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Female Mehitable Holbrook Click to view Mehitable Holbrook in the family tree

Mehitable was born in 1659 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts.1   Mehitable's father was William Holbrook and her mother was Elizabeth Pitts.  Her paternal grandparents were Thomas Holbrook and Jane Powyes. She had four brothers and six sisters, named Samuel, Cornelius, William, John, Elizabeth, Hopestill, Jane, Experience, Millicent and Persis.  She was the fifth youngest of the eleven children.

Family Details of Mehitable's family with Jonathan Sprague

1 "Genealogical Research of Kirk Larson"
Further sources/citations:
"New England Marriages: Prior to 1700" @ p. 692, "Sprague Family in America" @ p. 127,128,130,132,135, "The Brothers Ralph and William Sprague: And some of their Descendants", "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.  4 vols. 1860–62; rpt. ed." @ 2:441-3, "History and Genealogy of a Branch of the Weaver Family" @ p. 33-35, "The ancestry of Joseph Neal, 1769-c.1835, of Litchfield, Maine, by Walter Goodwin Davis." @ p. 100,131, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2640299&id=I545352893

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