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- Sarah Hunt Pratt
- Birth: Jul. 4, 1640 Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
- Death: Aug. 3, 1729 Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
- Daughter of Enoch and Sarah Hunt
- Married Matthew Pratt between August 1 - September 1, 1661 in Weymouth
- Family links:
- Spouse:
- Matthew Pratt (1629 - 1713)
- Children:
- Matthew Pratt (1665 - 1746)*
- Samuel Pratt (1676 - 1715)*
- Burial: North Weymouth Cemetery, Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
- Find A Grave Memorial# 130092263
- From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=130092263 _____________________
- HUNT, Sarah
- b. 4 JUL 1640 Weymouth, Norfolk, Mass.
- d. 3 AUG 1729 Weymouth, Norfolk, Mass.
- Family:
- Marriage: 1 AUG 1661 Weymouth, Norfolk, Mass.
- Spouse: PRATT, Matthew
- b. ABT 1632 England
- d. 12 JAN 1712/3 Weymouth, Norfolk, Mass.
- Parents:
- Father: PRATT, Matthew
- Mother: BATES, Elizabeth
- Children:
- PRATT, Matthew
- PRATT, Mary b. 1667 Weymouth, Norfolk, Mass.
- PRATT, Hannah
- PRATT, Dorothy
- PRATT, William
- PRATT, Samuel
- PRATT, Sarah
- PRATT, Ann
- PRATT, Susanna
- From: http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_3ff.htm#34 ______________________
- Word and Self Estranged in English Texts, 1550–1660 edited by Dr L E Semler, Dr Philippa Kelly
- https://books.google.com/books?id=hxY8-9Kf2IsC&pg=PA206&lpg=PA206&d...
- Pg.206
- Sarah Pratt of Weymouth, Massachusetts, lived a life typical of colonial New England. She was born 4 July 1640 to Dorothy and Enoch Hunt, and although she was the only child of that marriage she had many step- and half-siblings. In August 1661, when she was 21, she married Matthew Pratt, who was himself deaf from the age of 12. Nine children were born to Sarah and Matthew between 1664 and 1684. Having given a good account of her conversion experience to the elders of the church, Sarah was accepted into church fellowship which entitled her to participate in the Lord's Supper. The elders were convinced that she understood the doctrines of New England Puritanism and her spiritual experience was attested by the concern she had for her own soul. Mather noted that she "understands as much concerning the state of the Countrey, and of particular persons therein, as any one of her Sex" (290). She and her husband survived King Philip's war, in which Weymouth was attacked, by taking refuge in Boston. As Increase Mather reported in 1684, Sarah was "to the best observation, a grave and gracious Woman." Matthew Pratt died in 1713, bequeathing to "my beloved wife Sarah"
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- The Pratt family : a genealogical record of Mathew Pratt, of Weymouth, Mass., and his American descendants, 1623-1889 by Pratt, Francis Greenleaf, 1850-1894
- https://archive.org/details/prattfamilygenea00prat
- https://archive.org/stream/prattfamilygenea00prat#page/n44/mode/1up
- Pg.25
- I. MATHEW PRATT, b. — ; d. Aug. 29, 1672.
- (m. Elizabeth Bate?)
- Children:
- 9 1 1 THOMAS, b. before 1628; d. April 19, 1676.
- 51 2 2 MATTHEW, b. 1628 d. Jan. 12, 1713.
- 50 2/1 3 JOHN, b. — ; d. Oct. 3, 1716.
- 3 4 SAMUEL, b. — . ; d. — , 1678.
- 4 5 JOSEPH, b. June 10, 1037 ; d. Dec. 24, 1720.
- 7 5 6 ELIZABETH, b. — ; d. Feb. 26, 1726.
- 8 6 7 MARY, b. — ; d. — .
- .... etc.
- Pg.37
- .... etc.
- 2 51 (II.) MATTHEW PRATT, of Weymouth (son of I. Mathew), b. 1628; d. June 12, 1713; m. June 1, 1661, Sarah Hunt (b. July 4, 1640; d. Aug. 3, 1729), dau. of Enoch and Sarah.
