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Subject: HOUGHTON
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 18:41:15 EST

Surname: HOUGHTON
Source: Farnsworth Memorial
Matthias Farnsworth, Jr/Sarah Nutting Line, Groton, MA 1600s
p.44
Abigail Farnsworth b. June 27, 1748 dau of Ebenezer Farnsworth and his wife,
Elizabeth Whitney of Groton, MA.

Abigail Farnsworth m. Ebenezer Houghton. (record ends)

Jonathan Farnsworth/Ruth Shattuck Line, Groton, MA 1600s
p.4l6
Susanna Farnsworth b. April 28, 1720 daughter of Jonathan Farnsworth and his
wife, Ruth Shattuck (dau of John and Ruth (Whitney) Shattuck of Watertown).
Jonathan son of Matthias Farnsworth and wife, Mary Farr of Groton, MA.

Susanna Farnsworth m. Jan 9, l752 Ebenezer Houghton.(record ends)

p.424
Lucy Farnsworth b. April 24, l776 at Harvard, MA, dau of Lemuel Farnsworth and
his wife, Hannah Daby of Harvard, MA

Lucy Farnsworth m. Mar 9, l799 Silas Houghton. (record ends)
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Surname: HOUGHTON
Source: Prescott Memorial
John Prescott/Mary Platts Line, Lancaster, MA 1600s
p.50
Jonathan Prescott b. l722 son of Ebenezer Prescott and his wife Ruth Hobart of
Clocksett (now Groton, MA)
Jonathan Prescott m. 1746 Vashti Houghton b. l727 and d. l805 aged 78. He
d. 1801 aged 79. Their children: p.62
1. Hiram Prescott b. 1748 d. infancy.
2. Jonathan Prescott b. l750 m. l776 Mary Brigham dau of Silas Brigham by
his
2d wife, Tabitha (Prescott) Sawyer. Mary Brigham b. b. l749 d. l834
age 85.
He was a farmer at Sterling, MA where he d. 1805
3. Hiram Prescott b. 1753 m. Phebe Bowker of Northboro, MA. He was a farmer
at Fitzwilliam, NH where he d. 1816
4. Vashti Prescott m. Rufus Wilder and she d. at Ashby, MA
5. Joanna Prescott d. at Ashby, MA unm.
6. Peter Prescott b. at Sterling, MA April 27, 1757 m. Mary Wilson b. 1761
They settled lst at Sterling where al their ch were born. In 1796 they
removed
to Fitzwilliam, NH where he d. 1851 aged 94 and she d. 1846 aged 85 yrs.
7. Betty Prescott b. 1752 m. Jeremiah Berbec, Jr. a farmer at Sterling, MA
She
d. at Sterling 1835. No issue.
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Transcribed and submitted by Janice Farnsworth, Dec. 4, 1998

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