HUNT, Sarah

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: deaf

Notes:

Cotton Mather, in Magnalia, Vol 1, Page 495, writes:

"One Matthew Pratt, whose religious parents had well instructed him in his minority, when he was twelve years of age became totally deaf through sickness, and so hath ever since continued. He was taught after this to write, as he had been before to read; and both his reading and his writing he remaineth perfectly, but he has almost forgotten to speak; speaking out imperfectly, and scare intelligible, and very seldom.

He is yet a very judicious Christian, and being admitted into the communion of the church, he was therein for many years behaved himself unto the extreme satisfaction of good people in the neighborhood. Sarah Prat, the wife of this man, is one also who was altogether deprevied of her hearing by sickness when she was about the third year of her age; but having utterly lost her hearing, she has utterly lost her speach also, and no doubt all rememberance of everything that refers to language.

Mr. Thatcher made an essay to teach her the use of letters, but it succeeded not; however, she discourses by signs, whereat some of her friends are so expert as to maintain a conversation with her upon any point whatever, with as much freedom and fullness as if she wanted neither tongue nor ear for conference. Her children do learn her signs from the breast, and speak sooner by her eyes and hands than by their lips. From her infancy she was very sober and modest; but she had no knowledge of a Deity, nor of anything that concerns another life and world. Nevertheless, God, of his infinite mercy, has revealed the Lord Jesus Christ, and the great mysteries of salvation by him, unto her, by a more extraordinary and immediate operation of his own spirit unto her, an account of her experience was written from her, by her husband; and the elders of the church employing her husband, with two of her sisters who are notably skilled in her way of communication, examined her strictly hereabout, and they found that she understood the unity of the divine essence, and trinity of persons in the Godhead; the personal union in our Lord, the mystical union between our Lord and his church; and that she was acquainted with the impressions of grace upon a regenerate soul. She was under great exercise of mind, about her internal and eternal state; she expressed unto her friends her desire for help; and she made use of the Bible, and other good books, and with tears remarked such passages as were suitable to her own condition. Yea, she once, in her exercise wrote with a pin upon a trencher, three times over, "Ah poor soul!" and therewith, before divers person, burst into tears. She was admitted into the church with the general approbation of the faithful,.....and her carriage is that of a grave, gracious, holy woman."

Sarah married PRATT, Matthew on 1 Aug 1661 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Matthew (son of PRATT, Macuth and KINGHAM, Elizabeth) was born on 7 Jun 1629 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 12 Jan 1713 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. PRATT, Anna was born on 14 Sep 1682 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 14 Sep 1757 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
2. PRATT, Matthew was born on 18 Sep 1665 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 1 Jul 1746 in Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
3. PRATT, Mary was born on 27 Nov 1667 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA; died on 28 Jul 1727 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA.
4. PRATT, Dorothy was born in 1661 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 28 Sep 1733 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
5. PRATT, Hannah was born on 4 Nov 1670 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1684 in Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA.
6. PRATT, Samuel was born on 3 Apr 1676 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 16 Oct 1715 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
7. PRATT, Sarah was born on 1 Jan 1679 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 16 Sep 1788 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.
8. PRATT, William was born on 5 May 1673 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 18 Sep 1714 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: The Great Migration; Immigrant
• Great Migration: Enoch was an early settler in Rhode Island and was admitted a freeman in Newport in 1638. He was a blacksmith by trade. He removed to Weymouth, Mass., where he was living in 1640.
• Web Address: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hunt-1419
• Occupation: Blacksmith
• Public Service: 1638, Newport, Rhode Island, USA; Admitted as Freeman
• Residence: 1640, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA

Notes:

Enoch Hunt, the immigrant ancestor, was from Titendon, in the parish of Lee, two miles from Wendover, Buckshire, England. He was an early settler in Rhode Island and was admitted a freeman in Newport in 1638. He was a blacksmith by trade. He removed to Weymouth, Mass., where he was living in 1640. He was a town officer in 1641, and had a case in court in 1641. He died before 1647, in England, when his wife's lands are mentioned in deeds of abutting tracts. Administration was granted to his son Ephraim, November, 18, 1652. The homestead consisted of twenty-two acres in the Plaine at Weymouth, bounded by lands of Richard Sylvester, John Upham, Mr. Gouer, and west and north by the highway and the sea. He married in England, abt 1609, a woman who probably died before he came to New England. He married perhaps at Dorcester, abt 1639, widow Dorothy Barker, who survived him, and married John King of Weymouth, in 1652.

Enoch married BARKER, Dorothy in 1639 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. Dorothy was born in 1615 in England; died before 18 Oct 1652 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: The Great Migration; Immigrant

Notes:

Dorothy Barker was a member of the Church of Dorchester, MA in 1636 to Nov. 4, 1639. (p. 517) [1] [2]

The widow Dorothy Barker, married Enoch Hunt at Weymouth as his second wife. After his death she married third John King of Weymouth in 1652. (p. 159)[3]

It is believed that Barker is NOT her maiden name, but the name of an unknown third husband prior to Enoch Hunt.