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We definitely would need the Y-DNA tests or totally new evidence to confirm this one. Per a quote below, this family legend is not only "three times failed to get back to Germany", but another "three brothers" story as well <g>. Wonder what happened to the other two supposedly German brothers?
This quote is from
The History of Middlesex County 1635-1885
J. H. Beers & Co., 36 Vesey Street, New York
1884
Pages 537 - 561
TOWN OF SAYBROOK.
BY REV. WILLIAM H. KNOUSE,
PASTOR OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,
DEEP RIVER
[transcribed by Janece Streig]
"Contemporary, or nearly so, with the above mentioned earliest settlers of the eastern part of the town were the earliest settlers of the western part, or what is now Winthrop. Their names were BULKELEY, BUSHNELL, DENISON, JONES, PLATTS, and POST. The PLATTS family of this town is ascertained to be, not of English, as commonly supposed, but of German origin, the ancestor Frederick PLATTS (for PLATZ), having come, with two brothers, from the Upper Rhine in Germany, and settled in Westbrook. He married a Miss FOX, of New London, formerly from England, and settled about 1670 in Old Killingworth, now Clinton. He had six children. Obadiah, his third son, born in 1709, was married in 1737 to Hannah LANE, of Clinton, and settled in Winthrop. He built a house not far from the residence of Mr. Alfred PLATTS, which has disappeared. The town records give the fact that fifteen acres of land were deeded to him by a CHAPMAN as early as 1735. His eldest son, Daniel, is supposed to have been the first child born in that part of the town.
His third son, Noah (born in 1742 and died in 1811), built a house, either before or during the Revolutionary war, which is still in habitable condition, though more than a hundred years old.
In 1786, he built another house, which was occupied by his son, Col. Obadiah PLATTS, a commissioned officer in the war of 1812, and is now the residence of his grandson, Mr. J. Lozel PLATTS, who is one of the largest farmers and landholders in the town."
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