Brief Life History of Abraham
When Abraham Prescott was born on 7 March 1798, in Pittsfield, Merrimack, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Samuel Prescott, was 42 and his mother, Mary Drake, was 40. He married Abigail Hayden Marsh on 1 May 1825. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died on 9 September 1880, in Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Abram Prescott, "United States Census, 1840"
- Abraham Prescott, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
- Abram Prescott, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital
In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1820 · Making States Equal
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of the places so called, in southwestern Lancashire (now Merseyside), Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, and Devon, all of which are named from Old English prēost ‘priest’ + cot ‘cottage’, ‘dwelling’. The surname is most common in Lancashire, and so it seems likely that the first of these places is the most frequent source. It is also present in Ireland, being recorded there first in the 15th century.
History: John Prescott of Standish, Lancaster, England, arrived in NewEngland in 1640 and in 1643 was one of the first settlers ofLancaster, MA. His descendants include several prominent Americans ofthe revolutionary war, including Samuel Prescott, born in Concord, MA,in 1751, whose fame lies in completing the midnight ride of warning in1775 after Paul Revere was captured.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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