_James Gawkroger (PLATTS) _+
_Abraham Gawkroger (PLATTS) _|
| |_Jenet (Joan) FAIRBANK ____
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|--Mary Gawkroger (PLATTS)
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| _Thomas RILEY _____________+
|_Martha RILEY _______________|
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[275] Last name alias - Platts.
[276]
"Mary gave birth to children in both England and in AMerica, losing two babies in England. In 1640 the family appeared in Watertown, MAssachusetts where they lived for about three years and where their youngest daughter Lydia was born. In
this Transition period before Lydia was born, Mary may have had a daughter, Hannah but we have no proof or disproof of this.
[277]
Mary had scarcely settled into a household routine in Watertown when John's deal for aquiring land further west went through and the family was uprooted again. In 1643 they moved to the Nashaway Plantation further west where she helped her husband
develop the area that came to be called Lancaster, and where she probobly gave birth to their son Jonathon. Life was extremely hard as they labored to build a home, raise their children, devlop a farm, build a corn mill and operate a
small store, negotiate with the indians and fight them off when necessary. Her youngest son Jonas, was born in 1648, and since the town of Lancaster had not yet been incorporated, the birth was recorded in nearby Groton.
[278] It would have been a shock to lose her daughter MArtha (Prescott) Rugg and her twin babies in the course of the birth of the twins, in 1656.
[279] She was the mother of the bride in 1658 when her saughter Lydia married Jonas Fairbank, and again a few weeks later when her daughter Sarah married Richard Wheeler who had not been long in the area.
[280]
A reflection of her life interests are to be found in the subsequent lives of her husband and children. She endured the destruction of the settlement in February, 1676, during which she lost two sons-in-law, Jonas Fairbanks, husband of her
daughter Lydia, and Richard Wheeler, husband of her daughter, Sarah. In addition, she lost grandchildrenand many friends. All the settlers were evacuated to towns further east for safety, and it appears that the Prescotts went back to
Watertown where they had friends from their earlier residence there.
[281]
We know that Mary survived the massacre, because she made a legal deposition in 1678 which established her age as 66 that year. and also verified the connection of the Prescotts with many families which had connections both in Sowerby and in
Lancashire, England. It was recorded as follows:
[282]
"Deposition of MAry Prescott dated 1678. The testimony of Mary Prescott aged 66 yeares or thereabout Sayth that the first wife of Jacob Farror Senr. Late of Lancaster deceased, lived with her uncle and she marrying Contrary to his mind and so he
would not give her a portion but said he would give to her first child (which was Jacob Farror late deceased) the sume of forty pounds in money: and the sd Doponent hath often heard that sd Jacob Farror Senr recieved the same for the use of his Sone
Jacob: when he came to New England: that I can testifie upon oath Mary Prescott M p her marke. Witness John Tott Mary Lacey."
[283] We have no reson to believe that MAry was buried anywhere but in the Old Settlers Burying Ground somewhere adjacent to her husband John but there is no stone.
[274]
European Ancestry of the Prescott Family in America, by Doris Cline Ward
Ward Publishing Company, 1977
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_Thomas BROWNE _
_Abraham BROWNE _|
| |_Joan _____ ____
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|--Abraham BROWNE
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|_Lydia _____ ____|
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_Rev. Peter BULKELEY _+
_Rev. Edward BULKELEY _|
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|--Mary BULKELEY
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|_Lucian LENTON ________|
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_Thomas CHAMBERLAIN _
_Thomas CHAMBERLAIN _|
| |_Mary PARKER ________
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| _Robert PROCTOR _____
|_Sarah PROCTOR ______|
|_Jane HILDRETH ______+
_Philip FOWLER ___
_Joseph FOWLER __|
| |_Mary WINSLEY ____
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|--Mary FOWLER
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| _Richard KIMBALL _
|_Martha KIMBALL _|
|_Ursula SCOTT ____+
_Nathaniel HAZELTON _+
_Samuel HAZELTON _|
| |_Ruth _____ JACQUES _
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|--Nathaniel HAZELTON
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| _John JOHNSON _______+
|_Mary JOHNSON ____|
|_Lydia CLEMENT ______
______ PENGRY ____
_Moses PENGRY ___|
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|--Aaron PENGRY
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| _Robert CLEMENTS _
|_Lydia CLEMENTS _|
|_Lydia ___________
_James PRESCOTT _+
_Roger PRESCOTT _|
| |_Alice STANDISH _+
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|--Anne PRESCOTT
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|_Ellen SHAW _____|
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[898] Married Alexander Wymarde.
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_Joseph RICHARDSON _+
_Joseph RICHARDSON _|
| |_Margaret GODFREY __+
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|--Joseph RICHARDSON
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| _Thomas RIGGS ______
|_Ann RIGGS _________|
|_Ann WHEELER _______+
[183]
Settled in the west part of Bradford, now Groveland, on the Nelson lot next
to the line of what is now West Newbury, Mass. This lot had been in his
wife's family.
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[712] Kenneth MacAlpin united the Picts and the Scots under his rule in 843.
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