Eight lines of descent of John Prescott, founder of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1645, from Alfred the Great, King of England, 871-901

Eight lines of descent of John Prescott, founder of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1645, from Alfred the Great, King of England, 871-901 is a book written by genealogist Frederick Lewis Weis showing, as the title suggests, eight different genealogical lines from Alfred the Great to John Prescott.

Weis wrote this book as an expansion on his 1948 book The Descent of John Prescott, Founder of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1645, from Alfred the Great, King of England, 871-901. The 1948 book was only 8 pages when published.^[1]

The Eight Lines of Descent, published nine years later in 1957, is 52 pages long.^[2]

Sections

Part I

Line 1. The First Haryngton Line
Line 2. The Second Haryngton Line
Line 3. The Third Haryngton Line
Line 4. The First Radcliffe Line
Line 5. The Second Radcliffe Line
Line 6. The Third Radcliffe Line
Line 7. The First Standish Line
Line 8. The Second Standish Line

Part II

Some Descendants of John Prescott

Line I. The First Prescott Line
Line II. The Second Prescott Line
Line III. The Third Prescott Line
Line IV. The Fourth Prescott Line
Line V. The Fifth Prescott Line

Appendix

Descent from Alfred the Great Through Governor Thomas Dudley

Line VI. The First Dudley Line
Line VII. The Second Dudley Line
Line VIII. The Third Dudley Line
Line IX. Bulkeley
Line X. Welby
Line XI. Palgrave
Line XII. James Prescott of Hampton, N.H.

In Literature

Weis' many works have been widely cited in genealogy books, including Eight Lines of Descent. Some of these books referencing Eight lines of Descent include:

• The Ancestry of Dr. J.P. Guilford: Seventeenth-century New England colonials by Joan Sheridan Guilford McGuire^[3]
• English origins of New England families: from the New England historical and genealogical register, second series, Volume 2^[4]
• Heald-Chaffee genealogy: the ancestors of Edward Aiken Heald, 1862-1938, and Mary Eudora Chaffee, 1861-1916, Volume 2 by Mary Heald Heindel^[5]
• The ancestry of Chamberlin and Grant, Volume 3 by June G. Henderson^[6]
• Goff-Davis ancestral lines: the ancestry of Moulton Babcock Goff and his wife Agnes Hopkins Davis by Lois B. Goff^[7]
• Ancestors and descendants of the Laughton and Mitchell families of Wright County, Minnesota by Kathy Ann Lewis^[8]
• The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 91^[9]

References