Mary Gawkroger

• Preferred Name: Mary Gawkroger^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47]}
  
• Alternate Name: Mary Prescott
  
• Gender: F
  
• Residence: Death of Husband1681 in Lancaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America at LATI: N2.457 LONG: E71.6728
  
• Residence: Removed from Boston1641 in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America at LATI: N2.3667 LONG: E71.1667
  
• FSID: 9HKH-5N2
  
• Birth: 7 FEB 1613 in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.7047 LONG: E1.9393 with note: Std. Place for 1613.
  
• Residence: Removed from Watertown1645 in Lancaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America at LATI: N2.457 LONG: E71.6728
  
• Residence: Removed from Barbados1640 in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America at LATI: N2.3605 LONG: E71.0591 with note: See Life Sketch. Also documented in "Joseph Spurgeon Longley, His Life and Family". Std. Changed the Title.
  
• Burial: 1688 in Old Settlers Cemetery, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America at LATI: N2.4486 LONG: E71.6736 with note: Std. Place for 1688
  
• Death: 20 OCT 1688 in Lancaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America at LATI: N2.457 LONG: E71.6728
  
• Christening: 7 FEB 1613 in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.7047 LONG: E1.9393 with note: Dual year 1612/13 old style.
  
• Notes:

  More likely Sowerby where their children were born.

• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  “Of Prescott’s wife we know only her name: Mary Platts. But her daughters were sought for in marriage by men of whom we learn nothing that is not praiseworthy, and her sons all honored their mother’s memory, by useful and unblemished lives.” (Hon. Henry S. Nourse, “John Prescott, The Founder of Lancaster—1603-1682.”)
  
  She passed away 20 October 1688, in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, at the age of 81. She was buried in the Old Settlers Burial Yard, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
  
  Children of John Prescott and Mary Gawkroger-Platts:
  
  1.Mary Prescott, bap. 24 Feb 1630, England; md. Thomas Sawyer 1648. Lived in Lancaster and 11 sons and daughters were born to them; d. Apr 1709
  2.Martha Prescott, bap. 11 Mar 1632, England; md. John Rugg 1655; Lived in Lancaster. She died with her twin babies 24 January 1656.
  3.John Prescott, bap. 1 Apr 1635, England; md. Sarah Hayward 11 Nov 1668, Lancaster; five children. He was a farmer and blacksmith, lived with his father, and succeeded him at the mills; d. 1692
  4.Sarah Prescott, bap. 1637, England; md. (1) Richard Wheeler 2 Aug 1658, Lancaster. Her husband was killed in the massacre of 10 Feb 1676. Sarah had 5 children by her first husband. She then md. (2) Joseph Rich; d. 1727.
  5.Hannah Prescott, probably born at Barbados, West Indies, in 1639. Second wife of John Rugg 4 May 1660 and had eight children. She became a widow in 1696 and was slain by the Indians in the massacre of 11 Sep 1697.
  6.Lydia Prescott was born at Watertown, 15 Aug 1641, to John Prescott (1605-1681) and Mary Catherine Gawkroger-Platts (1607-1688.) She married (1) Jonas Fairbanks at Lancaster, 28 May 1658. He owned the lands next south of the Prescott’s home. They had seven children. In the massacre of 10 February 1676, he and his son Joshua were victims. The widow Lydia married (2) *Ellis Barron Jr. in about 1676. Lydia Prescott passed away 31 December 1723, at the age of 82
  7.Jonathan Prescott, b. between 1645 and 1647 in Lancaster. He was a blacksmith and farm; md. (1) Dorothy 3 Aug 1670, in Lancaster. She died in 1674, leaving a son Samuel. Jonathan was the unfortunate sentinel who, on 6 Nov 1704 killed by mistake his neighbor, the beloved minister of Lancaster, Reverent Andrew Gardner. Jonathan md. (2) Elizabeth, daughter of John Hoar of Concord, who died in 1687 leaving six children. Jonathan’s third wife (3) was Rebecca Bulkeley; (4) Ruth, widow of Thomas Brown. He did not reside in Lancaster after the massacre of 1676, but became an influential citizen of Concord, which he served as representative for nine years. He died 5 Dec 1721.
  8.Joseph Prescott, b. 1645, Lancaster, Massachusetts; md. Sarah Hayward; d. 31 Dec. 1732. (Known error in documentation)
  9.Jonas, b. June 1648, Lancaster, Massachusetts; md. Mary Loker of Sudbury, 14 Dec 1672. They had 12 children. Lived in Lancaster but later removed to Groton, where Jonas became Captain, Selectman, and Justice. He died in Groton, 31 Dec 1723.
  
