DNA Project on ROLLO ....

So there is a company Explico, that is trying to do a DNA project on Rollo to discover which of the two stories (Denmark's & Norway's) is true ....

The latest news is .....

- In Normandy, in our search for famous historical figures, closed in the lead on the patriach of William the Conqueror, the great Viking giant Rollo, in order to solve a close to thousand  year old riddle about his origin. To be continued..

Prior to that the announced they were opening his grave ....

November 2012
We are currently planning our goals and projects for 2013. They include DNA collections in the Caucasus mountains, the opening of graves in Normandy (Rollo) and Italy (Hauteville family), and more research done on our projects on the Black Sea shore, the Easter Island, the search for the lost Greenland Vikings and their settlements in America, and several interesting projects in Spain.

April 2012  
Here is an update on our Rollo project: After a long awaited meeting with the French Cultural Department in Paris, we have received confirmation to go on with the project but we are looking still at some more months of processing.

This project has been going on now for a few years.  It'll be interesting to find out what they discover!

Vikings (the series) on History Channel

The History channel has a series that started this year called VIKINGS ...  finding out more about my Viking heritage, I'm interested.   I managed to get ahold of the first season...    I checked to say if they are replaying any episodes, and I didn't see any.   It has been picked up for a 10 episode Second Season...  The first season had 9 episodes.  

Vikings is a Canadian-Irish historical drama television series, written and created by Michael Hirst for the television channel History.^[1] It premiered on March 3, 2013 in the United States and Canada.

Filmed in Ireland, Vikings is inspired by the tales about the Viking Ragnar Lodbrok, one of the best-known Norse heroes and notorious as the scourge of France and England. It portrays Ragnar as a Viking farmer who pioneers the first daring raids into England with the support of fellow warriors, his brother Rollo, and his wife, the shieldmaiden Lagertha.

On April 5, 2013, History renewed Vikings for a ten-episode second season.^[2]

(wikipedia)

I'm going to watch it and check it out.  When I get the chance....

The House of Normandy

My line is as follows Rollo & Poppa to William I "Long Sword" and Sprota, to Richard I "the Fearless" and Gunnora, to Richard II "the Good" and Judith de Rennes, Robert "the Magnificent" and Herleve Falaise, to William "the Conqueror"  and Matilda Flanders, to his son Henry "Beauclerc" King of England and Matilda, to their daughter Matilda and her husband Geoffrey V Plantagenet, to their son Henry II King of England and his wife Eleanor (whom two of her sisters are in other lines as my whatever Great Grandmothers) ... to their son John "Lackland" King of England and his wife Isabella of Angouleme....  ...  so almost everyone ...

ROLLO OR ROLF THE GANGER (r. 911-925)

The ancestors of William the Conqueror and England's line of Norman kings had Norwegian Viking roots. The founder of the line, Rollo or Rolf the Ganger, was a Viking raider chief, who was born in 850, at Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway, the son of Ragnvald 'the Wise' Eysteinson and his second wife, Hiltrude (Ragnhild) Hrolfsdottir.

Rolf was granted the region of Normandy by Charles the Simple, King of France, in 911, at the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, in exchange for feudal alliegiance and conversion to Christianity at which he took the baptismal name of Robert. He was baptized in a fountain fed by a spring named in honor of Saint Clair. Rolf took as his second wife Popee, the daughter of the Berengar of Rennes, the previous Lord of Normandy, the marriage produced six children:-

(1) William I 'Longsword' ( 901-0942)

(2) Robert (c. 903-)

(3) Crespina (c. 905-)

(4) Gerlatta (c.907-)

(5) Kathlin (c.909-)

(6) Adela (c.911-962)

Rolf died at Notre Dame at Rouen, Normandy in 925.

WILLIAM LONGWORD (925-942)

William succeeded his father as ruler of Normandy in around 928. He was faced with opposition early in his reign. He was married twice, firstly to Sprota (Adela) of Senlis, a daughter of Hubert, Count of Senlis and Vermandois which produced issue:-

(1) Richard "the Fearless" of Normandy

(2) Raoul D'Ivry

He was married for a second time in 935 to Luitgarda of Vermandois, a niece of his first wife Sprota.

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In 939 William Longsword became involved in a conflict with Arnulf I of Flanders. He was killed on December 17, 942 by Arnulf's supporters in the course of a meeting to discuss the conflict. An anonymous poet wrote the Planctus , lamenting his death.


RICHARD I, THE FEARLESS (r. 942- 996)

Richard, the eldest son of William Longsword was born at Fecamp in France in 933. He was still a young boy when he succeeded as ruler of Normandy on the death of his father in 942. Richard's mother was a Breton concubine bound to William Longsword by a Danish marriage. After William died, Sprota became the wife of Esperleng, a wealthy miller. Normandy was siezed by Louis IV of France and Richard taken into confinement, from which he eventually escaped and regained Normandy. He was responsible for introducing the feudal system into his domains.

He was married firstly in 960 to Emma of Paris (died 962), the daughter of Hugh Capet, King of France, from which marriage there was no issue and secondly to his mistress Gunnor of Crêpon, to legitimate their 8 children:-

The Dukes of Normandy
(1) Richard II "the Good", Duke of Normandy (966)

(2) Robert, Archbishop of Rouen, Count of Evreux, died 1037.

(3) Mauger, Earl of Corbeil, died after 1033

(4) Robert Danus, died c.989

(5)Emma of Normandy (c.985-1052) married(i)Ethelred II of England (ii)King Canute

(6)Maud of Normandy, married Odo II, Count of Blois, Champagne and Chartres

(7)Hawise of Normandy (b. ca. 978), d. 21 February 1034. m. Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany

(8)Beatrice of Normandy

Richard 'the Fearless' died at Fecamp on 20 November, 996 of natural causes.


RICHARD II THE GOOD (r. 966-1027)

Richard II of Normandy was born on 23 August, 963, the eldest son of Richard I and Gunnor de Crepon. He suceedded his father in 966. His reign saw a peasant revolt and major reform of the monasteries. Following an English attack on the Cotentin, Richard attempted to improve Normandy's relations with England through marrying his siter Emma to King Ethelred II of England.

Richard marrried twice, firstly in 996 to Judith (982-1017), daughter of Conan I of Brittany, this marriage produced six children:-

(1) Richard (c. 997), Duke of Normandy

(2) Robert (999), Duke of Normandy

(3) William, a monk d. 1025

(4) Adélaide, m. Renaud I, Count of Burgundy

(5) Eleanor or Judith m. Count Baldwin IV of Flanders

(6) Matilda, d. 1033

He was married secondly to Poppa of Envermeu, by whom he had two sons:-

(1) Mauger, Archbishop of Rouen

(2) William , count of Arques

Richard died on 28 Aug, 1027 of natural causes.


