John Prentice, of Newton, MA

JOHN4, b. March 6, 1691; settled in Preston, CT

JOHN(4) PRENTICE, son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Bond?) ; m. Elizabeth , Sept. 29, 1715, in Newton, Mass., and " removed to Preston, Ct., where he had children, and perhaps he removed also to Canterbury, Ct., and may have had a second wife."

Children:

1. MARY5, b. 1716. Could she be the Mary Prentice who d. in York, Me., Nov. 20,1792, ae. 77, agreeing with her birth? But T. B. Wyman, of Charlestown, Mass., had about her, "Mary, 'widow' of Thomas Prentice, d. in York, Me., about 1791."
2. ELIZABETH5, b. June 29, 1719.
3. SAMUEL5, b. Nov. 3, 1721, in Preston, Ct. [12]
4. JOHN5, b. .. [13]
5. JONAH or JONAS5, was an itinerant blacksmith in Uxbridge, Mass., 1753 oi>1759.
6. WILLIAM5, b. ;a clothier; m. Trial Darling, of Uxbridge, Mass. In 1755, he went to "Chestnut Hill," Mendon, now Blackstone, Mass., and was alive 1785, and perhaps in 1806. [13a]
7. RUFUS5, b. 1762, in Douglass.
8. DILLY5, b. ;m. Brown; she lived to near 100 years of age.
9. EBENKZER5(?) ; single (?).

John Prentis, of Preston County, of New London, Colony of Ct., ' Husbandman,' and Ebenezer Prentis, of Newton, i Blacksmith,' deed to Timo. Whitney, of Newton, 'Husbandman,' Land and dwelling-house in Newton, S. E. by Edw. Prentice, etc., Elizabeth Prentice, 'our mother,' also joins, and Edward Prentice to have a way through the land" (Middlesex County, Mass., records). Luke Prentice, of Northbridge, Mass., had a bond of Daniel Klliot's (of Sutton) to John Prentice, of Canterbury, Windham County, Ct., dated Oct. 9, 1737 ; and Luke Prentice thinks John Prentice may have removed from Preston to Canterbury, Ct., and had his last five children in Canterbury; and Luke Prentice also said when he was a young man "that Ebenezer Prentice (above) was of Uxbridge, from 1724 to 1730, and from Walpole, and was brother to Samuel," and that his father James also told Luke " that Ebenezer, brother of John and Samuel, was a bachelor, and of or from Roxbury or Newton, and died at great age."

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prentice-196

Which used the following sources:

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988

• The Prentice Family by J.F. Binney
• Northbridge, Mass, Vital Records
• Holliston, Mass, Vital Records
• Early Mass. Marriages Before 1800 by Frederic Bailey
• Mass. Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution
• Pierce's Hist. of Grafton, Mass.
• Benedict's Hist. of Sutton, Mass.
• Hist. of Cambridge, Lucius Paige
• Worcester Vital Rec.
• Sutton Vit. Rec.
• Boston Transcript, 3 Nov. 1915
• Immigrants to New England by Ethel Bolton

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