Notes for Jonathan PRATHER, I
The Following notes by Gary Benton Prather :
Jonathan was born in VA. and later moved to Maryland about 1650 - 1658. His name is recorded in several documents but we find it spelled many different ways. As an example he assigned land he owned which stated it was land owned by Jonathan Prather, but when he signed the document he signed it Jonathan Prater. He is also recorded in other documents as Prater, Prator , Prether, Praither and Prather. Such was the level of education in those days. We find the names Prater and Prather the most commonly used in documents concerning Jonathan.
Johnathan Prather's Coat-of-Arms was registered with the "College of Heraldry" and has proven to be the continuing and long established "Prater Family" whose ancestral estates were located on Eaton Water, in the county of Wiltshire, England.
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