- In his will, dated June 4, 1713, he mentions his "brother John Pratt" and "cousin William Pratt."
- Cotton Mather, in his "Magnalia," Vol. 1, page 495, thus refers to him in connection with the ministry of Thomas Thatcher ;
- "One Matthew Prat, whose religious parents had well instructed him in his minority, when he was twelve years of age became totally deaf through sickness, and so hath ever since continued. He was taught after this to write, as he had been before to read; and both his reading and his writing he retaineth perfectly, but he has almost forgotten to speak ; speaking but imperfectly, and scarce intel-
- Pg.38
- ligibly, and very seldom. He is yet a very judicious Christian, and being admitted into the communion of the church, he has therein for many years behaved himself unto the extreme satisfaction of good people in the neighborhood. Sarah Prat, the wife of this man, is one also who was altogether deprived of her hearing by sickness when she was about the third year of her age ; but having utterly lost her hearing, she has utterly lost her speech also, and no doubt all remembrance of everything that refers to language. Mr. Thatcher made an essay to teach her the use of letters, but it succeeded not ; however, she discourses by signs, whereat some of her friends are so expert as to maintain a conversation with her upon any point whatever, with as much freedorn and fullness as if she wanted neither tongue nor ear for conference. Her children do learn her signs from the breast, and speak sooner by her eyes and hand than by their lips. From her infancy she was very sober and modest ; but she had no knowledge of a Deity, nor of anything that concerns another life and world. Nevertheless, God, of his infinite mercy, has revealed the Lord Jesus Christ, and the great mysteries of salvation by him, unto her, by a more extraordinary and immediate operation of his own spirit unto her. An account of her experiences was written from her, by her husband ; and the elders of the church employing her husband, with two of her sisters who are notably skilled in her way of communication, examined her strictly hereabout ; and they found that she understood the unity of the divine essence, and trinity of persons in the Godhead ; the personal union in our Lord, the mystical union between our Lord and his church ; and that she was acquainted with the impressions of grace upon a regenerate soul. She was under great exercise of mind, about her internal and eternal state; she expressed unto her friends her desire for help ; and she made use of the Bible, and other good books, and with tears remarked such passages as were suitable to her own condition. Yea, she once, in her exercise, wrote with a pin upon a trencher, three times over, 'Ah, poor soul ! ' and therewith, before divers persons, burst into tears. * * * She was admitted into the church with the general approbation of the faithful * * * and her carriage is that of a grave, gracious, holy woman."
- Children :
- 55 52 1 MATTHEW, b. Sep. 18, 1665.
- 2 SUSANNA, b. Sep., 1684; m. Thomas Porter.
- Pg.39
- 132 53 3 WILLIAM, b. May 5. 1673.
- 4 MARY, b. Nov. 27, 1669 ; m. — Allen.
- 5 DOROTHY, b. — ; m. Aug. 13, 1700, John Whitman.
- 207 54 6 SAMUEL, b. April 3, 1676.
- 7 SARAH, b. — ; 1672 ; d. Sep. 16, 1788; m. Isaac Ford.
- 8 ANN, b. Sep. 14, 1682; m. Samuel White.
- 9 HANNAH, b. Nov. 3, 1670 ; m. Samuel Whitmarsh.
- .... etc. ________________________________
- Genealogical and Family History of Northern New York: A Record of ..., Volume 3 edited by William Richard Cutter
- https://books.google.com/books?id=Ye4pAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1161&lpg=PA1161...
