Elizabeth SAWYER

Elizabeth married Josiah BLODGETT on 16 Dec 1718 in Medford, Massachusetts. Josiah (son of Samuel BLODGETT and Huldah Hayward SIMONDS) was born on 27 Mar 1696 in Woburn, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 1 May 1775 in Stafford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Silas BLODGETT was born on 22 Jan 1731; died on 27 Aug 1824 in Knox, New York.

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Joshua married Sarah WRIGHT on 02 Jan 1678. Sarah was born on 16 Feb 1652 in Woburn, Middlesex, Mass; died in UNKNOWN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Mary PRESCOTT on 02 Jul 1648 in Lancaster, Middlesex, Mass. Mary (daughter of John PRESCOTT and Mary Gawkroger PLATTS) was born on 24 Feb 1630/1 in Sowerby-Bridge, Halifax, Horkshire, England; died on 12 Sep 1706 in Lancaster, Worcester Co., Massachuetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• AFN: AFN:8QCH-8C

John married UNKNOWN in 1607. was born about 1586 in Lincolnshire, England; died on 28 Dec 1677 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Mass. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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His baptism is not found on the records, there being a break in them from 1602-1610, but we find his name in the will of his father, Ralph Prescott, in 1808. John Prescott lived in Sowerby, where five of his children were born, three of whom he brought to New England, while two were buried in Sowerby. In 1638 he was living in the Island of Barbadoes, owning more than ten acres of land on the island, as proved by an old record recently found there. In 1640, they came to New England, and settled for a time in Watertown, where he had large grants of land allotted to him. In 1643, he associated himself with Thomas King and others, for the purpose of purchasing from Sholam, the Indian Sachem of the Nashaway tribe of Indians, a tract of land for a township, which was to be ten miles long and eight miles in breadth, known as "Nashaway Plantation," afterwards Lancaster, Mass., of which he was one of the original settlers and is considered the founder. The town received its name 18th May, 1653; and the name, it is said, was given in honor of Mr. Prescott, it being the name of his native county in England. After the completion of his corn-mill, in 1654, he took up his residence near it, and the site of the garrison house has been noted as near the southeast corner of High and Water Streets, Clinton, Mass. At the time of his death, he was possessed of about seven hundred acres of land, and had given lands and a mill at Nonaicoiacus (now Ayer) to his son Jonas. three hundred acres of this estate lay about the Washacum Ponds, including the Sterling camp-grounds. He owned nearly all the land upon which the manufactories and most densely peopled streets of Clinton are located, and one hundred acres in South Lancaster, stretching from the summit of George Hill to the meeting of the river. M. 11 Apr. 1629, in Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, England, 'Mary Gawkroger' or Platts, d. 1674. We find that "Gawkroger" meant "left-handed" or left-handed Roger." There ws probably a Roger Platts, who was left-handed or "gawky." We do not wonder that Mary and other members of the family when they came to New England, left the name of Gawky or left-handed Roger behind.

John married Mary Gawkroger PLATTS on 24 Jan 1629 in Halifax Parish, Yorkshire, England. Mary (daughter of Abraham Gawkroger (PLATTS) and Martha RILEY) was born in Wygan, Lancashire; died in 1674. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]