James PRESCOTT

                   BIRTH-DATE-PLACE-PARENTS:  Based on information found in the book:  "GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY of the STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE", vol. III, pages 1651-58.

MARRIAGES-SPOUSES-FAMILY:  Based on information found in the book:  "GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY of the STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE", vol. III, pages 1651-58.

DEATH-DATE-PLACE: Not known.

BIOGRAPHY:  The following is from the book "GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY HISTORY of the STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE", vol. III, page 1652.

       James, second son and child of James and Mary (Boulter) Prescott, was born September 1, 1671.  He married March 1, 1695, Maria Marston, daughter of William and Rebecca (Page) Marston.  She was born November 16, 1672, they were both admitted in the church October 10, 1697.  James Prescott married for his second wife, June 17, 1746, widow Abigail Sanborn.  She was the daughter of Edward Gove, one of the first settlers in Hampton.  James Prescott was her third husband and like his two predcessors was a deacon of the church.  Abigail (Gove) Prescott's first husband was Philemon Dalton, whom she married in 1690, and her second, Benjamin Sanborn, whom she married in 1724.  James Prescott was a farmer, and lived near his father on the west side of the road leading from Hampton Falls Academy to Exeter.  He bore the title of sergeant, and was chosen constable in 1707.  He was at Port Royal* six months from March to September, 1701.  James and Maria (Moulton) Prescott had eight children.

* Port Royal was on Acadia (French) island of Canada, now called Nova Scotia.