BETHEL BRANCH.

James D. Platt, of New York City, traces to his
grandfather, Ebenezer, born in Bethel, Conn., August
23, 1764, who married Anna Hoyt, 1788. Ebenezer
Platt died November 17, 1834.
^Dennis Platt, son of Ebenezer, was born in Dan
bury or Bethel, September 25, 1800. He graduated
from Yale College in 1824. He married, June, 1828,
Caroline Dwight, of New Haven, Ct He was or
dained to the Christian ministry. His first charge
was atWUUmautic, Ct, 1827to 1829. He preached
at Canterbury, Ct, 1830 to 1833; at Homer, N. Y.,
1834 to 1842 ;" at Manlius, N. Y., from 1842 to 1845 ;
and at Binghamton, N. Y., from 1846 to 1853. He
resided at South Norwalk, Ct, at his death, in 1878.
His widow is now living there, at ninety years of age.
His childreu are James D. Platt, and Eliza G. The
daughter is living with her aged mother in Norwalk.
— James D. Platt, sou of Dennis Platt, was born
February 24, 1836. He married Augusta M. Morgan,
September 17, 1863. He resided at Barbadoes, iu
the West Indies, twelve years. He has two chil
dren, a son and a daughter: Dwight M. Platt, born
September 21, 1864, and Caroline M. Platt They
were both born in Barbadoes. The family reside in
Lenox Avenue, New York City.

XXXIX.
DANBURY BRANCH.

Ebenezer Platt, son r John, son of John, jr.,
son of Josiah 1st, of Mil rd, resided some time in
Newtown. Born 1708, ' Milford, he married Miss
Hicock, of Danbury, w ?, he made his home. She
was born 1719. They t eleven children : Molly,
who married Thaddeua Bennett, of Weston, Ct.;
Phebe, who married Daniel Crofut, lived at the
West ; Ebenezer 2d (1738), who married Sarah An
drews, dying in Danbury, 1775 ; Ezra, boru 1740 ;
Abial, 1745, who married Ehoda Hall, of Lanesboro',
Mass., where he died ; Joseph who married Lydia
Elsworth or Elmore, of Sharon, Ct; Benjamin, of
Scioto Branch ; James, born 1760, who married Olive
Benedict, dying at Green Eiver, N. Y., now Hills
dale ; and Hannah, who married Ely Taylor.
She died at Bethel, in Danbury. Ezra has
the unique distinction of having beeu a
tory iu the Eevolution. He went to Fort
Moultrie, Charleston, S. C, where he died
1776. There must be some black sheep iu the
flock. His wife was never known to mention his
name after he left to join the English forces. His
wife's children were : Ezra 2d, Levi, Ithiel, Eli, and

268 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Ebenezer 3d. Ebenezer 1st lived some yeiirs in
Lanesboro', Mass., where he died.
The Ebenezer Platt who married Miss Hicock
was a son of John Platt 2d, of Newtown, where he
lived till he removed to Daiibuiy. John Platt, sr.,
son of deacon Josiah, of Milford, baptized Septem
ber 9, 1677, was au early resident of Newtown. At
a session of the General Assembly, May, 1711,
" Capt. John Hawley, Benjamin Sherman, of Strat
ford, and .John Platt, of Newtowu," were appointed
a "committee to lay out divisions of land in said
Newtown." His home lot was ou the west side of
the village street, aud on the corner next north of
where the Congregational Church now stands.
His father, Josiah, mentions in his ¦will (proved July
1, 1724^5, vol. 5, Probate Eecords) these children •
John, Josiah, Eichard, Joseph, Sarah Bryan, Mary
Clark, Hannah Merwin, and Abigail Briscol. John
Platt, of Newtowu, conveyed laud to his brother
Eichard, of MUford, April 20, 1725, vols. 3 and 4, p.
461. John Platt conveyed land to his son .John, jr..
May 18, 1741. Also, to his son Moses, same date.
Eichard Piatt, of Milford, conveyed land to his
nephew, Ebenezer Platt, of Newtown, April 18,
1740. Also, John Platt, of Newtown, conveyed, land
to his son Ebenezer, January 17, 1744. This Eben
ezer Platt, of Danbury, whither he had removed
after his marriage, made a will dated September 14,
1764, proved November 19, following, in which these
children are named : Ebenezer, Ezra, Abial, Daniel,
Joseph, Benjamin, James, Mary wife of Tiiaddeus
Bennett, Abigail, Phebe, and Hannah.

D.ANBURY BK.VNOH. 269
It is well to state that the Probate Eecords of
Danbury show beside this one, three other Eben
ezer Platts. Daniel, sou of Ebenezer 1st, was born
August 27, 1747; he died April, 1798. Mary (Mrs.
Bennett) had three children : Jabez, Platt, and
Irena. Abial and Ehoda had two sons, Hall and
Abial Platt Joseph, born February 15, 1750, and
his wife Lydia, had two sous and a daughter, Joseph,
Ely, and Polly Platt.

XL,
SAYBROOK BRANCH.

Joseph C. Platt, of Waterford, N. Y., has given
many data of this branch. The first name is that of
Frederick Platt, who, it is thought, settled in Kill-
ingworth about 1790. There are no very early rec
ords. He married Miss Fox, of New London, Ct,
and left six childreu : Samuel, who settled in Put-
chaug, now Westbrook ; Ebenezer, of same place,
who married Dorothy Post ; Obadiah ; Mary, who
niarried Samuel Stevens, of Killiugworth ; and Lydia,
who married David Kilsey.
— Obadiah, third son, born 1709, married Hannah
Lane, of Clinton, Ct, December 21, 1737. He located
in the western part of Saybrook, what the Indians
called Pettijoaug, now Winthrop, Ct. His house was
ten rods from the school-house. He died aged
sixty-four. His widow married Caleb Chapman, of
Saybrook. — Captain Dan, of the revolutionary army, son of
Obadiah above, born 1735, married Jemima Pratt,
January 12, 1763 ; died aged eighty-eight
— Joseph Platt, another son, born .June 1, 1740,

274 the platt lineage.
died, aged twenty- one, at Crown Point. He was in
the old French war.
— Noah Platt, third sou of Obadiah, born Septem
ber 4, 1742, married Lucretia Chapman, 1772 ; then
Mrs. H. Wright, 1800 ; died October 1 5, 181L He
was the father of Col. Obadiah Platt, 2d.
— Hannah, daughter of Obadiah, boru 1745, mar
ried William Hill ; died aged seventy-six.
— John Platt, a fourth son, born 1746, married
Lucy West, of Chester, October 12, 1779 ; died at the
age of ninety-one. He had a son, Capt John Platt
— Elizabeth, a second daughter, born 1749, married
Benj. Burr; died aged about ninety.
— Sarah, a third daughter, born 1751 ; married
Isaac Post ; died at the age of seventy-eight
— Mary, a fourth daughter, born 1753 ; married
Michael Spencer; died aged seventy-eight
— Lydia, last child of Obadiah, born 1756 ; mar
ried Josiah Post ; died aged eighty.
Dan Platt, son of Capt. Dan, known as deacon
Platt, born June 21, 1764 ; married Catherine Lane,
December 20, 1787. A second marriage was to Mrs.
Cynthia Evarts, of Madison, Ct ; he died in Madi-
sou over seventy-eight
— Jemima Platt, daughter of Capt. Dan, born
1766 ; died aged twenty.
— Hannah Platt, a second daughter, born 1769 ;
married John Lane ; died nearly sixty-six.
— Joseph Platt, a second son, born 1774 ; died
aged five.
— David, third son of Capt Dan, born 1777 ; mar
ried Lydia Wilcox.

saybrook BRANCH. 275
— Sarah, third daughter of same, boru 1781 ; mar
ried George Havens. Afcer his death she married
Bela Stannard ; she died over sixty.
— Lucretia Platt, fourth daughter, born 1785 ;
married Gaylord Coan.
John Platt, fourth son of Obadiah 1st, had five
sons : John, called Capt, Jared, Curtis, William,
and Alfred, and seven daughters : Lucy, Lucinda,
Anna, Julia, Hannah, Polly, and Lydia. They mar
ried : Lucy, Enra Barker, of Chester ; Lucinda,
Elisha Kilsey, of Killiugworth ; Anua, Elisha Eice
in 1808 ; Hannah, Joseph Chittenden ; Polly, Friend
Phelps, of Killiugworth ; Lydia, Ezra Jones ; Al
fred, Sophia Williams. Jared died in New Haven,
and Curtis was killed by a railroad accident, 1871.
Deacon Dan Platt had five sons and five daugh-
ters : Joseph, Jemima, Hezekiah, Dr. Dan, Cather
ine, Austin, Ezra, Eunice, Abigail, aud Harriet
1. Joseph Platt, eldest, was a. lawyer, born in
1789; he married Lydia Pratt; he died aged thirty-
seven. He was an associate of the father of the
late Chief Justice Waite. 2. Jemima, oldest daugh
ter, married Jonathan Scranton ; then Ebeuezer
Dudley, of Madison. 3. Hezekiah Lane Platt, sec
ond son, married Sarah Mills. 4. Dr. Dan Platt,
third son, born 1795, married Abby Lathrop. He
married twice afterwards, aud lived at Key W^est,
Fla. 5. Catherine Lane Platt, second daughter,
born 1797, married John Buckingham ; a second
marriage was to Gilbert Gaylord, of West Spring
field, Mass. 6. Austin Platt, born 1799, married
Eliza Hinckman ; he is buried in Elizabeth, N. J.

276 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
7. Abigail, third daughter, married Jeremiah Eus
sell, of old Branfort, Ct 8. Ezra Platt, fifth son,
born 1803 ; died in New York, aged twenty-five.
9. Eunice Platt, fourth daughter, born 1805 ; in
1871 was residing in Fair Haven, Ct. 10. Harriet
Platt, youngest, born 1808; died in New York at
the age of twenty-three.
Jerusha T. Platt, daughter of Joseph Platt, of
Deep Eiver, Ct, married Mr. AUeu. Three chil
dreu : George William, Caroline J., and J. Platt
Allen, of New York.

Lozelle J. Platt, of Deep Eiver, Ct., son of Oba
diah 2d, born on the farm he now occupies, April 5,
1819, married Mary Augusta Albee, February 19,
1844, born in Lyme, Ct, December 17, 1824, her
family being from Dudley, Mass. Their children are
five : Mary Eva, Jennie Ella, Ada Lillian, Jessie
Corinne and Edith Jerusha. 1. Mary Eva, born De
cember 7, 1846 ; married Herbert Z. Doane, Au
gust, 1870. Their children are : Eva Herbertiue, born
July 28, 1870, and Clara Estelle, born AprU 7, 1882.
2. Jennie Ella, born March 5, 1849 ; married
Charles Augustus Northeud, of New Britain, June
18, 1876; now residing there. Their children are :
Grace Evelyn, born December 6, 1878, and Allan
Platt, born October 3, 1887 ; Arthur Platt died May
4, 1883, aged 2 months, and Eobert also in infancy,
1884. 3. Ada Lillian, born March 18, 1857 ; residing
in Hartford, Ct. 4. Jessie Corinne, born November
14, 1860 ; married Clarence E. Lamb, August 27,
1883 ; residing at the homestead. Two children :

SAYBROOK BEANCir. 277
Louise Albee, born May 12, 1885, aud Gladys
Margaret, born December 16, 1889. 5. Edith
Jerusha, born May 18, 1869 ; residing with her sister
in Hartford, Ct.
Lozelle J. Piatt's brothers and sisters were : Noah,
Obadiah, Samuel W. aud Temperance Amelia. He
was a grandson of Noah Platt, and one of the sons
of the Obadiah Platt who died in 1841. He writes
that he thinks the Saybrook Branch is of German
origin, but that the early records of the family in
New London were burnt by Arnold in the revolution.
He admits that there is no reliable proof, and well
says that " traditions, like scientific theories, are
good to set the mind on an enquiry, but they will
not do to swear by." The writer of this has had
occasion to hunt down a good many traditions, and
his opinion is that they are very often " such stuff
as dreams are made of." The recurrence of so many
names so frequent in the Milford Branch would
seem to show an undoubted connection ; and the
Biblical names, without exception, among the first
descendants of Frederick, is a decided argument
against a German origin. The Teutonic race do not
follow Scripture so closely. Among the early chil
dren we ought to find a Fritz, a Wilhelm, or Hein-
rich, a Johann, a Ludwig or a Karl. But they are
not there. The inference is that, in large proba
bility, one of Isaac's sons, about whom we know
little (John, Joseph or Jacob), may have crossed the
Sound from Huntington and established this branch
in the last decade of the 17th century ; or some other
of our name, of whom we know little, may have been

278 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
the first in this branch in the first decade of the 18th
century. Tradition will not even give us the right
names, when it fails in so many other points. It is
to be regretted that the ancestral line is not more
clearly traced. The discussion above is by no means
conclusive, only suggestive. If the records indeed
went far enough back, there would be unity doubt
less in some sturdy Saxon's home, before the Teu
tonic tribes swarmed over Britain.

XLL
SCRANTON BRANCH.

This is an offshoot of the preceding. Joseph Cur
tis Platt, son of Joseph Platt lawyer, was born in
Saybrook, September 17, 1816. He married Cather
ine Serena Scranton, daughter of Jonathan Scranton,
of Madison, Ct, AprU 2, 1844 Mr. Platt was a mer
chant iu Fair Haven, Ct., but at length became a
manufacturer of iron. He removed to Scranton, Pa.
in 1846. He was one of the firm of Scrantons &
Platt, which firm atlengthgrew into the Lackawanna
Iron and Coal Co. They were among the very first
to use coal in this country for smelting purposes.
The enterprise and success of this company in re
ality resulted in the building up of the City of
Scranton. Mr. Platt died at the age of 71, iu that
place. He had two brothers and two sisters : Geo.
Washington, who died in childhood ; Wm. Henry,
born September 8, 1821, residing in Scranton, Pa. ;
Temperance J. who married Edward C. AUen, of
Meriden, Ct,and Lydia M. who married Charles F.
Mattes, of Scranton. She lived to the age of thirty-
five orly.
Joseph Curtis Platt 1st, of Scranton, Pa., was in-

282 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
strumeutal in giving the name to the city where he
resided. He was public-spirited and influential.
His " Eeminiscenses of the Earlier History of Scran
ton," an address delivered before the Lackawanna In
stitute of History and Science, is a valuable narrative
of enterprise and venture in the neighborhood, show
ing how the foundations of present property were laid.
He died in Scranton, November 15, 1887. His wife
had preceded him, July 4th, the same year. Their
children are : Joseph Curtis Platt 2d, now of Water
ford, N. Y. ; - Ella Jemima Platt, and Frank Elbert
Platt — Joseph Curtis Platt 2d, son of the late J. C.
Platt, of Scranton, was born at Fair Haven, Ct,
January 9, 1845. He married Kate Judd Jones, of
Penn Yan, N. Y., December 8, 1869, born AprU 28,
1846. Their home is in Waterford, N. Y. He grad
uated at Philips' Academy, Andover, Mass. 1862,
and at the Eensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,
N. Y., in 1866, a civil engineer. He is a manufac
turer in iron. He resided in Scranton from child
hood, then at Franklin Furnace, N. J., till 1875 ;
then at his present home. He was President of the
Mohawk and Hudson Manufacturing Co., and of the
Eddy Valve Co., but he has lately retired from busi
ness. He is proprietor of the Button Boiler Co.,
Waterford. He has children : Frederick Joseph
Platt, born at Franklin Furnace, July 23, 1871 ;
Llewellyn Jones Platt, born at same place, July 23,
1873 (died July 15, 1876, whUe on a visit to his
grandfather at Scranton) ; Elbert Scranton Platt,
born December 21, 1876 ; and Edward Howard

SCRANTON BEANCH. 283
Platt, November 5, 1878, who died in infancy. The
father, Jos. C. Platt, is a trustee of the Eensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., where he received
the degree of C. E. His oldest son, Frederick Jo
seph, is in the class of '92, at Cornell University,
Ithaca, N. Y.
— Frank Elbert Platt, second son of Joseph C.
Platt (1st), born February 21, 1859, resides in Scran
ton, at the old homestead. He married Elizabeth
Augusta Skinner, of Guilford, Ct, born 1860. Their
children are : Joseph Curtis Platt 3d, born at Cold
Spring, N. Y., November 18, 1887; Margaret Scran
ton, born in New York city; and Philip Skinner
Platt, born iu Scranton, Pa., November 26, 1889.
He is engaged in carrying on the industries of his
father, the original " Iron Works " in the Lacka
wanna Valley.
Wm. Henry Platt, of Scranton, son of Joseph
Platt, lawyer, married Emily Mabel Hopkins, of
Nangatuck, Ct His children are : Geo. Hopkins;
Amelia Lydia, who died in her fourth year ; Wm.
Henry Platt 2d, of Brooklyn, L. I. ; EmUy M. and
Catherine S. Platt, Geo. Hopkins Platt, born March
2, 1850, married Frances E. LoweU. He was General
Superintendent of the Clearfield Bituminous Coal
Co. at Peale, Pa., at the time of his death, January
1, 1887. He had before been Superintendent of the
Mclntyre Coal Co. His widow, with one remaining
child, Florence May, is living at Elmira, N. Y. Emily
M. Platt, second daughter, boru November 3, 1861,
married Dr. L. C. Millspaugh, of Vine Vallej^, N. Y.
Catherine S., third daughter of W. H. Platt, born

284 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
June 8, 1864, married Albert E. Jenkins, of West Su-
perioi'. Wis.
— Wm. Henry Platt 2d, of Brooklyn, L. I., born iu
Scranton, September 5, 1858, married Ida F. Drury,
of Elmira, N. Y., October 3, 1883. They had one
son, Eobt Drury, born at Atkinson Kas., who died in
infancy. He is in the office of the Eome, Watertown
& Ogdensburg E. E. Co., New York.

