Genealogical and biographical record of New London County, Connecticut, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the early settled families, Part 167

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Publication date: 1905
Publisher: Chicago : J.H. Beers & Co.
Number of Pages: 1568


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(XXIII) John Tyler Beckwith spent his early school days in attendance at the common schools, and when a very small boy began selling milk for his father, continuing to sell milk in New London for twenty-two years. On Dec. 31, 1863, he married Annie T., daughter of Horace and Mary (Com- stock) Beckwith, of Waterford, where she was born April 15, 1841. To them came two children: Fred A., born Jan. 7, 1865; and Mary H., who married S. J. Weaver, of Flanders, Conn. After his mar- riage Mr. Beckwith lived on his father's farm for seven years, improving that part of it which his father had bought from Dr. Thompson. In 1870 he moved to the While Hall farm, in Mystic, and remained there until March, 1873, when he came to his present home in the town of East Lyme. Mr. Beckwith is a Republican politically, and he cast his first vote in 1860 for Abraham Lincoln. He has served the town of East Lyme as a member of the board of assessors and board of relief. He is a member of Union Lodge, No. 10, A. O. U. W., and of Warren Council, No. 53, O. U. A. M., of East Lyme. He is also a member of the East Lyme Grange, and treasurer of the East Lyme Improve- ment Co. He is a trustee of the Baptist Church, of which he and his wife are devout members.


(XXXIV) Fred Allen Beckwith was born in New London, Jan. 7, 1865, and received his early schooling in his native place and in a private school in East Lyme. He worked on the farm as a young man, and taught school one term in Waterford and four terms in East Lyme. At present he engages extensively in the livery and teaming business, which he established in 1890. In the spring of 1904 he purchased the coal business of Huntley Bros., which he carries on in connection with his livery business. In politics he is a Republican, and he has been an assessor and is now serving his eighth year as select- man. Socially he is a member of the Niantic Lodge, No. 17, I. O. O. F., of which he is a past grand ; of the Order of United American Mechanics, War- ren Council, No. 53, of which he is an ex-coun- cilor ; of the A. O. U. W., Union Lodge, No. 10, of which he is past master ; and of the New England Order of Protection, No. 241, of Niantic, of which he is warden. He is also a member of the East Lyme Grange.


On Jan. 25, 1893, Mr. Beckwith married Marion Stannard Mott, daughter of Samuel Mott, of Water- ford, and they have two children : Leslie Mott, born May 17, 1895 ; and Tracy Tyler, born May 19, 1900. Mr. Beckwith is a member and trustee of the Niantic Baptist Church. While living in Flanders he was deacon of the church there for several years.


CHARLES BECKLEY PLATT. the northwestern residence portion of Norwich, on ele- vated ground, amid picturesque surroundings, stands the Platt homestead, the estate, "Rocklawn," of the late Charles B. Platt, one of the founders of, and associated with Isaac H. Bromley and William D. Manning in the publication of, the Norwich Bulletin; and here continue to reside Mrs. Olive Worthington ( Barstow ) Platt, and Mrs. Helen B. P. Huntington, widow and daughter, respectively, of Mr. Platt, and the latter the widow of the late C. M. Huntington. Norwich, as is well known, has long borne the beau- tiful sobriquet of the "Rose of New England," and as a factor in the town's beauty "Rocklawn" enters largely. From the crown of its eminence is pre- sented a panoramic picture of great charm and picturesqueness. This old estate of some sixteen acres has within a decade or more, through the enterprise, public spirit, taste and ability of Mrs. Platt, been greatly improved and transformed into one of the most charming and inviting residence portions of Norwich, and dotted over with many tasteful cottages of modern design and equipment. Of the family history and lineage of the occupants of the Platt home at "Rocklawn" it is the purpose of this article to treat.


Both mother and daughter are members of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and descend on either side from old Colonial families of New England. Olive Worthington (Barstow) Platt is a daughter of the late Charles Barstow and Eunice (Geer), and a descendant in the eighth generation from William Barstow, the immigrant ancestor of the branch of the American Barstow family to which she belongs.


