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David Platt

David Platt was an early Lowndes County household head. His name is legible on the original 1830 federal census, and an 1840 index supplies a plausible later household locator. Those records establish regional residence but do not place his home within the part of Lowndes County that became Brooks County.

A 2006 compiled genealogy identifies David as a son of Rev. Joshua Platt and Amy Newell. Original records support the chronology: David married Mary Rowe in Bulloch County in 1818, Joshua and David headed separate households on the same Bulloch census page in 1820, and both later lived in Lowndes County. None of those original records names David's parents, so the father-son relationship remains secondary-supported rather than verified.

Folks Huxford listed Platt among the settlers arriving in 1824 or 1825 and among the justices appointed to the first Lowndes County Inferior Court on May 29, 1826. The original appointment or court minute has not been inspected. The arrival period and office therefore remain secondary-supported rather than verified from the underlying records.

Platt belongs in the wider early-Lowndes story. His status as a settler of the future Brooks County area remains qualified until a land lot, tax district, deed, or court record supplies a more precise location.

A deed locator records David and Peter Platt conveying a District 11 grist mill and improvements to James D. Shanks (Deed Book A, page 625). District 11 is not a future-Brooks locator. Joshua Platt's District 12 land cannot be assigned to David without a record proving the relationship and transfer. See Regional figures — future-Brooks residence unproved.

Sources

  1. 1830 U.S. census, Lowndes County, Georgia, stamped p. 81; Ancestry collection 8058, record 1850850, image 4409522_00160.
  2. 1840 U.S. census, Lowndes County, Georgia, manuscript p. 195; Ancestry collection 8057, record 1792451, image 4411334_00489 (index-supported identity).
  3. Folks Huxford, History of Brooks County, Georgia (1948), pp. 29–33. Used for the traditional arrival and first-court claims, not as original proof.
  4. RootsWeb compiled GEDCOM, David Platt family page and Joshua Platt–Amy Newell family page, 2006. Used as secondary evidence for parentage.
  5. Bulloch County, Georgia, marriage volume, David Platt and Mary Rowe, license March 2 and marriage March 5, 1818; Ancestry collection 4766, record 206418, image 40951_294463-00154. The record names no parents.