ANCESTORS OF THE NEW ORLEANS BRANCH
Next in our ancestry was Samuel Prentice Sr. (1680 - Apr. 24, 1728), third child of Thomas Jr. and Sarah. He was born in Newton, Mass. and moved in 1709 to Stonington, Conn. where he had a large tract of land probably given to him by his grandfather Thomas Sr. before 1700. He became the ancestor of the Stonington branch of the family, from which we in New Orleans are descended.
The only thing known about Samuel and Esther is that they had ten children, one of whom became a Congregational minister. (Most of the Prentices in our branch of the family up until this century were members of Congregational, Presbyterian, and other Protestant churches. Only after they came to New Orleans did any of them join the Catholic church.)