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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: Joshua Pratt Note Born: 1593 at England, , , Married: 1630 at Plymouth, , , Massachusetts Died: 1 Oct 1656 at Plymouth, , , Massachusetts Father: Rev. Henry Pratt Mother: Mary Adams
WIFE
Name: Bathsheba --- Born: 1 Jan 1592-1593 at England, , , Died: 1673 at Plymouth, , , Massachusetts Other Spouses: John Doggett
CHILDREN
Name: Benajah Pratt Born: 1630-1631 at Plymouth, , , MA Died: 17 Mar 1682 at Plymouth, , , MA Wife: Persis Dunham
Name: Jonathan Pratt Born: 20 Mar 1638-1639 Died: 1729
Name: Hannah Pratt Born: 1630 at Plymouth, , Plymouth Co., Massachusetts Died: 1684 at Dartmouth, , Bristol Co., Massachusetts
Name: Thomas Pratt Born: 1632 at Plymouth, , Plymouth Co., Massachusetts Died:
Name: Mary Pratt Born: 1634 at Plymouth, , Plymouth Co., Massachusetts Died:
Name: Bathsheba Pratt Born: 1639 at Plymouth, , Plymouth Co., Massachusetts Died:
NOTES
1). ORIGIN Unknown MIGRATION 1623 in Anne FIRST RESIDENCE Plymouth FREEMAN In 1633 Plymouth list of freemen prior to those admitted 1 January 1632 3 PCR 1 3 . In the 7 March 1636 7 list of freemen immediately preceding Phineas Pratt PCR 1 52 . In Plymouth section of 1639 Plymouth Colony list of freemen PCR 8 174 . EDUCATION His inventory included a great Latin Bible, 9s. a part of another Bible and other old books, 23s. and 2 old psalm books, 1s. OFFICES Messenger and constable, 1 January 1633 4, 7 March 1636 7, 5 June 1638 PCR 1 21, 54, 86 . Constable of Plymouth, 3 January 1636 7, 6 March 1637 8, 4 December 1638 PCR 1 48, 80, 105 . Among those to assess the company for the watch and otherpublic charge, 3 March 1634 5, 1 March 1635 6 PCR 1 33, 38 . Committee to divide meadow ground, 1 July 1633 PCR 1 14 . Committee to view Morton s Hole, 14 March 1635 6 PCR 1 41 . Arbiter, 5 October 1636 PCR 1 44 . Committee to view the hay grounds as The Messenger , 20 March 1636 7 PCR 1 55 . Sealer of weights and measures and measurer of land, 4 December 1638 PCR 1 105 . Committee to view planting land for the first division at Yarmouth, 5 March 1638 9 PCR 1 117 . Committee to view theungranted meadows at Green s Harbor, 5 May 1640 PCR 1 151 . Committee to view the meadows about Edward Doty s, 5 May 1640 PCR 1 152 . Repeatedly viewer or layer of land, 1633 48 PCR 2 29, 32, 48, 128, 160 . Grand jury, 1 June 1641 PCR 2 16 . Jury, 1 February 1640 1, 2 March 1646 7, 7 June 1648, 6 June 1649 PCR 2 7, 111, 126, 140 . Petit jury, 1 April 1633 foreman , 1 June 1647, 4 October 1648 PCR 1 12, 2 117, 134 . Coroner s jury on the body of RobertWille, alias Willis, sometimes of Milbrooke, 29 June 1652 PCR 3 15 . In Plymouth portion of 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear arms PCR 8 188 . ESTATE In 1623 Plymouth land division, paired with Phineas Pratt as recipients of two acres as passengers on the Anne in 1623 PCR 12 6 . In 1627 Plymouth cattle division, twelfth person in first company PCR 12 9 . On 7 November 1636 Josuah Pratt received six acres PCR 1 46 . With his consent, this land was granted to Mrs. Bridgitt Fuller, widow, 6 February 1636 7 PCR 1 50 . On 7 May 1638 Josuah Pratt was granted the enlargement of a garden place PCR 1 84 . On26 July 1638, Josuah Pratt had four shares in the black heifer PTR 1 4 . On 5 November 1638 Josuah Pratt was granted six acres of land at the east end of Mr. Doane s land except the Governor make choice of it for himself PCR 1 102 . On 2 November 1640 Josuah Pratt was granted five acres of meadow in Colebrook Meadows PCR 1 166 . On 16 September 1641 Josuah Pratt was granted a garden place about the house he purchased of Thomas Savory at Squerrell PCR 2 27 . He was twenty fifth on the list ofthe purchasers PCR 2 177 . On 5 December 1637 Abraham Perse sold to Josuah Pratt a house and a garden place in Plymouth next to Ady Webb s house PCR 12 24 . On 7 May 1642 Josuah Pratt sold to Edward Doty one acre of upland lying at the high cliff and to Josias Cooke twoacres of marsh meadow lying at the Wood Island PCR 12 81 . On 7 March 1652 3? Joshua Pratt was listed as holding one whole share in the Purchasers Land at Acushena and Coaksett Dartmouth MD 4 187, citing PCLR 2 1 107 . On 5 October 1656 administration on the estate of Joshua Pratt, deceased, was granted to Bathsheba Pratt PCR 3 108 . The inventory of the estate of Joshua Pratt was presented at court on 6 October 1656 and totalled Ð18 11s. 3d., with