Individual Details

John Prouty

(25 May 1718 - 29 Jan 1792)

John was a blacksmith. John was one of the colonists who moved westward from Scituate to the newly developed part of Massachusetts of Leicester (district of Spencer). He married and resided there the rest of his life. His first land grant was deeded to him there March 7, 1747. He built a saw and grist mill at "Millsville," part of lot 21 in Spencer on Seven Mile River. This land was owned and used by some of his descendants for almost a century. He died January 29, 1792. His will provided for his wife and eleven children, and for his orphan grandson, Samuel Prouty, the son of Benjamin.

Events

Birth25 May 1718Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, British America
Baptism21 Apr 1723Second Church of Scituate, Scituate, Massachusetts Bay, British America
Marriage9 Oct 1745Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, British America - Abigail Johnson
Death29 Jan 1792(Spencer), Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

Families

SpouseAbigail Johnson (1726 - 1801)
ChildBenjamin Prouty (1746 - 1778)
ChildJohn Prouty Jr. (1749 - 1819)
ChildIsaac Prouty (1750 - 1828)
ChildAbigail Prouty (1751 - 1752)
ChildJohnson "John" Prouty (1754 - )
ChildAbigail Prouty (1756 - )
ChildEli Prouty (1757 - 1818)
ChildDaniel Prouty (1759 - 1837)
ChildRebecca Prouty (1764 - )
ChildEsther Prouty (1764 - )
ChildLucy Prouty (1766 - )
ChildMolly Prouty (1768 - )
ChildDolly Prouty (1768 - )
FatherIsaac Prouty (1689 - 1754)
MotherElizabeth Merritt (1691 - 1754)
SiblingIsaac Prouty (1712 - 1723)
SiblingElizabeth Prouty (1713 - )
SiblingJacob Prouty (1715 - 1789)
SiblingDavid Prouty (1716 - 1767)
SiblingCaleb Prouty (1720 - 1754)
SiblingAdam Prouty (1721 - 1793)
SiblingJob Prouty (1723 - )
SiblingElizabeth Prouty (1724 - 1762)
SiblingRuth Prouty (1728 - )
SiblingJames Prouty (1730 - 1813)
SiblingIsaac 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.

Endnotes

1. Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918., Prouty (Proute) genealogy. (Boston, Mass.; C.H. Pope, 1910.), p 20.

2. Hillhouse, Margaret P., Historical and genealogical collections relating to the descendants of Rev. James Hillhouse. (New York: T.A. Wright, printer and publisher, 1924, 706 pgs.), p. 294.

3. Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918., Prouty (Proute) genealogy. (Boston, Mass.; C.H. Pope, 1910.), p 20.

4. Anonymous, Western Massachusetts : a history : 1636-1925 (New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1926, 2345 pgs.), p 46.

5. 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.

6. Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918., Prouty (Proute) genealogy. (Boston, Mass.; C.H. Pope, 1910.), p 25.

7. Hillhouse, Margaret P., Historical and genealogical collections relating to the descendants of Rev. James Hillhouse. (New York: T.A. Wright, printer and publisher, 1924, 706 pgs.), p. 294.

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. Hon. Edward Francis Johnson, "Descendants of Capt. Edward Johnson," New England Historical and Genealogical Registe LIX (April 1905): 144.

10. Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918., Prouty (Proute) genealogy. (Boston, Mass.; C.H. Pope, 1910.), p 25.

11. Hillhouse, Margaret P., Historical and genealogical collections relating to the descendants of Rev. James Hillhouse. (New York: T.A. Wright, printer and publisher, 1924, 706 pgs.), p. 295.

12. Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper, The Bemis history and genealogy: being an account, in greater part of the descendants of Joseph Bemis, of Watertown, Mass. ... (San Francisco, CA: The Stanley-Taylor co., printer, 1900), p 144; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed .