An American Family History

Prather Family

Also spelled:

Thomas Prather was born about 1673 in Maryland.

He married Martha Sprigg. Martha was the daughter of Thomas Sprigg and Eleanor Nuthall.

Thomas Prather (1704, married Elizabeth Clagett).
John Smith Prather, (married Elizabeth Nuthall),
Philip Prather (married Catherine Hunt),
Aaron Prather (1710),
Eleanor Prather (married Thomas William),
Rachel Prather (married William Pottenger and James Milburn Seemes).

On June 25, 1700, Ninian Beall sold Thomas 56 acres, part of a tract of land called St. Andrews.

Thomas died in 1712 in Prince George's County, Maryland. After he died Martha married Stephen Yoakley.

Aaron Prather was born about 1710. He was the son of Thomas Prather and Martha Sprigg Prather Yoakley.

Aaron Prather, Jr. (1739, married Mary Swearingen),
Samuel Prather (1740),
Basil Prather (1742, married Chlorenda Robertson),
Baruch Prather (1742, married Sarah Higgins),
Barbara Prather, married ? Williams),
Ruth Prather,
Mary "Molly" Prather,
Zachariah Prather (married Ruth Allison), and
Walter Prather (married Ann Higgins).

Aaron died in 1777 in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Marylandwas established with religious freedom for Catholics. The colonial economy was based on tobacco cultivated by Africans who had been enslaved.

Baruch Prather was born on October 20, 1742, in Prince Georges County, Maryland. He was the son of Aaron Prather.

He married Sarah Jane "Sallie" Higgins in Rock Creek, Frederick County, Maryland, on November 16, 1775.

Thomas Prather (1778, married Mary Claggett),
Deborah Prather (1779, married Isaac Willson Walker
Martha Prather (1781, married Nathaniel Morrison),),
Anne Prather (1782, married Ebenezer Ruark),
John Prather (1785, married Sarah Wilson and Mildred A. Robinson),
Mary Prather (1786, married Stephen Reid),
Rebecca Prather (1788, married John Shrock),
Benjamin Prather (1790, married Elizabeth Knightly)
Walter Prather (1792, married Mary D. Irvine.),
Luraner Prather (1800, married James St. Clair).

They lived in Frederick County, Maryland, and Montgomery County, Maryland.

During the Revolutionary War, Baruch served from Montgomery County, Maryland, as a Private and then 1st Sergeant in Captain S. Swearingen & Colonel J. Murdock's company.

Baruch on near Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, on December 2, 1810, and was buried in the Prather Family Cemetery near his house.

American colonists continued to use British monetary units, namely the pound, shilling and pence for which £1 (or li) equalled 20s and 1s equalled 12d. In 1792 the dollar was established as the basic unit of currency.

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