Abijah Pratt, Sr., first settled near James Utter's and Capt. Pratt's, but in time bought a farm just over the line, on the Van Rensselaer Patent, where his grandson, Ezra Pratt, now lives. He married Priscilla Shipman . They had two sons and three daughters, but comparatively few of their posterity now live in the town. Isreal married Charlotte, a sister of Mr. Lyman Stannard, and their daughter Rosella married James Jennings, and now lives in Freehold.  Synthia married Gideon Barker, and their son, William P. Barker, became a missionary to India, continuing in that work 14 or 15 years, until his health failed.  He is now laboring among the Tuscarora and the Cattaraugus Indians in this State. Abijah Pratt, Jr., married Polly Post , a niece of Col. Ezra Post, of whom we hope to write more fully in the future.  They had nine children, Emogene, Azubah, Mary, Priscilla, Philo, Norman, Eveline, Ezra and Electus .  Azubah died in youth, and Norman passed away just in the vigor of manhood. Electus graduated from Yale College in the class of 1858; taught in the State of Georgia and also in his native State until the breaking out of the Rebellion, when he enlisted Nov. 9, 1861, as a private in the 93rd NY Infantry.  On the 25th of November, 1863, he received a commission from President Lincoln as Captain of Company G, 8th Reg U.S. Colored Infantry, was wounded at Alusta, in Florida, and in a skirmish at Darby Town, VA., lost his left arm. Since the war, to the present, he has been in the employ of the Government, connected with the pay department.  Abijah Pratt , the father, became a member of the Presbyterian church January 5, 1834, and Elder Dec. 29, 1840, and died Oct. 5, 1861, greatly respected by all who knew him. His widow still survives. 

Captain Jonathan Pratt and Abijah Pratt sen., came from Saybrook, Connecticut, and settled on Saybrook Hill, a little north of James Utter’s. Captain Pratt commanded a company of Connecticut soldiers in the Revolution. He was a very energetic man. On one occasion he had received quite a sum of money from Connecticut, and was on his way home, when, going up the road east of Oak Hill, it being after dark, a man sprang out of the thicket by the roadside, and demanded his money. The Captain bounded out of his wagon; and applied his "Blacksnake" whip so vigorously, that the cowardly rascal ran for dear life. The Captain’s descendants now reside in Schoharie county, and in Michigan.

His brother, Abijah Pratt sen. married Priscilla Shipman, and settled on the farm now occupied by Ezra P. Pratt, his grandson. His son, Abijah, Jr., married a niece of Colonel Ezra Post, and settled near by. The descendants of this family are quite numerous: they are represented not only in this town, but in many of the towns and States throughout the country.

Electus A. Pratt, a grandson of Abijah Pratt sen., was a captain in the late civil war, and lost an arm in a skirmish at Darbytown, Virginia. Upon his recovery, he was favored with a position in the pay department at Washington. He has now relinquished that, and is engaged in business at Minneapolis, Minnesota.