XLII.
NORWICH BRANCH.

Ely Platt, third sou of Nathan Platt, born at
Newtown, Ct, July 3, 1793 ; married Levia Beckley,
of Nangatuck, daughter of Dr. Daniel Beckley, a
soldier under Washington at Trenton. He lived
some years at Washington, Ct., tlieu at Utica, N. Y. ;
was several years in the public service. Died at
Norwich, February 13, 1867, aged seventy- four. His
children were: Eufus D., George Lewis, Adaline M.,
Nathan Ely, Emily L., Charles Beckley, aud Helen
Theresa Platt At one time, under the old state
constitution, it became his duty as a coroner of
Oneida County to arrest the sheriff. His widow
survived him many years, residing with daughters
iu Albany, N. Y.
— Eufus D. Platt, oldest son of Ely, born March
17, 1817, married Frances J. Whitoii, of Troy, N. Y.,
June 12, 1845. Their children are : Evelyn, Cor
nelia, and one son, Frank. Cornelia M. married
Nelson C. Marcellis, March 28, 1871. E. D. Platt
was several years in charge of the manufacturing
fur department iu the late A. T. Stewart's store.
He died at his home in Montclair, N. J., August 15,
1885, in his sixty-ninth year.

288 THE platt LINEAGE.
—Adaline M. Platt, oldest daughter of Ely Platt,
born September 25, 1821, at Washington, Ot, mar
ried William T. Eudd, of Albany, N. Y., November
9, 1848. Her only son living is William Platt Eudd.
His brother, Charles Beckley, died in babyhood*
The only daughter living is Adeline, who married
George Parker Howlett, of West Newton, Mass.
They have one daughter, Marion. William Platt
Eudd was born in Albany, N. Y., June 9, 1851. He
graduated at Union College, in the class of '73, also
at the Albany Law School, with the degree of
L.L.B. He is a member of the Alplii Delta Phi fra
ternity; and now, of the law firm of Harris & Eudd,
Albany. He married, October 25, 1883, Aimee Pier-
son, daughter of Henry A. Allen, of Albany. They
have one son,Tracey Allen, born September 16, 1884.
Mrs. WiUiam T. Eudd, his mother, died at the age
of sixty-two. Her husband is still living, in Albany,
at times visiting his daughter in the neighborhood
of Boston.
— Nathan Ely Platt, third son of Ely Platt, born
in Washington, Ct, May 1, 1823, lived in boyhood
and early manhood iu Utica, N. Y. In 1858 he es
tablished iron works at Marquette, Mich., on Lake
Superior, but in 1861 removed to Chicago, IU. He
married, December 14, 1843, Mary Eveline Colburn,
of Utica, who was boru December 15, 1823. They
had one daughter, Mary Eveliue, who was born at
Utica, September 15, 1847. She married, December
14, 1866, IraS. Younglove, of Chicago, who was born
in Vernon, Vt., November 10, 1835. She died No
vember 28, 1873, in her 27th year, leaving an only

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son, Ira Platt Younglove, born October 7, 1867. He
is now in Yale College in the class of '91. Mrs. Platt,
his grandmother, died June 11, 1882, in her 59th
year. It should be stated that Nathan E. Platt was
President aud Manager of the Lake Superior Foun
dry Co. at Marquette. He was a member of the
first board of aldermen of the city. At Chicago he
was iu the iron commission business twenty odd
years. He is a member of the Chicago Board of
Trade, and at one time was a director in the Board.
He has retired from business, but is still living in
Chicago. — Emily L. Platt, second daughter of Ely, was
boru at Washington, Ct, in 1825. She was a teacher
in Albany, devoted and beloved for upwards of
twenty-nine years. She seemed to have special gifts
for her chosen work. There is no higher function
than that of teaching. " Let not ambition mock at
such useful toil." Her death was sudden, in Lynn,
Mass., August 12, 1880. Her remains were buried
iu the beautiful cemetery outside of Albany, near
her mother's grave.
— Charles Beckley Platt, the youngest son of Ely,
born iu Utica, March 8, 1827, lived iu Geneva, N. Y.
some time, then in New Haven; bat finally he estab
lished himself in Norwich, Ct. He was concerned
in the publication of the Norwich Tribune and also
in that of the Bulletin. He became a, merchant and
was successful. He had a remarkable memory, was
well read, and under the nam deplume of " Karl Beck,"
he wrote many excellent pieces of poetry aud prose.
He married Frances J. C. Dey, December 14, 1848,

290 THE PLAIT LINEAGE.
A son, Allen, who died iu his 24tli rear ; and a
daughter who died iu infancy. A second marriage
was to Olive W. Barstow, of Norwich, February 6,
1860. Two of their children died young. His death
was at his beautiful home, " Eocklawn," Septem
ber, 8, 1883, in his 57th year. His widow still re
sides there, where, October 9, 1889, the only child
remaining, Helen Barstow Platt, was married to
Channing Moore Huntington, son of the late Eev.
G. Huntington, aud a nephew of Daniel Huntingtou,
the artist. He is a graduate of Hamilton College,
and is the literary editor of the Utica Herald, resid
ing in that city. He has an infant son, born March
19, 1891.
— Helen Theresa Platt, the youngest, born in
Utica, July 17, 1834, married John N. Byron, of
New York, August 2, 1864. Their children are :
Emily Lois, born iu 1865 ; David Platt, born De
cember 4, 1867 ; George Lewis, born April 27, 1870 ;
Charles Ely, born January 16, 1873 ; Fred Eussell,
born March 7, 1875 ; all Albanians. Their home is
in Albany, N. Y.

XLIIL
TIVOLI BRANCH.

This comes from the Norwich Branch. Eev. G.
Lewis Platt, son of Ely Platt, has been Eector of St
Paul's Church, Tivoli-on-Hudson, N. Y., now (1891)
over thirty-one years. Born at Washington, Ct,
February 8, 1819, prepared for college at Utica under
Dr. David Prentice, his early friend aud adviser, he
graduated at Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., iu 1841,
taking the second honor in his class. In 1889 he re
ceived the degree of S.T.D. from his Alma Mater; he
was ordained in the Episcopal Church in Charles
ton, S. C, 1848 ; called as assistant to Eev. Dr. Cut
ler, St Anns, Brooklyn, L. I., in 1850 ; in '53, Eector
of the Church of the Mediator, Philadelphia; in 1855,
Eector of St James, Great Barrington, Mass ; some
months in charge of Christ Church at Bridgeport,
Ct ; and September 1, 1859, called to his present
rectorship. New and beautiful stone churches, dur
ing his ministry, have been built at Great Barring-
ton and Tivoli. He has published "Out of the
Shadows Into the Light," " Beautiful on the Moun
tains," "Life-Work," "Life-Work of the Early-
Called," "Light on the Cloud," "Good from the

294 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Great Crime," "A Heroic Life," "True Patriotism,"
and other occasional sermons. He is a member of
the Greek letter associations of Alpha Delta Phi and
Phi Beta Kappa. He married Sarah D. Willard,
of Greenfield, Mass., May 26, 1848. Four chUdren
by this marriage : Mary Memminger, born on Wac-
camaw, S. C. ; Helen Levia, born at same place ;
George Willard and Frederic H. Pierrepont, born
in Brooklyn, L. I. (Frederic died in Savannah, Ga.,
April 27, 1874, in his twenty-second year, after
spending two years at Cornell University, and re
ceiving his degrees of M.D. and Ph.D. from the
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.) A sec
ond marriage was to Clara Gibson, of Great Bar
rington, Mass., June 26, 1856. Two children living
by this marriage : Clara Amelia and Estelle Gertrude
Platt ; Joseph G. and Herbert Winthrop died in
infancy. — Mary Memminger Platt, the first daughter,
was married in St Paul's Church, Tivoli, N. Y.,
August 19, 1890, to Kenyon Parsons, of London,
now residing in New York. He was educated at
the London University College School, and lately
held an appointment in Ceylon. An importer.
His wife was educated at the Packer Collegiate In
stitute, Brooklyn, L. I.
— Helen Levia Platt, the second daughter,born 1850,
educated at Mrs. Gary's school, Philadelphia, mar
ried J. Melvin Thomas, of Albany, September 17,
1873. He graduated from Union College in the class
of '72. He is a member of the Alpha Delta Phi.
They have one daughter, Nellie May, not yet ten

TIVOLI BEANCH. 295
years old. They reside in Spokane Falls in the new
State of Washington.
— George Willard Platt, son of G. Lewis Platt,
born in Brooklyn, L. I., September 8, 1851, was
some time at St Stephen's College, Annandale, N. Y.J
then at Cornell University ; took a course of lec
tures at the College of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, Pa.,
1873 ; married Edith, daughter of Judge Eoyall
Tyler, of Brattleboro', Vt, September 5, 1877.
They have two daughters and a son : Gertrude Tyler,
Eoyall Tyler, aud Laura Willard Platt. These chil
dren number the eleventh generation from Eichard
1st, of Milford. The home of the family is in Great
Barrington, Mass. The father is well established in
the druo; business.

XLIV.
WESTERN BRANCHES.

H. Platt Gushing, of Mankato, Minn., gives these
names and dates : Mary Ann Platt was an only
child of Abial Platt, who was one of a family of
seven : Tirzah Platt, born March 30, 1771 ; Jabez
H. Platt, July 30, 1772 ; Ehoda Platt, born Novem
ber 20, 1774 ; Adah P., July 26, 1776; Mary, April,
1779 ; Abial Platt, born February 7, 1781, and Han
nah, July 7, 1783. Mr. H. P. Cushing is the great-
grandson of Abial Platt on his grandmother's side.

— G W. Platt, of Cincinnati, O., is the son of A. J. N.
Platt, and grandson of Zephaniah Platt, formerly of
New York, latterly of Springfield, O., where he
taught a law school. G. W. Platt had an aunt,
Amelia (widow of Daniel P. McLaron.) He has
three children : George W., Mumford, and Mary
Platt

— Eev. Abram Platt lived some years at Greenville,
Mich., and died there.
His brother, Joseph Platt, resides in Brooklyn,
L. I.,and his daughter-in-law also resides in Brook-

300 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
lyn. She has a daughter in Denver, Colo. Walter
F. Platt, of New York, is a grandson of Eev. Abram
Platt.

— In the Le Eoy Branch, we noted the residence
of G. N. Platt, at Vacaville, Solano Co., Cal.
—John Meade Platt, son of Dr. W. H. Platt, of
Petersburg, Va., resides at Annacortes, Washington.
— J. Melvin Thomas, who married Helen Levia
Platt, late of Albany, N. Y., is residing at Spokane
Falls, in the new State of Washington.
— Howard Platt, son of Cyrus, resides at Lead
ville, Colo.
— Frank Platt, dental surgeon, son of G. Norton
Platt. is a resident of San Francisco.

XLV.
HUNTINGTON MARRIAGES, BAPTISMS
AND OTHER DATA.

Epenetus Platt and Sarah Scudder were married
October 31, 1723.
Philip Platt and Phebe Eogers, December 15,
1725. Amos Platt and Zerviah Whitman, July 3, 1729.
Samuel Stratton and Euth Platt, April 22, 1728.
Eliphalet Wicks and Hannah Platt, March 26,
1730. Zephaniah Platt and Hannah Sexton, of Smith-
town, March 21, 1730.
Samuel Bagley and Phebe Platt, of Smithtown,
January 11, 1731-2.
Micajah Townsend and Elizabeth Platt, April 23,
1732.
Joseph Platt, widower, and Jane Blatchle}', widow.
May 21, 1733.
Eichard Allison and Elizabeth Platt, September
19, 1733.
Eobert Arthur aud Tabitha Platt, December 23,
1784. Isaac Platt, widower, and Abigail Baylis, widow,
August 15, 1736.

304 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Josiah Wheeler and Mary Platt, September 1,
1736. Zophar Platt and Eebecca Wood, November 19,
1738. Nehemiah Palmer, of Greenwich, Ct, and Abigail
Platt, January 28, 1738-9.
John Platt, widower, and Mary Wood, widow,
August 16, 1739.
Archibald Greenfield and Mary Platt, October 1,
1740. Eliakim Smith and Mary Platt, April 4, 1743.
Isaac Smith, of Islip, and Jemimah Platt, Decem
ber 28, 1743.
Philip Platt, jr., and Temperance Smith, Novem
ber 14, 1744.
Joseph Platt, jr., and Mary Barker, January 10,
1744-5. Isaac Platt, jr., and Esther Ketcham, February 22,
1744-5. TreadweU Brush aud Hannah Platt, May 14, 1746.
Eev. Nathan Tucker and Sarah Platt,. of Smith-
town, June 18, 1747.
Epenetus Wood and Mary Platt, widow, October
25, 1746.
Amos WiUets and Keziah Platt, July 24, 1749.
Jacob Brush and Sarah Platt, October 4, 1749.
Joseph Wicks and Mary Platt, November 20, 1749.
Jacob Platt aud Mary Bryant, December 13, 1750.
Jesse Platt aud Mary Brush, January 24, 1750-1.
Obadiah Platt and Marv Carll, February 17
1751-2. Stephen Kelsey and Anna Platt, March 31, 1752.

HUNTINGTON MARRIAGES, BAPTISMS, ETC. 305
Eichard Platt and Elizabeth Jarvis, April 30,
1752. John Wheeler and Phebe Platt, December 7, 1752.
John Sammis, widower, and Phebe Platt, widow,
January 14, 1753.
Jonas Platt and Eebecca Bennett, December 12,
1754. Zophar Platt aud Sarah Platt, April 11, 1757.
Solomon Platt and Hannah Wood, June 8, 1757.
Eliphalet Platt, of Smithtown, and Elizabeth Scud
der, December 19, 1757.
Daniel Tucker, widower, aud Elizabeth Platt,
widow, August 10, 1758.
Epenetus Platt, jr., and Hannah Marvin, August
13, 1758.
Israel Wood, widower, and Vashti Platt, May 1,
1762. Capt. Isaac Platt, widower, and Mary Smith,
widow. May 11, 1762.
Jedediah Eaymond, of Norwalk, and Elizabeth
Platt, November 28, 1763.
John Sammis, jr., and Mary Platt, August 5, 1764.
Jesse Carll, widower, and Temperance Platt,
widow, January 22, 1772.
Nathaniel Buffett and Zerviah Platt, October 27,
1774. Henry Titus and Phebe Platt, December 31,
1774. Nathaniel Brush and Hannah Platt, January
1, 1775.
Timothy Conklin, jr., and Mary Platt, February
15, 1776.

306 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
David Eusco, jr., and Hannah Platt, March 31,
1776. Ezra Conklin and Sarah Platt, October 4, 1778.
Solomon Ketcham, jr... and Eebecca Platt, March
7, 1779.
Joseph Platt and Eebecca Gildersleeve, November
28, 1769.
Obadiah Platt and Mary Platt, February 5, 1770.
Zebulon Platt and Phebe Bennett, widow, August
23, 1772.
PhiUp Platt and Mary, February 7, 1773.
Isaac Platt, of Huntington, and Eunice Platt, of
Connecticut, October 18, 1786.
Israel Platt, of Huntington, and Hannah Oakley
Hunt, of Huntington, January 24, 1787.

There are many marriage " licenses " found re
corded in the Secretary of State's office at Albany,
N. Y. Among them are Benjamin Platt and Han
nah Wooley, August 6, 1783 ; Charles Platt and
Caroline Adriance, May 22, 1773 ; Nathaniel Platt
and Phebe Smith, November 10, 1766 ; Uriah Platt
and Sarah Treadwell, January 21, 1761 ; and Zep
haniah Platt and Mary Van Wyck, November 23,
1761.

The baptismal records in the old church were
kept by Eev. Ebenezer Prime, (the first one is in
1723); by Eev. John Close from 1768; by Eev.
Nathaniel WoodhuU from 1786 ; and by Eev. Joshua
Hartt, at different dates.

