Individual Details

Copied from original Revolutionary Pension Records, National Archives, Washington, DC, by Ephraim Stout Lillard, Prather Historian. Printed in Prather Family Association Bulletin, Feb., 1962. Editor: Kathryn Rose Bonner.

South Carolina File W.9052

3 No 1846

Philip Prater

Susannah Hammond, Former Widow

"Susannah Hammond of Pickens District aged 89 years...states she was married to Philip Prater who was a private in the militia of South Carolina during the war of the Revolution and served under Capt. Maxwel and either Col. Pickens or Anderson or both...she has heard him relate of his services...that he served for a considerable length of time during the war...she thinks over one or two years, and she suffered much during the time with her three little children, hiding out and dodging from Tories and British.."

Birth	Abt 1750	Frederick Co., MD
Military	Abt 1776	Rev. War
Marriage	16 Jul 1776	Haw River, Guilford Co., NC - Susannah "Susan"
Emigration	1780	to Pickens Co., SC
Will	Feb 1798
Death	Abt Aug 1798	Rowan Co., NC
Probate	17 Sep 1798	Pendleton Dist., SC

Spouse	Susannah "Susan" ( - 1848)
Child	Jeremiah PRATER (1778 - 1856)
Child	John PRATER (1778 - 1850)
Child	Phillip John PRATER III (1778 - 1855)
Child	Sarah Elizabeth "Sally/Celia" PRATER (1782 - 1850)
Child	Thomas PRATHER (1784 - 1860)
Child	Mary Ann "Polly" PRATER (1785 - )
Child	William M. PRATER (1786 - 1861)
Child	Aaron PRATER (1790 - 1850)
Child	Josiah Isaiah PRATER (1782 - 1877)
Child	Joseph PRATER Sr. (1794 - 1887)
Child	Living

Father	Philomen Gittings "Phillip" PRATER (1707 - 1767)
Mother	Margaret "Marjery" HUNT (1716 - )
Sibling	William PRAYTOR (1739 - 1789)
Sibling	Elizabeth PRATER (1740 - 1804)
Sibling	Frederick N. PRATER (1740 - )
Sibling	Isaac J. PRATER (1752 - 1795)
Sibling	Jonathan "John" PRATER (1754 - 1829)
Sibling	Thomas PRATER (1758 - 1841)

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