Benjamin Prescott (1687 - 1777)

Ancestors Descendants

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Marriage 1.2 Death 1.3 Notes 2 Sources

Biography

Benjamin Prescott, the son of Jonathan and Elizabeth, was born 16 September 1687 at Concord, Massachusetts.^[1]

An extensive biography of him can be found in Sibley's Harvard Graduates, volume 5 (1701-1712), p. 485-491. See also History of the town of Danvers: from its early settlement to the year 1848, J. W. Hanson, 1848, p. 240-242.

He is DAR ancestor # A092749, however future applicants must prove his correct service. A History of the Town of Concord, Lemuel Shattuck, Boston, MA: 1835, p. 243-244 states in a 1777 Boston Gazette biographical notice, he was a patriotic writer and a magistrate until the week before his death. Sibley's Harvard Graduates makes the same statements, but provides the original source as the Boston Gazette, June 30, 1777, p. 3. His DAR/SAR qualifying service as magistrate can be located in The Select Memo Book of Records for the Town of Danvers Began November 21st 1774-1799, Selectmens Records Separate from the Assessors^[2], Book 1st, p. 16, 38, and 59, which documents that Benjamin was indeed the Essex County Justice of the Peace in the qualifying years of 1775-1777.

Benjamin Prescott, Esq., was buried at Salem, Massachusetts on 30 May 1777, aged 90 years.^[3] Benjamin Prescott Esq. of Danvers wrote his will on 14 September 1772, proved 2 June 1777, and mentions his sons Benjamin and Henry, daughter-in-law Dorothy Clifford, and "thirteen grandchildren of my Dear Daughters Hannah + Elizabeth Deceased".^[4]

There are two deeds involving the grandchildren of Benjamin Prescott in 1779. Benjamin Sr. is clearly identified as their grandfather, and the husband's of the granddaughters were also involved.^[5]

Marriage

20 OCT 1715 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts^[6]

Husband: Benjamin Prescott

Wife: Elizabeth Higginson

Child: Benjamin Prescott

Child: John Prescott

Child: Hannah Prescott

Child: @I10136@

Child: Sarah Prescott

Death

27 MAY 1777 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA^[6]

Notes

• Graduated A.M. at Harvard College, 1709
• minister of the Second Parish of Salem 1713-1756

Sources

1. ↑ Concord, Massachusetts births, marriages, and deaths, 1635-1850, Boston, MA: Town of Concord, 1895, volume 1, p. 48.
2. ↑ Available at: https://archive.org/details/danverstownrecords17741799/page/n15/mode/2up.
3. ↑ Vital Records of Salem, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, 6 vols. (Salem, Mass: The Essex Institute, 1916), 6:159.
4. ↑ Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881, case #22663.
5. ↑ Essex County Deeds, 144:225-226, available at: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9ZZ-1JJC?i=554&wc=MCBP-MPX%3A361613201%2C361992601&cc=2106411.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Higginson, Thomas Wentworth. Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson (Privately Printed, 1910) Page 14-5.

• Prescott, William. The Prescott Memorial: or, A genealogical memoir of the Prescott families in America. In two parts (H. W. Dutton & son, 1870) Page 46.
• Nourse, Henry S., The Ancestry of The Hoar Family in America, NEHGR (NEHGS, Boston, 1899) Vol. 53, Page 196.