Person:John Sprague (31)

He joined his father-in-law and brother in settling Mendon. In 1675, the town was attacked by Indians and he escaped with his life, joining a crowd of refugees that went to Boston and Charlestown. (NEHGR 129:351)

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).
2. ↑ Chamberlain, George Walter. The Spragues of Malden, Massachusetts. (Boston, Massachusetts : T.R. Marvin & Son, 1923)
   p. 81.
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Egan, C. Edward. The Hobart Journal. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1967).
4.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   4:153.

   JOHN, Plymouth and Duxbury, in Hutch. I. 354 call. one of
   the counc. to Sir Edmund Andros, was perhaps s. of William, and if this
   be true, he m. 13 Dec. 1666, Elizabeth Holbrook, and Hosea S. in his
   Geneal, tells no more, but that he sold in 1682 his est. at Hingham, and d.
   at Mendon 1690. Yet there is, in my opin. very slight reason for think,
   the s. of William of Hingham to be the counsellor. Judge Mitchell
   refers to the will of the Hingham, man, of 1683, as it ment. his ch. John,
   William, Ebenezer, Elizabeth, Hannah, Milicent, and Persis.