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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 34761134
• Group: Immigrant Ancestors
• Alt. Birth: Bef 1605

Notes:

From Great Migration Begins... JOSHUA PRATT 

ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1623 in Anne
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
FREEMAN: In "1633" Plymouth list of freemen prior to those admitted 1 January 1632/3 [ PCR 1:3]. In the 7 March 1636/7 list of freemen (immediately preceding Phineas Pratt) [ PCR 1:52]. In Plymouth section of 1639 Plymouth Colony list of freemen [ PCR 8:174].
EDUCATION: His inventory included "a great Latin Bible," 9s.; "a part of another Bible and other old books," 23s.; and "2 old psalm books," 1s.

OFFICES: Messenger and constable, 1 January 1633/4, 7 March 1636/7, 5 June 1638 [ PCR 1:21, 54, 86]. Constable of Plymouth, 3 January 1636/7, 6 March 1637/8, 4 December 1638 [ PCR 1:48, 80, 105]. Among those "to assess the company for the watch and other public charge," 3 March 1634/5, 1 March 1635/6 [ PCR 1:33, 38]. Committee to divide meadow ground, 1 July 1633 [ PCR 1:14]. Committee to view Morton's Hole, 14 March 1635/6 [ PCR 1:41]. Arbiter, 5 October 1636 [ PCR 1:44]. Committee to view the hay grounds (as "The Messenger"), 20 March 1636/7 [ PCR 1:55]. Sealer of weights and measures and measurer of land, 4 December 1638 [ PCR 1:105]. Committee to view planting land for the first division at Yarmouth, 5 March 1638/9 [ PCR 1:117]. Committee to view the ungranted meadows at Green's Harbor, 5 May 1640 [ PCR 1:151]. Committee to view the meadows about Edward Doty's, 5 May 1640 [ PCR 1:152]. Repeatedly viewer or layer of land, 1633-48 [ PCR 2:29, 32, 48, 128, 160].

Grand jury, 1 June 1641 [ PCR 2:16]. Jury, 1 February 1640/1, 2 March 1646/7, 7 June 1648, 6 June 1649 [ PCR 2:7, 111, 126, 140]. Petit jury, 1 April 1633 (foreman), 1 June 1647, 4 October 1648 [ PCR 1:12, 2:117, 134]. Coroner's jury on the body of Robert Wille, alias Willis, sometimes of Milbrooke, 29 June 1652 [ PCR 3:15].

In Plymouth portion of 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear arms [ PCR 8:188].

ESTATE:
In 1623 Plymouth land division, paired with Phineas Pratt as recipients of two acres as passengers on the Anne in 1623 [PCR 12:6].

In 1627 Plymouth cattle division, twelfth person in first company [PCR 12:9].

On 7 November 1636 Josuah Pratt received six acres [PCR 1:46]. With his consent, this land was granted to Mrs. Bridgitt Fuller, widow, 6 February 1636/7 [PCR 1:50].

On 7 May 1638 Josuah Pratt was granted the enlargement of a garden place [PCR 1:84].

On 26 July 1638, Josuah Pratt had four shares in the black heifer [PTR 1:4].

On 5 November 1638 Josuah Pratt was granted six acres of land at the east end of Mr. Doane's land "except the Governor make choice of it for himself" [PCR 1:102].

On 2 November 1640 Josuah Pratt was granted five acres of meadow in Colebrook Meadows [PCR 1:166].

On 16 September 1641 Josuah Pratt was granted a garden place about the house he purchased of Thomas Savory at "Squerrell" [PCR 2:27]. He was twenty-fifth on the list of the purchasers [PCR 2:177].

On 5 December 1637 "Abraham Perse" sold to "Josuah Pratt a house and a garden place in Plymouth next to Ady Webb's house" [PCR 12:24].

On 7 May 1642 "Josuah Pratt" sold to Edward Doty "one acre of upland lying at the high cliff" and to Josias Cooke "two acres of marsh meadow lying at the Wood Island" [PCR 12:81].

On 7 March 1652[/3?] Joshua Pratt was listed as holding "one whole share" in the Purchasers' Land at Acushena and Coaksett (Dartmouth) [MD 4:187, citing PCLR 2:1:107].

