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I don't doubt that "Platz" or "Platts" could be a German surname. I have a ton of German ancestry myself through Pennsylvania, and have studied the Palatine immigration in New York starting around 1710 in relation to New Jersey ancestors who moved to the Mohawk River valley, and also in relation to my wife who has Palatine NY ancestry. The Connecticut Platts story just doesn't seem to fit with anything I've read to date. Again, I know that doesn't mean its wrong - I just don't think it's probable and it is just a family legend. Given the presence of these two other Platt/Platts family in Ct and Mass at the time...
Also, the only given name in the whole family that is remotely Germanic is "Frederick" itself, and notice that it's not Johann Frederick or any other triple name. Some of Frederick's sons became Baptists and they were definitely Protestants. All my Protestant German ancestors out of Pennsylvania went by three names much of the time in formal records until after 1800. But then, they had their own churches where they could continue their own practices, which wouldn't have been the case for a German in Ct around 1700.
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