Ancestry of
Ed Helms

TV and Movie Actor

Jonas Prescott

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Ed Helms — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 964 
  • Father:
  • Jonas Prescott Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Thankful Wheeler   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Jan 1701 
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Sep 1784 
  • Death Location:
  • Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Westlawn Cemetery, Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Esther Spalding
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 6 Mar 1725/1726 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Timothy Prescott (Ahnentafel No:482 )

• Additional marriages for Jonas Prescott

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth Howard
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1731

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  • Spouse:
  • Rebecca Jones
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Dec 1740

• Sources for Jonas Prescott

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/12/2021).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westford, Vol. 1, p. 87, Birth record for son Timothy Prescott.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Chelmsford, Vol. 1, p. 298, Marriage intention for Jonas Prescott and Esther Spaulding.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westford, Vol. 1, p. 304, Death record for Jonas Prescott.
  • ⁵ 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), 53, 72.

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