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James Prescott, the ancestor of the New Hamp- shire family, settled in Hampton, that state, in 1665 .. His father was a second cousin to John of Water- town; and James was a great-great-grandson of James of Standish, with whom the line begins.
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The two American branches are of the same origi- nal stock, although they bear different coats of arms.
(I) James Prescott, a gentleman of Standish in Lancashire, England, was ordered by Queen Eliza- beth in 1564 to keep in readiness horsemen and )rmor. He married a daughter of Roger Standish, Esquire, of Standish, and they had six sons : James, mentioned below; Roger, Ralph, Robert, William and John. (Mention of Roger and descendants forms part of this article.)
(II) James (2), eldest son of James and
(Standish) Prescott, married Alice Molineaux. For his bravery and military prowess he was created lord of the manor in Dryby, in Lincolnshire, and was afterwards known as Sir James. A new coat- of-arms was granted with the title. This emblem is entirely different from that borne by the Massa- chusetts branch. The main features are two leop- ards' heads, or, on an ermine field; the crest rising out of a ducal coronet, or, is a boar's head and neck, argent, "bristled with the first." In untechnical language this means, when the symbol is painted, that the coronet should be of gold and the boar's head of silver with bristles of gold. The motto is "Vincit Gui Patitur." Sir James Prescott died March 1, 1583, leaving two children : John and Anne.
(III) John, son of Sir James and Alice (Moli- neaux) Prescott, was born at Dryby, where he lived. He married and nothing further is known of him except that he had two sons, William and James.
(IV) James (3), younger son of John Prescott, married, and had several children, four of whom are recorded: Mary, baptized in 1631; John, bap- tized in 1632; Anne, baptized in 1634; and James, who came to America.
(V) James (4), son of James (3) Prescott, of England, was baptized in 1642-3. He came from Dryby, in Lincolnshire, to what is now Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, in 1665. At that time the region was a part of the "Old County of Norfolk," Massachusetts. He began a farm, now one of the best in the state, where he lived till he moved to Kingston, New Hampshire, in 1725. He was ad- mitted a freeman in 1668, which means that he was a church member; was transferred to the church in Hampton Falls in 1712, at which time the town was incorporated, and was transferred to the church at Kingston, September 25, 1725. In 1668 James Prescott married Mary Boulter, daughter of Na- thaniel and Grace Boulter, of Exeter, New Hamp- shire. She was born in that town May 15, 1648, and was one of ten children, most of them daugh- ters. On the death of her two brothers, Nathaniel and John, the family name became extinct. James Prescott was a man of prominence and standing in the community. Although he did not move to Kingston till 1725, three years before his death, he was one of the original proprietors when the town was granted by Lieutenant Governor Usher in 1694. Another proprietor at the same time was Ebenezer Webster, ancestor of Daniel. The two men were chosen a committee to run the line between Hamp- ton and Kingston in 1700. James Prescott moderator of the proprietors' meeting at Kingston in 1700 and 1701; and he received many grants of land, both in Kingston and Hampton. James Pres- cott moved from Hampton Falls to Kingston in 1725, where he died November 25, 1728, aged about eighty-five years. Mary, his widow, died at Kings- ton, October 4, 1735, aged eighty-seven years, four months and twenty days. James and Mary (Boul- ter) Prescott had nine children: Joshua, born
March 1, 1669; James; Rebecca, married Nathaniel Sanborn; Jonathan, married Elizabeth ; Mary, married Jabez Coleman; Abigail and Pa- tience (twins). Abigail married Richard Bounds ; John married Abigail Marston; Nathaniel married Ann Marston, sister to Abigail. (James and descendants are noticed in this article.)
(VI) Joshua, eldest child of James (4) and Mary (Boulter) Prescott, was born March 1, 1669. There is no record of his death or marriage or the name of his wife, and the names of only a part of his children are known. He removed from Hamp- ton Falls to Kingston as early as 1725, as he was one of the members of the church when first gath- ered or organized there, September 29, 1725. His name appears as that of an inhabitant of Hampton Falls in 1722. In 1727 he and his son Latham are found to be inhabitants of Kingston. He resided a part if not all of the time after leav- ing Hampton Falls in that part of Kingston which since 1738 has constituted the town of East Kings- ton. Family tradition says that he did not marry until thirty-eight or forty years of age, which the date of the birth of his children seems to confirm. His children were: Nathan, Joshua, Mary, Ed- ward, Annie, Reuben, Patience, John, a daughter, a daughter, a daughter, a child died in infancy.