  History of Mary Platts Gawkroger follows:
  Mary Platts (Gawkroger)
  Also Known As:"Mary Gawkroger-Platts", "Mary Platts Gawkroger"Birthdate:February 7, 1607 Birthplace:Sowerby, Yorkshire, England Death:Died October 20, 1688 in Lancaster, Worces
  
  Sharon's Notes
  NEHGS REGISTER p 8 Jan
  Why John and Jacob Farrer emigrrated to America is a matter of conjecture. The most likely reasons were the unsettled state of the country due to the Civil Wars of 1642-1646 an
  
  The Gawkroger Family, by Lyman De Platt
  The Gawkroger family ascends from Lyman De Platt [KWHH-6L3] through Gordon Leavitt Platt, Clarissa Josephine Leavitt, Mary Ellen Huntsman, Solinda Eastman Parker, Zadock Parker, Isaac Parker, Solomon
  
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  Daughter of Abraham Gawkroger-Platts and Martha (Riley) Gawkroger-Platts of Sowerby, Yorkshire, England.
  
  The date above is a baptism date.
  
  She married John Prescott on April 11,1629 at Halifax, York
  
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  Daughter of Abraham Gawkroger-Platts and Martha (Riley) Gawkroger-Platts of Sowerby, Yorkshire, England.
  
  The date above is a baptism date.
  
  She married John Prescott on April 11,1629 at Halifax, York
  
  1612 Mary Platts-Gawkroger
  GAWKROGER-PLATTS
  Mr. Clarence A. Torrey has very kindly pointed out to the writer that the wife of John Prescott of Lancaster, Massachusetts, was not the Mary Gawkroger, daughter of James and Marth (
  
  === The Descendants of John Rugg, by Ellen R ===
  The Descendants of John Rugg, by Ellen R. Rugg of Leominster, Mass., page 15.
  
  === This generation changed the name from G ===
  This generation changed the name from GAWKROGER to PLATTS
  
  === John Prescott Sr resided at Lancashire a ===
  John Prescott Sr resided at Lancashire and Yorkshire, England; came to Barbadose, West Indies in 1638 and then to Boston, MA in 1640. The Prescott memorial shows John marrying 21 January 1620 to Mary Platts at Wygan in Lancashire.
  
  === Father - James Gawkrogers Platts Mother ===
  Father - James Gawkrogers Platts Mother - Martha Ainsworth
  
  === burial after 1711 ===
  burial after 1711
  
  === Mary gave birth to children both in Old ===
  Mary gave birth to children both in Old England and New England, losing two babies in Old England. In 1640 the family appears 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 there is no proof or disproof of this. Mary had scarcely settled into a household routine in Watertown when John's deal for acquiring land went through and the family was uprooted again. In 1643 they moved to the Nashaway Plantation, where she helped her husband develop the area that came to be called Lancaster. This is where she probably gave birth to their son Jonathan. Life was extremely hard as they labored to build a home, raise their children, develop a farm, build a corn mill and operate a small store, negotiate with 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. It would have been a shock to lose her daughter Martha Prescott Rugg and her twin babies in the course of the birth in 1656. She was the mother of the bride in 1658 when her daughter 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. 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 of Lancaster in February of 1676. During the devastating attack on Lancaster that February she lost two sons-in-law, Jonas Fairbank and Richard Wheeler. In addition she lost grandchildren and many friends. All the settlers were evacuated to towns further east for safety, and it appears that the Prescott's went back to Watertown where they had friends from their early residence there. 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 Lancashire, England. It was recorded as follows: ' Deposition of Mary Prescott, dated 1678. The Testimoney of Mary Prescott aged 66 years or thereabout Sayth that the 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 the Sume of forth pounds in money: and the sd deponent 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 Prescot M p her marke. Witness: John Tott & Mary Lacey. We have no reason to believe that Mary was buried anywhere but in the Old Settlers Burying Ground adjacent to her husband John but there is no stone.
  
  === !The Ancestry & Descendants of The Whitc ===
  !The Ancestry & Descendants of The Whitcombs compiled by Peggy Miller Singer, p 121 States Mary was born in Wygan, Lancashire, 7 Feb 1612/13 the dau of Abram & Martha (Riley) Gawkroger/Platts Eight Lines of Descent of John Prescott, Founder of Lancaster, Mass, 1645 From Alfred the Great, King of England, by Frederick Lewis Weis pp 28, 38 IGI Bap 28 Jan 1933, 10 Jun 1992 SG, 1 Apr 1982 JR, 26 Mar 1992 AT 11 Apr 1986 JR, 8 Apr 1879 SL, 23 Sep 1992 PV End 25 Feb 1993 SG, 15 Apr 1982 JR, 21 Jun 1986 JR 13 Mar 1993 PV, 14 Aug 1888 MT SP 26 Mar 1992 AT, 24 Jun 1986 JR, 29 Sep 1959 LA 12 Jul 1956, 30 Mar 1993 PV, 1 Mar 1943, 23 Oct 1953 MT 28 Nov 1951 AZ
  
