William Sprague 
William was born on October 26th, 1609 in Canterbury, Kent, England.1 William's father was Edward Sprague and his mother was Christiana Holland. His paternal grandparents were Tristram Sprague and Elizabeth Colt; his maternal grandparents were John Holland and NN. He died at the age of 66 on October 26th, 1675 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts.2 General Notes
"History of Marshfield Massachusetts", [V. II, Pp. 179 - 183]
William arrived at Salem, MA aboard the Abigail in 1628, removing to Hingham in 1636. He was a selectman in 1645, and constable and collector of town rates in 1662.
On 28 Mar 1651 Thomas Hammond of Hingham, planter, sold to William Sprague of Hingham 'my now dwelling house in the town of Hingham with my house lot containing five acroes more or less ... with a parcel of fresh meadow ... likewise a great lot containing twenty acres more or less' [SLR 2:255-56].4
William "came to New England, settling in Charlestown, where he was living until 1636. He removed to Hingham, whither he went in a boat, landing on the side of the cove, on a tract of land afterward granted him by the town, and he became one of the fist planters there. His house lot is said to have been the pleasantest in town. Many grants of land were made to him from 1636 to 1647. He was constable, fenceviewer, and held other offices at various times. He deeded to his son Anthony certain lands, February 21, 1673, for six and thirty pounds of lawful money of New England and nine pounds of merchantable corn."40
William Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, 1910.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1550 in Fordington, Dorset, England d.Feb 1630 in Puddington, Dorset, England
- b.1576 in Dorset, England d.Jun 1614 in Upway, Dorset, England
- b.1554 d.1630
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- b.26 Oct 1609 in Canterbury, Kent, England d.26 Oct 1675 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
- b.1579 in Fordington, Dorset, England d.25 Mar 1651 in Upway, Dorset, England
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Children
Death Notes
abt. 1709
Sgt Samuel Sprague
Samuel was born on May 24th, 1640 in Hingham, Massachusetts.3 He died at the age of 69 in 1709 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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Sources/Citations
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1 Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: immigrants to New England 1620-1633, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 1995, Three volumes
2 Joseph Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Originally published 1860.
3 Plymouth, Massachusetts, "History of Marshfield Massachusetts", [V. II, Pp. 179 - 183]