Sarah Pratt

• Sarah Judkins Pratt
• Birth: Dec. 7, 1645 Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
• Death: Jan. 26, 1727 Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
• Daughter of Job Judkins and his wife Sarah
• Family links:
• Spouse:
• Joseph Pratt (1639 - 1720)*
• Children:
  • Joseph Pratt (1665 - 1765)*
• Burial: North Weymouth Cemetery, Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
• Find A Grave Memorial# 134241277
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=134241277 _________________
• JUDKINS, Sarah
• b. 7 DEC 1645 Boston, Suffolk, Mass.
• d. 24 DEC 1720 Weymouth, Norfolk, Mass.
• Parents:
• Father: JUDKINS, Job
• Mother: DUDLEY, Sarah
• Family:
• Marriage: 7 MAY 1662 Weymouth, Norfolk, Mass.
• Spouse: PRATT, Joseph
• b. 10 AUG 1637 Weymouth, Norfolk, Mass.
• d. 24 DEC 1720 Weymouth, Norfolk, Mass.
• Parents:
• Father: PRATT, Matthew
• Mother: BATES, Elizabeth
• Children:
  • PRATT, Sarah
  • PRATT, Joseph
  • PRATT, John
  • PRATT, William
  • PRATT, Ephraim
  • PRATT, Experience
  • PRATT, Hannah b. ABT 1677 Weymouth, Norfolk, Mass.
  • PRATT, Samuel
• From: http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_1b5.htm#65 __________________
• 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
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• 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, 1637 ; d. Dec. 24, 1720.
  • 7 5 6 ELIZABETH, b. — ; d. Feb. 26, 1726.
  • 8 6 7 MARY, b. — ; d. — .
• 5 7 (II.) .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/prattfamilygenea00prat#page/n276/mode/1up
• Pg.141
• 671 (II.) JOSEPH PRATT, of Weymouth (son of I. Matthew), b. June 10, 1637; d. Dec. 24, 1720; m. May 7, 1662, Sarah Judkins, b. 1638 ; d. Jan. 14, 1726.
• He was the youngest son, and lived with his parents until about the time of his marriage. His name frequently occurs in the Town Records, in which are found his birth, marriage and death.
• In 1666 and 1673 he was a fence viewer. 1667 he cut 500 shingles for his house ; 1681 appointed to cut 5 cords of wood a year for the Pastor: 1682 on a committee to rebuild the Meeting House ; 1685 a way-warden ; 1688 a surveyor; 1693 named a "freeholder"; 1706 surveyor of highways ; 1709 chosen to lay off land adjoining his own ; 1710, 87 rods of land laid out for Joseph Pratt, senior, bounded by land, owned by himself and Samuel Whitmarsh, who married Hannah, the daughter of Mathew Pratt (his niece).
• He appears, by the records, to have been prominent, not only in the town affairs, but in the church.
• His will is dated March 5, 1719. (Boston Probate), in which he names his children in the following order.
• Children :
  • 679 672 1 JOSEPH, b. Feb. 2, 1665.
  • 1007 673 2 JOHN, b. May 17, 1668.
  • 678 674 3 WILLIAM.
  • 1100 675 4 EPHRAIM.
  • 677 676 5 SARAH, b. May 31, 1664.
  • 6 EXPERIENCE m. Battle.
  • 7 HANNAH, m. Hines.
  • 8 SAMUEL, was a surveyor, 1734. Weymouth Records : Land granted, 1710, to Samuel Pratt, son of Joseph Pratt.
• 676 677 (III.) SARAH PRATT, of Hingham (dau. of II. Joseph), b. May 31, 1664 ; d. July 22, 1706; m. Aaron Pratt, son of Phinehas Pratt. He m. (2) Sept. 4, 1707, Sarah Cummings (Wright), a widow ; she d. Dec. 25, 1752. He d. 1735, aged 81 years.
  • His children .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/prattfamilygenea00prat#page/n278/mode/1up
• 674 678 (III.) WILLIAM PRATT, of Weymouth (son of II. Joseph), b. —— ; d. —— ; m. Experience King.
  • Children : .... etc.
• 672 679 (III.) JOSEPH PRATT, of Bridgewater (son of II. Joseph), b. Feb. 2, 1665 ; d. Jan. 14, 1765 ; m. (1) Sarah Benson, of Hull, by whom he had twenty children. He m. (2) Ann Richards, of Weymouth, Dec. 14, 1721 ; she d. March 21, 1766, aged 92 years, without issue.