  === For source info see Richard Gawkroger--R ===
  For source info see Richard Gawkroger--Rin # 2195 Also see Church Records Archives-- Also researched by United Ancestries Lisle left a note saying that when Mary cames to the United States she left the name Gawkroger behind.---
  
  === Two Mary Gawkrogers (close in age) are cousins ===
  The first Mary mentioned below married Richard Eccles. The second Mary (her cousin) married John Prescott.
  
  MARY GAWKROGER-PLATTS (b.1607, d. 1675, m. Richard Eccles) was born (christened) 7 February 1607 in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England, to James Gawkroger (1578-1601) and Martha Ainsworth (1579-1632.)
  Sources show her cousin, Mary Gawkroger, b/c. 1612/13, d. 1688, m. John Prescott as the daughter of Abram Gawkroger of Platts (b. 1574 Halifax, Yorkshire) and Martha Riley (b. abt 1580 Sowerby). She married John Prescott, 21 January 1629, Wygan, Lancashire, Sowerby, England. They immigrated to New England via Barbados (1638) to Boston (1640.)
  
  === !SOURCE: The Descendants of Willoughby P ===
  !SOURCE: The Descendants of Willoughby Prescott FHL book # 929.273/P925p SOURCE: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Weis 7th Edition.
  
  === FATHER WAS GAWKROGERS, James
  MOTHER WAS ===
  FATHER WAS GAWKROGERS, James
  MOTHER WAS MARTHA AINSWORTH
  
  === [My Family Tree.FBK.FTW] [timothy_paris ===
  [My Family Tree.FBK.FTW] [timothy_parish.ged] Notes for Mary Platts: According to well-documented research in the "Ancestors of R. W. Roy" website, compiled by Robert A. Roy of Herndon, Virginia (17 September 2001): She and John Prescott immigrated circa 1638 to Barbadoes. Another source indicates that she and John Prescott immigrated in 1640 to Boston, Massachusetts; and settled in Watertown. She and John Prescott moved circa 1643 to The Nashaway Purchase, now Lancaster, Massachusetts, thus becoming the first settlers of Lancaster and the first settler in Worcester County.
  
  === bp. 3/15/1607, Sowerby, Halifax parish, ===
  bp. 3/15/1607, Sowerby, Halifax parish, Yorkshire, Eng.; m. 4/11/1629, John Prescott, founder of Lancaster, Mass. (41) , b. ca. 1604, Standish Parish, Co. Lancaster, Eng., d. 12//1681, bu. Old Settlers Burying Ground, Lancaster, Mass.
  
  === !AKA: or also listed Mary Gawkroger in"N ===
  !AKA: or also listed Mary Gawkroger in"NE MARRIAGES PRIOR to 1700" and
  Mary GAWKROGER (PLATTS) in AF;
  !RES: of Wygan, Lancashire, ENG, PRESCOTT pg 134;
  !PAR: conflict, Martha [Riley] GAWKROGER and Abraham PLATTS, or James Gawkrogers
  PLATTS & AINSWORTH in AF;
  
  === Nexus vol VI, No 2, p. 66 says she was ===
  Nexus vol VI, No 2, p. 66 says she was "poss. Mary (1) Platt
  
  === SOURCE: Genealogy of the Ancestors and D ===
  SOURCE: Genealogy of the Ancestors and Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. 1574-1909; By Almira larkin White of Haverhill, Mass.; Volume IV; Press of the Nichols Print 1909, Haverhill, Mass.;University Microfilms Inc.; Ann Arbor, MIchigan 48106; Microfiche G-683 Aka: Mary Gawkroger (p. 167) Christening: March 15, 1607 (p. 167) Marriage: John Prescott; April 11, 1629 (p. 167)
  
