Reverend Enoch Pratt

Added by E. C. Nickerson- Wrote a very in depth book with lots of Facts about the History of Cape Cod : Rev. Enoch Pratt A Comprehensive History, Ecclesiastical and Civil, of Eastham, Wellfleet and Orleans, County of Barnstable, Mass. from 1644 to 1844. 1844. Yarmouth Massachusetts: W. S. Fisher and Co.

  Enoch Pratt was born in Middleborough, Massachusetts, on 31 July 1781, and died in Brewster, Massachusetts, 2 February 1860. He was graduated at Brown university in 1803, then studied theology with Dr Kirkland in Boston. He was ordained 28 October 1807 as pastor of the Congregational church at West Barnstable, Massachusetts, where he remained till his resignation in 1837. He moved to Brewster and continued to preach, supplying vacant pulpits, and as agent for Bible societies, distributing the Scriptures through the country. He was a supply minister for the South Wellfleet Congregational Church in 1836 (Deyo, 1890), and served at Eastham Congregational from 1842 to at least 1844 (Pratt, 1844; Deyo, 1890.)

      He was married three times, and had twelve childen - details in my genealogy files. sources: Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1887-1889             /  ECN/