BARSTOW. The name Barstow is of English origin from the West Riding of Yorkshire, where the name still occurs. Barstow of Naburn Hall York, bears the coat of arms: Ermine on fess sable ; three crescents, or ; Crest, a horse's hea couped ar. Edmond Barstow, Esq., J. P., from th North Riding of Yorkshire, was in 1816 possesse of Hingerskil, formerly the seat of the Hopton being the second husband of Ellinor Hopton, of th! ancient and eminent family of Hopton of Hopto by whom he had Edward and others. He was th son of Edward, the son of Thomas Barstow, ( North Allerton, whose daughter Elizabeth marri Darcey Conyers, Esq.


George, Michael, John and William Barsto brothers, came early to New England and settl in Cambridge, Watertown and Dedham, Mass. 1 these William Barstow, aged twenty-three, a George, aged twenty-one, probably from Yorkshi embarked in the ship "Truelove," for New Engla William was in Dedham, Mass., in 1636, and sigi the petition for the incorporation of that town, ?! he and his brother George had grants of land m ? to them Dec. 16, 1642. William, with whom e have to deal, was a freeman in Scituate, Ma. 1649. He was the first settler of whom there a


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record in what is now Hanover, Mass. He married probably after he left England, Anne - He


was a man of note in his day, was an extensive land holder, of high respectability, a worthy and enter- prising citizen. He died in Scituate in 1668, aged fifty-six years. His wife survived him. Their chil- dren were: Joseph, born in Dedham, "6d. 4 mo.," 1639; Patience, born "3d., Io mo.," 1643, in Ded- ham; Deborah, born in August, 1650, in Scituate ; William, born in September, 1652, in Scituate; and Martha, born there in 1655.


The lineage of Mrs. Platt from William Bars- tow is through Capt. Joseph, Capt. Joseph (2), Joshua, Calvin, Joshua (2) and Charles Barstow.


(II) Capt. Joseph Barstow, born "6d., 4 mo.," 1639, in Dedham, Mass., married May 16, 1666, Susanna Lincoln, of Hingham. He was an exten- sive land holder in Abington. He was granted per- mission to keep a house of entertainment in 1672. He died April 17, 1712, and his widow passed away Jan. 31, 1730. Their children were: Susanna, born June 3, 1667 ; Joseph, born Jan. 22, 1675 ; Benjamin, born March 1, 1679; Deborah, born Dec. 26, 1681 ; and Samuel, born Jan. 1, 1683.


(III) Capt. Joseph Barstow (2), born Jan. 22, 1675, married Mary -, and lived in Hanover, where he died July 25, 1728. In connection with Benjamin Stetson, Capt. Barstow received in 1720, a grant of two acres of land for the accommodation of a forge and finery, and erected the forge subse- quently known as Barstow's Forge, which was im- proved by his descendants for nearly a century. He owned considerable land, and left an estate ap- praised at £6,926. His children were: Elizabeth, born Aug. 23, 1699; Joseph, born Sept. 6, 1701; Joseph (2), born Jan. 10, 1704; Joshua, born Sept. 8, 1706; Mary, born Feb. 21, 1709; Janfes, born April 20, 1711 ; Mary, born May 20, 1717: Joshua (2), born Sept. 8, 1720; and Abigail, baptized May 9, 1723.


(IV) Joshua Barstow, born Sept. 8, 1720, mar- ried April 21, 1741, Elizabeth Foster of Scituate. He lived in Hanover, and was proprietor of the forge built by his father in 1720, which he carried on until his death, and probably occupied his father's house. He was drowned at the "Eastward" (ac- cording to the inscription in the Hanover grave- vard) Oct. 3, 1773. His children were: Joseph, born Nov. 13. 1742: Mary, born Jime 6, 1743 : James, born Oct. 8, 1744: Barshaway, born Feb. 20. 1745: Abigail, born Sept. 26, 1747; Joshua. born June 26 (T. records) or July 7 ( F. records). 1749; Calvin, born Oct. 7. 1750 ; Ezekiel, born June 7 (T. records) or July 7 ( F. records ), 1752 ; Abigail. born Sept. 29 (T. records) or Dec. 7 (F. records ). 1753: (Timothy?) Hatherly, born Feb. 22, 1755 ; Foster, born April 2, 1757 ; Elizabethi, born Feb. 5. 1760 ; and Joseph ( ?).