  === Mary gave birth to children both in Old ===
  Mary gave birth to children both in Old England and New England, losing two babies in Old England. In 1640 the family appears in Watertown, Massachusetts where they lived for about three years and where their youngest daughter Lydia was born. In this transition period befor Lydia was born, Mary may have had a daughter, Hannah, but there is no proof or disproof of this. Mary had scarcely settled into a household routine in Watertown when John's deal for acquiring land went through and the family was uprooted again. In 1643 they moved to the Nashway Plantation, where she helped her husband develop the area that came to be called Lancaster. This is where she probably gave birth to their son Jonathan. Life was extremely hard as they labored to build a home, raise their children, develop a farm, build a corn mill and operate a small store, negotiate with 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. It would have been a shock to lose her daughter Martha Prescott Rugg and her twin babies in the course of the birth in 1656. She was the mother of the bride in 1658 when her daughter 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. 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 of Lancater in February of 1676. During the devastating attack on Lancaster that February she lost two son-in-laws, Jonas Fairbank and Richard Wheeler. In addition she lost grandchildren and many friends. All the settlers were evacuated to towns further east for safety, and it appears that the Prescott's went back to Watertwon where they had friends from their early residence there. We know that Mary survived the massacre, because she made a legal deposition in 1678 whic h 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 Lancashire, England. It was recorded as follows: ' Deposition of Mary Prescott, dated 1678. The Testimoney of Mary Prescott aged 66 years or thereabout Sayth that the 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 the Sume of forth pounds in money: and the sd deponent 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 Prescot M p her marke. Witness: John Tott & Mary Lacey. We have no reason to believe that Mary was buried anywhere but in the Old Settlers Burying Ground adjacent to her husband John but there is no stone.
  
  === !Alias - Platts ===
  !Alias - Platts
  
  === Mary's birth date seems somewhat controv ===
  Mary's birth date seems somewhat controversial. According to "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700; 7th Edition" by Frederick Lewis Weis; adds/corr by Walter Lee Sheppard, she was baptized March 15, 1607. Researchers Pam Emerson and Gertrude Clapsattle show it as February 7, 1612/13. Sam Stevens shows about 1611 and that she was baptized on February 7, 1613. Sam Stevens shows the surname of Gawkroger only.
  
  === a Yorkshire girl, came with family in 16 ===
  a Yorkshire girl, came with family in 1640; bapt Sowerby Parish, Halifax, Co. York 15 March. 1607; Name given as Mary Platts Gawkroger in IGI.
  
  === Life sketch of John Prescott ===
  Life Sketch
  John Prescott
  • Memorial
  •
  Birth: 1605
  Death: Dec., 1681
  Lancaster
  Worcester County
  Massachusetts, USA
  
  John Prescott, founder of Lancaster, MA.
  John Prescott, Sr. was born about 1605 in England and died in Lancaster, MA in 1683. He married Mary Gawkroger (alias Platt) (1607-1718) on April 11, 1629 in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England. The first 5 of their children were born in England except for the fifth child Hannah who was probably born in Barbados, West Indies in 1639. Their children included: Mary (Thomas Sawyer), Martha (John Rugg), John, Jr. (Sarah), Sarah (1 Richard Wheeler, 2 Joseph Rice), Hannah (John Rugg widower of Martha), Lydia (1 Jonas Fairbanks, 2 Elias Barron, Jr.), Capt. Jonathan (1 Dorothy Heald, 2 Elizabeth Hoar, 3 Rebecca Wheeler, 4 Ruth Brown), Joseph (probable that there was no son Joseph and that his existence at all is due to a clerks error in an early history of Concord, MA), Capt. Jonas, Sr. (Mary Loker).
  John and Mary were in Watertown, MA in 1640 and moved from there to the Nashaway Plantation in 1643 which was later to become Lancaster. Jonas was born here before Lancaster was incorporated so his birth was registered in Groton. There may have been two other children who died in infancy in England. Mary's alias "Platts" appears to come from English lands by that name that passed down through the Gawkroger family.
  The main source of this information is William Prescott's 1870 "Prescott Memorial."
  
  Bio Submitted by:
  Bob Speckman
  Salem, OR
  August 2008
  
  According to societies like "The Order of The Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America", John Prescott's father was Sir Ralph Prescott and his mother was wife Ellen.
  
  Famous Descendants are President George HW Bush, President George W Bush, Senator Prescott Bush, Governor Jeb Bush.
  
  Family links:
  Spouse:
  Mary Gawkroger-Platts Prescott (1607 - 1688)
  
  Children:
  Martha Prescott Rugg (____ - 1655)*
  Mary Prescott Sawyer (1629 - 1705)*
  John Prescott (1634 - ____)*
  Sarah Prescott Wheeler Rice (1637 - 1727)*
  Hannah Prescott Rugg (1639 - 1697)*
  Lydia Prescott Fairbanks Barron (1641 - ____)*
  Jonathan Prescott (1643 - 1721)*
  Jonas Prescott (1648 - 1723)*
  