On 5 October 1656 administration on the estate of Joshua Pratt, deceased, was granted to Bathsheba Pratt [PCR 3:108]. The inventory of the estate of Joshua Pratt was presented at court on 6 October 1656 and totalled £18 11s. 3d., with no real estate included [PCR 3:108; PCPR 2:1:41; MD 14:113].

In a 22 March 1663 list of the owners of lots on "Puncateesett Necke" Joshua Pratt was paired with Gyles Rickard Jr. (presumably a delayed entry of a grant made during Pratt's lifetime ) [PTR 1:63].

BIRTH: By about 1605 based on estimated date of marriage.

DEATH: Plymouth after 29 June 1652 (when he served on a coroner's jury [PCR 3:15]) and before 5 October 1656 (date of administration).

MARRIAGE: By about 1630 Bathsheba _____ (assuming she was the mother of all his children); she married (2) Plymouth 29 August 1667 "John Doged [Doggett] of Martha's Vineyard" [ MD 8:31] (see JOHN DOGGETT ).

CHILDREN:

i BENAJAH, b. say 1630; m. Plymouth 29 November 1655 Persis Dunham [ MD 8:17], daughter of JOHN DUNHAM [ TAG 30:145]. (The death record for Benajah Pratt, as published, reads "Benajah Prat, March, 17: in his s[worn]" [ PChR 249], entered in a place that would make the date 17 March 1682/3. This might be supposed to mean that he was sixty years old or more, which would place his birth about 1622. Were this true he would be a full decade older than his siblings and he should be accounted for in the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle. The more likely explanation is that the worn entry has been misread and the word that has been read as beginning with "s" actually begins with "f" for some age in the fifties.) 

ii HANNAH, b. say 1632; m. Plymouth 18 March 1651[/2?] William Spooner [MD 8:13] (as his second wife [PCR 8:5]). 

iii JONATHAN, b. say 1637; m. (1) Plymouth 2 November 1664 Abigail Wood [PCR 8:25]; m. (2) Taunton 3 March 1689/90 Elizabeth (White) Hall [ NEHGR 13:252], daughter of Nicholas White and widow of Samuel Hall (on 29 October 1698 Elizabeth Pratt, widow, of Taunton, receipted for her legacy from the estate of her father, Nicholas White [BrPR 2:11; TAG 17:196]). 

iv BATHSHEBA, b. about 1639 (deposed in 1661 aged 22 [ Wyman 773, apparently citing Middlesex Court Files]); m. Charlestown [blank] December 1662 "Josua Ris" [ChVR 1:42; Wyman 773, 808], son of ROBERT ROICE . 

ASSOCIATIONS:
Joshua Pratt and PHINEAS PRATT have many times been called brothers. Though there is no direct evidence of this relationship, much circumstantial evid ence points in that direction. They received joint grants in the 1623 Plymouth division of land, and they were listed consecutively in the 1639 Plymouth list of freemen. Bathsheba, the daughter of Joshua, married in Charlestown, where her uncle Phineas Pratt was living at the time; she may have been placed in his household after her father's death.

Since we know that Phineas Pratt came in 1622 as one of THOMAS WESTON 's men, and not in 1623 on the Anne as indicated in the 1623 land division, we might wonder whether Joshua also came in 1622 in the same manner. Although this is possible, it seems unlikely, for otherwise we would expect that Phineas, in his narrative of his trials and tribulations that first winter in New England, would have made mention of his brother.

COMMENTS:
On the assumption that Joshua Pratt married in Plymouth, the range of families which might have supplied his wife Bathsheba is quite limited. There is no Bathsheba in any family listed in the 1627 Plymouth cattle division, yet Joshua was married by about 1630. This suggests strongly that his wife was a member of one of the families that arrived in Plymouth in late 1629 and early 1630, many of which had come from Leiden. Joshua's elder son Benajah married the daughter of JOHN DUNHAM , one of these late arrivals from Leiden, and Dunham had named a younger son Benajah, some years after the birth of Benajah Pratt, but more than fifteen years before the marriage of Benajah Pratt to Persis Dunham. Jonathan is apparently another name used by both Dunham and Pratt.

Some sources claim that Joshua Pratt's wife was named Bathsheba Fay. There is no evidence for this, and no Fay family in Plymouth who might have supplied such a wife. This false claim apparently arises from the misinterpretation of the marriage in Marlborough, Massachusetts, of John Pratt and Bathsheba Fay on 4 January 1715/6.

