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The Daily Dispatch: December 31, 1860., [Electronic resource], Death of Commodore Platt. (search)
the 10th of October, 1795. His father was the proprietary of that township. The son was left, while a child, in the dependence of orphanage. The shelter of his boyhood was found under the roof of Judge Jonas Platt, and with Charles Z. Platt, at Albany, then Treasurer of the State. On the outbreak of hostilities between this government and Great Britain, he was an eager aspirant for the perils and honors of naval heroism. His public career commenced with a midshipman's warrant, dated June 18, 1812. The order accompanying it, directed him to repair at once to his station in the flag-ship of our fleet upon Lake Champlain. With this fleet he continued guarding our frontier against the enemy's invasion by water during the summer, and watching against his approach upon the ice by winter, to destroy our vessels at Vergennes.--He was at his post, on board the Saratoga, on the memorable 11th of September, 1814, when the British squadron bore down upon Commodore McDonough in Plattsburgh Ba