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( II) Jonas, son of Jonathan Platts, was baptized August 9. 1668. He married ( first) in Bradford, Massachusetts, September 10. 1702, Anne, born September 24. 1678. died October 21, 1738, daughter of Deacon Joseph Bailey, of Bradford. They lived near her father's house in East Bradford. He married ( second) Sarah Wallingford. Children : Jonas, born February 9. 1703-04: Abigail, March 23. 1705: Elizabeth, September 14, 1708 : Isaac, mentioned below : Anne, May 15. 1714: Ednah, 17 -: Hannah, November 28. 1721.
(III) Isaac, son of Jonas Platts, was born March 19, 1710-1I. He is thought by some to have married Bartlett, of West Newbury, Massachusetts. Among his chil dren were: Isaac, lived in Leominster, Mas- sachusetts, and New York state: John, men- tioned below : Betty, married, February. 1758, Anthony, son of Deacon Stephen and Elizabeth (Worth) Morse; Susanna, married Eben Mulliken probably : Edna, married Jacob Hills ; Molly, married Barnes, son of Joseph and Hannah ( Prouce) Short : Moses.
(IV) John, son of Isaac Platts, is said to have lived for a short time on Rolt's Corner in East Bradford, Massachusetts, and then he moved to Andover, Massachusetts. He and his brothers Moses and Isaac served in the revolution from Bradford. He died while in the revolutionary army with yellow fever, Oc- tober, 1781, while on Long Island, New York. He married, September 7. 1773. Sarah, daugh- ter of Joseph and Sarah ( Jackson) Hale, from Lower Boxford. She was born Novem- ber 13, 1751, and lived the last years of her life with her daughter in Berlin, Ver- mont. Children: John, mentioned below ; Sarah, born June 2. 1776, died September 1. 1838, married, January 20, 1801, Jacob Flan- ders, born December 12, 1777, and they lived in Berlin, Vermont : Jonathan, went to sea and probably died unmarried: Rebecca. died un- married, aged seventeen.
(V) Deacon John (2) Platts, son of John ( 1) Platts, was born in East Bradford, July I, 1774, died May 6, 1856, near Rowley (now Georgetown), Massachusetts. He was a farmer and a shoe manufacturer in George- town. He married ( first ) Mary, born in 1776, died in 1816, daughter of John and Martha ( Friend) Palmer, of Georgetown. He mar- ried (second) Sarah, born in 1781. died Au- gust 7, 1818. daughter of John Jr. and Lydia
( Morrison) Goodrich, of East Haverhill, Massachusetts. He married (third) Lydia, daughter of Jacob and Saralı Peabody, of Topsfield, Massachusetts. She died in 1832. He married (fourth) Sarah, born in 1790, daughter of Humphrey and Judith Noyes, of Atkinson, Massachusetts, cousin of Jesse Poor, who married Mr. Platt's third cousin, Sally Bailey. His children were by the last two wives. Children: 1. Silena, born Octo- ber 13, 1798, died August 13, 1860; married Asa, son of Asa and Abigail (Balch) Brad- street, of Topsfield, born September 8, 1793, an innkeeper, then blacksmith until 1832, then butcher in Haverhill until 1835, then returned to Georgetown. 2. Almira, born February 8, 1800, died March 29, 1869; married Moses, son of Moses and Nancy (Ruggles) Carter, of Wilmington, Massachusetts, born November 19, 1797, manufacturer of Atwood's medi- cines, etc. 3. Isaac Braman, born February 5, 1802, died August 13, 1860; married Sarah Jane, daughter of Isaac and Dorcas (Good- rich) Tyler, of Newbury; lived in North Reading, Massachusetts. 4. Coleman, born October 25, 1803, died May 10, 1853 ; married Louisa, born 1806, daughter of James and Sarah (McFarland) Smiley. 5. John Lyman, born May 31, 1808, died May 10, 1887; mar- ried (first) Harriet, daughter of Daniel and Hannah Mitchell, (second) Susan, daughter of John and Susan Barns, of Portsmouth, shoe manufacturer in Dover, New Hampshire. 6. Hervey, mentioned below. 7. Simeon Friend, born April 25, 1813, died August 24, 1892; shoe dealer in Dover, New Hampshire ; mar- ried Olive, daughter of William and Ruth Proctor, of Gloucester, Massachusetts. 8. Luther, born July 31, 1815, was adopted by his uncle. John Palmer, of Georgetown, and took their name on death of his first wife; married (first) Martha, daughter of Eliphalet and Sarah Spofford, (second) Catherine Hardy, of Groveland. in 1858. 9. Saralı Goodrich, born July 21, 1818; married Edwin. son of John and Rhoda ( Rundlett) Carr, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, carpenter and painter.
