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Robert Frost

Poet and Playwright

Benjamin Prescott

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Robert Frost — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 66 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Prescott 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Hoar   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Sep 1687 
  • Birth Location:
  • Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 May 1777 
  • Death Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Higginson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 Oct 1715 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Benjamin Prescott

  Elizabeth Prescott (Ahnentafel No:33 )

• Additional marriages for Benjamin Prescott

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  • Spouse:
  • Mercy Gibbs
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Jul 1732

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Pepperrell
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Oct 1748

• Sources for Benjamin Prescott

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem Births, Vol. 2, p. 193, Birth record for daughter Elizabeth Prescott.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Concord, Vol. 1, p. 48, Birth record for Benjamin Prescote.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salem, Vol. 6, p. 159, Death record for Benj Prescot.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1866, Vol. 20, p. 1.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1899, Vol. 53, p. 300.
  • ⁶ Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson: First Teacher in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of . . ., Unknown: Privately printed (1910), 14-15.
  • ⁷ Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his Wife Frances Helen Miller, Vol. 1, Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press (1948), 60.
  • ⁸ Howard, Cecil Hampden Cutts, The Pepperrells in America, Salem, Massachusetts: Printed for the Essex Institute (1906), 6.
  • ⁹ Prescott, William, The Prescott Memorial: or A Genealogical Memoir of the Prescott Families in America in Two Parts, Boston: Printed by Henry W. Dutton and Son (1870), 46-47.
  • ¹⁰ Seymour, Thomas Day, The Family of the Rev. Jeremiah Day of New Preston to January 1, 1900: A Genealogical Appendix to . . ., New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co. (1900), 34.