A Maine Family's History - Smith / Glidden Surnames

Prentice, Prentiss

Henry PRENTICE, Cambridge, planter, also at Sudbury 1639, died 6/9/1654

Spouse: Elizabeth ? died 5/13/1643 (2) Joana ? who married (2) John Gibson

Children: Mary born 25 (9) 1644; Solomon; Abiah born 22 (3) 1648; Samuel born 3 (6) 1650; Sarah; Henry married Mary?

Mary PRENTICE born 9/25/1644 Cambridge MA died 9/20/1699 Cambridge buried Old Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge MA photo of grave stone http://www.prenticenet.com/roots/prentice/images/mary01.jpg

Spouse: Nathaniel HANCOCK born 12/13/1638 Cambridge Middlesex MA died 4/12/1719 Cambridge, married 3/8/1663 Lexington Middlesex MA ; Nathaniel married (2) Sarah Green born 10/7/1642 12/26/1699 Cambridge; Mary married (2) John Cooper; [gr grandfather of John Hancock, the Signer] buried Old Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge MA, http://www.prenticenet.com/roots/prentice/images/nath01.jpg photo of grave stone

Children: Nathaniel born 2/28/1665 Cambridge died 7/2/1665; Mary born 5/6/1666 chr 5/13/1666 died 9/28/1686 married Bigsby & Thomas Emmons; Sarah born 8/23/1667 chr 9/16/1667 married Nathaniel Patten 10/15/1710; Nathaniel born 10/29/1668 died 5/11/1755 Cambridge; Abigail born 12/29/1669 died 5/7/1672; John born 3/1/1671 Cambridge died 12/5/1752 Braintree, married Elizabeth Clark 12/11/1700 Chelmsford MA; Ann born & died 1672; Samuel born 1/2/1673 died 12/21/1735 married Dorothy c1695 MA; Abigail born 8/23/1675 married Richard Davenport 3/8/1722; Elizabeth born 8/26/1677 died 7/10/1678; Solomon born 4/26/1679 died 5/16/1700; Ebenezer born 3/10/1681 died 10/21/1710 married Susannah Clark 1/14/1702 Lexington; Joseph born 4/28/1683 died 4/2/1684; Thomas born 1685 married Susannah Fethergill 11/15/1721; Elizabeth born 5/1/1686 died 3/2/1749 married Benjamin Wyman 11/8/1720 & Jonathan Bacon; Mary born 12/20/1687 died 8/12/1688

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Gen Reg 1st Settlers of NE: PRENTISS, THOMAS, Cambridge-Village, [Newton] whose name is usually spelled Prentice, although he wrote it Prentis, was admitted freeman in 1652, had children by Grace, his wife, Grace, Thomas, Elizabeth, Mary, and John. He was representative in 1672, 1673, and 1674, commanded a company of troop, which rendered very essential service in Phillip's war. He d 7 July, 1710, ae 89. His son Thomas m a daughter of Edward Jackson, senr, and died 1730, ae 55; his son John also m ? and died 1689 ae 35. The epitaph on the grave-stone of Captain Prentiss is as follows: "He that's here interr'd needs no versifying, A virtuous life will keep the name from dying; He'll live though poets cease their scribbling rhyme, When that this stone shall moulder'd be by time."

American Marriages Before 1699: HANCOCK, Nathaniel and Mary Prentice, 8 March 1664, Cambridge MA

Pioneers of MA 372: Prentice/Prentiss, Henry, Cambridge, planter, propr.; also at Sudbury, 1639. Frm. 5/22/1650. Wife Elizabeth d. 5/13/1643; he m. Joane __; ch. Mary b. 25 (9) 1644 (m. Nathaniel Hancock); Solomon; Abiah b. 22 (3) 1648; Samuel b. 3 (6) 1650; Sarah; Henry; all born and bapt. in Cambridge [Mi.]. /P/ He d. 6/9/1654. His widow m. John Gibson; they admin. on the est 6 (8) 1663.

Genealogical Dictionary of New England 349: Hancock, NATHANIEL, Cambridge, by w. Joan had Mary, b. 3 Nov. 1634; Sarah, 3 Mar. 1636; Nathaniel, 18 Dec. 1638; John, who d. 2 Apr. 1643, prob. not 2 yrs. old; Eliz. 1 Mar. 1645; and Lydia, 5 Apr. or 2 July 1646; and he d. says Farmer, bef. 1652. NATHANIEL, Cambridge, s. of the preced. . 8 Mar. 1664, Mary, d. of Henry Prentice, had Nathaniel, b. 28 Feb. bapt. 28 May 1665, d. 20 July foll.; Mary, 6, bapt. 11 May 1666; Sarah, 23 Aug. bapt. 15 Sept. 1667; Nathaniel, again, b. 29 Oct. 1668; Abigail, 20 Dec. 1669, d. soon; John, 1671, H. C. 1689; Samuel, 2 Jan. 1674; Abigail, again, 23 Aug. 1675; Eliz. 26 Aug. 1677; Ebenezer, 10 Mar. 1681; Joseph, 28 Apr. 1683; Thomas, 1685; and Solomon, d. 16 May 1710; was freem. 1668, and d. 12 Apr. 1719. He had, also, Ann and Abigail, b. and d. 1672. John was first min. of Lexington, ord. 2 Nov. 1698, but had first preach. at Wells and York, and was f. of Thomas, the most wealthy merch. of Boston, found. of the Professorsh. of Orient. lang. at the Univ. as well as of Rev. John, H. C. 1719, min. of Braintree, and of Rev. Ebenezer, H. C. 1728, collea. with his f: This last was f. of John, b. 12 Jan. 1737, H. C. 1754, resid. of that Congr. wh. declar. independence, 4 July 1776; at wh. time he was Treasr. of Harv. Coll. In the Hist. of that Inst. by Presid. Quincy, his character may be seen, as weigh. in a just balance. He d. Gov. of Mass. 1793.

Genealogical Dictionary of New England 478: PRENTICE, HENRY, Cambridge 1640, was an orig. propri. of Sudbury, freem. 1650, d. 9 June 1654. His first w. Eliz. d. 13 May 1643, and by sec. w. Joanna, he had Mary, b. 25 Nov. 1644; Solomon, 23 Sept. 1646; Abiah, a d. 22 May 1648; Samuel, 3 Aug. 1650; Sarah; and Henry. His wid. m. 24 July 1662, John Gibson; and Mary m. 8 Mar. 1664, Nathaniel Hancock. HENRY, Cambridge, prob. s. of the preced. freem. 1684, by w. Mary, had Mary, wh. d. 2 May 1685; Mary, again, d. 11 Mar. 1686; Hannah, d. 3 June 1687; Jonathan, d. 1 May 1688; and perhaps some that liv.