(VII) Joshua (2), son of Joshua (I) Prescott, was born about 1713. About 1763 he moved from East Kingston to Chester, New Hampshire, where he died July 12, 1785. He served six months in the expedition against Crown Point in 1758. His term of enlistment began in April and ended in October. He was in the company of Captain Trueworthy Ladd, of Exeter, which constituted part of the regi- ment commanded by Colonel John Hart, of Ports- mouth. He signed the association test in Chester in 1776. He married (first) Abigail Ambrose, and had four sons and four daughters. She died and he married (second) Mary Moulton, about 1763, and had five sons. The children by the first wife : Joshua, Stephen, John, Abigail, Sarah, Dorothy, Dominicus, Lucretia; by the second : Daniel, Moul- ton, Asa, Joseph and Edward.
(VIII) Lieutenant John, third son, and child of Joshua (2) and Abigail (Ambrose) Prescott, was born about 1744, and died in Sandwich at the age of about eighty. In 1767 he removed to Sandwich, New Hampshire, where he was one of the pioneer settlers of the town, and there he and his family suffered many great hardships and privations. After residing in Sandwich for years he removed to Hol- derness, and afterward returned to Sandwich. He signed the association test in 1776. He married, in 1766, Molly Carr, who was born February 26, 1747, and died in Holderness in March, 1823, aged seven- ty-six. Their fifteen children were: Parker, Joshua, . John, Eliphalet, Stephen, Bradbury, Polly, Sally, David, Judith, Ruth, Asa, Abigail, Anna and Ben- jamin.
(IX) Polly, seventh child and eldest daughter of John and Molly (Carr) Prescott, was born in 1777, and married (first) Benjamin Graves, and (second) Benjamin Mooney, of Sandwich, where she died in November, 1865, aged eighty-eight. (See Mooney III.)
(VI) James (5), second son and child of James (4) and Mary (Boulter) Prescott, was born Sep- tember I, 1671. He married, March 1, 1695, Maria Marston, daughter of William (2) and Rebecca (Page) Marston. She was born November 15, 1672. They were both admitted to the church October 10, 1697. James Prescott married for his second
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wife, June 17, 1746, widow Abigail Sanborn. She was the daughter of Edward Gove, one of the first settlers of Hampton. James Prescott was her third husband, and like his two predecessors was a dea- con of the church. Abigail (Gove) Prescott's first husband was Philemon Dalton, whom she married in 1690, and her second, Benjamin Sanborn, whom she married in 1724. James (5) Prescott was a farmer, and lived near his father on the west side of the road leading from the Hampton Falls Acad- emy to Exeter. He bore the title of sergeant, and was chosen constable in 1707. He was at Port Royal six months from March to September, 1701. James (5) and Maria (Marston) Prescott had eight children: Jeremiah, married Hannah Phil- brick; Samuel, mentioned below ; Elisha, married Phebe Sanborn; Sarah, married Joseph Lowell, of Newburyport, Massachusetts; Lucy, married Joseph Sanborn; Ebenezer; James, married Dorothy Til- ton; Rebecca, married Caleb Towle, Jr. (Ebenezer and descendants are mentioned in this article.)