(V) Calvin Barstow, born Oct. 7. 1750, married -, and died in 1826 in Preston, Conn. Among his children were Jededialı, of Jewett City, who


married and died in East Hampton, Conn. : and a son, Joshua.


(VI) Joshua Barstow, born February. 1776, married Lydia Tracy, daughter of Rufus and Mary (Reed) Tracy, the former a sergeant in the Revo- lutionary war. Mr. and Mrs. Barstow lived in Preston, Conn. They had six children, viz. : Charles, Rufus, Joshua, Thomas, Margaret (who married first Mr. Robinson, and second Austin Phillips), and Alexander.


(VII) Charles Barstow, son of Joshua and Lydia (Tracy) Barstow, was born in the town of Preston, Conn., where he grew to manhood. In April, 1834, he married Eunice Geer, daughter of Jephthah Geer, and with his wife went West, locat- ing at Dundaff, Susquehanna Co., Pa., where he became interested in the lumber business and min- ing, operating saw and gristmills, and also engaged extensively in farming and land speculation. He later sold out and removed to Honesdale, Wayne Co., Pa., accepting a position as superintendent on the Delaware & Lackawanna Canal, where he spent some time. His next removal was to Michigan, where he located at St. Clair and became engaged in the lumber business. From there he returned to Pennsylvania and became interested in real estate. He died at Moscow. Lackawanna Co., Pa., and was buried there. Mr. Barstow took a deep interest in his family. He was quite successful as a business man. He and his wife had three children: (1) Charles served in the Civil war as a member of a Connecticut Cavalry troop, was taken prisoner and confined at Andersonville, and after the close of the war returned to Norwich, where he remained until 1884. He then went to Meriden, Conn .. and entered the employ of the dry goods firm of Ives. Upham & Rand. He died in Meriden in April. 1891, and was buried in Yantie cemetery, at Nor- wich. He was twice married, first to Caroline Phil- lips, and second to Mrs. AAbbie Edgerton, and he had two children, Frank Tracy and Charles Platt. (2) Joshina went to California during the gold fever of 1850, and died in Central America, where he located later in life. (3) Olive Worthington was married Feb. 8, 1860. to Charles B. Platt, and they had four children : Carrie Barstow died when fourteen months old : Helen B. married C. M. Himtingion : Ruins Barstow died when three and one half years old; George Barstow died when two and one-half years old.


GEER. On her mother's side Mrs. Plat descends from George Geer, the immigrant ancestor of this branch of the ficer family, her lineage being through Jonathan, Jonathan (2), Stephen, Thomas, Jeph- thanh and Ennice (Giver) Barstow


(1) licorge Geer appeared of record in New London, Conu., on Feb 17. 1058, the date of his marriage to Sarah, daughter of Robert Allen. He was born about 1021, in England, and according to tradition was a son of Jonathan Geer, of the County of Devon. George and a younger brother.


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Thomas, tradition tells us, were left orphans at a tender age, and by an uncle were put aboard a ship which was to sail for America, and which arrived in Boston, Mass., in 1635. The first reliable record of them thereafter is that George was one of the early settlers in New London, Conn., in 1651, and Thomas in Enfield, Conn., 1682. George Geer, im- mediately after his marriage, settled on a tract of fifty acres of land, granted to him by the town of New London. Later on, in 1665, he received from the town another grant of land, one of 100 acres. He also owned a tract of land in the town of Pres- ton (now Griswold), a part of which he obtained by grant from the Indian Sachem, Owaneco, eldest son of Uncas, bearing date Dec. II, 1691. He held other lands. In 1705 he resided in what became the town of Groton, of which he was a selectman. He died in 1726. His wife Sarah was baptized in Salem, Mass., about 1640, some time previous to her father's removal to New London, Conn., in 1651. She died a short time previous to the death of her husband. Their children were: Sarah, born Feb. 27, 1659; Jonathan, May 26, 1662; Joseph, Oct. 14, 1664: Hannah, Feb. 27, 1666; Margaret, Feb- ruary, 1669; Mary, March 26, 1671 ; Daniel, 1673; Robert, Jan. 2, 1675; Anne, Jan. 6, 1679; Isaac, March 26, 1681 ; and Jeremiah, in 1683.


