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From: James Barker <>
Subject: Re: PLATT family
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 16:41:31 -0400


At 07:41 01/07/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Has anyone run across a PLATT family in their
>research? We do not have this maternal line
>back any further than mid 1800's U.S.A., and
>do not knowt the time of immigration.
>
>We do know is that in the old days....meaning
>early medieval times.... the PLATT ancestoral
>home was considered to be int the region of
>Lorraine, there was a coat of arms and and they
>were reputed to be horse thieves!
>
>As it might be imagined we would like to know
>more about that family line in general than that!
>One imagines that in the enturies since the family
>avocation may have taken other paths. Surely it
>couldn't be OUR branch that were horse thieve (smile)!
>
>We are not sure whether our PLATT immigrant
>ancestors came from Germany or England. To
>know anything about the family line in general
>would be of great interest.
>
>Ordinarily I work on paternal lines, since
>no one else in three generations of extend
>family does. I have a maternal cousin though,
>who researches our maternal line. I do periodically,
>to augment her work.
>
>Some of my reason for currently inquirng is
>to learn anything at all, which could motivate
>her to get herself on line....especially for
>genealogy purposes. She is working on
>it, but have not as yet seen evidence that she
>IS online!
>
>Mary
Mary:
Two Platt cousins settled in Rowley MA, Jonathan before 21 April 1653,
when his name appears in Rowley Records, and his cousin Samuel
who came to Rowley about 1653. Samuel's homestead is now the beautifully
panelled old "Platts / Bradstreet Hpuse" home of the Rowley Historical Society
and can be seen by visitors.

See "Early Settlers of Rowley Massachussetts" G.B Blodgette & Amos E. Jewett,
New England History Press, 1933, Republished 1981, pp.305-307 show
picyures of house and genealogical notes to ca. 1745.

Good luck!

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