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Memorial and family history of Erie County, New York
Genealogical Pub. Co., 1906

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        SAMUEL PRATT, JR., eldest son of CAPT. SAMUEL PRATT, invites
     comparison with his father by his high ideals of citizenship, his
     military service and business pursuits and his close

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     identification with the material welfare and the mental and moral
     interests of Buffalo.
        SAMUEL PRATT, Jr., was born at Hartford, Conn., in 1787.  Early in
     life he went to Westminster, Vt., where he engaged in commerce, and
     when his parents removed to Buffalo he did not accompany the family,
     being at that time occupied in mercantile pursuits at Townsend, Vt.
     In August, 1807, he came to Buffalo with his wife and child, where
     with his father he engaged in business.  However, the son soon retired
     from commerce that he might be able more satisfactorily to discharge
     his duties as Sheriff of Niagara County, to which office he was
     appointed in 1810.  Later her formed a partnership with ELIJAH LEECH,
     his brother-in-law, the firm name being PRATT & LEECH.
        Upon the outbreak of the War in 1812, MR. PRATT joined the army and
     was appointed Adjutant to GEN. PORTER.  December 13, 1813, when
     Buffalo was attacked by the British and Indians, Adjutant PRATT re-
     moved his family to a place of safety and then went to assist so far
     as possible in the defense of the town.  At the risk of their lives he
     and JUDGE WILSON extinguished the fires which had been lighted by the
     savage foe in many buildings, but only to see them rekindled.  MR.
     PRATT'S watch in the neighborhood of the village lasted several days
     and nights, and some exciting incidents of that perilous time have
     come down to us.  One night during the season of burning and pillage,
     as MR. PRATT was going to his mother's farm on horseback, with a MR.
     TREDWELL, he caught sight of two Indians skulking behind trees.  MR.
     PRATT shouted to his companion to run for his life, but before he
     could obey the Indians fired and TREDWELL fell dead.  Before the sav-
     age marksmen could reload MR. PRATT made his escape.
        In 1806, SAMUEL PRATT, Jr., married SOPHIA FLETCHER, daughter of
     GEN. SAMUEL FLETCHER, who was one of the most distinguished of the
     early residents of Vermont, a veteran of the French and Indian War
     and the War of the Revolution.

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     He fought at the battle of Bunker Hill, in 1777 marched to the relief
     of Ticonderoga, participated in the battle of Bennington, and con-
     tinued to serve in the army till the defeat of BURGOYNE.  From Orderly
     Sergeant he rose to the rank of Major General, also serving in many
     civil offices.  The children of SAMUEL PRATT, JR., were SAMUEL
     FLETCHER, born May 27, 1807; LUCIUS HUBBARD, born January 6, 1809;
     SOPHIA CHARLOTTE, born January 1, 1811, and PASCAL PAOLI, born Septem-
     ber 15, 1819.
        The death of SAMUEL PRATT, JR., occurred in Buffalo in 1822.  MRS.
     PRATT died March 19, 1862.
        SAMUEL PRATT, JR., was a man of rather delicate appearance, and
     polished address.  He was of a retiring disposition, yet had abundance
     of the spirit of enterprise.  He was greatly esteemed for his inte-
     grity, and was a man of marked benevolence and public spirit.

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