Person:Samuel Sprague (8)

"The Spragues of Malden, Mass.", by George Walter Chamberlain, page 140. Samuel Sprague, Jr. is extremely difficult to distinguish from Samuel Sprague, Sr., and Samuel Sprague, 3d, all contemporaries in Malden. By occupation he was a blacksmith. On 13 March, 1687, he was appointed to run the town line between Boston and Maledn. Other town offices to which he was elected were: constabel, 3 March, 1689/1690: fence-viewer, 13 March, 1698/1699, 6 March, 1712/1713; surveyor, 1 March, 1707/1708; committee to build the leanto on the parsonage, 14 August, 1699; a member of other committees, 26 September, 1704, 11 May 1708, 6 May, 1709, 24 May, 1710, 29 March, 1721, 18 May, 1725, 5 January, 1727/1728; a member of the committee from the north side of the town to nominate a committee to locate the new meeting house, 17 November, 1727; one of "ye" inhabitants on Ye north side of Ye River" warned to assemble at the Meeting House to act upon a report concerning the location of the new Meeting House, 3 April, 1728; a member of the committee to sell the old Meeting House in Malden, 27 November, 1730; selectman, 27 March, 1699, 2 March 1702/1702, 10 June, 1702, 1712, 1713, 1716, 1721, 2 March 1723/1724, 6 March 1727; moderator of town meetings, 7 August, 1724, 25 September 1731. The town granted him 5 acres 139 poles in the sheep pasture on the west side of mill brook, 30 May, 1695, and he had liberty of a piece of land near the Meeting House to set a stable on, 6 January, 1698/1699. He, in behalf of his mother Brown, gave up seats in the Meeting House in order to enlarge it, 14 June, 1703, and had liberty to set a stable against "ye bell rock on ye town's land, 9 March, 1710/1711." The townsmen elected him to make a valuation of Malden estates, 26 January, 1707/1708, and an assessor in Marhc, 1709/1710, and 6 March, 1727; town clerk, 3 March, 1711/1712/ He was among those who entered dissent against a vote to call Rev. Joseph Metcalf to be minister of the First Parish, 24 May, 1706, and served on the jury, 1 March, 1708/1709.

"The Ralph Sprague Genealogy", by E. G. Sprague, page 42 He was selectman of the town of Malden, 169901702,12,13,16,17,21,24. On February 5, 1738 he willed his estate to his widow and eight children, and to the child of Mehitabel Hay

From Tolman, Hanks Willey published book, December 1952.

1. ↑ Corey, Deloraine P., Compiler. Births, Marriages and Deaths in the Town of Malden, Massachusetts, 1649-1850. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Printed at the University Press for the City of Malden, 1903)
   p. 80.

   Birth date is given as May 1662 (no day).

2. ↑ Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Malden, Massachusetts, 1677-1868
   p. 378.

   Deaths, Sprague:
   "191 Samuel, in 79 y., Dec. 27, 1738.
   192 Samuel, hus. of Sarah, Dec. 27, 1739."

   See probate.

3. ↑ Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871. (American Ancestors, 2014)
   21094:3.

   "... fifth day of February Anno Domini 1738 ... the last Will & Testament of Samuel Sprague late of Maldon ..."

   The date of probate makes it clear that the 1738 death date is correct, and also that the probate date is Feb 1738/39.