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PRENCE LINEAGE Much of the data uses this source: The Colonial Genealogist, Vol. II, Number 1, p 685. |
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| Thomas Prence | mar | Elizabeth Tolderby | ||
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| Thomas Prence | mar | Patience Brewster, daughter | ||||
| 8/15/1624 | of Pilgrim Elder William Brewster | |||||
| b ca 1699, Lechlade Gloucester, co | Plymouth 608/ | b 1590, Scrooby, 608/ | ||||
| England 608/ | Nottinghamshire | |||||
| d 3/29/1673, Eastham 608/ | d 12/12/1634, Plymouth 608/ | |||||
| Thomas Prence and his father, Thomas, were both carriage makers and eventually left Lechlade, and moved to All Saints, Barking, London "near the Church of St. Mary in Whitechapel, just outside of the London Wall beyond Aldgate". Thomas Prence left England aboard The Fortune, the second ship to arrive in 1621 in Plymouth. "He became acquainted with Jonathan Brewster, eldest son of William Brewster, on board the Fortune, and would continue, through marriage to Patience Brewster and because of great respect, a close relationship with the Brewster family. He was Governor of Plymouth Colony for a period of twenty years. Patience Brewster arrived in Plymouth on board the ship ANNE in July 1623. She and Thomas Prence lived on High Street, near Spring Lane, in Plymouth. However, at one point in time, they did live in Eastham, and (Major) John Freeman, who married Prence's daughter Mercy, lived there at that time. Thomas Prence and Patience (Brewster) had five children before her death in 1634 of "infectious fevoure" (i.e., ?plague). According to "Gates and Allied Families", the section on Thomas Prence details his background, and his record of achievement in the Plymouth Colony. Perhaps the most negative thing that could be said about him was his religious intolerance (he was a Puritan) that was applied so strenuously against the Quakers. In this respect one feels that there was therefore much conflict between him and Mr Edmund Freeman, the immigrant. Mr. Freeman was more tolerant and therefore actively supported the establishment of the Quaker Religion in Sandwich, MA. Furthermore, this antipathy was manifested when Quaker Arthur Howland aspired to marriage with Prence's daughter Elizabeth. In this publication on page 691 it says: "The public services of Edmund Freeman, himself, were curtailed for years because of his sympathy with the Quakers". In defense of Thomas Prence is an item from his will. "It specified that his son John Freeman (i.e.. Major John Freeman, who had married his daughter Mercy) should receive "Speeds Cronicle and Wilsons Dictionary and the abridgement; and Simpsons history of the Church and Newmans Conference".
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