ON THIS DATE: MAR. 5TH

ON THIS DATE:
BIRTH:
5 Mar 1704 7x ggm Eleanor Estey was born in Rochester, Ma.

DEATHS:
5 Mar 1768 8x ggf John Laughton Sr. died in Harvard, Ma.
5 Mar 1735 7x ggm Hannah (Challis) Dow died in Seabrook, NH.

ON THIS DATE: MAR. 4TH

 ON THIS DATE:
BIRTHS:
4 Mar 1676 7x ggm Mary West was born in Beverly, Ma.
4 Mar 1664 8x ggm was born in Ipswich, Ma.
DEATH:
4 Mar 1688 9x ggf John Gay died in Dedham, Ma.
4 Mar 1670 8x ggm Elizabeth (Sutton) Safford died in Ipswich, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: MAR. 3RD

 ON THIS DATE:
BIRTHS:
3 Mar 1656 8x ggf John Bancroft Sr. was born in Reading, Ma.
3 Mar 1689 7x ggm Zerviah Holt was born in Andover, Ma.

DEATHS:
3 Mar 1691 9x ggf John Giddings died in Ipswich, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: MAR. 2nd

  ON THIS DATE:
BIRTH
2 Mar 1693 6x ggf Elisha West was born at Duxbury,Ma.


DEATHS:
2 Mar 1669 8x ggf John Dunham died at Plymouth, Ma.
2 Mar 1651 9x ggf John Crow died at Yarmouth, Ma.
2 Mar 1688 9x ggf Benjamin Butterfield died at Chelmsford, Ma.
2 Mar 1718 7x ggf Joseph Tuck died at Beverly, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: MAR. 1st

ON THIS DATE:
BIRTH:
1 Mar 1708 7x ggf Daniel Boyden was born in Dedham, Ma.

MARRIAGE:
1 Mar 1642 10x ggp William Green Sr. & Hannah Carter were married in Charlestown, Ma.

DEATHS:
1 Mar 1785 6x ggf John Laughton 3rd died in Norridgewock, Me.
1 Mar 1676 10x ggm Ursula (Scott) Kimball died in Ipswoch, Ma.
1 Mar 1646 9x ggf William Learned died in Woburn, Ma.
1 Mar 1696 10x ggf Richard Holden died in Groton, Ma.
1 Mar 1902 2x ggf Patrick J. White died in Malden Ma.

ON THIS DATE: FEB. 28th

 ON THIS DATE:
BIRTH:
28 Feb 1668 7x ggm Hazadiah Fairbanks was born at Lancaster, Ma.
28 Feb 1639 8x ggf John Moore was born at Sudbury, Ma.
28 Feb 1744 5x ggm Betty Whitcomb was born at Bolton, Ma.

MARRIAGES:
28 Feb 1683 9X ggp George Adams & Martha Fiske were married at Arlington, Ma.
28 Feb 1827 3x ggp Wesley Coburn & Lucy Stowe were married at Newry, Ma.

DEATHS:
28 Feb 1687 9X ggf John Hoyt died at Amesbury, Ma
28 Feb 1708 8x ggf Richard Reith died at Marble head, Ma

ON THIS DATE: FEB. 27th

ON THIS DATE:
MARRIAGE:
27 Feb 1639 8x ggp Francis West & Margery Reeve were married in Duxbury, Ma.

DEATH:
 27 Feb 1877 3x ggf Wesley Coburn died in Albany, Me.   

ON THIS DATE: FEB.26th

ON THIS DATE:
MARRIAGES:
26 Feb 1730 7x ggp Seth Ellis & Mary Bumpus were married in Rochester, Ma.
26 Feb 1767 5x ggp Samuel Stow & Abigail Dana were married in Dedham, Ma.

DEATHS:
26 Feb 1670 8x ggf Edward Spaulding died at Chelmsford, Ma.
26 Feb 1715 8x ggf John Tuthill died in Ipswich, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: FEB. 23rd.

ON THIS DATE:

BIRTHS:
23 Feb 1656 7x ggf Nathaniel Tay was born in Woburn, Ma.

DEATHS:
23 Feb 1795 5x ggf Moses Barrows Jr. died in Cornish, NH.
23 Feb 1692 10x ggf Richard Hildreth died in Chelmsford, Ma.
23 Feb 1642 9xggm Frances (Tuxbury) Hoyt died in Salisbury, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: FEB. 22nd

 ON THIS DATE:
MARRIAGE:
22 Feb 1787 4x ggp John Laughton IV and Lydia Ann McGraugh were married in Norridgewock Me.