RICHARD III(r.1027)

Richard III was born in 997 and suceeded his father as Duke of Normandy in 1027. He was married to Adela of Contenance (1009-1063) daughter of Robert II of France. The marriage produced two daughters:-

(1) Alice of Normandy

(2) Agnes d'Evreux

After a short reign of only a few months he died in mysterious circumstances, some suspected his brother Robert to be responsible for his death.


ROBERT II THE DEVIL

Robert the Magnificent otherwise known as Robert the Devil was born around the year 1000, the second son of Richard the Good of Normandy and Judith of Brittany. Robert gave aid to both the French King Henry I, and the his English royal relatives of the Saxon House of Wessex. He gave refuge to his cousins Edward (later Edward 'the Confessor') and Alfred, when they where exiled under the Danish Kings of England.

Robert had two children by his mistress Herleva or Arlette, the daughter of Fulbert a tanner of Falaise:-

(1) William the Conqueror (1028-1087)

(2) Adelaide of Normandy (1030-c. 1083),m. (i)Enguerrand II, Count of Ponthieu (ii)Lambert II, Count of Lens (iii)Odo II of Champagne

Although they had a long relationship, the gap in their social standing rendered marriage out of the question and Herleve was married off to one of Robert's vassals, Herluin, a knight. From this marriage, Herleve produced two further sons, Robert, who later became Count of Mortain and Odo, destined to become Bishop of Bayeux

Duke Robert embarked on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem early in 1035 and died at Nicaea on the return journey. Robert II was succeeded by his illegitimate son William, who was to go down in history as William the Conqueror.

William the Conqueror

ROBERT II CURTHOSE (r.1089- 1106)

Robert was the oldest son of William the Conqueror and Matilda of Flanders and was born circa 1051. His nick-name of Curthose, meaning short clothing was apparently acquired when his father teased him as a child for having short legs. Although he rebelled against his father in his lifetime, he succeeded to the Dukedom of Normandy on the Conqueror's death in 1087. England was left to the third son, William Rufus. Robert was married to Sybilla, daughter of Geoffrey of Brindisi, Count of Conversano, by whom he had a son:-

(1) William Clito, Count of Flanders, (born October 25, 1102)

Robert Curthose took part in the First Crusade, to finance his involvement, he pawned Normandy to his brother. On the death of William II in 1100, the English throne was siezed by the youngest of the Conqueror's sons, Henry I, leading Robert to launch an unsuccessful invasion of England to retake the crown. Henry invaded Normandy in 1105, capturing it from his brother. Robert was taken captive at the Battle of Tinchebrai in 1106 and was to spend the rest of his life as Henry's prisoner. Willliam Clito died as a result of wounds acquired at the Siege of Aalst in 1128, marking the end of Robert's line. Robert himself died at Cardiff Castle in 1134 in his eighties.

William Rufus

Henry I

Matilda

Henry II

Richard IV of Normandy, I of England, 'the Lionheart'

John

Source: HERE

Some Viking History

Vikings and Normans

A third German influence on Medieval Europe was the Vikings, and their successors the Normans . Actually, the word "Viking" refers to an occupation, that is slipping up little streams and creeks --viks-- to plunder unsuspecting villages. The people commonly called Vikings were the Norse, a Scandinavian sea faring people from Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. In effect, they were the Germans who stayed behind, as many of the German tribes can be traced back to Sweden and Denmark. The same population pressures that caused the tribes to leave Scandinavia several centuries before the birth of Christ, continued. In the meantime, the Scandinavians perfected their ship building technology and produced a light, swift sailing ship that could also use oars to good effect. This, the Viking long ship, was originally intended for trade. The Vikings were, basically, traders. But they were also fierce warriors and soon noted that many of the places they came upon in Europe were wealthy, and undefended. By the late 8th century, Viking ships came to raid first, and trade if the locals were too well armed. The 8th century was a period when Europe was still getting itself organized after the demise of Roman rule in the 5th century. While Charlemagne might control most of France and Germany, he did not have enough troops available to deal with the Vikings.

Indeed, it's questionable if the Romans would have been able to deal with the Vikings. Interestingly enough, the Romans did have, at times, serious problems with large scale piracy in the Meditteranean. In the 1st century BC, they launched a major military campaign to conquer the areas the pirates were using as bases. The Vikings were fiercer than any of the Meditteranean pirates and their home bases were far to the north in Norway and Denmark. No Roman army or fleet had ever attempted to operate that far north. The Romans did not like the north European Winters and generally did not try to occupy lands so afflicted. We'll never know how the Romans would have dealt with Vikings, but it's an interesting issue to speculate about.

What eventually stopped the Viking raids, in the early 10th century, was the unification of Norway, and the earlier establishment of Viking settlements in the lands that they had previously just plundered during the warm weather. The Vikings set up housekeeping in three main areas, the Normandy region of France, eastern England, and eastern Ireland. The Irish settlements had no impact on later European history, but the English, and particularly the French ones, did.

Britain (Britannia to the Romans) was one of the more thinly populated and distant Roman provinces. Less than a million Celts were romanized over three centuries before the last Roman legion left in the early 5th century The romanized Britons (who still spoke Celtic languages, as well as Latin ) continued to be raided by the Picts and Celts from Scotland and Ireland. Having depended on professional Roman soldiers for centuries, the Britions were unable to deal with these raids and in desperation called in Germans (Saxons, Jutes, and Angles, for the most part) from northwestern Germany and Denmark (areas still known as Saxony and Jutland, the Angles living in the '"angle" between the two) to help them out. This turned out to be a big mistake, because the Germans were so impressed by the place that they went back for their families (and more warriors) and came back to take Britain for their own. In the process, most of Brittania became England (from "Angleland"). The Germans drove out some of Celtic Britons (who fled to places like Cornwall, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and Brittany) and mixed in with the rest to produce the English, who spoke a German dialect that has evolved into modern English. The Germans were pagans, and the Christian Britons had little success in converting them. That would come later when missionaries from Rome arrived. The Jutes, Angles, and Saxons established seven kingdoms and proceeded to quarrel among themselves.

Just as the Germans were settling down in their new British homes, along came the Viking raids, from the late 7th century into the early 10th century. The Vikings soon found the area quite livable and Danish settlers moved into the northeastern areas and began carving out their own kingdom during the 9th century, a matter which greatly eased the Viking pressure on Britain, since the local Vikings objected to having their newfound lands devastated by the occasional visitors from Vikingland. During the 10th century, one king (a German-English fellow) named Alfred the Great (reigned 871-899) united most of England.

The Vikings also found Ireland easy pickings. Ireland, not a very prosperous or densely populated (about 300,000 people) place, received several thousand Viking settlers, who were soon absorbed into the native Celtic population.

