Ancestry of
Enoch Pratt

Founder of Enoch Pratt Free Library

Enoch Pratt

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Isaac Pratt 
  • Mother:
  • Naomi Keith   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Sep 1808 
  • Birth Location:
  • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Sep 1896 
  • Death Location:
  • Baltimore, Maryland 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Green Mountain Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland 
  • Notes: 

  • Founder of Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland

    Enoch Pratt removed to Baltimore about 1831.

• Marriages for Enoch Pratt

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  • Spouse:
  • Maria Louisa Hyde
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Aug 1837
  • Marriage Location:
  • First Unitarian Church, Baltimore, Maryland

• Sources for Enoch Pratt

  • ¹ Boston Evening Transcript (Boston, Massachusetts), 18 SEP 1896, p. 10, Obituary for Enoch Pratt.
  • ² Genealogy and Biography of Leading Families of the City of Baltimore and Baltimore County, Maryland, New York and Chicago: Chapman Publishing Company (1897), 27-28.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 11/06/2021).
  • ⁴ Maryland, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1655-1850, Marriage record for Enoch Pratt and Maria L Hyde.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Birth record for Enoch Pratt, gives mother's name as Susanna.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Probate file of father Isaac Pratt.
  • ⁷ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Middleborough, Vol. 1, p. 414, Birth record for Enoch Pratt, gives mother as Susanna.
  • ⁸ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1985, Vol. 2, p. 159.
  • ⁹ New-Bedford Mercury (New Bedford, Massachusetts), 18 AUG 1837, p. 1, Wedding of Enoch Pratt and Maria Louisa Hyde.
  • ¹⁰ The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, Maryland), 09 SEP 1896, p. 8, "Mr. Enoch Pratt's Birthday".
  • ¹¹ The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, Maryland), 31 OCT 1911, p. 10, Obituary for spouse Maria Louisa Pratt.
  • ¹² United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925, FHL No 7545448, Image 345, 11 APR 1855, Application for Enoch Pratt.
  • ¹³ Enoch Pratt Free Library, "Who was Enoch Pratt?", (accessed 11/06/2021).
  • ¹⁴ Philanthropy Roundtable, "Enoch Pratt", (accessed 11/06/2021).
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 440.
  • ¹⁶ Wikipedia, "Enoch Pratt", (accessed 11/06/2021).