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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 10:59:25 EDT

Subject: William Pepperell Prescott & Harriet de Lesdernier, New Castle, N.H.
Source: Prescott Memorial

John Prescott/Mary Platts Line, Lancaster, Massachusetts

p.70 See p. 52 below for origin of the name Pepperell

William Pepperell Prescott b. Oct 19, 1769 son of Henry Prescott and his
wife, Mary
Newmarch of New Castle, N.H. (see p. 52 below)

William m. 1803/4 Harriet the daughter of Peter F. C. de Lesdernier of
Boston. Her
grandparents were from Geneva. They came to Nova Scotia and joined the
neutral French.
She was born May 2, 1775 in Nova Scotia.

He was at first and for many years, a successful merchant. He was also a sea
captain.
He sailed on an outward voyage in a supercargo using the opportunity to study
navigation
and he returned home as commander of the same vessel of which he was part
owner. He be-
came extensively and sucessfully engaged in navigation until the war of 1812
with Great
Britain, when his business was cut off. He died May 30, 1831 aged 61 years, 7
mos and
11 days. She died at the residence of her son-in-law, G. L. Montague, Esq.,
of Boston,
on Dec 29, 1864 aged 89 years, 7 mos., and 27 days.

p.99
William Pepperell Prescott and his wife Harriet de Lesdernier had issue:

1. Elizabeth E. Prescott b. at New Castle, N.H. 1805; m. Charles Cotesworth
Pinckney Betton,
son of the Hon. Silas Betton of N.H. and his wife, Mary Thornton, dau of the
Hon. Matthew
Thornton (signer of the Declaration of Independence) December 1827. C. C. P.
Betton died
without issue at Newburyport Jan. 1850 aged abt 47 yrs. She resided in 1864
at Riverdale
N.Y. (see History of New Boston for notice of the Betton family).

2. Joseph Newmarch Prescott, a twin, was born at Newburyport June 19, 1807;
m. Sarah Jane
Bridges, dau of John Bridges and S. Hitchings of Calais, Maine on Dec 18,
1833. He was a
merchant in Boston, commenced business in Calais, Maine where he was
postmaster, justice of
the peace etc; removed to Oregon in 1850 where he was mayor of Oregon City
for several years
He returned and settled in Newburyport, MA where he resided until his death.
(8 children,
not listed).

3. Mary Newmarch Prescott twin of Joseph, above; married John de Lesdernier,
cousin to her
mother, on Dec. 1825 or 1826. He born 1799. He was a sea captain and died
at Galveston
Island, Texas in 1856, aged 57 yrs. She died at Newburyport Feb. 1860.

1. John William de Lesdernier born at New Castle, N.H. March 7,
1832;
was in business in Texas at the beginning of the rebellion;
entered
in the rebel army and was killed at the battle of Fair Oaks.

2. William Joseph Prescott de Lesdernier was born at Galveston,
Texas, 1844;
he left a clerkship in Boston and enlisted in the 2d Kansas
Cavalry where
he discharged his duty to his country faithfully and with honor.

4. William Henry Prescott b. 1809 was a mariner and officer in the Mexican
Navy; served
under Santa Anna in 1833, against the usurpation of Spain; was in six
engagements and
received three wounds in one battle and fought three hours after receiving
a bullet
in his thigh and until he fainted with the loss of blood. He was promoted
to the
command of a man-of-war. After that war he was commmander and part owner
of a packet
sailing between New Orleans and Vera Cruz. He left the port of Vera Cruz
for Tampioca
Feb 13, 1835 and was wrecked during a gale off the port of that place and
all aboard
perished; he died unmarried aged 25 yrs.

5. George Benjamin Prescott b. at Newburyport, Sept., 1810 went a few voyages
at sea and
was lost on his passage home, Sept. 28, 1832, aged 21 yrs., died unm.

