1743 Jacob Platt, son of Thomas Platt and Sarah Dennis, was born on 20 March, 1743. [1] [2]
1770 Jacob Platt was listed as a householder in New Hanover Twp, Burlington County. [3]
1774 Jacob Platt was taxed in New Hanover Twp, Burlington County. [4]
1776 Jacob Platt settled in Wrightstown, New Hanover Twp, Burlington County, about 1776 and was a wheelwright and had children John, Mary, Nathaniel, and Ann. [5] [6]
1780 Jacob Platt was listed as a householder in New Hanover Twp, Burlington County. [7]
1787 Jacob Platt was taxed in Burlington County. [8]
1797 Jacob Platt witnessed the will of Joseph Gaskill of New Hanover Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey.
1800 Jacob Platt had opened a wheelwright shop in Wrightstown, Burlington County, New Jersey. [9]
1800 Jacob Platt was listed in New Hanover Twp, Burlington County. [10] [11]
1810 Jacob Platt was listed in New Hanover Twp, Burlington County. [12]
1816 The will of Jacob Platt, dated June 6 in New Hanover Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey named wife Lettice and 7 children and daughters' husbands. [13] [14] [15]
Jacob Platt was buried at Wrightstown, New Jersey. [16]
1828 On May 22, Charity Platt named the children of her deceased brother Thomas Platt, in her will in New Hanover Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. [17]
1830 Abner Platt lived in Millville, Cumberland County, New Jersey in a household with males: 1 (under 5), 1 (5 thru 9), and 1 (40 thru 49); and females: 1 (under 5), 2 (5 thru 9), 1 (10 thru 14), 1 (15 thru 19), and 1 (30 thru 39). [18]
1840 Abner Platt lived in Millville, Cape May County, New Jersey in a household with males: 1 (under 5), 1 (10 thru 14), 2 (15 thru 19), 1 (20 thru 29), and 1 (50 thru 59); and females: 2 (under 5), 1 (10 thru 14), 2 (20 thru 29), and 1 (40 thru 49). [19]
1850 Son Abner Platt died in April in Cape May County, New Jersey. [20]
Research Notes:
DNA [21]
[1] 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].
[2] Charles Platt Jr, Thomas Platt of Burlington, New Jersey and his Descendants (Peterborough: Richard R Smith Co, 1967), 47.
[3] U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820, [AncestryRecord].
[4] New Jersey, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1643-1890, [AncestryRecord].
[5] Major E. M. Woodward and John Hageman, History of Burlington and Mercer Counties, New Jersey (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1883), 380, left column, [HathiTrust].
[6] George Lewis Platt, The Platt Lineage (New York, NY: Thomas Whittaker, 1891), 249, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[7] U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820, [AncestryRecord].
[8] New Jersey, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1643-1890, [AncestryRecord].
[9] Burlington County inventory and survey of historic, architectural, and cultural resources, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[10] U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820, [AncestryRecord].
[11] U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820, [AncestryRecord].
[12] U.S. Census Reconstructed Records, 1660-1820, [AncestryRecord].
[13] New Jersey, Wills and Probate Records, 1656-1999, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[14] New Jersey Archives, Volume 42, page 334, [GoogleBooks].
[15] New Jersey, U.S., Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817, Vol.36, [AncestryRecord].
[16] 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].
[17] New Jersey Probate Records, 1678-1980, Burlington, Will D-26, [FamilySearchImage].
[18] United States Federal Census, 1830, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[19] United States Federal Census, 1840, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[20] U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1885, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[21] The family tree of a person who has a DNA match to Robert suggests a lineage to this sibling of Robert's ancestor. The lineage is through a descendant shown on our website, [Link].