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Thomas Prence

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• • 10th Great-grandfather of Taylor Swift — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 4890 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Prence 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1600 
  • Birth Location:
  • England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Mar 1673 
  • Death Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Collier
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Apr 1635 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Jane Prence (Ahnentafel No:2445 )

• Additional marriages for Thomas Prence

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  • Spouse:
  • Patience Brewster
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Aug 1624
  • Marriage Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts

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  • Spouse:
  • Apphia Quick
  • Marriage Date:
  • from 1 Jul 1644 to 8 Dec 1662

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 26 Feb 1665/1666

• Sources for Thomas Prence

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  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1872, Vol. 26, p. 398.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1934, Vol. 11, pp. 178-179.
  • ⁴ The Mayflower Descendant, 2023, Vol. 71, p. 27.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 95, 228, 448, 699.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1518-1524, 1717.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 272.
  • ⁸ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 579-580.
  • ⁹ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 12.
  • ¹⁰ Jacobus, Donald Lines, ed., The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and his Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth, Woodstock, Vermont: N. Grier Parke, II (1960), 27, 31-33.
  • ¹¹ Merrick, Barbara Lambert and Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 1, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2014), 53-81.
  • ¹² Merrick, Barbara Lambert, comp., Mayflower Families in Progress: William Brewster of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 3rd edition, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2000), 8-11.
  • ¹³ Preston, Belle, Bassett-Preston Ancestors: A History of the Ancestors in America of Marion Bassett Luitweiler . . ., New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co. (1930), 150.
  • ¹⁴ Reynolds, Cuyler, Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: A Record of the Achievements of the People of the . . ., Vol. 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1911), 473.
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 117.
  • ¹⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 21, 32, 55, 68, 84, 99, 116, 134, 138, 145, 159, 208, 217, 222, 228, 274, 280, 286, et. al.
  • ¹⁷ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 25-26.

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