While some Vikings were establishing themselves in Britain and Ireland, another group did the same in the coastal region of France, around the mouth of the river Seine. In effect, the Vikings in this region allowed themselves to be bought off by the king of France. These Vikings had quite a bit of leverage. Beginning in 896 they had sailed up the Seine and laid siege to Paris several times and were constantly expanding the area they pillaged. The French kings, even Charlemagne, were unable to stop the plundering. When the French noted the increasing number of Viking settlements along the coast, they feared the worst. But the Vikings were wearying of the raids. French defenses were becoming more effective and Viking losses were increasing. So a deal was struck in 912. The French would recognize the Vikings possession of the land they had already settled (plus a bit more) and make the Viking leader, one Rollo, a French noble. In return, the Viking duke would convert to Christianity, acknowledge the French king as his overlord and, protect France against wilder Vikings. Thus was born Normandy.

The Normans were quick to become French, particularly since they were a minority in their new dutchy and a disproportionate number of the new people were young male Vikings who took local women for wives. After a few generations, the Norwegian language and customs were fading fast and the Normans were French. But they were French with a difference. While their language and other habits may have changed, the Normans were still, like all Vikings, supreme opportunists. Then William, the duke of Normandy in the 1060s, talked his way into a claim on the English throne. The king of Norway was doing the same thing. An English noble, Harold, also thought he had a lock on the crown once the king died. When the king, Edward the Confessor did die, in 1066, Harold defeated the king of Norway's invading army, but was in turn defeated by duke William and his invading Normans.

Meanwhile, for several generations, some footloose Normans had been drifting into Italy. By the time duke William was taking England, other Norman lords were making their own conquests in southern Italy and Sicily, clearing out the Byzantines, Lombards, and Moslems. These Normans established a kingdom which would endure until the mid-19th century, covering southern Italy and called the kingdom of Naples and Sicily. This was done with papal encouragement, as the Normans not only subdued the Lombards and expelled the Greeks and Arabs from Italy, but served as a useful balance against the Italian nobles who had designs on the pope's lands. As with England, the Normans in Italy eventually went native and became Italians.

So it was the Vikings who settled in France who proved the most successful. Nowhere is this better illustrated than the manner in which the Norwegian-French William, duke of Normandy, conquered all of England and established a line of kings and queens that is still on the throne. This feat was carried off little more than a hundred years from the time that the first Viking settlements were established in France. The Vikings who had settled in France, now speaking French and called Normans, had come a long way from thinly populated (200,000 people) and rather poverty stricken Norway. They had carved out a nice piece of property for themselves in northwestern France early in the 10th century, taken England in the mid-11th century, and now they ruled some two million people in England and France, while some of them had gone to Italy in the 1th century and built yet another kingdom (with another million people) in southern Italy and Sicily. Not bad for a bunch of sea raiders.

The Vikings (Norwegians, Danes, and Swedes) had done much with little. Taking a unique boat design (their "long ships") and a lust for travel and combat, they laid waste to large areas of Ireland, England, France, Spain, Germany, and Russia, even raiding Persia and parts of North Africa. The total population of Scandinavia barely reached a million during this period, and only a few percent of these would be off raiding in any one year. Yet in the century or so of their raiding and pillaging, they ended up taking control of vast territories containing millions of people.

The Vikings went in all directions. They discovered Iceland in 860, and began colonizing it in 874. Their descendants are still there. Greenland was discovered in 982, and colonized in 1000. Shortly thereafter, North America was also discovered, but settlements did not last long. While Iceland was supporting some 50,000 people by 1000, Greenland's population never rose above 3,000 and the North American venture never panned out, the few settlers being largely drawn from the Iceland and Greenland settlements. When the Northern hemisphere's climate turned cold again beginning around 1300, the Greenland colony lost touch with the motherland and graducally died out. Only the Eskimos could survive in the arctic conditions which prevailed there, as the Vikings needed a longer warm season for their grain crops.

What is most ironic about this is that, a thousand years before the Viking raids began, the tribes that would become known as the Germans, also left Scandinavia (Denmark and Sweden) It was quite an exodus, both the first one and the later one. Europe was never the same after the Germans and Vikings went south.

Source of the entire article: HERE

Back to Rollo and Poppa....

I first mentioned my 35 x Great Grandfather Rollo Rolf in this blog ..... Introduction to Rollo "Duke of Normandy" .......... and the confusing union of "more danico" of which he had with his wife/mistress/concubine Poppa de Bayeux.

Poppa de Bayeux, was the "captured" wife of Rollo.  She was (thought to be) the daughter of a count named Berenger, captured at Bayeux by Rollo in 885 or 889.  Speculation claims her as the daughter of Berengar II of Neustria.

(from Wikipedia) Poppa of Bayeux was the mistress or wife^[1] (perhaps by more danico)^[2] of Norman conqueror Rollo. She was the mother of William I, Duke of Normandy, and Gerloc. Chronicler Dudo of Saint-Quentin relates that she was the daughter of a count named Berenger, captured at Bayeux by Rollo in 885 or 889. This has led to speculation that she was the daughter of Berengar II of Neustria. A statue of Poppa stands at Place de Gaulle in Bayeux.

ROLLO ROLF STATUE
French: translation to English:  
WE REMAIN MASTERS AND LORDS - 25 July 885

Statue of Rollo in Rouen. There are two bronze replicas of this statue : one at Ålesund (Norway) and the other one at Fargo, North Dakota

Now, Rollo has some questionable linage also, as I stated in the last blog about him.   To make things more simple and less long winded ....  this is the short version.

Rollo Rolf was baptized Robert.   He is sometimes called "Robert I" to make it "less confusing" with his descendants.  HOWEVER; his Great-Great Grandson is also known as "Robert I" so in serious less confusing fashion, I will just call him Rollo.

Rollo was of Norwegian and Danish descent.  He was a Norse Nobleman.   He is also known to be the founder and first ruler of the Viking principality.

There are two versions of this linage ...

Denmark claims Rollo was the son of a King of Denmark.  This King had two sons, Rollo and Gurim. Upon the death of said King, Rollo was expelled and his brother Gurim was killed.

Norway fights that his name is Ganger Hrolf "Hrolf the Walker" ...  the son of Rognvald Eysteinsson, Earl of More, in western Norway.  Hrolf found "foul" of the Norwegian King, Harald Fairhair, and became Jarl in Norway.  The nickname "the Walker" or "Ganger" in Norse, came from being so big that no horse could carry him.

I already talked about Poppa ...  Rollo had another wife.  He next married Gisela, daughter of Charles III "the Simple," King of France. They had no children.

