. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. TOWN OF PRATTSBURGH. 373. WILLIAM B. PRATT. The Pratt family of Steuben County trace their descent from John Pratt, who, with his brother, Lieut. William Pratt, emigrated to America, and is supposed to have settled at Cambridge, Mass., in 1633. John Pratt was one of the members of Thomas Hooker's church, and was evidently one of the company who went across the wilderness with their pastor and lai
. History of Steuben County, New York, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers. Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron von, 1730-1794. TOWN OF PRATTSBURGH. 373. WILLIAM B. PRATT. The Pratt family of Steuben County trace their descent from John Pratt, who, with his brother, Lieut. William Pratt, emigrated to America, and is supposed to have settled at Cambridge, Mass., in 1633. John Pratt was one of the members of Thomas Hooker's church, and was evidently one of the company who went across the wilderness with their pastor and laid the foundations of Hartford, as he drew lot No. 31 in the first assignment of lots there in February, 1639, and the same year represented Hartford in the first General Court, and for several years afterwards. Capt. Joel Pratt, a lineal descendant of the fifth genera- tion from John Pratt, and son of Deacon Elisha Pratt, of Colchester, Conn., born Sept. 26, 1745, married Mrs. Mary Beach Fowler, daughter of Deacon Benjamin Beach, of Hebron, Conn., February, 1779 ; first settled in Columbia Co., N. Y., and in the year 1799 visited the wilderness about Prattsburgh on horseback, at which time what is now Prattsburgh was an unbroken wilderness. He returned home, and in the year 1800, with his son Harvey, a four- ox team, six men, and one hired girl, with needful tools and provisions, after a journey of eighteen days, reached what is now Urbana Hill, four miles west of the village of Ham- mondsport, and the first year cleared off" one hundred and ten acres of forest, and made the land ready for wheat. In 1802, Capt. Pratt removed his family to the new set- tlement. In 1804 he made improvements on the place now occupied and owned by William B. Pratt, near the village of Prattsburgh, and in 1805 settled there with his family. (For further particulars relative to Capt. Pratt's early settle- ment, see history of Prattsburgh.) Their children were Joel, Ira, Harvey, Anna, Dan, and El
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