Surname Saturday - PRENCE (England to colonial Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am in the 8th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #1151 who is Mercy PRENCE (1631-1711) [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 8th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two generations of this SNOW family line is:

1. Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

34. Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840)
35. Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869)

70.  Thomas Dill (1758-1836)
71.  Hannah Horton (1761-1797)

142.  Nathaniel Horton (1721-1763)
143.  Eunice Snow (1722-1816)

286.  Jabez Snow (1696-1760)
287.  Elizabeth Paine (1702-1772)

574.  John Paine (1661-1731)
575.  Bennett Freeman (1671-1716)

1150.  John Freeman, born before 28 January 1627 in Billingshurst, Sussex, England; died 28 October 1719 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 2300. Edmond Freeman and 2301. Bennett Hodsoll.  He married 13 February 1650 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.
1151.  Mercy Prence, born before 28 September 1631 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States; died 28 September 1711 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of John Freeman and Mercy Prence are:
*  John Freeman (1650-1651).
*  John Freeman (1651-1721), married 1672 Sarah Merrick (1654-1696).
*  Thomas Freeman (1653-1716), married 1673 Rebecca Sparrow (1655-1740).
*  Edmund Freeman (1657-1717), married 1678 Ruth Merrick (1652-1686).
*  Mercy Freeman (1659-1745), married 1679 Samuel knowles (1651-1737).
*  William Freeman (1660-1687), married 1685 Lydai Sparrow (1660-1709).
*  Hannah Freeman (1664-1744), married 1681 John Mayo (1652-1726).
*  Patience Freeman (1665-1746), married 1682 Samuel Paine (1652-1712).
*  Prence Freeman (1665-????).
*  Nathaniel Freeman (1669-1760), married 1692 Mary Howland (1666-1743).
*  Bennett Freeman (1671-1716), married 1689 John Paine (1661-1731).

2302.  Thomas Prence, born 1600 in Lechlade, Gloucestershire, England; died 29 March 1673 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 4604. Thomas Prence and 4605. Elizabeth.  He married (1) 05 August 1624 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
2303.  Patience Brewster, born about 1595 in Scrooby, Nottinghamshire, England; died before 12 December 1634 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 4606. William Brewster and 4607. Mary.

Children of Thomas Prence and Patience Brewster are:
*  Thomas Prence (1625-????).
*  Rebecca Prence (1627-1651), married 1646 Edmund Freeman (1620-1673).
*  Hannah Prence (1629-1698), married (1) 1650 Nathaniel Mayo (1627-1662); (2) 1671 Jonathan Sparrow (1634-1707).
*  Mercy Prence (1631-1711), married 1650 John Freeman (1627-1719).

Thomas Prence was married three more times after the death of Patience in 1634.

Information about the Prence family can be obtained from:

*  Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 (Boston, Mass. : NEHGS, 1996), Volume III, pages 1518-1524.

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