HUNTINGTON MAEEIAGES, BAPTISMS, ETC. 307
The following persous of our name were baptized
in the town of Huntington, L. I. The records, un
fortunately, do not give generally the parentage of the
baptized, and do not go far back : Jesse Platt, 1723 ;
John Platt, February 14, 1723-4; Hannah, Novem
ber 8, 1724; PhiUp, November 6, 1726; Mary, June
5, 1726 ; Phebe, June 10, 1726; Vashti, October 23,
1726 ; Jonas, December 3, 1727 (died December 10,
1804); Solomon, June 2, 1728 ; Obadiah, September
1, 1728 ; Jesse, October 20, 1728 ; Margaret, October
-20, 1728; Keziah, November 24, 1728; Epenetus,
September 13, 1730 ; Amos, December 30, 1730 ;
Zophar, January 10, 1730 ; Stephen, March 21, 1730 ;
Philip Smith, March 5, 1731 ; Phebe, May 2, 1731 ;
Sarah, AprU 2, 1732, Zerviah, November" 25, 1732;
Mary, January 28, 1732-3 ; Uriah, March 31, 1734 ;
Zophar, October 30, 1734; Ann, June 10, 1733;
John, February 1, 1735-6 ; Mary, May 18, 1735 ;
Thankful Skudder Platt, same date ; Naomi, August
22, 1736 ; Zephaniah, January 1, 1737-8 ; Israel,
May 26, 1738 ; Samuel, June 3, 1739 ; Elizabeth,
-September 23, 1738 ; Israel, November 30, 1740 ;
Nathan, November 30, 1740 ; Hannah, January 13,
1739 ; Epenetus, January 27, 1741-2 ; Sarah, January
27, 1741-2 ; Phebe and Mary, same date ; Elizabeth,
August 15, 1742; Charles, March 11, 1743-4;
Selah, June 20, 1744; Jeremiah, August 26, 1744;
-Zebulon, November 6, 1744; Eebecca, March 23,
1746 ; Elizabeth, March 25, 1746 ; Obadiah, March
23, 1745-6 ; Mary Platt (adult), October 19, 1746 ;
Mary, January 4, 1746; David, July 13, 1746;
Joseph, October 14, 1746 ; Elizabeth, September 4,

308 ' THE PLATT LINEAGE.
1748 ; Phebe, September 11, 1748 ; Elizabeth, Sep
tember 18, 1748; Zerviah, Februniy 25, 1749-50;
Sarah, November 11, 1750; Philip, March 17, 1750-1 ;
Mary, -June 9, 1751 ; Gilbert, April 11, 1753 ; Han
nah, August 5, 1753 ; Ebenezer, May 9, 1754; Phebe,
October 27, 1754; Bathsheba, January 11, 1756;
Mary and Sarah (twins), August 1, 1756 ; Hannah,
November 7, 1756; Hannah, January 3, 1757;
Eebecca, .January 23, 1757 ; Daniel, (of Smithtown)
August 7, 1757; Scudder, AprU 23, 1758; Gilbert,
September 17, 1758; WilUam, February 25,1759;
Amos, July 8, 1759 ; Mary, May 27, 1759 ; Bathsheba,
June 17, 1759 ; Phebe, August 24, 1760 ; Elizabeth,
same date ; Elizabeth, October 19, 1760 ; Jesse,
August 30, 1761 ; Mary, October 16, 1761 ; Stephen,
July 25, 1762 ; TreadweU, September 12, 1762 ;
Ananias, October 17, 1762 ; Eichard, November 21,
1762 ; Henry, May 1, 1764 ; Isaac, June 14, 1764 ;
Mary, June 3, 1764 ; Israel, November 14, 1764 ;
Hannah, September 30, 1764; Keturah, October 21,
1764 ; Phebe, September 1, 1765 ; Judith, March 5,
1765 ; Experience, December 9, 1766 ; Zephaniah,
August 9, 1772 ; Mary, July 22, 1770 ; Charity, Octo
ber, 23, 1770 ; Mary and Hannah, sisters, March 11,
1775 ; Elison, November 15, 1775 ; Zerviah, Decem
ber 17, 1775; Epenetus, Stephen and Peleg (brothers)
March 11, 1775 ; Zephaniah, August 9, 1772. The fol
lowing baptisms were by Eev. Joshua Hartt : Eebecca
Platt, August, 1774; David, May 20, 1790 ; Phebe, No
vember 27, 1775 ; Elizabeth, same date ; Hannah, June
2, 1799 ; Jacob, AprU 29, 1781 ; Joseph, June 8, 1783 ;
Zophar, June 20, 1784 ; Dorcas, March 7, 1787.

HUNTINGTON M.4REIAGES, BAPTISMS, ETC. 309
Phebe Platt, wife of Epenetus Platt 1st, by will
left to her son Epenetus, one of the three Bibles
left by his grandfather. The other two, one to each
of her daughters, Hannah and Elizabeth.

The land records show that five acres of land were
laid out to Isaac Platt, Huntington, L: I., February
20, 1724 ; one acre adjoining his home lot, and that
of Jonas Platt Land laid out to Isaac Platt, 1722-3.
Land laid out to Amos Platt, 1730. Land laid out
to Isaac Platt in 1737 and 1739. Land laid out to
PhiUp Platt, 1732. Joseph Platt died before 1755.
Jonas Platt, sr., gave a release to John Platt of 'all
interest in his father's estate, December 18, 1713.
Highway laid out by Isaac Platt and others. May 1,
1744. It is to be noted, that there was a John Platt and
a Jacob Platt iu Huntington, in 1668. John
Platt in that year sold laud " formerly in the tenor
and occupation of John Budd." Jacob Platt was one
of the owners of "ye seventh farm," with five others,
in 1672. It does not appear that they were the sons
of Isaac, for his children, by the record, were not
born then. Were these Isaac Piatt's sons by his
first marriage? There is no trace of any in any
records. Isaac 1st was married in Milford before he
went to Long Island. The names we have of his
children are only by his marriage in Huntington.
"Isaac Platt aud Joseph Platt were magistrates in
Huntingtou, 1673."
"Eunice Platt, born February 9, 1767, died August
22, 1862." Eliza J. CoukUn's family Bible.

310 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
The will of Isaac Platt was dated May 22, 1695 (?)
as recited in a quit-claim from the eldest son Jonas
to his brothers, John, Joseph and Jacob, of his
(Jonas') interest in his father Isaac's estate ; which
¦quit-claim is dated September 7, 1696. But Isaac
Platt died 1691.
The will of Epenetus Platt 2d, the Major, mentions
'Children, Epenetus, Uriah, Zophar, Elizabeth (mar
ried Micajah Townsend), Phoebe, wife of Benjamin
Treadwell, aud Mary, wife of Timothy Treadwell.
Laud laid out to Joseph Platt and Isaac Platt,
1732. Isaac Platt and Joseph Platt were witnesses to a
deed, November 1, 1684.
Isaac Platt was President of the Board of Trustees
Huntington, 1746 to 1750.
Capt Isaac Platt, son of Jonas, born 1699, died
February 5, 1763, aged sixty-four. His second wife
was AbigaU Baylis, widow.
Jesse Platt, of Hempstead, baptized 1728, married
3Iary Brush, January 24, 1750.

XL VI.
MILFORD RECORDS OF OUR NAME.

Given by N. G. Pond, Esq., drawn accurately
from various sources ; brought down to 1820. s,
son ; d, daughter ; b, born ; m, married ; di, died.

John, s Eichard and Mary, of Norwalk, m Hannah
Clark, d George.
Isaac, s same, of Huntington, L. -L, died 1691.
Sarah, d " m Thos. Beach, 2dly MUes Merwin.
Epenetus, d " b July, 1640, of Huntington, di 1693.
Hannah, d " b Oct., 1643, m Christopher Coin-
stock, of Norwalk.
Josiah, s " b Nov., 1645, m Sarah Canfield, d
Thomas, Dec 2, 1669.
Joseph, s " b Apt, 1649, m Mary Kellogg, d
David, of Norwalk, in 1693.
Josiah, s Josiah, b June, 1671, m Sarah Burwell, d
Nathan, June 8, 1707.
Sarah, d Josiah, b Sept, 1673, m Eichard Bryan, s
Eichard; think she married 2dly
Jas. Green.
Mary, d " b Nov., 1675, m Joseph Clark, s
Thomas, died Oct. 28, 1755.

314

THE PLATT LINEAGE.

John, s Josiah, b^Sept, 1677, not in wiU, 1721.
Eichard, s " b Aug., 1682, m Esther Bucking
ham, d Samuel, Nov. 7, 1706.
Hannah, d " b Nov., 1685, m Jonathan(or John?)
Merwin Feb. 7, 1706.
AbigaU, d " b March, 1688, m Sam'l Briscol, s
Nathaniel, July 3, 1712, di 1773.
Joseph, s " b Jan., 1693, m Mehetable Fenn, d
Benj., June, 1720.
Josiah, s Josiah, jr., b Oct., 1707, m Mary Newton
d Thomas.
Nathan, s " b July, 1709, m Elizabeth Peck,
of Newtown, June 5, 1740.
Isaac, s " b April, 1711, m Phebe Smith,
d John, March 12, 1744.
Sarah, d " b March, 1713, m Joseph Beard,
s Joseph, children: Sarah,
Abigail and Mary.
Abigail, d " b Oct, 1716, not named in will.
Frances, d " b Feb., 1717, m Jeremiah Peck,
s Jeremiah, Oct. 26, 1743.
Sarah, d John Platt, b March, 1704.
Phebe, d " b Aug.. 1705.
Ebenezer, s " b Jan., 1708.
John, s " b April, 1711, m Sarah Peck, d
Ephraim.
Esther, d Eichard and Hester, b Feb., 1708, died un
married, Dec. 24, 1728.
Ann, d same, b Nov., 1710, m Camp. Children:
Jonathan, Eichard, Abram, Isaac,
Sarah, Esther and Mary.
Mary, d " b Sept, 1711, m Thomas Clark, a

MILFORD RECORDS OF OUR NAME. 315
Thomas. Ch. : Mary, Thomas and
Martha, di May 6, 1740.
Eichard, s same, b Feb., 1715, m Mehetable Fisk, d
Ebenezer, March 1, 1737, di May
3, 1756.
Samuel, s " b Nov., 1720, m Hannah Prudden,
Mar. 13, 1762.
Jonas, s Josiah, sr. and Sarah Burwell, b Nov., 1725,
wife Sarah.
Joseph, s Joseph and Mehetable Fenn, b Nov., 1724,
m Hannah Buckingham, d of
Thomas, di Aug. 30, 1806.
Mehetable, d same, b Sept, 1727, m Joseph Whit
more.
Sarah, d " mentiouedin will, m John Peck,
s Jeremiah, 1751.
Mary, d Joseph and Mary Kellogg, b Sept, 1681, m
John Woodruff, s Matthew, Dec.
22, 1698.
Joseph, s same, b Feb. 16, 1684.
Phebe, d " b March, 1686, m Sam'l Newton,
s Sam'l, Nov. 29, 1705.
Samuel, s " b Sept. 1690, m Sarah Beard, d
Jeremiah, 1744.
Hannah, d " b Ap'l, 1693, m Fletcher Norton,
s Eoger.
Epenetus, s " b May, 1696, di Ap'l 10, 1723.
Elizabeth, d " b Feb., 1698, m Nehemiah Smith,
s Benjamin.
Gideon, s " b Sept, 1700.
Sarah, d Joseph, b March, 1703.
Mary, d " b May, 1704.

316 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Joseph, s Joseph and Sarah, b May, 1711, di 1776.
Abigail, d same, b Nov., 1712, m Noah Plumb, s
Joseph, went to Stratford.
Ebenezer, s " b July, 1713, m Hannah Green, di
Aug. 13, 1790.
Stephen, s " b Dec, 1717, m Hannah Wood
ruff, d John, of Woodbury, 1748-
Phebe, d " b Aug., 1721, m Jonah Newton,
2dly Oliver Sanford, of Wood
bury, says brother's will.
Sarah, d " b Sept, 1721.
Jeremiah, s Samuel P. and Sarah Beard, b Oct.,
1718, went to New Milford.
Samuel, s same, b March, 1723, m Anna Welch, of
New Milford, Aug. 17, 1749.
Epenetus, s " b Feb., 1736, of New Milford, di
1760.
Mary and Ann, twins, ds Gideon and Mary Bucking
ham. Mary m Benj. Ball, s Benedict, Ann m Dan.
Ives April, 1754.
Phebe, d same, b May, 1731, m Samuel Miles, s
Theophilus.
Gideon, s " b March, 1734, prob. m Mehetable
Platt,dEichard,ofWaterbury,1784.
Sarah, d " b Dec, 1736, m Wm. Nott, says
mother's will.
Epenetus, " b Feb., 1738, m Susanna Merwin, d
Joseph.
Nehemiah, " b July, 1741, m Thankful Merwin, of
N. Milford, 1782.
Abiah, s " b Jan., 1750.

MILFOED EECORDS OF OUE NAME.

317

Isaac, s Isaac and Phebe Smith, d Joseph, b Jan.,
1755, m Amy Eells, says I. Platt
Phebe, d same, m Joseph Merwin, N. Haven.
Mehetable, d Eichard and Mehetable, b May, 1738,
prob. m Gideon Platt, s Gideon
(law records, vol. 8.)
Eichard, s same, b March, 1742, m Sarah Camp, d
Caleb, 2dly Ann Eogers, d Jo
seph.
Stephen, s Stephen and Hannah, b May 17, 1749 ;
think he went to Woodbury.
Hannah, d Sam'l and Hannah, b May, 1743.
Samuel, s same, b Oct., 1744, m Sybil Strong, d
Ephraim, March, 1765.
David, s " mentioned in mother's will.
Sarah, d " mentioned in mother's will, m
Elias Camp, s SamueL
Esther, d " b May, 1747, m David Clark, s
Samuel.
Mary, d " b Jan., 1749, m Smith (papers disc.
in Strong's garret.)
Grace, d " b Aug., 1750, m Eichard Clark, s
Samuel.
Anna, d " b 1754 (in will), m Nehemiah
Clark, s Thomas, di 1810.
Jeremiah, s Jeremiah and Hannah, b Dec, 1747, m
Mary Merwin, d Miles, settled in
Bridgewater.
Sarah, d same, b Nov., 1751.
Newton Sam'l, s " b March, 1752.
Nathan s Nathan, b Oct, 1741.
Elizabeth, d " b March, 1749.

318 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Sarah, d Nathan, b June, 1758, died 1762.
Asa, s Gideon and Mehetable, b May, 1769, m Mar
tha Woodruff, April 6, 1791.
Gideon, s same, mentioned iu will.
Mehetable, d " b March 5, 1762, m Isaac Treat, s
Joseph,T785.
Abigail, d Stephen, b April, 1768.
William, s Jonah and Hannah Clark, b Oct, 1797, m
Mary A. Baldwin, d Thaddeus,
Oct' 18, 1821.
Clark, s same, b April, 1800, m Sybil Stow, d
Jared or Jedediah, Nov. 17, 1825.
Patta Maria, d " b Sept, 1802, m Isaac Treat, s
Isaac, Oct 20, 1820.
Amelia C, d " b Oct, 1805, m Charles Merwin.
Jonah, s ".^b April, 1808, m Comfort Bald
win, d Beard.
Charles, s " b May, 1811, m Emeline Bushnell,
of Deep Eiver.
Eliza Ann, d " b Dec, 1813, m Abm. Marks.
Mary Jerusha, d " b Nov., 1815, m Jerry Mervin, s
David.
Nehemiah, s Nehemiah, b May, 1773. Had sous:
Jireh and William.
Polly Esther, d same, married Fisk Durand, s John,
Abigail, d Jonas and Elizabeth, b Aug., 1772, m John
Partree.
Phebe, d same, b Jan., 1774.
Sibyl, d " m John GiUette, Jr., 1781.
Jonas, s " and Elizabeth d., b Nov. 1774.
Mary, d " b 1778.
Sarah, d " mentioned in will, m Samuel Bryan.
Mary, d " b 1778.

MILFORD RECORDS OF OUR NAME. 319
Mary, d Ebenezer, b May, 1777, m Thomas Stow,
2dly Joseph J. Minor, April 8,
1814.
Ebeuezer, s " b June, 1780, m Sarah Smith,
April 30, 1800.
Johah, s " b 1774, m Hannah Clark, d David,
Nov. 5, 1796, di 1843.
Clarissa, d Jeremiah Platt, b Sept, 1784.
Mehetable, d Joseph and Mabel, b Apl. 4, 1771, m
David Treat, s Joseph, May
24, 1792, di Feb. 22, 1857.
Joseph, s same, b Feb. 1786, m Martha Miles, d
David, Mar. 28, 1801, di 1859.
Mabel, d " b Jan. 31, 1781, m Ed. Fenn, s
Benjamin, Aug. 15, 1802, settled
in O.
Elizabeth, d " b Apl. 28, 1785, m Eobt. Treat
s Eobt. and Content, March 28,
1811, di June 6, 1852.
Charlotte, d Capt Joseph, b Dec 21, 1789, m D.
Clark, s Samuel, Dec 24, 1812.
Settled in Middlebury.
Nathan, s same, b Jan. 29, 1791, m Sally Fowler, d
Nathan, Jan. 12, 1812, di 1867.
Susanna, d Joseph, jr., b March 17, 1794, m Merwin
Andrew, s William, ApL 23, 1812, di
Apl. 20, 1872.
Dan, s same, b Nov. 26, 1796, m Emily for 2d wife
Feb. 6, 1817.
Eichard, s Eichard and Sarah Camp, b 1766, m Mar
garet Fowler, d Nathan, June 6,
1796.

