Prescott Benjamin b. 1696 d. 1738

1696 - 1738

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Birth 1696 [1]

Gender Male

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Died 1738 [1]

Person ID I1714 Alan Donald Vibber

Last Modified 08 Dec 2009

Father Prescott Jonas, b. Jun 1648, Lancaster , d. 31 Dec 1723

Mother Loker Mary, b. 28 Sep 1653, Sudbury , d. 28 Oct 1735

Married 14 Dec 1672 Lancaster

Family ID F776 Group Sheet

Children

Family ID F777 Group Sheet

Notes	The Hon. Benjamin Prescott (1696-1738), justice of Superior Court, etc., was a brother of Sarah and father of Col. William Prescott, who served as lieutenant in the expedition of 1755 to Nova Scotia,which expelled the French Acadians, and who led the Colonial forces at the battle of Bunker Hill. A monument marks the place of his birth at Groton. Col. William Prescott was the father of the Hon. William Prescott (1762-1844), who married Catharine Green Hickling and whose son was William Hickling Prescott, the historian (1796-1859). Col. William Prescott's sister, Elizabeth, married Col. Abijah Willard, loyalist. He went with the Royal army to Halifax, N. S., in 1776. In 1778 he was proscribed and banished by the revolted colonies. He settled in St. John county, Province of New Brunswick, and named the locality Lancaster (now the parish of Lancaster) after his native place in Massachusetts. He died at Lancaster, N. B., in 1789.

[S253] 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, Gilbert Oliver Bent, Gilbert Oscar Bent, (Name: Printed for private distribution, 1903;), 38 (Reliability: 3).