Benajah Pratt

1630 - 1682  (52 years)

• Name	Benajah Pratt
  Born	1630	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	17 Mar 1682	Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States
  Person ID	I5659325391	Master Tree
  Last Modified	21 Jan 2008

  
  

  Father	Joshua Pratt,   b. 1593, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 29 Aug 1656, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States  (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Bathsheba Fay,   b. 1 Jan 1593, Marlbord, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom ,   d. 1673, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States  (Age 79 years)
  Married	1630  [2]
  Notes	Shortly after the FORTUNE arrived at Plymouth in 1621, a shallop from the ship SPARROW, which Had arrive in Damaris Cove. In this little vessel were ten men, who came to select a site for another plantation; Phineas Pratt was one of them, Joshua Pratt, probably the brother of Phineas, and like him, unmarried, arrived at Plymouth in the ANNE in the summer of 1623. Most of those who came in thes ship and in the LITTLE JAMES were friends and relatives of the Plymouth settlers. During the year 1623 there was a division of the land at Plymouth, under three groups: those who came in the MAY FLOWER, those who came in the FORTUNE, and those who came in the ANNE. As part of the last group, Phineas and Joshua received two acres. Since Phineas did not come by any of those vessels, the probability is that he was the brother of Joshua and put with that group to make the division complete. In 1624 the settlers of Plymouth were divided into twelve companies of thirteen persons each. Joshua and Phineas were assigned to Francis Cooke. He was appointed a surveyor on January 3, 1627, along with William Bradford, Edward Winslow, John Howland, Francis Cooke and Edward Bangs. He was mentioned in the cattle division of June 1, 1627, when he was a member of Francis Cooke's company which received "the least of the four black heifers came in the JACOB." He was a freeman at the time of the incorporation of Plymouth in 1633, and in April of that year he was foreman of the jury, as well as Constable in 1633, 1636, 1637. On December 4, 1638 he was again sworn in as Constable and the Court gave him the duties of measuring lands and the sealing of weights and measures. *Reference: Clemens, 176; NEHGR 9:314; Plymouith Colony Records, 1:3, 12, 105; Pratt, Simon Newcomb, "Founders of Early American Families", pamphlet, 1917, reprint 1938; MD 14:113, 18:56; Peirce's Colonial Lists; Goodwin, John, "The Pilgrim Republic",292-3; Rev. Sherwood Anderson Davis, "Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth", 209; Plymouth Colony Records, 8:17, "Ancestors and Descendants of Minnie Hale Gorton" by Carolyn C. Volpe, p. 108-110.
  Family ID	F5260021523	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Persis Dunham,   b. 1635, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 30 Jul 1701, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States  (Age 66 years)
  Married	29 Nov 1655
  Children	+ 1. Joshua Pratt,   b. 1656, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 16 Feb 1697/1698, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States  (Age 42 years)   2. Abigail Pratt,   b. 21 Nov 1657, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States + 3. Jonathan Pratt,   b. 21 Nov 1659, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. Mar 1730/1731, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States  (Age 71 years)   4. Benajah Jr. Pratt,   b. 1663, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States   5. Joseph Pratt,   b. Feb 1665, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 1713  (Age ~ 47 years) + 6. Mehitable Pratt,   b. 1668, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 19 Oct 1712, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States  (Age 44 years)   7. Hannah Pratt,   b. 1670   8. Eleazer Pratt,   b. 1672, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 24 Feb 1760, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States  (Age 88 years)   9. Daniel Pratt,   b. 1680, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. 7 May 1739  (Age 59 years)   10. Bathsheba Pratt,   b. Aft 1680   11. Persis Pratt,   b. Aft 1681
  Family ID	F5260021378	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1630 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Died - 17 Mar 1682 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Line 28831 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: BIRT DATE BET 1630 AND 1631 Benajah Pratt was admitted a freeman at Plymouth on June 6, 1654. He was a surveyor in 1658, served on jury duty 1665-6 and was a tax collector in 1667 and 1668. His widow married August 1683, as his 2nd wife, Jonathan Shaw, son of John and Alice Shaw. Her daughter Mehitable had previously married Jonathan Shaw's son. Jayne [Pratt] Lovelace states that "some of the lands of Benajah 'he being deceased', were divided 2 June 1682, naming his sons in this order: eldest son Joshua, John, Benajah, Jr., Eleazer, Daniel, Joseph (from Boston Transcript)." In her Pratt Directory she names Mehitable and Hannah as probable daughters. *Reference: Plymouth Church Records, vol I, part 5, p1; NEHGR 9:313; MD 17:72; Mrs Richard Jones, Belfast, Maine; Lovelace, "The Pratt Directory"; personal letter from Jayne (Pratt) Lovelace; Davis, 209; Plymouth Colony Records, 8:17; "Snow-Estes Genealogy," 165; PCSM, 22:249.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5352859560] Family Data Collection - Births. [S5352827412] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900.