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Rebecca LAW
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James PRESCOTT
To Hampton Falls New Hampshire 1665, then old county of Norfolk Massachusetts, now Rockingham Co New Hampshire. Freeman 1678, Grantee Kingston New Hampshire 1694, Selectman 1695. Founded Hampton Falls. Helped to found Kingston New Hampshire 1694. Commuted to Kingston. Moved to Kingston New Hampshire 1725.
James Prescott came from Dryby, in the county of Lincolnshire, England in 1665. He settled in Hampton, New Hampshire. He started a farm, on which he resided until he removed to Kingston in 1725, which was situated in that part of Hampton which later came to be Hampton Falls om 1712/ Tjos farm is located one and a half or two miles north of Hampton Falls Academy, on the highway to Exeter. The precise time of James' admission to the church is not known but he became a freeman in 1678 and no one but members of the church were eligible to that important and earnestly sought privilege. He was dismissed from the Hampton church and admitted to the church of Hampton Falls in 1712. He was later transferred to the church of Kingston on 29 Sep 1725. James was "a man of integrity and influence, possessing good sense, a sound and descriminating mind, one whose judgment was much sought for and in whose opinion the people placed the most confident reliance." In 1692 James is mentioned as a creditor of His Majesty's Province. In 1694, the town of Kingston was granted by Lt. Governor Usher to James Prescott, Ebenezer Webster and others, who became expensive landholders and influential proprietors. In 1700, Dec 19, James was moderator at the meeting of the proprietors of Kingston, at which meeting James and Ebenezer were chosen a committee to run the line between Kingston and Hampton, in conjunction with a like committee from the latter town. At the same meeting it was voted to grant to James, Thomas Philbrick and Jonathan Sanborn, each, two hundred acres of land in the westerly part of the town of Kingston. On 18 Jul 1701, he was atain chosen moderator of the proprietors' meeting, when the house or near meadow was granted to him. Beside the above, the proprietors of Kingston voted him tracts of land in 1705, 1710, 1715, 1719, 1720 and 1721. In 1708, the Commons of Hampton voted to give to Jamaes Prescott ten acres of land where his house then stood, John Sanborn dissenting. On the 10th of April, 1711, they voted him four acres of land for eight pounds agreeably to the report of a committee, consisting of Josiah Chase, John Stanyan, John Sanborn, John Redman, Joseph Swett and Samuel Dalton. In 1709, James Sr. , Nathaniel and James, Jr. signed a petition for a new parish "at the Falls." In 1710, James, Sr., Jonathan and Nathanial Prescott, signed a petition for a new parish at Hampton Falls which was set off and incorporated into a new town by the name of Hampton Falls on the 20th of April, 1712.
"James Prescott was a man of integrity and influence, possessing goodsense, a sound and discriminating mind, one whose judgement was muchsought for, and in whose opinion the people placed the most confidentreliance" - The Prescott Memorial, Part II