- Pg.1160
- Enoch Hunt, the immigrant ancestor, married (first) in England; married (second) Sarah, daughter of Widow Dorothy Barker, who in 1652 was wife of John Kinh, of Weymouth, and gave by will, April 14, 1652, household goods to her daughter, Sarah Hunt. Enoch Hunt was admitted freeman at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1638. On September 18, 1652, at a county court in Boston, power of administration on estate of Enoch Hunt, not yet administered, was granted to his son Ephraim. His daughter Sarah married Matthew Pratt, who was deaf and almost without power of speech, while she was deaf and dumb also. In a deposition of Jonas Humphrey and Robert Randall they say that Enoch Hunt came from Tetenden, in the parish of Lee,
- Pg.1161
- about two miles distant from Wendover; blacksmith. They said that Enoch and his son Ephraim both moved to New England and dwelt for some time in Weymouth, and Enoch returned to England, while Ephraim remained at Weymouth and had several sons. Enoch Hunt owned twenty-two acres of upland and salt marsh. Children by first wife: 1. Ephraim, born 1610, mentioned below. 2 Peter, mentioned below. By second wife: 3. Sarah, born July 4, 1640; married Matthew Pratt.
- (II) Ephraim, son of Enoch Hunt, settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts. He was a refugee from the disastrous field of Marston Moor, and his right name was Colonel Sir William Hunt, but to conceal his identity, after his arrival in this country, he changed his name to Ephraim. He was regarded by the party in power as a "malignant," a name given to all Royalist of sufficient note to be considered dangerous by Cromwell. At the siege of York, Colonel Hunt had been the hero of the day, and the dignity of knighthood was conferred upon him by Prince Rupert. At the battle of Marston Moor, the tide turned and Colonel Hunt fled to America, where he died February 22, 1686, forty years after he left England. He married an heiress, Anna Richards, and their three sons were the progenitors of the Hunts in this country.
- (II) Peter, son of Enoch Hunt, died October 2, 1692. He married Elizabeth Smith. Although there is not very sure evidence that Peter was son of Enoch, there is very great probability that he was. His will was dated June 19, 1689, and proved December 26, 1692. He gave to his son Enoch upland .... etc. _______________________
- New England families, genealogical and memorial; a record of the achievements of her people in the making of commonwealths and the founding of a nation; Vol. II by Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918
- https://archive.org/details/newenglandfamil00cuttgoog
- https://archive.org/stream/newenglandfamil00cuttgoog#page/n334/mode...
- Pg.810
- Enoch Hunt, the immigrant ancestor, was in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1638, when he was admitted a freeman there. He was a first settler of Weymouth, Massachusetts. According to a deposition, July 2, 1688, made by Jonas Humphrey, aged about sixty-eight, and Robert Randall, aged about eighty, both of Weymouth, Enoch and his oldest son Ephraim, a blacksmith, lived in Titenden, Parish of Lee, about two miles from Wendover, county Bucks, England, for some time and then came to Weymouth ; they said that Enoch returned to England after a time, while Ephraim remained in America. Enoch also was a blacksmith. He had twenty-two acres of land in Weymouth. He married (first) in England. He married (second) Sarah, daughter of Widow Dorothy Barker, who in 1652 was wife of John King, of Weymouth, and gave by will, June 14, 1652, household goods to daughter, Sarah Hunt. On November 18, 1652, at a county court held at Boston, Ephraim was made administrator of his father's estate.
- Children by first marriage: Ephraim, Peter. By second marriage: Sarah, born July 4, 1640.
- (II) Peter, son of Enoch Hunt, died October 2, 1692. Although there is not sure evidence that he was the son of Enoch Hunt, there is very great probability that he was. His will was dated June 19, 1689, and proved December 26, 1692. .... etc.
- .... He married, December 10, 1645, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry and Judith Smith, .... etc. ______________________
- New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the ..., Volume 4 edited by William Richard Cutter
- https://books.google.com/books?id=NfksAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1855&lpg=PA1855...
