Sarah (Jones) Pratt (abt. 1645 - aft. 1726)

Born about 1645 in Guilford, Connecticut Colony

Wife of John Pratt — married 8 Jun 1669 in Saybrook, Connecticut

Descendants

Died after 31 Aug 1726 after about age 81 in Saybrook, New London, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Although no known primary birth record exists for Sarah Jones, an unsourced 1905 article in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register assigns her the birth date of 20 February, 1644, at Guilford, Connecticut Colony; that is actually the birth date of her husband, John Pratt. No other known Jones family having been present at Guilford at that time, she is understood to have been a daughter of Thomas Jones – one of the Guilford founders of 1639 – and his first wife, Mary (Unknown) Jones, whose maiden surname has not been discovered. Whatever the unknown basis for the 1905 Register piece, the logical placement of Sarah's birth is certainly in the mid-1640s, and she is shown to have been "of Guilford" at the time of her marriage, on the 8th of August, 1669, to John Pratt at Saybrook.

The 1905 Register dates Sarah's death to July, 1726, but again without citing a source. This appears to be incorrect, as Sarah was alive – although described as "weak and aged" – about August, 1726, when her sons were appointed as administrators of her husband's estate in her stead^[1]. Given the description of her circumstance, her death may, however, have come not long after that date.

Sources

1. ↑ . The Pratt Family or, The Descendants of Lieut. William Pratt, by Chapman, Frederick William, Case, Lockwood & Co., Hartford, 1864; [1]

• Marriage: "JONES... Sarah, of Guilford, m. John PRAT[T], of Seabrook, June 8, 1669, by Mr. William Leete" -- Image of printed Saybrook record: free sharing link [2]

• Birth 20 Feb. 1644 (no source cited), parentage, marriage, and death July 1726 (no source cited): "Thomas Jones of Guilford, Connecticut, and His Descendants", by Ralph D. Smith and Bernard C. Steiner, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 59 (1905), pp. 386-7; https://books.google.com/books?id=ByFAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA387&lpg=PA387&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false. Alternative access: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.); https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11590/386/241118531 (by subscription)

• US, New England Marriages Prior to 1700: New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015; https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1568/i/21175/1223/426938044 (subscription required). See also: Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870

• Chapman, Frederick William. The Pratt Family or, The Descendants of Lieut. William Pratt (Case, Lockwood & Co., Hartford, 1864) Chapter on 3rd generation, P. 68

• See also: "Pratt Line", John Hooker Williams: his ancestors and descendants, by Elizabeth Carol Cass, Princeton, Ill. : Phillips Letter Shop, 1952; p. 63