Individual Details
John Prouty Jr.
(4 Jan 1749 - 1819)
John Prouty, the first of the name who came here, was born at Spencer, Mass., in 1747, and came here in 1799. He twice married, his first wife dying before he came to the town. By this marriage he had four children, John, Phineas, Levi and Lucy. John settled in Schenectady, N.Y., Phineas in Geneva, N.Y., and Levi enlisted in the war of 1812, and was never heard of after. For his second wife Mr. Prouty married Alice, sister of Nathaniel Daggett, by whom he had several children, viz.: Sally, Arnold, Laura, William, Emily, Roswell and Alfred of whom only the two latter are now living, Roswell in this town, and Alfred in the town of Waterford, near St. Johnsbury, Vt, Arnold married Sally, daughter of Dea. Martin Adams, reared eight children, William, Emily, Charles A., Rosella, John A., Lydia, Mary and Alfred, and died in January 1881, aged eighty-four years. Five of the children, William, Rosella, John A., Lydia, and Alfred are living.
Nathaniel Daggett, John Prouty and John Baker came here about the same time in 1799, locating on the lake shore (Child, 288)
Events
| Birth | 4 Jan 1749 | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States |  |  | |
| Marriage | 13 Oct 1771 | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States - Lucia "Lucy" Gleason | | ||
| Census (family) | 1790 | Spencer, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States - Lucia "Lucy" Gleason | | | |
| Marriage | 2 Oct 1791 | Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States - Alice Ann Daggett | | ||
| Death | 1819 | Newport, Orleans, Vermont, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Lucia "Lucy" Gleason (1753 - 1791) |
| Child | Lucy Prouty (1772 - ) |
| Child | John Prouty (1776 - ) |
| Child | Phineas Prouty (1788 - ) |
| Child | Levi Prouty (1791 - 1812) |
| Spouse | Alice Ann Daggett ( - ) |
| Child | Sally Prouty (1791 - ) |
| Child | Arnold Prouty (1796 - 1881) |
| Child | Laura Prouty ( - ) |
| Child | William Prouty ( - 1883) |
| Child | Emily Prouty ( - 1883) |
| Child | Roswell Prouty (1809 - 1893) |
| Child | Alfred Prouty (1815 - 1894) |
| Father | John Prouty (1718 - 1792) |
| Mother | Abigail Johnson (1726 - 1801) |
| Sibling | Benjamin Prouty (1746 - 1778) |
| Sibling | Isaac Prouty (1750 - 1828) |
| Sibling | Abigail Prouty (1751 - 1752) |
| Sibling | Johnson "John" Prouty (1754 - ) |
| Sibling | Abigail Prouty (1756 - ) |
| Sibling | Eli Prouty (1757 - 1818) |
| Sibling | Daniel Prouty (1759 - 1837) |
| Sibling | Rebecca Prouty (1764 - ) |
| Sibling | Esther Prouty (1764 - ) |
| Sibling | Lucy Prouty (1766 - ) |
| Sibling | Molly Prouty (1768 - ) |
| Sibling | Dolly Prouty (1768 - ) |
Notes
Birth
or at LeicesterCensus (family)
John Prouty 1 2 31 male 16+ (John 41)
2 males <16 (John 14, & Phineas)
3 females (Lucy 37, Lucy 18, & ?)
Endnotes
1. Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918., Prouty (Proute) genealogy. (Boston, Mass.; C.H. Pope, 1910.), p 25.
2. Draper, James., History of Spencer, Massachusetts, from its earliest settlement to the year 1860 : including a brief sketch of Leicester, to the year 1753. (Worcester: Printed by H.J. Howland, 1860?, 279 pgs.), p. 240.
3. 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 296.
4. Draper, James., History of Spencer, Massachusetts, from its earliest settlement to the year 1860 : including a brief sketch of Leicester, to the year 1753. (Worcester: Printed by H.J. Howland, 1860?, 279 pgs.), p. 240.
5. 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 64.
6. 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 .
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 296.
8. Pope, Charles Henry, 1841-1918., Prouty (Proute) genealogy. (Boston, Mass.; C.H. Pope, 1910.), p 41.