(VII) Samuel, second son and child of James (5) and Maria (Marston) Prescott, was born March 14, 1697. He married Mary Sanborn, daugh- ter of Joseph and Mary (Gove) Sanborn. She was born July 28, 1697. They were married December 17, 1717, and were admitted to the church July 13, 1740. They lived on a farm at Hampton Falls. Samuel Prescott appears to have been a man of sub- stance, and prominent in the affairs of the town. He served several years as selectman, town clerk and in other official capacities. He also acted as one of the scouting party "above the frontier." This party went out in 1724 to the region above Dover and Rochester, then on the edge of the wilderness. It is supposed that they were sent against the Pe- quawket Indians, who had their headquarters where Fryeburg, Maine, now is. Samuel Prescott died of fever at Hampton Falls, June 12, 1759, aged sixty- two years and three months. Samuel and Mary (Sanborn) Prescott had five children, all sons : Jeremiah, Samuel, John, Joseph and William. All of these sons except Samuel, who died young, had a notable military record. Jeremiah and John served in the French and Indian war; Jeremiah took part in the expedition against Crown Point and John assisted in the capture of Louisburg. Joseph and William took part in the Revolution, and each attained the rank of major. Joseph was in the battles of Bennington and Ticonderoga and at the surrender of Burgoyne; he was a member of the New Hampshire provincial congress, which inet at Exeter in 1775. (William is mentioned in a later paragraph, with descendants.)
(VIII) John, third son of Samuel and Mary (Sanborn) Prescott, was born at Hampton Falls, December 12, 1723, and baptized November 12, 1724. He settled in Epping and in 1745 joined a military company which was raised and commanded by Sir William Pepperell. He signed the associa- tion test in 1776. His death occurred in Epping, May 2, 1785. He was first married November 27, 1746, to Hannah Rundlett, who was born Novem- ber 2, 1728, daughter of Jonathan and Rachel Rund- lett, of Epping, and died March 16, 1766. For his second wife he married Mrs. Rebecca Tilton, widow of Samuel Tilton, of Deerfield, and a daughter of Hon. Benjamin Prescott. She survived her seond husband and was married for the third time to Nathan Gove Prescott, of Epping, July 7, 1789. She died in 1794, aged sixty-eight years. The nine children of John Prescott, all of his first union,
were: Jonathan, Rachel, Mary, Lucy, Samuel, John, Dudley, Hannah and Leah.
(1X) Samuel, second son and fifth child of John and Hannah (Rundlett) Prescott, was born in Epping, October 30, 1755. He settled on a farm in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, and resided there for the remainder of his life, which terminated July 4, 1819. December 3, 1777, he married Molly Drake, who was born October 30, 1757, daughter of Simon and Judith Drake, of Epping, and her death occurred May 24, 1829. She was the mother of twelve children : Sarah E., born June 17, 1779, died at the age of twenty years; Josiah, July 31, 1780, died September 14, 1846; 'Hannah, April 8, 1782; Leah, December 5, 1784, died June 14, 1847; Samuel Washington, who will be again referred to; Mary, July 26, 1788; Ann, July 1, 1790; Theodate, April II, 1792, died December 26, 1847; Martha Brown, May 3, 1794; John, February 29, 1796, died January 4, 1862; Abrahamn, March 7, 1798, and Sarah, October 19, 1800.
(X) Samuel Washington, second son and fifth child of Samuel and Molly (Drake) Prescott, was born August 4, 1786. Locating in Guilford, New Hampshire, he became a prosperous farmer and resided there until his death, which occurred May 23, 1833. He was married July 30, 1812, to Mary Brown, who was born September 30, 1792, daugh- ter of Enoch Brown, of Pittsfield. She died in Lake Village, December 30, 1858. Of this union there were eight children: Enoch Brown, the date of whose birth will be given presently ; Mary Jane, born December 6, 1814; Hannah Brown, Decem- ber 15, 1816; Elizabeth Ann, February 2, 1819; Sarah Plummer, April 7, 1821; Samuel W., August 2, 1823; John Oliver, September 9, 1825; and Leah Lane, September 27, 1828.
(XI) Enoch Brown, eldest child of Samuel W. and Mary (Brown) Prescott, was born in Pitts- field, New Hampshire, February 12, 1813. He re- sided in Lake Village, where he followed the black- smith's trade, and he died June 30, 1881. Decem- ber 4, 1839, he married Hannah Gove Thing, who was born June 25, 1817, daughter of John and Susan Thing. She became the mother of four children : John Freeman Thing, born January 27, 1841 ; Susan Ada, April 18, 1850, died February 28, 1877; True Enoch, who is mentioned at greater length in the succeeding paragraph ; and Cora Ellen, January 30, 1857, died September 4, 1857. John F. T. Prescott was married in 1871 to Laura T. Robin- son, of Laconia, who died April 12, 1882, and of this union there was one son, Edgar T., born March 19, 1877, died December 2, 1879.
