Othniel Pratt (1768 - 1851)

Born 2 Mar 1768 in Spencer, Worcester, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Seba (Howe) Pratt — married about 30 Sep 1792 in Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 24 Mar 1851 at age 83 in Troy, Waldo, Maine, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Birth

Othniel Pratt was born at Spencer, Massachusetts, on 2 Mar 1768, the son of Othniel Pratt and Deborah (Hatch) Pratt.^[1]

Marriage

Othniel Pratt married Seba Howe at Barre, Massachusetts, on 30 Sep 1792.^[2]

Residence

Othniel and Seba Pratt had apparently settled in Livermore, Maine (then in Massachusetts), by 11 Nov 1792, when the birth of their son, Charles, was recorded there,^[3] less than two months after their marriage at Barre, Massachusetts. They apparently lived in "that portion of Livermore south of a line extending from the Androscoggin River to the western boundary of Wayne ... [which] was annexed to Leeds" in 1802.^[4] Their children born through 1800 were born at Livermore, and those starting in 1802 at Leeds.

Death

Othniel Pratt died on 21 Mar 1851 and is buried at the Rogers Cemetery in Troy, Maine, where a family grave marker gives his age at his death as 83.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Spencer, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester, Mass., 1909), Page 86
2. ↑ Vital Records of Barre, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Worcester, Mass., 1903), Page 157
3. ↑ Vital Records of Livermore, Maine; Vital and town records, 1797-1910; "Livermore Vital Records, 1786-1840," page 34; FHL Microfilm 11332, Image 46 of 718
4. ↑ J. C. Stinchfield, History of the town of Leeds, Androscoggin County, Maine, from its settlement June 10, 1780 (Lewiston, Maine, 1901), Page 1
5. ↑ Photo of gravestone of the Pratt family (Find A Grave: Memorial #46835699)