14th century depiction of the marriage of Rollo and Gisela (2nd wife or first wife with Poppa as mistress)

This bit of information came from HERE ....

Rollo, also called Rolf or Rou, French Rollon, Old Norse Hrólfr   (born c. 860—died c. 932), Scandinavian rover who founded the duchy of Normandy.

According to later Scandinavian sagas, Rollo, making himself independent of King Harald I of Norway, sailed off to raid Scotland, England, Flanders, and France on pirating expeditions. Early in the 10th century, Rollo’s Danish army attacked France, and he established himself in an area along the Seine River. Charles III the Simple of France held off his siege of Paris, defeated him near Chartres, and negotiated the treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, giving him the part of Neustria that came to be called Normandy; Rollo in return agreed to end his brigandage. He gave his son, William I Longsword, governance of the dukedom (927) before his death. Rollo was baptized in 912 but is said to have died a pagan.

And this came from HERE ....

Vikings in France: 9th - 12th century

As elsewhere in northwest Europe, Viking raids on the coast of France gradually evolve into settlement. During the last decades of the 9th century, Danes are in possession of the territory round the lower reaches of the Seine. Early in the 10th century they are joined by a Norwegian who has already distinguished himself adventuring in Scotland and Ireland. His name is Hrölfr. He is known in western history as Rollo the Ganger.

Rollo becomes leader of the Seine Vikings and by 911 he is strong enough to besiege the French city of Chartres. The siege ends when the Frankish king, Charles III, agrees at St. Clair-sur-Epte to grant Rollo feudal rights over the territory round Rouen.

The Viking word for a Scandinavian is Northman, which in medieval French becomesNormand. Rollo the Viking and his successors, rapidly expanding their territory beyond his original feudal grant, are known therefore as Normans. Their dukedom, in its larger boundaries, becomes and remains Normandy.

Rollo's descendants rule Normandy for two centuries, until the male line dies out in 1135 with the death ofHenry I. Meanwhile they have become keen Christians (Rollo is baptized, though his son William I is the first Norman duke fully committed to the religion). But they lose nothing of their Viking restlessness, which finds expression inadventures outside Normandy.

Read more:http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?ParagraphID=eic#ixzz2giiUwQMo

And this from HERE ....

Raids along the Seine[edit]

In 885, Rollo was one of the lesser leaders of the Viking fleet which besieged Paris under Sigfred. Legend has it that an emissary was sent by the king to find the chieftain and negotiate terms. When he asked for this information, the Vikings replied that they were all chieftains in their own right. In 886, when Sigfred retreated in return for tribute, Rollo stayed behind and was eventually bought off and sent to harry Burgundy.^[a]

Later, he returned to the Seine with his followers (known as Danes, or Norsemen). He invaded the area of northern France now known as Normandy. In 911 the Vikings under Rollo again launched an attack on Paris before laying siege toChartres. The Bishop of Chartres, Joseaume, appealed for help, which were answered by Robert, Marquis of Neustria, Richard, Duke of Burgundy and Manasses, Count of Dijon. On 20 July 911, at the Battle of Chartres, Frank forces defeated Rollo despite the absence of many French barons and also the absence of the French King Charles the Simple.^[4]

The Principality of Normandy[edit]In the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte (911) with King Charles, Rollo pledged feudal allegiance to the king, changed his name to the Frankish version, and converted to Christianity, probably with the baptismal name Robert.^[5] In return, King Charles granted Rollo land between the Epte and the sea as well as parts of Brittany ^[b] and according to Dudo of St. Quentin, the hand of the King's daughter, Gisela, although this marriage and Gisela herself are unknown to Frankish sources. He was also the titular ruler of Normandy, centered around the city of Rouen. There exists some argument among historians as to whether Rollo was a "duke" (dux) or whether his position was equivalent to that of a "count" under Charlemagne.

According to legend, when required to kiss the foot of King Charles, as a condition of the treaty, he refused to perform so great a humiliation, and when Charles extended his foot to Rollo, Rollo ordered one of his warriors to do so in his place. His warrior then lifted Charles' foot up to his mouth causing the king to fall to the ground.^[6]

After 911, Rollo stayed true to his word of defending the shores of the Seine river in accordance to the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte. However, he also continued attacks on Flanders.

After Charles was deposed by Robert I in 922, Rollo considered his oath to the King of France at an end. It started a period of expansion westwards. Negotiations with French barons ended with Rollo being given Le Mans and Bayeux and continued with the seizure of Bessin in 924. The following year saw the Normans attack Picardy.

Rollo began to divide the land between the Epte and Risle rivers among his chieftains and settled there with a de facto capital in Rouen. Eventually^[when?] Rollo's men intermarried with the local women, and became more settled as Normans.^{[clarification needed]}

He is buried here ....  at Rouen Cathedral ....

Grave of Rollo of Normandy, duke of Normandy, at the cathedral of Rouen, Seine-Maritime

Maps

Rouen

Puritan Explanation

So ... While dealing with the Richard Platt and more so Mary Wood conspiracy to drive me clinically insane....   I was looking at a bio and say that for both of them, there was a spot for religion and it read like this .

Religion: Puritan

Simple and straight to the point of course...  but I was like..... eh, it was actually a religion!?   Maybe I'm just naive ... or stupid, but I thought Puritan was more so in reference to early settlers ... maybe I knew that it was a religion as it was a reference to them wanting to break away from the ways of the English Church... but I really thought it was more of a reference to early settlers breaking away ...

Do you know what I mean?

I just thought "Puritan English" as in my label of such, was in reference to early American settlers...

So I thought, huh ...... I want to learn more about this.....

So I found this HERE .....

Puritanism in New England

For a much more extensive description than appears on this brief page, see the works listed in the  Selected Bibliography on Puritanism.

