General Notes

REFN: 6500AN
THOMAS PRENCE
ORIGIN: All Saints Barking, London [EIHC 17:103-04]
MIGRATION: 1621 on Fortune
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
REMOVES: Duxbury by 1637, Eastham 1 644, Plymouth by 1665
FREEMAN: In the "1633" Plymouth list of freemen Thomas P rence was just
after the councillors, and ahead of those admitted on 1 Januar y 1632/3
[PCR 1:3]. "Thomas Prence, gen.," is in the 7 March 1636/7 list of
Plymouth freemen [MBCR 1:52]. In the list of assistants at the head of
the " 1639" list of Plymouth Colony freemen, but as this list was revised
and annot ated his name was included in the "Nawsett" portion of the list
[PCR 8:173, 1 77]. In Eastham section of 1658 list of Plymouth freemen,
and in Plymouth sec tion of list of 29 May 1670 [PCR 5:274, 8:201]
EDUCATION: His inventory includ ed a long list of books valued at £14 2d.,
including two great Bibles and "10 0 of psalm books."
OFFICES: Plymouth Governor, 1634, 1638, 1657-72 [MA Civil L ist 35].
Assistant, Plymouth Colony, 1632-33, 1635-37, 1639-56 [PCR 1:32, 36, 48,
116, 140, 2:8, 15, 33, 40, 52, 56, 71, 83, 115; MA Civil List 37-38].
Treasurer, 1637 [PCR 1:48; MA Civil List 36]. Council of War, 1637 [PCR
1:60, PTR 1:16]. Commissioner for the United Colonies, 1645, 1650,
1653-58, 1661-6 3, 1670-72 [MA Civil List 28-29].
In Plymouth section of 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear
arms [PCR 8:188].
ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth divi sion of land Thomas Prence received one
acre as a passenger on the Fortune [P CR 12:5]. In the 1627 Plymouth
division of cattle Thomas Prince, Patience Pri nce and Rebecca Prince are
the tenth, eleventh and twelfth persons in the fif th company [PCR 12:10].
In the Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1633 Thomas Prenc e was assessed
£1 7s. [PCR 1:9]. He was omitted from the list of 27 March 163 4. His
cattle mark was three marks on the outer siDe of the ear [PTR 1:2].
T homas Prence received grants of land, 1 July 1633, 14 March 1635/6,
20 March 1636/7 meadow at Jones River; 6 March 1636/7 land between two
cedar swamps at Island Creeke Pond; 5 February 1637/8 all the land
between Greenes Harbor an d South River; 2 April 1638 a garden place; 5
November 1638 ten acres of land "in some convenient place about the
town"; 3 December 1638 an acre and a hal f at Smilt River; 2 December 1639
a parcel between John Barnes's garden and G eorge Watson's field; 16
September 1641 an enlargement at the head of his Joa nes River lot; 17
October 1642 an additional six acres at Joanes River; 2 Oct ober 1650
granted rights to bass fishing at Cape Cod [PCR 1:14, 40, 51, 56, 7 7, 83,
102, 103, 136, 142, 145, 163, 2:26, 49, 161]. He exchanged land with J ohn
Combe, Phinehas Pratt and John Barnes [PCR 1:25, 30, 12:197].
On 14 Sept ember 1638 Mr. Thomas Prence purchased two acres of land on
the south siDe of the second brook from Ellinor Billington and Francis
Billington [PCR 12:37]. On 29 May 1643 he contributed 6d. to buy
drumheads and £14 to buy bread [PTR 1:14-15]. About 1645 Mr. Thomas
Prence acknowledged that he had sold to Mr. Edmond Freeman all his house
and garden place and barn in Plymouth, ten acres of upland in the woods
and five acres in the second brook, and eleven acres by John Barnes's
land and one farm at Joanes River [PCR 12:129-30]. On 11 Jul y 1649 Mr.
Thomas Prence of Nawset, gentleman, sold to Jacob Cooke of Plymout h,
planter, forty acres of upland in Rocky Noocke with three acres of marsh
[PCR 12:175]. On 13 July 1649 Mr. Thomas Prence of Nawset, gentleman,
sold t o Richard Church of Nawset, carpenter, and to Anthony Snow of
Marshfield, fel tmaker, upland and marsh at Marshfield and forty acres of
upland received by grant dated 5 February 1647 [PCR 12:176].
On 13 June 1655 Thomas Prence of Eas tham sold to "Mr. Edward Buckley"
of Marshfield five acres of marsh in Marshf ield [MD 9:234, citing PCLR
2:1:155]. On 12 July 1655 Thomas Prence of Eastha m sold to John Browne of
Rehoboth "my half sha