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was at the Narragansett fight. and aided its success, and that year was one of the commissioners to put the captured Indian children to sery- ice. Thomas Prentice, of Newton, probably son of "the trooper " Thomas, had a Narragansett grant of land. June 26, 1675. Captain Prentice marched his troop to Swansea ; December 29, 1675. with sev- enty-five men went to Narragansett; and in 1676, with a "ply " of horse, was sent to Sudbury: and April 27 of that year " horse under Capt. Prentice to Hasanamisco (Grafton, Massachusetts)." He was often employed by the General Court in special services of trust, both civil and military, for many years. In 1689 he and troop were ordered to Rhode Island to arrest and bring back Sir Edmund Andros. In 1675 Captain Prentice bought of Edward Frost and wife Thomasin. eighty-five acres of land on the south side of Charles river, in Cam- bridge, bounded by the two brothers. James Prentice and Thomas Pren- tice the second. In 1675 he was a commissioner to rebuild Lancaster, Massachusetts, vacant three years after it was burnt by the Indians in Philip's war. Captain Prentice was a friend and counselor of the con- verted Indians, who, in 1691, petitioned the General Court " that Cap- tain Thomas Prentice may be appointed their overseer and magistrate." In 1705 he settled his estate himself by gift deeds, one to his grandson, Thomas Prentice, of a house and land in Newton, and one to his grand- son Samuel Prentiss (since of Stonington, Connecticut), of his man- sion house and one hundred acres of land in the southern part of New- ton : therefore no will or inventory was made or found.
(II) Thomas Prentice, Jr., eldest son of Captain Thomas the " trooper" and his wife Grace. married. March 20. 1675. Sarah, born about 1655. daughter of Captain Thomas Stanton, the famous Indian interpreter. Thomas Prentice. Jr .. was probably a trooper in his father's troop of horse. He died April 19. 1685. aged thirty-six years. His inventory included house, barn. one hundred acres of land in the King's Province, two hundred and thirty acres in Stonington. Connecticut, pistols, carbine, cutlass, Felt, saddle, boots, etc., amounting in all to £354 5s od. Appraised by Thomas Prentice. the second. and John Ward. The widow Sarah. administratrix, soon after her husband's death married Captain William Denison. and died in 1713 at the age of fifty-nine.
(III) Samnel Prentice, Sr., third of the four children of Thomas and Sarah Prentice. born about 1680, married Esther, daughter of Nathaniel Hammond. of Newton, Massachusetts. Mr. Prentice owned
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a large tract of land in Stonington. Connecticut ( now North Stoning- ton), before 1700, and moved there from Newton about 1709. Most of the land remains in the family, handed down by inheritance from one generation to another. The old house in which Samuel Prentice, Sr .. lived, a substantial two-story building, was still standing in 1883. Mr. Prentice died April 24. 1728, at the age of forty-eight years. He was the father of ten children.
(IV) Joseph Prentice, second son of Samuel Prentice, Sr., of Stonington, Connecticut, and wife Esther Hammond, of Newton, Mas- sachusetts, was born January 26, 1704. in Newton, Massachusetts, and married November 10, 1725. Mary Wheeler. They were the parents of nine children. The date of the deaths of Joseph and Mary ( Wheeler) Prentice do not seem to be known.
(V) Joseph Prentice, Jr., son of Joseph and Mary ( Wheeler ) Prentice, was born at Preston, Connecticut, August 24, 1727. He mar- ried. in Preston, Abigail Leonard, and removed about 1767 to Worth- ington, Massachusetts, where he died in 1791, aged sixty-four. Of this marriage nine children were born.
(VI) Ira Prentice, third son of Joseph and Abigail ( Leonard ) Prentice, was born February 3. 1767. in Preston, Connecticut. He married Abigail Allen, September 10, 1795. and died February 3. 1832. aged sixty-three. Ira and Abigail Prentice were the parents of seven children.
(VII) Allen Prentice, fifth child of Ira and Abigail (.Allen) Prentice, was born February 11. 1806, at Worthington, Massachusetts. In 1831 he married Eliza ( ?) Babcock of Westerly, Rhode Island. She was born June 28. 1813. and was married at Persia, New York. They had eight children : Hannah E., who married William J. Rosenkrans ; Mary A. and Alpheus J., who died in infancy: Asa B .; Nathan B., of Washington, D. C., who has been an assistant deputy in the department of pensions since 1884; Ira B., who died in infancy : Amy J., who died aged nineteen: and William A., of North Loup, Nebraska. Nathan and William are the only members of this family now living ( 1905). Mr. Prentice moved with his family in 1845 to Wisconsin, by way of the lakes, and settled on Rock Prairie, and later lived at Dakota, near Oconomowoc, and was engaged in farming. Allen Prentice died Jan- uary 9, 1872, and his wife Eliza died April 20. 1892; only one child, William, was born in Wisconsin.
