Ancestry of
Nathaniel Prentiss

Boston Tea Party Participant

Nathaniel Prentiss

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Jonas Prentiss 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Peirce   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 16 Oct 1742 
  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Jun 1817 
  • Death Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Notes: 

  • Boston Tea Party participant

    Nathaniel Prentiss was said to be one of the men disguised as Indians during the Boston Tea Party.

    Cambridge vital records give an incorrect death date of 18 JUN 1817 citing church records. Perhaps this was his burial date as an obituary appeared on 14 JUN 1817 indicating that he died on the previous day, Friday, 13 JUN 1817.

    Nathaniel Prentiss's surname is also seen as Prentice.

• Marriages for Nathaniel Prentiss

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  • Spouse:
  • Abigail Logan
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Nov 1764
  • Marriage Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts

• Sources for Nathaniel Prentiss

  • ¹ An Historic Guide to Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Hannah Winthrop Chapter, N.S.D.A.R. (1907), 144.
  • ² Boston Daily Advertiser (Boston, Massachusetts), 16 JUN 1817, Obituary for Nathaniel Prentiss.
  • ³ Columbian Centinel (Boston, Massachusetts), 14 JUN 1817, p. 2, Obituary for Nathaniel Prentiss.
  • ⁴ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/23/2022).
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 2, p. 704, Death record for Nathaniel Prentiss, give incorrect death date.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 2, p. 246, Marriage record for Nathaniel Prentice and Abigail Logan.
  • ⁷ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1908, Vol. 62, Supplement, pp. lxxiv - lxxv.
  • ⁸ Repertory (Boston, Massachusetts), 17 JUN 1817, Obituary for Nathaniel Prentiss.
  • ⁹ Binney, Charles James Fox, The History and Genealogy of the Prentice, or Prentiss Family, in New England, Etc., from 1631 to 1883, 2nd Edition, Boston: Published by the Editor (1883), 19, 45.