  *Calculated relationship
  
  Inscription:
  Original grave marker:
  JOHN
  PRESCOTT
  DECASED
  
  A memorial stone erected a long time after John Prescott's death: HERE WITH HIS CHILDREN ABOUT HIM LIES JOHN PRESCOTT FOUNDER OF LANCASTER AND FIRST SETTLER OF WORCESTER COUNTY BORN AT STANDISH, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND DIED AT LANCASTER, MASSACHUSETTS, DEC. 1681. INSPIRED BY THE LOVE OF LIBERTY AND THE FEAR OF GOD, THIS STOUT-HEARTED PIONEER FORSAKING THE PLEASANT VALES OF ENGLAND TOOK UP HIS ABODE IN THE UNBROKEN FOREST AND ENCOUNTERED WILD BEAST AND SAVAGE TO SECURE FREEDOM FOR HIMSELF AND HIS POSTERITY HIS FAITH AND VIRTUES HAVE BEEN INHERITED BY MANY DESCENDANTS WHO IN EVERY GENERATION HAVE WELL SERVED THE STATE IN WAR, IN LITERATURE, AT THE BAR, IN THE PULPIT, IN PUBLIC LIFE AND IN CHRISTIAN HOMES
  
  Note: Age: Approx 76. Founder of Lancaster. (footstone broken)
  
  Burial:
  Old Settlers Burial Yard
  Lancaster
  Worcester County
  Massachusetts, USA
  Plot:
  
  John Prescott
  • Memorial
  •
  Birth: 1605
  Death: Dec., 1681
  Lancaster
  Worcester County
  Massachusetts, USA
  
  John Prescott, founder of Lancaster, MA.
  John Prescott, Sr. was born about 1605 in England and died in Lancaster, MA in 1683. He married Mary Gawkroger (alias Platt) (1607-1718) on April 11, 1629 in Sowerby, Yorkshire, England. The first 5 of their children were born in England except for the fifth child Hannah who was probably born in Barbados, West Indies in 1639. Their children included: Mary (Thomas Sawyer), Martha (John Rugg), John, Jr. (Sarah), Sarah (1 Richard Wheeler, 2 Joseph Rice), Hannah (John Rugg widower of Martha), Lydia (1 Jonas Fairbanks, 2 Elias Barron, Jr.), Capt. Jonathan (1 Dorothy Heald, 2 Elizabeth Hoar, 3 Rebecca Wheeler, 4 Ruth Brown), Joseph (probable that there was no son Joseph and that his existence at all is due to a clerks error in an early history of Concord, MA), Capt. Jonas, Sr. (Mary Loker).
  John and Mary were in Watertown, MA in 1640 and moved from there to the Nashaway Plantation in 1643 which was later to become Lancaster. Jonas was born here before Lancaster was incorporated so his birth was registered in Groton. There may have been two other children who died in infancy in England. Mary's alias "Platts" appears to come from English lands by that name that passed down through the Gawkroger family.
  The main source of this information is William Prescott's 1870 "Prescott Memorial."
  
  Bio Submitted by:
  Bob Speckman
  Salem, OR
  August 2008
  
  According to societies like "The Order of The Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America", John Prescott's father was Sir Ralph Prescott and his mother was wife Ellen.
  
  Famous Descendants are President George HW Bush, President George W Bush, Senator Prescott Bush, Governor Jeb Bush.
  
  Family links:
  Spouse:
  Mary Gawkroger-Platts Prescott (1607 - 1688)
  
  Children:
  Martha Prescott Rugg (____ - 1655)*
  Mary Prescott Sawyer (1629 - 1705)*
  John Prescott (1634 - ____)*
  Sarah Prescott Wheeler Rice (1637 - 1727)*
  Hannah Prescott Rugg (1639 - 1697)*
  Lydia Prescott Fairbanks Barron (1641 - ____)*
  Jonathan Prescott (1643 - 1721)*
  Jonas Prescott (1648 - 1723)*
  
  *Calculated relationship
  
  Inscription:
  Original grave marker:
  JOHN
  PRESCOTT
  DECASED
  
  A memorial stone erected a long time after John Prescott's death: HERE WITH HIS CHILDREN ABOUT HIM LIES JOHN PRESCOTT FOUNDER OF LANCASTER AND FIRST SETTLER OF WORCESTER COUNTY BORN AT STANDISH, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND DIED AT LANCASTER, MASSACHUSETTS, DEC. 1681. INSPIRED BY THE LOVE OF LIBERTY AND THE FEAR OF GOD, THIS STOUT-HEARTED PIONEER FORSAKING THE PLEASANT VALES OF ENGLAND TOOK UP HIS ABODE IN THE UNBROKEN FOREST AND ENCOUNTERED WILD BEAST AND SAVAGE TO SECURE FREEDOM FOR HIMSELF AND HIS POSTERITY HIS FAITH AND VIRTUES HAVE BEEN INHERITED BY MANY DESCENDANTS WHO IN EVERY GENERATION HAVE WELL SERVED THE STATE IN WAR, IN LITERATURE, AT THE BAR, IN THE PULPIT, IN PUBLIC LIFE AND IN CHRISTIAN HOMES
  