(VI) Hervey, son of Deacon John (2) Platts, was born at Rowley, Massachusetts, November 15, 1810, died October 21, 1896. He attended the common schools of his na- tive town, and early in life began to work at the trade of shoemaker. He and his broth- er Coleman came to Rochester, New York, in
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1841, but did not locate there, and soon after- ward made their homes in Ithaca, New York. They began the manufacture of boots and shoes in Ithaca and brought the first ready- made boots and shoes to that town. The firm was soon dissolved, Coleman Platts returning to Massachusetts, and Hervey continuing the business for many years alone. He became financially interested in the Calendar Clock Company and retired from business as a shoe dealer to devote his time to that industry. But he again returned to the shoe business and continued in it until 1890, when he retired from active business. In politics he was a Democrat. He was a substantial and suc- cessful citizen, upright and manly in char- acter and universally respected in the com- munity. He was a useful citizen, performing his duty to party and public faithfully. He served with ability and credit as trustee of the incorporated village of Ithaca.
He married, April 25, 1837, Hannah F., born June 23, 1815, died January 1, 1892, daughter of Reuben and Hannah (Flint) Co- burn, of Dracut, now the city of Lowell, Massachusetts. Children : I. Ellen Maria, born December 1, 1842, died April 26, 1876; married Samuel Stansbury, of Ithaca. 2. Al- bert Hervey, mentioned below. 3. Loraine W., born February 13, 1847; educated in the public schools of Ithaca and in the old Ithaca Academy; member of the Presbyterian church. 4. Florence Eva, born September 2. 1852, died September 29, 1880.
(VII) Albert Hervey, son of Hervey Platts, was born at Ithaca, New York, Janu- ary 24. 1845, died there March 27, 1910. He was educated in the public schools. During the sixties he was a traveling salesman, hand- ling boots and shoes. For about two years he was engaged in the tobacco business, and in 1871 began to manufacture tobacco as senior partner of the firm of Platts, Gaskin & Patterson. After the death of his partners he continued in business under the firm name of A. H. Platts & Company until the time of his death. In politics he was a Democrat. was president of the village of Ithaca in 1879 and held other offices of trust and responsibil- ity. He was an active, energetic and pro- gressive man, of exemplary character, imbued with the public spirit, kindly, charitable and upright in his dealings. He married. October 23, 1878, Fannie Fredenburg, who died May 17. 1908.
HARDY
Elias Hardy was the son of a Presbyterian clergyman of
Highgate, England. He prac- ticed law in London, England. and shortly before the revolution came to this country, locating in New York. During the revolution he remained a Loyalist and at the close of the war with many others removed to St. John, New Brunswick. The records show that he was attorney for a number of the American Loyalists in Canada to press their claims for remuneration from the British gov- ernment on account of losses from confisca- tion of their property in the United States. He does not appear as a claimant in his own behalf, however, and probably had acquired no real estate in New York. He died in St. Jolın in 1798. aged fifty-two years. He mar- ried, in New York, October 27, 1781, Martha, daughter of Dr. Peter Huggeford of New- burg, New York. Children: 1. George, born in New York, January 14, 1783, died in 1814. 2. Elizabeth, died in infancy. 3. Jane, died in infancy. 4. Jane, born December 22, 1793, died 1873. 5. Henry P., born June 14, 1795, died in 1859. 6. Charles Elias. mentioned be- low.