Definitions	The term "Puritan" first began as a taunt or insult applied by traditional Anglicans to those who criticized or wished to "purify" the Church of England. Although the word is often applied loosely, "Puritan" refers to two distinct groups: "separating" Puritans, such as the Plymouth colonists, who believed that the Church of England was corrupt and that true Christians must separate themselves from it; and non-separating Puritans, such as the colonists who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who believed in reform but not separation. Most Massachusetts colonists were nonseparating Puritans who wished to reform the established church, largely Congregationalists who believed in forming churches through voluntary compacts.  The idea of compacts or covenants was central to the Puritans' conception of social, political, and religious organizations.
Beliefs	Several beliefs differentiated Puritans from other Christians. The first was their belief in predestination. Puritans believed that belief in Jesus and participation in the sacraments could not alone effect one's salvation; one cannot choose salvation, for that is the privilege of God alone. All features of salvation are determined by God's sovereignty, including choosing those who will be saved and those who will receive God's irresistible grace. The Puritans distinguished between "justification," or the gift of God's grace given to the elect, and "sanctification," the holy behavior that supposedly resulted when an individual had been saved; according to The English Literatures of America, "Sanctification is evidence of salvation, but does not cause it" (434). When William Laud, an avowedArminian, became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1633, the Church of England began to embrace beliefs abhorrent to Puritans: a focus on the individual's acceptance or rejection of grace; a toleration of diverse religious beliefs; and an acceptance of "high church" rituals and symbols.According to Samuel Eliot Morison's Oxford History of the American People, the Puritans "were deeply impressed by a story that their favorite church father, St. Augustine, told in his Confessions. He heard a voice saying, tolle et lege, 'Pick up and read.' Opening the Bible, his eyes lit on Romans xiii:12-14: 'The night is far spent, the day is at hand; not in carousing and drunkenness, not in debauchery and lust, not in strife and jealousy. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts therof'" (62).
Covenant   or  Federal  Theology  and the New  England Way	The concept of a covenant or contract between God and his elect pervaded Puritan theology and social relationships. In religious terms, several types of covenants were central to Puritan thought.The Covenant of Works held that God promised Adam and his progeny eternal life if they obeyed moral law. After Adam broke this covenant, God made a new Covenant of Grace with Abraham (Genesis 18-19). Covenant of Grace. This covenant requires an active faith, and, as such, it softens the doctrine of predestination. Although God still chooses the elect, the relationship becomes one of contract in which punishment for sins is a judicially proper response to disobedience. During the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards later repudiated Covenant Theology to get back to orthodox Calvinism. Those bound by the covenant considered themselves to be charged with a mission from God. Covenant of Redemption. The Covenant of Redemption was assumed to be preexistent to the Covenant of Grace. It held that Christ, who freely chose to sacrifice himself for fallen man, bound God to accept him as man's representative. Having accepted this pact, God is then committed to carrying out the Covenant of Grace. According to Perry Miller, as one contemporary source put it, "God covenanted with Christ that if he would pay the full price for the redemption of beleevers, they should be discharged. Christ hath paid the price, God must be unjust, or else hee must set thee free from all iniquitie" (New England Mind 406). For more information, see also the following works suggested by EARAM-L members: Perry Miller's "The Marrow of Puritan Divinity" in Errand into the Wilderness (Cambridge:  Harvard UP, 1956): 48-98. Emory Elliott, Power and the Pulpit in Puritan New England Charles Lloyd Cohen, "Covenant Psychology" in God's Caress: The Psychology of Puritan Religious Experience (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1986) John von Rohr, The Covenant of Grace in Puritan Thought (Atlanta, GA:  Scholars Press, 1986) Darrett Rutman, American Puritanism David Hall, The Faithful Shepherd David Hall, The Antinomian Controversy Sargent Bush, The Writings of Thomas Hooker Michael McGiffert, "Grace and Works:  The Rise and Division of Covenant Divinity in Elizabethan Puritanism,"Harvard Theological Review 75.4 (1982): 463-502. Amy Schrager Lang, Prophetic Woman Janice Knight, Orthodoxies in Massachusetts
The New  England Way	The concept of the covenant also provided a practical means of organizing churches.  Since the state did not control the church, the Puritans reasoned, there must be an alternate method of of establishing authority. According to Harry S. Stout, "For God's Word to function freely, and for each member to feel an integral part of the church's operations, each congregation must be self-sufficient, containing within itself all the offices and powers necessary for self-regulation.  New England's official apologist, John Cotton, termed this form of church government 'Congregational,' meaning that all authority would be located within particular congregations" (The New England Soul  17). Cotton's sermon at Salem in 1636 described the basic elements of this system in which people covenanting themselves to each other and pledging to obey the word of God might become a self-governing church.  Checks and balances in this self-governing model included the requirement that members testify to their experience of grace (to ensure the purity of the church and its members) and the election of church officials to ensure the appropriate distribution of power, with a pastor to preach, a teacher to "attend to doctrine," elders to oversee the "acts ofspiritual Rule," and a deacon to manage the everyday tasks of church organization and caring for the poor (Stout 19).  The system of interlocking covenants that bound households to each other and to their ministers in an autonomous, self-ruling congregation was mirrored in the organization of towns.  In each town, male church members could vote to elect "selectmen" to run the town's day-to-day affairs, although town meetings were held to vote on legislation. Thus the ultimate authority in both political and religious spheres was God's word, but the commitments made to congregation and community through voluntary obedience to covenants ensured order and a functional system of religious and political governance.  This system came to be called the Congregational or  "New England Way." According to Stout, "By locating power in the particular towns and defining institutions in terms of local covenants and mutual commitments, the dangers of mobility and atomism--the chief threats to stability in the New World--were minimized. . . . As churches came into being only by means of a local covenant, so individual members could be released from their sacred oath only with the concurrence of the local body. . . . Persons leaving without the consent of the body sacrificed not only church membership but also property title, which was contingent on local residence.  Through measures like these, which combined economic and spiritual restraints, New England towns achieved extraordinarily high levels of persistence and social cohesion" (23).
Church  Membership	Unlike Anglican and Catholic churches of the time, Puritan churches did not hold that all parish residents should be full church members. A true church, they believed, consisted not of everyone but of the elect. As a test of election, many New England churches began to require applicants for church membership to testify to their personal experience of God in the form of autobiographical conversion narratives. Since citizenship was tied to church membership, the motivation for experiencing conversion was secular and civil as well as religious in nature. God's covenant that bound church members to him had to be renewed and accepted by each individual believer, although this could be seen as a dilution of the covenant binding God and his chosen people.
The  Half-Way  Covenant	The children of first-generation believers were admitted to limited membership in the Congregational church, on the grounds that as children of the elect, they would undoubtedly experience conversion and become full members of the church. Not all underwent a conversion experience, however, thus leaving in doubt the future of their children, the grandchildren of the original church members. Drafted by Richard Mather and approved in 1662, the Half-way Covenant proposed that second-generation members be granted the same privilege of baptism (but not communion) as had been granted to the first generation. According to Norman Grabo, "This encouraged individual congregations to baptize the infant children of church members but not to admit them to full membership until they were at least 14 years old" and could profess conversion. "The partaking of the Lord's Supper became a lure to struggling half-way members to discover their right to full membership and a public sign of the purest in the congregation." Richard, and, later, Increase Mather supported it, as did Edward Taylor; but Solomon Stoddard from Northampton argued that, according to the Half-Way Covenant, no man was permitted to partake of the Lord's Supper until he had certain knowledge and assurance of salvation; without this knowledge, attendance at the sacrament was damning.  Stoddard said that no man could know he was saved with absolute certainty; thus all well-behaved Christians should be admitted to the sacrament in hopes that they might secure saving grace or be converted by it. (Grabo 32)
The  Plain Style	The plain style is the simplest of the three classical forms of style. In choosing the plain style, Puritan writers eschewed features common to the rhetoric of the day; they declined to stuff their sermons with the rhetorical flourishes and learned quotations of the metaphysical style of sermon, believing that to be the province of Archbishop Laud and his followers. The Puritan sermon traditionally comprised three parts: doctrine, reasons, and uses. According to Perry Miller in The New England Mind, "The Anglican sermon is constructed on a symphonic scheme of progressively widening vision; it moves from point to point by verbal analysis, weaving larger and larger embroideries about the words of the text. The Puritan sermon quotes the text and "opens" it as briefly as possible, expounding circumstances and context, explaining its grammatical meanings, reducing its tropes and schemata to prose, and setting forth its logical implications; the sermon then proclaims in a flat, indicative sentence the "doctrine" contained in the text or logically deduced from it, and proceeds to the first reason or proof. Reason follows reason, with no other transition than a period and a number; after the last proof is stated there follow the uses or applications, also in numbered sequence, and the sermon ends when there is nothing more to be said. The Anglican sermon opens with a pianissimo exordium, gathers momentum through a rising and quickening tempo, comes generally to a rolling, organ-toned peroration; the Puritan begins with a reading of the text, states the reason in an order determined by logic, and the uses in an enumeration determined by the kinds of person in the throng who need to be exhorted or reproved, and it stops without flourish or resounding climax" (332-3). In a similar manner, Puritans preferred the plainness of the Geneva Bible to the rich language of the King James version.

