Samuel Pratt (abt. 1637 - 1676)

Born about 1637 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Barker) Wood — married about 1668 (to 26 Mar 1676) in Scituate, Plymouth Colony [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 26 Mar 1676 at about age 39 in Attleboro-Gore, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

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Biography

Samuel Pratt, son of Phineas Pratt and Marah Priest, was born about 1637, in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, where his parents lived.^[1] He was named in the 1738 distribution of Phineas' estate.^[2][3]

Samuel's father, Phineas, and presumably his family went to Charlestown, Massachusetts, about 1646.^[4]

He married Mary Barker, perhaps at Scituate, Rhode Island, between 19 Dec 1667 (Mary's grandfather's will) and 2 Nov 1668 (receipt). Mary was born about 1647, daughter of John and Anna (Williams) Barker of Duxbury. Her grandfather John Williams of Scituate wrote his will 19 Dec 1667, naming her Mary Barker, daughter of John Barker.^[5][3] After Samuel's death she married Francis Coombs, her brother-in-law, and after his death she married David Wood 5 Mar 1685/5. 2 Nov 1668, Samuel Pratt gave Abraham Blush (father in law) a receipt for his wife's portion of John Barker's estate.^[3]

Samuel Pratt and other residents of "Acquednesitt" took oath of allegiance to Rhode Island, 20 May 1671.^[6]

Samuel died 26 March 1676. He was killed by Indians on the banks of the Pawtucket River, near today's Central Falls, Rhode Island, during 'Pierce's Fight'. At the time the area was uninhabited, and may have been part of Attleboro-Gore.^[7][8] Capt. Pierce led about 70 persons from Rehoboth, in chase of a contingent of Indians. After locating and chasing after a small group of Indians, they were surrounded by a much larger group. Pierce was injured early in the battle and subsequently most of the colonists including Pierce and Samuel Pratt were killed during the battle.^[9] No Plymouth probate was found for Samuel or his wife.^[3]

Children:^[3]

• About 1690, Mary wrote the following petition to release her son Samuel Pratt from military service. "These lines may give information that Samuel Pratt's Father, my first husband, was slain by the heathen in Captain Pierce's fight. He was pressed a souldier when I sojourned att Scittuate, having then noe place of my own, and have brought him up with other small children, and I shall take it very unkindly, Iff he that is the only one son of his father that was slain in the former warr should be compelled to go out againe, itt being contrary as I am informed to the law of England and this country, therefore I desire itt many not be. So petitions Mary Woods from Middlebury."^[3]
• 15 Nov 1743, Samuel Pratt, wheelwright, and William Thomas, gentleman, both of Middleboro, conveyed to Samuel Gould, 36 acres located in Nottingham, New Hampshire, which was a ninth part of Phineas Prat's farm.^[10]

1. Sarah Pratt, b. c. 1668/9; m. William Thomas
2. Samuel Pratt; m. Hannah Miller

Sources

1. ↑ 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.
2. ↑ "Phineas Pratt of Plymouth and Charlestown" The Mayflower Descendant Vol IV p. 138. (1902)link at archive
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5} 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) . The Mayflower Society uses a birth about 1636. p. 11, 12
4. ↑ Macdonough, Rodney. "John and Ebenezer Pratt, of Oyster Bay, Long Island." The Mayflower descendant : a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history (Boston : Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1901) pp 1-8
5. ↑ "Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories" The Mayflower Descendant Vol 17. (Boston : Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1915) pp 109 will, 111 receipt. https://archive.org/details/mayflowerdescendv1718mass/page/n247/mode/2up
6. ↑ Rhode Island, and John Russell Bartlett. Records of the Colony of Rhode Island And Providence Plantations, In New England. Vol II 1664-1677.: Printed by Order of the General Assemby. Providence: A.C. Greene and brother, state printers, 1857. p 391; oath on 389.
7. ↑ "Phinehas Pratt and some of his descendants"by Pratt, Eleazer Franklin, 1813-1888; 1897; Boston, Mass. : [T. Marvin] page 58 of genealogy section, viewed 12/2020 at https://archive.org/details/phinehasprattsom00prat/page/n121/mode/2up
8. ↑ Bodge, George Madison. Soldiers in King Philip's War: Being a Critical Account of that War, with a ... (Leominster, Mass.: For the Author, 1896.) p 349
9. ↑ LaCroix, Lawrence K. "Captain Pierce's Fight: An investigation into a King Philip's War Battle and Its Remembrance and Memorialization. University of Massachusetts Boston, Thesis, 2011. https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1070&context=masters_theses
10. ↑ Mayflower Families cites Rockingham Co. NH land records 37:84

• Roser, Susan E. "Mayflower Births and Deaths." Vol 1,& 2 Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., (Vol 1, 1992) p. 195 Ancestry.com.
• Austin, John Osborne, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. p.157
• History of the state of Rhode Island and Providence plantations. p.412-1902
• Roser Susan E. Early Descendants of Henry Cobb of Barnstable MA, Stewart Publishing and Printing, Canada, 2008
• Robert Wakefield. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Vol 8 Degory Priest, Published by General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1994. p.4.

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