Who's my John? John Presbury of Saco ( -1679)

William Presbury/Presson/Preston (say 1663-1719) came of age 1684 of Saco; he died of Beverly 1719. William's father was John Presbury, who's estate at Saco was feared insolvent in 1679; administration was granted to Maj. Pendelton. John Presbury left known minor children William and Nathan. The son William was married by 1685 to Priscilla Randall (Torrey calls out the marriage twice), whose father was Richard Randall. In 1685, William appeared in court, having by then fathered two children, one with wife Priscilla and another with Sarah Crocker. We presume the names of those two children are not known. William and his wife, Priscilla, left the Saco area about 1690 and settled at Beverly, Mass, where the births of eight more children were recorded in the VR 1692-1710 (Presson, Preson, Preston....). The birth of William's son, Edward Presbury, who settled at Newbury, Mass., was not recorded at Beverly. Edward does seem to have been older than those born at Beverly; he was likely born at Maine and _may_ have been William’s eldest known son.
Identifying William's father, John Presbury, and proving or disproving his ancestry is the challenge.
Libby covered John Presbury of Saco in GDMNH and included the comment, "That he was s. of early John of Sandwich and husb. of Dorcas Bessey is negatived only by the fact that the Saco man's dau.-in-law claimed for self and ch. the whole Page plantation at Saco which he bot from Clement Hardy in 1670, calling her husb. William 'only s. and heir' and that none of the Martha's Vineyard fam. appeared as claimants." Libby goes on to further discuss the presence at Saco of a Stephen ([Presby] witnessed a Kittery deed from Hooke to Deering in 1686) and John Presbury (“wounded at Saco, 1691), saying these men were possibly sons of John ( d. 1679), but I have been unable to advance facts about those men for the purpose of proving John’s family/William’s ancestry.
Separate from studying the larger family of William Presbury/Presson/Preston of Saco and Beverly, I also research the known Presbury family at Martha’s Vineyard and other early Presbury records at Maine and Massachusetts, always in the hope of advancing the challenge.
It has been fascinating to research William and Priscilla (Randall) Presbury. Some of you have probably read or studied some of his descendants. A few are listed below:

Mary (Presbury) Greenleaf, and her husband, Hon. Jonathan Greenleaf (1723-1807)*; their grandson, Moses Greenleaf, is sometimes called Maine’s first map maker.
Robert Rantoul (1778-1868); his son, also Robert (1805-1852)
Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston (1802-1862); his son, William (1831-1899)
Andrew Preston Peabody (1811-1893)
Andrew Woodbury Preston (1846-1924), see United Fruit Company/Chiquita Banana
Alma Webster Powell (ca1869-1930)—Alma and her trouserettes. See http://bit.ly/120Hbh and http://bit.ly/2GaUPG
Brig Gen. Guy H. Preston (1874-1952)**

*The sons of Jonathan and Mary (Presbury) Greenleaf were David, Jonathan, Simon, Moses, Enoch and Richard.
**Guy Preston invented what we know of as the “mess kit”; he developed the methodology for branding Cavalry horses (the "Preston brand"); was a “good guy” at Wounded Knee; married Frances Hacker, b. Brunswick, Maine. About them, see the NYT article: http://bit.ly/p9IGI