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Grace Slick

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John Prescott

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Grace Slick — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 3426 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1604 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Standish Parish, Lancashire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • Dec 1681 
  • Death Location:
  • Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Gawkroger-Platts
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Apr 1629 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Prescott

  Sarah Prescott

  Hannah Prescott

  Lydia Prescott (Ahnentafel No:1713 )

  Jonathan Prescott

  Jonas Prescott

  • Notes: 

  • Some published sources claim that John Prescott was the son of Ralph Prescott of Shevington. Others have made arguments against the claim. Evidence is needed to determine if Ralph Prescott was John's father.

• Sources for John Prescott

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Littleton, Vol. 1, p. 462, Prescott family vital statistics.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Watertown, Vol. 1, p. 9, Birth record for daughter Lydia Prescott.
  • ³ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1992, Vol. 11, p. 203.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1959, Vol. 113, pp. 70-71.
  • ⁵ Fairbanks, Lorenzo Sayles, Genealogy of the Fairbanks Familly in America, 1633-1897, Boston: American Printing and Engraving Company (1897), 39.
  • ⁶ Hollick, Martin E., New Englanders in the 1600s: A Guide to Genealogical Research Published Between 1980 and 2010, Expanded Edition, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2012), 191.
  • 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), 47, 54-60.
  • ⁸ Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, Vol. 2, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1995, originally published 1912), 256.
  • 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), 41-44.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 52.
  • ¹¹ Stearns, Ezra S., comp., Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 1, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1908), 104.
  • ¹² Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 154.
  • ¹³ Wheeler, Albert Gallatin, Jr., The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America, Boston, Massachusetts: American College of Genealogy (1914), 498.
  • ¹⁴ White, Almira Larkin White, ed., Ancestry of John Barber White and of his Descendants, Haverhill, Massachusetts: Press of C.H. Webster (1913), 124-128, 131.