320 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Fisk, s same, b 1768, m Sarah Newton, d Jonah
and Phebe, Aug. 8, 1792, di 1847.
Sarah, d " m Nathan Fowler, s Nathan, July 9,
1788.
Eogers, s " b 1779.
Joseph, s Joseph and Anna Eogers, b Sept., 1794, m
Sarah Stone, d Samuel, Feb. 3,
1804; 2dly, Elizabeth Baldwm,
d Elisha, Aug. 23, 1829.
William, s same, b Dec, 1792, m Anna Stow, d Jede
diah, Nov. 21, 182L
Isaac, s Isaac and Amy Eells, b Oct., 1783, m Abi
gail Smith, d Eich-ard, May 8,
1803; 2dly, Eebecca PoweU, of
Washington.
Phebe, d same, m Amos Smith, Dec. 11, 1803 ; set
tled in Coschocton, O.
Amy, d " m Elias BurweU, s John ; 2dly,
Eobert Burwell, of N. H.
Asel, s " m Mary Barrett, lived in Ohio.
Alanson, s " b Jan., 1792, m Elizabeth Beach, d
Samuel, Ap'l 18, 1810, di Ober
lin, Ohio.
Abigail, d " b Sept, 1794, m Alfred Cowles,
Bristol, Ct.; died there.
Abigail, d Benj. and Abigail Green, b 1784 (?), m
Eliphalet Sanford, s Elisha,
March 10, 1799.
Benjamin, s same, b 1795, m Nancy Bristol, d Na
than, Jan. 22, 1802, di 1870, at
Prospect
Daniel, s " b 1795, m Betsey Higby, d

MILFORD RECORDS OF OUR NAME. 321
Sam'l, Nov. 25, 1804, settled
in Skeneateles.
Sarah, d same, b before 1795, m Miles Smith,
s Theophilus, 2dly Wm. Bush
of Eng., di 1848.
Nancy Saeket, d" m Garret Gillett, s Benj., Oct.
23, 1808.
EUsha, s " b bet 1790 and '95, went to
Prospect.
Hannah, d " b Aug. 11, 1794, m John W. San
ford, s John, Nov. 5, 1815.
Maria, d " b May, 1797.
Mary, d " m Garret GUlett, (2d wife).
Polly Esther, d Jireh and , Keturah Smith, b May,
1805.
Minerva, d same, b Jan. 4, 1807.
Hannah Smith, d " b Sept. 12, 1792, m J. Stevens.
Clarissa, d " b July 26, 1794.
Keturah, d " alsoJiieh,b March to June, 1798.
WiUiam, s " b June to Sept., 1799.
Harvey, s " b bet, Oct, 1801 aud Feb., 1802.
Mary A., d Asa and Martha Woodruff, b 1791.
Enoch Woodruff, s same, b Nov. 4, 1793.
Patta, d " b May 23, 1796, m Eaymond
Baldwin.
Hetty, d " b Nov. 9, 1798.
Asa Gideon, s " b June 23, 1801, di May 12,
1832.
Esther Maria, d " b between Jan. 31 and Apl.,
1804.
Laura and Lucretia, ds " born in Orange.
Newton, s Fisk and Sarah Newton, b 1795, m Anna

322

THE PLATT LINEAGE.

Sarah, d
Eichard, s
Catherine, d
Jonah, s
Susan, d

Clark, d Abraham, Oct 18, 1821,
di 1863.
same, b 1797, m Jireh Treat, s Jonathan
Oct. 7, 1813, di May, 1867.
" m Mary A. Baldwin, d Eisha, May
26, 1820.
b 1802, di Nov., 1868, not m.
b 1804, m Sarah Fowler, d Wm. H.,
March 22, 1829.
b Apl. 26, 1806, m Hull Allen, s
Gabriel, Westport, Aug. 16, 1825.
Phebe Maria, d" b June, 1814, m Samuel Miles, s
Sam'l, di July, 18.58.
Abigail G., d Isaac, b Feb. 27, 1804, m Jas. A.
Grant, of Franklin, N. Y.,
di 1879.
Isaac Smith, s " b July 22, 1806, not married.
Alanson S., s Alanson and Elizabeth, b near 1806,
di Cincinnati
Orlando B., s same, b near 1807 (?) went to
Baltimore.
b June, 1814.
b 1816.
b 1818.
b Aug., 1819, di Oregon.
b May, 1822.
b Sept, 1824.
b July, 1826.
b 1828, of O.
Sally, d Nathan and Sally Fowler, b Aug. 22, 1810,
m Abel E. Hines, s Joel.

Lester W., s
Betsey Charlotte, d "
Amy Clarissa, d "
Samuel Isaac, s "
Mary Abigail, d
Merit Fayette, s
Asael Edwin, s "
Alfred Cowles, s "

MILFORD EECORDS OF OUR NAME. 323
Nathan, s, same, b May 30, 1812, m Sarah S.
Platt, d Joseph, 1839.
Martha, d " b Oct. 28, 1815, m D. L.
Hubbel; als(j Susan, 1813,
m W. Andrew.
Phebe Eebecca, d " b June, 1830.
Elizabeth Ann, d Joseph and Sarali, b Jan. 18, 1806,
m Eliakim Fenn, s Wm.
Joseph Eogers, s same, b Nov. 3, 1807, m Mari-
ette Smith, West Haven.
Mehetable Maria, d " b July 22, 1809, m David
Nettleton, Nov. 4, 1832.
Mary Naomi, d " b Jan. 26, 1812, m Jonah
Clark, s Elias.
H'd WiUis, s " b July 3, 1815, m AbigaU
Clark, d Luke.
-Sarah Stone, d " b Feb. 16, 1816, m Na
than Platt, s Nathaniel,
1839.
Elliot Baldwin, s Joseph and Elizabeth, b April 2,
1833.

XLVII.
ENGLISH BRANCHES.

^Wm. K. Platt, of Philadelphia, the son of William,
of Saddleworth, West Eiding, Yorkshire, Eng. (who
was the son of John Platt), was boru in Saddleworth,
1829; came to this country in 1854; married Emma
H. Ellis ; has three daughters living : Anna B. (now
Mrs. Eugene P. Jancks) ; Evaliue Victoria, Helen
Eugenia, and Bertha Virginia. Their home is in
Camden, N. J. His business office is in Philadel
phia. Joseph Platt, son of the late Charles L. Platt,
of Brooklyn, L. I., traces to his great-grandfather,
Eichard Platt, of the Island of Curacoa, the first of
the family who came to this country. His grandfather
is Joseph Platt, now seventy-five. Commissioner of
Buildings in Brooklyn ; he has six children.
Mamie E. Platt, of Baltimore, has an uncle Wil
liam Platt, and a sister Mattie. Her father was the
late Thomas M. Platt
F. C. Platt, Worcester, Mass., is a son of James
Platt (whose father was John, of Saddleworth, Eng.),

328 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
who was captain of a vessel, and who went to
California in 1849 ; but was not heartl of since.

Willard H. Platt, of New York, boru June 12,
1854, traces to his great-great-grandfather, an Eng
lish merchant in New York. His grandfather, Hez
ekiah Doolittle Platt, was born in Saratoga Co., N.
Y., his great-grandfather being resident there in his
¦closing years. His father, Willard Platt, was born in
Elmira, N. Y., March 24, 1830. Hezekiah D. Platt
had a brother William who moved to Lewiston, N. Y.
Of his large family, there are now living : Mis. Sarah
Allen, Mrs. Abbie Wright, Miss Louise Platt, Geo.
Washington Platt, Augustine E. Platt, and James
Platt. Mr. WiUard H Platt, who gives these data,
has three children : Mabel, Willard Eice, and Harold
Birdsall. His father's cousin. Miss Louisa Platt,
resides in Brooklyn, L. I.
David Mills Platt, of South Norwalk, whose
grandparents came from London ; born in Eedding,
Ct ; married Elizabeth Squires, of Weston, Ct., July
18, 1839. Five sons and one daughter : Samuel
¦James, Charles Henry, David Arthur, George Wal
lace, and Albert Everett All married but George.
D. M. Platt was seventj'-two in December, 1890.
Samuel J. was fifty in September, 1890. The father
had an uncle. Mills Platt, who settled in Washington,
Ct, aud who had quite a family.
Jay L. Platt, of West Dryden, N. Y., writes that
his great-grandparents came from Holland. Daniel

ENGLISH BRANCHES. 329
Platt had four daughters and three sons, namely :
Alonzo, John L. and Daniel W. Platt. This last was
his father, who, April 1, 1860, married Eheba C.
Labar. Harry Platt, of Germantown, Pa., is a son of
John Platt, of Saddleworth, Eng. His grandfather,
James, married Sarah Bradbury, of Weakly, Eng.
His aunt, Mattie E. Platt, is living with him.
. Horace H. Platt, of Manayunk, Philadelphia, is
the son of John Platt ; his grandfather, William, was
of Saddleworth, Yorkshire, Eng. He has brothers,
Frank and John, here, and sisters, Mary and Sadie.
Chas. J. W. Platt, of Philadelphia, son of Jas.
W. Platt, of Oldham, Lancashire, Eng., married
Annie Gray, October 27, 1889.
Geo. C. Platt, of Philadelphia, son of Eobert
Platt, West Virginia, was in the late war ; wounded
at Gettysburg ; was in over twenty engagements.
His brother, John H. Platt, served in tho 10th N. Y.
Volunteers. James Platt, of Boston, Mass., born in York
shire, Eng., married Magdalena Bogardus. Children
living: Martha A., Walter aud Helena. The last,
married and living in Detroit, Mich. Martha A.
Platt is living in Boston. The father, James, died
1878. He came to our country in 1842.
There are Platts in Salem, Mass., who spell

330 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
their name with a final s. Their connection with
Eichard Platt, of Milford, is not traced. A Samuel
and a Jonathan Platt were early settlers at Eowley,
Mass. Wm. Platt, of Philadelphia, son of Thomas Platt,
of Londonderry, Ireland. His mother' was of the
Ewing stock. An ancestor went to Ireland from
England, and was at the battle of the Boyne, under
William of Orange.
Chas. E. Platt, of Philadelphia, son of James
Platt, of Thorp Lane, Eng., had three uncles die in
this country. Lives with his mother and sister.
Edgar M. Platt, of Boston, is a son of Thomas
Platt, of English parentage.
August Platt, of Cleveland, O., says his father was
born in Alsace. Five children. Two brothers are
with him.
Alfred Platt, of Eoxborough, Pa., whose father,
John Platt, was killed in our civil war, has a son
Alfred. His daughter Amelia married William
Tyson. Charles C. Platt, of Philadelphia, was born in
Eotterdam, Hoi. He thinks his great-grandfather
was Spanish.
John Platt, son of Johu Platt, of Heyside, Eoy-

ENGLISH BRANCHES. 331
ton township, Eng., came to this country in 1864;
living in Philadelphia.
George Platt, of Philadelphia, whose father was
from Silverdale, Staffordshire, Eng., married Wil
helmina Staitle ; has two children : George Elmer
and Estella.
E. K. Platt, of Long Island City, N. Y., traces to
his grandfather, James Platt, of Saddleworth, York
shire, Eng. The grandfather was a nephew of James
Platt of that place, born 1725.

XL VIII.
VALUABLE ENGLISH DATA.

Edward Henchman married a daughter of John
Platt, son of Sir Hugh Platt, knight.
Eichard Moseby married Judith, a daughter of Sir
Thomas Playter, of Soterby, in County Suffolk, knight
and baronet.
Sir Stephen Soame, of Hay den. County Essex,
knight, married Elizabeth, daughter of above Sir
Thomas. These records are taken from the "Visitation of
London," 1633-4.
The following record is from " The Visitation of
Cheshire," dated 1580 :
" Alice, daughter of John Birchells, of Birchel, mar
ried Eichard Platt, of London. Sons : Hugh Platt
and John Platt"
The following is from "The Visitation of Essex,"
dated 1634 :
" George Gent, Esq., of Moyns, married Anne,
daughter of Sir Thomas Platters, in Soterby in
County Suffolk. Second wife."

336 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
In "Visitation of Oxford," dated 1566-74, and
1634, are the following :
"Francis Gates, of Bent, married Elizabeth,
daughter of Bartholomew Platt, of Spershott, in
County Berks." "Elizabeth, daughter of John Platte,.
of Hanney, County Berks, married John Stompe, of
Newnam, Morryn, Gent."
The " Visitations " above are a series of books,
made up of various pedigrees, published by the Har-
leian Society, in 1863. The records, in some sense,
are official, as persons appointed for this purpose vis
ited the localities, and copied from the official docu
ments. From Le Neve's " Knights," a book of pedigrees,
we take the following :
" Eebecca, daughter of Sir Thomas Stringer, mar
ried to Sir John Platt, sou of John Platt, of Godal-
ming, Surrey. (Probably about 1700.)"
" Sir John Platt, of Westbrook Place, knighted at
WhitehaU, July 6, 1672."
The following is from "Burke's Dictionary of
Landed Gentry " :
"Tudwell of Wales. Thomas Tudwell, minor
canon of Windsor, some time of Bradfield Hall, in
Essex, died about 1672, leaving by Anne, his wife,
fifth daughter of Eichard Platt, Esq., eldest son of
Sir Hugh Platt, knight, of Bidwell Green, County
Middlesex, etc"

VALUABLE ENGLISH DATA. 337
" Thomas Dale, Esq., of Penwick, in County of
Derby, born in 1603, married Mary, daughter of
Thomas Platts, of Flagg."
"Thomas Platt E^q., married. May 2, 1839, to
Anna, daughter of John Hugh Smyth Pigott, of
Brockley Hall and the Grove, County of Somerset.
"Diaua, daughter of Thomas Little, Esq., married
in 1816 to James Piatt, Esq., of Bolton, aud died in
1819, leaving a daughter, Mary Ann, who was mar
ried, first to George Newman .Hard}', Esq., and
secondly to William Alsop, Esq., of Liverpool.
In a book of " Marriage Licenses," published by
the Harleian Society, Loudon, in 1886, there are
many curious records. We take from it the follow
ing :
"Marriage Licenses issued from the Faculty office
of the Archbishop of Canterbury at Loudon:"
" February 10, 1573-4, Hugh Platt and Margaret
Younge." "1663, November 3, Henry Woolnough, of Shelley,
County Essex,Clerk, Bachelor, 24, and Elizabeth Platt
of Godalming, Surry, Spinster, 16, daughter of John
Platt, of same. Clerk, who consents at All Hollows
the Less, Thames Street, or St Smithins, London
{Eev. John Platt)."
"1632, Dec 18. Henbaubrigge, of St Duustau,
in the East, London, Gent, bachelor, 23, and
Mary Platt, of St Clement Daues, Midd'x, about 26,
widow of Eichard Platts, late of Barwicke, Co.
Sussex, draper, to marry at St Brides, London."
" Thomas Platt, Esq., of the town of Hague in

338 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Holland, Bachelor, 36, and Susanna Bressey, of
Dort, in Holland, whose parents are living in Dort
and consent at the Hague, or Dort, afiresaid."
"1672, June 12. John Platt of Godelming, Co.
Surrey, Esq., Bachelor, 22, and Eebecca Stringer,
Spinster, about 18, daughter of Sir Thomas Stringer,
Kt, at St. Andrews, Holborn, or Enfield, Co. Middle
sex, or Barnett, Co. Herts."
"1697, June 24. Jeremiah Platt, of Folkingham
Co. Lincoln, Gent, bachelor, 28, and Miss Elizabeth
Wallett, of Weston, said Co., spinster, 22, at her own
disposal, her parents dead ; at St. Giles-in-the
Fields, Middlesex or" 

The following are Marriage Licenses issued by
the Bishop of London :
" 1559, Jan. 22. George Tychet, Kt, Lord Aude-
ley, aud Joanna Platt, widow, of St. Andrews in East-
cheap, London, to marry anywhere in the diocese."
" 1577, Sept 25. John Platt, of St. James, YarUck
Hithe, and Elizabetli Longe, Sp'r, of All Hollows
Barking, at Barking, County Essex."
" 1616, Aug. 30. Isaac Gilbert, of Eayley, County
Essex, yeoman, and Sarah Platt, of Eochford, said
county, spinster, dan. of Eobert Platt, of Foulness,
dec; at St. Thaxted.
"1626, Dec 9. Francis Chamberlaine, of St
Andrews, in the Wardrebe, London, yeomau, and
Elizabeth Platt, of St Clement Danes, Midd., widow;
at St. Clement Danes, afsd."
1625, June 6. Hugh Platt, and Clara MirriuU,
widow.

VALUABLE ENGLISH DATA. 339
1612, July 31. Johu BaUey, of St Mary's, White-
chapel, Midd., yeomau, and Anne Platts, of West-
ham, County Essex, spinster, daughter of Eobert
Platt, late of So. Wingfiekl, County Derby, yeoman,
dec, at Little All Hollows, Thames St., London.

The following marriages are from the Eegister
of St Georges, Hanover Square, published in two
volumes by the Harleian Society, London :
"1764, Sept 26. Evan Kinsev, B., and Mary
Plats, S."
"1727, Jan. 26. Alexander Gurnlyand Ann Platt"
"1729, AprU 7. Eichard Platt, B., aud Elizabeth
Adams, S., both of St. James, Westminster."
" 1756, January 2. Samuel Platt, W., and Eliza
beth Kippling, S."
" 1756, Feb. 22. Thomas Evans of this parish, B.,
and Ann Platt, of Putney, Surrey, S."
"1766, Dec 19. Alexander Stanhope, B., and
Sarah Platt, S."
" 1778, Nov. 11. John Eichardson and Mary Platt"
" 1781, Nov. 18. John Nicholas Durand, of St.
Catharine Cree, London, and Mary Ann Platt, of
this parish."
" 1785, Nov. 11. Johu Baldwin and Mary Louisa
Platt" " 1789, April 28. Johu Salmon aud Auu Platt
" 1795, June 6. Eichard Norfolk and Ann Platt
" 1796, Sept 24. Joshua Platt and Sarah A.lger."
" 1800, Oct 5. William Platt and Ann Wilkin

son.

