Benjamin Prescott, Jr.

1. Benjamin Prescott born on January 29, 1717; graduate of Harvard College in 1736; married on August 12, 1741, Rebecca, daughter of James & Martha (Lane) Minot, born on May 15, 1720. He was a Justice of the Peace and an enterprising merchant in Salem, where he died August 18, 1778 in his 62nd year. She died October 8, 1761 in her 42nd year. They had eight children.

• Parents: Rev. Benjamin Prescott & his 1st wife, Elizabeth Higginson of Salem

Sources

• Bigelow Society - History of Concord, Mass. by Lemual Shattuck, 1835, pages 43, 66, 242

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vi. Benjamin (the father of Benjamin), born on September 16, 1687; was a graduate of Harvard College in 1703; clergyman; d. May 27, 1777; married (1st) Elizabeth Higginson of Salem, in 1715; (2d) Mercy Gibbs, in 1732; and (3d) Mary (Pepperell) Colman, in 1748. By the first he had five children, of whom Benjamin married Rebecca Minot of Salem, and had a daughter Rebecca who became, May 12, 1763, the second wife of Honorable Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and U.S. Senator from Connecticut, from 1791 to his death in 1793. Their youngest daughter, Sarah Sherman, October 13, 1812, m. Honorable Samuel Hoar of Concord, and of her elder sisters, Rebecca and Elizabeth in succession became the wives of Judge Simeon Baldwin of New Haven. Rebecca was the mother of Roger Sherman Baldwin, Connecticut Governor and U.S. Senator, who argued the famous Armistead case, and grandmother of Governor & Chief Justice Simeon Eben Baldwin. Mehitable m. for her second husband Jeremiah Evarts, Esq., the Honorable William Maxwell Evarts being her son. Martha married Jeremiah Day, President of Yale College, and was the mother of Honorable Sherman Day, author of Pennsylvania Historical Collections and State Senator & State Surveyor General of California.

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