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PRESTON, William
1590 - 1649 (58 years) 
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Name PRESTON, William Birth 23 Jan 1590 Giggleswick, Yorkshire, England 
Christening 29 Jan 1590 Giggleswick, Yorkshire, England Gender Male Burial Jan 1649 Death 4 Jan 1649 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States WAC 27 May 1937 _TAG Reviewed on FS Headstones 
Submit Headstone Photo Person ID I31144 Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith Last Modified 19 Aug 2021
Father PRESTON, Adam , b. 1564, Giggleswick, York, England Giggleswick, York, Englandd. 8 Nov 1593, Giggleswick, York, England (Age 29 years) Mother BRAITHWAITE, Isabel , b. 1568, Giggleswick, Yorkshire, England Giggleswick, Yorkshire, Englandd. 13 Dec 1620, Giggleswick, Yorkshire, England (Age 52 years) Marriage 2 Jun 1583 Giggleswick, Yorkshire, England Family ID F17627 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 SALE, Elizabeth , b. 8 Jun 1590, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England Chesham, Buckinghamshire, Englandd. 22 Feb 1634, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England (Age 43 years) Marriage 11 Oct 1613 Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England 
Children6 sons and 3 daughters Family ID F17625 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
Family 2 SEABROOK, Mary , b. 31 Jan 1601, Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, England Wingrave, Buckinghamshire, Englandd. 1680, Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States (Age 78 years) Marriage 22 Feb 1634 Chesham, Buckingham, England Family ID F17626 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
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Notes - A town in Lancashire, England, bears this name, which means town in the coppice, or the bushy hill, from Prys and ton. From the Welsh word, Pres, meaning brass, the name has been applied to the town where brass is manufactured.[1]
The name PRESTON is said to have been assumed by an ancient North Britain family, from territorial possessions in Midlothian, in the time of Malcolm, King of Scots, the first to bear it being Leolphus de Preston, in 1040. In direct descent from knights, members of Parliament, and judges, through many years, the line is traced to our ancestor.
I. William PRESTON, thought by some writers to have been born in Gigglesworth, Yorkshire, England, is known to have owned estates there, in the western part of the West Riding, but it is also evident that he lived in Chesham, County of Bucks, about two hundred miles south, for at least twenty years before coming to America.[2]. He married at Chesham (1) 11 October 1613, Elizabeth, daughter of Edward SALE[3], a church warden of that place, whose. wife, Elizabeth, was the daughter of John Gifford. In his will, 17 October 1620, Edward Sale mentions his son-in-law William Preston. Elizabeth Sale was baptized at Chesham, 8 June 1590, and was buried there, 22 February 1633.
After her death, William Preston married (2), in 16 3 5, Mary SEABROOK, born about 1600, daughter of the Robert Seabrook who later came also to New England.[4] Another daughter of Robert Seabrook married Thomas Sherwood, of Stratford, Connecticut, and another was the wife of Thomas Wheeler, of Milford, Connecticut.[5]. William Preston was a church warden in Chesham in 1617. From the record of a suit brought in the Court of Requests, County Bucks, entered by his mother-in-law, then widowed, in February 1623, we discover that William Preston represented her at law. This is of interest as supporting the evidence that, as attorney, or solicitor, he was a man of superior education and station.
Shortly after his second marriage, he and his wife Mary embarked, on 19 September 1635, in the Truelove, the last of seventeen ships from London to Boston that year, taking with them his four youngest children by the first wife.[6] He located first at Dorchester, Massachusetts, where in February 1635, he was granted three acres of land.[7] He removed to New Haven in time to be among the first settlers, subscribing to the Compact in 1639.[8] He died between the date of his will, 9 July 1647, and 4 January 1649, when his estate was administered.
CHILDREN of William and Elizabeth, recorded at Chesham, England:[9]
William, baptized 5 October 1614; buried 4 June 1633.
John, born about 1617; buried 24 November 1623.
Edward, baptized 14 November 1619; preceded his father to New England, coming in the Christian in April, 1635, when in his 16th year. He settled at New Haven, and later lived in Boston. His wife was Margaret. A daughter Elizabeth, born 29 September 1655, married John Leavens, who died at Wobdstock, Connecticut, in 1696.[10]
Daniel, baptized 3 March 1621; came to New England in the Elizabeth and Ann in April, 1635, in his 14th year, along with his uncle, Edward Sale. He was made freeman at Dorchester, Massachusetts, 3 May 1665, and died 10 November 1707.[11] His wife was Elizabeth ????
Elizabeth, baptized 23 July 1624; came to New England with her father at the age of 11. Married Joseph Alsop, jr.[12]
Sarah, born 1627; came with her father, age 8, and married William Meeker.
Mary, baptized 13 December 1629; came with her father, at age of 6; married Peter MALLORY.
John, baptized 4 March 1631; was 3 years old when he came to New England. Was resident of New Haven.[13].
CHILDREN of William and Mary, born at New Haven:[14]
Jehiel, baptized 14 June 1640; was representative in 1683; lived in Stratford, Connecticut. He married Sarah Fairchild, his cousin, daughter of Thomas and (Seabrook) Fairchild, of Stratford. She was born 19 February 1641.
Hackaliah, (twin) baptized 9 April 1643. Also married his cousin, Emma Fairchild, born at Stratford, October 1653, their marriage occurring 20 April 1676. They lived in Woodbury, Connecticut. He died 20 November 1690.[15]
Eliasaph, (twin), baptized 9 April 1643; married Elizabeth, daughter of John Beach of Stratford. She was born 8 March 1652. They lived in Wallingford, Conn. (History of Wallingford, Conn., Davis, 636.)
Joseph, baptized 24 January 1647.
Mary PRESTON
II. Mary PRESTON, born in Chesham, County Bucks, England, baptized 13 December 1629, married in New Haven, Connecticut, about 1648, Peter MALLORY.
See MALLORY sketch for the biography and continuation of this family line.
SOURCE: The Ancestry & Posterity of Joseph Smith and Emma Hale by Audentia Smith Anderson (1926)
Footnotes
(Directory of Ancestral Heads of New England Families, Holmes, cxciv.)
(New England Historical and Genealogical Register 65: 63-6.)
(ibid. 69: 254)
(Ibid. 65; 63-6.)
(Avery, Fairchild and Park Families, S. P. Avery, 74-6; New England Genealogies, Cutter, 4: 1889.)
(Ibid. 14: 323-4.)
(Ibid. 21: 336.)
(Genealogical Dictionary of New England, Savage, 3: 483.)
(New England Historical and Genealogical Register 65: 63-6.)
(Ibid. 55: 445.)
(Ibid. 5: 465.)
(Ibid. 55: 299.)
(Massachusetts Genealogies 3: 1386.)
(New England Historical and Genealogical Register 9: 362.)
(Avery, Fairchild and Park Families, 74-6.)
- A town in Lancashire, England, bears this name, which means town in the coppice, or the bushy hill, from Prys and ton. From the Welsh word, Pres, meaning brass, the name has been applied to the town where brass is manufactured.[1]
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