(XII) True Enoch, second son and third child of Enoch B. and Hannah G. (Thing) Prescott, was born in Lake Village, June 1, 1852. Having studied preliminarily in the public schools he attended the New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Tilton, and concluded his education with a business course at the Manchester Commercial College. As a young man he engaged in the insurance business at La- conia, and has followed it continuously for more than thirty years, being at the present time one of the best known insurance men in the state. The Melcher and Prescott Agency, of which he is the financier. represents some of the strongest and most reliable companies in the world. Its sphere of ac- tion practically covers the entire field, including fire, life, liability, accident, fidelity and health. In politics Mr. Prescott is a Democrat, and he served as postmaster at Lakeport under President Cleve-
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land. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, belong- ing to all of the subordinate bodies, including the commandery, and also affiliates with the Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows. He was married No- vember 23, 1886, to Ada May Garmon, second child and eldest daughter of Charles B. and Laura A. (Philbrick) Garmon, of Laconia, who reared four children : Frederick C., Ada M., Frank A. and Lil- lian E. Mr. and Mrs. Prescott occupy one of the handsomest pieces of residential property in La- conia. They have one son, Edgar B., who was born April 30, 1888; at this date (1907) a student in Dartmouth College.
(VII) Ebenezer, sixth child and fourth son of James (5) and Maria (Marston) Prescott, was born in Hampton Falls, December 3, 1705, baptized March 3, 1706, and died in 1750, aged forty-five. He re- sided in Hampton Falls, on the farm his father and grandfather, the immigrant, had first cultivated. He married December 15, 1726, Abigail Tilton, who was born May 20, 1706, daughter of Samuel and Meri- bah (Shaw) Tilton. They had: Samuel, Sarah, James, Josiah, Abigail, Mary and Meribah.
(VIII) Captain James (6), second son and third child of Ebenezer and Abigail (Tilton) Prescott, was born December 5, 1733, baptized January 20, 1734, and died February 27, 1813, aged seventy-nine years. He lived and died in Hampton Falls. He was many years selectman and moderator, and cap- tain in the militia. He served two terms of enlist- ment in the Revolutionary Army. He enlisted first September 8, 1777, and served as a lieutenant in Captain Moses Leavitt's company, Colonel Abra- ham Drake's regiment, which constituted part of the force sent to reinforce the Northern Continen- tal Army at Stillwater, September, 1777. He was discharged December 15, 1777, after serving three months and eight days. He enlisted a second time, July 10, 1781, being one of the force sent to West Point, and was discharged December 22, after five months and three days' service. He resided on the farm where his father and grandfather lived before him. He and his wife were admitted to the church July 18, 1756. He married, January 1, 1756, Mary Lane, born December 6, 1734, daughter of Samuel Lane. She died May 24, 1718, in her eighty-fifth year. The eleven children of this marriage were: Ebenezer, Mary, Samuel, James, Betsey, Jesse, Abi- gail. Josiah, Sally, Susannah and Levi.
(IX) Betsey, fifth child and second daughter of Captain James (6) and Mary (Lane) Prescott, was born in Hampton Falls, June II, 1765, and died May 24, 1838, aged seventy-five years. She married, August 6, 1787, Jeremiah Brown, of Loudon. See Brown, IV.)
(VI) Jonathan, third son and fourth child of James (4) and Mary (Boulter) Prescott, of Hamp- ton, New Hampshire, was born August 8, 1675, probably in that part of the town now known as Hampton Falls. He saw some military service in the Colonial wars. In 1696 lie labored for ten days at Fort William and Mary at Newcastle. New Hamp- shire, and in 1710 was one of a scouting party under Captain John Gilman. He settled in that part of Hampton which in 1737 became Kensington, and was one of the petitioners for the new town. Here he was admitted to the church March 5, 1749, in his seventy-fourth years. Jonathan Prescott married Elizabeth
-, but her last name and the date of her marriage are unknown. She was admitted to the church, August 29, 1708. They had six children : Captain Jonathan, who took part in the capture of Louisburg ; Jeremiah ; Benjamin, who is mentioned in the next paragraph; Abigail, who married Na-
thaniel Locke; Joseph, who served under his elder brother at Lockhard; and Mary, who married Ben- jamin Hilliard, of Hampton. Jonathan Prescott died at Kensington, New Hampshire, January 6, 1755, in his eightieth year.
