Seems this note would be most useful to the person who originally made the query. Yours, Dora --- "Richard N. Platt, Jr." <r.platt@snet.net> wrote: > From Richard N. Platt, Jr. Wed Jul 5 09:47:40 > 2000 > X-Apparently-To: tiggernut_48@yahoo.com via > web3202.mail.yahoo.com > Received: from smtp.snet.net (204.60.6.55) > by mta118.mail.yahoo.com with SMTP; 05 Jul > 2000 14:26:20 -0700 (PDT) > Received: from snet.net (179.5.252.64.snet.net > [64.252.5.179]) > by smtp.snet.net > (8.9.3/8.9.3/SNET-bmx-1.3/D-1.7/O-1.6) with > ESMTP id MAA24364 > for <tiggernut_48@yahoo.com>; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 > 12:46:02 -0400 (EDT) > Message-ID: <396366AA.84FA9D89@snet.net> > Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 12:47:40 -0400 > From: "Richard N. Platt, Jr." > <r.platt@snet.net> > Reply-to: richard.platt.sm.55@aya.yale.edu > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 (Macintosh; I; 68K) > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: tiggernut_48@yahoo.com > Subject: Platt(s) > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; > x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Length: 1296 > > Hello Dora, > > I saw your posting on PADUTCHgenONLY-L. (I get > everything on RootsWeb > that has "Platt" in it.) > > You are partly right. The Gawkrogers of > Yorkshire who came over in the > mid-17th century seem to have changed their > name to Platts (with an "s" > on the end). They settled in Rowley, MA. > > My Richard Platt family (no "s") came from > Hertfordshire in 1637, to New > Haven in 1638, and on to Milford in 1639, where > I still am 11 > generations later. Another family, descended > from Thomas Platt, settled > in Burlington, NJ about 1710. It is not known > where Thomas came from. > There are other Platt families in the South, > some of them German, who > settled in South Carolina and moved west into > Alabama, Mississippi, and > Louisiana. And finally, many Platt families > came over in the 19th > century from Lancashire, many of them Mormons > who settled in Utah. > > Please feel free to forward this to anyone > interested if you like. > > Best wishes, > Dick Platt > ******************************************************************** > Richard N. Platt, Jr. > 132 Platt Lane > Milford, CT 06460-2054 > (203) 878-6094 > r.platt@snet.net > richard.platt.sm.55@aya.yale.edu (permanent > alias) > ******************************************************************** > Blessed are the flexible, for they shall never > be bent out of shape. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail � Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/