(VIII) Asa Babcock Prentice, fourth of the eight children of
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Allen and Eliza ( Babcock) Prentice, was born at Persia, Cattaraugus county, New York. July 29. 1838. He was taken to Wisconsin by his parents at the age of seven years, and was educated at Albion Acad- emy, which he entered in 1858, and from which he graduated in 1863. After his graduation he was for two years superintendent of schools of Dane county, and for one year ( 1864-5) was acting principal of Albion Academy. At the age of twelve he was converted and baptized a mem- ber of the Seventh Day Baptist church at Dakota. In 1858 he was called to the work of the gospel ministry and was licensed to preach by the Dakota church. In 1864 he was called to the pastorate of the Chris- tiana Seventh Day Baptist church at Utica. Wisconsin, where he was ordained to the gospel ministry, September 2d of that year. He was pastor of this church from 1864 to 1868, when he was unanimously called to the pastorate of the Seventh Day Baptist church at Adams Centre, New York, which church he served faithfully from October 9, 1868, to March 29, 1902. He closed his labors with this church to accept the call of the Seventh Day Baptist church at North Loup, Ne- braska. where he was pastor from April 11, 1902, to May 24, 1904.
Besides his work in the church he was active in the temperance cause and school work, being a member of the local school board for many years. He was a charter member and valued worker in the Jef- ferson County Ministerial Association, before whose assemblies his pa- pers and addresses were always appreciated as most able and scholarly.
In all the relations of life, Rev. Asa B. Prentice was a model man. He was a powerful preacher ; an efficient and heloved pastor ; a father to his church, which he greatly built up; a citizen interested in all that pertained to good government ; a loving husband, and a sympathetic and beloved father. The impress of his life's work and influence exists throughout the entire county, where he was widely known and univer- sally respected and loved.
On January 11, 1865. Mr. Prentice married Marian, daughter of Hon. George S. Greene (see Greene, VII), of Scott, New York. She was educated at De Ruyter Academy, New York, and had been precept- ress in Albion Academy previous to her marriage with Mr. Prentice. The family from which Miss Greene came was founded in Connecticut by an ancestor who was, it is presumed, a member of the church of Roger Williams.
March 14, 1877, Mr. Prentice married (second) Miss Mary A. Greene, daughter of Deacon Ira Greene, of Verona. New York, who
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became a loving mother to his children. While resting at home, just after having baptized and received into church membership a large number of young people, Mr. Prentice was suddenly stricken with cerebral apoplexy, and died May 24, 1904. His father had died of the same ailment and much in the same manner, January 9, 1872.
(IX) Henry W. Prentice, Doctor of Dental Surgery, eldest son of Asa B. and Marian W. Prentice, was born October 26, 1873. He obtained his primary education in the common schools and at Adams Collegiate Institute. Subsequently he attended Alfred University where he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1898. In the autumn fol- lowing he matriculated at the New York College of Dentistry from which he was graduated Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1901, and began the practice of his profession in New York immediately. His thorough preparation fitted him for the lucrative practice he now enjoys. He is a member of the Psi Omega Dental Fraternity. and the Clef Club, a society of musicians of New York city.
Dr. Prentice was married September 4. 1898, to Alice I. Toop. of New York, daughter of James Bell and Eleanor Toop, all natives of Devonshire, England. One child has been born of this marriage. Aug- ust 7, 1903, Eleanor Marian.
