1J.H. Beers & Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Tolland and Windham Counties Connecticut Containing Biographical Sketches of . . ., Vol. 1, p. 520 (1903).
"(II) Thomas Prentice married March 20, 1675, Sarah, Daughter of Thomas and Ann (Lord) Stanton, he the famous Indian interpreter. Mr. Prentice died April 19, 1685. His widow married (second) Capt. William Denison, and died in 1713, The children of Thomas Prentice were: Thomas, Grace, Samuel and Rev. John.".
1Charles James Fox Binney, The History and Genealogy of the Prentice, or Prentiss Family, in New England, etc., pp. 167-168 (1883).
"5. SAMUEL3 PRENTICE, SR., son of Thomas and Sarah; m. Esther, dau. of Nathaniel Hammond, of Newton, Mass. Mr. Prentice owned a large tract of land in Stonington, Ct. (now North Stonington) before 1700, and removed there from Newton about 1709; most of the land remains in the family, handed down by inheritance from one generation to another. In 1852 there were twelve males of the Prentice name living in North Stonington and vicinity. The old house in wich Samuel Prentice, Sr., lived, a substantial two-story building, twenty-eight by forty-two feet, is standing. One part of it is over one hundred and thirty years old (writes Henry Prentice in 1850, who owned it then). A view of it is on page 185 of first edition of this work. Samuel Prentice, Sr., was grandfather of Judge Samuel Prentiss, of Montpelier, Vt. Samuel Prentice, Sr., d. April 24, 1728, ae. 48. Children:
I. SAMUEL4, b. Nov. 25, 1702; deacon. [7]
II. JOSEPH4, erroneously given to the writer of the first edition of this work as "Praise,"* b. Jan. 26, 1704. (see No. 143, further on.) He connects the Stonington and Preston, Ct., branches.
III. GRACE4, b. Jan. 16, 1705. (see Jackson's "History of Newton.")
IV. MARY4, b. April 12, 1708.
V. JONAS4, b. Sept. 28, 1710, in Stonington,Ct.
VI. ESTHER4, b. Dec. 12, 1713; m. Christopher Palmer.
VII. OLIVER4, ordained as a Congregational minister, in North Stonington, Ct., May 22, 1753, and d. there in office, Oct. 18, 1755.
VIII. EUNICE4, Dec. 8, 1717.
IX. THOMAS4, b. Oct. 25, 1719.
X. DOROTHY4, Dec. 13, 1723.
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* George A. Prentice, of Henderson, Ky., per Col. Clarence J. Prentice, son of George D. Prentice, says this Praise should be Joseph; this, if correct, connects the Stonington and the Preston branches. Jonas Prentice, brother to Joseph, m. Lucy Denison, dau. of Daniel Denison, who was grandson of the famous George Denison.".2J.H. Beers & Co., Commemorative Biographical Record of Tolland and Windham Counties Connecticut Containing Biographical Sketches of . . ., Vol. 1, p. 520 (1903).
"(III) Samuel Prentice, born about 1680, married Esther Hammond, daughter of Nathaniel Hammond, of Newtown, Mass. Mr. Prentice owned a large tract of land in Stonington, Conn., before 1700, and went there to live about 1709. He died April 24, 1728. His widow married (second) Christopher Avery. The children of Samuel Prentice were: Samuel, Joseph, Grace, Mary, Jones, Esther, Oliver, Eunice, Thomas, Dorothy and Lucy.".