New York Folklore Quarterly: Volume XIII, No. 3

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Vol. XIII, No. 3, Autumn 1957

ZADOCK PRATT’S BIG DAY
Moritz A. Jagendorf

MANY fine tales are told about Zadock Pratt, who lived not far from Catskill. Here is one of them.

Zadock Pratt said he’d make a fortune, and so he did—and in mighty good time, too. He was honest and he worked hard, as most men did in the olden days. He made enough to build a town he called Prattsville.

“I’ll not call it ‘Zadock,’” he said. “That’s a name for one only, and that one is me. This town is only the beginning. You’ll hear more of me.”

He had his image and that of his son carved in stone so all the world would see and remember him for the rest of time. “I’m the most marvelous man our land has ever produced, folks say,” he commented in a way which would make you think he, too, believed it, “and I must live accordingly.”...

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