John PRESCOTT

1604 - 20 Dec 1681

  • BIRTH: 1604, Standish, Lancaster, England
  • CHRISTENING: 1604, Shevington, Standish, Lancaster, England
  • EMIGRATION: 1638, Barbados
  • EMIGRATION: 1640, Watertown, Middlesex, MA
  • DEATH: 20 Dec 1681, Lancaster, Worcester, Ma
  • BURIAL: Dec 1681, Lunenburg, Lancaster, Worcester, Ma
Family 1 : Mary GAWKROGER
  • MARRIAGE: 24 Jan 1629, Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, England
  1.  Mary PRESCOTT
  2.  Martha PRESCOTT
  3.  John PRESCOTT
  4.  Sarah PRESCOTT
  5.  Lydia PRESCOTT
  6.  Jonathan PRESCOTT
  7. +Jonas PRESCOTT 

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[616] See the list of potential problems for this family under
the entry for Mary Gawkroger.

"Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy"
Frederick A. Virkus; Chicago, 1925
Vol 1, Appendix: "Immigrant Ancestors"
"PRESCOTT, John (ca. 1604-1681), from Eng. to the Barbados, 1638, thence
to Watertown, Mass., 1640; with others bought from Indians a large tract
of land and became a founder of Lancaster, N.H., 1645 or 46; took oath
of allegiance, 1652; admitted freeman, 1669; blacksmith and miller; m in
Eng., 1629, Mary Platts (d 1674)."
(Virkus is in error about Lancaster; it's the one in Massachussets.)

"A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers
of New England, Before 1692"
James Savage
Boston, MA, 1860-1862, pp. 480-482

"New England Marriages Prior to 1700"
Clarence A. Torrey, Baltimore, MD, 1985
pp. 602-603
PRESCOTT, John & Mary GAWKROGER; 11 Apr 1629, Halifax, Eng; Watertown/Lancaster

(Shattuck and associated family lines from a GEDCOM file
posted to RootsWeb by Robert Wylie [wyliecoyote1@comcast.net]).


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