Benjamin Pratt

(1710-1763)
Massachusetts & New York

Benjamin Pratt was born in Cohasset, Massachusetts in 1710. He graduated from Harvard in 1737 and studied law. Pratt wrote fugitive verse and served as chief justice of New York.

Benjamin Pratt
Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography
(New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889)(James Grant Wilson & John Fiske eds.)(6 vols.)

Benjamin Pratt
Samuel Kettell, Specimens of American Poetry 324-326
(New York: Benjamin Blom, 1829)(vol.1)]