Mary Gawkroger-Platts
- Born: 16ll, Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, England 106
- Baptized: 15 Mar 16ll, Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, England 106
- Marriage: John Prescott on 11 Apr 1682 in Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, England 106,1311
- Died: 20 Oct 1674, Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts at age 1658
- Buried: Old Cemetery, Lancaster, Massachusetts
 Another name for Mary was Mary Platts.
Noted events in her life were:
• Emigration: from England to Massachusetts.
• Background Information. 1311
Mary Gawkroger, bap. 15 Mar 1607; m 11 Apr 1629, John Prescott, founder of Lancaster, Massachusetts. They lived for a time in Sowerby, where five of their children were born, three os whom were brought to New England, two buried in Sowerby. In 1638, they were living in the Island of Barbadoes, owning more than ten acres of land. In 1640, in Watertown, where he had large grants of land. In 1643, he associated himself with Thomas King and others for the purpose of purchasing of Sholan the Indian Sachem of the Nashaway tribe of Indians, a tract of land for a township, which was to be ten miles long and eight in breadth know as the "Nashaway Plantation," afterwards, Lancaster, Massachusetts.
~ Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts, Volume 4, p. 167
Mary married John Prescott on 11 Apr 1682 in Sowerby, Halifax, Yorkshire, England 106.,1311 (John Prescott was born about 1604 in Standish, Lancashire, , England, baptized in 1604-1605, died on 20 Dec 1681 in Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts and was buried in Old Cemetery, Lancaster, Massachusetts.)
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