4.  Sarah, baptized in 1637, at Halifax Parish, married Richard Wheeler at Lancaster, August 2, 1658, and lived in the immediate vicinity of those before named.  Wheeler was killed in the massacre of February 10, 1676, and the widowed Sarah married Joseph Rice of Marlborough.  By her first husband she had five children.

5.  Hannah, was probably born at Barbadoes in 1639.  She became the second wife of John Rugg May 4, 1660, and had eight children.  She became a widow in 1696, and was slain by the Indians in the massacre of September 11, 1697.

6.  Lydia, born at Watertown August 15, 1641, married Jonas Fairbank at Lancaster, May 28, 1658.  He owned the lands next south of Prescott’s home.  Fairbank had seven children.  In the massacre of February 10, 1676, he and his son Joshua were victims.  The widowed Lydia married Elias Barron.

7.  Jonathan—­if twenty three years old in 1670, as an unknown authority has noted, or “about 38,” November 6, 1683, as stated in a deposition of that date—­was probably born in Lancaster between 1645 and 1647.  He was a blacksmith and farmer, and married first Dorothy, August 3, 1670, in Lancaster.  She died in 1674, leaving a son Samuel, noted in the town history as the unfortunate sentinel who, on November 6, 1704, killed by mistake his neighbor, the beloved minister of Lancaster, Reverend Andrew Gardner.  Jonathan Prescott married second, Elizabeth, daughter of John Hoar of Concord, who died in 1687 leaving six children.  Jonathan’s third wife was Rebecca Bulkeley and his fourth Ruth, widow of Thomas Brown.  He did not reside in Lancaster after the massacre of 1676, but became an influential citizen of Concord, which he served as representative for nine years.  He died December 5, 1721.

8.  Jonas, born June, 1648, in Lancaster, married Mary Loker of Sudbury, December 14, 1672.  The marriage took place in Lancaster and here their first child was born, (they had twelve children in all), but later they removed to Groton, where Jonas became Captain, Selectman and Justice.  He died in Groton, December 31, 1723.  Of his more illustrious descendants were Colonel William, and the historian William H. Prescott.

In May 1644, John Winthrop records that “Many of Watertown and other towns joined in a plantation at Nashaway “—­and Reverend Timothy Harrington in his Century Sermon states that the organization of this company of planters was due to Thomas King.  The immediate and final disappearance of this original proprietor has seemed to previous writers good warrant for charging that King and his partner Henry Symonds were but land speculators, who bought the Indian’s inheritance to retail by the acre to adventurers.  I believe this an unjust assumption.  At the date when Winthrop noted down the inception of the Nashaway Company, Henry Symonds had already been dead seven months.  He was that energetic contractor of Boston noted as the leader in the project for establishing