"Orson Pratt."
After receiving the foregoing, I gathered the little information I could, in so new a country as Utah Territory, and adding it to that which I knew myself, the result or summary of the whole is as follows— for a portion of which I am indebted to the family records of my aunt Lovina Van Cott, and to her memory, she being still living, and near my residence in Salt Lake City.
Our great-grandfather, Christopher Pratt, of Saybrook, Conn., had six children, as follows, viz:
Stephen, born June 30, 1740, at Saybrook.
Obadiah, born Sept. 14, 1742, at Saybrook.
Sarah, born March 28, 1745.
Hannah, born Aug. 6, 1747.
Chalker, born Feb. 14, 1750.
Samuel
Our grandfather, Obadiah Pratt, son of Christopher and Sarah Pratt, born in Saybrook, Conn., September 14, 1742, received in marriage Jemina Tolls, born in New Haven, Conn., August 11th, 1754. Date of marriage not known. He died in Canaan, Columbia County, New York. March 2, 1797. His wife died in Washington, Dutchess County, New York, Nov 24, 1812.
Eleven children, as follows:
Jared, born in Canaan, Columbia County, N. Y., November 25, 1769.
Barnabas, " " " " " " " March 4, 1771.
Samuel, " " " " " " " February 2, 1773.
Rhoda, " " " " " " " May 30, 1775.
William, " " " " " " " May 21, 1777.
Sarah, " " " " " " " September 3, 1781.
Obadiah, " " " " " " " July 30, 1784.
Lovina, " " " " " " " August 6, 1787.
Ira, " " " " " " " October 10, 1789.
Ellis, Twin sister of Ira, lived five days. October 10, 1789.
Allen, born in Canaan, Columbia County, N. Y., May 3, 1793.
Our father, Jared Pratt, son of Obadiah and Jemima Pratt, received in marriage Mary Carpenter, daughter of Samuel Carpenter, of New Lebanon, N. Y. She bore him one daughter, named Mary, and afterwards died. This daughter married a Mr. Brown, of New Lebanon, and bore one son, named Jerome Brown. She afterwards lost her husband, and was married to Samuel Bigalow, of New Lebanon; they may be still living at that place.
Our father, Jared, afterwards received in marriage Charity Dickison, daughter of Samuel Dickison, of Bolton, N. Y. I remember seeing him once (Dickison) when a small boy.
Our father, Jared, died at Detroit, Michigan, of a fever, November 5, 1839, being near seventy years of age. He died in the house of his eldest son, Anson, who buried him some three or four miles north or northeast from Detroit, in Michigan.
Our mother, Charity, died of cholera in the house of her son Anson, at St. Joseph, Missouri, May 20, 1849, and was buried in the graveyard of that town, and a tombstone erected to her memory.