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MATTHEW PRATT (bp. 1629–1713), son of Matthew Pratt and Elizabeth Kingham
SARAH HUNT (1640–1829), daughter of Enoch Hunt and Dorothy Unknown
Matthew Pratt, the son of Matthew and Elizabeth Pratt, was born about 1628. [1, 501] He was baptized on 7 June 1629 in Clinton, Buckinghamshire. [2] He died on 12 January 1712/3 in Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. [1, 501][3] He married Sarah, the daughter of Enoch and Sarah Hunt, on 1 August 1661. [1, 501][3]
Sarah, the daughter of Enoch and Dorthy Hunt, was born on 4 July 1640 in Weymouth. [1, 502][3] She died there on 3 August 1729. [1, 501][3]
Because of sickness, both Matthew and Sarah were deaf and dumb. [1, 502]
Matthew Pratt, Sr. of Weymouth made his will on 30 July 1711; it was probated on 4 June 1713. He left bequests to his wife Sarah; his sons Matthew, William, and Samuel Pratt; his daughters Mary Allen, Dorothy Whitmarsh, Sarah Ford, Anne White, and Hannah Whitmarsh. His estate amounted to a substantial £1,326-16-00. [1, 502]
Children of Matthew Pratt and Sarah Hunt: Born in Weymouth [1, 502]
i. Matthew Pratt was born on 18 September 1665. [1, 502] He died on 1 July 1746 in Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. [1, 504] He married Susanna Porter. [1, 505] Susanna, the daughter of John and Deliverance (Byram) Porter was born on 2 June 1665 in Weymouth. [1, 505]
Matthew apparently moved to Abington about 1713. [1, 505]
ii. Mary Pratt was born in 1667. [1, 502] She married ___ Allen.
iii. Hannah Pratt was born on 4 November 1670 in Weymouth. She married Samuel Whitmarsh.
iv. Dorothy Pratt married John Whitman of Weymouth on 13 August 1700. [1, 502]
v. William Pratt was born on 5 May 1673. [1, 502] He died on 18 September 1714 in Weymouth. [1, 505] He married Hannah ___ about 1700. [1, 505] She died on 14 February 1757. [1, 505] She married second Thomas Randall on 23 December 1719. [1, 505]
vi. Samuel Pratt was baptized on 2 April 1676 in the Old South Church of Boston. [1, 505] He married Hannah ___ about 1704. [1, 505] She died on 16 October 1715 in Weymouth. [1, 505]
vii. Sarah Pratt married Isaac Ford. [1, 502]
viii. Anne Pratt was born on 14 September 1682. [1, 502] She married Samuel White. [1, 502]
ix. Susanna Pratt was born in September 1684. [1, 502] She married Thomas Porter of Weymouth. [1, 502]
Endnotes:
1. History of Weymouth, Massachusetts. Weymouth, Mass., vol. 4 (Weymouth: Weymouth Historical Society, 1923).
2. Frederick J. Nicholson, "The English Origin of Macuth (or Matthew) Pratt and Edward Bates of Weymouth, Mass.," The American Genealogist 65 (1990): 33–43.
3. Robert Charles Anderson, "Ancestry of President Calvin Coolidge," The American Genealogist 53 (1977): 65–74, 160–167.
NWB. Newton Whitmarsh Bates, Genealogy of the Descendants of John Whitmarsh of Weymouth, Mass. (Ashtabula, OH: P.H. Fassett, 1916), 15, 18, 24–25.
Last revised: 11-Dec-2023