John Prescott b. 1604 d. 1681

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1604 birth: Halifax (West Yorkshire)

about 1643 child birth: ♂ Jonathan Prescott [Prescott] b. about 1643 d. 1721

30 June 1648 child birth: Lancaster (Massachusetts), Worcester County (Massachusetts), ♂ Jonas Prescott [Prescott] b. 30 June 1648 d. 31 December 1723

1681 death: Lancaster (Massachusetts)

Notes

John Prescott, founder of Lancaster, MA. John Prescott, Sr. was born about 1605 in England and died in Lancaster, MA in 1683. He married Mary Gawkroger (alias Platt) (1607-1718) on April 11, 1629 in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England. The first 5 of their children were born in England except for the fifth child Hannah who was probably born in Barbados, West Indies in 1639. Their children included: Mary (Thomas Sawyer), Martha (John Rugg), John, Jr. (Sarah), Sarah (1 Richard Wheeler, 2 Joseph Rice), Hannah (John Rugg widower of Martha), Lydia (1 Jonas Fairbanks, 2 Elias Barron, Jr.), Capt. Jonathan (1 Dorothy Heald, 2 Elizabeth Hoar, 3 Rebecca Wheeler, 4 Ruth Brown), Joseph (probable that there was no son Joseph and that his existence at all is due to a clerks error in an early history of Concord, MA), Capt. Jonas, Sr. (Mary Loker). John and Mary were in Watertown, MA in 1640 and moved from there to the Nashaway Plantation in 1643 which was later to become Lancaster. Jonas was born here before Lancaster was incorporated so his birth was registered in Groton. There may have been two other children who died in infancy in England. Mary's alias "Platts" appears to come from English lands by that name that passed down through the Gawkroger family.

[edit] Sources

1. ↑ http://archive.org/stream/ancestryofjohnpr00bost/ancestryofjohnpr00bost_djvu.txt -
2. ↑ William Prescott's 1870 "Prescott Memorial." -
3. ↑ "The Order of The Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America" - John Prescott's father was Sir Ralph Prescott and his mother was wife Ellen.

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