340 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
"1802, Nov. 6. George Kidd, B., and Mary Platt,
S." " 1802, Dec 25. James Platt and Ann Morgan."
"1804, Sept. 27. John Jarvis and EUzabeth
Platt" " 1807, Jan. 1. Ciiarles Platt, Es:q., of Eotherham,
County York, B-, and Judith Ann Eamsden, of this
parish."

In -'Dod's Book of the Peerage" there is a full
account of Hon. Sir Thomas Joshua Platt, son of the
late Thomas Platt, Esq., of Brunswick Square, so
licitor (who died in 1842.) The son was knighted
1845. " He was educated at Harrow School, and at
Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A.
1810 ; M.A., 1814. Entered as a Student of the Inner
Temple, and was called to the bar by that Societj' in
Feb., 1816 ; went the Home Circuit ; became a King's
Counsel, 1834 ; was raised to the Bench as a Baron
of the Court of Exchequer in 1845. Eetired 1856.
Eesidence, 59 Portland Place, London, W."

In Manning and Bray's "History of Surrey"
the following data are recorded :
" John Platt, of West Horsley, baptized Dec
26, 1649, was knighted. He died June 17, 1705, at
Wickham Abbey, in the parish of Wickham Skeith.
His father was John Platt, some time Eector of West
Horsley." In the pedigree of the Platts, in Godel
ming, this following is given in the history named
above. " Hugh Platt, of Aldenham. His son, Eich
ard, Alderman of London, married Alice, daughter of

VALUABLE ENGLISH DATA. 341
John Birchells, of County Chester. Died 1600. His
son. Sir Hugh, of Bethnel Green, married a daughter
of Justice Young. A second marriage was to Judith,
a daughter of Wm. Albany, a merchant of London,
He died 1605. His sons were Eichard, Hugh, John,
William of Highgate, and Eobert William was a great
benefactor of St John's CoUege, Cambridge. He
died 1637, without issue. He gave extensive lands
and valuable rents for the support of fellows and
scholars. There is a distinct building in the college
appropriated to this foundation. The college, in
memory of their generous benefactor, repaired and
beautified his monument in Highgate chapel, 1713,
and again in 1743. Under arches are busts of Mr.
Platt and his wife, aud among the monuments are
many "escoclieons."
John Platt, of Eickinens worth, married Eebecca,
daughter of Sir Hugh Cole, of Lee's Court, County
Worcester, Kt His son John was Eector of West
Horsley. His son John of Godelming was knighted.
His son was John of Thurlow, Suffolk. His sons
were Joseph and William. An interesting pedigree.
There was a Eichard de Playz, also a John de
Playz, cousin and heir of Aveline, wife of Edmund,
Earl of Lancaster, wlio lived in the reign of Ed
ward III.
Eichard Platt, of London, was a benefactor to
the parish of St Alban's, by the endowment of a
free grammar school for sixty scholars, in 1597;
also six houses built of brick, for six poor persons,
at the same time. At the end of the school-hall,
there is a portrait of the founder. The school is on

342 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
the road leading from the village of Oldenham to
that of Elstree. This Eichard Platt, was au Alder
man of London, a high distinction in his day. See
" Cluterbuck's History of Hertfordshire."
John Platt, England, politician, born 1817, a mag
istrate of the County of Lancaster, high sheriff of
County Carnarvon, 1863, was a member of parlia
ment for Oldham, 1865, and many years afterwards.

XLIX
ANCESTRAL TABLETS AND INSCRIP
TIONS ON TOMBSTONES.

We go back to old England for a few. In Cau
sick's Epitaphs of Middlesex, the following is found,
in old St Pancreas Church :
" Dedicated to the Memorie of William Platt, of
Highgate, in the Countie of Midd., Esq're, sonue and
heir of Sir Hugh Platt, of Kerlie Castle, who mar
ried ye youngest daughter of Sr John Hungerford,
of Downamay, in the Countie of Gloucester, Knight.
He had one brother of the whole blood, and three
sisters, viz : Eobert Platt, Ann Platt, Judith Platt,
and Mary Platt. He departed this world upon the
eleventh day of November, one thousand six hun
dred and thirty-seven, aged five and forty yeares."
This is followed by an inscription on the same
stone in memory of his widow, who married " Ed.
Tucker, of Madiugly, in the Countie of Wilts, Esq.,
by whom she had one only daughter married to Sir
Thomas Gore, of Barrow, in the Countie of Somer
set, Knight" She died 1687, in the 86th year of
her age. This monument was restored at the ex
pense of St John's College, Cambridge, 1848. It

^46 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
was removed from the old chapel at Highgate, A. D.
1833. In Highgate Cemetery, County Middlesex. (From
Causick's Epitaphs of Middlesex), is the following :

'¦ Here repose tbe remains of
THOMAS PLATT
late of St. Georges, Bloomsbury, Esquire,
who was born on the 4th of Jiinuary, 1760,
(lud admitted an Attorney and Solicitor
in tbe Supreme Court at Westminster, 1780,
served the office ot Chamber Clerk
under tbe Eight Honorable Lords
Mansfield, Keiij-on, and EUenborough,
Chief Justices of England,
and enjoyed the confidence of these noble Lords
to the time of their raspective deaths.
After his retirement from office he received
from a large number of his professional Brethren
tbe unitCil and public expression of their gratitude
for the upright, able, and courteous
manner in -n-hich he had discharged its duties,
and having retained
the esteem and respect of the members of his profession
and acquired the veneration and attachment
of bis private friends,
closed his useful and honorable life
on the 8tb day of October, 1842.
'Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like
as a shock of corn cometh in his season.' Job, v.:26.
' A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's
children.' Prov., Chap, xiii., v. 22."

ANCESTRAL TABLETS, ETC. 347
In Highgate County (from Causick's Epitaphs of
Middlesex) is the following :

"I believe
in the
communion of saints.
To the belnvel aid revered m emory of the
Hon. Sik THOMAS JOSHUA PLATT, Knight,
many years one of the Barons
of Her Majesty's Court of Exchequer.
He was the eldest son of Thomas Platt, Esq're,
of Brunswick Square ;
educated at Harrow School and Trinity College,
Cambridge,
he was called to the bar 9th Feb'y, 1816,
aud having, on the 27ih of Dec'r, 1834
received his patent as one of His Majesty's Counsel,
was raised to the Bench on the 27th Jau'y., 1845.
He died on the 10th Feb'y., 1862, aged 73 years.
The souls of the righteous are in the hands of God,
anl there shall no torment touch them,
In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die ;
aud their departure is taken for misery ;
And their going from us to be utter destruction ;
but they are iu peace.'— Wisdom iii.'
Angelica Helen, died 14th May, 1860.
Georgina, died 1.5tb -July, 1860.
Emily Octavia, died 12tli June, I860."

348 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
The following are found in the cemetery in Hunt
ington, L. I.:
"Ester, wife of Scudder Platt, who died August
22, 1806, in her 47th, year."
" Here lies ye body of Capt Isaac Platt, who de
parted this life Feb. ye 5th, A.D. 1763, in ye 64th
year of his age."
"In memory of Dr. Zophar Platt, who after a long
and successful life died in peace, Sept. 23, 1792, aged
87." "In memory of Zophar Platt, Esq., who died
March 27, 1811, in his 77th year.,"
A " Zophar Platt, died November 4, 1812, aged
27." " In memory of Mrs. Mary Platt, relict of Obadiah
Platt, who died January 9, 1795, aged 64."
" In memory of Sarah, wife of Zophar Platt died
May 10, 1811, "in her 77th year."
" In memory of Scudder Platt, who died Novem
ber 29, 1828, in the 70th year of his age."

The following data are " derived" mainly from a
striking volume on " The Tombstones in Milford,
Ct," by N. G. Pond, Esq., of that place :
Mrs. Sarah Beard, wife of Joseph Beard, was the
daughter of Josiah and Sarah (Burwell) Platt, born
March, 1713, died August 30, 1751.
— Sarah Platt, daughter of Josiah aud Sarah (Can-
field) Platt, was the wife of Eichard Bryan, son of
Eichard the Settler in 1639.
— Capt Joseph Bryan, who died 1783, was the son
of Eichard and Sarah (Platt) Bryan. He married

ANCESTRAL TABLETS, ETC. 349
Elizabeth, daughter of Zachariah and Hannah (Al
ien) Whitman. On his tombstone:
" Let not the dead forgotten be
Lest men forget that they must die.''
— Gideon Buckingham, son of Daniel, died June,
1, 1719. His widow married Joseph Platt.
— Mary Platt, daughter of Deacon Josiah and
Sarah (Canfield) Platt, married deacon Joseph Clark.
She died October 28, 1755, in her 81st year.
Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Mary (Platt)
Clark, married Jonathan Fowler, son of William,
January 9, 1728.
— Sarah (Platt) Fowler, wife of Nathan, lost her
only son William, September 3, 1799. On the tomb
stone : " stop, children dear, as yon pass by.
And see you're not too young to die."
— Phebe Newton, daughter of Joseph and Mary
{Kellogg) Platt, wife of Samuel Newton, died No
vember 12, 1727, in the 42d year of her age.
— Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Platt,
first wife of Serg't Jonah Newton, died July 5, 1734.
— Phebe, daughter of Sarah and Joseph Platt,
married Serg't Jonah Newton, who died April 19,
1756. — Hannah, daughter of Josepli and Mary (Kellogg)
Platt, married Lieut Fletcher Newton, son of Eoger
and Abigail (Fletbher) Newton.
— Epenetus Platt, son of Joseph and Mary (Kel
logg) Platt, died April 10, 1723, aged 27.

350 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
— Hester Platt, daughter of Eichard and Hester
Platt, died December 24, 1728, in the 21st year of
her age. Her mother was Hester, daughter of Sam
uel and Sarah (Baldwin) Buckingham.
— Serg't Eichard Platt, son of Josiah and Esther
(Buckingham) Platt, married Mehetable, daughter of
Ebenezer Fisk ; he died May 3, 1756, iu his 42d year.
— Eichard Platt, son of Serg't Eichard and Mehet
able (Fisk) Platt, died January 11, 1799, in his 57th
year. On his tombstone :

" A loving Husband, a tender Father,
Left this world to enjoy the other."

— Hannah, daughter of Fletcher and Hannah
(Platt) Newton, was the wife of John Prudden, son
of John and Mary (Clark) Prudden. He died Sep
tember 3; 1786. She, October 7, 1790, aged 73.
— Polly, second wife of Captain Samuel Tibbals,
was the daughter of Benjamin and Ann (Platt) BuU.
She died March 17, 179-, iu her 38th year.
— Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Platt)
Clark, the wife of Eobert Treat, died August 29,
1799, aged 66.
— Mehetable, daughter of Joseph and Hannah
(Buckingham) Platt, was the mother of Mrs.- David
(Mehetable) Treat Her grandson, David Treat, two
years old, died February 3, 1797.
— Mary, daughter of Joseph Platt, married Capt
Johu Woodruff, December 22, 1698. Her husband
died July 23, 1726, in his 53d year.

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— A stone in the Waterbury Cemetery reads :
"Nathan Platt died Jirly 30, 1815, aged 84."
A soldier of the revolution."
" Them also that sleep in Jesus, will God bring with Him.''
He was the grandfather of the writer.
— Gideon Platt, son of Lieut. Gideon and Mary
(Buckingham) Platt, died September 24, 1796, in his
63d year. On his tombstone :
" In hopes of a glorious immortality,
Behold, my friend, as you pass by,
Keturned to dust — I here do lie.
As I am now, so you must be,
Prepare for death, and follow me."

L.
FACTS, TRADITIONS AND DATES.

This chapter is to pick up disconnected threads
and weave them into the narrative. It is a good rule
to gather up the fragments that nothing be lost. The
family record in the Eevolution was creditable. Its
members generally were full of the spirit of a wise
liberty ; and often contributed to mould our free
institutions, in that position in life in which Provi
dence placed them. Capt. Nathauiel Platt, as re
corded, held his commission from Washington, and
did effective service. Many on Long Island, which
was under British rule, suffered and were imprisoned
because they were loyal to the principles of human
right Four of the sons of Zephaniah Platt (1709),
of Long Island, were in the U. S. Army in the Eev
olutionary war. Manj' others were soldiers in that
army. Mrs. A. T. Eedfield relates that she visited Long
Island and obtained pieces of the " Platt " tree, to
which her great-grandfather, with fifty others, was
chained till taken to the Jersey prison ship, where
most of them died. He lived but two days after he
reached home, and was buried near this tree. This
was Zephaniah Platt, of Long Island.

356 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
Judge Charles Platt, of Plattsburg, was a year in
the patriot ranks. Dan Platt, of the Saybrook
Branch, was a captain in the Eevolution. Many
lost their lives in the Union ranks in the civil war.
Abigail Platt, mother of Benj. Sanford, of Milford,
remembered that her father, Capt Benjamin Platt,
of Milford, went to Huntington, L. I., to visit their
relatives there, and that he brought home some
apple grafts. This Captain Benjamin Platt was an
officer in the Eevolutionary war, and was at Danbury.
He died in April, 1808. This was related by Benj.
P. Bush, of West Haven.
Bancroft iu his invaluable history of the United
States, speaking of the determined spirit of liberty in
the early settlers of our country says, that the
people " demanded power to govern themselves.
Discontent (on Long Island) created a popular con
vention; and if the two Platts, Titus, Wood, and
Wicks, of Huntington, arbitrarily summoned to New
York, were still more arbitrarily thrown into prison,
the fixed purpose of the yeomanry remained un
shaken." The coat of arms granted by Edward III, in 1326
is described thus : Per pale, gule, or, lion passaut,
armed, motto — " Merit has its reward " — which I have
rendered into Latin "Virtus suum praemium habet."
The capstone to the memory of Eichard Platt 1st,
on the memorial bridge in Milford Ct., is three feet
long, 22 inches wide, and 15 inches high. It is located

FACTS, TRADITIONS AND DATES. 357
on the south wall of the bridge, in the place of honor,
next to the stone in memory of Peter Prudden, " the
first pastor . in Milford." Each stone stands out
distinctly from the others, giving to the top of the
bridge on each side the finish of a turreted battle
ment. The date, respecting the " baptism in Bovingdon,
Hertfordshire, Eng., of Eichard Platt, son of Joseph,
in 1603," cannot be verified, for the church records
there now, only go back to 1675. This word is sent
me by my friend. Dr. W. H. S. Aubrey, of London,
Eng. Dr. Daniel Beckley, of Naugatuck, Ct the wiiter's
maternal grandfather, who served undjeB Washington,
at Trenton, died at Utica, N. Y., at the age of 85. He
was 70 years a member of church. He told his
grandson, that, his enlistment having expired, ou his
return home from the army, he paid sixty dollars for
his lodging and breakfast, in the Federal greenback
corrency of the revolutionary day. Fiat money!
Admiral Theodorus Bailey, the types on page l08
make to be engaged, in command of a U. S. ship, Im
"the capture of slaves ! " Slavers. He was capturing
ships that were capturing slaves. Would that there
had been some such American Admiral doing that
work a hundred years and more before — when Eng
land having the monopoly of the slave trade was
eager to fill our colonies with the kidnapped ship
loads of these sons of bondage. England afterwards

358 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
did the just thing in freeing the slaves in her part
of the West Indies.

Eichard Platt of New Haven, has two children
residing there : George H. Platt, and Mrs. M. A.
Barnes. Eliza A. Platt, daughter of G. W. Platt, of New
York, married E. W. Stoddard of Succasunna, N. J.
Oliver Platt, was a graduate of Hamilton College
in the class of 1823. He has not been traced.
C. C. Platt, of Ithaca, N. Y. is the son of the Eev.
Wm. K Platt, who was born in New York City. He
is a druggist.

Mr. George Cornwall, banker of Po'keepsie, N. Y.
has a place in this Lineage. His mother Eliza
Antoinette Morey was the grand-daughter of James
Platt, of the Oswego Branch.
Mrs. Wm. Floyd Platt, nee Woolsey, of the Os
wego Branch, was lost at sea. She was a passenger
on the ill-fated Yille de Paris.

There is a Jonas Platt in Smithland, Louisiana, of
the Plattsburg Branch.

'n -

Ohas. Easton Platt, late of Detroit, Mich., is in
Berlin, Germany. He is perfecting his knowledge

FACTS, TRADITIONS AND DATES. 359
of the art of music. His mother resides in Water"
bury, Coun.
Mrs. Chas. Wales, of St Andrews, Canada, is a
Platt descendaat Her daughter is Mrs. Wm.
Drysdale, of Montreal, whose husband is a publisher
in that city.

Ellen Gray Johnson, of Up. Eed Hook, N. Y.,
married Henry L. Underwood, Oct. 1, 1872. She
was born Nov. 29th, 1845. They had one daughter
Mary Platt. Her father removed to Birmingham,
-Alabama. Channing M. Huntington, of Utica, who married
Nellie B. Platt, of Norwich, has lately published a
handsome little volume entitled "A Bachelor's Wife
and other Poems." It shows ability in that gifted
kind of work.
Wm. Platt Merritt, of Grand Union Hotel, is the
son of Wm. C. Merritt, who married Eachel, a
daughter of Joseph Platt, of Bedford. Deacon
Joseph was a son of Charles, son of Jonathan, son of
Benoni Platt 1st, of the Westchester Branch.

