Wright (mtDNA)

Status summary

As of February 24, 2023

• Page created for Sarah WRIGHT Cummings Pratt.
• recruitment of individuals who are mtDNA descendants of Sarah. Folks who are mtDNA descendants are encouraged to contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com

Biography

For further information see Mrs. Charles Delmar Townsend, Robert S. Wakefield, FASG and Margaret Harris Stover, ed. by Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Vol. 8 Pratt, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA 2nd edition 2008.

First Generation

Sarah Wright, daughter of Joseph Wright and Elizabeth Hassell was born Woburn 25 Feb 1670 and died Hingham 13 Dec 1752 ae 84. She married twice, first Woburn 28 Feb 1687 Abraham Cummings (no Mayflower link) then (as his second wife) Reading 4 Sep 1707 Aaron Pratt. By her second marriage she had four children: Abigail (1708), Phineas (1709), Benjamin (1710/1) and Nathaniel (c1712).

Second Generation

Abigail Pratt was born Hingham 4 Aug 1708 and died Cohasset 18 Oct 1796. She married Hingham 8 Dec 1741 Jonathan Neal and they had five children (Hingham): Abigail (1742/3-1752), Sarah (1743/4), Jerusha (1747), Alice (1750) and Joseph (1752).

Third Generation

Sarah Neal was born Hingham 12 Jan 1743/4 and died Cohasset 14 May 1806 ae 62 years. She married Hingham 5 Dec 1765 Thomas Pratt and they had thirteen children (Cohasset): Benjamin (1766), Abigail (1768 m Josiah Scull/Skull & James Burtenshaw), Sarah (1769 m Benjamin Briggs [II]), James (1770), Thomas (c1772-1772), Thomas (1773), Betsey (1775 m Caleb Mann), David (1777), Alice (1778 m [Capt.] William Kilburn), Job (1779), William (1781), Phineas (1783) and Eleazer (1785).

Jerusha Neal was born Hingham 23 Nov 1747 and died Boston 24 Apr 1830 ae 82. She married Cohasset 4 Jun 1764 Edward Jenkins and they had seven children: Charles (c1765), Benjamin (1765), Lucy (1766 m Samuel Bartlett [II]), William, Alice (m John Kent & Rufus Cleveland), Lemuel (bp 1776) and Edward (bp 1776).

Alice Neal was born Hingham 1 Jul 1750 and died aft 15 Feb 1790. She married twice, first Cohasset 27 Apr 1777 Samuel Kilby then Boston 23 May 1781 Magnus Hervey. No known children by either marriage.

mtDNA Results TBD

As of March 2023, no one has publlicly revealed where they are a matrilineal descendant of Sarah WRIGHT Cummings Pratt and have taken a mtDNA test. Matrilineal descendants are encouraged to contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com

References and External Links

• Mrs. Charles Delmar Townsend, Robert S. Wakefield, FASG and Margaret Harris Stover, ed. by Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Vol. 8 Pratt, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA 2nd edition 2008.
• Lovelace, Jayne Pratt, The Pratt Directory. Rev. ed. Chandler, Ariz.: Ancestor House, 1995