John Sprague - Difference between John Sprague b. c1638 Duxbury, Plymouth co., Massachusetts

- Notes in overview do not match profile details for John Sprague (of Duxbury? Cannot tell).
- he did not have 4 wives
- he was not married to Lydia Goffe

The Sprague families are well documented; there's a Sprague database project as well as a fair amount of primary sources.

I would start with a clean new "top of the overview" notes especially listing parents, wives & children; and give him a distinct display name.

You might need a new Lydia wife.

Then you'll need to sort children to correct parents.

Hatte Blejer on hiatus I think your John Sprague of Mendon may have been blended into this John Sprague of Duxbury & unaccountably also of Hartford?

Were they all MPs? How did this happen if so?

I cannot answer "how" any more than anyone else. I would suspect that with similar names & dates this John acquired too many wives.

I don't know the Mendon line so was hoping you might have some illumination for setting to rights.

i belive he had more then one wife i belive he married a native american women after or befor lydia i belive after

My understanding is that the John Sprague who marrired Lydia Goffe had only one wife. After all, she outlived him. See, e.g., Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 3: 1730; and George Walter Chamberlain, The Spragues of Malden, Massachusetts (Boston, Mass.: T. R. Marvin & Son, 1923), 83

The John Sprague that died in Mendon, also only had one wife, Elizabeth Holbrook. Like the above, she outlived him, and remarried to John Buck. See, Walter Goodwin Davis, Massachusetts and Maine families in the ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), 2: 29; and New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 697

Hope that helps!

We're going to have to sort by children.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=116176792
http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Sprague_%285%29

John Sprague (1656-1728)
Son of John Sprague & Ruth Bassett
Married 1) Lydia (unknown) 2) Lois Standish

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~amorrow/fg05/fg05...
John Sprague (1638-1690)
Son of William Sprague & Melicent Eames
Married Elizabeth Holbrook

http://www.sprague-database.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I4...
John Sprague (1624-1692)
Son of Ralph Sprague & Joanne Warren
Married Lydia Goffe

Now to collate Geni profiles.

Angus Wood-Salomon, Hatte Blejer on hiatus,

A little Christmas gift for Sprague lines. Please double check at your leisure. I think I have one more extra wife to find the right home for.

Private User your notes were a big help, my thanks.

So here are our three (less confused) John Spragues:

Lt. John Sprague, of Duxbury & Lebanon
son of John Sprague, Sr. & Ruth Thomas
Married 1) Lydia Sprague (parents unknown) mother of all children 2) Lois Sprague widow of Hugh Calkins

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Capt. John Sprague, of Malden
son of Lt. Ralph Sprague & Joanna Converse
Married Lydia Sprague

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John Sprague, of Hingham & Mendon
son of William Sprague of Hingham & Millicent Sprague
Married Elizabeth Bick She survived him and married John Bick next

left to do: a new home for Susannah Sprague

Wow Erica you truly amaze me....

:)

The Mendon children could use a double check, its the line I'm least familiar with.

For the Mendon children, my research (some of it is recent, some of it is not) is online (as almost all of mine is). See http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ssimo...

By looking at the footnotes, one can decide how reliable it is.

Big help! I'm going to use the child list, and of course the references are good. Anyway at this era there should be vital records (famous last words).

And ouch! There for sure are time traveling children ... (sigh)

Stay tuned. I had been intrigued by John Bick (Buck?) needing to relocate himself to a groovier Rhode Island ...

(there was a big Buck family in Scituate, i would think James "Bick" is from them ...)

... Unless his name was James Bickford?

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr05/rr05_223.html#P1880

Elizabeth second married James Bickford.

Anyway - the Mendon children are sorted.

i know the spragues that came of the ship ann is on my mom side eaver one in my family said theres native american on the spragues dont know by tribe or maried in or both

dont know john and ruth basset i know is we had a capt sprague who maried a native american in our family dont know if its john but i belive so whitch one dont know

or went with john had kids and neaver married that can also be true

There were a lot of Spragues! Lois Sprague was a Mayflower descendant so she's not the one who fits the family story.

is it from francis sprague lois sprague is from becouse there my mothers side of the family lois wasent on the mayflower list more of moms family of sprague might be more then ship ann lois could very well be realted to francis sprague from the ship ann to my name is miles my gramother people are saying theres native american dont know if they was befor they came over on the ship or ships or after i ben told maried in with the natives

Got her!! I found Susanna Cobb! Even the Sprague Project doesn't have any information on her. But I found her here: https://archive.org/stream/historyofcobbfam04cobb#page/20/mode/2up/...

So, I merged her in as a child to John Cobb and Sarah Derby (check out her tree now!) http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000017230097790

This Abigail Cobb is a grandchild of Cobb-Derby -- but it's all locked (http://www.geni.com/family-tree/index/6000000027471500992)

I also merged in David Cobb as another child of Cobb-Derby.

I've lost track -- Is there anything else in this thread that needs to be done?

maybe lois wasent a sprague on the mayflower but she maried in with the spragues

no spragues was listed on the mayflower how this women on here fine this info

Lois Sprague was the granddaughter of Mayflower passenger Miles Standish

she wasent listed on the ship who was her father

Lois Standish was b 1674, daughter of Lt. Josiah Standish b 1634, son of Myles Standish of the Mayflower.

then lois maried a sprague from the ship ann .wait lois sprague was a granddaughter of miles standish