On 5 November 1638, for some unseen offence, Josuah Pratt of Plymouth, yeoman, was fined £10 and was "released" [PCR 1:101].
On 3 August 1640 Josuah Pratt deposed regarding two acres of upland at Wellingsly Brook that were given by Godbert Godbertson to John Combe, gentleman, and Phineas Pratt, in marriage with their wives (Godbertson's stepdaughters) [ PCR 1:159].
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From FindaGrave:

Born by about 1605 based on estimated date of marriage. Came to Plymouth Colony in 1623 on the "Anne." Died in Plymouth after 29 June 1652 (when he served on a coroner's jury) and before 5 October 1656 (date of administration).

Married Bathsheba _____ by about 1630 (assuming she was the mother of all his children). She married (2) Plymouth 29 August 1667 "John Doged [Doggett] of Martha's Vineyard."
Their 4 children: Benajah, Hannah Spooner, Jonathan, and Bathsheba Roice.

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34761134

Group:
Immigrant Ancestors of New England Halls

Joshua married Bathsheba [--?--] about 1630. Bathsheba was born on 1 Jan 1592/93 in Suffolk, England; died after 4 Jun 1673 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 110468172

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110468172

Jonathan married Abigail Atwood on 2 Nov 1664 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Abigail was born in Aug 1645 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony; died on 17 Aug 1684 in Plymouth, Plymouth Colony. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonathan married Elizabeth White on 3 Mar 1689/90 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts. Elizabeth (daughter of Nicholas White and Susanna Foster) was born on 9 Jun 1643 in Dorchester, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; died in 1707 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 161188709
• Tax List: Abt 1732, Raynham, Bristol County, Massachusetts

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

Abigail was born in the Plymouth Colony, daughter of Jonathan Pratt and Abigail Wood. Wife of Samuel Hall (1656-1716), son of Edward Hall of Rehoboth, Massachusetts.

Abigail Hall, Widow, appeared on the Assessment List for Raynham, assessed 15 shillings (Raynham Town Records).

"Abigail Hall of Raynham widdow of Samuel Hall of Taunton deceased dyed July 6, at night, 1734" (First Book of Raynham Records).

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/161188709

Tax List:
She is found on an Assessment List for Raynham, circa 1731/2 (Raynham Town Records), assessed 15 shillings. She was listed as Abigail Hall, Widow.

Died:
NEHGS Register, Vol. 52, p. 296 (1898)
First Book of Raynham Records

Abigail Hall of Raynham widdow of Samuel Hall of Taunton deceased dyed July 6, at night, 1734.

Abigail married Samuel Hall on 3 Jan 1683/84 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts. Samuel (son of Edward Hall, of Rehoboth, Y-DNA Family 006 and Hester [--?--]) was born on 24 Oct 1656 in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts; died on 30 Aug 1716; was buried after 30 Aug 1716 in Pleasant Street Cemetery, Raynham, Bristol County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 85685173
• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• Occupation: Farmer and large real estate holder.
• Will: 10 Feb 1745/46, Raynham, Bristol County, Massachusetts

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

Son of Samuel Hall and Abigail Pratt (1665-1734).

He was the Deacon of the first church in Raynham.

He married 1st,Sarah Ockington (1690-1726).
He married 2nd,Sarah Smith (1690-1754).

Children by 1st wife,all born in Taunton;
Jonathan 1716,
Sarah 1718,
Amos 1720,
Rebecca 1722,
John 1724,
Mason 1726,
Elizabeth 1728 and
Hannah 1734.

Birth:
1686    HALL    Jonathan, s. Samuel Sr. [T.P.R. Samuell, omits Sr.], Aug. 22, 1686.          Taunton

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/85685173

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of Edward Hall of Rehoboth, Massachusetts (Hall DNA Family 006), and extended and allied families and their ancestors.

Will:
http://4hallcousins.com/blog/?p=724

[Note: The original will becomes difficult to read toward the end. Therefore, at some point in the transcription below, the language will change to a summary of what can be read. In addition, I have placed in italic type the interesting and/or unusual names that identify specific tracts of land such as Old Coleing, Mount Misery, Hammer Beam, Great Tearall, etc.]

