One of the early settlers of Marlborough, MA. Came from Shrewsbury with
his family about the year 1777. All his children were by his first wife
and were born in Shrewsbury.

First emigrant bearing the Prence name in New England.

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 which 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).

He was deputy to the general court from Stonington in 1721 and 1724, and a selectman of that town in 1718, 1720, 1722, 1724, 1726, 1727.

Benjamin Franklin Prescott attended Phillips Academy Exeter, NH and grad. 1856. He taught school in his native town of Epping, NH and was admitted to the bar Aug 19, 1859 and opened a law office in Concord, NH. In May, 1861 he was apptd as U.S. Minister Resident to Switzerland. He was associate editor of the Independent for five years. For seven yrs he was Secretary of the Republican Central Committee for NH and in 1865 apptd
by the US Treasury Dept. as a special agent, having the charge of all branches of Customs that report to the US Treasury Dept. He owned the homestead of his father at Epping but resided at Concord, NH.

Founder of Lancaster, Mass.

Unmarried.

Died young.

This young gentleman is numbered among the rising young farmers of Barry County, the center of his work being a farm one mile north of Nashville on section 24, Castleton Township. He was born in this neighborhood April 13, 1849, and is the third of the living children of Alexander and Clarissa (Brown) Price. His sisters and brothers are: Mrs. Alcestra S. Mallet, Claudius, Mrs. Louella Boutman, and Mrs. Belle C. Marble. Mr. Price gained his fundamental instruction in a log school-house, and the district schools supplied him with the most of his book knowledge. He spent one winter in the public school in Nashville and one in Grand Rapids. He remembers seeing some of the main roads chopped out from the forest, and deer crossing the fields, although the township was being rapidly developed when he was a boy.

Until he was twenty-seven years old Mr. Price remained on his fathers farm, and he then bought sixty acres of land that makes his present home. Two thirds of the tract had been prepared for cultivation and an old log house stood upon it. Considerable work needed to bring the place into good condition and it is now thoroughly cultivated and supplied with first-class buildings, among them an attractive residence which was begun in 1877 and added to in 1888, and a large barn built in 1885. Mr. Price raises grain and stock of all kinds suited to this section.

Grandfather Price is believed to have been a native of the old Bay State, as he moved from it to New York. He was a shoemaker by trade. His son Alexander was born in the Empire State in 1819 and determined to become a farmer. He began life without means and making his way to this State during the early ཚs settled on Grand River near Ada. He lived there a while, then returned to New York, but came to Michigan again in 1846. This time he made the journey with ox-teams, and traded his oxen for eighty acres of land where not a tree had been cut down. He boarded his family with a neighbor, W. P. Wilkinson, until he could build a log house for their occupancy. The property was on section 23, Castleton Township, and by dint of hard work it was cleared and placed under cultivation, and added to until the estate included two hundred acres. When Mr. Price settled here wild animals roved about and Indians still hunted here, often coming to his house and spending the night. He hunted with them and killed many deer and even one bear. He died May 26, 1885, after having lived to see the country well developed. He was a Republican in politics. His widow, who was born in Massachusetts in 1818, still lives on the
homestead, having a daughter with her.

The gentleman whose name introduces these paragraphs was married to Ella E.
Noyes May 15, 1878. Mrs. Price was born in Manchester, Washtenaw County,
January 30, 1854, her parents being Asa B. and Marinda (Taylor) Noyes, natives
of New York and Ohio resectively. Mr. and Mrs. Noyes settled in Washtenaw
County during its pioneer days. Mrs. Price is an estimable woman, belonging to
the Methodist Church. She has had one child, Myrtle, but it was cut down by
death. Mr. Price is a Republican and quite radical in his views. He is
intelligent and progressive, a worthy son of an honored father, and his good
qualities and those of his genial companions draw around them a pleasant circle.

When he was about two years and eight months, his father was taken violently sick with a feverand died. His aunt Noyes, who was sister to grandmother Prime (Boardman) and wife of Daniel Noyes, Esq. took him to Ipswich with her. He was known by the name Daniel Noyes while living in Ipswich.

When eleven, he went to live in New Rowley (Georgetown) with Rev. Shuabel Lovell and became a strong Baptist. He then lived with Nathaniel Lang after 1804. He lived with a Mr. Hilliard before going back to live with his mother in Rowley.

Hist. of Jay says George K. Prince.

Born 28 Sep, died ae. 2 mos.)

Ae. 14 y.

Went to sea and did not return.

Ammi entered the army about a year before the close of the Revolutionary War, in a company raised in his section of country and commanded by Capt. ___ Coombs, in Col. ___ Mitchell's regiment. They served in the "Baggaduce Expedition" in which Gen. Solomon Lovell commanded the land forces.

Methodist minister, East Maine Conference.

Died at sea.

Killed by Mr. Cushing Prince's sled.

Died young.

Unmarried.

Benjamin resided in Duxbury a few years and in 1727 removed to North Yarmouth with his wife and five children. In this third and permanent settlement of the town, he was apportioned in the division of land, Lot No. 1 on the Foreside, (now Prince's Point), including Basket Island. Nov. 18, 1730, he united with eight other citizens in founding the Congregational Church, which was the first ecclesiastical organization in the town, and the tenth in Maine. He was elected Collector of the town, Oct. 14, 1734, and was sent as one of the committee of three, with the town clerk, Mar. 22, 1736, to Bridgewater, to interview Rev. Mr. Keith with regard to accepting a call to the new church. The town allowed him £15 for the expenses of this journey. He was a very prominent man in the town.

Received an injury at public training 4 Oct 1757.

Died young.

Benjamin was a Rev War soldier and pensioner [White's Rev War Pension Abstracts, p.2774.]

Lost at sea.

(Unmarried.)

Died unmarried.

Captain and ship owner. Representative from North Yarmouth to the Legislature of Maine 1844-46.

Captain and ship owner. Representative from North Yarmouth to the Legislature of Maine 1844-46.

Unmarried.

Living at sea 1855.

Living at sea 1855.

Was aged "about 9 years" when, in 1755, she chose her mother as guardian.

She was a cripple.