Thursday, May 22, 2025

Treasure Chest Thursday: 1750 Death Record for Jonas Prescott (1678-1750) in Groton, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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

The treasure today is the 1750 death record for Jonas Prescott in the Groton, Massachusetts  vital records book:


The Jonas Prescott (1678-1750) death record is:


The extracted information for this death record for Jonas Prescott:

"[PRESCOTT] Jonas, Capt., Sept. 12, 1750, a 71 y. 10 m. 17 d. G.R. 2.

The source citation for this Jonas Prescott death record is:

Vital Records of Groton, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, Mass. : The Essex Institute, 1926-1927), Two volumes, Deaths, page 157, Capt. Jonas Prescott entry, 12 September 1750, age 71-10-17.

Jonas Prescott (1678-1750) was born 26 October 1678 in Groton, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the son of Jonas and Mary (Loker) Prescott.  He died 12 September 1750 in Groton, Massachusetts Bay Colony.  He married (1) Thankfull Wheeler (1682-1716) on 5 October 1699 in Concord, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and they had five hildren.  He mrried (2) Mary Page (1679-1750) on 30 April 1718 in Groton, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and they had no children.

Jonas Prescott and Wheeler are my 7th great-grandparents, through their son Jonas Prescott (1703-1784) who married Elizabeth Harwood1701-1739) in 1731.

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