1Ezra S. Stearns, William F. Whitcher, and Edward E. Parker, Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the . . ., Vol. 4, p. 1652 (1908).
"(V) James (4), son of James (3) Prescott, of England, was baptized in 1642-3. He came from Dryby, in Lincolnshire, in 1665. At that time the region was part of the "Old County of Norfolk," Massachusetts.
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In 1668 James Prescott married Mary Boulter, daughter of Nathaniel and Grace Boulter, of Exeter, New hampshire. She was born in that town May 15, 1648, and was one of ten children, most of them daughters. On the death of her two brothers, Nathaniel and John, the family name became extinct.
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James Prescott moved from Hampton Falls to Kingston in 1725, where he died November 25, 1728, aged about eighty-five years. Mary, his widow, died at Kingston, October 4, 1735, aged eighty-seven years, four months and twenty days. James and Mary (Boulter) Prescott had nine children: Joshua, born March 1, 1669; James; Rebecca, married Nathaniel Sanborn; Jonathan, married Elizabeth ------------; Mary, married Jabez Coleman; Abigail and Patience (twins). Abigail married Richard Bounds; John married Abigail Marston; Nathaniel married Ann Marston, sister to Abigail. (James and descendants are noticed in this article.).".