DEATH:
22 Feb 1672 9x ggf John Howland Sr. died in Plymouth, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: FEB.21st

 On This Date:
BIRTH:
21 Feb 1724 5x great grandmother Sarah Herrick was born at Beverly, Ma.
 
DEATHS:
21 Feb 1779 6x great grandfather William Buswell died at Kingston, NH
21 Feb 1917 2x great grandmother Florilla (Dunham) Ellingwood died at Paris, Me.

ON THIS DATE: FEB. 20th

  On This Date:
BIRTH:
20 Feb 1696 6x great grandmother Susannah Hoyt was born at Amesbury, Ma.
20 Feb 1668 7x great grandfather David Whitcomb was born at Bolton, Ma.

MARRIAGE:
20 Feb 1634 10x ggp George Giddings and Jane Lawrence were married at St.Albans, Herefordshire, England.

DEATHS:
20 Feb 1666 9x great grandfather Thomas Safford died at Ipswich, Ma.
20 Feb 1669 9x great grandfather William Bachelder died at Charlestown, Ma.
20 Feb 1712 8x great grandfather Nathaniel Gay died at Dedham, Ma.
20 Feb 1638 8x great grandfather Paul Sears died at Yarmouth, Ma.
20 Feb 1721 7x great grandfather Peter West died at Plymouth, Ma

ON THIS DATE: FEB. 19th

ON THIS DATE:
BIRTHS:
19 Feb 1723 6x ggm Sybil Willard was born in Gloucester, Ma.
19 Feb 1679 9x ggf Benjamin Shuttleworth was born in Dedham, Ma.

DEATHS:
19 Feb 1728 6x ggf John Hasting Sr. died in Haverhill, Ma.
19 Feb 1717 9x ggf Joseph Morse Jr.died in Sherborn, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: FEB. 17th

On This Date:

 

BIRTH:

17 Feb 1642 9x great grandmother Elizabeth Kendall was born at Reading, Ma.

17 Feb 1743 5x great grandfather Abel Moore was born in Bolton, Ma.

 

DEATHS

17 Feb 1696 9x great grandfather Francis Dane died at Andover, Ma

17 Feb 1700 8x great grandfather Edward Colborne died at Chelmsford, Ma.

17 Feb 1732 9x great grandfather George Adams died at Lexington, Ma.

17 Feb 1745 8x great grandmother Hannah (Poor) Dane died at Andover, Ma.

17 Feb 1776 5x great grandfather Jonathan Crowell died at Liverpool, Nova Scotia

ON THIS DATE: FEB. 15th

On This Date:

BIRTHS:

15 Feb 1675 7x great grandfather Joseph Keith was born at Bridgewater, Ma

15 Feb 1780 4x great grandmother Martha Haskell was born at Harvard, Ma.

15 Feb 1693 7x great grandmother Abigail Gay was born at Dedham, Ma.

DEATHS:

15 Feb 1806 5x great grandmother Abigail (Mitchell)Barker died at Methuen, Ma.

15 Feb 1846 5x great grandmother Mary (Boyden) Griffith died at Livermore Falls, Me.

15 Feb 1655 10x great grandmother Eleanor (Sharp) Phelps died at Salem, Ma.

JONAS PRESCOTT & MARY LOKER

 

 ((This was first posted on 7Jul 2008. It's a nice story with probably a

little truth to it, but true or not it makes a good Valentine's Day story)).


I mentioned in my previous post about John Prescott that
there is a romantic (and probably romanticized) story about
his son Jonas Prescott's courtship of Mary Loker. I've found it
recounted in several different books on Google Books, and
while I'm not entirely sure it's true, it does make for another
interesting family tale.

The story is that Jonas and Mary fell in love but her parents
John Loker and Mary Draper had other plans for their
daughter. They wanted her to marry a lawyer, a man of
prospects, not the son of a blacksmith who was following his
father in the family trade and they forbade Mary from any
more contact with Jonas. One version told by Caleb Butler in
"The History of the Town of Groton" says the Lokers even
went so far as to install gratings on the windows of her room
and would lock her inside if Jonas was nearby. But even this
drastic measure didn't stand in the way of love:

"He (Jonas) took opportunities when the cold wind blew
and the pelting storm raged when no listener could overhear
the soft whispering of true lovers to place himself beneath
her grated window and there enjoy sweet communion
with his dearly beloved ."