(II) Charles Elias, son of Elias Hardy, was born in St. John, July 28, 1798, died at Ithaca, New York, July 7, 1868. After his father's death his mother returned to New York with her children and located at Lansingburg, where he attended the public schools until he was thirteen years old. Then he entered the employ of the Delavan Brothers, hardware merchants, at Albany, New York, as a clerk, and continued for a number of years. After- wards he engaged in the hardware business at Utica, New York, on his own account until 1830, when he came to Ithaca and established himself in the same line of business. For a number of years he was senior partner of the firm of Hardy & McCormick. After this firm was dissolved he became cashier of the Merchants & Farmers Bank of Ithaca and he filled that position with ability and fidelity the remainder of his life. In politics he was in later years a Republican. He was a prom- inent member of the Presbyterian church. He was kindly, charitable and sympathetic by nature and was highly honored and esteemed in the community.
He married, August 18. 1823, Louisa, born March 9, 1804, at Utica, died October 16, 1888, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Eaton)
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Walker. Children: I. Mary H., born De- cember 2, 1824, died November 25, 19II; married Josiah B. Williams, of Ithaca. 2. Jane Louisa, born August 21, 1828; educated in the schools of the district and in the old Ithaca Academy; now residing on the old homestead where she has made her home since 1830; an active member of the Pres- byterian church. 3. Louisa W., born June II, 1835, died January 24, 1866.
Dr. Peter Huggeford, father of Martha (Huggeford) Hardy, was born as early as 1740. He lived in New York City and New- burg, New York, and St. John, New Bruns- wick. In vol. 2, "United Empire Loyalists" (Bureau of Archives, Ontario, p. 285) Dr. Peter Huggeford gives testimony relating to the claim of Joseph Curey, formerly of Peeks- kill, Westchester county, New York. In 1790 according to the first federal census, there were two of the name in New York City. Peter Huggeford had four males over sixteen and five females; John Huggeford had two sons under sixteen and four females.
GRANTIER John Grantier was a farmer of New York state ; married and had issue.
(II) Rufus, son of John Grantier, was a farmer of Hamlet, Chautauqua county, New York, where he died. He married and had issue.
(III) Madison Edwin, son of Rufus Gran- tier, was born March II, 1834. He married, July 7, 1861, Amelia E., daughter of William Farnham, died April 10, 1881. Children: I. Frank Herbert, of whom further. 2. Dr. Will- iam Walter, born July 19. 1876: graduate of University of Buffalo (medical department), 1899 : a practicing physician of Buffalo since 1900 : married, June 1, 1910, Mabel Elizabeth, daughter of Henry and Sarah (Vane) Smith, of Buffalo. 3 and 4. Eva and Harry, died in infancy.
(IV) Frank Herbert, eldest son of Madison Edwin and Amelia E. (Farnham ) Grantier, was born at Forestville, New York, November 3. 1863. In 1872 his parents removed to Buf- falo. where his education was chiefly obtained. graduating from the high school. He began business as a clerk for the Butler Colliery Company, of Buffalo, rising to the position of manager in 1887. In 1891 he engaged in the wholesale and retail coal business for himself. and has since then been successfully engaged
in that line. He also owns and personally manages "Grantier's," a high-class tea room, bakery and restaurant, opened November 17, 1910. He is an independent Republican, and an attendant of Linwood Methodist Episcopal Church.
He married, September 18, 1900, Louise Eu- phemia, daughter of George Wallace and Sarah Rebecca (Free) Smith, of Buffalo ( see Smith III). Child, Helen Farnham.
The family of which Carey D.