Albon Platt Man, late of New York City, born at
Constable, Northern New York, Jan. 18tli, 1811, a son
of Dr. Albon Man, of the neighborhood of Platts
burg, was a grandson of Capt. Nathaniel Platt, who
served under Washingcon in the Eevolution. He

360 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
studied law under Judge Parkhurst in Plattsburg,
and under Judge Kent iu New York, and was admit
ted to the bar in 1832. He was sixty years a lawyer,
.successful and prominent. He was a member of the
N. England So. and of the Union League Club. He
was a brother of Mrs. Hugh McCuUoch of Washing
ton, D. C. He married Mary L. Brower of Wilks-
barre. Pa. A second marriage was to Mary E.
^Hubbell, of Utica. He died at his home in New
Y'ork, March 30th, '91, in his eighty-first year ; a
long and honorable life. Seven sons, a daughter and
his widow survive him. His oldest, William, was
Tjorn June 5, 1839; Frederick H.; Albon P. Jr.; Henry
S.,; Alric H.; Edward, and Arthur the youngest
son, born July 18, 1871, and the only daughter liv
ing, Mary Man. William and Henry were asso
ciated with the father's law firm in Wall Street.
He was a member of the Madison Square Presby
terian Church, where his funeral was attended.
Theodore W. Parmele, of the Judge Jonas Branch,
of New York, married Emily F., daughter of Gen.
Charles Eoom. Two children living, Charles E.
aud Helen Livingston. Bertha died young. A
second marriage was to Mary Platt, grand-daughter
of Judge Jonas Platt One son, Henry Livingston,
who died in infancy, Holmes Agnew, of the same
branch, married, April 6, 1891, Isabelle de Puys
Foote, grand-niece of ex-Governor Eandolph, of
New Jersey. He resides in Tacoma, Washington.
Thoinas Platt, who was a resident of Chazy, N. Y.,

PACTS, TRADITIONS AND DATES. 361
during the war of 1812, and who died there about
1824, had two daughters, Edith and Priscilla Platt.
There were other children : Mary, Marian, Elizabeth
and Eeleafie, and Nelson and Daniel. Mrs. Mary M.
Wilder was the daughter of Edith, (who married
Matthias B. Miller, May 15, 1830), and she was
the grand-daughter of Col. Thomas Miller of Platts
burg, who won so brilliant laurels iu the battle of
Lundy's Lane iu the war of 1812. Mrs. Wilder, the
widow of J. Spencer Wilder, now resides in Clinton,
Wis. He died June 6, 1883. Two of her father's
sisters (Millers) married Platts, cousins, of Platts
burg, both named Zephaniah, and the wedding was
on the same day. The presence of hundreds of
guests made it what the Germans call a "Hochzeit,"
a high time. Thomas Platt was from Vermont, and
he or his father was from Conn., possibly from New
Milford or Norwalk. There is no Thomas Platt
Jrom Milford, according to the records in the old
township. Mrs. Wilder's sister is Mrs. Geo. Cooper,
nee Charlotte E. Miller, who now resides in Mani
towoc, Wis.
Hon. B. Platt Carpenter, formerly of Po'keepsie,
N. Y, now of Helena, Montana, was the last terri
torial Governor of that new state. His mother,
Maria Bockee, daughter of Jacob Bockee, was a
granddaughter of Margaret Platt (Smith) who was
a daughter of Maj. Epenetus Platt, of the younger
Huntington Branch. His father was Morgan
Carpenter, of Po'keepsie. Before he went West, he
was nominated on the Eepublican ticket for Lieu-

362 THE PLATT' LINEAGE.
tenant-Governor in N. Y. He was prominent in his
party in the state. Born in Stanford, Duchess Co.,
May 14, 1837, he graduated from Union College in
the class of '58. Admitted the following year to the
bar in Duchess Co., he held various positions in
public Mfe. Among them, he was state senator aud
county judge. His oldest brother, the Hon. Jacob
B. Carpenter, who has been a member of the legis
lature, mayor of Po'keepsie, and has held other
honorable positions, is now residing at Little Eest,
Duchess Co. A sister. Miss S. M. Carpenter, resides
iu Po'keepsie. Mr. Morgan Carpenter had other
children : Benjamin, dec'd, Catherine, Mary, Isaac
Smith, and Louisa. B. Platt Carpenter was the
youngest son. In his new home in Montana, during
his governorship, he was elected a member of the
Constitutional Convention, and afterwards a member
of the Code Convention. He married Esther Thorn.
They have three children : Nina, Katheriue, and
Steven. Nina married Edward Tower, of Pough
keepsie. They have one sou, Albert Tower.
Obadiah, eldest son of Abel, blind in one eye, was
cutting a tree, and it fell on him and killed him.
This was in Eedding.
Eunice Platt used to say that both of her grand
mothers were Molly Smiths ; one married Obadiah
Platt, the other a Scudder.
Thankful Piatt's mother, Molly Scudder, died when
she was only one year old, and she was adopted by

FACTS, TRADITIONS AND DATES. 363
Thos. Jarvis and his wife, Abigail, they having no
children. Sturges Selleck, of Danbury, had six silver spoons
with " T. S." on them. He died 1871. He married a
grand-daughter of Polly Hull. Her daughter is Mrs.
Ohas. Benedict.
Mrs. Hugh McCuUoch, of Washington, D. C,
writes : " My grandmother's silver tea-set is with my
sister, Mrs. Lawrence Myers, Colorado Springs. Old
Mrs. Woolsey, nee Livingston, inquired of me, many
years since, if I had it, for she said they used to haye
tea from that pot on grandma's round tea table, wdien
tea was a proscribed beverage. My grandmother
had kept a little with which to treat old friends."
— She also writes ; " The wives of the early s-ettlers
of Plattsburg were very well educated women, I have
always heard. Charles Platt married Caroline Adri
ance, of Fishkill, who was beautiful even in extreme
old age; and her daughters, whom I remember, were
handsome women. My grandmother, the daughter of
Eichard Smith, of Smithtown, now King's Park, L. I.,
was also beautiful. My cousin, Mrs. Collins, has a
portrait painted when she was past middle age."

" The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curi
osities," published by J. B. Anderson, now sold by
J. B. Alden, of New York, was compiled and written
by I. Platt, D.D. It takes a wide range through
nature, art, science and literature.

364 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
There is an interesting " Life and Letters of Mrs.
Cyrus Platt," of Delaware, O. Her religious char
acter, and her effective good works are herein ad
mirably delineated. Her name before marriage
was Jeanette Hulme, of Burlington, N. J. The book
was compiled by her husband. There are letters in
it from E. H. Canfield, D.D., and Stephen H. Tyng,
D.D., late rector of St George's, New York. Hers
was a bright and beautiful Christian character.
"That she hath done shall be spoken of for a me
morial of her." "She walked beside the sad and
weary with words of cheer and comfort." It is a
choice volume of Christian biography. Her numerous
letters are bright, thoughtful, frank, interesting, and
gracefully worded.

James Platt, F.S.S., of London, Eng., distributed
gratuitously, in 1873, 30,000 copies of an essay on
Business. He has lately expanded it into a rich and
interesting volume, entitled "Business." It is a stir
ring and admirable work ou wise living. It has gone
through seventy-five editions in London. He has
also written a book called "Life," which has gone
through twenty-one editions. His volume entitled
" Money," has reached nineteen editions. Without
question, they all may be characterized in general as
timely, incisive, inspirited, and abounding in words
of admirable suggestion. These three have been re
printed by Putnam's Sons, here. The same author
has published volumes on " Morality," " Progress,"
"Economy," and "Poverty," aud no doubt they will
do good in our work-day world, and give richness

PACTS, TRADITIONS AND DATES. 365
and effectiveness to life. We are glad to call atten
tion to those books. His themes, in his works on
"Life" and "Business," show how valuable they may
be when handled with force and freshness. Some of
them are: "Is Life Worth Living?" "Culture,"
"Common Sense," "Thrift," "Marriage," "Happi
ness," aud "Health;" "Industry," "Perseverance,"
"Punctuality," "Prudence," "Tact,""TrutiifiUuess,"
"Integrity," and "A Few Hints what to do with
Money." It is readily seen that these topics, though
old, may be even new in an earnest-minded thinker,
who writes with ability aud fervor. His views of life
are realistic, specially adapted to the life of to-day.
The future life . has a limited weight in his scales.
Hence we must say of him, as of all, that the writ
ten thoughts of men need to be sifted before we
adopt and assimilate them. Many writers have
views that are their own, and ought not to belong to
any others.
The works of the Eev. Dr- Wm. H. Platt, of
Petersburg, Va., which are named at close of Chapter
X., have been favorably received by the public.

In the seventh chapter we have spoken of " Old
Times in Huntington," by Henry C. Platt, Esq., of
New York.

Mr. Jos.'C. Platt, of Waterford, N. Y., writes, No
vember 10, 1890 : " I lately met Mr. James Platt and
daughter, of Gloucester, Eng. In conversation with
them, I learned that they saw in me and my brother

366 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
many family peculiarities which reminded them of
their own relatives, and they thought we must have
sprung from a common stock." They informed him,
that "in Saddleworth, Eng., in Yorkshire, about ten
miles E. N. E. of Manchester, there are large num
bers of Platts, and the name appears very frequently
on the stones in the cemetery."

The estate of the late Nathan C. Platt, of New
York, was sold in March, 1886, for the sum of
$375,000. In the Neio York Herald, of the 3d of
March that year, we read this statement : " When the
Platts — ^Nathan and George — made their thousands
in New York, there was no assay office there. The
mint was in Philadelphia, nearly a hundred miles
away, and those who had made their return trip
from California, around Cape Horn, after a four
months' voj^age in the famous clipper ships of the
time, did not care to make another railroad trip to
sell their 'ore.' They carried it around their waists,
had it sewed in the lining of their clothes, or in
satchels, or in their pockets, and even before they
divested themselves of their mining clothes, or in
dulged in the luxuries incident to a return home,
they tramped down Liberty street three or four hun
dred strong, and sold their ' diggings.' Old Mr.
Platt weighed the ore, figured the value, and gave
the Californian his check for the amount. At that
time it was well known that the Platts kept a large
cash balance on hand in the growing business of the
city. Nathan and George, when quite young, came

FACTS, TRADITIONS AND DATES. 367
to the city about 1810, from Huntington, L. I., and
engaged in the manufacture of gold and silver thim
bles, in a small shop in what is now known as Chat
ham square. They met with success there, manu
factured other articles, and had so expanded their
business, that, about 1830, they purchased 4 and 6
Liberty street, a part of the well-known Grant Tliur-
burn estate, whose seed store and garden form part
of the history of New York. It was here in Liberty
street that they became prominent jewelers in New
York. They opened an assay .office just previous to
the California excitement, and their stamp on a bar
of gold was considered, here and abroad, as good as
that of the U. S. mint. The ' forty niners ' from Cali
fornia rapidly increased their business, and in a few
years they owned additional property on Maiden
Lane and Nassau street." The old-time Platt estab
lishment, 4 and 6 Liberty street, was sold to Henry
Platt for $123,000. David Platt was a brother of
Nathan aud George above, all children of Elkanah
Platt, of the older Huntington stock. David, in the
first years of their business in New York, was inter
ested with his brothers.

A kinsman, of the Waterbury branch, lately de
ceased, left an estate estimated, his brother told me,
at $300,000.

There are twenty-six Platts, whose wills are on
record in the Surrogate's office in New York city.

368 THE PLATT LINEAGE.
The tradition that Eichard Platt 1st and a brother
arrived with the Salem colony, went west to Spring
field, Mass., and then south to Windsor, Ct, and
that the brother tarried there, while Eichard went
on to New Haven, Dr. H. E. Stiles, the historian of
Windsor, disposes of in these words to me :;
"No trace of Platt — either Josiah or Fisk — in Wind
sor. If he stopped there over night undoubtedly he
stayed with the 'reputable householder' appointed
by the town, 'to entertayne ye stranger,' as was the
custom of ye day — but the hotel register had not
been invented, and hence cannot be produced in evi
dence. The laud records show that he settled not
at Windsor; nor do the town records hint that he-
was drummed out of town, or in any way harrassed
by the constable. So, tradition be hanged !"

As a balance to this, I insert the following:
A brother kinsman sends me this newspaper clip
ping : " The Woolseys, of New Haven ; the Platts, of
Plattsburg; the Bowdoins, founders of Bowdoin Col
lege; the Hon. E. C. Winthrop, who made the ad
dress at the dedication of the Washington Monu
ment, are descended from Leotfric, one of the kings-
of Wales." He well says: "This may be a rev
elation to some. For myself —
' Higher still my proud pretentions rise —
The son of parents, passed into the skies. ' "

Here is no fancy, but a stray fact Samuel Platt
was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater,

FACTS, TRADITIONS AND DATES. 369
Ct He died there July 22, 1785, in his sixty -first
year. Alrick H. Man, Esq., of New York, writes this to
Prof. Platt, of New Haven: "In the histn-y of Vir
ginia, 3 vols., it is recorded that Eichard Platt and
his wife were killed in the Virginia massacre in
1623." This adds another to the many English
Eichards.

Here the writer parts with the reader. An
honorable record this. Let us maintain it on our
part. My mother used to say to me when a youth,
" Count that day lost whose low descending sun
Views from thy hands no worthy action done."
Let it be a transmitted message. One of our
gifted bishops has written :
" We are dwelling.
In an age on ages telling.
To be living is sublime."
Let US really find this out and do our part to
make it so. And what our hands find to do, let us do
with our might. If you are as good as your fathers,
strive even to be better. There are higher stand
points before us all. Let us press towards them.
" Heart wilhin and God o'erhead."

ERRATA.

On 7th page, ninth line, read "Jonas " for Jonah.
" eighth " " "I."forT. Hull.
On 21st " fifth " " " removed " for returned.
" 30th " thirteenth line, read "Andros" for Andrews.
" 38th page, sixth line from bottom, read "second" for
record.
On 49th page, third line from bottom, read "Martha" for
Margaret.
On 51st page, third line from bottom, read "1891 " for 1890.
" 57th " afth " " " " "Morris" for Hunt
ington.
On 68th page, seventeenth line, read " Almon" for Almore.
" 69th " third line from bottom, read "Josiah and
Louise, his children."
On 72d page, last line, leave out " branch."
" I03d " top line, read "Binghamton."
" 108th" second line from bottom, read "slavers" for
slaves.
On 119th page, eighth line from bottom, read " Manette " for
Manetta.
On 123d page, ninth line, read " Weston " for Westen.
" 124th " eleventh line, read " Andariese " for Andarine.
" 138th " thirteenth line from bottom, read "Isidora"
for Isidor.
On 141st page, ninth line, read " Platt " for Pratt.
" 214th " second line, " " make " for makes.

LI.

INDEX OF
PLATT NAMES IN THE BOOK, FOUND
ON THE NUMBERED PAGES.

Abby, 82, 84, 135.
Abel, 81.
Abial, 267.
AbigaU, 25, 63, 82, 85, 226.
Abraham, 39, 239.
Abram, Eev., 299.
Ada, 90, 255.
Ada LiUian, 276.
Adelaide, 35, U9.
Adele, 142.
AdeUne, 288.
A. Doty, 35.
Alanson, 225, 256.
Albert, 82, 90, 225.
Alexander S., 82.
Alfred, 26, 66, 185, 187, 330.
Alice E., 7.
Allen, 86, 88.

A Alma, 142.
Almira, 149.
Almon, 66.
Alonzo, 135.
Amarintha N., 58.
Amelia, 36, 45, 283.
Amos, 65, 84, 175. ,
Ann, 63.
Anua, 7, 37, 122, 149, 150.
Anna McClure, 57.
Anne, 85.
Anne Treadwell, 111.
Anner, 66.
Annetta, 67.
Annie, 38.
Ansel, 32.
Archibald A.,
Arthur, 138.

57.

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THE PLATT LINEAGE.

Arthur Livingston, 124.
August, 330.
Augustus, 26.

Benjamin, 49, 50,175, 211,
267.
Benjamin G., 238.
Benoni, 191.
Bertha, 180, 186.
Cansten, 149.
Carrie F., 87.
Carrie P., 254.
Caroline, 33, 38, 51, IIL
112, 149, 156, 263.
Caroline Child, 46.
Catherine, 49, 149, 275-
Catherine S., 283.
C. Adams, 142.
C. Easton, 358.
C. Grenough, 243.
Charles, 26, 71-6, 105,
195, 330.
Charles A, 142.
Charles Beckley, 289.
Charles C, 111."
Charles D., 57.
Charles E., 105, 180.
Charles H, 86.
Charles Henry, 33.
Charles J. W'., 329.

Aurelia, 76.
Austin, 275.
B Bessie, 83.
Betsey, 89, 134, 147-8.
Bleeker, 105.
Brewster W., 32.
C Charles, Judge, 45, 111.
Charles M., 87.
Charles S., 33, 39, 67.
, Charles Sandford, -185.
Charles Sellers, 128.
Charles T.,U.S.N., 101-2.
Charles W., 8, 71, 254.
Charles Z., 105.
Chas. Henry, Eev., 102.
Charlotte,38,89,200 3,208.
Chauncey, 26, 137.
C. Heminway, 7, 86, 88.
Clara, 255.
Clara A., 294.
Clarence W., 88.
Clarissa, 83.
Clark, 76.
Clark Murray, 185.
Clayton, 244^5.
Clayton Winfield, 223.
Cornelius, 26.

INDEX OP PLATT NAMES.

