John Prescott
Charts | Ancestors of William Jerome Pierce |
John Prescott, whose ancestry is unknown (or not traced here), was born at England, in 1604.1 He died at Lancaster, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, 1 December 1681, at age 77,1,2 and was buried in the Old Burial Field, Lancaster, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.3
John married Mary Gawkroger, daughter of Abram Gawkroger and Martha Ryley, at Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, 11 April 1629.1,4
He left a will dated 8 October 1673 and proved 4 April 1682. The published vital records for Lancaster erroneously indicate it was a nuncupative will, proved 20 December 1681.5,3
John married Mary Gawkroger, daughter of Abram Gawkroger and Martha Ryley, at Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, 11 April 1629.1,4
He left a will dated 8 October 1673 and proved 4 April 1682. The published vital records for Lancaster erroneously indicate it was a nuncupative will, proved 20 December 1681.5,3
Family | Mary Gawkroger b. 7 Feb 1612/13, d. aft. 1678 |
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This person was last edited on | 28 Oct 2014 |
Citations
- [S762] Joan S. Guilford, The Ancestry of Dr. J. P. Guilford: Volume I: Seventeenth Century–New England Colonials (Orange, California: Sheridan Psychological Services, 1990), 629-648, further cited as Guilford, Guilford: Vol I.
- [S907] Henry Stedman Nourse, The Birth, Marriage, and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850, two vols. (Clinton, Massachusetts: W. J. Cooper, Printer, 1890), 1:20, further cited as Nourse, Vital Records of Lancaster.
- [S907] Nourse, Vital Records of Lancaster, 2:420.
- [S1872] Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 3 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011), 1229, further cited as Torrey, New England Marriages (2011).
- [S16] Mary L. Holman, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and His Wife Francis Helen Miller (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumsford Press, 1948), 54-60, further cited as Holman, Stevens-Miller Genealogy.