  Note: Age: Approx 76. Founder of Lancaster. (footstone broken)
  
  Burial:
  Old Settlers Burial Yard
  Lancaster
  Worcester County
  Massachusetts, USA
  Plot:
  
  Mary Platts (Gawkroger)
  Also Known As:"Mary Gawkroger-Platts", "Mary Platts Gawkroger"Birthdate:February 7, 1607 Birthplace:Sowerby, Yorkshire, England Death:Died October 20, 1688 in Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts
  Immediate Family:
  Daughter of James Gawkroger, of Sowerby; James Gawkroger;Martha Gawkroger and Genet Fairbanks
  Wife of John Prescott
  Mother of Mary Sawyer (Prescott); Martha Rugg; Prescott; Infant Prescott; Infant Prescott and 7 others
  Sister of John Platts Gawkroger; Anna Gawkroger; Lydia Gawkroger;Anna Gawkroger; James Platts Gawkroger and 18 others
  Occupation:Name was Gawkroger in England but changed to PLATTS in USA
  
  === 1. "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists," ===
  1. "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists," Weis, 1988 [gives parents as Abraham and Martha (Riley) Gawkroger-Platts]. 2. TIB card. 3. Ancestral File.
  
  === Some Gawkrogers took the name of Platt o ===
  Some Gawkrogers took the name of Platt or Platts.

• m. 11 APR 1629 in Yorkshire, England
• m. 21 JAN 1628 in Lancaster, England

1. Jonas Prescott, b. JUN 1648 in Lancaster, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America     d. 31 DEC 1723 in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

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2. Title: Mary Platts in entry for Jonas Prescott, Death, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
   Author: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-DFXJ : 18 October 2022), Mary Platts in entry for Jonas Prescott, 1723; citing Death, , Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007578571.
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3. Title: Mary Platts in entry for Jonathan Prescott & Elizebeth Hoar, Marriage, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
   Author: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-F2RL : 18 October 2022), Mary Platts in entry for Jonathan Prescott and Elizebeth Hoar, 23 Dec 1675; citing Marriage, , Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007578571.
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5. Title: Mary Platts in entry for Jonathan Prescott & Ruth Brown, Marriage, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
   Author: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-64MQ : 18 October 2022), Mary Platts in entry for Jonathan Prescott and Ruth Brown, 18 Dec 1718; citing Marriage, , Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007578571.
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6. Title: American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/3599/records/1160118;
   
7. Title: History of the Town of Concord, Mass
   Author: History of the Town of Concord, Mass, Shadduck, LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Page number: Appendix
   Note: birth: ; Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2689160980
   
8. Title: Mary Platts in entry for Jonathan Prescott & Ruth Brown, Marriage, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
   Author: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-HGX4 : 18 October 2022), Mary Platts in entry for Jonathan Prescott and Ruth Brown, 18 Aug 1718; citing Marriage, , Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007578571.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-HGX4;
   
9. Title: Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/2495/records/16874994;
   
10. Title: Family Data Collection - Deaths
    Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/5771/records/986713;
    
11. Title: Mary Platts in entry for Jonathan Prescott, Death, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
    Author: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-DNWQ : 18 October 2022), Mary Platts in entry for Jonathan Prescott, 5 Dec 1721; citing Death, , Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007578571.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-DNWQ;
    
12. Title: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
    Author: Place: Watertown, Massachusetts; Year: 1641; Page Number: 53
    Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/7486/records/4171488;
    
13. Title: Mary Platts in entry for Jonathan Prescott & Rebecca Bulkley, Marriage, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
    Author: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-H3MY : 18 October 2022), Mary Platts in entry for Jonathan Prescott and Rebecca Bulkley, 18 Dec 1689; citing Marriage, , Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007578571.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-H3MY;
    
14. Title: Norfolk, England, Church of England Baptism, Marriages, and Burials, 1535-1812
    Author: Norfolk Record Office; Norwich, Norfolk, England; Norfolk Church of England Registers
    Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/61045/records/1604578257;
    
