Aaron Pratt (abt. 1649 - 1736)

Born about 1649 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah Pratt — married 1684 (to 22 Jul 1706) in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Husband of Sarah (Wright) Pratt — married 4 Sep 1707 in Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 23 Feb 1736 at about age 87 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Aaron Pratt, son of Phineas Pratt and Marah Priest, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. There is some question about his year of birth. In a normal timely fashion, he would have been born about 1649, two years after Peter, which is the date used by the Mayflower Society.^[1] His gravestone says he died 1735/6 in his 81st year, so born about 1656. Anderson's Great Migration uses 1654.^[2] He was named in the 1738 distribution of Phineas' estate.^[3]

He became a resident of Hingham around 1683, at which time he purchased a tract of land in the second precinct from Capt. Joshua Hobart. ^[4]

He married first, about 1684, Sarah Pratt, a daughter of Joseph Pratt of Weymouth and Sarah (Judkins) Pratt. She was born at Weymouth, Massachusetts, 31 May 1664 and died in Hingham, Massachusetts, 22 July 1706, at 42 years. Joseph Pratt's 1719 will named son-in-law Aaron Pratt and the children of his late daughter Sarah Pratt.^[1]

For his second wife, he married 4 Sep 1707 Mrs. Sarah (Wright) Cummings, of Charlestown at Reading, Massachusetts.^[5] She was born at Woburn, Massachusetts, daughter of Josiah and Elizabeth (Hassell) Wright; married first in 1687, Abraham Cummings. They had children: Abraham, Joseph, Sarah and Eliezer. She died 13 Dec. 1752, at 84 yrs.^[1]

Aaron Pratt apparently sold his right in his father's estate to Daniel Fletcher, on 15 Nov 1720.^[6][1]

"Farmer." Constable 1705. Resided in the second precinct, on what is now South Main St.^[4]

He died in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, 23 Feb 1735/6. His gravestone says he was in his 81st year (ie. age 80).^[7][8] This was the area of Hingham's Second Parish, later incorporated (1770) as Cohassett.

His will dated 1 June, 1730; proved 9 March 1736, named his wife Sarah and children Benjamin, Henry, Daniel, Aaron, Jonathan, John, Moses, Phenies [sic], Nathaniel, Sarah Webb (deceased), Elizabeth Pratt, Mercy Orcutt, Hannah and Abigail Pratt.^[1][9]

Children with first wife Sarah (Pratt), born at Hingham.

1. Henry Pratt, born June 5 1685
2. Daniel Pratt, born February 2, 1687/8
3. Aaron Pratt, born March 10, 1690/1
4. Jonathan Pratt, born November 6, 1692
5. John Pratt, born March 4, 1693/4
6. Sarah Pratt, born October 23, 1695
7. Elizabeth Pratt, born December 5, 1697
8. Moses Pratt, born December 31, 1699
9. Mary Pratt, born December 10, 1701
10. Mercy Pratt, born December 6, 1703
11. Hannah Pratt, born April 1706
    
    Children with second wife Sarah (Wright) (Cummings), born at Hingham.
    
12. Abigail Pratt, born August 4, 1708
13. Phineas Pratt, born December 31, 1709
14. Benjamin Pratt, born March 13, 1710/1
15. Nathaniel Pratt, born about 1712

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Stover, Margaret Harris (re-editor). Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Volume Eight Second edition. Family of Degory Priest. Originally compiled by Mrs. Charles Delmar Townsend; Robert S. Wakefield, FASG; Margaret Harris Stover. (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2008) . pp. 6, 16-17
2. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 vols., (Boston MA: NEHGS, 1995). Online with subsc. at American Ancestors, Vol. III, pages 1514-1518: PRATT.
3. ↑ "Phineas Pratt of Plymouth and Charlestown" The Mayflower Descendant Vol IV p. 138. (1902) link at archive
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts (The Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, 1893): Vol III, p.116
5. ↑ Vital records of Reading, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. (Boston, Mass. : [Wright & Potter Co.], 1912) p 423
6. ↑ "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (22 May 2014), Middlesex > Deeds 1719-1724 vol 21 > image 118 of 573; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts. Vol 21 p. 117.
7. ↑ Vital Records of Cohasset, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 p. 221. "Pratt, Aaron, s. of Phineas (Feb 23, CR1), 1735-6, a. 81y. GR1." Note:CR1=church record, First Congregational Society, formerly Second Parish of Hingham. GR1=grave record, Central Cemetery link AmericanAncestors p 221 at archive.org Wife Sarah p. 224.
8. ↑ Vital Records of Hingham, Massachusetts, ca. 1639-1844. p. 101. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2016. Vital Records of Hingham, Massachusetts, ca. 1639-1844. Hersey, Reuben. Mss 901. R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department, New England Historic Genealogical Society.) link AmericanAncestors
9. ↑ Suffolk County (Massachusetts) Probate Records, 1636-1899; Author: Massachusetts. Probate Court (Suffolk County); Probate Place: Suffolk, Massachusetts 32:383 link Ancestry

• Eleazer Franklin Pratt, Phineas Pratt and Some of His Descendants, (T.R. Marvin & Sons Boston Printed for Private Distribution 1897 Reprinted Higginson Book Company Salem, MA), p. 63
• Ancestry.com. "Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2." [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. from Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Births and Deaths: From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Volumes 1 & 2. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1992: Mary Pratt.
• Phineas Pratt on Find A Grave: Memorial #32607821 retrieved 5/1/2019* Remarkable Longevity of The Pratt Family, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1851) Vol. 5, Page 224

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