John Prescott and Mary Platt

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Husband John Prescott ¹

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         Father: [Ancestor] Prescott (      -      )
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Wife Mary Platt ¹

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1 F Mary Prescott ¹

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         Spouse: Thomas Sawyer (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - John Prescott

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He sold his lands in Shevington, Lancashire, and sailed for the Barbadoes, where he landed in 1638, and became an owner of lands there. In 1640 he came to Boston, Massachusetts. He then settled in Watertown, where he had large grants of land allotted him. Like most of the early settlers in New England he left his home to escape the relentless religious persecutions in his native land.
He was a pioneer of Lancaster, one of the most interesting and prominent of the early settlers of New England. (See History of Lancaster). Although the leading citizen of Lancaster he was for a quarter of a century without a vote or any voice in the government, not eligible even to serve on a jury. His brave stand for liberty, against the Puritan despotism should offset any Royal descent. (Boston Transcript).
From him descended ministers, scholars, statesmen, soldiers, and brave men and good women filling honorable places in their respective communities-such men as "Prescott, the Historian" and "Prescott of Bunker Hill" are prominent figures in the line of his descendants.
The first American ancestor of the Prescotts was of fine physique, forceful character, and brilliant mind; he was a remarkable personage, and at once became an influential man in his adopted country.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 229.