Sarah (Prescott) Longley (1686 - 1717)

Born 3 May 1686 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of John Longley — married about 1705 in Groton, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 8 Mar 1717 at age 30 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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Biography

See notes under her husband.

From “Who Begot Thee? Some Genealogical and Historical Notes Made in an effort to trace the American progenitors of one individual living in America in 1903” By Gilbert O. Bent, 1903.

Sarah Prescott. 1686-1718. Daughter of Jonas. Born at Groton May 3, 1686. Married in 1705 John Longley. Died at Groton March, 8, 1718.

"A Prescott girl" (one of the four daughters of Jonas Prescott, an early settler of Groton) "was the wife of John Longley, son of William.... They lived on the Stephen Kendall farm, now owned by Jackson M. Potter."(now gone it was on Higley Street) "Another sister, wife of Benjamin Farnsworth, lived on the east side of the same road upon which the Stephen Kendall place is situated, and nearly opposite the house formerly occupied by the late William Kilbourn" (Killbourne lived in the corner house at Peabody Street) "Here, also in the field, a short distance back from the road, can be seen the depression of the earth which followed the filling of the cellar."-Francis M. Boutwell, 1883. from Groton Houses, Some Notes on the History of Old Homesteads in Groton, Massachusetts, by Virginia May, Edited and Published by the Groton Historical Society, 1978.

Birth

3 MAY 1686 Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Death

8 MAR 1716/7 Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Sources

• Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., 1926) Vol. 1, Page 192.
• The Longley Family Genealogy compiled by Louise Baneck Longley and Janneyne Longley Gnacinski, 1967, FHL Film # 928132 Item 6, page 4, 6.