(VII) Benjamin, third son and child of Jona- than and Elizabeth Prescott, was born November 2, 1700, probably at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. He was admitted to the church there March 18, 1733. On October 16, 1728, he married Mehitabel Dalton, daughter of Philemon and Abigail (Gove) Dalton, who was born September 25, 1713. They had seven children: Philemon, whose sketch fol- lows; Abigail, who married Green Longfellow; Ben- jamin, married Abigail Currier; Sarah, married David Bachelder and lived in Saco, Maine; Eliza- beth ; John, married Esther Rollins, of Epping, New Hampshire; and Mehitable. John Prescott, the youngest son, died in the service of his country. He lived at Raymond, New Hampshire, and when the Revolution broke out he left his young wife and in- fant son, six months old, and hastencd to Bunker Hill, where he was killed.
(VIII) Philemon, eldest child of Benjamin and Mehitable (Dalton) Prescott, was born January 13, 1729. He was admitted to the church March 2, 1760. About 1751-52 he married Elizabeth Taylor, who was born in 1732. They had eleven children : Bradstreet ; Susannah, married Major Joseph Pres- cott, of Sanbornton, New Hampshire ; Elizabeth, mar- ried (first) Clough, and (second) French; Martha, married Eliphalet Merrill, of Deer- field, New Hampshire; Eunice; Rachel; Mary, mar- ried Ezekiel Morse, of Pembroke, New Hampshire; Abigail, married Moody Emery, of West Newbury, Massachusetts; Hannah, married Stephen Prescott, brother of her sister Susan's husband, and lived in Sanbornton, New Hampshire: Mark, whose sketch follows : and Nancy, married Jacob Thompson. Both Philemon Prescott and his wife died in early middle life. He died June 12, 1774, aged forty-five and one- half years; she died August 15, 1772, at the age of forty.
(IX) Mark, second son and tenth child of Phil- emon and Elizabeth (Taylor) Prescott, was born May 30, 1771. He was a farmer in Kingston, New Hampshire. On August 23, 1795, he married Polly Bean, daughter of Richard Bean, of Brentwood, New Hampshire, who was born October 27, 1776. They had six children: Richard Bean, married Mary S. Pervers; Dr. Benjamin Taylor, who became a den- tist in Boston; Mark Hollis, married Priscilla Bart- lett, of Kingston, and moved to Ottawa, Illinois ; Lewis Franklin, married Elizabeth S. Webber; Har- riet Maria, married Samuel Huse Swett, and George Washington, whose sketch follows. Mark Prescott died at Kingston, January 19, 1817, at the early age of forty-six, in consequence of being thrown from a horse the previous evening. His widow survived him some thirty years, dying at Kingston, November 12, 1848, aged seventy-two.
(X) George Washington, youngest of the six children of Mark and Polly (Bean) Prescott, was born at Greenland, New Hampshire,. March 22, 1813. He was educated in the common schools at Kingston and at South Hampton Academy. For several years he was a successful teacher at Kings- ton and Brentwood, New Hampshire, and at West Newbury, Massachusetts. He was town clerk at Newton, New Hampshire, and superintendent of schools for a considerable period. He was an active worker in the Methodist Church, and used to select verses of scripture and write interesting sermons and articles for Zion's Herald, the denominational
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paper. For several years he was superintendent of the Methodist Sunday school in the town of Kings- ton. George Washington Prescott married Mary Griffin Johnson, of North Monmouth, Maine, daugh- ter of Thomas Johnson. She still survives (1907), and lives in Haverhill, Massachusetts, with her youngest daughter. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Prescott had four children : George W. (2) ; Lewis Franklin, whose sketch follows; Mary Anvellah, born Novem- ber 12, 1858, married John L. Webster; and Ida Frances, born April 19, 1861, who lives in Haver- hill, Massachusetts. George Washington (2) Pres- cott was born September 27, 1852. He was gradu- ated with honors from the medical department of Dartmouth College, receiving the prize for anatomy, he was a very studious man. He died in 1875, just at the dawn of a promisinng career. His father, George W. Prescott (I) died January 19, 1883.
