General Oliver Prescott, MD

General Oliver Prescott, MD

PRESCOTT, OLIVER
DAR Ancestor #: A092831
Service: MASSACHUSETTS
Rank(s): MAJOR GENERAL
Birth: 4-27-1731 IN GROTON MASSACHUSETTS
Death: 11-17-1804 IN GROTON MASSACHUSETTS
Service Description: 1) ALSO BGEN, MILITIA

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Oliver Prescott, born on April 27, 1731 in Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and graduated at Harvard College in 1750. He married LYDIA BALDWIN, daughter of Captain David Baldwin and Abigail Jennson (or Jennison). She was born on 10/5/1735 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He died in Groton on November 17, 1804.

He was a physician with a very large practice, and it's said he used to sleep on horseback. He was Judge of Probate from 1779 to his death; was a Brigadier General before the Revolution and 1778-1781 a Major General of Massachusetts Militia, Member of the Board of War and of the Supreme Executive Council of Massachusetts. He was a brother of Colonel William Prescott, who commanded at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Children were: James (succeeded his father as Judge of Probate), Oliver (M.D.; born on April 4, 1762, graduated at Harvard College in 1783), Lucy (his 6th child, m. Honorable Timothy Bigelow).

An account of Prescott will be found in Butler's "Groton," pg. 429.

American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI);
Name: Oliver Prescott
Birth Date: 1731
Birthplace: Massachusetts,
Volume: 140
Page number: 247
Biographical Info: Harvard, physician, General
Reference: Baldwin Gen. by Chas. Candees Baldwin. Cleveland, 1881. (974p.): 620, 625

Marriage (19 Feb 1756 • Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States): Lydia Baldwin Prescott (Birth 15 Oct 1735 • Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA-Death 27 Sep 1798 • Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States).

Children:

1. Daughter Prescott (Birth 19 Nov 1757 • Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA-Death 19 Nov 1757 • Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA);
2. Oliver Prescott, Jr. (Birth 4 Apr 1762 • Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA-Death 26 Sep 1827 • Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA) 1st married: Nancy Ann Whiting Prescott (Birth 12 Aug 1763 • Hollis, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA-Death 13 Sep 1821 • Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, USA) 2nd married: Elizabeth Atkins ?;
3. Thomas Prescott, infant, (Birth 11 Oct 1764 • Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA-Death 10 Aug 1765 • Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA);
4. Thomas Prescott (Birth 17 Oct 1766 • Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA-Death 27 Oct 1785 • Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA);
5. Abigail Prescott (Birth 25 Jun 1768 • Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA-Death 6 Oct 1783 • Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA);
6. Lucy Prescott Bigelow (Birth 13 Mar 1771 • Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA-Death 15 Dec 1852, aged 81 • Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA) married: Judge Timothy Bigelow (Birth 30 Apr 1767 • Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA-Death 20 May 1821, aged 54 • Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA);
7. Samuel Jackson Prescott (Birth 5 Mar 1773 • Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA-Death 7 Oct 1857 • Pleasant Street, Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA) married: Margaret Hiller Prescott (Birth 29 Jul 1775 • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA-Death 4 Aug 1841 • Brookline, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA);
8. Mary Jackson Prescott (Birth 8 Nov 1774 • Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA-Death 30 May 1863 • Gorham, Cumberland, Maine, USA) married: John Park Little (Birth 17 November 1772 • Lunenburg, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA-Death 26 Mar 1809 • Gorham, Cumberland, Maine, USA);

Death 17 November 1809 • Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.
Burial 1809 • Old Burial Ground, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.

The Baldwin Genealogy from 1500-1881 (1881)
Author: Baldwin, C.C. (Charles Candee), 1834-1895
Subject: Baldwin Family
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio [Leader printing company]
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Pg. 620, 625