Bristol County Massachusetts Probate, Book 12

In the name of God Amen, I Jonathan Hall, the Eldest of that name in Raynham in Bristol County in New England being in the Sixtieth year of my age and at this time in reasonable good health and of sound mind and memory, Blessed be God for it, I do make this my Last Will and Testament as followeth,

First I give and bequeath my Soul to God that gave me it and Redeemed it by the blood of his Son the Lord Jesus Christ. Secondly I give and bequeath my body to the grave to be Decently buried by my Executor herein after named in hopes of a Joyfull Resurrection, and as to my outward and worldly Estate I give and dispose of it as followeth:

Firstly I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Sarah Hall after my Honest Debts and funeral charges are paid the life use and benefit of my now dwelling house and barn as also the use and Improvement of all my land Adjoining to my said house and barn, as also the use and Improvement of my New Lot Joyning to the way that Leads from the Country Rhode to Elnathan Jones^es land and also one third part of my orchard together with four acres of Improved Land that ___ there to Adjoining, as also all my Land at a place Called the Hammer Beam Except what I have already given to my Son Jonathan Hall by Deed and one acre more at the westward end of my Land there at the Corner in Joseph Jones^es Line Adjoining to Deacon Shaw's Land where my Son Jonathan Hall has lately set some apple trees. Excepting also one acre of land in the Hammer Beam Neck next to the Land of Timothy Jones, being all that is in said neck which my Son Jonathan Hall now Improves there. I also give him the Improvement of five acres of Land at the old Coleing ___ be it more or less, Bounded Adjoining on the north by Land of my son Jonathan Hall and westward and Southward to the Highway that Lyeth between My Land and the Land of Samuel Leonard Esqr. And it is also bounded on the East from a stake which stands in the Line of my Son Jonathan Hall's Land by two white oak trees marked with the Surveyor's mark south thirty five degrees and an half West to a stake in the aforesaid Highway for a Corner[?] with the privilege of all the wood and Timber upon this last mentioned Land and also ___ fire wood for her own fire on any of my Lands if she Doth Stand in need of it and also ___ fencing ___ to fence these above Described Lands if she doth stand in need of it, and also Liberty to pasture one horse and three cows and one young beef if she ___ Cause in that which is now my pasture at Great Tareall. The sd particulars I do give to My said wife during her Natural Life and the Continuing my Widow. And I do give and bequeath to my Said wife and her heirs and Assigns forever all the goods and Household stuff which she brought with her when I married her together with three good cows and a horse and one young Beef out of My stock such as She shall Chuse to be to her disposing as above said, if any remain thereof after her Decease my will is that it Descend to my two daughters, Namely Elizabeth the Wife of Nathaniel Shaw and Hannah Hall or to their Legal Representatives. Also my ___ in Raynham __ing house I give that to my said wife and to my two daughters above named.

Secondly, I give and Bequeath to my Son Jonathan Hall and to his heirs and Assigns forever a tract of Land at the old Coleing Bounded on the North by the land of Timothy Jones partly and partly by his own land, westerly by the line of land there which I have here in given the Improvements of to my wife, which is a dividing line between what I have given to my said wife as aforesaid, and what I give to him, and southerly by the highway that Lyeth betwixt this tract of land and the Land of Samuel Leonard Esq^r and Easterly by a Dividing Betwixt this tract and what I shall give to my Son Amos Hall hereafter mentioned which begineth at a red oak tree in the line of Timothy Jones & land Ranging __ thence south one degree Eastward to a Horn Pine tree marked. Ranging ___ south ten degrees Eastward to a stake by the above mentioned tree(?), it being a ___. I also give to my son Jonathan Hall two pieces of land at the Hammer Beam, one is one acre of Land at the westward corner of my land there Joyning to the land of Joseph Jones and the land of Deacon Shaw where my Son Jonathan has already set some apple trees. The other is in the Hammer Beam Neck Joyning to the land of Timothy Jones Containing one acre be it more or less. And also the northwardly.

