The Newtown bee., 1906-08-24
MRS MARY GARNER RIDER, AND SOME INTERESTING HISTORICAL
 FACTS.

ing and delightful old lady stopping at the Inn, is granddaughter of David Schuyler and has an interesting an- cestry. Harry Rider, the successful and popular BrfdgeportOpatnt dealer, and longtime friend of THE BEE, is her son. Mrs Rider gives THE BEE these interesting facts concerning her ancestry:
 Col Richard Platt was descended, England, whose SOD, Richard, came to America in l63O, and landed at New Havens He settled at Milford in 1889. Col Richard was aide-de-camp to Gen Richard Montgomery at the storming of Quebec on the 31st of December, 1775. Montgomery died in his arms. He was the venerable marshal of the day when the generals remains were received in New York and re-interred in front of St Paul'S church, July 8, 1918, and was for years commissary general of the state of New York.
 There is a letter written by Gen which, in addition to an invitation to dine with him, are expressed senti- ments of the high esteem in which he was held, both as a man and patriot, by the Father of his Country. Zepha- mia Platt, Jr., uncle to Col Richard, was the founder of Plattsburg, N. Y. Heis mentioned in Appleton's Cyclo- poedia American Biography as follows:
 Member of Continental Congress, born in Dutchess county, N.Y., in 1740. He received a classical educa- tion. studied law, and practiced. Was delegate from New Yo9k ,osk >to to the Con. judge of the Circuit Court for many years. He was one of the originators of the Erie canal, and founded the town of Plattsburg."
 Zephania was the oldest of four brothers who were the first settlers and proprietors at Plattsburg. "Hav- ing purchased, soon after the RevOlu- tionary sWar, Ia number of military land warrants, they located them on Cumberland Bay, on the northwestern shore of Lake Champlain, Clinton county. New York. They in person surveyed and marked out the patent in l784. To induce a.rapid settlement hundred acres were offered to each of the first 10 settlers who should come on, bringing their families with them, and 100 acres also as donation to the l first male child born on the patent. There is an incident occurring near l775, which marks Zephania's love of right, and his sterling patriotism. When the first open revolt against the English rule began to manifest itSelf, I and at an inn east of POughkeepSfe, just beyond the turnpike, the people had erected a liberty-pOle. A sharp altercation took place between the sheriff and Zephanla Platt, one of the leaders, during which the sheriff ac- cused him of treason, and threatened to arrest him. MT Platt seized 8 club and said he should defend himself If
 he touched him. The sheriff drew his sword, but was persuaded to withdraw and leave the patriots unmolested. ment. After the Revolution was in I full progress he became an active and prominent man in Duchess county and at once reached the position of a trusted leader," etc. I During the occupation of Long IS- land by the British, Zephania Platt, ST., great-great-grandfa to Mrs
 Rider, at the age of 75 was taken pris- oner of war, and confined on>bOard the prison-ship in Wallabout Bay, in New l York harbor, or East river. The Brit ish discovered two whale boats secret ed about the premises, which they at diate cause of his arrest. History is silent as to what he did with the boats,
 but it may be presumed that he trans ported cattle, and people across the Sound into Connecticut to get them out of the way of the British. In ad- dition to making him prisoner they I drove of all his cattle, seized other
 property and attempted to kill one of
 his younger sons. Four Of his sons
 were in the United States army in the
 Revolutionary War. Capt Nathaniel
 holding his com mission from Wash. ington), the women alone being left on the place, where a sentry kept
 watch day and night. He and his fam.
 While confined in the old prison ship his youngest daughter, Dorotha, hearing that he was ill of small pox, df6ve with colored woman into the city, and interceded with Sir Henry Clinton for his release, pleading to be permitted to take him home, as it was certain he could not live. "He is an arrant rebel" said Sir Henry. "He is an old man, and can never more injure your cause," was the pathetic reply. Her fearful beauty and tilial affection prevailed, and he was set at liberty, but he died two days after reaching his home. He was buried in the family plot, near the tree to which he, with l OO OUIOlcs WdS CudlACOS UAA udA0A UO the prison ship, where most of them died. Zephania Platt, ST., was the only son of Jonas, son of Ephenetus, the son of Richard 1st.
 l Col Richard was the son of Jonas Oldest son of Jonas Platt lSt), who married Temperance, daughter of Eb- enezer Smith, of Smithtown. Col Richard was the eldest of three chil- dren-- His brother, Ebenezer, was taken prisoner in the Revolution and conveyed to London, where he was vis- ited by the celebrated Mrs Wright, who modelled the Royal Family in wax. There, after his release, he married one of her daughters, who was sister of the wife of Benjamin West. Eliza beth, his sister, married Rev David Schuyler BOgart. clergyman of the Dutch Reformed church. David $. Bogart was descended from the French HuguenotS. He was grandson of Cornelius Bogart, who was large landowner in the city of New York, where he was engaged in extensive mercantile business before the Revo- lution, and Son of Nicholas O., in whose house Maj Andre was confined after his arrest. From this house he was led to execution. Rev. MT BOgart was born in New York, January 12, 1790; graduated at Columbus college, and died July 10, 1889. Mention is made of him, in connection with his family, in Thompson's History of Long Island, edition of l843, and in Parton 8 to both his wives; first to the mother of his beloved Theodosia, and many years later to Madame Jumel. There iS a tradition in the family that he