Notes on Richard Platt

Okay ...... so  ......  here are some various notes for RICHARD PLATT and their lines that I wanted to make sure I can go back and look at.

Taken From: HERE:  Source: Lineage Papers of Robert Forsyth Little, Jr. for the Society of the Colonial Wars.

The first ancestor of the name in the United States, was Richard Platt.

"Richard Piatt, son of Joseph Piatt, was baptized Sept. 28, 1603." This is claimed as an extract from the parish records of Bovingdon, a village near Hertford, England.

The Platt progenitor, Richard Platt left England in 1638, and landed at New Haven

Richard Piatt had eighty-four acres of land in and around New Haven. His name is on the list of free-planters made out in 1646 ; he was chosen a deacon in the first church in Milford in 1669.

It is recorded that his wife, Mary, died in January, 1676. He made his will in 1683.

From HERE

Descendants of Richard Platt

Generation No. 1
1. RICHARD³ PLATT (GEORGE², SIMON¹)^{1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1} was born September 28, 1603 in Ware, Hertfordshire¹, and died Abt. February 13, 1684/85 in Milford, Connecticut¹. He married MARY WOOD^1,1,1,1,1,1 January 26, 1628/29 in Roydon, Essex¹, daughter of JOHN WOOD and JANE (WOOD). She was born November 10, 1605 in Roydon, Essex, and died March 1675/76 in Milford, Connecticut¹.

Notes for RICHARD PLATT:
Recent research has confirmed that he was born in Ware, Hertfordshire, the son of George Platt.

Milford -

Ware was a market town which was a hotbed of Puritanism in the early 17th century. The famous Rev. Charles Chauncey, who would later be president of Harvard College, was vicar of Ware from 1627-33, emmigrating to England in 1638. Richard Platt
was no doubt influenced by his preaching. In his will he left a Bible for each of his 24 living grandchildren. He was no doubt educated at the Grammar School at Ware, and probably became a tailor like his father and grandfather, as he was
apprenticed in 1629.

In 1639 he was a freeplanter in Milford and his home lot was #38, consisting of 4 acres and 1 rod, near the corner of the present West Main and Cherry streets.

Quaker Genealogy on the Internet -

Many from the Bay Colony chose to leave for New Haven with Eaton and Davenport, among them a company headed by Peter Prudden. Perhaps the son of Thomas Prudden of King's Walden, Hertfordshire and a kinsman of William Thomas of Caerleon,
Monmouthshire, Prudden was the minister of the Providence Island Company. In 1637 with fifteen Hertfordshire families - among them Edmund Tapp of Bennington, Hertfordshire, James Prudden, William Fowler, Thomas and Hannah Buckingham, Thomas
Welsh, Richard Platt, Henry Stonehill and William East - he left England for Massachusetts and went with Davenport's group to Connecticut in March of 1638.

From "Platt Lineage" -

He landed at New Haven in 1638, with his wife and four children.

After his arrival, he acquired possession, among others, of several acres of land in what is now (1891) the best part of the Elm City (it was on the south side of Chapel Street, near College Street, adjoining the ground of Peter Prudden) in
what was called "the Hertfordshire quarter."

Among the first settlers of Milford, November 20, 1639, arriving with four in his family. He and his sons John and Josiah are among the original purchasers and proprietors of New Milford. His name is on the list of free-planters of Milford in
1646. He was chosen deacon in the first church in Milford in 1669. His daughters Mary and Sarah probably died before he made his will in 1683, for in it he makes bequests to their children instead of to them.

He left to one of his heirs a legacy "towards bringing up his son to be a scholar."

He appears on the records as one of the witnesses to the will of Peter Prudden.

His estate was estimated at about £600.

His burial place is unknown, no stone has been found to mark his grave. It was probably in his orchard.

His name is on the coping stones of the Wapawang memorial bridge in Milford, commemorating the early settlers.

Topographical Dictionary-

Parish of Aldenham, Hertfordshire

Parish of New Haven, Conn.

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Marriage to Mary Wood is registered at Ware and at Roydon, on the same date. He is called "Deacon".

Huntington Historical Society -

"Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven 1638-49", by Charles Hoadley, states: "Rich Platt - an estate worthe £200 - twenty acres in the First Division - four acres in the Second Division". Part of his property consisted of a plot on
the south side of Chapel Street near College Street, adjoining lands of Peter Prudden in the so-called "Hertfordshire Quarter".

This fact undoubtedly influenced his early participation in the beginnings of the settlement of Milford within the limits of the New Haven Colony and located 10 miles west of New Haven itself, on the shores of Long Island Sound. The colony was
under the leadership of Peter Prudden, a former Anglican priest, and a group of faithful adherents from Hertfordshire who had emmigrated in 1637. It was only natural that the Platts, coming a year thereafter, would gravitate to this settlement
of their old neighbors.

The Prudden movement from New Haven was not one of dissatisfaction but stemmed from a desire to organize their own church body and town structure. Prudden, who was only 37 at the time, patterned the town after New Haven but was somewhat more
tolerant concerning church membership. In 1639 the group acquired the Indian title and on November 20, 1639, some 44 church members were franchised as "free planters". Among them was Richard Platt, with his wife Mary and their four oldest
children, Mary, John, Isaac and Sarah.

