Brief Life History of Nancy Deborah
When Nancy Deborah Platt was born in 1792, in Mansfield Township, Burlington, New Jersey, United States, her father, Aaron Platt, was 31 and her mother, Hannah Atkinson, was 30. She married Achillies Betts on 16 August 1806, in Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. She lived in New Jersey, United States in 1806.
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- Debora Platt, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989"
- Debora Platt in entry for Achilles Betts, "Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940"
- Debora Platt, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989"
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1794 · Creating the Eleventh Amendment
The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
1804
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr had been political enemies with intense personal differences for quite some time. Burr accused Hamilton of publicly disparaging his character during the elections of 1800 and 1804. On the morning of July 11, the two politicians went to Weehawken, New Jersey to resolve the disputes with an official duel. Both men were armed with a pistol. Hamilton missed, but Burr's shot fatally wounded Hamilton, who would die by the following day. The duel custom had been outlawed in New York by 1804, resulting in Burr fleeing the state due to an arrest warrant. He would later be accused of treason, but ultimately be acquitted.
1823
Corfield vs Coryell was a significant federal court case that upheld New Jersey's existing regulation, which prohibited any non-residents from gathering clams and oysters. The case was decided by Justice Bushrod Washington of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Justice Washington primarily referenced the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment, regarding "privileges and immunities" to arrive at his decision.
Name Meaning
English: Middle English plat, platte ‘flat surface’ (Anglo-Norman French plat, plast), often with the senses ‘footbridge’ or ‘plot of land’. The name may be topographic, for one who lived near such a feature, or habitational, from a place so named, such as Platt in Manchester or Platt Bridge in Wigan (both Lancashire).
Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname from German platt ‘flat’.
German: variant of Platte 3.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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