Person:Abel Platts (1)

Letter of Samuel Phillips and Edward Payson to the General Court

"Rowley, July 24th 1689

May it please your honors

The occasion of these lines is to inform you that whereas our military company have nominated Abel Platts for ensign, we conceive that it is our duty to declare that we cannot approve of their choice in that he is corrupt in judgment with reference to the Lord's supper, declaring himself against Christ's words of justification, and hereupon hath withdrawn himself from communion with the church in that holy ordinance some years, besides some other things wherein he hath shown no little vanity in his conversation and hath demeaned himself unbecomingly towards the word and towards the dispensers of it.

Having given you this intimation, we leave the matter with your honors to do as you see meet. Thus presenting our service to you and begging God's presence with you, rest you honors' servants for Jesus sake.

Samuel Phillips
Edward Paison."^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} 148. Samuel¹ Platts; 148-2. Ensign Abel² Platts, in Jewett, Amos Everett, [Editor], and George Brainard [Compiler] Blodgette. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts: A Genealogical Record of the Families who Settled in Rowley before 1700 with Several Generations of their Descendants. (Rowley, Mass.: Amos Everett Jewett (Newcomb & Gauss Co., Printers, Salem, Mass.), 1933)
   308-09.

   148-2. Ensign Abel² Platts (Samuel¹), born probably in England; married 8 May, 1672, Lydia, daughter of James Bailey. He was ensign of the Rowley Company in the Canada Expedition, and "died in y^e Canada voyage," 1690. At the time of his appointment as ensign, objection was made by the two ministers of Rowley for reasons set forth in their letter to the General Court. The inventory of his estate is dated 28 : 5 mo. 1691. The estate was divided 26 Mar., 1694; Widow Lydia (now Wicom), only son, Moses, and daughter Hannah are mentioned (Essex Probate, 303:195). His widow, Lydia, married (2) Capt. Daniel Wicom.