But eventually Mary's parents found out about this trickery.
Perhaps Jonas' idea of a whisper in a storm was a bit too loud?
At any rate, Mary's parents next decided to send her away to
a secluded village so Jonas could not find her while they looked
for a more suitable prospect for Mary's hand in marriage.
They sent her off to the small frontier town of Chockset which
is now Sterling, Massachusetts.


Jonas searched for Mary until one day while traveling near
Chockset he met some men of his own age and asked if they
knew of any pretty girls in the area. They told him there was
a quilting and a dance that night in Chockset and invited him
to come along.

You can see where this is going, I bet!

Jonas found Mary Loker and they continued to meet in secret
for some time until her parents once more found them out.
Mary's stubborn insistence that she would never marry any
man but Jonas Prescott at last forced her parents to give in,
although they did so with the angry condition that they would
provide no dowry for the bride. Legend says that the young
couple set up their household with so few essentials that
Mary used a large hollowed out pumpkin shell for a washpot!

I'm a bit skeptical about that pumpkin part but I think the
opposition of the Lokers to Jonas Prescott pressing his suit for
their daughter might have some truth to it. After all, although
Jonas' father John was well off, he was not exactly in the good
graces of the Puritan government, and the Lokers might have
had their hearts set on young Mary marrying someone who
could eventually rise to a position of power. Ironically, the
Prescotts eventually became one of Massachusetts' most
distinguished families.

I am descended from Elizabeth Prescott b 23Jan 1676,
d. 18Mar 1744.

She married Eleazer Green about 1694 or 1695. Their daughter
Elizabeth married John Ames(Eames), and their descendant
Arvilla Ames married my ancestor John Cutter West

ON THIS DATE: FEB. 14th

 

Big Valentines Day list:

 

What better day for one of my Lovejoy ancestors to get married? And the other ancestors married today had a Valentine's Day baby three years later!

 

It's a significant date in the Barrows family, too.

 

On This Date:

 

BIRTHS:

14 Feb 1635 9x great grandfather Zerubabbel Endicott was born at Salem, Ma.

14 Feb 1654 7x great grandmother Hannah Jefes(Jefts) was born at Chelmsford, Ma.

14 Feb 1678 7x great grandfather Stephen Abbott was born at Andover, Ma.

14 Feb 1697 5x great grandfather Moses Barrows was born at Carver, Ma.

 

MARRIAGES:

14 Feb 1694 6x great grandparents George Barrows & Patience Simmons were married at Carver, Ma.

14 Feb 1711 7x great grandparents Henry Lovejoy & Sarah Farnum were married at Andover, Ma.

14 Feb 1734 6x great grandparents Ephraim Abbott & Hannah Phelps were married at Andover, Ma.

 

DEATHS:

14 Feb 1671 10x great grandmother Sarah (Wyeth) Fiske died at Watertown, Ma.

14 Feb 1672 9x great grandmother Agnes (Napper)Woodbury died at Salem, Ma.

14 Feb 1692 8x great grandfather John Barrows died at Plymouth, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: FEB.13th

 Amos and Edith were cousins.

ON THIS DATE:
MARRIAGE:
13 Feb 1766 5x ggp Amos Upton & Edith Upton were married in No. Reading, Ma.

DEATH:
13 Feb 1686 8x ggf John Doane died in Eastham, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: FEB. 11th

 

On This Date:

DEATHS

11 Feb 1661 9x great grandfather Anthony Colby died at Salisbury, Ma.

11 Feb 1697 7x great grandfather Robert Swan died at Haverhill, Ma.

ON THIS DATE: FEB. 12th

 ON THIS DATE:
BIRTHS:
12 Feb 1670 7x ggm Ann Ordway was born in Newbury, Ma.
12 Feb 1691 7x ggm  Mary Whitford was born in Lynn, Ma.

MARRIAGE:
12 Feb 1706 8x ggp John Laughton Sr. & Sarah Swain were married in Reading, Ma.

DEATHS:
12 Feb 1689 8x ggf Joshua Lazell died in Hingham, Ma.
12 Feb 1778 6x ggm Anne (Wetherbee) Stow died in Framingham, Ma.
12 Feb 1957 gm Agnes (McFarland) White died in Malden, Ma.