(IX) Alfred Carlyle Prentice, fourth child of Asa B. and Marian IV. Prentice, was educated at Adams Collegiate Institute and finished the classical college preparatory course there in 1893. delivering the class valedictory. He then entered Alfred University. from which he was graduated in 1897, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He de- livered the class oration. The following year he received his Master of Arts degree, doing the work necessary thereto while studying at Columbia University, from which he was graduated M. D., in 1901. Ten men are honored by this university each year with the Harsen Prize and Diploma for the best average standing on all subjects in the four years' course, and Dr. Prentice was one of the ten who attained this distinction. Thirty students took a competitive examination to fill nine places on the house staff of the Roosevelt Hospital at the end of their course in 1901, and Dr. Prentice was one of nine who received an ap- pointment. He subsequently served on the surgical staff of this insti- tution under Professors William T. Bull. Robert F. Weir and Joseph A. Blake attending surgeons, for one and one-half years, graduating from the position of house surgeon, held during the final six months of that period. January 1, 1903. After leaving the hospital he was as-
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sociated in private practice and editorial work with Dr. Daniel Lewis, then Commissioner of Health for the State of New York, and editor of the Medical Review of Reviews. This relation lasted about one year, since which time Dr. Prentice has been alone in practice of gen- eral medicine and surgery. He is assistant surgeon to the Vanderbilt Clinic, New York Skin and Cancer Hospital; attending surgeon to the New York Home for Destitute Crippled Children; and instructor in surgery in the Roosevelt Hospital Training School for Nurses. He is a member of the Roosevelt Hospital Alumni Association, the New York County Medical Society, and the Physicians Mutual Aid Asso- ciation, and is associate editor of the Medical Review of Reviews. He is a member of the Graduates Club, a Mason, and a member of the Twenty-Seventh AAssembly District Republican Club.
Dr. Prentice was married June 24, 1897. to Miss Lily La Forge, of Alfred, New York, daughter of Abiel T. and Margaret ( Getchel) La Forge. Until his death in 1877, Mr. La Forge was one of the part- ners in the well known firm of R. H. Macy and Company, of New York. Two children have been born of this marriage: Carlyle La Forge, and Margaret Louise.
GREENE. The Greene family has been notable in the town of Adams from a very early period in its history. It was among the first in Rhode Island, and furnished many soldiers in the struggle for Ameri- can liberty between 1775 and 1783. For many generations most of its members have been connected with the Seventh-day Baptist church, and have been distinguished for strictly moral and upright lives. They have contributed in no small way to the advancement of their respective com- munities in every worthy direction.
In 1639, or perhaps shortly before, as appears from an affidavit, Richard Smith, Sr., built a trading post near the present village of Wick- ford, in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. With him was living one John Greene, concerning whose parentage and previous history nothing is certainly known. A tradition exists among his descendants that he came hither from England, and had formerly borne the name of Clarke instead of Greene. The change of name (if, indeed. it occurred) may have been made for the purpose of gaining permission to leave England for America. Smith had left Gloucestershire. England, for New Eng- land, and went from Taunto to Narragansett "for his conscience' sake." says Roger Williams, and it seems Greene may have been of the
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same faith. In 1663 Greene, in company with Smith, declared himself in favor of being under the jurisdiction of Connecticut rather than that of Rhode Island, but in 1671. May 20, took the oath of allegiance to Rhode Island. January 1, 1672, he and five others bought of the In- dians a large tract of land in Narragansett. Other records of his appear. His wife was Joan He had five sons and his descendants now number thousands, mostly Baptists.
(II) Benjamin, probably son of John (1), was of North King- ston, and later of East Greenwood. He was probably born in 1665. In 1687 he married Humility Coggeshall, sixth child of Joshua and Joan (West) Coggeshall, of Newport and Portsmouth, who was born in Portsmouth, in January, 1671. His name appears in the freeman's list of North Kingston in 1696, 1698-1703, as deputy to the General As- sembly, and he held other offices. He died in East Greenwich, in the winter of 1718-19, and left twelve children.
(III) John, eldest son of Benjamin, born in 1688, married Mary Aylsworth, about 1708. She was born as early as 1688, oldest daughter of Arthur and Mary ( Brown ). In 1732 he is styled "Lieutenant " John. He married ( second ) in West Greenwich, August 24, 1741, Pris- cilla Bowen, or Burney, of Swansea, who survived him. He died in West Greenwich, March 20, 1752. His children were probably all by his first wife.
(IV) Josiah, fourth child of Lieutenant John Greene, was born about 1715. About 1738 he married Hannah Mowry, who died in Westerly between April 22 and June 24. 1771, leaving ten children. He lived in Charlestown, Connecticut.
(V) Captain John Greene, third child of Josiah and Hannah (Mowry) Greene, was born about 1744, probably in that part of Charles- town, Rhode Island, which is now Hopkinton, where he died in March, 1830, aged eighty-five years. He married ( first), about 1766, Abigail, daughter of Ebenezer Moon, of Exeter, Rhode Island ; and married ( sec- ond) in Westerly, March 2, 1775, Prudence, daughter of Joseph Saun- ders; of Westerly. He probably lived at Exeter for a time. He may have lived at Stonington, Connecticut, for a short time, but made Hop- kinton his home before 1781, and spent the remainder of his life there. His wife Prudence died in Hopkinton, March 27. 1831, aged seventy- six years. He served under General Amherst in Canada during the French war, and is said to have been a captain in the Revolutionary army. It is especially remembered that he took part in the battle of
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Monmouth. He and his wife were members of the Seventh-day Baptist church of Westerly. He had two children by his first wife and nine by his second wife.