At Milford Richard owned House Lot #38 in the northeast sector of the settlement, somewhat south of the north line of the palisades and consisting of a 4-acre, 1-rod plot. Even after moving to Milford he retained some of his New Haven property.

In 1646 the Indians were on the war-path and for protection the Milford settlement was fully palisaded. Each household was required to provide one watch for sentry duty every fifth day.

Richard was chosen deacon of the first church in 1669. His will, dated 1683, has not been located among the early probate records of Connecticut, but is said to have mentioned his five sons and the children of his daughters Sarah and Mary,
leaving some presumption of their earlier deaths.

Some of his sons relocated. John and Josiah were among the original proprietors of New Milford, north of Danbury; John later moved to Norwalk. Isaac and Epenetus moved to Huntington, while Joseph remained at Milford. Although in 1962 Platt
descendants are scattered among 32 states [and Mexico!], there still remains a core of the family maintaining possession of parts of their original Milford holdings, descendants of Richard's sons Josiah and Joseph.

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He was less than five years old when his father died, and in George's will his house was devised to his wife Mary and at her death was to go to Richard.

He was doubtless educated at the Grammar School at Ware and may have been a tailor like his father and grandfather. In 1629 he had an apprentice, indicating he was in some trade at the time.

Richard's profound Puritan beliefs were probably influenced by Rev. Charles Chauncy, Vicar of Ware from 1627 to 1633, who emmigrated to New England in 1638, was a teacher at Plymouth and President of Harvard College from 1654 to his death on 19
February 1672.

On 13 July 1629 there was an "Order that Richard Platt of Ware and his apprentice be brought before certain justices, that some order might be taken to end the differences between them."

Richard and his wife disposed of their lands and houses at Ware by a final concord signed at Westminster on 25 April 1638, receiving £42 for the premises. They may have had to stay in or near London while awaiting passage, and sailed to New
England either in the latter half of 1638 or the first half of 1639.

His property in New Haven consisted of an estate worth £200; 20 acres in the first division of lands; 4 acres in the "Neck"; 12 acres of meadow; 48 acres in the second division, and paying a yearly rate of £1. He evidently had a comfortable
estate and lived in the "Hertfordshire" quarter of the town, with William Fowler, Mr. Peter Prudden, James Prudden, Edmund Tapp, the Widow Baldwin, Zachariah Whitman and Thomas Osborne. He gradually sold his property after moving to Milford.

He joined the church at Milford on 29 January 1640, and his wife on 15 August 1641.

He was often asked to act as witness to wills; on 26 July 1656 he witnessed the will of Rev. Peter Prudden. As Mrs. Selleck points out (Miner Family, p. 147), "he was a man of high character and deeply religious, and was chosen deacon of the
Milford Church in 1669. When his daughter Sarah was widowed, and prior to her second marriage, he cared for her and her children, and the court records refer to his extreme care and liberality in conserving the estate of his... grandchildren".

The inventory of his estate was taken on 13 February 1685.

The will of Deacon Richard Platt of Milford is an important document. It was dated 4 August 1683, and after the usual religious preamble, contains the following clauses:

More About RICHARD PLATT:
Burial: February 13, 1684/85, Milford, Connecticut
Christening: May 06, 1604, Ware, Hertfordshire¹
Education: Emmigrated 1638
Occupation: Deacon, Landowner
Religion: Puritan

Notes for MARY WOOD:
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Joined the church at Milford on 15 August 1641.

More About MARY WOOD:
Burial: March 24, 1675/76, Milford, Connecticut¹
Christening: November 10, 1605, Roydon, Essex¹
Religion: Puritan
     
Children of RICHARD PLATT and MARY WOOD are: 

2.	i.		MARY4 PLATT, b. 1629, Roydon, Essex; d. June 17, 1669, Middletown, Connecticut.
3.	ii.		JOHN PLATT, b. 1631, Ware, Hertfordshire; d. November 06, 1705, Norwalk, Connecticut.
4.	iii.		ISAAC PLATT, b. April 10, 1633, Ware, Hertfordshire; d. July 31, 1691, Huntington, Suffolk Co. (Long Island), New York.
5.	iv.		SARAH PLATT, b. 1636, Ware, Hertfordshire; d. May 15, 1670, New Milford, Connecticut.
6.	v.		I EPENETUS PLATT, b. 1640, Milford, Connecticut; d. Aft. September 01, 1693, Huntington, Suffolk Co. (Long Island), New York.
	vi.		HANNAH PLATT1, b. 1643, Milford, Connecticut; d. Aft. December 28, 1702, Norwalk, Connecticut?; m. CHRISTOPHERCOMSTOCK1; b. Abt. 1644; d. December 28, 1702, Norwalk, Connecticut..

More About HANNAH PLATT: Christening: October 01, 1643, Milford, Connecticut

7.	vii.		JOSIAH PLATT, b. 1645, Milford, Connecticut; d. January 01, 1724/25, Milford, Connecticut.
8.	viii.		JOSEPH PLATT, b. 1649, Milford, Connecticut; d. Bef. March 21, 1703/04, Milford, Connecticut.

The following document can be read HERE ......

