Family of John + PRESCOTT and Mary + GAWKROGER
Husband: John + PRESCOTT
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) |
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Death |
20 Dec 1681 (age 76-77) |
Lancaster, Worcester, MA, US |
Probate |
4 Apr 16824 |
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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 |
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Old Settlers Burial Yard |
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Lancaster, Worcester, MA, US |
Wife: Mary + GAWKROGER
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 |
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Old Settlers Burial Yard |
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Lancaster, Worcester, MA, US |
Name: |
Mary PRESCOTT |
Sex: |
Female |
Birth |
24 Feb 1630 |
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Name: |
Martha PRESCOTT |
Sex: |
Female |
Birth |
1632 (est) |
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Name: |
John PRESCOTT |
Sex: |
Male |
Birth |
1634 |
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Name: |
Sarah PRESCOTT |
Sex: |
Female |
Birth |
1637 |
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Name: |
Hannah PRESCOTT |
Sex: |
Female |
Birth |
1638 (est) |
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Name: |
Lydia PRESCOTT |
Sex: |
Female |
Birth |
1641 |
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Name: |
Jonathan PRESCOTT |
Sex: |
Male |
Birth |
1643 |
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Jonas + PRESCOTT
Spouse: Mary + LOKER
Name: |
Jonas + PRESCOTT |
Sex: |
Male |
Spouse: |
Mary + LOKER (1653-1735) |
Birth |
30 Jun 1648 |
Groton, Middlesex, MA, US5 |
Occupation |
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Blacksmith |
Death |
31 Dec 1723 (age 75) |
Groton, Middlesex, MA, US |
Burial |
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Old Burying Grounds |
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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". |
4 | Charles Henry Pope, "Pioneers of Massachusetts, 1620-1650" (Genealogical Publishing Co, 1998). |
5 | "MA Town and Vital Records 1620-1988 Record". |