Thomas Prence

Biography

Thomas went to England and died there in early life, leaving a widow and daughter, Susannah Prence, who, in 1677, is styled 'of Catheren Gate, near the Tower, singlewoman.' She is mentioned in the will of her grandfather, Governor Prence, who 'had a maiden sister, Susannah, living at St. Catherine's Gate, near London Tower.

Thomas was named in a 1668/9 letter to his father Thomas from their kinsman John Prince. John claimed that when his wife had been visiting London that she had seen Thomas III and also their kinsman John Milton. [1]

He had died before 15 Mar 1669/70 when his widow Susannah and her second husband Thomas Edmanson wrote to his father Governor Thomas Prence. [2]

References

1. Jacob Bailey Moore, Lives of the Governors of New Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay, p. 173 < GoogleBooks >
2. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prence-9 cites
   1. Anna Kingsbury (1870-1943), A Historical Sketch of Thomas Prence ([Boston?], n.p., 1924), 20-23 for Massachusetts Historical Society holding, letters "to and from Governor Prence and his relatives in England," 8 March 1668/9--15 March 1669/70; digital images, InternetArchive; author notes, the letters "were found to be among the [Massachusetts Historical Society's] Edward Winslow Papers" (p. 20).
   2. Anna Kingsbury (1870-1943), A Historical Sketch of Thomas Prence ([Boston?], n.p., 1924), 20-23 for Massachusetts Historical Society holding, letters "to and from Governor Prence and his relatives in England," 8 March 1668/9--15 March 1669/70; digital images, InternetArchive; author notes, the letters "were found to be among the [Massachusetts Historical Society's] Edward Winslow Papers" (p. 20).
   3. Winsor, Justin. A History of the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, With Genealogical Registers, published online by Ancestry.com, The Generations Network, Inc., Provo, UT, 2007. Originally published Boston, 1849, reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1995.
   4. Freeman, Frederick. The History of Cape Cod: The Annals of The Thirteen Towns of Barnstable County, Volume II. Boston, 1862. published online by Google Books, 2009 (http://books.google.com/books?id=GN8_AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&s...); original publisher: Geo. C. Band & Avery & Cornhill, Boston, Mass., 1858.
   5. A Munsey-Hopkins Genealogy, being the ancestry of Andrew Chauncey Munsey and Mary Jane Merritt Hopkins. Lowell, D.O.S. Boston, 1920. http://books.google.com/
   6. Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines. Mary Walten Ferris. 1931
   7. Elder William Brewster and the Brewster Family of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Brewster, Lewis W. Press of A.G. Brewster, Portsmouth, 1908
   8. First Settlers of Eastham, Massachusetts
3. Genealogy - Boston and Eastern Massachusetts. William Richard Cutter, A. M. (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, 1908)
   1. Mayflower Increasings. Susan E. Rosner - 1996 2nd editions.
   2. Cape Cod Library, vol. 1, The Prince-Howes Court Cupboard