Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Prescott, Benjamin

PRESCOTT, Benjamin, clergyman, b. in Concord, Mass., 16 Sept., 1687; d. in Danvers, Mass., 28 May, 1777. He was the son of Capt. Jonathan Prescott, of Concord, was graduated at Harvard in 1709, and ordained minister of Danvers, 23 Sept., 1713. He resigned his charge, 16 Nov., 1756. Mr. Prescott was the author of “Examination of Certain Remarks” (Boston, 1735); “Letter to Joshua Gee” (1743); “Letter to Rev. George Whitefield” (1745); and “A Free and a Calm Consideration of the Unhappy Misunderstandings and Debates between Great Britain and the American Colonies” (Salem, 1768).