(II) Jonathan Geer, born May 26, 1662, married Mary - - -, who died April 24, 1718. Mr. Geer at an early period settled about ten miles north of his father, on land given to him by the latter in 1686. In that year he, with others, petitioned the General Court for a new town, which petition was granted, and the town called Preston. The children of Jona- than and Mary Geer were: Jonathan, Deborah, Sarah, Mary, Zerviah and Dorothy. The father died April 30, 1742.


(III) Jonathan Geer (2) married (first) June 15, 1721, Elizabeth Herrick. She died Feb. IO, 1743-44, and he married (second) April 6, 1744, Hannah Putnam, of Preston. Five children were born to the first marriage, and two to the second, as follows: Aaron, born May 7, 1722; Jonathan, June 3, 1724; Stephen, Feb. 22, 1726-27 ; Elizabeth, May 9, 1728; Samuel, June 3, 1731 ; Elizabeth, Jan. 24, 1745-46; and Elisha, March 5, 1749-50.


(IV) Stephen Geer, born Feb. 22, 1726-27, mar- ried Jan. 8, 1746-47, Ruth Clark, of Norwich, and their children were: Amos and Thomas, born Sept. 28, 1747, and Aug. 9, 1750, respectively.


(V) Thomas Geer, born Aug. 9, 1750, married (first) Feb. II, 1773, Meribah Killam, of Preston, Conn. She died March 17, 1801, and he married (second) March 22, 1803, Mrs. Elizabeth Wilbur, of Preston. His children, all born to the first mar- riage, were: Jephthah, born Feb. 7, 1774 ; Jonathan, March 8, 1776; Joseph, July 22, 1778; Anna, Oct. 19, 1780; Ichabod E., May 8, 1783; and Nabby, Nov. 30, 1791.


(VI) Jephthah Geer, born Feb. 7, 1774, married Nov. 19, 1797, Olive Herrick, of Worthington ; she


died in August, 1854, aged seventy-seven years. Their children were: Olivet, born Jan. 24, 1800; Laura, Nov. 10, 1801; Jephthah, Feb. 13, 1804; Eunice, April 20, 1806; Almira, March 24, 1808; Hollibut W., March 8, 1810; Thomas C., Feb. 22, 1812; Isaac Sidney, April 7, 1814; and Persis C., Sept. 12, 1816.


(VII) Eunice Geer, born April 20, 1806, mar- ried Charles Barstow.


PLATT. The Platt family, of which the late Charles B. Platt was a descendant, was early settled in New England. (I) Richard Platt, the first of that name in America, was a son of Joseph, born in England and baptized Sept. 28, 1603, near Hart- ford, England. He came to America in 1658, landing in New Haven, where he had a tract of land. He died in 1684, and his wife died 16 -. They were the parents of eight children.


(II) Josiah Platt, the second youngest child of Richard, was baptized in 1645. He married in Milford, Dec. 2, 1669, Sarah Camfield, of Milford.


(III) Josiah Platt (2), son of Josiah and Sarah (Camfield) Platt, was born Jan. 12, 1679. He re- ceived from his father by will "108 acres on Gelding Hill, new town," Conn. He married Sarah and they had four children.


(IV) Josiah Platt (3), eldest son of Josiah (2), married Sarah Sanford, Nov. 13, 1758.


(V) Nathan Platt, son of Josiah (3), born March 3, 1761, married Ruby Smith, of Newtown, Conn., and (second) Charlotte Dickerman, and was the father of eight children. He lived many years in Waterbury, Conn., and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. He died in Wallingford in 1845, and was buried in Waterbury.


(VI) Ely Platt, third son of Nathan, born in Newtown, Conn., July 3, 1793, married Levia Beck- ley, of Naugatuck, daughter of Dr. Daniel Beckley, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and also a surgeon. Mr. Platt died at Norwich, Conn., Feb. 13, 1867. He was the father of eight children. .


