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Benajah Pratt[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]

Male 1630 - 1683  (~ 53 years)


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  • Name Benajah Pratt 
    Birth SAY 1630  [4, 11, 15
    Gender Male 
    Freeman 1654  [5
    Inventory 6 May 1682 


    • An Inventory of the lands goods and Chattle of Benajah Pratt desesed taken by us whose names are under written the 6 of may 1682 as followeth
      £ s d
      Imprimis his wearing aparel 04 10 00
      Item in booke 00 18 00
      2 oxen at 6 10 0 3 Cows 6 10 0 2 2 year olds 3 0 0 3 yearlings 3 0 0 19 00 00
      1 Cart and 1 paire of wheels and yoke 1 19 01 19 00
      1 plow and plow ions 1 1 chaine 1 paire of hookes and flayle 1 bolt and
      Shakel and 2 axeltree pinns 01 15 00
      3 axes and 2 wedges 10s 6 old hows and other yron and hammers 01 07 00
      3 saws and reap hookes and sithes and 1 paire of chisels 00 10 00
      1 pitchforke and dung fork 3s 3 sithes and 2 snethes 00 16 00
      2 guns at 2s an old sword powther and bullets and shot and powther
      hornes and shot bags 03 00 00
      The widows bed and furniture 6 li 5 paire of Sheets 6s-10 10 10 00
      on trundle bed and trundle Sted and furniture 04 00 00
      1 bed in the Chamber and furniture and 3 blankest 05 10 00
      9 pillow beres 15s 1 table cloth 8 napkins iod 01 08 00
      A smal pillow and a parcel of fethers 01 10 00
      in pewter 1 li 1 5s Spoons 4s 6d trenchers and knives and sisers 02 02 00
      earthen weare and glas botels ns 6d yron pots and pot hooks 01 17 05
      old bras 5s 6d 2 paire of pot hangers 2 smothing yrons 1 grindston 1
      fire slice 1 paire of tongs i spit 01 08 00
      wollen and linen yarn and flax teere and sheeps wool 02 16 06
      4 chests with old boxes 1 siveting trough and 2 sives 01 04 06
      tubs trays paines 1 Spinning wheel with other old lumber 01 14 00
      1 paire of Cards bags and baskets with smal things 01 00 00
      4 chaires 5 deere Skins 00 11 00
      1 hundred of shingle bolts in the woods and 50 at home 00 13 00
      a parsell of pine knots in the woods and 1 thousand and halfe of Shingle 01 04 00
      5 tar barrels 00 06 00
      The housing and land adioning and 3 acres adjasent total is 44 10 00
      8 acres of land at a place called pontuses medowes 12 00 00
      5 acres of medow at the South medowes 10 00 00
      6 acres of medow at Crane brooke 09 00 00
      6 acres of upland at a place called Smal gaines not laid out 02 10 00
      60 acres of land at (...) at 02 10 00
      4 acres of Swamp at Cedar bridge at Southmere not laid out 1 Cart rope
      and horse trases 00 07 00
      Debts due from this estate to mr Gray 06 05 00
      to Abraham Jakson 03 13 00
      to will Ring 01 03 00
      to will harlow Senior 00 05 03
      to John Jordan 00 03 00

      On the oath of Persis Pratt Widdow
      This Inventory is Recorded according Will harlow
      to order pr me Nathaniel Morton Joseph Donham
      Secretary see book of evidences johnathan X his mark
      of lands Recorded folio 12 pratt
    Death 17 Mar 1682/3  Plymouth Plantation, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 7, 11, 15
    Person ID I37414  Duane's Ancestors
    Last Modified 25 Jan 2020 

    Father Joshua Pratt,   b. BY Abt 1605   d. Between 29 Jun 1652 and 5 Oct 1656 (Age ~ 47 years) 
    Mother Bathsheba ________   d. Aft 4 Jun 1673 
    Marriage BY 1630  [4, 16, 17
    Family ID F6695  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Persis Dunham,   b. Abt 1635, Plymouth Plantation, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1 Oct 1702, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 67 years)  [1, 3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 18, 19
    Marriage 29 Nov 1655  Plymouth Plantation, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 14, 15
    Children 
    +1. Joshua Pratt,   b. Abt 1656, Plymouth Plantation, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Feb 1697/8, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 42 years)
     2. Abigail Pratt,   b. 21 Nov 1657, Plymouth Plantation, British America Find all individuals with events at this location
    +3. John Pratt,   b. 1659, Plymouth Plantation, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 23 May 1730 and 3 Apr 1731, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
     4. Benajah Pratt,   b. 1663, Plymouth Plantation, British America Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Joseph Pratt,   b. 1664/5, Plymouth Plantation, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. young
     6. Mehitable Pratt,   b. 1667, Plymouth Plantation, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Oct 1712, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years)
     7. Eleazer Pratt,   b. 1672, Plymouth Plantation, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Feb 1760, Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)
     8. Joseph Pratt,   b. 1676, Plymouth Plantation, British America Find all individuals with events at this location
     9. Daniel Pratt,   b. Abt 1680, Plymouth Plantation, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 May 1739, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 59 years)
    Family ID F14341  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 29 Nov 1655 - Plymouth Plantation, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 17 Mar 1682/3 - Plymouth Plantation, British America Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1.  1.  [S259] NEHGS Register, 166:126, 00390.

    2.  2.  [S259] NEHGS Register, 9:313, 00390.

    3.  3.  [S867] TAG, 30:145, 00863.

    4.  4.  [S576] TGMSP, Joshua Pratt, 00516.

    5.  5.  [S107] History of Bridgewater, 279, 00266.

    6.  6.  [S480] TMD, 12:8, 00371.

    7.  7.  [S482] Torrey 1st, 598, 00395.

    8.  8.  [S259] NEHGS Register, 116:19, 00390.

    9.  9.  [S1305] Dunham-Singletary Family Connections, Gratia Dunham Mahony; Some Interconnected Dunham Lines From Families of Plympton, MA; 15 January 2015; 10, 00166.

    10.  10.  [S168] Hamlin Family, 33, 00249.

    11.  11.  [S1305] Dunham-Singletary Family Connections, Gratia Dunham Mahony; Joseph Dunham and his Sisters Hannah and Persis; 30 January 2006; 3, 00166.

    12.  12.  [S480] TMD, 1:175, 00371.

    13.  13.  [S576] TGMSP, John Shaw, 00516.

    14.  14.  [S576] TGMSP, John Dunham, 00516.

    15.  15.  [S259] NEHGS Register, 166:122, 00390.

    16.  16.  [S480] TMD, 46:132, 00371.

    17.  17.  [S1122] Find A Grave, Memorial# 34761134, 00974.

    18.  18.  [S1122] Find A Grave, Memorial# 37017282, 00974.

    19.  19.  [S348] Mayflower Families, Vol. 12, 186, 00372.