Mary
Prence
formerly [surname unknown] aka Howes, Burr
[uncertain]
Born in England
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Thomas Howes
— married
about 1630 (to 26 Sep 1665) in England
Wife of
Thomas Prence Jr.
— married
1 Aug 1668 (to 29 Mar 1673) in Plymouth Colony
Descendants 
Died
at about age 92
in Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
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| Mary (Unknown) Prence migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm |
Note: Her parents and her origins are unknown. A previous version of this profile, citing an unsourced 19th century genealogy, claimed her maiden name was "Burr". Subsequent research has found no evidence for this claim.
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Biography
Mary (surname unknown) was born probably in England about 1603, based on the birth of her first known child.
She married Thomas Howes[1] and immigrated to Massachusetts about 1637, along with two of their three children.
Mary was named executrix of her 1st husband’s estate Thomas Howes 6 Oct. 1665/6 "see photos".
After Thomas Howes death she married Thomas Prence sometime after February 26, 1665/6 and by August 1, 1668, as his 4th wife, following the death of his previous wives. Thomas Prence, esquire, was governor of the jurisdiction of New Plmouth for 16 years and died at Plymouth on March 29, 1673.[1]
Mary died on December 9, 1695,[1] in Yarmouth, Massachusetts, at the age of 92. She was buried on the 11th.
- "Mist [ Mistress] Mary PRINCE late wife of Governor Thomas PRINCE died upon the 9th day of December 1695 and was buried upon ye 11th day of ye said 1695." [2]
Her inventory was taken on 31 December 1695, Her son Jeremiah Howes Sr. of Yarmouth gave his oath to the truth of the inventory.[3]
Children
- Joseph Howes
- Thomas Howes
- Jeremiah Howes
A previous version of this profile claimed, without source, the following children.. They've been detached
Research Notes
- A maiden name of Burr has not been proven.[1] A previous version of this profile said she was born at Stisted, baptized at Shellow Bowelles Essex.
- 2nd marriage: a previous version of this profile indicated that Thomas Prence was the son of Thomas PRENCE & Elizabeth TOLDERBY. Anderson does not give the mother's name.[1]
- Burial. Previous version said, "Mary’s grave and the graves of husband Thomas and sons Joseph and Thomas never found. Family tradition gives their location as the Howes Family Cemetery, now on the National Register."
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995) 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). Sketch of Thomas Prence, p. 1523. subscribers$
- ↑ "Miscellaneous Death Records" The Mayflower Descendant (1922) 24 p 129 Link at AmericanAncestors ($); Google books (free), Archive.org (free).
- ↑ "Probate records v. 1-3 1686-1747" database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YB-N9RC : 22 April 2024), Film# 00770540, Barnstable, Massachusetts, image 82, Vol 2, Page 11-12.
See also:
- Sanford, Heman H. Howes Genealogy: The Branch of John of Madison, N.y. of the Sixth American Generation. , 1893. Internet Archive.
- Town of Yarmouth Records, Vol. 3, 1657 - 1783. Huntington Family.org Genealogy: Thomas Howes.link
- Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Ancestry Record 2204 #431557
- Be Aware - The following four sources give the last name as "Burr" with no documentation.
- Joshua Crowell Howes, "Genealogy of the Howes Family in America. Descendants of Thomas Howes, Yarmouth, Mass., 1637-1892 (Yarmouthport, Mass.: Printed for the author by F. Hallett, 1892. pp. 4, 7.see at archive.org.
- Swift, Charles Francis. "History of Old Yarmouth. Comprising the Present Towns of Yarmouth and Dennis. From the Settlement to the Division in 1794 with the History of Both Towns to these Times." Yarmouth Port, published by the author (1884). p. 48.see at archive.org
- Find A Grave: Memorial #48106250
- Cemetery memorial - not original gravestone - Dennis Howes Cemetery up to 1789. chronological listing of all gravestones dated up to 1789.link
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Rejected matches › Mary (Burr) Long (abt.1640-1681) › Mary Burr (bef.1609-) › Mary (Burr) Clark (1671-) › Mary (Wood) Burr (1704-1792) › Mary Ann (Howes) Pole (1835-) › Mary Emily (Howes) Bird (bef.1846-) › Mary W. (Shutt) Howes › Mary (Collier) Prence (1612-abt.1644)
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Many thanks for Bobbie & Annes responses and research.
Should the surname "Burr" be changed to "Unknown" with a notation at the top of the biography.?
Comments? Discussion?
[Edit:] It does not provide any source. But at least we know where it originated.
Still needed:
anything else that needs to be done to make this profile sparkle.