Person:Anthony Sprague (2)

His father, William Sprague, was born 1609 in Upway, Dorset, England and died October 26, 1675 in Malden, Mass. William Sprague immigrated to America in 1628 with his two brothers, Ralph and Richard on the ship Abigail, with Governor Endicott and landed at Salem on September 6, 1628. Alternately, he came on the "Lyon's Whelp" in 1629. ("Planters of the Commonwealth", Banks, page 61.)

He married Millesaint Eames May 26, 1635 in Malden. Millesaint (Millicent) was born abt. 1615 in England and died February 8, 1695/96 in Hingham, Mass.

From Sprague Families in America, by W. V. Sprague, page 128

Anthony Sprague was a farmer; Selectman in 1688, 1692 and 1700; resided on paternal homestead at Hingham Centre. April 19 or 20, 1676, the Indians in King Philip's War burned his home and five others.

From Genealogy (in part) of the Sprague Families in America, by Augustus B. R. Sprague, page 14

Anthony Sprague was a large land owner in Hingham. His house was burned by the Indians, in King Philip's war, April 19, 1676. Of this branch of Anthony, through Jeremiah the seventh son, is celebrated poet Charles Sprague, descended.

From History of Hingham, Volume II: Genealogies, by George Lincoln, 1983, reprinted 1982, page 164

Anthony Sprague's house was burned 19 April 1676 by the Indians in King Philip's War. He was a farmer. 1688, 1692, 1700. Selectman He resided on the paternal homestead at Hingham Centre.

Anthony and Elizabeth had eleven children. His will names son Anthony Sprague; grandson Anthony Sprague, son of Anthony; sons Richard, James, Samuel, Mathew, Josiah and Jeremiah; dau. Sarah Bate. One of his sons, Samuel, refused to act as an executor: "These are to Informe your honor that my famely being very Sick as also other dificult Sircumstances which I labour under I have thought : fit to refuse that trust..." Josiah, another son, received administration.

The inventory of Anthony's estate includes New Cloath Buttons and Trimming, Earthen Ware and Glasses, A Timber Chain and Other Chains Hoops & Boxes.

The estate paid L30 for digging the grave and one shilling to ring the bell.

1. ↑ Researcher.

   http://www.sprague-database.org/04/d14912.htm#P14912, Dave Sharp, Elaine Tillquist Pavone

2. ↑ Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography
   Vol. 17, p. 183 (marriage); 18, p. 220-227 (will).
3. ↑ van Antwerp, Lee Douglas, and Ruth Wilder Sherman. Vital Records of Plymouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1993)
   p. 663.
4. ↑ Sprague, Warren Vincent. Sprague Families in America. (Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle, 1913).
5. ↑ Sprague, Augustus B. R. (Augustus Brown Reed). Genealogy in part of the Sprague families in America, as descended from Edward Sprague of England, from 1614 to 1902: with the wills of Edward Sprague and that of his son, William, who settled in Hingham, Mass., in 1636. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1977)
   p. 11.
6. ↑ Wyman, Thomas Bellows. The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, Massachusetts: in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1629-1818. (Boston, Mass.: David Clapp and Son, 1879)
   Vol. 2, p. 893.
7. ↑ Hingham, Massachusetts, p. 138.
8. ↑ BARTLETT: The Bartlett Society.
9. ↑ ^9.0 9.1 Lincoln, George; Thomas T. Bouve; Edward T. Bouve; John D. Long; Walter L. Bouve; Francis H. Lincoln; Edmund Hersey; Fearing Burr; Charles W. S Seymour; and Town of Hingham. History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts . (Hingham, Massachusetts: The Town, 1893)
   Vol. 3, p. 164 (b. ch.; deaths).
10. ↑ Chamberlain, George Walter. The Spragues of Malden, Massachusetts. (Boston, Massachusetts : T.R. Marvin & Son, 1923).