Family:Joshua Pratt and Bathsheba Unknown (3)

Some sources claim that Joshua Pratt's wife was named Bathsheba Fay. There is no evidence for this, and no Fay family in Plymouth who might have supplied such a wife. This false claim apparently arises from the misinterpretation of the marriage in Marlborough, Massachusetts, of John Pratt and Bathsheba Fay on 4 January 1715/6. (Great Migration}

1. ↑ Joshua Pratt sketch, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

   MARRIAGE: By about 1630 Bathsheba _____ (assuming she was the mother of all his children); she married (2) Plymouth 29 August 1667 "John Doged [Doggett] of Martha's Vineyard" [MD 8:31] (see JOHN DOGGETT).

2. ↑ Hollick, Martin E. John Barrows of Plymouth, Massachusetts, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   166(2012):119-31.

   pp. 121-22: 'Deborah, the second wife of John Barrows, has heretofore been unidentified--or misidentified--as a Deborah Donten or Doty [a footnote suggests that this misidentification originated with Frank Barrows in his 1985 book Barrows Collection].' Hollick suggests, based on the use of the uncommon first name Benajah and the fact that there is no documented list of Joshua Pratt's children (he left no will), that she was Deborah Pratt, daughter of Joshua and Bathsheba (___) Pratt.