(VII) Charles Beckley Platt, the youngest son of Ely, was born in Utica, March 8, 1827. In his native place he learned the printer's trade, following it at first in that city, and later in New York City. He came to Norwich early in life, and in 1860, two years after the establishment of the Norwich Morning Bulletin, became part owner and the business man- ager of that paper, which was conducted under the firm name of Manning, Platt & Co. Mr. Platt sold out his interest and retired from the management of the paper in 1868. After abandoning the news- paper business he conducted a dry-goods business, and Mrs. Platt carried on the largest millinery busi- ness in the city for many years. Mr. Platt retired from business a couple of years before his death, having accumulated a competency, and spent the remainder of his life at his elegant residence, "Rocklawn," in the northeastern part of the town. Mr. Platt was an excellent business man, and was considered the most skillful printer and publisher in


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the county. He possessed fine literary tastes, his knowledge of standard literature was varied and extensive, and his remarkable memory served him well in his literary labors. Under his nom de plume of "Karl Beck" he wrote many excellent pieces of poetry and prose, among them "Rocklawn," which is given below. Before his connection with the Bulletin he published the Norwich Tribune, a weekly of superior merit, in company with Edmund Clar- ence Stedman, the poet, who was the editor, but the paper was suspended after a career of little more than a year, in 1853. Mr. Platt died Sept. 8, 1883, in the fifty-sixth year of his age. His death was caused by an abscess in the throat, which ended in hemorrhage. He was buried in the Yantic ceme- tery, his funeral being largely attended. Rev. Dr. Geisy, of Christ Church, officiated.


On Dec. 14, 1848, Mr. Platt married Frances J. C. Dey, and they had two children : Allen, who died at the age of twenty-four years ; and a daughter who died in infancy. On Feb. 8, 1860, he married Olive Worthington Barstow, and to that union came four children, Carrie B., Helen B., Rufus B. and George B., previously mentioned.


Of his picturesque home and its environs Mr. Platt once wrote as follows :


"O fair Rocklawn! thou charming home, where now my manhood's prime


Is sure and swiftly passing from the golden shores of time, Be thou my theme while I essay in melancholy song, To celebrate the beauties that for aye to thee belong ; And sing the tender memories of sweet elysian days, A defter minstrel's loftier lay can only fitly praise !


0 rare old days! They'll dearer grow in all the coming years


That fate may have in store for me, with smiles or bitter tears :


And unto them this heart will turn, with ever mantling joy. To dwell on all their treasured hours, without the least alloy.


"Dear old Rocklawn! delightful spot, when grim and hoary age


Shall bring to me its sorrows dree, nor make of me a sage. llow fond will memory linger on each charm endeared to me ;


The ancient chn, the brave old oak, and many a spreading trec; The cro'nest on the craggy rock, with tangled wildwood round,


Where oft at evening's witching honr, in reverie profound. I've dared to dream the wildest dreams, and in the empty air Full many a castle tall, with tower and turret fair. By magic art have conjured up, and seen them grandly rise.


With pinnacle and graceful spire uppointing to the skies. Alas! how soon they crumbling fell, all toppling to the ground. And broken lay a monruful wreck in ruefnl rmm round! "The orchard on the sloping green where merry children played. And where the scent of apple blossoms all the summer stayed ; The hemlock hedge that grows beside the wild and rocky glen ; The rivulet that rippling runs along the reedy fen. Where all its laughing waters clear in tmy cascades fell


With light and beauty lighting up the weird and silent cell ;


The shining lake anent the hill, that shimmers in the light Like diamonds on the helmet of a leal and belted knight, Within whose dark and silent depths, like gleaming darts of


flame,


The gorgeous goldfish gambol free, as if in sportive game. How oft I've tried to lure them from their wat'ry realms below !


But, wise as well as beautiful, they did not care to go.


"The rustic well, where oft at noon, in summer's fervent hcat, I've gaily quaffed a brimming draught of nectar, cold and sweet


As Bacchus sips with burning lips from the ruddy beaker's brim ;


Who cares for wine when drink divine flows o'er the bucket's rim!


