Ancestry of
Anthony Edwards

TV and Movie Actor

John Sprague

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Anthony Edwards — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1244 
  • Father:
  • Francis Sprague 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1630 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT Dec 1675 
  • Death Location:
  • Great Swamp Fight, South Kingston, Washington, Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Bassett
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1655 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Sprague

  Ruth Sprague

  Dorcas Sprague

  Desire Sprague

  Samuel Sprague

  William Sprague (Ahnentafel No:622 )

  • Notes: 

  • John Sprague was killed in Capt. Pierce's fight during King Philip's War.

• Sources for John Sprague

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1964, Vol. 41, pp. 178-181.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 129.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1727.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 680.
  • ⁵ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 108.
  • ⁶ Sprague, Warren Vincent, Sprague Families in America, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, Printers (1913), 11.
  • ⁷ Wakefield, Robert S. and Russell L. Warner, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 14, Family of Myles Standish, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2007), 19.
  • ⁸ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 163.