Prudence was born in Watertown Ma. the daughter of Ebenezer Gale and Elizabeth Green. She was baptized in Watertown on 17 Aug. 1717. The family removed from Watertown to Oxford Ma after 1726 and before 1733 when the birth of Ebenezer and Elizabeth's last child David is recorded there.
Prudence married Jonathan Kenney Jr. of and in Sutton 3 Mar. 1735. They lived in both Sutton and Oxford during their lives together, including sharing the same house with her parents for a time in Oxford in order to care for them.
Prudence and Jonathan had 9 children of record in Sutton, and their names and dates are to be found on Jonathan's memorial connected here. I have also speculated that there were also probably 2 other unsuccessful pregnancies as well, probably during late 1742, and again in 1752 simply based on the 1 1/2 yr to 2 year spread between most children born to many couples in this period of time.
Prudence died sometime after the birth of her last child Mary in 1754, and the request by her mother-in-law Rebecca in Jan of 1757 for Rebecca's brother Ebenezer Nurse to be the administrator of Jonathan's estate after his death fighting in the French and Indian War. If Prudence were alive at that time she surely would have been in charge of this detail.
The properties that Jonathan and Prudence lived in in both Sutton and Oxford favored each side of the town line between the two, and on the Sutton side of that area is the old Waters-Goff cemetery where many are buried from the early time period of Sutton and all that remains of many many tombstones are the broken "stumps" still in the ground, or quite possibly they were always just small pieces of granite without markings simply to denote the placement of a loved one. While I have no written citation of record, based on the aforementioned common sense theory I have placed Prudence here, and quite possibly her young children that died as well.
Prudence married Jonathan Kenney Jr. of and in Sutton 3 Mar. 1735. They lived in both Sutton and Oxford during their lives together, including sharing the same house with her parents for a time in Oxford in order to care for them.
Prudence and Jonathan had 9 children of record in Sutton, and their names and dates are to be found on Jonathan's memorial connected here. I have also speculated that there were also probably 2 other unsuccessful pregnancies as well, probably during late 1742, and again in 1752 simply based on the 1 1/2 yr to 2 year spread between most children born to many couples in this period of time.
Prudence died sometime after the birth of her last child Mary in 1754, and the request by her mother-in-law Rebecca in Jan of 1757 for Rebecca's brother Ebenezer Nurse to be the administrator of Jonathan's estate after his death fighting in the French and Indian War. If Prudence were alive at that time she surely would have been in charge of this detail.
The properties that Jonathan and Prudence lived in in both Sutton and Oxford favored each side of the town line between the two, and on the Sutton side of that area is the old Waters-Goff cemetery where many are buried from the early time period of Sutton and all that remains of many many tombstones are the broken "stumps" still in the ground, or quite possibly they were always just small pieces of granite without markings simply to denote the placement of a loved one. While I have no written citation of record, based on the aforementioned common sense theory I have placed Prudence here, and quite possibly her young children that died as well.
Prudence was born in Watertown Ma. the daughter of Ebenezer Gale and Elizabeth Green. She was baptized in Watertown on 17 Aug. 1717. The family removed from Watertown to Oxford Ma after 1726 and before 1733 when the birth of Ebenezer and Elizabeth's last child David is recorded there.
Prudence married Jonathan Kenney Jr. of and in Sutton 3 Mar. 1735. They lived in both Sutton and Oxford during their lives together, including sharing the same house with her parents for a time in Oxford in order to care for them.
Prudence and Jonathan had 9 children of record in Sutton, and their names and dates are to be found on Jonathan's memorial connected here. I have also speculated that there were also probably 2 other unsuccessful pregnancies as well, probably during late 1742, and again in 1752 simply based on the 1 1/2 yr to 2 year spread between most children born to many couples in this period of time.
Prudence died sometime after the birth of her last child Mary in 1754, and the request by her mother-in-law Rebecca in Jan of 1757 for Rebecca's brother Ebenezer Nurse to be the administrator of Jonathan's estate after his death fighting in the French and Indian War. If Prudence were alive at that time she surely would have been in charge of this detail.
The properties that Jonathan and Prudence lived in in both Sutton and Oxford favored each side of the town line between the two, and on the Sutton side of that area is the old Waters-Goff cemetery where many are buried from the early time period of Sutton and all that remains of many many tombstones are the broken "stumps" still in the ground, or quite possibly they were always just small pieces of granite without markings simply to denote the placement of a loved one. While I have no written citation of record, based on the aforementioned common sense theory I have placed Prudence here, and quite possibly her young children that died as well.
Prudence married Jonathan Kenney Jr. of and in Sutton 3 Mar. 1735. They lived in both Sutton and Oxford during their lives together, including sharing the same house with her parents for a time in Oxford in order to care for them.
Prudence and Jonathan had 9 children of record in Sutton, and their names and dates are to be found on Jonathan's memorial connected here. I have also speculated that there were also probably 2 other unsuccessful pregnancies as well, probably during late 1742, and again in 1752 simply based on the 1 1/2 yr to 2 year spread between most children born to many couples in this period of time.
Prudence died sometime after the birth of her last child Mary in 1754, and the request by her mother-in-law Rebecca in Jan of 1757 for Rebecca's brother Ebenezer Nurse to be the administrator of Jonathan's estate after his death fighting in the French and Indian War. If Prudence were alive at that time she surely would have been in charge of this detail.
The properties that Jonathan and Prudence lived in in both Sutton and Oxford favored each side of the town line between the two, and on the Sutton side of that area is the old Waters-Goff cemetery where many are buried from the early time period of Sutton and all that remains of many many tombstones are the broken "stumps" still in the ground, or quite possibly they were always just small pieces of granite without markings simply to denote the placement of a loved one. While I have no written citation of record, based on the aforementioned common sense theory I have placed Prudence here, and quite possibly her young children that died as well.
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