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John Prescott

Male Abt 1604 - Abt 1681  (~ 77 years)


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  • Name John Prescott  [1, 2
    Birth Abt 1604  Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Male 
    Death Abt 1681  Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Alternate death Dec 1681  [4
    Person ID I14550  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 28 Apr 2024 

    Family Mary Gawkroger alias Platt,   b. Bef 7 Feb 1613   d. Aft 1678 (Age > 66 years) 
    Marriage 11 Apr 1629  Halifax, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 5, 6, 7, 8
    Children 
    +1. Mary Prescott,   b. Bef 24 Feb 1630   d. Abt Apr 1716 (Age > 86 years)
    +2. Sarah Prescott,   b. Abt 1637, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location
    +3. Capt. Jonathan Prescott,   b. Abt 1645, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Dec 1721, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 76 years)
    Family ID F9067  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 8 Sep 2024 

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

  • Sources 
    1. [S7578] Sawyer Families of New England 1636-1900 by Eleanor Grace Sawyer. Camden, Maine: Penobscot Press, 1995.

    2. [S6067] Blackman and Allied Families by Alfred L. Holman. Chicago, 1928.

    3. [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.

    4. [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.

    5. [S2203] New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence A. Torrey. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.

    6. [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.

    7. [S7763] Mary Gawkroger, 1612, 1629, 1678, Wife of John Prescott of Lancaster, Massachusetts by Frederick Lewis Weis. 1959., date only.

    8. [S7764] John G. Hunt, "Notes on Families of the Parish of Halifax, Yorkshire: Farrer, Deane, Platts, Fairbank, Prescott." The American Genealogist 40:22, 1964., year only.