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Bethsheba Pratt

Bethsheba Pratt

Female 1639 -

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  • Name Bethsheba Pratt 
    Born 1639  Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Person ID I5659325438  Master Tree
    Last Modified 21 Jan 2008 

    Father Joshua Pratt,   b. 1593, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Aug 1656, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 63 years) 
    Mother Bathsheba Fay,   b. 1 Jan 1593, Marlbord, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1673, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Married 1630  [2
    Notes 
    • Shortly after the FORTUNE arrived at Plymouth in 1621, a shallop from the ship SPARROW, which Had arrive in Damaris Cove. In this little vessel were ten men, who came to select a site for another plantation; Phineas Pratt was one of them, Joshua Pratt, probably the brother of Phineas, and like him, unmarried, arrived at Plymouth in the ANNE in the summer of 1623. Most of those who came in thes ship and in the LITTLE JAMES were friends and relatives of the Plymouth settlers. During the year 1623 there was a division of the land at Plymouth, under three groups: those who came in the MAY FLOWER, those who came in the FORTUNE, and those who came in the ANNE. As part of the last group, Phineas and Joshua received two acres. Since Phineas did not come by any of those vessels, the probability is that he was the brother of Joshua and put with that group to make the division complete. In 1624 the settlers of Plymouth were divided into twelve companies of thirteen persons each. Joshua and Phineas were assigned to Francis Cooke.

      He was appointed a surveyor on January 3, 1627, along with William Bradford, Edward Winslow, John Howland, Francis Cooke and Edward Bangs. He was mentioned in the cattle division of June 1, 1627, when he was a member of Francis Cooke's company which received "the least of the four black heifers came in the JACOB." He was a freeman at the time of the incorporation of Plymouth in 1633, and in April of that year he was foreman of the jury, as well as Constable in 1633, 1636, 1637. On December 4, 1638 he was again sworn in as Constable and the Court gave him the duties of measuring lands and the sealing of weights and measures.

      *Reference: Clemens, 176; NEHGR 9:314; Plymouith Colony Records, 1:3, 12, 105; Pratt, Simon Newcomb, "Founders of Early American Families", pamphlet, 1917, reprint 1938; MD 14:113, 18:56; Peirce's Colonial Lists; Goodwin, John, "The Pilgrim Republic",292-3; Rev. Sherwood Anderson Davis, "Ancient Landmarks of Plymouth", 209; Plymouth Colony Records, 8:17, "Ancestors and Descendants of Minnie Hale Gorton" by Carolyn C. Volpe, p. 108-110.
    Family ID F5260021523  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Married Dec 1662 
    Family ID F5260021557  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Sources 
    1. [S5352859560] Family Data Collection - Births.

    2. [S5352827412] U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900.