no real estate included PCR 3 108 PCPR 2 1 41 MD 14 113 . In a 22 March 1663 list of the owners of lots on Puncateesett Necke Joshua Pratt was paired with Gyles Rickard Jr. presumably a delayed entry of a grant made during Pratt s lifetime PTR 1 63 . BIRTH By about 1605 based on estimated date of marriage. DEATH Plymouth after 29 June 1652 when he served on a coroner s jury PCR 3 15 and before 5 October 1656 date of administration . MARRIAGE By about 1630 Bathsheba assuming she was the mother of all his children she married 2 Plymouth 29 August 1667 John Doged Doggett of Martha s Vineyard MD 8 31 see JOHN DOGGETT . CHILDREN i BENAJAH, b. say 1630 m. Plymouth 29 November 1655 Persis Dunham MD 8 17 , daughter of JOHN DUNHAM TAG 30 145 . The death record for Benajah Pratt, as published, reads Benajah Prat, March, 17 in his s worn PChR 249 , entered in a place thatwould make the date 17 March 1682 3. This might be supposed to mean that he was sixty years old or more, which would place his birth about 1622. Were this true he would be a full decade older than his siblings and he should be accounted for in the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle. The more likely explanation is that the worn entry has been misread and the word that has been read as beginning with s actually begins with f for some age in the fifties. ii HANNAH, b. say 1632 m. Plymouth 18 March 1651 2? William Spooner MD 8 13 as his second wife PCR 8 5 . iii JONATHAN, b. say 1637 m. 1 Plymouth 2 November 1664 Abigail Wood PCR 8 25 m. 2 Taunton 3 March 1689 90 Elizabeth White Hall NEHGR 13 252 , daughter of Nicholas White and widow of Samuel Hall on 29 October 1698 Elizabeth Pratt, widow, of Taunton, receipted for her legacy from the estate of her father, Nicholas White BrPR 2 11 TAG 17 196 . iv BATHSHEBA, b. about 1639 deposed in 1661 aged 22 Wyman 773, apparently citing Middlesex Court Files m. Charlestown blank December 1662 Josua Ris ChVR 1 42 Wyman 773, 808 , son of ROBERT ROICE . ASSOCIATIONS Joshua Pratt and PHINEAS PRATT have many times been called brothers. Though there is no direct evidence of this relationship, much circumstantial evidence points in that direction. They received joint grants in the 1623 Plymouth division ofland, and they were listed consecutively in the 1639 Plymouth list of freemen. Bathsheba, the daughter of Joshua, married in Charlestown, where her uncle Phineas Pratt was living at the time she may have been placed in his household after her father s death. Since we know that Phineas Pratt came in 1622 as one of THOMAS WESTON s men, and not in 1623 on the Anne as indicated in the 1623 land division, we might wonder whether Joshua also came in 1622 in the same manner. Although this is possible, it seems unlikely, for otherwise we would expect that Phineas, in his narrative of his trials and tribulations that first winter in New England, would have made mention of his brother. COMMENTS On the assumption that Joshua Pratt married in Plymouth, the range of families which might have supplied his wife Bathsheba is quite limited. There is no Bathsheba in any family listed in the 1627 Plymouth cattle division, yet Joshua was marriedby about 1630. This suggests strongly that his wife was a member of one of the families that arrived in Plymouth in late 1629 and early 1630, many of which had come from Leiden. Joshua s elder son Benajah married the daughter of JOHN DUNHAM , one of these late arrivals from Leiden, and Dunham had named a younger son Benajah, some years after the birth of Benajah Pratt, but more than fifteen years before the marriage of Benajah Pratt to Persis Dunham. Jonathan is apparently another name used by both Dunham and Pratt. Some sources claim that Joshua Pratt s wife was named Bathsheba Fay. There is no evidence for this, and no Fay family in Plymouth who might have supplied such a wife. This false claim apparently arises from the misinterpretation of the marriage in Marlborough, Massachusetts, of John Pratt and Bathsheba Fay on 4 January 1715 6. On 5 November 1638, for some unseen offence, Josuah Pratt of Plymouth, yeoman, was fined Ð10 and was released PCR 1 101 . On 3 August 1640 Josuah Pratt deposed regarding two acres of upland at Wellingsly Brook that were given by Godbert Godbertson to John Combe, gentleman, and Phineas Pratt, in marriage with their wives Godbertson s stepdaughters PCR 1 159 .

						

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