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Thursday, January 28, 2021

Treasure Chest Thursday -- 1698 Marriage Records of Samuel Prescott and Esther Wheeler in Concord and Lancaster, Massachusetts

  It's Treasure Chest Thursday - a chance to look in my digital image files to see what treasures I can find for my family history and genealogy musings.

The treasure today is the marriage entry for Samuel Prescott and Esther Wheeler in 1698 in the Lancaster, Massachusetts town record book:

The marriage entry is the 22nd from the top of the "Appendix" marriage listings:

The marriage record transcription is:

"Samuel Prescott and Esther Wheeler, May 5, 1698"

The source citation for this record is:

Henry S. Nourse (editor), The Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850 ( Clinton, Mass. : W.J. Coulter, Printer, 1890), page 11, "Middlesex County Records," Births, Ann Moore birth entry, 17 5th month 1666.

This is an abstract from a copied town record book for Lancaster, Massachusetts, so it is a Derivative Source with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the marriage of Samuel Prescott and Esther Wheeler.

There is also a record of this marriage in the Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages and Deaths book:

The marriage record is the 18th record from the top of the page:

The transcription of the record is:

"Sam'll Prescote & Ester Wheeler both of Concord were marryed by y'e
Rever'nd Joseph Estabrooke may y'e 5th 1698."

The source citation for this record is:

George Tolman (compiler), Concord, Massachusetts Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1635-1850 (Concord, Mass. : Committee on Printing, 1894), page 46, Sam'll Prescote and Ester Wheeler marriage entry, 5 May 1698.

This is an abstract from a copied town record book for Concord, Massachusetts, so it is a Derivative Source with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the marriage of Samuel Prescott and Esther Wheeler..

Samuel Prescott (1674-1758) was the son of Jonathan and Dorothy (Heald) Prescott of Lancaster, and Esther Wheeler (1678-1756) was the daughter of John and Sarah (Larkin) Wheeler of Concord, Massachusetts.  They married on 5 May 1698 in Concord, but it was also recorded in the Lancaster book.

Samuel and Esther (Wheeler) Prescott are my 7th great-grandparents, through their daughter Dorothy Prescott (1702-1774) who married James Hildreth (1698-1761) on 20 December 1721 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.

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