Person:Nathaniel Sparhawk (10)

Deacon Nathaniel Sparhawk
chr.16 Feb 1598/99 Dedham, Essex, England
  • F.  Samuel Sparhawk (add)
  1. Deacon Nathaniel Sparhawk1598/99 - 1647
  • HDeacon Nathaniel Sparhawk1598/99 - 1647
  • WMary Angier1603 - 1643/44
m. Bef 1623
  1. Anna Sparhawk1623 - Aft 1712
  2. John Sparhawk1625/26 -
  3. Mary Sparhawk1627 - 1628
  4. Deacon Nathaniel SparhawkEst 1629 - Bet 1686 & 1686/87
  5. Mary SparhawkEst 1631 - Aft 1652
  6. John Sparhawk1633 - 1644
  7. Esther Sparhawk1635 - 1692
  8. Samuel Sparhawk1638 - 1639
m. Bef 1645
  1. Ruth Sparhawk1645 - 1645
  2. Elizabeth SparhawkCal 1646 - 1692
Facts and Events
Name[1][2] Deacon Nathaniel Sparhawk
Gender Male
Christening[2] 16 Feb 1598/99 Dedham, Essex, England
Marriage Bef 1623 Dedham, Essex, England(probably)
to Mary Angier
Other[1][2] 23 May 1639 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay (as "Mr. Nathani. Sparhauke).
Marriage Bef 1645 Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (Ruth).
to Catharine _____
Death[2][4] 28 Jun 1647 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Burial[4] Old Burying Ground Harvard Square, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 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)
    4:144.

    "NATHANIEL, Cambridge 1638, wh. may have been br. of first John, or his f. brot. perhaps from Braintree, or Dedham, Co. Essex, most of his ch. prob. with w. Mary, and here had Samuel, b. 27 Oct. 1638, d. in Oct. foll. He was freem. 23 May 1639, and at the same Court licens. to sell wine, deac. and rep. 1642-7. His w. d. 25 Jan. 1644, and by a sec. w. Catharine wh. outliv. him only 7 days, he had Nathaniel; Ann; Mary; Esther; and Elizabeth, whose gr.-stone says she d. 9 Nov. 1692, aged a. 47 yrs.; but certain. Ruth, wh. d. 9 May 1645, was by the first w. He d. 28 June 1647, and beside his w. there d. a serv. of his, Mary Peirce, a week aft. so that we may well suppose some epidem. His other ch. were Ann wh. m. deac. John Cooper; Nathaniel; both certain. b. in Eng. as may have been Esther; and Mary, wh. m. 8 Oct. 1673, William Barrett, as his 3d w."

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Appleton, William Sumner. Family of Nathaniel Sparhawk of Cambridge. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr 1865)
    19:125, 26.

    "1598-ffebruari. Nathaniell Sparhawke the sonne of Samuell baptised the 16 daye. … Mr. Nathanie. [sic] Sparhauke was freeman 23 May, 1639, was a Deacon of the church of Cambridge, and a Deputy to the General Court 1642-47, … He died 28 June, 1647, …"

  3.   Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
    3:187.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914-15)
    2:744.

    "Sparhawke, … Nathaniel, Dea., [died] Nov. 8, 1647, a. 67 y. 10 d. (grave record, cemetery at Harvard Square)"