The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1892-05-05
For The Reporter.
Early Settlers in Canaan-2O.

i Daniel aud Joseph. He moved to -Ahing-
+ ton wherr three OF the sons married.
/ In l7Sl H. came In Canaan with all his
sons. and settled on the farm adjoining
i the Alvin Weston place on the west.
/ He built n log house. cleared some land.
and planted an orchard. The branches
/ of one apple tree covered space OF AZ
feet. and one wear il bore 40 bushels of
very small apples. He moved to the
place owned since by Hiram Snow and
/ died and was buried there. date of death
not known.
/ Micah .Ir. ID married Polly Parliman
! in Abingdon. He lived ON the farm ON
which the shoe factory now stands. lie
had seven sons: Amos who died at the
age of Is: Micah married Patience Lewis
and lived on the mile strip between Can
aan and Cornville, (since added to Show
hegan). diel in 1899 leaving no children.
Jacob married Anna Coleman and lived
little north of lIaskell's corner. One
of his sons. Capt. Atherton Pratt married
Emily Robinson. one married Polly Cole
man, one married Hannah Dorothy, and
Isaac the youngest married Hannah Car
son. Betsey, the 4th. child of Micah
married Samuel Young and lived in
Madison not far from the SkOwhcgan
line.
James the 5th. child was six years old
when the family moved to Canaan. lie
married Polly Bigelow, lived at his
fathers farm. moved to Scion, then back
to Canaan and died in Bloomfield, Aug.
Is, 1855. lie had seven children; james
Jr. one Of whose daughters married G. $.
Hill; Malvina, unmarried; Levi b. who
married granddaughter Of Gen. Ken
dali; Edward died in infancy; Amasa b.
the 5th child. born March ~, 1917, mar
ried Lydia A. King of Gray, lived four
years In Skowhegan, then moved to Rip
on, Wis, where they now reside. | am
indebted to him for NEST of the informa-
ton about the Pratt family. They have
four children. one in Texas. one in Dako-
Ia, and two in Chicago. Mary \. the
9th, child died unmarried atthe age of
81 Benjamin the 18th, child married in
Northampton, Mass. moved to Wiscon-
sin. then to Russell, Kansas, then to Los
Angeles, Cal.
Whitcomb Pratt, sixth son of Micah
Jr. was three years old when the family
moved to Canaan. When II boy he went
to live with Judge Bryce Mcclellan, for
whom he had so much respect that he
named one of his sons for him. His wife
WAS 4AUlSulI odiuuCI fiC SVttiti VII WV
farm which he bought of james Webb.
the place where Capt. Amos Tobey now
lives. lie died in 1910. They had six
children; lothian s., the oldest was one
of several children in Canaan and else
where who were named for the Home
Missionary, Rev. lothian Sewall. He
was an approved teacher and one of the
school committee at one time. He mar
ried Hannah Wells who Is living with
some of her children at Waukesha, Wis,
aged n. One of her sons John NJ. w.
Pratt is a successful and prosperous
lawyer in Milwaukee. Whitc0mb's sec
ond son. Eliphalet G. named for Rev. +.
Gillet of Hallowell, died unmarried aged
~. Another son, Bryce went to Virgin
/, as u teacher, went home and studied
medicine, returned to Va, and married,
bl t lied In Arkansas In 1889. Abigail
the 9Th, chill lives in Lowell, not mar
ried. Whitcomb G. died in 1915, aged
%. Mary, the youngest married in Lo-
well and now resides there.
Polly, 18th, child Of Micah Jr. married
John Whitman whose six children were
all consumed in the house when the par
ents were away to an evening meeting at
HasSclls corner, as related in a former
number of this series. She was about Il
year old when they came to Canaan.
Huliah the Sth, was born in Canaan
about 1885, married Asa Russell, his see
ond wife, lived in Canaan some years,
moved to st. Adams and died there.
They had two daughters both Of whom
died before the parents, unmarried. He
was father of Seth Z. Russell by his first
wife.
Susan the 9th, born 1887, married Isaac
Coleman and lived on the old Coleman
farm in Skowhegan. They had two
children ARENAS who married Sophron-
Ia Dorothy, and Cynthia who married
John Dorothy.
Abigail, 10th, child. born 1889, married
Job Young and lived in Madison near
his brother who married her sister.
They had several children.
Samuel. 18th, born 1892, married Bet
sew Gardner and had the east half of his
fathers farm which he sold in 1863 to
Harlow Bigclow and went to live with
John Dorothy and died in 1879. They
had no children. In his. or rather her
garden grew the first white roses | ever
SAW.
George the 12th. and last had the west
half of his fathers farm that part on
which the shoe factory stands. lie mar
ried Polly Mason and had one son Amos
who was drowned in Smithfield.
George always had red wart on his
face, and late in life it suppurated and
become putrid cancerous ulcer which
could not be healed. The whole side
of his face sloughed off, it finally ate into
the carotid artery and he bled to death
in n few minutes. This ends the history
of Micah Pratt .Jr. and family.
ELAN 2nd, son of Micah sen. was born
about 1862 and was married before he
came to Canaan with the others of the
family.
His place of settlement was on the
middle road next to the Uncle Seth Wy
man place. 1t was a good farm and
when he raised Il good crop of wheat and
sold the surplus for two dollars and Il
half busliel, his brother Micah thought
1t wicked cxtortiOn, and his comment
on it was ST the devil don't get our Elan
might lust as well not have any devil
He had four sons, Thomas, Elan, Jacob
and Asa. Thomas had the old farm for
supporting his parents. He had several
children, all girls believe, but there is
no record of his family. lie was a dea-
con of the Baptist church, The Others
ali went to Corinna or that vicinity, but
| have no information about them.
Daniel Pratt Sd. son of Micah sen. new
err married but lived think in the Cole
man neighborhood, perhaps with one OF
his sisters. He had a cancer on his lip,
u part of 1t was cut out and 1t healed oy-
er properly. Two or three years after
he was raking hay with hand rake, the
man who was raking close behind him
Glanced TO bring his rake round so that