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Roswell Prentice of Lewis Co., KY


Roswell Prentice of Lewis Co., KY
By Linus Joseph Dewald Jr., Editor
Fall 2002 and Revised 17 Jan 2004

Is he the son of Nathaniel Prentice and Mercy Green?

We are helping Betty M. Cotten of Maysville, KY in tracing her Prentice roots. Here is what we have so far:

1. Roswell Prentice was b. 1780-90. He appears in the 1830 Lewis Co., KY census with his wife, Abigail, b. 1780-90, and children (per Betty M. Cotten):

  1. (female) Prentice, b. 1800-1810. She may be Roswell's daughter, Sarah/Sally Prentice who m. 15 May 1932 in Lewis Co., KY. Roswell father signed consent for her to get married and the court records listed Roswell Prentice as her father. James McClain performed the ceremony and security was posted by Benjamin Caruffe.
  2. (female) Prentice, b. 1810-15). She might be Betty Cotten's ancestor, Elmira/Almira Prentice, b. c. 1811, NY and d. before 1878. She m. William Swearingen on 20 Jan 1833 in Lewis Co., KY. He was the son of Marmaduke Swearington and Mary Stratton. After she died, William m. 2nd Mrs. Arminta Hughes who was b. c. 1839 in WV. In 1880 they lived in Elk Fork Precinct, Lewis Co., KY. Children of Elmira and William (per Betty Cotten, email, 3 Oct 2002.)
    1. Lavina Caroline Swearingen, b. c. 1834. Living at home in 1870.
    2. Mariah Jane Swearingen, b. c. 1836. She m. George T. Clark.
    3. Melissa Swearingen, b. c. 1838. She m. Hiram Dickson.
    4. Alonzo Van Swearingen, b. c. 1840. He m. Sarah Ellen Kenyon.
    5. Angeline Swearingen, b. c. 1842.
    6. James Curtis Swearingen, b. Sep 1846. He m. Mary Emeline Clark.
    7. Carlinda Alice Swearingen, b. c. 1851. She m. Benjamin C. Ryan.
    8. (dau.) Swearingen, stillborn on 24 Sep 1853.
  3. (female) Prentice, b. 1810-15
  4. (female) Prentice, b. 1810-15
  5. (male) Prentice, b. 1815-20. Betty Cotten suggests this might be the Noah Prentice who appears in the 1840 Adams Co., OH census. Noah was then 20-30, b. 1810-20, had a wife of the same age. Adams Co., OH abuts Scioto Co., OH and lies just across the Ohio River from Lewis Co., KY. Daughter:
    1. (female) Prentice, b. c. 1835-40.
    Or, Betty Cotten has suggested he might be the Madison Prentice who appears in the 1840 Adams Co., OH census. Madison was then 20-30, b. 1810-20, had a wife of the same age. They had 2 daughters:
    1. (female) Prentice, b. 1835-40.
    2. (female) Prentice, b. 1835-40. .
  6. (male) Prentice, b. 1820-25
  7. (female) Prentice, b. 1820-25

Who are Roswell Prentice's Parents?

Betty Cotten has located a Roswell Prentice in the 1810 Lewis Co., NY census. He was then between the ages of 26 and 45 which would indicate a birth date of 1765 and 1784. However, with 2 sons under 10, he was likely about 30 in 1810 and may have been b. c. 1780. His wife, whose name is not known, was likely about the same age. Sons:

  1. (male) Prentice, b. c. 1800-1810.
  2. (male) Prentice, b. c. 1800-1810.

That 1810 Roswell is quite probably Roswell Prentice, b. 1 Aug 1782, son of Nathaniel Prentice and Mercy Green. Nathaniel died in Lowville, Lewis Co., NY in 1817 and both Nathaniel and his son, Roswell, appear in the 1810 Lewis Co. census. That Roswell latter appears in the 1820 Scotia, Wayne Co., OH census.

By email of 1 Oct 2002, Betty also reports that the 1820 census of Portsmouth, Scioto Co., OH shows a Rosall (Roswell) Prentis, b. c. 1775-94, an unnamed wife of the same age group, and 6 children:

  1. (dau.) Prentice, age 10-16 (b. 1804-10)
  2. (son) Prentice, age 0-10 (b. 1810-20)
  3. (son) Prentice, age 0-10 (b. 1810-20)
  4. (dau.) Prentice, age 0-10 (b. 1810-20)
  5. (dau.) Prentice, age 0-10 (b. 1810-20)
  6. (dau.) Prentice, age 0-10 (b. 1810-20)

Portsmouth, Scioto Co., OH is less than 20 miles from Lewis Co., KY on the Ohio River and could be the same Roswell Prentice family of Lewis Co., KY which is the subject of this article. See Fn. 1 .


Fn. 1: The OH family could be the same family as your KY family, but one has to do a bit of interpolation since the time frame of the 1820 census is a bit different from that of the 1820 census. We have prepared the following table comparing the 2 different census records:
1920 Census: Males
Age             0-10    10-16   16-26   26-45   Over 45
Yr. Born        1810-20 1804-10 1794-04 1775-94 Before 1775     
Males           1       1               1 (1782)
Females         3               1       Unknown but probably 1782 or later

1830 Census
Age             0-5     5-10    10-15   15-20   20-30   30-40   40-50
50-60
Yr. Born        1825-30 1820-25 1815-20 1810-15 1800-10 1790-00 1780-90
1770-80
Males                   1       1                               1
Females                 1               3       1               1

Comments:

    1. The 1820 shows 2 sons b. between 1804 and 1810. They would have been between 20-26 in 1820. Neither appear in the 1820 census, but that could be because they had left home.

    2. The 1830 census shows 2 sons b. between 1815-25. One could have been b. as late as 1820 and not appear in the 1820 census, while the other was b. between 1820-25 and would not appear in the 1820 census. Consequently the appearance of the 2 sons in the 1830 census is not inconsistent with the 1820 census.

    3. The 1830 census shows 1 female b. 1820-25, so she would not appear in the 1820 census. There is no inconsistency between the 1820 and 1830 census.

    4. The 1820 census shows 3 females b. 1810-20 while the 1830 census shows 3 females b. between 1810-20. Those could be the same 3 females.

    5. The oldest daughter shown in the 1820 census (b. 1794-1804) could be the oldest daughter (b. 1800-1810) in the 1830 census since the years 1800-1804 overlap.

    6. The ages of the parents in the 1820 and 1830 census are consistent

    Conclusion: Although there is a different mix of males and females between the 1820 OH census and the 1830 KY census records, they are not inconsistent with each other and could represent the same family, particularly since both family show a cluster of 3 girls in a row on both families and both show 4 daughters b. before 1920.

    On a scale of 1 to 10 matching, we would give it at least a 7.5 match.


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