This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DYB.2ACE/2353.1 Message Board Post: Not exactly what you are looking for, but might help down the line. HISTORY OF LICKING COUNTY - 733 MCKEAN TOWNSHIP PRATT, MOSES L, was born June 13, 1801, in Rutland county, Vermont, was the son of Benjamin Pratt, who was born August 13, 1777. Benjamin Pratt was the son of Ebenezer Pratt, who was the son of Silas Pratt, who was born February 27, 1722, and who traced his ancestry back to the Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock. The grandfathers of Moses Pratt, Silas Pratt and Benjamin Whipple the last of whom. was born May 4, 1727, both served through the Revolutionary war. Silas Pratt was the .father of three sons: Ebenezer had three children, and Benjamin was the father of eleven children. Benjamin and family, except Moses L, came to this county in the year 1814, located in Granville township, making the journey by wagon. Moses L, the subject of this sketch, followed his father two years afterwards. He was married August 21, 1825, to Abigail Bigelow, of this county, who was born November 30, 1801, in Battleborough, Vermont, came to McKean township with her parents in 1824. The results of this mar! riage were six children: George B., born June 1, 1826, was married June 25, 1851, to Mary Smith, of this county, and is now living at Granville; is in the furniture and undertaking business; James Edwin, born November 17, 1827, was married September 25, 1850, to Maria L. Cross, of this county, and now lives in Bellefontaine, and is a physician; Jane Elizabeth, born August 29, 1829, was married March 21, 1854, to T. H. Odell, of this county, a miller. She died April 4, 1868 ; Moses L., jr., was born October 1, 1831, was married August 1, 1860, to Sarah Alstadt, Champaign county, lives at Quincy, Logan county, and is a physician. John W., born July 19, 1834, was married September 30, 1869, to Maria W. Bigelow, of this county. The results of this marriage were four boys: Edwin B., Ellis C., Benjamin W., and William A Redelia was born December 29, 1838; died April 18, 1870, aged thirty-two years. Moses L. Pratt cast his first vote in Ohio for John Quincy Adams, in 1824; has vot! ed the Whig and Republican tickets ever since. Mr. and Mrs. Pratt have been married fifty-five years, and both living at this time in their eightieth year.