Ancestry of
Amelia Earhart

Aviation Pioneer

Sarah Platt

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Amelia Earhart — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 845 
  • Father:
  • Richard Platt 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Wood   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 11 Sep 1636 
  • Christening Location:
  • Ware, Hertfordshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 15 May 1670 
  • Death Location:
  • Milford, New Haven, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Beach
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1653 
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  • Children:
  
  

  John Beach (Ahnentafel No:422 )

  Samuel Beach

• Additional marriages for Sarah Platt

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  • Spouse:
  • Miles Merwin
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1665

• Sources for Sarah Platt

  • ¹ New Haven, CT: Families of Ancient New Haven, Vol. 1, pp. 148-149.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1954, Vol. 30, pp. 232-233.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1955, Vol. 31, pp. 166-167.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1987, Vol. 62, p. 132.
  • ⁵ Orcutt, Samuel and Ambrose Beardsley, The History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 with Biographies and Genealogies, Springfield, Massachusetts: Press of Springfield Printing Company (1880), 699.
  • ⁶ Platt, Charles, Jr., Platt Genealogy in America From the Arrival of Richard Platt in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1638, New Hope, Pennsylvania: Unknown (1963), 73.
  • ⁷ Platt, G. Lewis, The Platt Lineage: A Genealogical Research and Record, New York: Thomas Whittaker (1891), 14, 16, 19.

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