6. Harriet Goddard Prescott b. at Newburyport 1811; resided in Boston, unm.

7. Adeline Anne Prescott b. at Newburyport 1813 died aged 8 years.

8. Catharine Fraser Watson Prescott b. Oct 3, 1814; m. at St. Stephens, New
Brunswick on
July 1, 1847 George Little Montague son of Rev. William Montague, and
Episcopal clergy-
man and Jane (Little) Montague. Rev. Mr. Montague visited Europe and was
the first
American that ever preached in a British pulpit and that church was the
St. Sepulchre's
church of which John Rogers the martyr was rector, when he was burned at
Smithfield.
George L. Montague in 1869 was one of the Inspectors in the Boston Custom
House and
resided at Chelsea. Their children: (p.140)

1. William Pepperell Montague b. at Boston June 8, 1848 was a member
of the
graduating class of the Boston Latin School and entered Harvard
College
in 1864 and graduated in 1868.

2. George Prescott Montague b. at Dedham, Mass., May 17, 1849,
entered Harvard
College in 1867 for which he was prepared in the Boston Latin
School.

3. Russell Whatley Montague, b. at Dedham, Mass., March 28, 1852;
member of the
4th class in the Boston Latin School in 1864.

4. Virginia Watmough Montague b. at Dedham, Mass. July 9, 1856.

5. Frazer Livingston Montague b. at Dedham, Mass., July 23, 1858.
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The name Pepperell

p.52 Henry Prescott b. July 25, 1737 who m. 1760, Mary Newmarch dau of Joseph
Newmarch of
New Castle, N.H. was the son of Rev. Benjamin Prescott and his 2nd wife,
Mercy Gibbs of
Salem Village, Mass.

Mary Newmarch was the grand daughter of the Honorable William Pepperell.

p.46

Rev. Benjamin Prescott was b. Sept 16, 1687 son of Capt. Jonathan Prescott &
his wife
Elizabeth Hoar. Rev. Benjamin Prescott grad. Harvard College in 1709 and
ordained at the
2nd precinct, Salem, Mass., and subsequently at Danvers and South Danvers now
in the town
of Peabody, where he officiated with fidelity for 45 years. He married (1)
Elizabeth the
daughter of John Higginson, Esq of Salem, on Oct 20, 1715; she born June 28,
1696 and died
March 20, 1723. He m. (2) Mercy Gibbs the dau of Rev. Henry Gibbs of
Watertown, Mass on
July 15, 1732. She died Dec 18, 1744 and he m. (3) Mary Pepperell sister of
Sir William
Pepperell on Oct 6, 1748 as her third husband, her 1st was the Hon. John
Frost of New
Castle, NH and her 2nd was Rev. Benjamin Colman of Boston. She was b. Sept 4,
1686 and died
April 18, 1766.

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Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth


W. DELESDERNIER
of Baileyville
Died Jan. 16, 1842
aged 49.

William Delesdernier was the son of Lieut. Lewis Frederick
Delesdernier, a Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, refugee, who
came to Machias in 1776. In May, 1777, he was commissioned
first lieutenant in the Continental Army by Col. John Allan, and
acted as his secretary while Col. Allan commanded the Eastern
Indians. Soon after the close of the Revolution he removed to
Passamaquoddy and was the first collector of customs and the first
postmaster of Eastport.

William was born at Eastport in 1792 or 1793 and in his young
manhood was a merchant in his native town. He removed to Calais
about 1830. He was active in politics and in 1831 was a represen-
tative in the state legislature from the latter town. He was sheriff
of Washington county in 1833, '34, and '35. He removed to Bailey-
ville and in 1838, '39, '40 and '41 represented the Baileyville class
in the state legislature. In 1841 he was elected one of the Wash-
ington county senators and took his seat January 5, 1842. He was
stricken with a fatal illness and died at the seat of government,
January 16, 1842, and was buried in the state grounds.

It was undoubtedly the interment of Mr. Delesdernier in the
state ground that hastened the action of the legislature in dedicat-
ing a spot of the burial of officers of the state and erecting a suit-
able memorial. A resolve was introduced in the Senate in 1841 to
erect a memorial to Governor Lincoln, but it seems that the House
took no action thereon. In 1842 the House took the initiative, the
Senate concurred, and the State Burial Ground was laid out and a
tomb and monument erected.

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