- https://archive.org/details/newenglandfamili04cutt
- https://archive.org/stream/newenglandfamili04cutt#page/1880/mode/1up
- Pg.1854
- Enoch Hunt, the immigrant ancestor, was in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1638, when he was admitted a freeman there. He was a first settler of Weymouth, Massachusetts. According to a deposition, July 2, 1688, made by Jonas Humphrey, aged about sixty-eight, and Robert Randall, aged about eighty, both of Weymouth, Enoch and his oldest son Ephraim, a blacksmith, lived in Titenden, Parish of Lee, about two miles from Wendover, county Bucks, England, for some time and then came to Weymouth ; they said that Enoch returned to England after a time, while Ephraim remained in America. Enoch also was a blacksmith. He had twenty-two acres of land in Weymouth. He married (first) in England. He married (second) Sarah, daughter of Widow Dorothy Barker, who in 1652 was wife of John King, of Weymouth, and gave by will, June 14, 1652, household goods to daughter, Sarah Hunt. On November 18, 1652, at a county court held at Boston, Ephraim was made administrator of his father's estate.
- Children by first marriage : Ephraim,
- https://archive.org/stream/newenglandfamili04cutt#page/1881/mode/1up
- Pg.1855
- mentioned below; Peter. By second marriage : Sarah, born July 4, 1640.
- ( II) Ephraim, son of Enoch Hunt, was born in England in 1610, and came to America with his father. He was buried February 24, 1687, and on his gravestone is the following inscription : "Here lyeth Buried ye Body of Ephraim Hunt aged about 77 years deceased ye 22d of February 1686-7." The inventory of his estate amounted to five hundred and two pounds, and included house and orchards, twenty-three acres in lower plantations, five acres salt marsh on back river, and fifty acres near Cedar Swamp. He married (first) Anna Richards, and (second) Ebbett Brimsmead. .... etc. _________________________
- Genealogy of the name and family of Hunt, etc By Thomas Bellows WYMAN
- https://books.google.com/books?id=1RxYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA271&lpg=PA271&d...
- Pg.271
- Enoch Hunt .... etc.
- 1640, July 4. Sarah. Pratt.
- Mrs. Hunt, 2d, was daughter of Widow Dorothy Barker; who in 1652, was wife of John King of Weymouth, and gave, by will, 14 (4), 1652, to dau. Sarah Hunt, households goods.
- .... etc.
- Dau. m. MATTHEW PRATT of Weymouth. Issue, Matthew, Sept. 18, 1665; Mary, 1667; Hannah, Nov. 4, 1670; William, May 5, 1673; Samuel, baptized at Third Church in Boston, April 2, 1676; Ann, Sept. 14, 1682; Susanna, Sept. , 1684. (See Mather's "Magnalia," book iii. ch. 26.) Mr. Pratt was deaf, and almost lost speech. Mrs. Pratt was deaf and dumb. One of the remarkable providences occurred in their case.
- Pg.305
- Peter Hunt ______________
- Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts ...
- https://books.google.com/books?id=kNk4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA829&lpg=PA829&d...
- Pg.1059
- (I) Enoch Hunt, a resident of Titenden, in the parish of Lee, England, with his son Ephraim came to this country, where at Newport he was admitted a freeman in 1638. He became an early settler at Weymouth, there in 1640; was town officer, 1651. His wife Dorothy, formerly the Widow Barker, survived him and married John King. He died before 1647, (IS THIS AN ERROR OR DEATH DATE FOR JOHN KING, AS IT LISTS ENOCH AS TOWN OFFICER IN 1651?; & DOROTHY WILL ?DATED 1662, ?PROBATED 1651) when Dorothy's lands are mentioned in deeds of abutting tracts. In her will dated 14th of 4th month, 1662, probated 21st of 6th month, 1651, she bequeaths to daughter Sarah Hunt, referred to Ephraim Hunt and to children Joseph and Ruth Barker and Susanna Heath. Mr. Hunt had, at Weymouth, Sarah, born July 4, 1640.
- (II) Ephraim Hunt, of Weymouth, son of Enoch, married (first Anna Richards, daughter of Thomas and Welthean Richards, and sister of William Richards, of Ebbett, Brinsmead, England. Mr. Hunt was a blacksmith of Weymouth. In 1646 he gave a letter of attorney for collection of property in Beaconsfield, Bucks, formerly of John Hunt of Winchmere Hill, in Agmondsham parish. he died Feb. 22, 1686-87. His estate was L502, 1s. His children born to the first marriage were: John, Thomas and Ephraim; and those to the second were: .... etc. ___________________________
- The Pioneers of Massachusetts, a Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the ... By Charles Henry Pope
- http://books.google.com/books?id=k___uh7sQAkC&pg=PA248&lpg=PA248&dq...
