Grace Pratt

- 1694

• Name	Grace Pratt  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	10 Oct 1694	Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I36603	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	21 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Bennett Pratt
  Mother	Ann Primrose
  Marriage	12 May 1601	Bridport, Dorset, England   [6]
  Family ID	F21519	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Osmund Dutch,   b. Abt 1593   d. Dec 1684, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 91 years)
  Marriage	20 Mar 1629	Bridport, Dorset, England   [6]
  Children	+ 1. Grace Dutch   2. Alice Dutch   d. Bef 4 May 1704, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F21518	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Oct 2021

  
  

• Notes

  From The Ancestry of Nicholas Davis (citation details below): Grace Dutch, being a midwife, often gave court testimony. She was forty-two years old in 1658 and "about fifty" in both 1660 and 1664. In 1653, for saying that Goody Dutch was suspected of witchcraft, Edmond Marshall was forced to make acknowledgment of his sin of defamation in the meeting-houses of Gloucester, Ipswich and Salem. Forty years later Grace would have been in deadly danger. [...] Grace Dutch died in October, 1694, at Gloucester. During her widowhood she had lived with her daughter and son-in-law Esther and Samuel Elwell, and there is some evidence in a deposition by Joseph Gardner that they had not treated the old woman with proper consideration.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3296] Mary Lovering Holman, "The Correct Ancestry of Jemima Meacham." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 69:32, Jan 1938., first name only. [S6011] The Hammatt Papers No. 1: The Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Mass, 1633-1700 by Abraham Hammatt. Ipswich, Massachusetts: Ipswich Antiquarian Papers, 1880. [S1331] The Ancestry of Nicholas Davis, 1753-1832, of Limington, Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press, 1956., month, year, and place only. [S1689] History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann, Including the Town of Rockport by John J. Babson. Gloucester, Massachusetts: Procter Brothers, 1860. [S1668] Vital records of Gloucester, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. Volume 1, Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1917. Volume 2, Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1923. Volume 3, Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1924. [S1331] The Ancestry of Nicholas Davis, 1753-1832, of Limington, Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press, 1956.