Samuel Prentice (1736 - 1807)

Born 4 Oct 1736 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Phebe (Billings) Prentice — married 15 Feb 1759 in North Stonington, New London County, Connecticut

Descendants

Died Jul 1807 at age 70 in Stonington, New London County, Connecticut, USA

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This profile is part of the Stonington, Connecticut One Place Study.

Biography

Samuel Prentice, the second child of Jonas Prentice and Lucy Denison, was born 4 Oct 1736 at Stonington, Connecticut. Samuel was baptized on 17 Oct 1736.^[1]

Note the discrepancy of this Wikitree profile vs. Wheeler's (1900) History of Stonington etc. According to Wheeler, this Samuel Prentice b. Oct. 4, 1736, was married to Ann Billings, daughter of (Lieut.) Ebenezer & Phebe (Denison) Billings (no. 49 of that family), who was born Jan. 21, 1718. The spousal relationship of this Samuel Prentice as depicted by Wheeler was investigated further because the principals were a generation disparate. The following section details those investigations. We concur that the Wheeler publication was in error, and that the Samuel Prentice of this profile was not the husband of Ann Billings, rather he was the husband of Phebe Billings. The Ann Billings as described above, who was the sister of Abigail Billings (b. 1 Mar 1707), may have become in later life the second wife of the Samuel Prentice who was born in 1702, son of Esther (Hammond) & Samuel Prentice, thus the paternal uncle of this Samuel Prentice.[JRF 25 Sep 2019]

T Counce Research Notes:

As the Prentice Genealogy refers to this Samuel Prentice:

• The person who put together the following reference couldn't figure out which was which: Binney, Charles James Fox (1883); The History and Genealogy of the Prentice, Or Prentiss Family in New England, Etc. from 1631 to 1883, Second Edition; Published by the Editor; Boston, Massachusetts; PG 181, #19; Retrieved from: https://archive.org/stream/historyandgenea00binngoog#page/n247/mode/2up

• Jonas was the son of Deacon Samuel Prentice and Abigail Billings: PG 170, #7: Retrieved from: https://archive.org/stream/historyandgenea00binngoog#page/n237/mode/2up
• This is the page that has the footnote that says "* The "Descendants of Denison" says Samuel Prentice m. Abigail Billings of Stonington, Ct., and her sister Ann also m. Samuel Prentice.

• As the Denison Genealogy by Baldwin (1881) Refers to the Samuel that married Abigail Billings and Sister Ann (This is most likely the version that the Prentice Genealogy was referring to above, as things appear differently in the new version (1963) below:

• PG 17: states that Abigail #186, married Samuel Prentice (but not which one): Baldwin, John Denison & Clift, William (Prepared by)(1881); A Record of the Descendants of Capt. George Denison, of Stonington, Conn.; Printed by Tyler & Seagrave, Worcester, Massachusetts; PG 85; Retrieved from: https://archive.org/stream/recordofdescenda1881bald#page/16/mode/2up
• PG 18: states that Abigail's sister, Ann, #192 married Samuel Prentice, but not which one: Retrieved from: https://archive.org/stream/recordofdescenda1881bald#page/18/mode/2up
• PG 121: States that Samuel Prentice, #2531, married Phebe Billings (which agrees with all of the records found): Retrieved from: https://archive.org/stream/recordofdescenda1881bald#page/120/mode/2up

• As the Denison Genealogy by Denison (1963):

• PG 5: Abigail, #122 married Samuel Prentice: Denison, Glenn Elverton; Peck, Josephine Middleton [and] Jacobus, Donald L.(1963), Ancestors and Descendants of Captain George Denison; Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, MD 1993. Note: this publication not available online, however see the original published for The Denison Society, Pequot Press 1963. (Not Reprinted, Baltimore, MD 1978, 1982, 1993. #27-2); PG 5, #122; https://archive.org/details/denisongenealogy00deni_1/page/5
• Abigail's Decendant's continues on PG 349-353, preceded by "122-": Starts at: https://archive.org/details/denisongenealogy00deni_1/page/349
• Her son Jonas, #122-9, line is not continued in this tome: https://archive.org/details/denisongenealogy00deni_1/page/349
• PG 6: Ann, #127, married Simon Spaulding: Retrieved from: https://archive.org/details/denisongenealogy00deni_1/page/6
• The only reference to this Samuel is his baptism as noted above in the biography.

• Items found on Ancestry (should be viewable without having a paid account):

• Marriage of Ann Billings, sister of Abigail Billings to Simon Spaulding discovered in Plainfield, Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) - https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/16191792?h=97a893 via @Ancestry

Samuel Prentice died in July 1807 ^[2]at Stonington, Connecticut.

Sources

1. ↑ Denison, Glenn Elverton; Peck, Josephine Middleton [and] Jacobus, Donald L.(1963), Ancestors and Descendants of Captain George Denison; Gateway Press, Inc. Baltimore, MD 1993. Note: this publication not available online, however see the original published for The Denison Society, Pequot Press 1963. (Not Reprinted, Baltimore, MD 1978, 1982, 1993. #27-2); PG 18, #486; https://archive.org/details/denisongenealogy00deni_1/page/18
2. ↑ Source Citation: Volume: 166. Source Information: U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls.

• Baldwin, Charles. The Baldwin Genealogy From 1500 To 1881 (Leader Printing Co., Cleveland, Ohio, 1881) Page 845

• History of Stonington, etc. (Wheeler, 1900), p. 238, no. 47; p. 544, no. 38: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n260/mode/1up; https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n566/mode/1up