15. Title: Mary Gawkroger-Platts Prescott (1607-1688) - Find A Grave Memorial
    Author: Burial: Old Settlers Burial Yard Lancaster Worcester County Massachusetts, USA Find A Grave Memorial# 36227482
    Publication: Name: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=36227482;
    Note: Birth: Mar. 15, 1607 -- This is a baptism date. Sowerby North Yorkshire, England Death: Oct. 20, 1688 Lancaster Worcester County Massachusetts, USA Daughter of Abraham Gawkroger-Platts and Martha (Riley) Gawkroger-Platts of Sowerby, Yorkshire, England. The date above is a baptism date. She married John Prescott on April 11,1629 at Halifax, Yorkshire, England. Children: Mary Prescott Sawyer, Martha Prescott Rugg, John Prescott, Sarah Prescott Wheeler, Hannah Prescott Rugg, Lydia Prescott Fairbanks Barron, Jonathan Prescott, Joseph Prescott, and Jonas Prescott. Family links: Spouse: John Prescott (1605 - 1681)* Children: Hannah Prescott Rugg (____ - 1697)* Martha Prescott Rugg (____ - 1655)* Mary Prescott Sawyer (1629 - 1705)* John Prescott (1634 - ____)* Sarah Prescott Wheeler Rice (1637 - 1727)* Lydia Prescott Fairbanks Barron (1641 - ____)* Jonathan Prescott (1643 - 1721)* Jonas Prescott (1648 - 1723)* *Calculated relationship
    
16. Title: Mary Platts in entry for Jonas Prescott and Rebecca Bulkley, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
    Author: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-DTRK : 18 October 2022), Mary Platts in entry for Jonas Prescott and Rebecca Bulkley, 18 Dec 1678; citing Marriage, , Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007578571.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-DTRK;
    
17. Title: Mary Platts in entry for Jonathan Prescott and Dorothy Platts, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
    Author: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-HG8H : 18 October 2022), Mary Platts in entry for Jonathan Prescott and Dorothy Platts, 3 Aug 1660; citing Marriage, , Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007578571.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-HG8H;
    Page: Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001 Mary Platts & Others
    
18. Title: West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812
    Author: West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; New Reference Number: WDP53/1/1/5
    Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/2256/records/20083644;
    
19. Title: Ancestry of John Harrington Stevens and Frances Helen Miller data for Mary Gawkroger
    Author: Platt List on Rootsweb.
    Note: Mary Lovering Holman, that wrote the "Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington and Frances Helen Miller" states the mary was undoubltly descended from a John Gawkroger who held land called "PLATTS ," in Sowerby and the appearance of this land in succedding generations fives an unbroken line down to Mary's Parents time. John Gawkroger is mentioned in Sowerby record from 1487 and 1505. 10 August, 1487 he surrendered the land called "PLATTS" to his grandson, John, son of his son, Richard. In a footnote she says that Gawroger means "left handed Roger" or "gawky Roger.
    Page: so people without the benefit of searching for a Source can have a Source.
    
20. Title: Book: Ancestry of John Barber White and of His Descendants
    Author: John Barber White, Ancestry of John Barber White and of His Descendants (Haverhill, Massachusetts: Press of C. H. Webster, 1913), 125-128.
    Publication: Name: https://archive.org/stream/ancestryofjohnba00whit#page/124;
    
21. Title: Ancestry Family Trees
    Author: Ancestry Family Tree
    
22. Title: Descendants of Sir Richard de Prescote
    Publication: Name: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com;
    Note: Ancestors of Prescotts who emigrated from England to Massachusetts in Colonial days
    
23. Title: American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI)
    Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/3599/records/1315407;
    
24. Title: Parish-Parrish Chronicles
    Author: Parish-Parrish Chronicles, Jesse Lenard Warner, 1980
    Note: DeWolf family Line, and others.
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3248198103
    
25. Title: Mary Platts in entry for Jonas Prescott, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915" (1648)
    Author: "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZKY-89Q : 15 January 2020), Mary Platts in entry for Jonas Prescott, 1648.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZKY-89Q;
    
26. Title: West Yorkshire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812
    Author: West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; Yorkshire Parish Records; Old Reference Number: D53/1/5; New Reference Number: WDP53/1/1/5
    Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/2256/records/20083644;
    
27. Title: Mary Gawkroger-Platts Prescott, "Find A Grave Index"
    Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKQ-YDQ4 : 24 May 2022), Mary Gawkroger-Platts Prescott, ; Burial, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America, Old Settlers Burial Yard; citing record ID 36227482, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKQ-YDQ4;
    
28. Title: Wigan, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1911
    Author: Wigan Archives Services; Wigan, England; Film Number: 1
    Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/60561/records/300311305;
    
29. Title: Mary in entry for Jona. Prescott, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
    Author: "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZK1-Q5J : 15 January 2020), Mary in entry for Jona. Prescott, 1761.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZK1-Q5J;
    Note: This extracted record was used to create this person in Family Tree.
    
