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. 1653 (1908).
"(VIII) John, third son of Samuel and Mary (Sanborn) Prescott, was born at Hampton Falls, December 12, 1723, and baptized November 12, 1724. He settled in Epping and in 1745 joined a military company which was raised and commanded by Sir William Pepperell. He signed the association test in 1776. His death occurred in Epping, May 2, 1785. He was first married November 27, 1746, to Hannah Rundlett, who was born November 2, 1728, daughter of Jonathan and Rachel Rundlett, of Epping, and died March 16, 1766. For his second wife he married Mrs. Rebecca Tilton, widow of Samuel Tilton, of Deerfield, and a daughter of Hon. Benjamin Prescott. She survived her seond husband and was married for the third time to Nathan Gove Prescott, of Epping, July 7, 1789. She died in 1794, aged sixty-eight years. The nine children of John Prescott, all of his first union, were: Jonathan, Rachel, Mary, Lucy, Samuel, John, Dudley, Hannah and Leah.".