Person:Matthew Prior (1)

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Matthew Prior
 
  • HMatthew Prior - Bef 1692
  • WMary _____ - 1700
  1. John Pryor1651/52 - 1698
  2. Mary Prior1652/53 - 1698
  3. Elizabeth Prior1656 - 1701/02
  4. Sarah Prior1664 -
  5. Martha Prior1672 -
Facts and Events
Name Matthew Prior
Gender Male
Marriage to Mary _____
Death[1] Bef 28 Aug 1692 Matinecock, Nassau, New York, United States
References
  1. Cocks, George William. History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family: Descended from James and Sarah Cock, of Killingworth Upon Matinecock, in the Township of Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. (Somerville, New Jersey: Unionist Gazette Association, 1914)
    p. 290.

    Died prob. between 1685/6 and "28/6 mo. (Aug.) 1692".
    [Note: significance of these dates not explained. NYGBR, Vol. 3, p. 51, says he witnessed wedding of John Delavall and Hannah Lloyd on 31 May 1686.]

  2.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    Vol. 3, p. 489.

    PRIOR or PRYOR
    Matthew, Salem 1638, when he had gr. of ld. rem. to L.I. and was of Brookhaven in 1665. His d. Sarah m. John Gould of Newport, and next, 1711, bec. fourth w. of Gov. Walter Clark.