1George Thomas Little, Henry Sweetser Burrage and Albert Roscoe Stubbs, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, Vol. 2, p. 545 (1909).
"(III) Deacon Henry (2), fifth child and fourth son of Solomon and Hepzibah (Dunn) Prentice, born in Cambridge in 1693, died at the house of his son, Rev. Joshua Prentice, in Holliston, October 18, 1778, in the eighty-fifth year of his age. In the settlement of his father's estate, he was allowed for four and a half years' services, £60 in the "new house," and his share of his father's estate in lands at Westfield gate and other places was £92; in a deed dated 1722 he is called "brickmaker." In his will dated Cambridge, January 20, 1776, he is described as "husbandman." He owned the Fresh Pond property in Cambridge. He "removed to his son's in Holliston when the Revolutionary army occupied Cambridge." By the terms of his will he disposes of £723 13s. 4d. in monry to various legatees, mostly his children, several of whom had previously received property of him, and makes his son Joshua Residuary legatee of all property real and personal, left after payment of the debts of the estate. He was a deacon of Dr. Nathaniel Appleton's church, Cambridge, many years, and a valuable document written and signed by him, instituting the first prayermeeting, was once in the possession of Rev. N. G. Albro, of the "Shephers" Congregational Church, Cambridge, and claimed as church property. Deacon Prentice was a tall and very grave-looking man, sat in the deacons' seats in the church, directly in front of the minister, and in cold weather, when he took his hat off in church, he, being bald, put on a green woolen cap with a tassel on the top to keep his head warm. His house was still standing in Cambridge some years ago, about forty rods from the Washington elm, at the corner of the road to the arsenal. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Rand, of "Milk Row,' Charlestown, near Cambridge. She died March 13, 1748, aged fifty-two. "Henry Prentiss and his wife Elizabeth owned the Covenant Novemer 22, 1718." Their children were: Joshua, Caleb, Martha, Elizabeth, Thomas (died young), Hepzibah, Thomas, Nathan and Sarah.".