- Pg. 248
- HUNT,
- Enoch, from Titenden in the parish of Lee, Eng., [Mass. Arch. 129, 16,] Weymouth; 1640; town officer, 1651. In Court 1 (2) 1641. Wife Dorothie, widow of -- Barker; she survived him, and m. John King. In her will, dated 14 (4) 1652, prob. 21 (8) 1652, she beq. to dau. Sarah Hunt, referred to Ephraim H., and to ch. Joseph and Ruth Barker and Susanna Heath. Ch. Sarah b. 4 (5) 1640.
- He d. before 1647, when Dorothy's lands are mentioned in deeds of abutting tracts. Admin. gr. to son Ephraim 18 (9) 1652; [Reg. V, 239.] The son Ephraim, blacksmith, Weymouth, gave letter of attorney 5 (10) 1646, for collection of property in Beaconsfield, Bucks, formerly of John Hunt of Winchmore Hill in Agmondham parish. [A.]
- Peter, lieut., Rehoboth, 1643; prop. frm. 4 June, 1645., adm. frm. 5 June, 1651; town officer. He m. Dec. 14, 1646, Elizabeth Smith; ch. .... etc. _______________________
- Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A ..., Volume 2 By William Richard Cutter, Edward Henry Clement, Samuel Hart, Mary Kingsbury Talcott, Frederick Bostwick, Ezra S. Stearns
- https://books.google.com/books?id=j6gyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1137&lpg=PA1137...
- Pg.1136
- (I) Enoch Hunt, immigrant ancestor, was from Titendon, in the parish of Lee, two miles from Wendover, Buckshire, England. He was an early settler in Rhode Island and was admitted a freeman in Newport in 1638. He was a blacksmith by trade. He removed
- Pg.1137
- to Weymouth, Massachusetts, where he was living in 1640. He was a town officer in 1641, and had a case in court in 1641. He died before 1647, when his wife's lands are mentioned in deeds of abutting tracts. Administration was granted to his son Ephraim, November 18, 1652. The homestead consisted of twenty-two acres on the Plain at Weymouth, bounded by lands of Richard Sylvester, John Upham, Mr. Gouer, and west and north by the highway and the sea. He married (first) in England, name of wife unknown. He married (second) Dorothy Barker, widow, who survived him and married (third) John King, of Weymouth in 1652. Her will dated June 14, 1652, was proved October 21, 1652. Children: Ephraim, mentioned below; Peter, born in England, settled at Rehoboth, Massachusetts; Sarah, born at Weymouth, July 4, 1640.
- (II) Ephraim, son of Enoch Hunt, was born in England, about 1610, and came to Rhode Island and later to Weymouth with his father.
- He was a blacksmith by trade. He gave a letter of attorney, December 5, 1646, for the collection of property in Beaconsfield, Buckshire, England, formerly of John Hunt, of Winchmore Hill, in Agmondsham parish. Perhaps this John Hunt was his grandfather. Ephraim settled in Weymouth, and married Anna, daughter of Thomas and Welthea Richards, of Ebbett Brinsmead, England. She was a sister of William Richards, of Weymouth. .... etc. _____________________________
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Sarah Pratt's Timeline
| 1640 |
July 4, 1640
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Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, American Colonies
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| 1665 |
September 18, 1665
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Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts
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| 1668 |
March 3, 1668
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Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts
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| 1670 |
November 4, 1670
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Weymouth, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| 1672 |
1672
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Suffolk, Massachusetts
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| 1673 |
May 5, 1673
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Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
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| 1676 |
April 2, 1676
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Weymouth, Norfolk County, MA, United States
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| 1679 |
1679
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Weymouth, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
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| 1682 |
September 14, 1682
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Weymouth, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
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