Eighth Generation

150. Captain Benjamin PRATT (*) was born on 24 June 1719 in Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He died in 1765 at the age of 46 in North Carolina Colony, British Colonial America. Find-a-Grave Website Notes: "Benjamin lived in South Bridgewater, on Titicut River near Woodward's Bridge, where he built a number of vessels of from 40 to 50 tons burthen, he being the captain of one of them and his son, Benjamin, of another. With these vessels, they carried on a trading business between North Carolina and the West Indies, in cedar lumbar, having bought a cedar swamp for that purpose.

This they continued to do for several years, until he died in North Carolina, with three of his sons, of yellow fever (as is supposed)."

He was buried in Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. in the Titicut Parish Cemetery. Lydia HARLOW (*) and Captain Benjamin PRATT (*) were married on 22 December 1741.

151. Lydia HARLOW (*) was born on 25 February 1723 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 4 August 1809 at the age of 86 in Middleborough, Plymouth County, MA. She was buried in Middleborough, Plymouth County, MA. in the Titicut Parish Cemetery.

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