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John Lithgow

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Jonas Prentiss

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of John Lithgow — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 38 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Prentiss 
  • Mother:
  • Abigail Logan   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 27 Mar 1781 
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  • Death Date:
  • 20 Aug 1832 
  • Death Location:
  • Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Burying Ground, Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Helen Whittemore
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Feb 1807 
  • Marriage Location:
  • West Cambridge (now Arlington), Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Ellen Prentiss (Ahnentafel No:19 )

• Sources for Jonas Prentiss

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/22/2022).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 2, p. 315, Marriage intention for Jonas Prentice and Helen Whittemore.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Arlington, Vol. 1, p. 147, Death record for Jonas Prentiss.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1908, Vol. 62, Supplement, pp. lxxiv - lxxv.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1954, Vol. 108, p. 249.
  • ⁶ 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), 45, 87, gives Jonas's birth year as 1789 which disagrees with age on gravestone.
  • ⁷ Cutter, Dr. Benjamin and William Richard Cutter, A History of the Cutter Family of New England, Boston: David Clapp and Son (1871), 232.
  • ⁸ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 1802.

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