Individual Details
Adam Prouty
(14 Dec 1721 - 1793)
From the book - "History of Jericho Vermont" -
"Richard Prouty, the founder of the family in America, came from England in the year 1667, at the age of fourteen, and d. Sept 1., 1708. He was a resident of Scituate, Plymouth Colony, Mass., when the Indian conflict known as King Phillip's War was raging, and did a brave defender's part in repelling the cruel foe.
Isaac, the fourth son of Richard, was a wealthy farmer and the father of 12 children. Adam, the 5th son of Isaac, was the father of 15 children. He served in the French and Indian wars.
Events
| Birth | 14 Dec 1721 | Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, British America |  | ||
| Baptism | 21 Apr 1723 | Second Church of Scituate, Scituate, Massachusetts Bay, British America |  | | |
| Marriage | 19 Jan 1743/44 | Hanover, Plymouth, Massachusetts, British America - Grace Ramsdell | | ||
| Marriage | 19 Jan 1761 | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, British America - Dorothy Howe | | | |
| Census (family) | 1790 | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States - Dorothy Howe | | | |
| Death | 1793 | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States |
Families
| Spouse | Grace Ramsdell (1725 - 1761) |
| Child | Grace Prouty (1747 - 1812) |
| Child | Desire Prouty (1750 - 1773) |
| Child | Adam Prouty (1752 - ) |
| Child | Isaac Prouty 3d (1754 - 1793) |
| Child | Sarah Prouty ( - ) |
| Spouse | Dorothy Howe (1737 - 1809) |
| Child | Seth Prouty (1761 - 1826) |
| Child | Stephen Prouty (1764 - ) |
| Child | Rhoda Prouty (1773 - ) |
| Child | Eunice Prouty ( - ) |
| Child | Patty Prouty ( - ) |
| Child | Dolly Prouty ( - ) |
| Child | Lucy Hobart Prouty ( - ) |
| Father | Isaac Prouty (1689 - 1754) |
| Mother | Elizabeth Merritt (1691 - 1754) |
| Sibling | Isaac Prouty (1712 - 1723) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Prouty (1713 - ) |
| Sibling | Jacob Prouty (1715 - 1789) |
| Sibling | David Prouty (1716 - 1767) |
| Sibling | John Prouty (1718 - 1792) |
| Sibling | Caleb Prouty (1720 - 1754) |
| Sibling | Job Prouty (1723 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Prouty (1724 - 1762) |
| Sibling | Ruth Prouty (1728 - ) |
| Sibling | James Prouty (1730 - 1813) |
| Sibling | Isaac Prouty Jr. (1732 - 1805) |
Notes
Baptism
Adult Elizabeth Prouty Wife of Isaac Prouty was baptized April 7th 1723.Isaac Prouty, Jacob Prouty, David Prouty, John Prouty, Caleb Prouty, Adam Prouty & John Prouty Children of Isaac and Elizabeth were baptized April 21st 1723.
Marriage
Adam Prouty & Dorothy How of Rutland, Jan. 19, 1761[How in int.], Dorothy and Adam Prouty of Spencer, Jan. 15, 1761. In Spencer.
Census (family)
Adam Prouty - Household of 71 free white male 16+ (Adam 69)
1 free white male under 16 (Adam jr)
5 free white females (Dorothy 53,
Endnotes
1. Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918., Prouty (Proute) genealogy. (Boston, Mass.; C.H. Pope, 1910.), p 20.
2. New England Ancestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society online [http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/], accessed July 2007.
3. Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918., Prouty (Proute) genealogy. (Boston, Mass.; C.H. Pope, 1910.), p 20.
4. Wilford Jacob Litchfield, "Records of Second Church of Scituate, now the first Unitarian Church of Norwell, Mass.," The New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 58 (1904) (http://books.google.com/books : accessed 27 October 2009), 266.
5. Reynolds, Joan (Prouty)., Prouty family record sheets. (Glens Falls, New York: David M. Prouty, Feb, 2000.
6. John E. Soule, Lucy Mary Kellogg, T. Soule, Edna Waugh Townsend, Milton E. Terry, Robert S. Wakefield, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Family of George Soule, Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1980), 95; digital images, Google, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 24 June 2009.
7. Reynolds, Joan (Prouty)., Prouty family record sheets. (Glens Falls, New York: David M. Prouty, Feb, 2000.
8. William Richard Cutter, Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: Volume 4 (New York: Lewis historical publishing company, 1908), p 1790; digital images, Google, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed .
9. Bailey, Frederic William (ed), Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800 . As found in the records of Worcester County (New Haven, CT: Bureau of American Ancestry, 1897), p 63.
10. , Vital records of Rutland, Massachusetts: to the end of the year 1849 (Worcester, MA: Franklin P. Rice, 1905), 156; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 1 December 2009.
11. U.S. Census images. Heritage Quest Online. Subscription database through the Sonoma County Public Library. (ProQuest LLC, 2009.), 1790 > MASSACHUSETTS > WORCESTER > SPENCER Series: M637 Roll: 4 Page: 539.