Rev. Benjamin Prescott

1687 - 1777  (89 years)

• Name	Benjamin Prescott
  Prefix	Rev.
  Birth	16 Sep 1687	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	27 May 1777	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Alternate death	28 May 1777  [3]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. Dr. Jonathan Prescott ,   b. 5 Apr 1677, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 28 Oct 1729, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts  (Age 52 years) ▻ Rebecca Bulkeley ,  m. 9 Jul 1701 + 2. Rev. Benjamin Prescott ,   b. 16 Sep 1687, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 27 May 1777, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 89 years) ▻ Elizabeth Higginson ,  m. 20 Oct 1715
  Person ID	I14542	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Capt. Jonathan Prescott,   b. Abt 1645, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts d. 5 Dec 1721, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 76 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Hoar,   b. Abt 1650, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 25 Sep 1687, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 37 years)
  Marriage	23 Dec 1675  [3, 4, 5]
  Family ID	F9065	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Higginson,   b. 28 Jun 1696, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts d. 20 Mar 1723, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 26 years)
  Marriage	20 Oct 1715	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts   [1, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Benjamin Prescott,   b. 29 Jan 1717, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts d. 18 Aug 1778, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 61 years)
  Family ID	F9063	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Graduated A.M. at Harvard College, 1709. Minister of the Second Parish of Salem, 1713-1756.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2122] Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. 1910. [S1998] Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England: Some Descendants of the Immigrants, Captain John Sherman, Reverend John Sherman, Edmund Sherman and Samuel Sherman, and the Descendants of Honorable Roger Sherman and Honorable Charles R. Sherman by Thomas Townsend Sherman. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1920., date only. [S1998] Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England: Some Descendants of the Immigrants, Captain John Sherman, Reverend John Sherman, Edmund Sherman and Samuel Sherman, and the Descendants of Honorable Roger Sherman and Honorable Charles R. Sherman by Thomas Townsend Sherman. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1920. [S1955] G. Andrews Moriarty, "Joanna Hoar, Wife of Ezra Morse of Dedham, Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 110:216, July 1956. [S1853] Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller by Mary Lovering Holman (vol. 1) and Winifred Lovering Holman (vol. 2). Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1948-1952. [S1998] Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England: Some Descendants of the Immigrants, Captain John Sherman, Reverend John Sherman, Edmund Sherman and Samuel Sherman, and the Descendants of Honorable Roger Sherman and Honorable Charles R. Sherman by Thomas Townsend Sherman. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1920., place only.