(VI) George Saunders Greene, ninth child of Captain John and Prudence (Saunders) Greene, was born in Hopkinton. Rhode Island, September 15. 1788, and died in Scott, Cortland county, New York, September 23, 1875. He married in Truxton. New York, March 8, 1821, Amelia Pendleton Maxson, daughter of Deacon Zaccheus R. Max- son, of Hopkinton; she was born August 15, 1801. and died in Scott, March 12, 1868. Mr. Greene came to Scott in 1824 and spent the re- mainder of his life there as a merchant. He was a member of the New York legislature in 1838. He had seven children: John, Benjamin, John, Josialı, Captain John, Marion W., and George S.
(VII) Marion W., sixth child of George Saunders and Amelia (Maxson) Greene. was born June 3, 1838, in Scott, New York, and died August 20, 1875, in Adams Centre, Jefferson county, New York. She married in Scott, New York, January 11, 1865, Rev. Asa B. Pren- tice, then of Utica, Wisconsin, son of Allen and Eliza ( Babcock) Pren- tice, of Dakota, Wisconsin, born July 29, 1838 (see Prentice, VIII). She was a teacher, and before her marriage was a preceptress in Albion (Wisconsin) Academy. She was a woman of excellent character and attainments, and was a devoted helpmeet to her husband. To them were born four children. One of the daughters, Mary Louise, died at the age of twenty-one months; the other, Lucy A., became the wife of Alfred Stillman, of Leonardsville, New York. The sons were Henry W., a dentist, and Alfred C., M. D., both of New York city.
(IV) Joseph, son of Lieutenant John and Mary (Aylsworth) Greene, was born about 1725, probably in East Greenwich, and was married in Westerly. September 20. 1747, to Margaret Greenman. She was a daughter of Edward. Jr., and Sarah ( Clarke) Greenman, of Charlestown, Rhode Island. and was born October 17, 1725. He lived in Westerly until after all his children were born. Before 1774 he moved to West Greenwich. As no record of his death is found, it is presumed that he went with his children to Little Hoosick. Rensselaer county, this state, whither they moved in 1779 of 1780. He was a member of the Seventh-day Baptist church. His children were: Charles, Lulu, John, Rhoda, Edward, Perry, Joseph and Olive.
(V) Charles, eldest child of Joseph and Margaret ( Greenman) Greene, was born June 19, 1749, in Westerly, Rhode Island. and was
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married (first ) in Greenwich, November 24, 1768, to Waite Bailey. She was born March 9, 1751, in East Greenwich, a daughter of Caleb and Mary ( Godfrey) Bailey, and died in 1791, in her fortieth year. Mr. Greene married (second) a widow named Burdick. who died in Brookfield. New York, where Mr. Greene was a farmer. He died at a great age in Pinckney, Lewis county. His children were: Catherine, Josiah, Ethan, Mary, Margaret. Charles, Russell, Caleb, Paul, Waity, Jared and William. Mr. Greene served in Rhode Island, with his brothers, John and Edward, in 1777-8, as a member of the Revolution- ary army. After his removal in 1779 to Little Hoosick (now Berlin ). New York, he was an officer in Captain Samuel Shaw's Company of the Sixth Albany Regiment ( Fourth Rensselaerwyck Battalion) two years. He was commissioned ensign August 11. 1780, and lieutenant August 15. 1781. His first wife was the mother of his children, and five or six of them were born in Rhode Island.
(VI) Charles (2), third son and sixth child of Charles ( 1) and Waite (Bailey) Greene, was born October 10, 1778, probably in West Greenwich, and died at the home of his son in Adams Center, this county, May 9, 1878, almost a centenarian. With his brothers, he removed to Berlin, New York, in 1779, and from there went to Unadilla, this state. Returning to Berlin, at the end of five years, and again removed, in 1805, to Adams, where he cleared up land and con- tinued farming until old age forbade further activity. He was an active member of the Adams Seventh-Day Baptist church, and an exemplary citizen in every way. He was married (first) in 1796 to Anna Crandall, who died six years later, without issue. He married (second ) November 5, 1803. Amy Sheldon, daugh- ter of James and Elizabeth ( Moore) Sheldon of Rhode Island. She was horn September 2, 1788, in Rensselaer county, and was the mother of the following children : Annie, Thomas, Eliza, Riley W., Lucretia, Celia. Rosannah, Keziah, Maxson S., Monroe .A., Leander R. and Cin- derella B. Mr. Greene was one of the most charitable of men, and made a home for some twenty children besides his own.