A SPECIAL COMPILATION OF THE 

HISTORY AND GENEALOGY OF 

RICHARD PLATT 

BORN IN WARE, COUNTY HERTFORD, ENGLAND 

& 

ONE OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS OF BOTH 

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT 

AND 

MILFORD CONNECTICUT 

From HERE

ID: I4609 Name: Richard PLATT Prefix: Deacon Sex: M Christening: 6 MAY 1604 Ware, Hertfordshire, England 1 Death: BEF 13 FEB 1684/1685 in Milford, New Haven County, CT Reference Number: 440 _UID: 6CA949A9D003DC44B1948DA241F952A09A56 Note: Roydon, where Richard and Mary married, is four miles southeast of Ware. On 16 April 1609 was mentioned as son in the will of George Platte of Ware. On 13 July 1629 there was an "Order that Richard Platt of Ware and his apprentice be brought before certain justices, that some order might be taken to end the differences between them." On 25 April 1638 Westminster, England, Richard and Mary Platt signed a final concord to dispose of their lands and houses at Ware, receiving L42 for the premises. Then they prepared to sail for New England, but may have had to stay in or near London for some months while awaiting passage. They appear to have crossed the Atlantic either in the latter half of 1638 or the first half of 1639. It has been stated that the Platt family arrived at New Haven in August 1639, and this may be true, but Richard Platt is not among those who signed the covenant of 22 August 1639, and "Richard Plot" did not join the Church of Milford at New Haven until 29 January 1639/1640. He was a free planter, according to Abbott in Milford, New Haven County, CT, in 1639. His home lot was #38, consisting of 4 acres and one rod, near the corner of the present West Main and Cherry Streets. In 1669 he was chosen deacon of the church at Milford. He appeared on the list of freemen at Milford in October 1669: "A List of the Freemen of Milford [October 1669] ... Richard Platt." In her will dated 9 November 1669, proved 20 November 1669, Sarah (Bryan?) (Baldwin) Astwood of Milford appointed "my beloved brothers Richard Platt and Thomas Wheeler" overseers. Richard Platt and Thomas Wheeler were also witnesses to the will. Since Sarah's maiden name has not been proven, this statement has led to much genealogical speculation as to how she was related to these men -- or were they merely highly esteemed "brethren in the church"? If you look to their descendants rather than their antecedants, another possible explanation suggests itself -- Sarah's grandson Zachariah3 Baldwin (Richard2, Sylvester1) was married to Richard Platt's granddaughter Mary3 Atkinson (Mary2, Richard1). The will of "Richard Platt of Milford in Ye colony of conecticutt" was dated 4 August 1683: It makes the following bequests: I give unto my son John Platt beside what I have formerly given him L26 & foure bibles for his children. I give unto my son Isaac Platt L20 besides what I have formerly given him & for his children three bibles. I give unto my son Epenetus Platt besides what I have formerly given him L20 & for his children three bibles. I give my son in law Christopher Comstocke & his wife beside what I have formerly given him L22 & for his children 3 bibles. I give Samuel Bech [Beach] beside what I have formerly given him L6. I give Hannah & Deborah Merwin two bibles. I give Elder [Daniel] Buckingham L5 toward bringing up his son to be a schollar. I give my son Epenetus L5 toward bringing up his son to be a schollar. I give my son Josia Platt beside what I have formerly given him the meadow on ye far side the creeke by stubby playne, & halfe the pasture or land by ye necke gate, & the land not yet taken in of my division, & halfe the pasture land below the two orchards, & five bibles for his children. I give Josia Whitmore & his sister two bibles. I give my son Joseph Platt's children two bibles. I give my son Joseph Platt all the remainder of my estate, housing, barnes, lands, meadows, corne, cattle, horses, mares, sheep, hogs, movables, he paying the legacyes above named & debts. I make my son Joseph Platt my executor of this my last Will. I desire Elder Buckingham & my son Josia Platt to see this my Will fulfilled, & I give Elder Buckingham & my son Josia twenty shillings apiece for their paynes. [Signed] Richard Platt Daniel Buckingham and Josia Platt, witnesses The Inventory of the estate was taken 13 February 1684 by Samuell Ells, John Streame, and Sylvanus Baldwin. It totaled L547:05:07. (New Haven probate records vol 1, part 2, p. 138). The Platt stone in the Milford Memorial Bridge reads: "DEACON RICHARD PLATT Obit 1684 MARY His Wife."

Father: George PLATT c: 13 MAY 1582 in Ware, Hertfordshire, England 
Mother: Mary SELL b: ABT 1572 in England

Marriage 1 Mary WOOD c: 10 NOV 1605 in Roydon, Essex, England

• Married: 26 JAN 1628/1629 in Roydon, Essex, England ^12 13 14

Children

1.  Mary PLATT c: 11 NOV 1629 in Roydon, Essex, England
2.  John PLATT c: 11 JAN 1631/1632 in Ware, Hertfordshire, England
3.  Isaac PLATT c: 10 APR 1633 in Ware, Hertfordshire, England
4.  Samuel PLATT c: 9 DEC 1634 in Ware, Hertfordshire, England
5.  Sarah PLATT c: 11 SEP 1636 in Ware, Hertfordshire, England
6.  Epenetus PLATT b: 2 JUL 1640 in Milford, New Haven County, CT c: 2 JUL 1640 in Milford, New Haven County, CT
7.  Hannah PLATT c: 1 OCT 1643 in First Church, Milford, New Haven County, CT
8.  Josiah PLATT c: NOV 1645 in First Church, Milford, New Haven County, CT
9.  Joseph PLATT c: 1 APR 1649 in First Church, Milford, New Haven County, CT

Sources:

1. Title: Richard Platt of Ware, Co. Hertford, England, and Milford, Connecticut
   Author: John Insley Coddington
   Abbrev: Coddington
   Publication: New Haven: The American Genealogist
   Abbrev: Richard Platt
   Page: 30:236. Parish Registers of Ware, co. Hertford, 1558-1650.
   Text: Baptisms. 1604 Richard Platte, 6 May
2. Title: Families of Ancient New Haven
   Author: Donald Lines Jacobus
   Abbrev: Jacobus
   Publication: Salem MA: Higginson Book Co., 1994
   Abbrev: Families of Ancient New Haven
   Page: p. 144-161
3. Title: Richard Platt of Ware, Co. Hertford, England, and Milford, Connecticut
   Author: John Insley Coddington
   Abbrev: Coddington
   Publication: New Haven: The American Genealogist
   Abbrev: Richard Platt
   Page: 30:233-238
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   Author: Douglas Richardson
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   Publication: Synopsis of article pre-published to Platt list, rootsweb.com, 1998
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   Author: John Insley Coddington
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   Publication: New Haven: The American Genealogist
   Abbrev: Richard Platt
   Page: 31:155-170
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   Publication: Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979
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8. Title: History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, for the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution
   Author: Donald Lines Jacobus
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   Publication: New Haven CT: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1930-1932
   Abbrev: Families of Old Fairfield
   Page: p. 483-487
9. Title: Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1665-1678
   Author: J. Hammond Trumbull
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   Publication: Hartford CT: 1852
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10. Title: The Story of the Memorial in Honor of the Founders of the Town of Milford
    Author: Morris W. Abbott
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    Publication: Milford CT: 1971
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    Author: Donald Lines Jacobus
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    Publication: New Haven: The American Genealogist, 1939, Vol. 16
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    Page: pp. 28-29
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    Author: Clarence Almon Torrey
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    Publication: Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985 & 1992
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    Text: Richard Platt (1604-1684, 1685) & Mary Wood (1605-), in Eng; b 1633, 26 Jan 1682/9; New Haven/Milford CT.
13. Title: Richard Platt of Ware, Co. Hertford, England, and Milford, Connecticut
    Author: John Insley Coddington
    Abbrev: Coddington
    Publication: New Haven: The American Genealogist
    Abbrev: Richard Platt
    Page: 30:237. Parish Registers of Roydon
    Text: 1628 Richard Platt and Mary Woode ware maried the 26th of January [1628/9]
14. Title: The Merwin Family in North America
    Publication: Miles Merwin Association, Milford, CT 1978
    Abbrev: Merwin Family
    Page: p. 1