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# ID: I13212
# Name: James E Pratt 1
# Sex: M
# Title: Captain
# Name: James E Pratt 2 3 4
# Birth: 11 DEC 1830 in , Abbeville, SC 2
# Death: 31 AUG 1911 in prob , Abbeville, SC 2
# Occupation: 1870 Farmer 3
# Reference Number: 13327
# Note:
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He was the eldest son of Mary Kay and John Pratt, and was a great grandfather of President Jimmy Carter. General Robert E Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, serving under Stonewall Jackson and later Ambrose P Hill. He was born December 11, 1830 in the northern part of Abbeville District, SC, near the confluence of Hogskin Creek and Little River. The Pratt’s were among the early white settlers on Little River, but where they came from has never been determined.
Captain Pratt’s great grandfather, William Pratt, had operated a gristmill at “Pratt Shoals” on Little River, and by family tradition the mill had been burned by Tories and Indians during the Revolution. It is evident from his Revolutionary War claim that William Pratt had been involved in the battle at Pratt’s Mill, having lost his horse and saddle during the fight with the infamous Tory, “Bloody Bill” Cunningham…
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James E. Pratt was my maternal second cousin 3 times removed (common ancestor: Francis Clinkscales); and third cousin 3 times removed (common ancestors: William B. Franklin who married Elizabeth Brawner).
– Cathy