DAVIE Davie, who is now serving in the capacity of surrogate of Cattar- augus county, is a worthy representative, is of English descent, the name being spelled in various ways, namely Davie, Davy and Davey. (I) Samuel Davie, the progenitor of the family in this country, left his native land in the early part of the last century, accom- panied by his two brothers. He located at Bolivar, Allegany county, New York, where he followed the occupation of agriculture, be- ing one of the sturdy and successful farmers of that section. He served in the war of 1812. He married and reared a large family. all of whom, except one son and one daughter, are now deceased.
(II) William, son of Samuel Davie, was born at Bolivar, New York, and there spent his life, winning and retaining the respect and esteem of all with whom he was brought in contact. He married Angenette Manrose, and among their children was Carey D.
(III) Carey D., son of William Davie, was born at Bolivar, New York, March 4, 1850. He was educated in the common schools, Richburg Academy, and Allegheny College, at Meadville, Pennsylvania, from which he grad- uated in June, 1871, and from which he re- ceived the degrees of A.B. and A.M. He taught school until 1876, a portion of the time acting as principal of Genesee Valley Sem- inary, at Belfast, New York. Later he read law with Marshall B. Champlain, of Cuba, New York, who was at that time attorney- general of the state of New York, and was admitted to practice in June, 1876, and soon thereafter admitted to practice in United States courts. He located at Salamanca, New York, July 5, 1876, and has continued in prac- tice there ever since. He was the first clerk of the village of Salamanca after its incor- poration, and was elected and served as presi- dent of the same. He served as president of
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the board of education of Salamanca public schools : represented that town upon the board of supervisors; was elected surrogate of the county of Cattaraugus in the fall of 1890 for the term of six years, elected again in the fall of 1896, again in 1902, again in 1908, and is still serving in that capacity, this fact clearly demonstrating his popularity and effi- ciency.
He has had an extensive practice as referee in hearing and deciding litigations ; has tried and decided more than one thousand law suits and his decision has only been reversed four times by the appellate courts. He has always been an active Republican in politics, and participated as campaign speaker in every presidential contest since 1876, usually under the direction of the state committee. He has written extensively for publication for papers and magazines, and is the author of the article in this work entitled "The Senecas," and he also lectures frequently on scientific and other subjects. He is a member of the Congrega- tional church. and the Salamanca Lodge. Chapter and Commandery of the Order of Free and Accepted Masons.
Mr. Davie married, July 2, 1873, Annie E. Benedict, of Meadville, Pennsylvania. Chil- dren : John W., born December 1, 1875, died July 31, 1902: Katherene LuElla, born Sep- tember 1. 1877 ; married. September 25. 1895, C. F. Buckmaster, and their children are : De Forest W., born November 1, 1897, and Masie, born February 6, 1903.
BATES Robert Bates, immigrant ancestor, came from England in 1630 with one of Sir Richard Saltonstall's companies. Sir Richard, who was one of six patentees for the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in the summer of 1630 organized a company of about two thousand five hundred English Puritans which he sent to the colony. Among these was his son. Richard Saltonstall, who settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1635. The larger part of this company settled at Watertown, Massachusetts, and Newtown, now Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1636 some of the Watertown settlers founded Wethers- field, Connecticut, and they were followed by more from Newtown, Watertown and Dor- chester, in 1636. This was the first real be- ginning of Connecticut, and by May, 1637, there were as many as eight hundred settlers in Wethersfield, Hartford and Windsor. Sir
Richard Saltonstall never lived in New Eng- land. and very likely never was over here.
Robert Bates settled first in Watertown and then went in 1636 to Wethersfield. According to "Stiles' History of Wethersfield," he came early to Wethersfield and was the ancestor of the Bates family in Glastonbury, Connecti- cut, according to Chapin in the "Glastonbury Centennial." Stiles says that in 1640 he owned one hundred and eighty-two acres of land which he sold to William Gibbons on or before May 4, 1641, as he intended to move; he received a house, barn and six acres of land on March 10, 1640, which he sold May 6, 1641. to William Butler: this land was bounded by the Commons on High street. and the Great Meadow on the west, by the Great Meadow on the east, the home lot of John Curtis on the north, and John Whitmore's land on the south. The following is quoted from "Huntington's History of Stamford. Connecticut" : "Robert Bates came from Wethersfield with the first colonists and is on the list of thirty who paid one hundred bushels of corn to the New Haven 'friends' who had surveyed and transferred the terri- tory to them. His lot in Wethersfield. which was thirty and a third rods in width, con- taining 182 acres, was sold to Win. Gibbons." He paid three bushels, one peck of corn, and had ten acres of land. In 1641 he was asses- sor at Stamford. At first Stamford was called Toquams, then Rippowams and finally Stam- ford.