30. Title: Book: Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife Frances Helen Miller
    Author: Mary Lovering Holman, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his wife Frances Helen Miller (Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press, 1948), 54, 61.
    Publication: Name: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?num=61&u=1&seq=9&view=image&size=100&id=wu.89067408831;
    
31. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Mary (Platts) GAWKROGER -
    Author: Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2030203070
    
32. Title: Mary Platts, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
    Author: "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-CS1P : 18 October 2022), John Prescott and Mary Platts, ; citing Marriage, , Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007578571.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1K-CS1P;
    
33. Title: Family Data Collection - Births
    Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/5769/records/1701557;
    
34. Title: Book: A History of the Town of Concord
    Author: Lemuel Shattuck, A History of the Town of Concord; Middlesex County, Massachusetts, From Its Earliest Settlement to 1832; and of the Adjoining Towns, Bedford, Acton, Lincoln, and Carlisle (Boston, Massachusetts: Russell, Odiorne and Company, 1835). 381-382.
    Publication: Name: https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofc00shat_0#page/380;
    
35. Title: Mary Platts in entry for Jonas Prescott, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
    Author: "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZKY-89Q : 15 January 2020), Mary Platts in entry for Jonas Prescott, 1648.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZKY-89Q;
    
36. Title: Book: The Prescott Memorial
    Author: William Prescott, The Prescott Memorial: Or a Genealogical Memoir of the Prescott Families in America (Boston: Henry W. Dutton & Son, 1870), 34, 41.
    Publication: Name: https://archive.org/stream/prescottmemorial00pres#page/n55/mode/2up;
    
37. Title: Extensive Research Paper on Mary Gawkroger alias Platts by Jane Petersen
    Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/62586148;
    
38. Title: Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914
    Author: Somerset Heritage Service; Taunton, Somerset, England; Reference Number: D\P\timb/2/1/5
    Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/60857/records/302048029;
    
39. Title: Book: John Prescott of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1681
    Author: Frederick Lewis Weis, John Prescott of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1681 (Dublin, New Hampshire: No publisher, 1961), 5.
    Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/185124-john-prescott-of-lancaster-massachusetts-1643-1681?viewer=1&offset=0#page=1&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q=;
    
40. Title: Mary Gawkroger or Helewell, "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975"
    Author: "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPBY-44V : 5 February 2023), Mary Gawkroger or Helewell, 1607.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NPBY-44V;
    Note: This extracted record was used to create this person in Family Tree.
    
41. Title: Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850
    Author: New England Historical Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Massachusetts Vitals to 1850
    Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/61401/records/76409168;
    
42. Title: London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812
    Author: London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; London Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: P82/Gis/A/02
    Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/1624/records/314530529;
    
43. Title: Book: The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America
    Author: Albert Gallatin Wheeler, Jr., The Genealogical and Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America (Boston, Massachusetts: American College of Genealogy, 1914). 498.
    Publication: Name: https://archive.org/stream/genealogicaland00genegoog#page/n536;
    
44. Title: Mary Platts in entry for Jonathan Prescott, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
    Author: "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZK1-Q3B : 15 January 2020), Mary Platts in entry for Jonathan Prescott, 1646.
    Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZK1-Q3B;
    
45. Title: Book: Mary Gawkroger 1612 1629 1678 Wife of John Prescott of Lancaster, Massachusetts
    Author: Frederick Lewis Weis, Mary Gawkroger 1612 1629 1678 Wife of John Prescott of Lancaster, Massachusetts (No place: No publisher, 1959), 3.
    Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/334188-mary-gawkroger-1612-1629-1678-wife-of-john-prescott-of-lancaster-massachusetts?viewer=1&offset=0#page=1&viewer=picture&o=info&n=0&q=;
    
46. Title: Ancestors of Austin Wesley Spencer
    Author: Ancestors of Austin Wesley Spencer (http://www.public.asu.edu/~anselmos/spencer), Not Given
    Note: Source Media Type: Electronic
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3244726347
    
47. Title: Descendants of Richard Wheeler, of Lancaster, Mass."
    Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=hY5bAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA498&lpg=PA498&dq=descendants+of+richard+wheeler+of+lancaster+mass&source=bl&ots=zf8cE5bWON&sig=IT2PSXMzBrLq06ky6n3rs9YF5zQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwietIzjyb7YAhUaHGMKHaNJBgUQ6AEIUzAJ#v=onepage&q=descendants%20of%20richard%20wheeler%20of%20lancaster%20mass&f=false;
    Note: Book is by Albert Gallatin Wheeler, American College of Genealogy. Includes this person among Wheeler family and closely related family members