375

CorneUa, 72, 120, 122, 149, C urtis, 170.
212. Cyrus, 7, 214.
Corwin H, 229. D
Dan, 274, 275. David W., 87.
Dan, Capt., 273. Debora, 32, 89, 203.
Daniel, 32, 45, 71, 113, 170, Dennis, 263.
256. D. Gould, 168-9.
David, 32, 71, 81-2-4, 95, Dorcas, 135.
107. Dorothea, 45, 57.
David B., 70. Dwight M., 263.
David M., 26, 328. E

E. Augustus, 143.
Ebenezer, 48, 56, 57, 66,
211, 263, 267.
E. Barstow, 204.
Edgar M., 330.
Edith, 124, 150, 276.
Ed. Jonathan, 202.
Edmund, 150.
Edward, 39, 71-2, 89, 181,
196, 259.
Edwin, 143, 237.
Effie A, 143.
E. Grenough, 243.
E. Harvey, 196.
E. Howard, 282.
Elbert Scranton, 282.
Eliphalet 137, 147.
Eliphalet, Dr., 141.

EUphaz A., 156.
Eliza, 102, 135.
Eliza A., 358.
EUza S, 143, 150.
Eliza Tredwell, 50.
Elizabeth, 31-2-8, 45-8,
57, 83, 101, 103, 112,
120, 128, 142, 202.
Elizabeth Betsey, 136.
Elizabetli H, 67.
Elizabeth S., 67-8.
Elkanah, 32.
Ella, 223, 256, 282.
Ella Louisa, 33.
EUeuor W., 57.
Elliot B., 71.
EUis S., 46.
Elmore, 253.

376

THE PL.4.Tr LiNEAGi!.

Elosia, 82, 163.
Eloise C, 255.
Ely, 66, 67, 211, 287.
Emelie Louise, 33.
Emily, 26, 38, 212, 213,
245, 283, 289.
Emily B , 151.
Emily Hall, 68.
E. Otis, 150.
Epenetus, 14, 29, 65, 133,
153.
Epenetus 2d, Maj., 43.
Epenetus 3d, 45.
Epenetus 4th, 49.

Epenetus 5th, 50.
E. Pendleton, 150
Ephraim H., 72.
Ernest, 142.
Estelle C, 33.
Estelle Gertrude, 294.
Esther, 32, 63, 77, 138.
Eunice, 82, 83, 309.
Eunice M., 82.
Eva, 88.
Evelina G, 44.
Experience, 137.
Ezra, 219.

Fannie E. and J., 91.
Fanny, 135, 148, 212-
F. C, 327.
Florence May, 283.
Floyd Sellers, 128.
Frank, 7, 70, 87, 204,
Frank Elbert, 282-3.
Frank Henry, 33.
Franklin, 243-4.
Frances, 39, 65, 149.
Francis, 150.
Francis H, 87.

Francis M., 87.
3. Fred, 37.
Fred Elmore, 254.
Fred Epenetus, 51.
Frederic, 294.
220. Frederick Aug., 51.
Frederic D., 223.
Frederic E., 203.
Frederic Joseph, 282, 28:5.
Frederick M., 26.
Furman N., 135.
F. W., 215.

George, 39, 89, 188, 200, Geo. Asa, 88.
245. Geo. C, 239, 329.

INDEX OF PLATT NAMES.

377

Geo. E., 76.
George Fisk, 71.
Geo. Fowler, 70.
George H., 358.
Geo. Lewis, 293.
George M., 26.
Geo. Norton, 219-20.
Geo. Willard, 294-5.
Geo. Wood, 32.

Gertrude, 175.
Gertrude Tyler, 295.
G. Hopkins, 283.
Gideon, 179.
GUes, 26.
Grace, 33, 196, 238.
G Washington, 33.
G. W., 107, 299.

Hannah, 14, 20, 26, 43, 45,
59,63,66,83,101,107, IIL
Hannah Ann, 50.
Harriet, 134, 135.
Harriet B., 150.
Harrison G, 77.
Harry, 175, 329.
Harvey, 68.
Harvey Elmore, 254.
Haviland H., 61.
Helen, 120, 122. .
Helen Barstow, 290.
Helen Levia, 294.
Helen Livingston, 124.
Helen Theresa, 290.
Henrietta, 151.
Henry, 39, 90, 95, 101,
106, 135, 141, 150,
204, 207, 225.

H Henry Livingston, 120-24.
Henry Mortimer, 33.
Henry N., 70.
Henry S., 148.
Henry WooUey, 50.
Henry C. of Milford, 7,
76-7.
Henry C. of N. Y., 7, 30,
34.
Herbert Winthrop, 294.
Herman, 47, 226.
Hetty, 105.
Hezekiah, 85, 328.
H. N., 70.
Homer, 89.
Horace, 87, 71, 329.
Howard, 123, 151, 180, 214.
Hulda, 88.
H. Wilhelmina, 186.

378

THE PLATT LINEAGE.

I
Ida, 87. Isaac Hull, 51.
Imogene, 89. Isaac I., 141.
Ira, 32. Isaac S., 107, 134, 224.
Irving v., 40. Isaac Watts, 57.
Isaac, 14, 29, 30, 31, 32, Isaac 5th, 32, 35.
71, 83, 95, 134, 143, Isabella E., 35.
149, 150. Isidora, 128.
Isaac C, 111. Israel, 133, 135.

J-

Jacob, 31.
Jacob L., 134.
James, 88, 106, 107, 113,
127, 128, 169, 233,
329.
Jas. A., 7, 128.
James B., 150, 228.
James C, 255.
James D., 263.
James Kent, 103.
James McClure, 57.
James N., 44, 196.
James, of Eng., 364, 365.
Jane L., 50.
Jarvis, 82, 84, 90, 91.
Jarvis H, 90.
Jay L., 328.
J. Cansten, 149.
J. Cheney, 7, 142.
Jeanette Hulme, 214.*

Jemima, 147-8.
Jennie, 276.
Jeremiah, 43, 44, 45.
Jeremiah 2d, 44.
Jeremiah G, 46.
Jerome, 89, 170.
Jerusha T., 276.
Jesse, 31, 82, 85, 90.
Jesse 2d, 31.
Jesse 3d, 32.
Jesse 4th, 32, 237.
Jesse 5th, 7, 238.
Jessie Corinne, 276.
Joel, 32, 237-8.
John, 14, 23, 25, 26, 31,
63, 65-6, 137, 14L 168,
268, 275.
John B., 137.
John Bailey, 124.
John D., 87, 171.

INDEX OF PLATT NAMES.

379

John F., 105.
John H., 26, 122, 142.
John I., 150.
John M., 106.
John Meade, 72.
John E., 134.
.John W., 147.
Johnson T., Prof., 7, 14,
16, 81, 161.
Jonah, 71, 76.
Jonas, 31, 45, 65, 81, 84,
101.
Jonas 2d, 45, 48.
Jonas H, 7, 124.
Jonas, Judge, 117.
Jonathan, 26, 191, 200.

Jonathan, Col., 191.
Joseph, 24, 26, 31, 63, 67,
75, 105, 129, 147, 156,
273.
Joseph Bremond, 142.
Jos. Curtis, 273, 281.
Jos. Curtis 2d, 7, 273.
Jos. Curtis 3d, 283.
Joseph S., 57.
Josiah, 63, 65.
J. Taylor, 168.
J. Stafford, 237-8.
Julia, 194.
Julius A, 89.
Justus, 26.
J. Warren, 141.

Kate G., 39.

Lafayette W., 89.
Landra B., 225.
Lansing, 105.
Laura, 26.
Laura Willard, 295.
Lavinia, 168.
L. B., 255.
Leonard, 66, 187.
Lester Ward, 225.
Letitia, 1J.1.

L Levi, 106, 155.
Levi 2d, 106, 156.
Levi S., 66, 67.
Lewis, 7, 87, 187, 194.
LiUie E., 35.
Livingston, 204.
Lorenzo D., 89.
Lorin, 67.
Lorintha, 88.
L. Tudor, 180.

380

THE PLATT LINEAGE.

Louise, 138, 150.
Lozelle J., 276-7.
Lucien, 46.
Lucius C, 207.
Mabel, 151, 175.
Malcom Cyrus, 215.
M. AUetta, 151.
Mamie E., 327.
Margaret, 49, 105-11, 220.
Margaret Scranton, 283.
Margery, 169.
Maria, 38, 76, 107-13.
Maria E., 51.
Maria E., 33.
Mariam F., 50.
Martha, 67, 68.
Martha S., 67.
Marv, 15, 19, 30-1-2, 43
49, 63, 64, 81, 83, 101
103, 104, 105, 120.
Mary A., 67, 122.
Mary Belle, 35.
Mary E., 34, 138, 196,276
288.
Mary F., 35.
Mary G, 58.
Mary Jane, 67, 68, 134.
Nancy, 36, 134-6, 148.
Nathan, 65-6, 207, 288.

Luke, 76.
Luther, 57, 185.
Lydia, 134.
Lydia M., 87.
M Mary Jane E., 134.
Mary Julia, 142.
Mary Knowles, 143.
Mary Larabee, 254.
Mary Meade, 72.
Mavy Memminger, 294.
Marv N., 33.
Mary S., 149.
Maiy Walworth, 102.
Matthew H., 137.
Meda.l, 37.
Medora G, 180.
Mercy, 96.
. Merit, 226.
, M. Fayette, 225.
M. Leek, 196.
Mills, 170.
Milton L., 46.
, Minerva, 26.
Montgomery, 89.
Moses, 66.
Moss Kent, 103-4.
Myron, 253.
N Nathau C, 32, 76.
Nathaniel G., 105.

INDEX OF PLATT NAMES.

381

Nathaniel, Capt., 45, 107.
N. Dwight, 70.
Nettie D., 87.
Nehemiah, 203.
Newton, 44.
Obadiah, 31, 36, 81-3,
167, 273.
Obadiah2d,CohO., 3L
Obadiah H., 84, 90.
O. H., 90.
PauUna, 82.
Peleg, 133.
Peter M., 106.
Phebe, 32, 36, 43, 107.
PhUetus, 32, 36.
PhiUp, 49, 95, 283.
Eachel, 105, 195.
Ealph Hilton, 220.
Eaymond, 151.
Eebecca, 32, 57.
Eegina M., 223.
E. Goodman, 142.
E. H, 72.
Ehoda, 96.
Eichard, 63, 70, 164.
Eichard 1st, 13, 65, 357,
368.
Eichard, OoL, 46, 48.

Nicholas, 82.
N. M., 228.
Noah, 274-7.
Norman S., 70.
o Oliver, 36, 39-40.
Orrin, 88.
Orton W., 186.
Orville H. (U.S.S.), 167,
169.
P Philo N., 82.
Philo E., 90.
PhUo, Toussey, 82, 163.
Phineas, 71.
Phoebe, 49.
Polly, 36, 82, 84.
R Eichard Morris, 57.
Eichard, of London, 341.
Eobert, 105-6, 168.
Eobt. Drury, 284,
Eobert Treat, 76.
Eobert (U. S. N.), 39.
Eoyall Tyler, 295.
Eufus D., 287.
Euth, 134.
Euth Ann, 168.
Eutherford Hayes, 212.

382

THE PLATT LINEAGE.

Sally Eusco, 96.
Samuel, 24, 26, 39, 75,
106, 112, 129, 225.
Samuel B., 255.
Samuel Floyd, 128.
Samuel Keyes, 105.
Samuel E., 134.
Sanford Hall, 35.
Sarah, 15, 19, 32, 36,
50, 59, 63, 65, 67,
137, 253.
Sarah A, 68, 87, 108.
Sarah E., 35, 50, 105.
Sarah F., 147.
Sarah S., 150, 211.
Sarah Walworth, 102.

Timothy, 31, 81-5.
Theodora H., 181.
Theodore, 76, 88, 337.
Theodorus, 101, 105.

Uriah, 45, 48, 306.
Van Zandt, 105.
Wakeman, 84, 90.
Walter, 7, 180, 300.

Seabury B., 187.
95, Selah, 49.
Sherman, 83, 91.
Silas, 88.
Simeon D., 169, 170.
Sir Hugh, 10, 336.
Sir John, 336.
Sir Thomas, 340-7.
45, Solomon, 45.
88, Stephen, 36, 105, 134,
193.
Stephen H., 35.
Susan, 26, 106, 149.
Susannah, 120.
Sydney, 33, 44.
Sylvester, 89, 156.
T Theron E., 163.
Thomas, 243, 250, 360.
Thomas C, 203.
U Uriah 2d, 49, 55.
V Victor M., 254.
W Ward D., 87.
Warren Cumming, 215.

INDEX OF PLATT NAMES.

383

Warren Nelson, 40.

Wm.

Floyd, Mrs. 358.

Washington, 180.

Wm.

G, 229.

Watts, 36.

Wm.

H., 88, 89, 143, 186.

WUbur Fisk, 35.

Wm.
Hayes, 213.
Willard, 328.
Wm.
Henry, 283.
WiUiam, 37, 57, 67, 71,
87,
Wm.
Heiirs-,Eev.,71,249.
103, 105, 137, 170, 203,
Wm.
K., 327.
227, 228, 244, 330.
Wm.
Nichols, 106.
Willis, 71.
Wm.
Phelps, 113.
Winnifred H, 224.
Wm.
Pitt, 103, 106.
Wm. A., 211, 212.
Wm.
Smith, 185.
Wm. Barnes, 141.
Wm.
Vedder, 157.
Wm. E., 51, 255.
Wm.
WaUis, 58.
Wm. Floyd, 70, 128.
Zebulon, 85.
Zophar, 31, 36, 83.
Zophar, Dr., 30, 45, 55.
Zephaniah, 103, 111, 255.
ZUla, 133.
Zephaniah, Judge, of
Plattsburg, 45, 99, 100.
Zephaniah C, 111, 112.
Zepaniah, jr. of S.C, 101,
120, 122.
XLII.
INDEX OF NAMES
OF MOST
OF THE COLLATERAL BRANCHES,
PREPARED BY
JAMES M. BLACKWELL.

Ackerman, Jemima, 148.
Ackerman, Lydia, 135.
Adams, Elizabeth, 142.
Addis, Elizabeth, 70.
Adriance, Caroline, 111.

A Alvord, Theodore, 149.
Andariese, Miss, 124.
Andrews, Daniel, 157.
Appleby, T. Eodman, 51.
Armistead, Jas. M., 112.

Adriance, Mary Jane E., Armstrong, L. I., 238.
134. Aspinwall, Sarah, 48.
Agnew, Mary, 123. Atkinson, Luke, 19.
Allen, Alvina, 67. Atwood, Lewis J., 68.
Allen, Philip, 50. Averell, Henry Ketcham,
Allen, Temperance J., 281. 104.
B Barnes, Hannah, 149.

Bailey, Admiral Theo
dorus, 108.
Bailey, James, 106.
Bailey, Judge Wm., 108.
Baker, Mary, 37.
Barnard, Mary J., 87.
Barnes, Catherine, 141.

Barnet, Frank L., 87,
208.
Barrows, Lucy B., 68.
Barstow, Ellen Lucy, 203.
Bartlett, Emma, 150.
Bartlett, Mary E., 151.

388

THE PLATT LINEAGE.

Barton, ZiUa, 134.
Bascom, Mary L., 254.
Beach, Louisa, 37.
Beach, Sarah P., 19.
Beckley, Levia, 287, 357.
Bedell, Angelina, 70.
Beers, EsteUe, 70.
Beers, Leander, 89.
BendaU, Flora, 195.
Benedict, Eebecca, 24.
Benham, Charlotte, 208.
Bennett, MoUy, 267.
Bergan, Catharine, 51.
Bishop, Harrison, 149.
Bissell, Florence W., 33.
Blackwell, Cornelia, 123.
Blakesley, Albert I., 68.
Bleeker, Sarah, 105.
Bliss, Justin A., 44.
Blydenburg, Mary, 137.
Boardman, Mr., 90.
Bockee, Jacob, 49.
Bogardus, C, 38.
Bowen, Frank, 121.
Bowne, Harriet, 150.
Bowne, Elizabeth, 149.
Boyd, Bayard, 119, 120.

Brace, Sarah, 212.
Brainard, EUen, 187.
Braithwaite, Chas., 68.
Breese, Sarah, 127.
Brewster, Harriet, 135.
Brinkerhoff, Abraham,
103.
Bristol, H. Augusta, 88.
Bristol, Nancy, 111.
Broome, Saml., 55.
Brower, Mary L., 110.
Brown, Isidora E., 128.
Brown, Virginia, 76. ,.
Bryan, Eichard, 64.
Buckingham,' Abigail
65.
Buckingham, C. L., 179.
Buckingham, Ester, 63.
Bull, Ann, 169.
Burr, Benjamin, 88.
Burritt, E. J., 86.
Burwell, Amy, 225.
Burwell, Samuel, 20.
Butler, Mrs. J. Holmes,
124.
Butler, AUce, 124.
Byron, Helen T., 290.

Cadwallader, Macre A.,
128.
OadweU, Ellen, 76.

Cady, Cyrus, 106.
Cady, Heman, 101.
Cady, Sarah J., 106.

INDEX OF PLATT NAMES.