I give and Bequeath to my Son Amos Hall my tract of land at Mount Misery Containing Sixty Acres, be it more or Less, Except the Improvement of my new field which I have herein before given the Improvement to my wife During her Natural Life ___ Continuing my widow. And also a tract of Land at the Eastwardly of my ___ at the Old Coleing Containing Nine Acres be it more or less Bounded on the __ by a Line of Land before mentioned which I have given to my Son Jonathan Hall and northwardly partly by the Land of Timothy Jones & partly by the Land ___ Jones and Eastwardly by the Land of Samuel Leonard Esq^r and Southerly by the way that Lyeth between this Land and the Land of said Samuel Leonard. I do give unto my Son Amos Hall my Home Lott Lying Southerly from the new burying place Bounded Norther by a Line before mentioned of the northerly part of the Lot given to my Son Jonathan Hall & to all my land southerly…

[continuing in summary form….]

Improvement to Lot given to his wife after her death or marriage, the dwelling house and the land adjoined thereto, as well as his new field and one-sixth of his right in the undivided lands in Taunton Old Township are given to his Son, Amos Hall.

To his Son Mason Hall, his pasture land at Great Tearall so called and also the tract of Land in Raynham near Bridgewater line at ^{Titticut plain} and all land adjoining thereto called Fifty acres more or less, also one quarter part of his right to the undivided Land in Taunton Old Township. Mason Hall to pay to Jonathan's daughter Hannah Hall, within two years of his death, the sum of Five Pounds.

To his daughters, Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel Shaw and Hannah Hall, all money that he might have and all his moveables both within doors and out not already disposed of except his wearing apparel that he gives to his Sons Jonathan Hall, Amos Hall and Mason Hall.

Nominated and appointed his Son Jonathan Hall and his son in-law, Nathaniel Shaw to be joint executors.

In witness that this is my Last Will and Testament I do here unto set my hand and seal this tenth day of February in the year of our Lord Christ 1745/6.

Signed Jonathan Hall

Witnessed by
Nathaniel Shaw
George Leonard
Nathan Leonard
Samuel Leonard

Jonathan married Sarah Ockington in 1715. Sarah (daughter of Thomas Ockington and Rebecca Mason) was born on 28 Aug 1691 in Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; died on 28 Mar 1726 in Raynham, Bristol County, Massachusetts; was buried after 28 Mar 1726 in Pleasant Street Cemetery, Raynham, Bristol County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jonathan married Sarah Smith on 11 Apr 1727 in Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. Sarah (daughter of Asahel Smith and Elizabeth [--?--]) was born on 7 Aug 1691 in Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; died on 15 Jul 1753 in Raynham, Bristol County, Massachusetts; was buried after 14 Jul 1753 in Pleasant Street Cemetery, Raynham, Bristol County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006
• Probate: 1741, Raynham, Bristol County, Massachusetts

Notes:

Samuel inherited his father's homestead in that part of Taunton that became Raynham on the road leading to Taunton from Bridgewater.

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of Edward Hall of Rehoboth, Massachusetts (Hall DNA Family 006), and extended and allied families and their ancestors.

Probate:
http://4hallcousins.com/blog/?p=516

Samuel³ Hall died 1736/37 and he did not leave a will. His estate was administered in 1741 and an order issued for the division of his property in 1743. The division names his widow, Mercy Hall, Amariah Hall, his only son, Hannah Hall his eldest daughter, Mercy Hall his second daughter, and Patience Hall, the youngest daughter. The burial location of Samuel Hall has not been determined.

Samuel's sisters, Esther³ Hall and Hannah³ Hall are further identified in the above mentioned administration papers by their husbands' names, when a legacy is paid from Samuel's estate: "To said Blake [Samuel] and wife and to Barnabas Crossman and wife of Middleborough (by ye last will of said deceased's father), a Legacy -- one of them from the share of the deceased. Paid Ten Pounds".

Samuel married Mercy Willis, of Bridgewater on 15 Apr 1718 in Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Mercy died after 1743 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006

Notes:

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of Edward Hall of Rehoboth, Massachusetts (Hall DNA Family 006), and extended and allied families and their ancestors.

Esther married Samuel Blake about 1710. Samuel died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Group: Hall Direct Descendant
• Group: Halls of Rehoboth - DNA Family 006

Notes:

Group:
A person who is a direct descendant of any colonial New England Hall Family

Group:
Descendants of Edward Hall of Rehoboth, Massachusetts (Hall DNA Family 006), and extended and allied families and their ancestors.

Family/Spouse: Barnabas Crossman. Barnabas died in Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]