• .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/prattfamilygenea00prat#page/n380/mode/1up
• 673 1007 (III.) JOHN PRATT, of Weymouth (son of II. Joseph), b. May 17, 1668 ; d. —— ; m. Mercy Newcomb.
  • Children : .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/prattfamilygenea00prat#page/n414/mode/1up
• 675 1100 (III.) EPHRAIM PRATT, of Weymouth (son of II. Joseph), b. —— ; d. about 1745. He m. Phebe —— ; she d. Dec. 2, 1736.
• He possessed considerable land in Weymouth ; was elected Surveyor of Highways, 1721; Tithing-man, 1725 ; (at this latter election the town voted to pay one shilling for every old crow's head, and six-pence for young ones. Also two-pence for old blackbirds' heads) ; Fence-viewer 1729-1732. and other offices were held by him subsequently. His will is dated Feb. 9, 1740, in which he leaves property valued at £191. 8d. 0s.
  • Children : .... etc. _____________________
• Descendants of Edward Small of New England, and the allied families, with tracings of English ancestry (1910) Vol. 2
• http://archive.org/details/descendantsofedw02unde
• http://archive.org/stream/descendantsofedw02unde#page/729/mode/1up
• MATTHEW PRATT, the Weymouth Planter, is supposed to have come to New England with the Gorges Company that began the first permanent settlement at Weymouth, in August, 1623. .... etc.
• http://archive.org/stream/descendantsofedw02unde#page/730/mode/1up
• Little can be learned of the earlier years of Matthew Pratt in Weymouth, though the settlement there, called Wessaguscus, was second to that of Plymouth. It was the scene of the failure of Weston's Colony, upon the site now locally known as "Old Spain," in 1622, and of the more permanent settlement by Captain Robert Gorges, son to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, in 1623. .... etc.
• http://archive.org/stream/descendantsofedw02unde#page/732/mode/1up
• The wife of Matthew1 Pratt was Elizabeth Bate or Bates. She is said to have been daughter to an older brother of Elder Edward1 Bates, of Weymouth, whom Matthew names in his will as "kinsman," but there is no evidence that the older men of the name in the town or state were related to Edward. It is more probable that Elizabeth was sister to Edward Bates. She was generously provided for by the will of her husband, of which she was made sole executrix. Very little of the property was to go to the children until after her death, which occurred in 1676.
  • * Town Records of Weymouth, vol. 1 : 38.
  • † Town Records of Weymouth, vol. i : 43, 47.
  • ‡ Weymouth Historical Society Collections, 1885 : 282-283.
• http://archive.org/stream/descendantsofedw02unde#page/733/mode/1up
• Matthew Pratt died October ("8mo") 29, 1672, in Weymouth. His will, dated March 25, 1672, was proved April 30, 1673, as follows : — .... etc.
• http://archive.org/stream/descendantsofedw02unde#page/737/mode/1up
• .... The date of death of Elizabeth, widow of Matthew Pratt, is not known.
• ISSUE
• I. .... etc.
• http://archive.org/stream/descendantsofedw02unde#page/746/mode/1up
• V. Joseph2, b. Aug. 10, 1639, in Weymouth ; mar. May 7, 1662, Sarah Judkins. She was b. 1638 ; d. Jan. 14, 1726, aged eighty-eight years.
• On March 11, 1673-74, "Joseph Pratt Wejm" was made freeman of Massachusetts Bay Colony.* That he was of "Wejm [Weymouth]" was recorded to distinguish him from another Joseph Pratt, who was made freeman the previous year.
• Joseph2 Pratt was the youngest son, and lived with his parents until about the time of his marriage. In the town records, where his birth, marriage, and death appear, he is shown to have been prominent not only in town affairs, but in the church. In 1666 and 1673, he was a fence-viewer ; in 1667, he cut five hundred shingles for his house. He was appointed, in 1681, to cut five cords of wood a year for the pastor; in 1682, was on a committee to rebuild the meeting-house. In 1685, he was a "way-warden; " 1686, a surveyor ; 1693, named a "freeholder;" 1706, surveyor of highways; 1709, chosen to lay off land adjoining his own. In 1710, eighty-seven rods of land were laid out for Joseph Pratt, senior, bounded by land owned by himself and Samuel Whitmarsh, who had married his niece. His occupation was that of a "husbandman."
