Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for Aaron PRATT | ||||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - AARON, Cohasset, s. of Phineas, had Aaron, d. Feb. 1735, aged 81, says the very loose statement in a newspaper taken into the Geneal. Reg. V. 224 [ref 20] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Aaron Pratt3, b. c 1649, Charlestown, d. 23 Feb. 1755/6, sr 87, (Hingham 1:277; m. 1st. c 1684 Woburn, Sarah Pratt (MM:237), dau of Joseph Pratt & Sarah Judkins; b. 31 May 1664 (Weymouth 1:239), d. 22 July 1706, ae 42 Hingham (Lincoln 3:116). Aaron m. 2nd, 4 Sept. 1707 Gharlestown, Sarah (Wright) Cummings (Charlestown MM:237) dau of Joseph/Josiah Wright & Elizabeth Hassell; b. 25 Feb. 1670 (Woburn 66). [ref 30:86] Children by first wife, 11 Hingham: Henry, Daniel, Aaron, Jonathan, John, Sarah, Elizabeth, Moses, Mary, Mercy, Hannah. Children by 2nd wife 4 Hingham: Abigail, Phineas, Benjamin, Nathaniel. [ref 30:195] Will of Aaron Pratt, yeoman of Hingham MA, dated 1 June 1730, mentions wf Sarah ... to son Benjamin Prat, fourteen acres & dwelling house ... to eldest son Henry Prat, �20 ... to son Aaron Prat, �20 ... which sd sum ... I had intended to have given to my dafter Sarah Webb dec'd ... he having purchased her right in my estate in her life time ... to daus Elizabeth, Mercy Orcut, Hannah and Abigail Pratt, �35 each; mentions land lying near Hezekiah Towers land; remainder of estate to eight sons Henry Pratt, Daniel Pratt, Aaron Pratt, Jonathan Prate, John Pratt, Moses Pratt, Phineas Pratt & Nathainel Pratt; sons Henry & Aaron, executors. Witnesses: Joshua Bate, Thomas Circutt jr., Ebenezer Mott. Pr. 9 Mar 1735, Henry Pratt & Aaron Pratt, app'td admrs. Inventory taken 29 Apr. 1736 by Joshua Bates, John Jacob, Benjamin Lincoln; incl. home lands, �1200; land in the 2nd part of the 3rd division, �120 and land in the 2nd division, V45; total estate, �1484.17s; sworn to 25 May 1736 by admrs. [ref 30] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Aaron2 (Phinehas1), of Cohasset. By occupation he was a farmer; he was born in Charlestown, A. D. 1654, and about November 28, 1685, removed to that part of Hingham (Mass.), then known as the first division of land of Conohasset; it embraced eighteen acres of uplands. He married Sarah, the daughter of Joseph and Sarah Pratt, of Weymouth, and a descendant of Matthew, of Weymouth. She was born May 31, 1664, and died July 22, 1706, aged 42 years. He married at Charlestown, for his second wife, Sarah Cummings, a widow, from Woburn, September 4, 1707 (Justice Brown, of Reading, performing the ceremony), whose maiden name was Wright. [She may have been the daughter of Josiah (sometimes written Joseph) and Elizabeth (Hassall) Wright, born February 25, 1669-70; there was a Sarah Cummings, of Woburn, whose husband was Abraham, of Woburn and Dunstable, who had several children by him, but whether this be the same we do not certainly know.] She was distinguished for her sagacity and energy. She had a very extensive practice in midwifery at Hingham and its vicinity, a branch of the medical profession then largely conducted by females. She died December 25, 1752, aged 84 years, "lamented by all who knew her." Aaron2 Pratt died February 23, 1735, aged 81 years. His will is dated June 1, 1730. He was interred in the old Cohasset burying-ground with both of his wives, where a monumental stone records their names, etc. He was a man of more than ordinary natural endowments - hardy, industrious, prudent, enterprising, persevering and frugal. Children: Henry, Daniel, Aaron, John, Jonathan, Moses, Sarah, Mercy, Elizabeth, Hannah, Nathaniel, Phinehas, Benjamin, Abigail. The first generation from the Pilgrims did not have even the slight advantages of education which many of their predecessors enjoyed, yet beginning life as a poor man, he supported comfortably and respectably a family of fourteen children, and left his heirs a valuable estate, the result of his own unaided efforts. The house which he built was two stories high, with a gable roof; the lower story was of stone, and the upper portion of wood. The windows were of a small diamond pattern of glass, architecturally known as "quarrels," inserted in leaden sashes. The land whereon he lived for fifty years has always remained in the possession of his descendants. It was on this spot that his son Benjamin Pratt, afterwards Colonial Chief Justice of New York, was born. Dr. Ezekiel5 Pratt, a very skillful and popular physician of Cohasset, a grandson of Aaron3 (27), was also born on this place. [ref 40:63] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - occupation: farmer 28 Nov 1685, removed to first division of land of Conohasset(Hingham), 18 acres of uplands as early as 1722, sold his portion of father's estate Old Bur Grnd, Cohasset MA; buried with both wives - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||||
| Notes for Sarah WRIGHT | ||||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Abraham Cummin married Sarah Wright Feb 28, 1687 in Woburn, Middlesex Co., MA [ref 23:0761394 & 0859998] (children 1690-1704: Abraham, Joseph, Sarah, Jacob, Josiah, Eleazer) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sarah (Wright) Cummings (Jos.), b. 25 Feb. 1670 (Woburn 283); d. 13 Dec. 1752, ae 84 (Hingham 2:68) m. 1st, 28 Feb. 1687, Woburn, Abraham Cummings. [ref 30] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sarah Wright birth 25 Feb 1670 Woburn Middlesex /d of Joseph [ref 76] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||||
| Last Modified 8 Aug 2004 | Created 4 Jan 2005 |