389

Camp, Helen Irene W. ,
186.
Camp, Mary, 70.
Campbell, James, 103,
106.
Canby, Clara G, 243.
Canfield, Elvira, 44.
Canfield, Sarah, 63.
Carpenter, 91, 362.
Carpenter, S. M., 91, 362.
Carpenter, Manette L.,
122.
Casev, Harriet, 228.
Chaffee, Eliza S., 144.
Chamberlain, C, 44.
Chapman, James, 149.
Chichester, Nathaniel, 36.
Christian, Lavinia, 175.
Church, Pamelia F., 87.
Clark, Hannah, 23, 179.

Dagget, Nathaniel, 106.
Dakin, Sarah, 71.
Dart, Julia E., 87.
Darwin, Mary A., 225.
Davis, Anua, 38, 57.
Davis, Hannah, 101.
Dayton, Asenath, 87, 208.
Dibble, Mary Ann, 141.
Dibble, Mr.  , 192.
Dickerman, Charlotte, 66.

Clark, Jane Elmira, 71.
Clark, Joseph, 64.
Clark, Mehetable, 64.
Cliff, Wells, 113.
Colburn, Mary Eveline,
288.
Coles, Mary, 33.
CoUins, L. C, 91.
Comstock, Christopher,
20.
Comstock, Peter, 101.
Cook, AUen, 148, 170.
Cowles, Frances, 38.
Cox, Wm. H., 77.
Coxhead, Phebe, 226.
Craw, Alanson, 69.
Crosby, Sarah, 133.
Curtis, Hannah, 69.
Cuthbert, Cornelia, 71.
Cutter, Bloodgood H., 50.
D DieU, Eev. John, 112.
Doremus, Mrs. T. C, 55.
Driver, Marietta N., 76.
Drury, Ida F., 284.
Du Bois, Cornelius, 55.
Duryea, John, 36.
Dusenberry, Isaac, 83.
Dusenberry, Jenny, 34.
Dutton, M. 0.,37."
Dwight, Caroline, 264,

390

THE PLATT LINEAGE.

Earl, OUve,86.
Edwards, Paulina, 82.
Elmon, Charlotte, 101.

Elseffer, Katherine, 143.
Eyre, Martha, 129.

Fairchild, Henry, 88.
Feltham, Julia H., 175.
Fenn, Mehetable, 75.
Ferris, Hannah, 212.
Fields, J. C, 88.
Fisk, Mehetable, 64.
Fitch, Wm., 121.
Fleet, Stephen, 36.
FUnt, M. B., 49.
Floyd, Eliza, 127.
Floyd, Mrs. Nichol, 55.
Gaines, Elias, 56, 59.
Gantz, Eliza, 37, 38.
Gaylord, Lucy, 136.
Gerard, Urania M., 39.
Gerhard, Maria, 245.
Gibson, Clara, 294.
Gilbert, Sarah M., 212.
GUlett, Jeremiah, 64.
Oilman, Sarah, 124.
Haines, Elias, 56, 59.
Hall, Abigail, 95.
Hall, Parmelia, 35.

Foote, Dr. Lyman, 111.
Ford, Jennie M., 68.
Fowler, Jonathan, 64.
Fowler, Charles, 89.
Fowler, Dr. Samuel, 59.
Fox, Wm. B., 37.
Freligh, EUzabeth, 104.
Frost, Lucy, 170.
FuUer, W. H., 69.
Fuller, Wm. A., 105.
FuUerton, Fanny, 213.
G Goldthwait, H. M., 39.
Graham, Charlotte, 113.
Grant, AbigaU G., 224.
Grant, Pamela, 112.
Graves, Miss, 135.
Green, Hannah, 76.
Green, Thomas, 101.
Griggs, Fanny, 135.
Grinzeback, Ella, 34.
H HaU, Volutia, 67.
Halsey, Maria P., 111.
Halsey, Eev. Frederic, 111.

INDEX OF PLATT NAMES.

391

Halsey, Eev. Theodosic,
108.
Hammond, Mary, 106.
Hand, Almira A., 71.
Hand, Hulda, 39.
Handinson, Julia, 57.
Hanford, Hannah, 24.
Hardesty, G. C, 87.
Harrison, Frances, 69.
Hart, Bertha L., 187, 249.
Hatfield, Phebe, 59.
Hastings, Emily, 213.
Havens, Sarah, 275.
Haviland, Emma, 51.
Hawley, Elizabeth, 83, 90.
Hawley, Patty, 67.
Hawthorne, Anne A., 87.
Hay, Elizabeth, 202.
Hayes, Fanny A., 212.
Hedges, Miss, 48.
Hemingway, Harriet, 88.
Herrick, Nancy, 134, 136.
Hewitt, Charlotte, 203.
Hewlett, Charles, 50.
Hill, Hannah, 274.
HUl, Polly, 253.

Hinsdale, Martha, 219.
Hinsdale, Sarah, 38.
Hitchcock, Almyra, 169.
Holmes, Medora C, 180.
Hopkins, Emily M., 283.
Hopkins, Dorcas, 135.
House, Abigail, 135.
House, Sam'l E., M. D.,
136.
Howlett, Adel, 288.
Hoyt, Phebe, 137.
HubbeU, Mary E., 110.
Huddleston, Fleming, 82.
Hull, David, 69.
Hull, Denny, 84.
Hull, Mary, 19, 51.
Hull, Nathaniel, 85.
Huntington, Channing
M., 359.
Huntington, Helen B.,
290.
Hulme, Jeanette, 214.
Hurlbut, Eebecca, 181.
Husted, Phebe, 137.
Hutchings, Carrie L., 90.

I

Ingraham, -Ella E., 67.
Irwin, Elizabeth, 243.
Isbell, WeUs, 121.

Israel, Jennie, 91.
Ives, Jerusha, 68, 169.

392

THE PLATT LINEAGE.

Jackson, Col. Joseph, 59.
Jackson, Mary L., 102,
244.
Jacobs, Mary, 88.
Jenkins, Catherine S.,
283.
Jenkins, Cornelia, 122.
Johnson, Charlotte C,
226.
Kellog, Mary, 75, 179.
Kellogg, Samuel, 24.
Kennard, Grace, 201.
Kent, Cornelia G., 103.
Kent, Hannah, 103.
Ketcham, Amos P., 37.
Ketcham, Andrew J., 38.
Ketcham, Esther, 31, 83.
Ketcham, Eebecca, 37.

J Johnson, Eev. John G.,
58.
Johnstou, Eobert, 143.
Johnston, Samuel B., 38.
Jones, Elizabeth L., 106.
Jones, Kate Judd, 282.
Jones, Walter E. J., 109.
Judd, Asahel, 70.
K Keyes, Sarah, 105.
King, Sarah Jane, 187.
Kirk, Harriet E., 37.
Kirtland, EUza, 185.
Kissam, Benj. Treadwell,
49.
Kissam, Daniel, 49.
Knowles, Abigail Ha»-t,
143.

Lane, Hannah, 273.
Lansing, Eichard E., 120.
Lansing, Susannah, 120.
Larned, Judge Sylvester,
121.
Lawrence, Maria, 103.
Leach, Dr. L. E., 88.
Lee, Thankful F., 180.
Leonard, Eathaum, 245.

Lewis, Abigail, 56.
Lewis, Jennie V., 136.
Lewis, Jerusha, 168.
Livingston, Helen, 117.
Lockwood, Sarah, 23.
Logan, Helen M., 170.
LoriUard, Eliza M., 109.
LoveU, Ella M., 256.
Luce, Maria, 212.

INDEX OF PLATT NAMES.

393

M

Mac Eae, Mrs. Dr., 91.
Man, Albon, M. D., 108.
Man, Alrick H., 110.
Man, Josiah, 50.
ManvUle, EUzabeth, 70.
MarceUis,CorneUaM.,287.Marks, Abram, 76.
Marsh, George, 101.
MascaU, Asa, 108.
Matthews, Sarah, 35.
McChesney, Maria, 35.
McClure, Anna, 57.
McCuUoch, -Hon. Hugh,
110.
McDaniels, J. C, 82.
McDonald, Hannah S.,
90.
McElroy, Jane, 137.
McKeever, Edwin, 121.
McKinney, Johu, 121.
McNiel, jane, 106.
Meade, Emily B., 72.
Meade, Indiana, 72.
Merritt, Curtis, 32.
Merritt, Eachel, 195.
Merwin, Elizabeth, 24.
Merwin, Grace, 224.
Merwin, Jared, 76.
Merwin, Martha, 20.
Merwin, Miles, 19.

Merwin, Nellie, 76.
Mifford, Harriet, 214.
MUes, Stephen, 64.
MUler, EUas A., 90.
Miller, Eliezer, 111.
MUler, EUza H, 106, 111.
Miller, Lucretia, 104.
Millspaugh, Emily M.,
283.
Mirick, Lydia, 86.
MitcheU, Laura, 213.
Moller, Mrs. Peter, 38.
Montague, Mary, 71.
Morehouse, Charity, 25.
Morey, Sarah M., 124.
Morgan, Charlotte, 106.
Morgan, John, 106.
Morgan, Mary, 201.
Morris, Charles D., 35.
Mortimer, Mr., 32.
Mott, EUzabeth, 49.
Mount, Lydia, 106.
Movers, Benjamin, 104,
108.
Munger, Parmelia E.,
156.
Munson, Judge David,
34, 83.
Myers, Joseph M., 104.
Myers, Michel P., 104.

394

THE PLATT LINEAGE.

Nase, Maria, 112.
Nash, Gracia M., 227.
Nettleton,  , 64, 187.
Nichols, Annie, 82, 161.
Nichols, Marietta, 105.

Ogden, Eobert, 55, 59.
Onderdouk, Hendrick,
45.
Orton, Caroline, 186.
Osborne, Horace, 69.

N Nichols, Eev. T. McB.,
121.
Nichols, Eev. Thomas, 121.
Norvell, Forrest, 121.
o Osborn, Margaret, 185.
Osborn, Maria H., 181.
Oviatt, Sarah, 71.
Owen, Mrs. T. J., 38.

Palmer, Deborah, 193.
Pardee, Ario, 134.
Pardee, Elizabeth, 136.
Parker, John F;, 37.
Parker, Wm. N. P., 121.
Parmele, Helen Platt,
123.
Parmele, Mary, 123.
Parsons, Mary M., 294.
Patterson, Dr. J. D., 89.
Peck, Julia M., Julia M.,
207.
Peltz, Charity, 101.
Pepper, Emily, 244.
Perine, Mary, 180.
Perlee, Harriet, 134.

Peters, Eliza A., 50.
Pettee, Mary Jay, 161.
Phelps, Mary, 156.
Phelps, Susan D., 113.
Phoenix, D., 55.
Pickett, Paulina, 68.
Pierce, Elosia, 163.
Pierrepont, Julia, 136.
Plumber, Jane, 32.
Porter, Phebe, 89.
Post, H. W., 39.
Potter, Margaret Ann,
Prime, James, 19.
Prime, S. Irenseus, 20.
Purdy, Betsey, 88.

39.

INDEX OF PLATT NAMES.

395

Eathbun, Charles, 112.
Eaymond, Ann, 26.
Eaymond, Hannah, 83.
Eeilly, Manette, 121.
Eeynolds, Euth, 134.
Eiddle, Carrie, 110.
Eobert, Adelbert, 87.
Eobertson, Dorcas, 135.
Eodman, Emily L., 40.
Eogers, E. P., D. D., 57.
Eogers, James, 57.
Eogers, Jesse, 36.
Eoshore, Eliza, 32.
Eoss, Eliza, 112.

R Eoss, Jane, 82.
Eoss, Sadie, 110.
Eoyce, Abi, 156, 212.
Eudd, Adeline M., 288.
Eudman, Phebe, 35.
Eudman, Wm., 35.
Eundell, Cynthia, 192.
Eussell, Capt. Samuel, 105.
Eussell, Fanny, 185.
Eussell, Mary C, 163.
Euthren, Marion E., 134.
Eyerson, Judge Thos. C,
59.

Sailley, Julia, 101.
SaUly, Frederick C, 105.
Sanders, Jabez, 25.
Sammis, Content, 36.
Sammis, Jonas, 36.
Sandford, Mary, 64.
Sanford, Elizabeth, 168.
Sanford, Joseph, 64.
Sanford, Lemuel, 82.
Sanford, Sarah, 64.
Saxton, Hannah, 45.
Sayre, EUen, 214.
Schermerhorn,Margy,135.Scherzer, Annie E., 143.
Scudder, Elizabeth, 133.

Smith, John, 69, 103.
Smith, Jonathan, 43.
Smith, Lorilla, 135.
Smith, Margery, 85.
Smith, Mary, 49, 72, 81,
151, 167.
Smith, Miss  , 36.
Smith, Nathaniel, 36.
Smith, Phebe, 31,37,107,
225.
Smith, Euby, 66.
Smith, Capt. Sidney, 108.
Smith, Temperance, 48.
Smith, WUIard, 120.
Snydam, Miss  , 35.

396

THE PLATT LINEAGE.

Scudder, Sarah, 31, 36.
Scudder, Thankful, 82.
SeUers, EUzabeth, 128.
Sherman, Fanny, 67.
Sherman, Jane, 67.
Sherwood, Egbert, 149.
Sherwood, Susan F., 150.
Shover, Elvira A, 138.
Shumway, Mrs. B., 112.
Skinner, E. Augusta, 283.
Skinner, Warren, 37.
Smith, Anna, 45.
Smith, Betsey, 169, 228.
Smith, Dorothy, 107.
Smith, George, 37.
Smith, Hiram, 69.
Smith, Isaac, 49.

TaUcott, Joseph, 150.
Taylor, Hannah, 245.
Taylor, Mary J., 89, 144.
Terrill, Laura, 253.
Thomas, Helen L., 294.
Thomas, Nellie May, 294.
Thompson, Carrie P.,
112.
Thompson, Jovette, 113.
Thurber, EmUy, 109.
Tiffany, Fay, 68.
Titus, Deborah, 31.
Todd, James W-, 34.

Snyder, Kitty, 124.
SoUace, Harriet L., 212.
Solomons, Amelia E.,
238.
Soverhill, James M., 35.
Spencer, Mary, 219.
Staats, Dr. Peter, 105.
Stallkneck, Frederick, 33.
Stebbins, Eev. W. H, 89.
Stetson, Lemuel, 105.
Stofford, Wm. Fred., 44.
Stone, Jane E., 228.
Storrs, Louise Tivers, 202.
Sutherland, Lydia, 135.
Sweetman, Jas. T.,M. D.,
121.
T Tomlinson, Susan, 70.
Tousey, Lucretia, 161.
Tudor, Caroline, 180.
Tuttle, Daniel, 69.
Tuttle, Jennette E., 161.
Tuttle, Mary, 68.
Treadway, Carrie P., 254.
Treadwell, Anne, 111.
Treadwell, Col. Benjamin,
45.
Treadwell, John, 43.
Treadwell, N. H., 111.
Treadwell, Sarah, 49.

INDEX OF PLATT NAMES.

397

Treadwell, Timothy, 43.
Treat, Emma, 77.
Treat, Isaac, 76, 181.
Treat, Sarah, 64.
Underwood, Charlotte,
200.
Underwood, George, 200.

Valentine, James, 50.
Valk, William, 121.
Van Wickle, Mrs. Au
gustus, 137.
Van Wyke, Mary, 101,
127.

Waite, Gen. C. A, 105.
Wakeman, Annie, 83.
Waldrou, Catherine, 134.
Walker, Myron, 88.
Walworth,'Eliza, 102.
Ward, Bertha, 101.
Warner, Larenda, 168.
Watson, Jeanette H., 214.
Watts, Emily, 245.
Webb, George G, 121.
Webb, Mrs. Dr. J. P., 91.
Webster, Mary Walworth,
102.
Wedge, Jerome, 69.

Tripp, Abigail, 192.
Tyler, Edith, 295.
Tyler, Norman, 82.
U Underwood, Geo. Jr., 201.
Underwood, Henry L., 58.
V Van Zandt, Elizabeth,
136.
Verplank, Ann, 148.
Vilas, Mrs. Jos., 91.
Von Skaick, Eliza, 135.
W Weed, Caroline A., 33.
Weed, Harrison, 67.
Weed, Helen L., 123.
WeUs, AUce, 195.
Wescott, James, 104.
West, Mary Jane, 57.
Westor, Marion, 123.
Wetmore, Thomas, 19.
Whaley, Edwin, 89.
Whaley, Lucy, 89.
Wheeler, Ethal, 89.
Wheeler, Mary S., 171.
Whitlock, Hezekiah, 85.
Whitman, EUzabeth, 64.

398

THE PL.ATT LINEAGE.

Wichman, Mary I., 238.
Wiggins, Benjamin, 50.
Wiley, Sarah E., 33.
Willard, Cornelia, 123.
Willard, Sarah D., 294.
Williams, Joseph, 50.
WiUiams, Peter, 84.
Williamson, Eev. Geo. E.
58.
Wines, Eliza A.., 37.
Winters, Charlotte. 295.
Withington, Isaac C, 33.
Wolcott, Lois, 219.

Yale, J. B., 110.
Younglove, Ira, 288.

Wood, Dency, 32.
Wood, Elizabeth, 31, 167.
Wood, Phebe, 43.
Wood, Eebecca, 55.
Woodbury, Elizabeth, 75.
Woodward, J. Douglas,
106.
, WooUey, Benjamin, 51.
WooUey, John, 50.
WooUey, Hannah, 50, 306.
Woolsey, Catharine A-,
128.
Wright, Fanny, 255.
Y Younglove, Mary E., 289.

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