{"id":30343,"date":"2018-04-04T10:58:01","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=30343"},"modified":"2018-04-16T11:32:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:32:52","slug":"my-revolutionary-war-cousin-captain-stanton-prentiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/my-revolutionary-war-cousin-captain-stanton-prentiss.html","title":{"rendered":"My Revolutionary War Cousin: Captain Stanton Prentiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My cousin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/tree\/person\/details\/KGCW-GNV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Captain Stanton Prentiss<\/a> (1750-1826) fought in \u201cthe whole of the American Revolution, both by sea and land.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30347\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30347\" style=\"width: 503px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/doc\/newspapers\/image\/v2%3A10BBE1239B527608%40GB3NEWS-10BF60BEE6F50D90%402388232-10BF60BF897B5288%402-10BF60C216D15AB8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30347\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/new-hampshire-patriot-and-state-gazette-newspaper-0828-1826-stanton-prentiss.png\" alt=\"An obituary for Stanton Prentiss, New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette newspaper article 28 August 1826\" width=\"503\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/new-hampshire-patriot-and-state-gazette-newspaper-0828-1826-stanton-prentiss.png 503w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/new-hampshire-patriot-and-state-gazette-newspaper-0828-1826-stanton-prentiss-300x186.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: GenealogyBank, New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette (Concord, New Hampshire), 28 August 1826, page 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While looking at my family tree on FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com recently, I saw that his date of death did not agree on both sites. Thanks to GenealogyBank I now have the accurate date, from his August 1826 obituary: \u201c21st ult.\u201d \u2013 the \u201cultimo\u201d or \u201cultimo mense \u2013 in the last month\u201d 21st being the 21st of July 1826, in Marietta, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>And I also have his great quote reacting to the deaths of President John Adams and President Thomas Jefferson on the same day \u2013 4 July 1826 \u2013 just a few weeks earlier:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cHe lived long enough to hear read to him the accounts of the death of Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Adams on the 4th of July, and on that occasion, raising both hands, he remarked, that \u2018the hand of Providence was visible in this extraordinary coincidence \u2013 the day was now made more sacred by the death of these great men.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Terrific.<br \/>\nIt gives you an immediate sense of the values of this man.<\/p>\n<p>At age 75 the newspaper account was \u201cread to him\u201d \u2013 perhaps at his age he was no longer able to easily read the newspaper \u2013 but he was still sharp as a tack to exclaim on the \u201cextraordinary coincidence\u201d that these two founders had both died on the 4th of July.<\/p>\n<p>These are the stories only found in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/explore\/newspapers\/all\">America\u2019s old newspapers<\/a>.<br \/>\nThey each need to be documented and added to our family lore.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you GenealogyBank!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about finding his Revolutionary War cousin Stanton Prentiss\u2019 actual date of death in an old newspaper obituary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[1902,12,2020],"class_list":["post-30343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-american-revolutionary-war","tag-genealogy","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/illustration-0810-2016-washington-crossing-the-delaware-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}