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PRATT, Matthew

PRATT, Matthew

Male 1629 - 1713  (83 years)

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  • Name PRATT, Matthew  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Birth 7 Jun 1629  Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Gender Male 
    Differentiator deaf 
    Death 12 Jan 1713  Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    Burial Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID I7879  My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry, Laviolette Ancestry
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2024 

    Father PRATT, Macuth,   b. 15 Nov 1595, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Oct 1672, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother KINGHAM, Elizabeth,   b. 17 Aug 1600, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Mar 1672, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 9 Nov 1619  Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2024  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family HUNT, Sarah,   b. 4 Jul 1640, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Aug 1729, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years) 
    Marriage 1 Aug 1661  Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Children 
    +1. PRATT, Anna,   b. 14 Sep 1682, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Sep 1757, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     2. PRATT, Matthew,   b. 18 Sep 1665, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Jul 1746, Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. PRATT, Mary,   b. 27 Nov 1667, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jul 1727, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. PRATT, Dorothy,   b. 1661, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Sep 1733, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. PRATT, Hannah,   b. 4 Nov 1670, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1684, Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 13 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     6. PRATT, Samuel,   b. 3 Apr 1676, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Oct 1715, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     7. PRATT, Sarah,   b. 1 Jan 1679, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Sep 1788, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 109 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     8. PRATT, William,   b. 5 May 1673, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Sep 1714, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 41 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F2023  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Feb 2024 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 7 Jun 1629 - Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1 Aug 1661 - Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 12 Jan 1713 - Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Photos
    North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000
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    Histories
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  • 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."

  • Sources 
    1. [S1548] Ancestry.com, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), Book Title: A Genealogy of the descendants of Richard Porter, who settled at Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1635, and allied families : also, some account of the descendants of John Porter, who settled at Hingham, Massachusetts, 1635, and Salem, (Danvers) Massac.
      North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000      		 North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000


    2. [S1587] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;).

    3. [S1442] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;).

    4. [S1737] Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).


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