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William was born on February 2nd, 1691 in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island.1   William's father was Jonathan Sprague and his mother was Mehitable Holbrook.  His maternal grandparents were William Holbrook and Elizabeth Pitts. He had a brother and four sisters, named Jonathan, Patience, Joanna, Persis and Mary.  He was the youngest of the six children.  He died at the age of 87 on October 20th, 1778 in Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island.1 

1 "Genealogical Research of Kirk Larson"
Further sources/citations:
"Sprague Family in America" @ p.135; B3 E10 p.145,146,163, "The Brothers Ralph and William Sprague: And some of their Descendants" @ 63:148, 151, "Genealogy (in part) of the Sprague families in America, as descended from Edward Sprague of England, from 1614 with the wills of Edward Sprague and that of his son, William, who settled in Hingham, Mass., in 1636" @ p. 16-18, "Chad Browne of Providence, R.I., and Four Generations of His Descendants" @ 80:78 (ref # 5, viii), http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2640299&id=I545352893

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