Wethersfield received its name from the general court, February 21. 1637. Though the settlers of Hartford and Windsor had church organization when they came, those of Wethersfield did not, but were Puritans or Nonconformists, not Pilgrims, who were called Separates or Brownists. Most of the Weth- ersfield settlers belonged to Mr. Phillip's church in Watertown. In 1638 Rev. Richard Denton, of Halifax. England, went to Rippo- wams (Stamford) with the majority of the church and founded the church there. Mather says that he was a little man with a great soul, and blind of one eye. In 1638-9 Lieuten- ant Robert Seeley and others left Wethersfield for Quinnipiac (New Haven) and in 1640 those who went to Stamford took away even a greater number. Among the Stamford set- tlers, besides Robert Bates, were Rev. Rich- ard Denton. Francis Bell. Samuel Clark, Rob- ert Coe, Richard Crabbe, Jeffrey Ferris and
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Andrew Ward, from whom Rev. Henry Ward Beecher received his middle name.
Robert Bates died at Stamford, June II, 1075, and his will was proved November 1, 1675 ; he bequeathed to his son John, daughter Mary, wife of Abraham Ambler, and his son- in-law, John Cross ; he left some negroes "who are to be made free at forty years of age." A John Bates was one of five to fortify and stockade the town of Stamford, October 19, 1675. A Thomas Bates of Rye, New York, probably a brother, married Mary Butcher, February 21, 1679. Robert Bates married Margaret Cross. The son-in-law mentioned in his will might have been a step-son. He married ( second ) Susannah, daughter of Si- mon Hoyt. Children: John, mentioned be- low : Mary, married, December 25. 1662, Abra- ham Ambler.
(II) Ensign John Bates, son of Robert Bates, was one of the patentees from the governor and county in 1685 of Stamford. In 1685 he was ensign of the Stamford militia. In 1689-90 he was deputy to the general court. He died at Stamford, December 26, 1742. He married (first ) January 18. 1093, Elizabeth Lockwood ; she died May 23. 1702. He mar- ried (second ) December 28, 1702, Saralı Smith. Children by first wife, born at Stam- ford: John, mentioned below ; Nathaniel, Oc- tober 4. 1097: Elizabeth, December 10, 1699: David, May 23. 1702. Children by second wife: Nehemiah, March 29, 1704; Hannah, May 5, 1705.
(FFI) John (2), son of Ensign John (1) Bates, was born at Stamford, Connecticut, No- vember 6, 1694. He married (first ) Septem- ber 1, 1718, at Bedford, Westchester county, New York, Sarah Selleck, who died February 21, 1720. He married ( second ) Mary Webb. Child by first wife: John, mentioned below. ( IV ) John ( 3). son of John (2) Bates, was born June 24, 1719. He married, in 1744, Martha Seeley. Children : Selleck. mentioned below; Nathan, born November 7, 1747; Sa- rah, May 20, 1750: Charles, August 13. 1752. (New Style ) ; John, September 6, 1755; Aza- riah, January 21, 1758; Elisha, July 10, 1760: Seeley, February 6, 1763.
(V) Selleck. son of John ( 3) Bates, was born at Stamford, January 12. 1745. He was a soldier in the revolution from Stamford, Au- gust 13 to September 27, 1776, in Captain Jonathan Ball's company, the Ninth Connecti- cut Regiment (p. 456 "Conn. Soldiers in the
Revolution"). His name does not appear, at any rate under the proper spelling, in the cen- sus of 1790 of Connecticut or New York. He may have gone elsewhere for a time. The date of his death is not known. He had a son Selleck, mentioned below.