"Along the wooded valley, to the south and far away. Slow winds the peerless river, by its banks of green and gray-


Now flashing back each am'rous glance the sun so boldly throws


On its fair and virgin bosom, as pure as polar snows ;


Then holding in its lucent deeps in soft celestial sheen. The mirrored moon far down below, majestic and serene ; Its mighty tide of waters, from the flume and turbine free. Now toils no more with rush and roar, but widens to the sea, Amid whose bounding billows, capped with combing crests of foam,


'Twill soon be free as it used to be away in its mountain home !


And so the soul will float away on summer sea of love. From tears and toil and turmoil free, to realms of peace above.


"( fair Rocklawn! I'll not forget among thy many charms. The birds that fill thy leafy groves with music's s ft alarms.


And gaily greet in song so sweet the footsteps of the morn. Whose golden light on mountain height proclaimed a new day born !


"The meadow lark in bhithesome strain then pipes his greet- ing high.


And boldly wings his dizzy flight far upward to the sky ; The plebe's soft and tender song, so mourning and so low, Now jours the flaming oriole's, in the meadow down below ; Anon the cheery bobolink, in notes full, clear and strong. Fills all the air with melody in bhssinh matin song. While every merry warbler in the orchard and the grove. Swells high the joyful symphony of praise to tid ale.


"The flowers I will ever love that in the garden bosom; It's roses rare and files for all breathe a rich perfume. Thật haunts the bram like doing strain of fluent the rhyme :


The ivy on the crumbled wall the arenatie theme.


With modest violets on the ground, carnations in their pride.


And orange blossomis golden hued to deck the Washing brule


There's rosemary, tor funcbrance sad of lies at Full


While pansies sweet wake tunder thought of present love c11v: 1110


O every heart a kingdom is, where Love despoite iciens In use and south, or any of ruth, it bears the island's


The white and crimson edambine, that tells of broken


Close by the patient as eve blooms, and laurel for the brows


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Beside a fun'ral cypress grows, whose branches sadly wave ; He who the path of glory treads but marches to the grave !


"Such berries red and purple grapes ne'er grew on bush or vine,


Nor in such tempting clusters hung, as grow and hang on thine !


No tasselled corn on summer morn e'er waved so tall and grand,


To cheer the patient toiler for the labor of his hand !


The apple and the apricot, the luscious peach and pear-


As low the loaded branches bend with burdens rich and rare,


Seem better, sweeter, choicer far, than e'er in garden grew, Since roses bloomed, or water ran, or softly fell in dew; And Eden must-that fabled spot-its ancient glories share With this more modern paradise, so blooming and so fair.


"When night lets fall her sable pall on all the world around, And shrouds the vale, the hill and dale in darkness most profound,


Ten thousand tiny lamps are lit, and brightly gleam and glance


From evening gray to break of day, to light the mystic dance


Of fay and fairy-winsome, airy-tripping light and free, From dusk to dawn on grassy lawn, beneath the green- wood tree.


Then many a mystic sound falls soft on fancy's listening ear,


And wraps the soul in wonder oft-impels it oft to fear .. The moaning breeze in lofty trees takes up the weird refrain,


And fills the mind with nameless dread-the heart with haunting pain !


"Loved home! thou hast a dearer charm, and more exalted far


Than rarest beauty nature gives, or art can make or mar. Its gracious presence brightens joy-it lightens every grief, And is of all life's treasured things, the choicest and the chief.


The lowly cot, the lordly hall, with wealth and beauty crowned,


Nor peace nor happiness can know, if this do not abound. Take from my home all nature gave-all art has deftly done-


I'll never grieve if fate will leave this gem-this price- less one !


This pearl so fair, this jewel rare-all else so far above- The poor man's wealth, the rich man's bliss, is sweet do- mestic love !


"Dear spot ! I love to linger long on all thy pleasing charms ; Thy deep sequestered by-ways lone, unvexed by wild alarms ;


Amid whose loved and lovely scenes, from stormy passions free,


My world-worn, wan and weary soul would ever like to be !


Exempt from bicker, toil and strife for riches or for fame; No wish to join the madding crowd, no thought of praise or blame ;




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