1749 John Platt was born in the 8th month, 1749. [1] [2] John Platt, son of Thomas Platt and Sarah Dennis was born on 13 August, 1749. [3] [4]
1758 Alice Stevenson, daughter of William Stevenson [and future wife of John Platt], was born on 11 of month 5. [5] [6]
1784 John Platt, son of Thomas Platt, and Alice Stevenson, daughter of William Stevenson, were married on September 23, at Upper Freehold, Monmouth County. Witnessed by Sarah Wardell, and many others. [7]
1784 John Platt was received into membership of the Upper Springfield meeting. Dated July 4. [8]
1784 John Platt, son of Thomas Platt, married Alice Bunting Stevenson on 23 day, 9 month (September 23) at Upper Freehold Twp, Monmouth County, New Jersey. [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
John and Alice Platt and 5 children were named as member of the Upper Springfield meeting. They moved to Delaware. [16]
1787 Charles Jones and Mary Ivins, daughter of Samuel Ivins, deceased, of Chesterfield, Burlington County, were married on November 2, at Upper Freehold, Monmouth County. Witnessed by John and Alice Platt, and many others. [17]
1800 John Platt requested a certificate of removal fo himself, Alice his wife and their four minor children, Elizabeth L, William, Mary & George to the monthly meeting of Wilmington in Delaware State. Dated 7 of month 8, at the monthly meeting held at Upper Springfield, New Jersey. [18]
1800 In October, niece Eliza Baker visited, with this description [19]:
At my Uncle's I spent two or three weeks, delighted with their local situation. Separated from the pleasant town of Wilmington only by Christiana Creek, we mixed with the Society of that place. I viewed with infinite pleasure the romantic scenes of Brandywine and visited New Castle.
1808 John Platt married second, Mary Conrow, in September. [20]
1823 John Platt died in December in Wilmington, Delaware [21]. He died on 31 December [22].
1828 Charity Platt bequeathed $300 to the children of her deceased brother John Platt, in her will in New Hanover Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. Dated May 22. [23]
Research Notes:
The children of John Platt and wife Alice Stevenson Platt were named in the Upper Springfield monthly meeting list of births and deaths. [24] [25]
1808 William and Mary Platt, children of John Platt, late of Burlington County, but now of New Castle in the state of Delaware, petitioned that John Platt, their father be appointed guardian of their personal estates, since they were possessed of personal estates in need of due care. Dated May 4. [26]
1816 George Platt, likely the son of this couple, was received on certificate from the Wilmington monthly meeting at the Falls, Pennsylvania meeting. [27]
John Platt married Mary Conrow. [28]
A biosketch of a descendant reports [29]:
Of William Pepper's ancestry on the maternal side it is known that Thomas Platt was living in Burlington County New Jersey from 1712 to 1722 and that several of his children were baptized in St Mary's Protestant Episcopal Church at Burlington. It has been thought that he was descended from Richard Platt who settled in Connecticut in 1638. On November 1, 1739, Thomas Platt married Sarah Dennis in Monmouth County, New Jersey. He died in 1768 at the age of fifty three. His wife survived him thirty six years. Their son John was born in New Hanover township Burlington County near the hamlet of Plattsburg. In 1777 he received a commission in the Delaware regiment of foot in the Continental establishment under Colonel Hall and served throughout the Revolutionary War. He was one of the original members of the Delaware branch of the Society of the Cincinnati. He was married at the Upper Springfield meeting house in Burlington County to Alice Stevenson daughter of William Stevenson of Upper Freehold Township, Monmouth County. He died on his estate Chatham, near Wilmington Delaware, September 23, 1784. She died July 4, 1806. As she was a Friend and a member of the Wilmington meeting and as her death appears upon their records, it is supposed that she was buried in their burial ground at Wilmington. Their son William Platt, born in 1790, married Maria Taylor March 27, 1816. Their second daughter and third child Sarah Platt married William Pepper June 9 1840. She died March 22, 1895.
[1] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, Upper Springfield Monthly Meeting 541, Members (1783-), births and deaths (1717-1833), 37, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 3 (1995), 22.
[3] Franklin Platt, Notes upon the ancestry of John Platt: born in Burlington County, N.J., Aug. 13, 1749; died near Wilmington, Del., Dec. 1823 (1896), 8, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive], [FamilySearch].
[4] Charles Platt Jr, Thomas Platt of Burlington, New Jersey and his Descendants (Peterborough: Richard R Smith Co, 1967), 91.
[5] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, Upper Springfield Monthly Meeting 541, Members (1783-), births and deaths (1717-1833), 37, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[6] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 3 (1995), 22.
[7] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Records of Marriage Certificates from Upper Springfield Meeting, commencing 1783, 6, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[8] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 3 (1995), 48.
[9] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, [AncestryRecord].
[10] John R. Stevenson, "Thomas Stevenson of London, England, and his Descendants in New Jersey," The Jerseyman 6 (1900), 1-4, 9-14, 25-33, at 3, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks].
[11] Franklin Platt, Notes upon the ancestry of John Platt: born in Burlington County, N.J., Aug. 13, 1749; died near Wilmington, Del., Dec. 1823 (1896), 8, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive], [FamilySearch].
[12] George Lewis Platt, The Platt Lineage (New York, NY: Thomas Whittaker, 1891), 243, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[13] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 3 (1995), 42.
[14] Charles Platt Jr, Thomas Platt of Burlington, New Jersey and his Descendants (Peterborough: Richard R Smith Co, 1967), 91, 55-56.
[15] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, [AncestryRecord].
[16] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, Upper Springfield Monthly Meeting 541, Members (1783-), births and deaths (1717-1833), 37, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[17] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Records of Marriage Certificates from Upper Springfield Meeting, commencing 1783, 15, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[18] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Upper Springfield Monthly Meeting Minutes, 1802-1821, 309, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[19] Kate Stuart Lowry, Letters of Looe and Eliza Baker from 1801 to 1821, (1924), 9.
[20] Charles Platt Jr, Thomas Platt of Burlington, New Jersey and his Descendants (Peterborough: Richard R Smith Co, 1967), 51.
[21] Charles Platt Jr, Thomas Platt of Burlington, New Jersey and his Descendants (Peterborough: Richard R Smith Co, 1967), 91.
[22] Francis Newton Thorpe, William Pepper, M. D., LL. D. (1843-1898): provost of the University of Pennsylvania (1904), 23.
[23] New Jersey Probate Records, 1678-1980, Burlington, Will D-26, FHL film 832920, [FamilySearchImage].
[24] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (1994), 22.
[25] George Lewis Platt, The Platt Lineage (New York, NY: Thomas Whittaker, 1891), 243, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[26] Burlington County New Jersey Miscellaneous Probate Papers, book P, image 518, of images 517-518, [FamilySearchImage].
[27] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 623, [HathiTrust].
[28] Franklin Platt, Notes upon the ancestry of John Platt: born in Burlington County, N.J., Aug. 13, 1749; died near Wilmington, Del., Dec. 1823 (1896), 8, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive], [FamilySearch].
[29] Francis Newton Thorpe, William Pepper, M. D., LL. D. (1843-1898): provost of the University of Pennsylvania (1904), 23.