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From: "JCTripp" <>
Subject: [PACAMBRI] John Platt, The Revolutioner, died 1750 update
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 10:46:48 -0500

>From time to time, I've seen inquiries about the parents of John Platt The
Revolutioner, buried at St. Joseph's, Hart's Sleeping Place. I know that
quite a few researchers have looked for evidence of Platts in Maryland and
found nothing. His children have records at St. Michael's, Loretto and
Hart's.
One child, John Jr. married Sarah Byrne. Sometime after Sarah died, John Jr
moved to Westmoreland Co to live with daughter Agnes and her husband
William Warnock & family. John's will was filed from Derry Twp.,
Westmoreland Co. in 1871. I assume he died in their household. The Warnock
family lived in or near Blairsville. I found that area listed in
Westmoreland Co, PA and then in Indiana Co, PA.
I came across this bio of Agnes' husband William Warnock at the Treasures
of the Past website. It has some very interesting info about his wife,
Agnes Platt's family. Any thoughts on which generation of Platts were
mentioned in this bio?
Regards, Jane Tripp


History of Indiana County, PA
By J. A. Caldwell
1880
Chapter 55
Pages 321 - 421

WILLIAM WARNOCK was born in Philadelphia in 1826, and was a son of Daniel
and Margaret Warnock nee McConville. The former was a native of Scotland,
and landed at Quebec, Canada, and walked thence to Philadelphia, by way of
Pittsburgh. He died in 1859, at the age of seventy-six; his wife died in
Philadelphia in 1832. Our subject's connection with the P. R. R. dates from
September 26, 1853, when he was employed as a machinist and locomotive
engineer. He ran a freight train between Pittsburgh and Altoona, and on
coming west, about three o'clock on the morning of the 17th of February,
1854, he ran into the east freight at Blairsville intersection, and has his
left arm broken at the elbow joint and right wrist dislocated. In
September, 1854, he came to Blairsville to run the engine "Henry Clay" from
Blairsville to the intersection till the completion of the Indiana Branch
railroad. He ran the first engine, the Henry Clay, in the I. B. R. R. The
second engine on the I. B. R. R. was the "United States," used by the
Collins Brothers to haul iron, etc. When trains began to run regularly, he
ran the first train with the "Chestnut Ridge;" he afterward used the
"Crawford No. 23," in 1859. In March, 1861, he ran the first train on the
Ebensburg and Cresson Branch Railroad, with engine No. 22. In 1865, he was
employed by Peter Collins to put up engines and derricks for drilling for
oil near Loretto, Cambria county, at what was called the "Dawson well." In
May, 1866, he was employed by the Allegheny Valley Railroad as machinist
and locomotive engineer. In 1870, he engaged in farming, and in 1871, was
employed as machinist in the shops of the W. P. R. R. at Blairsville. Our
subject was married in 1847 to Agnes, a daughter of John Platt, who was
born in Adams county, in 1784, and died in Westmoreland county in 1871. He
was the son of John and Elizabeth Platt nee Leutze, who came from
Rockbridge county, Virginia, to Adams county, and thence, in 1801, to
Cambria county. He was a soldier in the Revolution. He died at the age of
one Hundred and four years, in Cambria county, about three miles from
Cherry Tree. Our subject's farm in Derry township, Westmoreland county, has
the application warrant, dated April 3, 1769, and in the name of William
Dixon. The latter transferred the property to John Barnett, who sold to
John Platt, the father of Mrs. Warnock.

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