(\]) Selleck ( 2). son of Selleck ( 1) Bates, was born in Stamford, June 18, 1768. 11e lived in Stamford until 1812. when he came to Danby, Tompkins county, New York, remov- ing his goods and family on an ox-team. lle was one of the pioneers of the town, cleared his farm and followed farming there the re- mainder of his days. He died November I, 1836. He married Sarah, daughter of Nehe- miah and Elizabeth (Scofield) Bates; she is known not to be a near relative. Children : Hezekiah, Isaac, Abraham, mentioned below ; Jacob, Charles, Hannah, Elizabeth, Fanny.
(VII) Abraham, son of Selleck (2) Bates, was born in Stamford, Connecticut, August 28, 1810, died at Brookton, Tompkins county, New York, May 28, 1895. He lived at home until he was eighteen years old, helping his father on the farm, then he learned the trade of blacksmith. He was in the employ of R. L. Cowdrey, of Ithaca, for nine months, and afterward in the employ of William Sanford, of Ithaca, New York, attending the public schools during his youth and some of the time after he began to work at his trade. Return- ing to the town of Danby, he opened a black- smith shop on his own account and followed his trade there successfully. He also hired a farm and conducted it, and afterward bought a farm on Ithaca Hill, whither he moved in 1836 and cultivated it for the following six years. In 1842 he bought a farm of one hun- dred and twenty-five acres in the town of Car- oline. settled there and followed general farm- ing. From time to time he added by purchase to his holdings in real estate, both in Caroline and in the city of Ithaca, and became a lead- ing citizen of the town. In politics he was a Republican and he took a lively interest in town affairs, but never accepted public of- fice. In religion he was a Methodist.
He married, November 1. 1832. Mary E. Wright, born January 22, 1815. died in 1880. Children : Charles W., born November 17, 1833: Mary Jane, June 23. 1835, married George W. Franklin ; Francis A., October 15. 1837 : Sarah A., May 11. 1840. married Jerome Brown ; Frederick E .. mentioned below : Cor- nelia A .. June 16. 1845. married Charles Man-
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deville : Martin L., October 15, 1847, died in infancy; Kate E., February 12, 1851, married Charles Poppelwell; Theron A., January 10, 1855, died aged nine years.
(VIII) Frederick E., son of Abraham Bates, was born May 4, 1842, on the home- stead near Caroline Depot, Tompkins county, New York.
He received his early education in the public schools of his native town, at Ithaca Academy and Charlotteville Seminary. He worked on the farm in boyhood and as- sisted his father until he enlisted in the Un- ion army in the civil war. August 30, 1864. He was a private in the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Regiment, New York Volun- teer Infantry, and was in the service to the end of the war. He was mustered out with his regiment at Elmira, New York. On the first day in the service he took part in the en- gagement at Poplar Springs Church. Ile was in the siege of Petersburg and took part in various other skirmishes. For two months after he returned from the service he assisted his father on the homestead. He then en- tered partnership with his brother Charles W. in mercantile business in Ithaca until 1872. when he resumed farming. He was one of the most successful and prominent farmers of this section. For the last ten years, from 1902 to 1912, he has resided in Ithaca. where he owns considerable real estate. He has been honored with various offices of trust and re- sponsibility. He served the town of Caroline for three terms in the board of supervisors and his a Iministration of the town affairs was creditable alike to him and his constituents. Ile was member of the assembly at Albany two terms, 1896-07, and was appointed to various important committees of that body. In poli- tics he is a Republican. Ile is a charter mem- ber of David Ireland Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Brookton, New York, of which he was commander for four years. He is now and has been for three years comman- der of Mix Post, Ithaca, New York, and is aide-de-camp to the commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. In religion hie is a Methodist.
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