Dr. Abel Prescott

Abel married Abigail Brigham about 1742. Abigail (daughter of John Brigham and Martha) was born on 31 Dec 1723 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died before 12 Jun 1777. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Lucy Prescott was born on 24 Apr 1757 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 10 Oct 1792 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Old Hill Burying Ground, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

Jonathan married Rebecca Bulkeley on 9 Jul 1701 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Rebecca (daughter of Peter Bulkeley and Rebecca Wheeler) was born on 24 Aug 1681 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1643

Jonathan married Elizabeth Hoar on 23 Dec 1675. Elizabeth (daughter of John Hoar and Alice) was born about 1650 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died on 25 Sep 1687 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1655

Peter married Rebecca Wheeler on 16 Apr 1667 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Rebecca (daughter of Joseph Wheeler and Sarah Goldstone) was born on 6 Sep 1645 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 20 Feb 1718 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Dec 1681

Notes:

He came to New England in about 1636 and settled in Watertown. He was a blacksmith.

John married Mary Gawkroger alias Platt on 11 Apr 1629 in Halifax, Yorkshire, England. Mary was born between 1611 and 1612; died in 1674. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1607

Notes:

Her odd surname means "left-handed Roger." Many of her relatives appear to have used Platt or Platts as an alternative surname, after the area of Yorkshire the family was associated with. But she appears to have used Gawkroger or Gawroger during the periods of her life when she was unmarried. The exact identity of her parents, however, is unclear. Mary Lovering Holman (citation details below) says she was "possibly daughter of Abraham and Martha (Riley) Gawkroger, who was living in 1678."

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• Alternate birth: of Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Notes:

He came to New England in or about 1642, with his mother, his brothers Daniel and Leonard, and his sister Joanna.

John married Alice about 1645. Alice died on 5 Jun 1696 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Arriving in 1634, he was the first of the extensive Bulkeley family to come to New England.

Matriculated pensioner from St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, Easter 1629, he studied with the Rev. Cotton in New England while boarding at his house. He was ordained in Marshfield in 1643. After fifteen years as the minister there, he was installed as his father's successor at Concord in 1659, and remained there for 53 years.

He is said to have been disabled in some manner ("lame and of a feeble constitution"). Of his preaching style, Grindall Reynolds had this to say in 1896:

One production of Mr. Bulkeley has escaped the tooth of time, -- his sermon delivered after the return of Captain Thomas Wheeler from Brookfield fight. It was a time to stir a man's soul. The whole Colony was convulsed. Every frontier settlement and every lonely farmhouse was in peril. Two of his parishioners had been slain. Two more came home so shattered that they lingered only a few months. The lot of these might any hour be the lot of his hearers. You read the sermon through from text to conclusion. There is not one throb of pathos in it. You cannot find an eloquent line, hardly an impressive sentence. It is a maze of Inquisitions and Instructions, of Applications and Uses, of Doctrines and Reasons, of Motives and Improvements, wherein the mind wanders and is lost. How could a tender human heart help breaking through the meshes of formality? And how was it possible for men, of rude speech possibly, but of strong and hot sympathies, to admire or approve such stiff and measured utterance?

With so little to guide it is not possible to speak confidently. Still this is certain. The younger Bulkeley has not left behind the impression of power which his father did. Apparently he had not his vigorous personality, his culture, or his great heart. Mather calls him "the worthy son" of a worthy sire. Clearly he was that. An honest, faithful, and devout man. But with all his real excellence one who did not rise much above mediocrity.

[From A Collection of Historical and Other Papers, Concord, Massachusetts, 1896.]

Edward married Lucian. Lucian died after 28 Jan 1679. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She probably predeceased her husband. It is not entirely clear that she was the mother of Edward's son Peter, although naming patterns strongly suggest that she was the mother of his daughters Elizabeth and Mary.

Joseph married Sarah Goldstone. Sarah (daughter of John Goldstone) died on 12 Mar 1671 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]