The Pratt surname

In the chronology 13 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

• Pratt, Henry B. 2 entries, 1863–1868
  • October 4, 1863: Pastor Henry B. Pratt tells the Presbyterian session he will serve the army as a chaplain
  • May 1868: Henry B. Pratt, a missionary to South America, supplies New Hope
• Pratt, Mrs. J. H. 1 entry, 1917
  • October 1917: The Chapel Hill Red Cross re-elects its officers and names delegates to the state Red Cross congress
• Pratt, James H. 3 entries, 1850–1885
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• Pratt, John H. 4 entries, 1970–1982
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  • 1970–1988: UNC, HEW and the desegregation consent decree, 1970–1988
  • January 17, 1977: A federal judge orders HEW to set tougher desegregation requirements for the UNC system
  • April 1, 1977: A federal judge rules that the UNC system's desegregation plan falls short of the Civil Rights Act
  • August 24, 1982: A federal appeals court declines to disturb the UNC desegregation consent decree
• Pratt, Joseph Hyde 73 entries, 1897–1952
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• Pratt, Mrs. Joseph Hyde 3 entries, 1929–1932
  • 1929–1940: The Mary Bayley Pratt Children's Library, 1929–1940
  • April 28, 1930: Children's library board makes a $1,500 Bayley gift its first endowment
  • by May 13, 1932: The Red Cross and the Central Welfare Committee give garden seed to forty Chapel Hill and Carrboro families
• Pratt, Joseph Hyde 4 entries, 1929–1934
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  • 1929–1933: Relief in Orange County as the Depression deepens, 1929–1933
  • 1929: Mary Bayley Pratt, namesake of Chapel Hill's public library, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
  • October 26, 1931: The Carrboro school's night school reopens
  • 1934–1935: Hard-surfacing Chapel Hill's streets with federal labor, 1934–1935
• Pratt, Loftin K. 2 entries, 1844–1846
  • August 1, 1844: Orange elects its whole Whig ticket
  • August Term 1846: The court binds Stephen Wilson, a boy of color, to his late master's widow, Nancy Pratt
• Pratt, Malvina 1 entry, 1850
  • 1850: The 1850 census records 47 enslaved people on James H. Pratt's farm by the Eno
• Pratt, Mary Bayley 2 entries, 1929
  • May 1929: Citizens' committee founds the Mary B. Pratt Library for Chapel Hill children
  • 1929: Mary Bayley Pratt, namesake of Chapel Hill's public library, is buried in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery
• Pratt, Moses S. 2 entries, 1790–1826
  • 1790–1833: The Revill family and the county court, 1790–1833
  • November 28, 1826: The court binds Susan Revill, a free girl of color, to Moses S. Pratt
• Pratt, Nancy 1 entry, 1846
  • August Term 1846: The court binds Stephen Wilson, a boy of color, to his late master's widow, Nancy Pratt
• Pratt, W. N. 1 entry, 1850
  • February 8, 1850: Orange railroad meeting names a committee to raise subscriptions

In books and archives 1 heading

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

• Pratt, Joseph Hyde, 1870-1942 2 works

In the historical records 345 records

159 deeds, 28 records of enslaved people, 63 marriages, 82 court minutes, 2 tax list entries and 11 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Pratt marriages in full · Search the name in every collection