Reverend Benjamin Prescott

Reverend Benjamin Prescott

Benjamin, b. September 16, 1687; was graduated at Harvard College 1703; clergyman; died on May 27, 1777; married (1st) Elizabeth Higginson of Salem, Massachusetts in 1715; married (2d) Mercy Gibbs in 1732; and the (3d) Mrs. Mary (Pepperell) Colman, in 1748.

By the first wife he had five children, of whom Benjamin Prescott, II married Rebecca Minot of Salem, Massachusetts and had a daughter Rebecca. She became, on May 12, 1763, the second (2) wife of Honorable Roger Sherman, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a U.S. Senator from Connecticut, from 1791 to his death in 1793.

Their youngest daughter, Sarah Sherman, on October 13, 1812, married the Hon. U.S. Representative Samuel Hoar of Concord; of her elder sisters, Rebecca and Elizabeth, in succession they became the wives of Judge and U.S. Representative Simeon Baldwin of New Haven. Rebecca being the mother of Roger Sherman Baldwin, Connecticut Governor and U.S. Senator, who argued the famous Armistad slaves legal case with John Quincy Adams, and was the grandmother of Connecticut Governor & Chief Justice Simeon Eben Baldwin.

Mehitable married for her second (2) husband Jeremiah Evarts, Esq., they were the parents of U.S. Secretary of State, Attorney General and Senator William Maxwell Evarts.

Martha married Rev. Jeremiah Day, President of Yale College, and was the mother of California state senator & U.S. Surveyor General for the state of California Sherman Day, author of Pennsylvania Historical Collections.

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Graduated Harvard College in 1709 and ordained at the 2nd precinct, Salem, Mass., and subsequently at Danvers and South Danvers now in the town of Peabody, where he officiated with fidelity for 45 years.

Sources

1. Potter, Charles Edward. Genealogies of Some Old Families of Concord, Mass. and Their Descendants in Part to the Present Generation. 1887. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1995.

Links

• http://mybalefamily.com/FamilyTree/Prescott-p/p800.htm#i20852
• http://www.genealogy.theroyfamily.com/p11480.htm

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Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England ... By Thomas Townsend Sherman p. 151

Rev. Benjamin Prescott marry granddaughter Rebecca- Roger and Rebecca Sherman He was pastor of second precinct of Salem and afterwards Danvers, in the parlor of his house, still standing in what is now part of Peabody, MA. The record of marriage in Mr. Peabody's Bible. Also recorded in New Haven record Roger Sherman, esq of New Haven and Rebecca Prescott of Danvers in ye Massachusetts Bay 12th day of May anno domini 1763 by Benj Prescott Justice of the Peace Her headstone in a cemetary in New Haven shows she is the oldest daughter of Benjamin and Rebekah Prescott

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