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Prudence Russell Hancock
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| Nathaniel Hancock, Jr. |
Prudence Russell Hancock |
Abigail’s sister Prudence
married Nathaniel Hancock, Jr., brother to the Reverend
John Hancock. No, not the rich patriot with the fancy signature,
but his grandfather, the founding minister of the church in Lexington
(and thus a very close associate of brother-in-law
Matthew Bridge). Grandfather John
was the original builder of the Hancock/Clarke parsonage, where
Samuel Adams and John Hancock the grandson (these folks’
great-nephew) would spend the night of April 18, 1775. In front of
which our cousin Sergeant William Munroe would shush Paul Revere in
the middle of the night…
Their stones, alas rather hard to read, are in the old Cambridge
Burying Ground at Harvard Square.