(VII) Cinderella B., youngest child of Charles ( 2) and Amy ( Sheldon) Greene, was born June 14, 1833, and became the wife of Samuel A. Bates of Houndsfield, son of a pioneer settler of the county.
GEORGE PITT MANVILLE, a leading dentist of the city of New York, comes of a good ancestry, traced back to the first settle-
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ment of America and to a noble French family. He is a fit representa- tive of good antecedents, and enjoys the esteem of the Jefferson County colony in New York, as well as of a wide business and social acquaint- ance otherwise.
The name in France was Mandeville, and was brought to this country by David Mandeville, a soldier in LaFayette's army, which came to the aid of the colonists in the American Revolution. His wife's name was Susanne. She died October 4, 1796, and he survived her more than forty-two years, passing away April 1, 1839. Their eldest son was also named David.
Addison Manville, son of David Manville, Jr., was born about 1782, was one of the pioneer settlers of Jefferson county and served in Captain Palmer's company of horse in the war of 1812. In 1844 he removed from Depauville to Fond du Lac. Wisconsin, and later resided in She- boygan, same state, until 1876, when he came to Jefferson county to perfect his pension papers. While staying at the home of his son in Adams, he suffered a fall, from the effects of which he died April 17, 1877. He was a man of genial nature, and always enjoyed the friend- ship of all with whom he came in contact. His wife's name was Sa- lome (Calkins), and she was a widow Sherman when he married her.
Marquis de La Grange Manville, son of Addison and Salome Man- ville, was born July 4, 1831, on a farm near the village of Lafargeville, in this county, and remained there until he was about thirteen years old, when his parents moved to Wisconsin. He remained in this county, and has been accustomed to sustain himself from that tender age. He became a carriage trimmer and harness maker, and in the intervals of his labors took up the study of dentistry. He established himself in practice before the Civil war at Smithville, where he continued to reside until after the war. In 1862 he enlisted as a soldier in Company I, Tenth New York Heavy Artillery, and served until the close of the Civil war, thus following in the lines of his ancestors for many genera- tions. Returning to the arts of peace, he resumed the practice of dentistry at Smithville and Sackets Harbor, and removed to Adams in 1869, since which time he has continued in that profession. He is a member of Rising Sun Lodge, F. & A. M., of Adams, as well as of the local Masonic chapter, and of the Episcopal church there, and is among the most respected citizens of that village. In politics Mr. Manville is a Repul lican. He served eight years as trustee of Adams village, and was clected its president in 1897. He was married in 1852 to Miss
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Elizabeth, daughter of John Lee Hall ( see Hall, VII), and has only one child, whose name heads this article. Mrs. Manville died in 1864, and he subsequently married Sarah M., daughter of Russell M. Jones.
George P. Manville was born December 3. 1863. at Smithville, this county, and was reared in Adams. He attended the public school, a select school taught by Miss Hattie King, and pursued a special course at Hungerford Collegiate Institute at Adams. In 1884 he went to New York and entered the New York Dental College, from which he was graduated in March, 1886. In the fall of that year he began the practice of his profession at Camden, New York, and was subsequently associated with his father at Adams twelve years. In August, 1901, he went to New York and has since been associated with Arthur G. Rouse in practice at the corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-fifth street, with marked success. He partakes of the kindly and genial nature of his ancestry, and is popular with his patients, as with all his acquaintances. His pleasant manners, joined to skill in his profession, have drawn to him a large clientele of the most desirable patients in the city.
Dr. Manville was made a Mason in Rising Sun Lodge of Adams, which he served two years as master, and he was one year captain of the host in Adams Chapter. He retains his membership in the lodge, and now affiliates with Orient Chapter No. 138. R. A. M., of Brooklyn, in which borough he has his home. He attends St. Jude's (Episcopal) church of that borough, and acts with the Republican party in public affairs. He retains membership in the Jefferson County Dental Asso- ciation and is a charter member of the Jefferson County Society in New York.
He was married June 6, 1886, to Miss Ella M. Huffstater, daughter of James H. and Anna Huffstater, of Ellisburg, in which town Mrs. Manville was born. A daughter and a son have been given to Dr. and Mrs. Manville, namely, Marion Elizabeth and Harry H. The former is now the wife of John P. Badger, Jr., of Malone, New York, and the latter graduated in June from public school No. 131 of Brooklyn, and will take up a course in manual training.
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