Person:Thomas Prentice (18)

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  • HThomas Prentice
  • W.  Maria Russell (add)
m. 23 Dec 1696
  • HThomas Prentice
  • W.  Mary Batson (add)
m. 6 Nov 1701
Facts and Events
Name[4] Thomas Prentice
Gender Male
Birth[1] 7 Jun 1674 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 23 Dec 1696 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Maria Russell (add)
Marriage 6 Nov 1701 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mary Batson (add)
Death[2][3] 7 Dec 1709 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914-15)
    Vol. 1, p. 573.

    PRENTICE, Tho[mas], s. of Solomon and Elizab[eth], [born] June 7, 1674.

  2. Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914-15)
    Vol. 2, p. 703.

    PRENTICE, Thomas, [died] Dec. 7, 1709. (a. 33 y. 3 m. 12 d., GR1)
    [Note: birth calculates to about 25 Oct 1676. GR1=Cemetery at Harvard Square]

  3. Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871. (American Ancestors, 2014)
    Case 18025: thomas Prentice 1709.

    19 Dec 1709: Bond of Mary Prentice Relict Widow of Thomas Prentice Late of Cambridge dec'd Intestate as adm/x of her Late Husband Thomas Prentice.
    20 Dec 1709: Inventory of Tho's Prentice Late of Cambridge Deceas'd: £323:12:8, by Nathannel Hancock, James Marrett, And'r Bordman.
    18 Mar'h 1719: Accompt of Mary Robins alias Prentice relict & Admin'x ... of her late husband Thomas Prentice late of Cambridge allowed.
    7 Apr 1724: Appraisal and set off the Widows thirds, assenting were "the Dec'd (Tho's Prencice's) widow now Nath. Robins wife, eldest son Thomas, Mary a daughter (Fra's Kidders widow), Solomon Prentice s'd Chidlren's Uncle and Stephen prentice (uncle and Guardian to John and Elizabeth). Children's names are Mary (first Venter [venter="wife or mother that is a source of offspring"]), Thomas (eldest of full age), John, Elizabeth, Henry, William, Hepsibah (all by Mary labeled "Second").
    25 May 1724: Judge's decree settling "two third part or residue of the real Estate of his late father" to "Thomas Prentice eldest Son of ye late Thomas Prentice Late of Cambridge", the other third part set off to "Mary the s'd dec'ds widow (now the wife of Nath'l Robbins of Charlestown in s'd County) for her Dower", "the s'd deceased leaving at his death seven children & now surviving viz Mary by his first wife & Thomas, this assignee (eldest son) & John, Elizabeth, Henry, William & Hepzibah, all six last by his 2'd wife Mary", the others to be paid by Thomas.

  4. Binney, C. J. F. (Charles James Fox). The History and Genealogy of the Prentice or Prentiss Family in New England, etc., from 1631 to 1883. (Boston, Mass.: C. J. F. Binney, 1883)
    p. 6.

    Thomas Prentice [#6], s/o Solomon Prentice and Elizabeth ---, b. Cambridge 7 Jun 1674, d. 7 or 17 Dec 1709, m. (1) abt 1696 Maria Russell, m. (2) 6 Nov Batson Mary Batson of Boston.
    [Note: on p. 165, Binney says Thomas Prentice, s/o Thomas and Sarah, m. Maria Russell, but contradictorily, on p. 166, he gives a different outcome for s/o Thomas and Sarah, including marrying Elizabeth Jackson. It appears the blurb on p. 165 is an editing error.]