John
Prentice
Born in Stonington, Connecticut
Ancestors 
Son of Samuel Prentice Jr.
and Abigail (Billings) Prentice
Brother of
Dorothy Prentice, Samuel Prentice jr, Ebenezer Prentice, Abigail (Prentice) Williams, Joshua Prentice, Phebe (Prentice) Hewitt, Asa Prentice, Jonas Prentice, Jesse Prentice, Esther Prentice, Amos Prentice and Grace (Prentice) Shepherd
Husband of
Mary (Haskell) Prentice
— married
1 Dec 1757 [location unknown]
Husband of
Rebecca (Haskell) Prentice
— married
1789 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Samuel Prentice, John Prentice jr, Asa Prentice, Asher Prentice, Rebecca (Prentice) Wheeler, Oliver Prentice, Joshua Prentice and Phebe Prentice
Died
at age 77
in North Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 19 Aug 2012
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Biography
This John Prentice was born 13 May 1733 @ Stonington, Connecticut. He was the fourth child of Samuel Prentice and Abigail Billings.
He married:
1) 1 Dec 1757 Mary Haskell; they had 4 children; Mary died 8 Jul 1784, after which he married
2) in 1789 Rebecca Haskell; they had 4 children.
John Prentice passed away 21 Jun 1810.
Sources
- Stanley Wood, firsthand knowledge.
- History of Stonington, etc. (Wheeler, 1900), p. 544, no. 27: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs00whee_1#page/n566/mode/1up
- Find A Grave: Memorial #20771358
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with John:
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~1.56%
David Prentice
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member prentice1024
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~0.78%
Nancy Hulbert :
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T446790 [compare], FTDNA kit #441591
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~0.78%
Hoover Willis :
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~0.78%
John McCullough :
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John French Ph.D.
Corrections to the previously posted message have now been made, so all is well.
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by John French Ph.D.
John French Ph.D.
Definitely some issues with the spousal relationships described in this profile. The birth dates for both wives as currently listed are their death dates. Also, several of the children's birth dates are garbled, as evidenced by the Wheeler (1900) History of Stonington, p. 545.
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by John French Ph.D.
Rejected matches › John Prentice (1823-1915)
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