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Samuel Platts

Also Known As: "Samuel Platts", "Samuel Gawkroger Platts", "Samuell Gawekroyer", "Samuel Gawkrogers Or Platts", "Samuel Platts Gawkroger"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Halifax Parish, Sowerby, Yorkshire, England
Death: April 09, 1690 (73)
Rowley, Essex County , Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
Place of Burial: Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of James Gawkroger alias Platts and Martha Gawkroger
Husband of Sarah Platts and Philippa Nelson
Father of Jonathan Platts, of Rowley; Samuel Platts; Lt. Abel Platts; Elizabeth Brocklebank; Sarah Bradstreet and 3 others
Brother of John Platts Gawkroger; Anna Gawkroger; Lydia Gawkroger; James Platts Gawkroger; Abraham Gawkroger and 9 others

Managed by: Scott Christopher Swingle
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About Samuel Platts

Samuel Platts was born on January 19, 1617. He married Sarah Bates in 1647. They had five children in 13 years. His next wife was Philippa Andrews, widow of George Felt. We find no death or probate records, but his death was between 1682 - 1690 at Rowley Essex MA.



Platt family

1.SAMUEL. He and his wife Sarah arrived in Rowley about 1653. Appeared in Rowley Mass abt 1654 with his younger cousin Jonathan Platts, possibly a few years earlier. [Holman p 425]

The Rowley Historical Society now owns the house he lived in on Main Street, the Platts-Bradstreet House, where he and his second wife lived. They had purchased it from Joseph Jewett. "One dwelling house and 7 3/4 acres of plowland lying of joining to the above said dwelling house". Ipswich Deeds, a small portion of this land was part of the lot laid out to William Bellingham.

Md.1st. Sarah ____ b.1647 in Rowley, Ma. d. April 10, 1681

Children of that marriage:

  1. Samuel - 1648,
  2. Elizabeth,
  3. Sarah - 8-16-1654,
  4. James - 4-11-1661,
  5. Abel -,

Md. 3rd. Phillipa Felt on December 19, 1682.

  1. Mary - 6-29-1684,

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Samuel Platts's Timeline

1617
January 10, 1617
Halifax Parish, Sowerby, Yorkshire, England
January 10, 1617
Halifax Parish, Sowerby, Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
January 10, 1617
.,Sowerby,Yorkshire,England
January 10, 1617
Sowerby, Halifax, York, Eng
January 10, 1617
.,Sowerby,Yorkshire,England
January 10, 1617
Halifax, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
January 19, 1617
Sowerby, Halifax, York (West), England
January 19, 1617
Halifax, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
January 19, 1617
Sowerby, Halifax, York (West), England
January 19, 1617
Sowerby, Yorks, Eng