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Jonas Platt confusion, can anyone help straighten this out|?

Jonas Platt confusion, can anyone help straighten this out|?

Posted: 8 Oct 2012 12:19AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Platt, Sanford, Mills
I've been trying to track down information on the Jonas' Platt who served in the Revolution and I'm finding conflicting information.

In one source I find Jonas Platt (husband of Elizabeth Sanford) served in Gray's Co of CT Militia AND was taken prisioner during the Danbury Raid.

In another source, the above Jonas was just in Gray's Co and his son, Jonas (husband of Lucy Mills) was the one taken prisioner.

In yet another source, the father is the prisioner and the son is in Gray's Co. In still another source, both events are credited to the son.

Does anyone have any REAL evidence of which was in the militia, which was a prisioner as a result of the Danbury Raid, and if these events only affected one or both of these men?

Re: Jonas Platt confusion, can anyone help straighten this out|?

Posted: 8 Oct 2012 10:20PM GMT
Classification: Query
One possibility is that the wife of the captive petitioned the Town for subsistence support for herself and any minor children. Or she could have returned to where her parents lived (if in a different Town) and might have come to the attention of the Town Meeting there.

Often there is no substitute for thorough in-person examination of local records.

Re: Jonas Platt confusion, can anyone help straighten this out|?

Posted: 8 Oct 2012 10:42PM GMT
Classification: Query
Part of the problem in this is that all published works I am finding have no references for their source of information. ugh! Another part of the problem as far as examining records in person, for me, is that I live in the south :( and I'm no where near CT or NY to go look at records.

I have not happened across any on-line databases as of yet that have helped to sort this out.

A couple other things that have me stumped:
1) one source has that Jonas was in Capt Geo. Gray's Co of militia. The ONLY Capt. Gray I can locate with a Jonas Platt enlisted is a John, not a George.

2) Another source has Jonas served for 3 months time and received a bounty for his time. The record I have for Jonas, being attached to Capt. John Gray's Co states he only served 25 days.

I'm finding it hard to believe both men were this involved when all evidence is beginning to point to just one, but I'm not ruling out they both served in some way.
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