PRATT, Matthew
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Name PRATT, Matthew [1, 2, 3, 4] Birth 7 Jun 1629 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA [3]
Gender Male Differentiator deaf Death 12 Jan 1713 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA [3, 4]
Burial Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA [3]
Patriarch & Matriarch PRATT, Thomas, b. 14 Mar 1564, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, Englandd. 2 Oct 1616, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England
(Age 52 years) (Grandfather)
BATES, Catherine, b. 1575, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, Englandd. 5 Mar 1621, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England
(Age 46 years) (Grandmother)
Person ID I7879 My Genealogy Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
Father PRATT, Macuth, b. 15 Nov 1595, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England d. 29 Oct 1672, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
(Age 76 years)
Relationship natural Mother KINGHAM, Elizabeth, b. 17 Aug 1600, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England d. 25 Mar 1672, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
(Age 71 years)
Relationship natural Marriage 9 Nov 1619 Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England Family ID F2024 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family HUNT, Sarah, b. 4 Jul 1640, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 3 Aug 1729, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
(Age 89 years)
Marriage 1 Aug 1661 Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA [2]
Children 1. PRATT, Anna, b. 14 Sep 1682, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 14 Sep 1757, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
(Age 75 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
▻ WHITE, Samuel m. Bef 16992. PRATT, Matthew, b. 18 Sep 1665, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 1 Jul 1746, Abington, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
(Age 80 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
3. PRATT, Mary, b. 27 Nov 1667, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA d. 28 Jul 1727, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
(Age 59 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
4. PRATT, Dorothy, b. 1661, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 28 Sep 1733, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
(Age 72 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
5. PRATT, Hannah, b. 4 Nov 1670, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 1684, Dighton, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
(Age 13 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
6. PRATT, Samuel, b. 3 Apr 1676, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 16 Oct 1715, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
(Age 39 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
7. PRATT, Sarah, b. 1 Jan 1679, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 16 Sep 1788, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
(Age 109 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
8. PRATT, William, b. 5 May 1673, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 18 Sep 1714, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA
(Age 41 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
Family ID F2023 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
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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."
- Cotton Mather, in Magnalia, Vol 1, Page 495, writes:
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