Ancestry of
Elkanah Watson

(1732–1804)

Priscilla Appleton

View famous kin of Priscilla Appleton

• • Great-grandmother of Elkanah Watson — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 15 
  • Father:
  • John Appleton 
  • Mother:
  • Priscilla Glover   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Dec 1657 
  • Birth Location:
  • Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • 12 or 18 OCT 1743 
  • Death Location:
  • Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  •  
  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Capen
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1684 
  • Marriage Location:
  •  
  • Children:
  
  

  Priscilla Capen (Ahnentafel No:7 )

  Mary Capen

  • Notes: 

  • Sources disagree on Priscilla's death date. The Topsfield death record states 12 OCT while the gravestone has 18 OCT.

    Some sources mistakenly identify Priscilla Appleton as Priscilla Payson, daughter of Capt. John Payson.

• Sources for Priscilla Appleton

  • ¹ American Ancestors Magazine, 2013, Vol. 14.2, p. 22.
  • ² Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Vol. John Capen (m. 1637), p. 5.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Topsfield Deaths, Vol. 1, p. 210.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Ipswich, Vol. 1, p. 27, Birth record for Prisilla Appleton.
  • ⁵ Appleton, William Sumner, A Rough Sketch of the Appleton Genealogy, Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin and Son (1873), 5.
  • ⁶ Bass, Charissa Taylor, Descendants of Deacon Samuel and Ann Bass, Freeport, IL: Privately printed (1940), 8.
  • ⁷ Hayden, Rev. Charles Albert and Jessie Hale Tuttle, The Capen Family: Descendants of Bernard Capen of Dorchester, Mass., Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Publishing House (1929), 16, 20-21.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 566.
  • ⁹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 814.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 467, 473.