Friday, February 2, 2018

52 Ancestors - Week 212: #291 Elizabeth (Harwood) Prescott (1701-1739) of Westford, Massachusetts

Elizabeth Harwood (1701-1739) is #291 on my Ahnentafel List, my 6th great-grandmother, who married #290  Jonas Prescott (1703-1784) in 1731 in Westford, Massachusetts.


I am descended through:

*  their daughter #145 Elizabeth Prescott (1734-1812) who married #144 Zachariah Hildreth (1728-1784) in 1753.
*  their son, #72 Zachariah Hildreth (1754-1829) who married #73 Elizabeth Keyes (1759-1793) in 1777.
*  their son, #36 Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857) who married #37 Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857) in 1810.
*  their son, #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) who married #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923) in 1852.
*  their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920)  who married #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.
*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Name:                         Elizabeth Harwood[1–3]    
*  Alternate Name:         Elisabeth Prescott4–5

*  Sex:                            Female    

*  Father:                       Nathaniel Harwood (1669-1751)    
*  Mother:                     Mary Barron (1673-1758)  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):
*  Birth:                        28 January 1701, Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1]    

*  Death:                       27 December 1739 (age 38), Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[4–5]    
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:                   Jonas Prescott (1703-1784)    
*  Marriage 1:                7 March 1730/1 (age 28), intentions; Westford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[2–3]    

*  Child 1:                      Elijah Prescott (1732-1732)    
*  Child 2:                      Elizabeth Prescott (1734-1812)    
*  Child 3:                      Isaac Prescott (1738-1738)    
*  Child 4:                      Benjamin Prescott (1739-1741)
   
4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):    

Elizabeth Harwood was born 28 January 1701 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, the third daughter and third child (of seven) of Nathaniel and Mary (Barron) Harwood of Chelmsford[1]

She married Nathaniel Harwood on 7 March 1730/1 (intentions) in Groton, as his second wife[2-3].  They had four children born between 1732 and 1739; Elijah (born 1732, died within two weeks), Elizabeth (born 1734), Isaac (born 1738, died within three months), and Benjamin (born 1739, died within two years), all recorded in Westford, Massachusetts (which split from Chelmsford in 1730).

Elizabeth Prescott died on 27 December 1739 in Westford, Massachusetts[4-5] at the age of 38 years, ten days after the birth of her fourth child, Benjamin.  Her death record in the Westford town records says:

"Elisabeth Prescott Wife of Jonas Prescott Junr
died December 27 day 1739
Recorded by me Jonas Prescott Junr Town Clerk
in the year 1739."

There is no known gravestone marker for Elizabeth (Harwood) Prescott in Chelmsford or Westford, Massachusetts.

Her only surviving child was daughter Elizabeth Prescott (1734-1812), who married Zachariah Hildreth (1728-1784) in 1753.  Elizabeth (Harwood) Prescott's father, Nathaniel Harwood (1669-1751) bequeathed 5 pounds to his granddaughter Elizabeth Prescott in his 1744 will, proved in 1751.

5)  SOURCES

1. Town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Vital Records of Chelmsford, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1914), Births, page 77, Elizabeth Harwood entry.

2. Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com), Westford > Births, Marriages and Death, image 17 of 1750, Jonas Prescott and Elisabeth Harwood marriage entry, 1731.

3. Vital Records of Westford, Massachusetts to the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1915), Marriages, page 218, Jonas Prescott and Elizabeth Harwood entry.

4. Vital Records of Westford, Massachusetts to the Year 1849, Deaths, page 303, Elisabeth Prescott entry (2nd wife of Jonas, Jr.).

5. Massachusetts, Town Records, 1620-1988, digital images, Ancestry.com, Westford Births, Marriages and Deaths, Page 41, on Image 27, Elisabeth Prescott death entry.


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NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 
 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2018 to 260 Ancestors in 260 Weeks.


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