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Dr. Samuel Prescott (
August 19 1751 - c.
1777) was a
Massachusetts Patriot during the
American Revolutionary War.
Prescott was on the road at 1 A.M. on
April 19 1775 after an evening with his fiancée,
Lydia Mulliken, when he met
Paul Revere and
William Dawes on their ride from
Lexington to
Concord and joined them to warn of the British attempt to seize the store of arms. Although he joined the ride late, he was the only one of the three men to reach Concord and warn the town. He then proceeded further west to warn
Acton, Massachusetts while his brother
Abel rode south to warn
Sudbury and
Framingham. The rapid warning of Revere, Dawes, and Prescott alerted the
Minutemen of this region in time for them to engage the
British Army at the
Battle of Lexington and Concord.
Prescott later became a surgeon in the
Continental Army and joined the crew of a
New England privateer. He was captured by the
Royal Navy and died between
November 23 1776 and
December 26 (
1777?) while a prisoner in
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Samuel Prescott was a descendant of the nonconformist minister the Rev. Peter Bulkeley (see
Odell, Bedfordshire). His sister, Lucy Prescott, married Jonathan Fay, Jr., and via their descendant
Harriet Fay and her husband
James Bush, through their eldest son,
Samuel Prescott Bush, they became ancestors of two United States presidents,
George H. W. Bush and
George W. Bush.
Prescott's ride is re-enacted every Patriots Day eve (observed) in the Town of Acton. The re-enactment begins in East Acton, continues through Acton Center and ends at Liberty Tree Farm. The house there was owned by a minuteman, Simon Hunt, in 1775.
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