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- Ref; Texas Society, Colonial Dames of 17th Century, Ancestors Lineages, Page 162.
Ref: Connecticut, 1600s- 1800s Local Families and Histories New England Families, Vol. I, Genealogies and Memorials, Page 440. He married, December 14, 1672, Mary, born September 28, 1653, died October 28, 1735, daughter of John and Mary (Draper) Loker. Ref; Early Massachusetts Marriages, Vol., III, Lancaster, Page 60; Jonas Prescott & Mary (Loker) ? 14-9-1672 Drake, Samuel G.. "Brief Memoirs and Notices of Prince's Subscribers", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume VI (1852). Ref; Somerby, H. G.. "Pedigree of Lawrence", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume X (1856). Ref; Wheeler, Daniel Merrick. The Wheeler Family of Rutland, Mass. and Some of their Ancestors. Pittsfield, Massachusetts: by the author, 1924. Ref; Potter, Charles Edward. Genealogies of Some Old Families of Concord, Mass. and Their Descendants in Part to the Present Generation. 1887. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1995. Ref; Ward, Andrew Henshaw. "Lancaster Records", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume XVI (1862). Ref; Ancestral File. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, 1994. Capt. Jonas Prescott was born in June 1648 at Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts. He was the son of John Prescott and Mary Platts. On 14 November 1672 at Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, Jonas married Mary Loker, daughter of John Loker and Mary Draper. Their marriage date was recorded as 14 (9) 1672.2,5,4 On 4 December 1672 Jonas married Mary Loker, daughter of John Loker and Mary Draper. On 5 October 1699 at Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Jonas married Thankful Wheeler. Capt. Jonas Prescott died on Friday, 31 December 1723 at Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at age 75 years and 6 months.
****** Jonas Prescott settled in Groton, Massachusetts. He, or his father for him, built the mill in the south part of Groton, now within the limits of Harvard, and is still called the 'old mill.' At a town meeting held in Groton, 19 November 1673, it was voted that 'By agreement of the town Jonas Prescott is to grind the town's corn for the town every second and every sixth day in every week.' At a town meeting at Groton, 13 June 1681, liberty was granted to Jonus Prescott to set up his corn mill at Stony Brook. An agreement between Jonas Prescott and the town of Groton that he, the said Prescott, have liberty to set up a saw mill at Stony brook on conditions that he furnish the town with merchantable boards at six pence a hundred (feet) cheaper than they are sold at any other saw mill, and for town pay, and that the town be supplied before any other person. (This priviledge was to continue or cease at the pleasure of the town.) John Prescott bought lands in Groton until he became one of the largest landholders in the town. He was also a blacksmith. The town of Groton, being in great want of a blacksmith, invited Jonas Prescott to remove to near the center of the town to a lot of land which the town voted to give him as an inducement. He accepted the invitation and built a house and shop on said lot (lying on the east side of James' brook, so called), and removed there in 1675. To be found on a large stone in a wall which encloses this farm can be seen an inscription (visible in 1866) I. P. 1680 Rebuilt by O. P. 1784 Rebuilt by S. J. Park 1841 The I. P. is for Jonas Prescott. Upon the resettlement of the town, after its destruction by the Indians in 1676, he built mills and a forge for the manufacture of the iron from the ore at Forge Valley (so called), which was then in Groton, but now in Westford. He was a man of extensive influence. He was town clerk in 1691; a selectman for several years; represented the town in the General Assembly in 1699 and 1705; was also captain in the militia and justice of the peace. He maintained an elevated rank in the community. Source: 'The Prescott Memorial', William Prescott, 1870, p 42-44.
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