Name also spelled Prentiss,Prentis, Printis;
Source 1: Uxbridge, Worcester, Mass. Marriages, pg: 291; John Prentice & Mary McClaren of Sutton, M: 29 Jan 1756 ; (Parents of Chloe)
Source 2: Warwick Franklin County Massachusetts Genealogical Records: 1739-1900: Chloe Prentice of Warwick & Seth Drake of Putney, M: 12 Septmeber 1784 at Warwick.
Mary McClellan, mother of Chloe, has a sister Rebecka who married David Stockwell and they had a son James Stockwell who removed to Warwick, Hampshire, Massachusetts around 1779;
He was the clue that led us to finding Chloes parents!
James Stockwell lived the remainder of his life in Warwick and died in Warwick in 1811; Chloe was a resident of Warwick when she married Seth Drake at Warwick in 1784;
There is no Prentice family in Warwick in the time frame of the marriage of Seth & Chloe who could be her parents; She was a young girl and was not living alone and supporting herself in that age of the world!
Her mother Mary (McClellan) Prentice died in Sutton in 1771 leaving Chloe and several other young children for her father, John Prentice, to care for. He is said to have drowned at Uxbridge around 1779;
Chloe would have still been very young and would have needed care. We believe (although there is no black & whitel proof), that Chloe was cared for by her aunt Rebecka, mother of James Stockwell of Warwick; (James being a son of her first husband David Stockwell.)
There is no documental proof that Chloe ended up at Warwick living in the household of either the James Stockwell family or in the household of her aunt Rebecca (Prentice) of whom is now married to Bartholomew Carroll of whom is also listed in the 1790 Warwick, Hampshire, Mass. Census, but we very strongly believe that she did go to Warwick either with her uncle James Stockwell or her aunt Rebecca;
A very likely reason that Rebeccka & Bartholomew Carroll is found in Warwick with the son James is that when James first wife died in 1779, She left small children for James to care for;
James mother Rebecca took her niece, Chloe, to live close to James and help care for his small children; This would place Chloe in Warwick, Hampshire, Massachusetts, living either in James Stockwells home, or in the home of her aunt Rebbecca, at the time of her marriage to Seth Drake in 1784;
Source 3: Myrtle S. Hyde: Notes To Go With The Drake Pedigree
Note 1: (Chloe Prentice).
Descendants of the Seth Drake Family owe a profound debt of gratitude to our cosin Jean (Mae Jean( Child and her family--notably her grandson Jeffery Davis and her sister Elva Tracy--for the marvelous results of their diligent efforts to solve long-standing genealogical challenges in the ancestral connections. Jean tells that Jeffery did a great deal of the work. He started before his mission, and he continued after his return.
Chloe Prentice married Seth Drake in 1784 in warwick, Hampshire County (later Franklin County, formed 1811), Massachusetts. Jean reports that in trying to find the partents of Chloe Prentice of Warwick they examined every Prentice ladn record and every Prentice will found in Hampshire county, also the Vital Records of many twons in the county, and the Revolutionary War Records. Using the results they compiled the Prentices into family groups, and, in all thes records, they found no Prentice family into which Chloe could fit, thus eliminating them as parents for Chloe.
In the record of Chloes 1784 marriage to Seth Drake she was called of Warwick. Jean and her family members reasoned that Chloe must have been living with someone other than her parents at the time of her mariage. It would have been highly improbable that a young woman would have been supporting herself and living alone in 1784!
After finding no parent possiblilites for Chloe in Hampshire county, they switched their focus to Sutton, Worcester County,. Massachusetts, where Abijah Drakes family had resided. Seth, the oldest son of Abijah, enlisted in the Revolutionary War from Sutton in 1777 and in 1784 married Chloe in Warwick. Maybe Chloe was originally from a Sutton Family.
In Sutton Vital Records appears a 1756 marriage for John Prentice of Uxbridge and Mary McClellan of Sutton, also the death of Mary, wife of John Prentice in 1771.
However, there are no birth entries of children for John and Mary Prentice in Sutton records. Considering that this couple might have been the parents of our Chloe, Jean and family began researching these lines. They learned that John Prentice died in the early 1780s. This totally orphaned the children of John and Mary.
They found the genealogy for James McClellan & Elizabeth (Hall) McClellan, parents of Mary McClellan, and discovered that Mary had a sister Rebecka who married David Stockwell of Sutton. David and Rebecca had a son James Stockwell who amrried and removed to Warwick, hampshire, Massachusetts about 1779. He remained and died there in 1811.
We were excited and intrigued, to say the least, Jean exults, When we discovered that this James was directly connected to the line of Mary McClellan of Sutton. She continues, After continued and diligend research (accompanied by prayer and fasting), we feel certain that our Cloe Prentice was living with her Aunt Rebecka (McClellan) Stockwells son James, who resided in Warwick when Cloe and Seth Drake were married in 1784.
Another piece of evidence that strengthens this connection is in C.J. F. Binneys The History and Genealogy of the Prentice, Prentis and Prentiss Families in New England from 1631 to 1883 (Third Edition, 1996, enlarged by L. J. Dweald), P 236. The author gave John and Mary a fw sons, with the added note: Said to have several daughters, names not known who settled in Vermont. This certainly provides a place for Chloe, and she settled in Vermont, adding to the credence. Also, a spot in no other family has been found for her.
Above is basic evidence for the connection. As Jean explains, The more we research, the more postiive circumstantnial evidence falls into our hands, and we have found no data that throws negative light on our assumptions.
(In order to show the circumstantial proof that Myrtle Hyde provides for Chloe Prentice and Seth Drake, I must continue with her notes and have inserted them as follows.)
Note 2: (Tabitha Plumley).
The Plumley family in New England was very small. Vital records, deeds, and wills have been read to compile all of the individuals into families. The only place for Tabitha---who married Abijah Drake in 1760 in Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts--is as the daughter of Daniel Plumley and his wife Abigial Preston.
Daniel Plumley was born and grew up in Worcester County, Massachusetts. Abigail Preston was born and grew up in Connecticut. They were married In October 1740 in Windham, Connecticut, southwest of Worcester County, Massachusetts, after their marriage intent was published in Upton, worcester County. A deed shows their residence in April 1742 as Upton, Massachusetts. They moved by September of that eyar to Willington, Connecticut. They next lived in Union, Connecticut, where records have children for them in 1743, 1745, 1747, 1749, 1751, 1755, 1757, 1758, 1760, and 1763. Their next child was recorded in Belchertown, Massachusetts in 1765. The spacing of the children gives every indication that they would have had a child in 1741--born probably in Upton and not recorded--and Tabitha fits percectly (married in 1760). Also, this Plumley family and Abijah Drakes family had many interactions as time went on.
Jean Child and family, also cousin Arlene Bedo in California, as well as muself, compiled extensive Plumley information separately, and we all came to the same conclusion about where Tasbitha belongs.
Note 3 (Abijah Drake).
The big question in accepting Tabitha Plumley as a Connecticut and central Massachusetts maiden, withou