COLONEL WILLIAM PRESCOTT
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Colonel William Prescott - at Louisburg & Bunker Hill, Revolutionary War
Source: History of Groton, Massachusetts by Caleb Butler, 1848
p.334
William Prescott, a son of the Honorable Benjamin Prescott was born in the centre of Groton, Massachusetts. He removed to that part of Groton called the "Gore," which formed a part of the district of Pepperell, Mass., before he arrived at the aged of twenty-one years.
He was a lieutenant in the provincial troops which were sent to remove the neutral French from Nova Scotia, in 1755 and a soldier in the expedition to Louisburg, two years before.
The following anecdote relating to Lieutenant William Prescott when on that expedition to remove the French is from a good authority and is unquestionably correct.
"He was attacked by a fever. The surgeon of the army was very negligent in his attendance on him. One day on entering his chamber he found him so ill, that he brutally exclaimed, 'Its no use of my staying here, I can do nothing;' and turning his back on the patient walked out of the room.
Lieut. Prescott was perfectly aware of what was said, and was filled with such rage by this unfeeling conduct that he seized his sword which hung near him and springing out of bed, made after the doctor, who, as it may be believed, completed his exit with greater precipation than he commenced it. This sally of passion had a most favorable effect, as it appeared, for the fever which was at its crisis and the patient mended rapidly from that day."
p.335
After his return from the first named expedition he was promoted to the office of Captain
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