(553)  I.  ■William,^  b.  Oct  11,  1778.  Sea  captain,
Portland,  afterwards  a  farmer,  in  Gorham,  Me.  Married
Abio-ail  Lewis.     Had  three  daughters,  names  unknown.!

(483)  Vi.  WILLIAM  PRENTISS,^  son  of  Caleb
(461)  and  Lydia,  (Whittemore)  born  in  Cambridge,  Dec.  1,
1754  ;  bap.  Dec.  8  ;  died  in  Lexington,  Ky.  Married  first,
Mary,  daughter  of  Col.  David  Grorham,  of  Barnstable,  Mass.,
Nov.  1778.  Married  second,  Eunice  Payne  Greenleaf,
daughter  of  Joseph  Gr.,'Esq.,  of  Boston,  May  15,  1790.  She
died  April  11,  1803.  Married  third,  Rebecca,  daughter  of
Ebenezer  Rockwell,  whose  widow,  the  father  of  Wm.  Pren-
tiss married.  This  Wm.  P.  was  the  author  of  the  Prentiss
manuscript  account  of  the  family.  He  was  a  merchant,  and
served  his  time  with  Mr.  Scott,  Boston  ;  was  a  traveller,  and
a  man  of  extensive  information,  and  of  good  personal  appear-
ance. ||

Children  by  first  wife.
(554)  I.  David,^  b.  ;  died.
By  second  wife.
(555)  II.  William  Henry,^  b.  Oct.  23,  1796,  in  Wash-

*  Cliristian  Mirror,  Portland,  Me.,  Feb.  22,  1844.
t  G.  L.  Prentiss's  letter,  May  9,  1850.
X  Miss  Ellen  P.  Frothingham's  letter,  Belfast,  May  21,  1850,  says
*'  the  three  daughters  reside  in  Oxford  Count>%  Me."  The  informa-
tion received  of  this  fanuly  is  small.
II  Dr.  Nat.  S.  P.  remembers  him.
THE  PRENTICE  OR  PRENTISS  FAMILY.        121

ington,  D.  C,  where  he  resides,  and  is  employed  in  the  Sec-
retary of  State's  Office.  Has  had  fifteen  children.  He  has
a  portrait  of  his  father,  Wm.  P.,  painted  in  London.  He
sent  me  a  copy  of  his  father's  manuscripts  of  the  family.
