Marye (Wood) Platt (abt. 1605 - abt. 1675)

Born about 10 Nov 1605 in Roydon, Essex, England

Wife of Richard Platt — married 26 Jan 1629 in Roydon, Essex, England

Descendants

Died about 24 Jan 1675 at about age 69 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut

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Biography

Baptism & Parents

Marye Wood, daughter of John [& Jane Wood] of Roydon, Essex, England, was baptized on 10 November 1605 in Roydon.^[1][2][3] No mother is actually mentioned in the parish register.

Marriage

Mary Wood married Richard Platt, 26 Jan 1629, at Roydon, Essex, England^[1][3][4]

Immigration

Mary and Richard Platt came to New England by 1639.^[5]

The family was early in New Haven, where Richard was listed with four heads and an estate of £200.^[6]

We know they moved on from New Haven with the Milford settlers. Mary, wife of Richard Platt, was admitted to the church in Milford, Connecticut, on 15 Aug 1641. Richard, even earlier, was admitted 29 Jan [1640].^[7]

Mary predeceased her husband; the exact date of her death is unknown, but Milford Church records show that she was buried there on 24 March 1675/1676.^[7][1][3][8]

The Find A Grave memorial for Mary shows the memorial stone placed on the Founders Bridge in Milford, which says "Dea Richard Platt obit 1684 Mary His Wife"^[9]

Children four younger recorded in Milford.^[1][10]

1. Mary bpt. Roydon 11 Nov 1629; m. (1) Luke Atkinson; m. (2) Thomas Whitmore
2. John bpt Ware 11 Jan 1631/2 m. Hannah Clark d/o George "farmer"
3. Isaac bpt @ae 10 Apr 1633; m. Elizabeth Wood
4. Samuel bpt Ware 9 Dec 1634; died young
5. Sarah bpt 11 Sept 1636, Ware; m. (1) Thomas Beach and (2) Miles Merwin
6. Epenetus bpt 2 July 1640; m. Phebe Wood
7. Hannah bpt 1 Oct 1643; m. Christopher Comstock
8. Josiah bpy Nov 1645; m. Sarah Canfield
9. Joseph bpt 1 Apr 1649; m. Mary Kellogg

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Coddington, John Insley. Richard Platt of Ware County, Hertford, Eng. and Milford, Conn (1955) Published in The American Genealogist 31:155-70 link Archive
2. ↑ Essex Record Office; Chelmsford, Essex, England; Essex Church of England Parish Registers. Essex County Council, Chelmsford, Essex, England. Online as: Essex, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2019.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Abbot, Susan Woodruff. Families of Early Milford, Connecticut. Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc Baltimore 1979 p. 547 $
4. ↑ Essex Record Office; Chelmsford, Essex, England; Essex Church of England Parish Registers., Essex County Council, Chelmsford, Essex, England. Online as: Essex, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2019.
5. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. Great Migration Directory (The). Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640. A Concise Compendium. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.) p. 267.
6. ↑ Hoadly, Charles J, MA. (editor) Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, From 1638 to 1649.] (Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Company, 1857.) p. 92
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Connecticut Church Records Index. Milford, First Congregational Church 1639-1926. Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut, 1950. p. 285 Richard p. 287 Accessed at Ancestry ($)
8. ↑ The often seen date of 24 Jan 1675/6 is an error, that may have been started in Savage's Genealogical Dictionary.
9. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 14 November 2019), memorial page for Mary Wood Platt (10 Nov 1605–24 Jan 1675), Find A Grave: Memorial #38653402, citing Founders Cemetery Memorial Site, Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA ; Maintained by B Freed (contributor 46973449).
10. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines. History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield (Originally published in Fairfield, Connecitut 1930 - 1932), Library of Congress 76-3279; ISBN Set # 0-8063-0719-6; Volume I: 0-8063-1297-1, Reprinted Two Volumes in Three with corrections by Geanalogical Publishing Co in 1976, 1991. p. 483. Note this shows a burial date for Mary in Jan instead of March

See also:

• Mackenzie, George Norbury, and Nelson Osgood Rhoades, editors. Colonial Families of the United States of America: in Which is Given the History, Genealogy and Armorial Bearings of Colonial Families Who Settled in the American Colonies From the Time of the Settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775. 7 volumes. 1912. Reprinted, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1966, 1995. ONline at Ancestry. p. 404
• Johnson, Ezra Levan. Newtown's History and Historian, Ezra Levan Johnson (Newtown, Conn., 1917) "Descendants of Some of Newtown's Earliest Settlers", Page 121