• The death of Joseph Pratt occurred Dec. 24, 1720, in Weymouth, at the age of eighty-one years ; his will, dated March 5, 1718-19, was presented for probate, at Boston, on Feb. 10, 1720-21,† by his son Samuel, executor. To his aged wife, Sarah, he bequeathed all the "moveables and Household goods and a good convenient maintenance so that she may live comfortably upon the Income of my Estate to be brought in unto her by my Executor." To his son Joseph he left ten shillings beside what he already had given
  • * Massachusetts Bay Colony Records, vol. 4 : pt. 2 : 587.
  • † Suffolk County Probate, Book 22 (copy) : 80-81.
• http://archive.org/stream/descendantsofedw02unde#page/747/mode/1up
• him ; to his "Son John Pratt, Ten Shillings if he should ever come hither again;" to his son William, five shillings "besides what he hath had of my Estate already." He gave ten shillings to Aaron Pratt, his son-in-law, to be equally divided between the children of "his late wife Sarah Pratt ;" to his daughter, Experience Battle, £8, "beside what she has had;" and to his daughter, Hannah Hines (?), £5, "beside what she has had." His son Samuel was appointed the "only & sole executor," with the gift of all the "Housing Lands Messuages and Tenements in Weymouth and all my Meadow Land." This will was signed with the mark of Joseph Pratt, probably from illness, as he mentioned himself, at that time, "through . . . Old Age weak in Body ;" it was witnessed by Edward Bate, John Reed, and Joshua Torrey.
  • Issue: 1. Sarah3, b. May 31, 1664, in Weymouth; mar. to Aaron Pratt, of Hingham, son to Phineas Pratt. She d. July 22, 1706; her husband mar., second, Sept. 4, 1707, Sarah (Cummings) Wright, a widow, who d. Dec. 25, 1752, Aaron Pratt d. in 1735, aged eighty-one years. As the dates of births of the children are not known, they cannot be arranged in proper order, neither can the children be separated as belonging to the first or second wife.
    • Issue : .... etc.
  • 2. Joseph3, b. Feb. 2, 1665, in Weymouth; mar., first, Sarah Benson, of Hull, by whom he had twenty children. He lived to a great age, and his will, dated March 13, 1755, when he was ninety years of age, mentions but seven of them.
  • In 1704, he sold a mill at Abington, and soon after removed to Bridgewater. As Joseph Pratt, Jr., he was a fence-viewer, surveyor of highways, etc., in Weymouth. In Bridgewater he served on the grand jury, Feb. 17, 1720, and
  • http://archive.org/stream/descendantsofedw02unde#page/748/mode/1up
  • as selectman in 1739. He was called "Little-leg Joe," on account of one leg being a trifle short.
  • The wife of his old age, whom he mar. Dec. 14, 1721, in Bridgewater, was Ann Richards; she d. March 21, 1766, aged ninety-two years. "The Boston News-Letter" of January 31, 1765, gives the following account of his death: "On the fourteenth of this month died at Bridgewater Joseph Pratt, aged 100 years. A man of good character and religious profession. He had twenty children by his first wife, but none by his second, who still survives him, about 90 years of age."
    • Issue .... etc.
  • 3. John3, b. May 17, 1668, in Weymouth; mar. Mercy Newcomb. He was mentioned in his father's will ; the date of his death is not known.
    • Issue: .... etc.
  • 4. William3, b. in Weymouth ; mar. Experience King.
    • Issue: .... etc.
  • 5. Ephraim3, b. in Weymouth ; mar. Phoebe —— ; d. about 1745. His widow, Phoebe Pratt, d. Dec. 2, 1736. The will of Ephraim Pratt, dated Feb. 9, 1740-41, was proved Feb. 7, 1748, at Boston ; the inventory of his estate amounted to £191 : 08.*
    • Issue: .... etc.
  • 6. Experience3, b. in Weymouth ; mar. to —— Battle.
  • 7. Hannah3, b. in Weymouth ; mar. to —— Hines (?).
  • 8. Samuel3, b. in Weymouth ; was the executor of his father's estate. In 1710, land was granted by the town of Weymouth to Samuel Pratt, son to Joseph Pratt. Little is known of him, probably because of his removal elsewhere.
  • * Suffolk County Probate, Book 42 (copy) : 164-168. ____________________
• Marriage to Joseph Pratt: (7 May 1662 — Age: 16) Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA* Updated from Ancestry Genealogy via daughter Hannah Pratt by SmartCopy: Oct 2 2015, 22:05:30 UTC

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• Updated from MyHeritage Match via father Joel Judkin by SmartCopy: Sep 19 2014, 21:19:20 UTC