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Papers, 1745-1846; bulk, 1785-1800
Author
Platt, Zephaniah, 1735-1807.
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2
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Papers, 1745-1846; bulk, 1785-1800
Platt, Zephaniah, 1735-1807.
Control Number:
(OCoLC)122434379
Local call number:
SC9828
Author:
Platt, Zephaniah, 1735-1807.
Title:
Papers, 1745-1846; bulk, 1785-1800.
Quantity:
2 boxes (0.25 cubic ft.)
Quantity:
survey maps 7 maps : manuscript ; 54 x 46 cm or smaller.
Arrangement:
Organized into four series : I. Family correspondence, 1785-1800. II. Correspondence, 1784-1846. III. Financial and legal, 1745-1832. IV. Land papers, 1750-1794.
Historical/biog note:
Zephaniah Platt (1735-1807) was born in Huntington, New York where the first five of his fourteen children were born. He married Mary Hannah Davis and Mary Van Wyck. Platt removed to Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York and served as a lawyer, judge, member of the New York Provincial Congress, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and as a New York State Senator. Zephaniah Platt, with 32 others, was granted a patent to lands west of Lake Champlain which became Plattsburgh, Clinton County, New York. Platt settled there in 1795 and is buried in Riverside Cemetery.
Review:
The Zephaniah Platt papers are organized into four series. Family correspondence is primarily letters to Zephaniah Platt by his children. Correspondence is concerned chiefly with land matters involving Zephaniah Platt and others, for the most part in Dutchess and Clinton Counties, New York. Family members, military officers, government officials, and proprietors of patents are represented including Egbert Benson, R. Cochran, David Gilston, members of the Livingston family, Simon R. Reeves, Melancton Smith, and Hugh White. There are some letters to family member Reverend Frederick Halsey who founded the First Presbyterian Church of Plattsburgh. Financial and legal items include an account memorandum book of Zephaniah Platt for 1785, business agreements, military certificate and inspection returns for Clinton County, receipts, and estate papers and wills for Gerard W. Beekman (1786), Gisbert Pele [Pelze?] (1755, 1790) and John Platt (1771). Land papers consist of abstracts, agreements (including a list of the original proprietors for Plattsburgh), deeds and maps for lands in Nine Partners Patent, Dutchess County and various patents in Clinton County. There are seven maps including Sadaqueda Patent, 1784, Oneida County, New York; Bell's Tracts, [Clinton County], New York; Township No. 24, [Somerset, Windham County, Vermont?]; Dean's, Beekman's, and Kelly's Patents, Clinton County, New York; and two which are unidentified.
Language:
One of the wills is in Dutch.
Indexes:
Unpublished guide available in repository and online.
Personal subject:
Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833 Correspondence.
Personal subject:
De Witt, Simeon, 1756-1834 Correspondence.
Personal subject:
Livingston family.
Personal subject:
Platt family.
Personal subject:
Smith, Melancton, 1744-1798 Correspondence.
Subject:
Land titles--New York (State)--Plattsburgh.
Subject:
Land titles--New York (State)--Clinton County.
Subject:
Land titles--New York (State)--Dutchess County.
Subject:
Wills--New York (State)
Geographic terms:
Oneida County (N.Y.) Maps.
Geographic terms:
Clinton County (N.Y.)--Militia.
Geographic terms:
Clinton County (N.Y.) Maps.
Form/genre terms:
Cadastral maps. aat
Form/genre terms:
Field notes. aat
Form/genre terms:
Letters (correspondence) aat
Personal author:
Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833.
Personal author:
De Witt, Simeon, 1756-1834.
Personal author:
Halsey, Frederick, 1731-1838.
Personal author:
Smith, Melancton, 1744-1798.
Personal author:
White, Hugh, active 1785.
Electronic access:
Finding aid: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc9828.htm
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