(XI) Lewis Franklin, second son and child of George Washington (1) and Mary Griffin (Johnson) Prescott, was born September 16, 1855, at Newton, New Hampshire. He was educated in the common schools of Kingston and at the old academy there. He served an apprenticeship of three years as a carriage painter at Kingston, New Hampshire, and later he owned a carriage manufacturing and repair shop in that town. In 1892 he became superintendent of the Kimball carriage factory at Manchester, New Hampshire, which position he still retains. July 4, 1878, Lewis Franklin Prescott married at Newton, New Hampshire, Bessie A. Marden, who was born at Kingston, New Hampshire, September 10, 1859. She was one of the three daughter of Ebenezer K. and Margaret (Hoitt) Marden, of Candia, New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis F. Prescott have three children : Mabel Lillian, George F. and Flor- ence Myrtle. Mabel L., was born September 16, 1879, married Henry Milbourne and has one daugh- ter, Doris M., born July 1, 1902. George F., was born August 21, 1883, and married, April 18, 1906, Ethel Louise Colby; they live at Manchester ; have one one son, Sherwood F., born March 3, 1907. Flor- ence M., was born February 27, 1891, and lives at home.
(VIII) William, youngest of the five sons of Samuel and Mary (Sanborn) Prescott, was born June 21, 1728, at Hampton Falls. He married, on November 22, 1750, his cousin, Susanna, daughter of Joseph and Susanna (James) Sanborn, descended from one of the first settlers of Hampton. She was born April 18, 1728, and died March 28, 1800. They had nine children. Elizabeth, married Daniel Davidson, who was in the battle of Bunker Hill; they moved to Vermont. Elisha, married (first), Mehitabel Swain, and (second), Hannah Belknap ; he served throughout the Revolution, and moved to Vershire, Vermont, where he died. Susanna, married Lowell Land, and lived at Sanbornton, New Hampshire. Mary, married (first) William Thompson, and (second), Jeremiah French; they lived in Sanbornton. Samuel, mentioned below. William, married (first), Deborah Welch, of East Kingston, New Hampshire; (second), Sarah, widow of John Forest, of Northfield, New Hampshire ; (third) Jane, widow of Dr. George Kazar, of North- field. William Prescott was a celebrated plough- maker, making the ploughs wholly of wood, as was the custom of that time. He and his first wife, Deborah, were the parents of Dr. William Prescott, the naturalist and antiquarian, and the author of the Prescott Genealogy. Lucy, married Jonathan Chase, of Stratham, New Hampshire, and died at Alexandria, New Hampshire, at the home of her son, Levi. Joseph, married Rachel Cass, of Sanborn-
ton, where he died in his eighty-sixth year. Levi, married Sarah Cass, of Sanbornton, where he died in his seventy-third year.
William Prescott lived first at Hampton Falls where all his nine children were born. lle built the spacious two-story house, which in 1870 was occupied by John Prescott Sanborn. In 1780 Major Prescott sold this place and moved to Sanbornton, New Hampshire, then a new and remote section of the state. Several of his children married and died there. Major Prescott and his wife were ad- mitted to the church at Hampton Falls, April 12, 1752, soon after their marriage. He took an active part in the Revolutionary struggle. In 1778 Captain Prescott, as he was then, commanded a company raised from the regiment of militia under Colonel Jonathan Moulton. They were ordered to proceed to New York to join the American army there. The company was placed in the regiment commanded by Colonel Tash, and when cold weather came on they went into winter quarters at Peekskill. He sub- sequently was raised to the rank of major. He died at Sanbornton, New Hampshire, September 28, 181I, in his eighty-fourth year.
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