Thomas Prentice, of Cambridge

From History of Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1630-1877: With a Genealogical Register, Volume 2 (Google eBook) Lucius Robinson Paige H. O. Houghton, 1877 - Cambridge (Mass.) - 731 pages. Page 630

10. Thomas Prentice, son of Solomon (7) & Hepzibah Dunn, his 2nd wife

Married

1. Maria Russell 28 Dec. 1696; she d. 1 May 1701
2. Mary Batson 6 Nov. 1701. She survived him and married Nathaniel Robbins, and then Samuel Lyons.

His chil. were

• Thomas, ban. 21 Nov. 1697, d. young;
• Mary. bap. 2 Ap. 1699, m. Francis Kidder I3 Feb. 1717-18, Philip Cook about 1725, and Samuel Sprague of Stoneham 4 Ap. 1740;
• Thomas, b. 9 Dec. 1702;
• John, b. 8 Mar. 1703-4, prob. the mariner of whose estate William Prentice and Matthew Johnson were apjiointed administrators 4 May 1738;
• Elizabeth, b. 22 Aug. 1705, in. Matthew Johnson of Chs. 9 May 1726;
• Henry, b. 25 Nov. 1706;
• William, b. 24 July 1708;
• Hepzibah, b. 29 Oct. 1709, m. William Badger of Chs. 29 June 1727, and Underwood of Boston before 1771; her son John Badger was brought up by his uncle. William Prentice.

biography

Thomas the f. was styled a brickmaker, and res. on the western side of Garden Street, opposite to the Botanic Garden; the cellar and well were visible recently. He a. 7 Dec. 1709, a. S3 years 3 months and 12 days, as inscribed on his gravestone; his w. Mary m. Nathaniel Robbins before 1720, and Samuel Lyon of Roxbury 24 Nov. 1742, after *bow death she returned to her former dwelling, and d. here 2 Mar. 1760, a. 83. The epitaph on her gravestone was prob. written by her son. Rev. Thomas Prentice ot Chs., and as a tribute of filial affection is worthy of preservation; "Here lyes intcrr'd the body of Mrs. Mary Lyon, in her first marriage consort to Mr. Thomas Prentice whom she survived more than 50 years, and expired March the 2d 1760, in the 84th year of her age, not impatient of life, but satisfied with tt: Her children rise up, and call her blessed."

notes

[According to the Town Records, Thomas, s. of Solomon and Elizabeth, was b. 7 June 1674, and the birth of Solomon is not recorded. I am confident that Thomas is a mistake for Solomon. Solomon was 84 years old at his death in 1758, as inscribed on his gravestone, corresponding with his birth in 1674; and the age of Thomas, at his death 7 Dec. 1709, is inscribed on his gravestone with much minuteness, as 33 years 3 months and 12 days, answering to his birth at the date assumed by me, 25 Aug. 1676. Moreover, there is no evidence that Solomon was the son of the 2d w. Hepzibah: but it is certain, from the recorded settlement of Hepzibah's estate, that Thomas was her son.]

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