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About Elizabeth Pratt
Ben M. Angel notes: The New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), which cites Robert C. Anderson's The Great Migration Begins, lists Elizabeth as having the name Hall, rather than birth name White, when she married Joshua Pratt, as she was the widow of Samuel Hall. This is in keeping with the naming convention of the time in New England, in which the woman took the last name of her husband. There is no reasonable expectation that, because of reasons of inheritance or other normal justification of retaining a maiden name within English culture, that she did not take on the Pratt name after marriage.
http://www.americanancestors.org/uploadedFiles/American_Ancestors/C...
Retrieved from http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=halldb&id... 8/4/2008)
Samuel and Elizabeth had a son, Ebenezer, whose descendants are covered in the text "Descendants of Ebenezer Hall" which is to be published in 1998.
Elizabeth's first husband was Samuel Hall who made his will on 25 Jan. 1690 and died soon afterwards. Her second husband was Jonathan Pratt.
Elizabeth was the dau. of Nicholas and Susanna (Humphrey) White of Taunton, one of the early settlers of Taunton. Her father died in 1697, and on 10 June 1699, Elizabeth Pratt widow, who was the daughter of Nicholas White, signed a receipt as having received on July 14, 1698, her full proportion of her father's estate. She had L38-04-00.
Elizabeth had four siblings, all born at Dorchester:
- 1. Nicholas, b. ca. 1647, d. 1702, m. 9 Dec. 1673, Ursula Macomber, 7 ch.:
- 2. John, b. 1649, m. 24 Feb. 1679/80, Hannah Smith, d. 3 Sept.1726, 10 ch.;
- 3. Child, b. 1651, alive in 1656; and
- 4. Joseph, b. ca. 1653, m. abt. 1680 to Mary (Unknown).
In 1675, at about 22, and about 5 years before his marriage, Joseph White was a soldier in King Philip's War, being wounded in the Narragansett swamp fight of Dec. 26, 1675, in which many Taunton soldiers were killed. In this fight, some 1,500 English attacked some 3,000 Narragansetts, men women and children, gathered together for the winter in their swamp-pallisaded fort, totally defeating them. At least 1,000 Indians were killed and wounded, and several hundred were taken prisoners.
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Elizabeth Pratt's Timeline
| 1643 |
June 9, 1643
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Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| 1664 |
December 11, 1664
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Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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| 1666 |
October 19, 1666
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Taunton,Bristol,Massachusetts
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| 1668 |
January 23, 1668
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Taunton, Plymouth Colony
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| 1670 |
October 28, 1670
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Taunton, (Present Bristol County), Plymouth Colony (Present Massachusetts)
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| 1672 |
October 3, 1672
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Taunton, New Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
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| 1677 |
March 19, 1677
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Taunton, Plymouth Colony, Colonial America
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| 1679 |
March 2, 1679
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Taunton, Plymouth Colony
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| 1681 |
January 25, 1681
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Taunton,Bristol,Massachusetts,USA
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