Howe, Prudence, wid. Thaddeus, Sept. 5, 1831, a. 96 [96 y. 6 m., GS] [Birth calculates to about Mar 1735.]
The Leominster marriage record with Abraham Holman is reported under both Mills and Hills, and she is labeled a widow. One possibility is that she is Prudence England who married Samuel Hills in 1766 (Source:Hills, William Sanford. Genealogical Data Relating to the Ancestry and Descendants of William Hills, the English Emigrant to New England in 1632, p. 99, marriage recorded in Newbury VRs). Samuel Hills and Prudence England had a son John, and his death record calling him "s. Samuel and Prudence E." is found in Leominster suggesting the family moved there at some point. However no death date for Samuel has been found to confirm this theory.
Her parents are not identified, and there seems to be no birth record, though her age at death suggests a birth around 1735. Based on her naming a son Francis, possibly she is somehow related to Francis England of Newbury. The records here are confusing and stymie attempts to piece together a hypothesis. One Francis England m. 1757 Prudence Hills. Yet there are multiple births recorded births to "Francis and Prudence" before that date (i.e., 1748, 1750, 1752, 1754) and none after that date. Could there have been two Francis and Prudence Englands in Newbury, or was there an error? The only pertinent birth of a Francis England in Newbury is in 1736 who could have been the one who married in 1757 but could not have fathered those children. Prudence could possibly have been a daughter of the older, or brother of the younger?
