Prence (Y-DNA)

Status summary

Completed as of December 15, 2021

• Low Priority: No Y-DNA descendants of Gov. Thomas Prence.

Biography

First Generation

(Gov.) Thomas Prence was born Lechlade, Gloucestershire about 1600, son of Thomas Prince and Elizabeth Tolderly. He died in Plymouth 29 Mar 1673. Thomas married four times: First New Plimoth 5 Aug 1624 Patience Brewster, second Plymouth 1 Apr 1636 Mary Collier, third 1645 Apphia Quick and fourth 1 Aug 1668 Mary ____ Howes. By his first wife he had: Rebecca (c1625 m Edmund Freeman (II)), Thomas (c1627), Mercy (1631 m. John Freeman) and Hannah (1634 m Nathaniel Mayo & Jonathan Sparrow). By his second wife he had two children: Jane (1637 m Mark Snow) and Mercy (c1639 m John Tracy). By his third wife he had three daughters: Judith (1645 m Isaac Barker & William Tubbs), Sarah (c1646 m Jeremiah Howes) and Elizabeth (c1647 m Arthur Howland (II))

Second Generation

The only son of Gov. Prence was Thomas (by first wife Patience) born before the 1627 Cattle Division. This son Thomas emigrated back to England. He died relatively young, leaving a widow and one daughter. As such, there is no Y-DNA descendants of Gov. Prence.

References & External Links

• Merrick, Barbara Lambert, ed. Scott Andrew Bartley, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, vol. 24 (Brewster) Part I General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA 2014.
• WikiTree profile for (Gov.) Thomas Prence.
• Find a Grave profile for Gov. Thomas Prence.
• Wikipedia profile for Thomas Prence.