. . ydia, 1736, died 1746; Huldah,March 1, 1739, married Isaac Towne;Jonathan, August 15, 1741; Elias, men-tioned below; Elisha, July 15, 1747;Esther, June 6, 1752; Deborah, July 15,1754, married Jesse Merriam. (IV) Captain Elias Pratt, son of Jona-than (2) Pratt, was born in Oxford, No-vember 7, 1743, and died March 14, 1816,at Oxford. He settled on the Pratt home-stead and was selectman of Oxford from1785 to 1794. He was a soldier in theRevolution. He was in Captain JohnTownes company on the LexingtonAlarm, April 19,1775, and serve
. . ydia, 1736, died 1746; Huldah,March 1, 1739, married Isaac Towne;Jonathan, August 15, 1741; Elias, men-tioned below; Elisha, July 15, 1747;Esther, June 6, 1752; Deborah, July 15,1754, married Jesse Merriam. (IV) Captain Elias Pratt, son of Jona-than (2) Pratt, was born in Oxford, No-vember 7, 1743, and died March 14, 1816,at Oxford. He settled on the Pratt home-stead and was selectman of Oxford from1785 to 1794. He was a soldier in theRevolution. He was in Captain JohnTownes company on the LexingtonAlarm, April 19,1775, and served through-out the war. He was commissioned cap-tain of the Fifteenth Company, FifthWorcester County Regiment, ColonelJonathan Holman, September 25, 1778,and again served as captain from April,1779, to July 1, 1779, stationed at Rut-land. He married, August 6, 1767, LydiaHill, born March 25, 1746, daughter ofJonathan Hill, of Billerica. She diedMarch 10, 1829, in Sutton. Children:Lydia, born April 8, 1768, died July 8,1768; Jerusha, September 18, 1769, died 224. <a^*7t-^ ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY March 20, 1832, married Thomas Davis;Lydia, September 25, 1771, died June 7,1810, married Ambrose Stone ; Ruth, twinof Lydia, married William Stone, brotherof Ambrose Stone ; Elias, mentioned be-low ; Elijah, March 4, 1773, twin of Elias,died January 2, 1843; Zadock, November17, 1775, died February 15, 1813; Jere-miah, September 20, 1779, died November24, 1865; Sylvanus, August 20, 1781, diedJanuary 31, 1831 ; Sylvester, twin of Syl-vanus, died August 20, 1781 ; Amasa, bornMay 7, 1787, died May 27, 1830. (V) Captain Elias (2) Pratt, son ofCaptain Elias (1) Pratt, was born in Ox-ford, March 4, 1773, and died at Worces-ter, September 2, 1854. He settled firston the homestead at Oxford, but about1810 moved to the adjacent town of Sut-ton, where in 1825 he purchased the Hath-away place, later known as the Pratthouse and afterward as the Rufus Kinghouse. After some years he removed toWorc
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