Family:Unknown Fuller and Ruth Bassett (1)

At the General Court at Plymouth on 6 Jun 1655, John2 Sprague (Francis1) and Ruth2 Bassett (William1) of Duxbury were "present[ed] for fornication before they were married..." Comparison of the Y-DNA of descendants of eldest son John3 to sons Samuel and William and other Sprague children show he was not John2 Sprague's biological child. Indeed descendants match the Y-DNA haplogroup of the Fullers of Plymouth. Which Fuller male could have fathered Ruth Bassett's eldest child John? Only Samuel2 Fuller (Samuel1) of Plymouth was living near Duxbury.

"In reference to Goodwife Sprague and her son, John Sprague, about som[e] smale p'sells of land they are come to an agreement before the court, Viz't: that the said John Sprague taketh vp and is contented with the land which was formerly his grand father Spragues, according as it was formerly bounded, and a small p'sell of land which was formerly his grand father Bassetts, ... and the said widdow Sprague doth give her thirds of the proffits of said lands to her son John during her marriage."
[Note: the significance of the above passage is that it shows that contemporaries appear to have accepted that John Sprague³ was the son of John Sprague² or else he would not have had a grandfather Sprague. Perhaps it was a fiction that Ruth perpetuated. However, the above reference to DNA testing requires approximately 10 generations of paper genealogy to be correct, since the DNA tested belongs to a modern individual.]