a deacon of the Eastham Congregational Church. John married Mercy Prence, on February 13, 1649, at Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. She was born c. 1631 at Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts and died on September 28, 1711, at Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. She was a daughter of Gov. Thomas Prence and Patience Brewster, a daughter of Elder William Brewster (pilgrim), (c. 1567 – April 10, 1644), the Pilgrim leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony and a passenger on the Mayflower. Through him descends Brigadier General Nathaniel Freeman and the notorious Lizzie Borden. Other descendants of note are film director George Lucas and cowboy artist/sculptor Earl W. Bascom. There is no good evidence for the maiden surname of Elizabeth, second wife of Edmund Freeman. Robert Charles Anderson lists her surname as blank. Homer Worthington Brainard says she was a widow, Elizabeth Perry. Both Rosemary Canfield and Henry J. Perry suggest that she may have been the Elizabeth Raymer who married at Shipley, Sussex, 10 Aug 1632, Edmund Freeman. Shipley is a village about four miles from Billinghurst on the road to Cowfold. References 1596 births 1682 deaths Immigrants to Plymouth Colony Massachusetts local politicians People from Saugus, Massachusetts