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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Ensign John Pratt |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][3][4] |
20 Feb 1644/45 |
Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United StatesAlso recorded at Saybrook. |
| Alt Marriage |
8 Jun 1665 |
to Sarah Jones |
| Marriage |
8 Jun 1669 |
Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, United Statesto Sarah Jones |
| Death[6] |
Bef 13 Jan 1725/26 |
Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States (probably)Called "late deceased" in court document of that date. |
| Probate[6] |
31 Aug 1726 |
Administration to John Pratt, son. |
| Estate Inventory[6] |
14 Dec 1726 |
Inventory presented in court on that date. |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 2. Ensign John Pratt, in Chapman, F. W. (Frederick William). The Pratt Family: or the Descendants of Lieut. William Pratt, One of the First Settlers of Hartford and Say-Brook, with Genealogical Notes of John Pratt, of Hartford; Peter Pratt, of Lyme; John Pratt (Taylor,) of Say-Brook. (Hartford, Conn.: Case, Lockwood & Company, 1864)
68-69.
"2. Ensign John Pratt, the eldest son of Lieut. William Pratt born February 20, 1644; married Sarah Jones, the daughter of Thomas Jones, of Guilford, June 8, 1699 [error for 1669], by whom he had eight children. He was a large landholder in Say-Brook, and also in the town of Hebron, Conn. His lands, in Say-Brook, lay principally within the limits of 'Pautapaug Quarter.' He first settled upon land in the old parish of Say-Brook, given him by his father about the year 1672. On the decease of his father, the paternal homestead on Essex Point, fell to him in the division of the estate, in the year 1678, when he removed to the latter place. He was a blacksmith, by trade, and his shop was located on or near the spot now occupied by Elias Pratt, of the eighth generation from the first settler, for the same purpose. He often appears on the records as Ensign John Pratt, but the more common title given him on the Town and Quarter records, Sergeant John Pratt, (Smith) to distinguish him from another John Pratt, a cotemporary, who bears the title of Sergeant John Pratt, (Taylor) and whose parentage has not been ascertained.
That he was a man of some distinction is evident from the fact that he several times represented his town in the General Assembly of the State. In the list of Deputies, who represented Say-Brook, according to the Records of the Secretary of State, we find 'Ensign John Pratt, Deputy, October 9, 1684, August 29, 1689 and May 14, 1691. [For his lands and the settlement of his estate, See Appendix, Note G.] He is supposed to have died in the year 1726. The date of Mrs. Sarah Pratt's decease is not known. The Court of Probate, which set at Guilford, appointed John Pratt and Isaac Piatt, sons to Ensign John Pratt, Administrators on the estate, on account of 'the weak and aged circumstances of their mother.' An inventory of the estate was presented in court, August 31, 1726, amounting to £119 16s. 3d. not including his lands. [Vide Guilford Probate Records, Vol. I, pp. 45 and 126.]"
- John Pratt, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
3:473.
"John (Pratt), Saybrook, s. of lieut. William, m. 8 June 1665 [error for 1669], Sarah, d. of Thomas Jones, but whether he had ch. by her, I find not."
- ↑ William Pratt, in Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977)
466.
"John (Pratt) b Feb 23, 1644-5 (Hartford Town Record) m Sarah Jones"
- ↑ Hartford Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
256.
"Pratt, … John, s. William, b. Feb. 23, 1644 [D:1]"
"Pratt, … John, s. William, b. Feb. 23, 1644 [FFS:1]"
- Saybrook Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
101.
"Pratt, … John, [s. William], b. Feb. 20, 1644 [1:17]"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Note H, in Chapman, F. W. (Frederick William). The Pratt Family: or the Descendants of Lieut. William Pratt, One of the First Settlers of Hartford and Say-Brook, with Genealogical Notes of John Pratt, of Hartford; Peter Pratt, of Lyme; John Pratt (Taylor,) of Say-Brook. (Hartford, Conn.: Case, Lockwood & Company, 1864)
347-48.
"Whereas there was formerly laid out to Ensign John Pratt, of Say-Brook, late deceased, forty acres of land, on a hill called Fearn Hill, in Potapaug Quarter, in said Say-Brook, …"
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