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Family of John + PRESCOTT and Mary + GAWKROGER

Husband: John + PRESCOTT (1604-1681)
Wife: Mary + GAWKROGER (1607-1674)
Children: Mary PRESCOTT (1630- )
Martha PRESCOTT (c. 1632- )
John PRESCOTT (1634- )
Sarah PRESCOTT (1637- )
Hannah PRESCOTT (c. 1638- )
Lydia PRESCOTT (1641- )
Jonathan PRESCOTT (1643- )
Jonas + PRESCOTT (1648-1723)
Marriage 11 Apr 1629 Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, England1,2
St. John the Baptist

Husband: John + PRESCOTT

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John + PRESCOTT

Name: John + PRESCOTT
Sex: Male
Father: Ralph + PRESCOTT (1569-1609)
Mother: Ellen + SHAW (1570-1643)
Birth 1604 Standish, Lancashire, England
Immigration 1637 (age 32-33) to MA, US3
Will 8 Oct 1673 (age 68-69)
Death 20 Dec 1681 (age 76-77) Lancaster, Worcester, MA, US
Probate 4 Apr 16824
beq to wife, sons John, Jonathan and Jonas; to James Sawyer his gr ch and servant; to daus Mary, Sarah and Lydia; to gr ch Martha Ruge.
Burial Old Settlers Burial Yard
Lancaster, Worcester, MA, US

Wife: Mary + GAWKROGER

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Mary + GAWKROGER

Name: Mary + GAWKROGER
Sex: Female
Father: James + Platt GAWKROGER (1578-1628)
Mother: Martha + AINSWORTH (1580-1632)
Birth 15 May 1607 Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, England
Immigration 1641 (age 33-34) to Watertown, Middlesex, MA, US
Death 1674 (age 66-67) Lancaster, Worcester, MA, US
Burial Old Settlers Burial Yard
Lancaster, Worcester, MA, US

Child 1: Mary PRESCOTT

Name: Mary PRESCOTT
Sex: Female
Birth 24 Feb 1630

Child 2: Martha PRESCOTT

Name: Martha PRESCOTT
Sex: Female
Birth 1632 (est)

Child 3: John PRESCOTT

Name: John PRESCOTT
Sex: Male
Birth 1634

Child 4: Sarah PRESCOTT

Name: Sarah PRESCOTT
Sex: Female
Birth 1637

Child 5: Hannah PRESCOTT

Name: Hannah PRESCOTT
Sex: Female
Birth 1638 (est)

Child 6: Lydia PRESCOTT

Name: Lydia PRESCOTT
Sex: Female
Birth 1641

Child 7: Jonathan PRESCOTT

Name: Jonathan PRESCOTT
Sex: Male
Birth 1643

Child 8: Jonas + PRESCOTT

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Jonas + PRESCOTT

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Spouse: Mary + LOKER

Name: Jonas + PRESCOTT
Sex: Male
Spouse: Mary + LOKER (1653-1735)
Birth 30 Jun 1648 Groton, Middlesex, MA, US5
Occupation Blacksmith
Death 31 Dec 1723 (age 75) Groton, Middlesex, MA, US
Burial Old Burying Grounds
Groton, Middlesex, MA, US
Inscription - HERE LIES BURIED THE BODY OF JONAS PRESCOTT ESQ. WHO DECEASED DECEMBER YE 31ST 1723 AGED 76 YEARS

Note on Husband: John + PRESCOTT

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.

The main source of this information is William Prescott's 1870 "Prescott Memorial."

A memorial stone erected a long time after John Prescott's death: HERE WITH HIS CHILDREN ABOUT HIM LIES JOHN PRESCOTT FOUNDER OF LANCASTER AND FIRST SETTLER OF WORCESTER COUNTY BORN AT STANDISH, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND DIED AT LANCASTER, MASSACHUSETTS, DEC. 1681. INSPIRED BY THE LOVE OF LIBERTY AND THE FEAR OF GOD, THIS STOUT-HEARTED PIONEER FORSAKING THE PLEASANT VALES OF ENGLAND TOOK UP HIS ABODE IN THE UNBROKEN FOREST AND ENCOUNTERED WILD BEAST AND SAVAGE TO SECURE FREEDOM FOR HIMSELF AND HIS POSTERITY HIS FAITH AND VIRTUES HAVE BEEN INHERITED BY MANY DESCENDANTS WHO IN EVERY GENERATION HAVE WELL SERVED THE STATE IN WAR, IN LITERATURE, AT THE BAR, IN THE PULPIT, IN PUBLIC LIFE AND IN CHRISTIAN HOMES

Sources

1"West Yorkshire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 Record".
2"US and International Marriage Records, 1550-1900" (on-line, Yates Publishing, Provo, UT).
3"Passenger and Immigrations Lists Index 1500-1900".
4Charles Henry Pope, "Pioneers of Massachusetts, 1620-1650" (Genealogical Publishing Co, 1998).
5"MA Town and Vital Records 1620-1988 Record".