Ancestry of
Elizabeth Smart

Founder of Elizabeth Smart Foundation

Mary Prescott

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• • 10th Great-grandmother of Elizabeth Smart — 13th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 7841 
  • Father:
  • John Prescott 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Gawkroger-Platts   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 24 Feb 1630 
  • Christening Location:
  • Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • ABT Apr 1716 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Sawyer
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1648 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Thomas Sawyer Jr. (Ahnentafel No:3920 )

  Mary Sawyer

  Joshua Sawyer

• Sources for Mary Prescott

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Vol. John Fairbanks (m. 1640), p. 3.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Lancaster, Vol. 1, p. 10, Birth record for son Joshua Sawyer.
  • ³ NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1992, Vol. 11, p. 203.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1862, Vol. 16, p. 353, Birth record for daughter Mary Sawyer.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1953, Vol. 30, pp. 74-78.
  • ⁶ 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), 45, 47-49, 59-60.
  • ⁷ Houghton, John W., The Houghton Genealogy: The Descendants of Ralph and John Houghton of Lancaster, Massachusetts . . ., New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, Genealogical Publisher (1912), 91.
  • ⁸ 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.
  • ⁹ 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.

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