When Prudence “Towson” Sater was born on 25 November 1743, in Chestnut Ridge, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, her father, Henry Sater I, was 54 and her mother, Dorcas Ossage Towson, was 23. She married Benjamin Franklin Howard on 21 September 1762, in Baltimore, Maryland, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. She died on 22 September 1822, in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Wilkes, North Carolina, United States.
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