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Jesse Harlow Sprague

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Sprague Grayden — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 24 
  • Father:
  • Eliphaz Sprague 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Harlow   
  • Birth Date:
  • 3 Sep 1814 
  • Birth Location:
  • Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 23 Jun 1871 
  • Death Location:
  • Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Highland Cemetery, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Nancy Williams Bates
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Oct 1836 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Charles F. Sprague (Ahnentafel No:12 )

  • Notes: 

  • Jesse Sprague is said to have sailed around Cape Horn, and after the ship became disabled, walked the final 1100 miles to California in 1849 during the Gold Rush.

• Sources for Jesse Harlow Sprague

  • ¹ Federal Census, MA, Norfolk County, 1870, Weymouth, p. 225, Image 225 of 226.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/31/2021).
  • ³ Massachusetts, U.S., Birth Records, 1840-1915, Birth record for son Charles F Sprague.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Weymouth, Vol. 2, p. 22, Marriage record for Jesse H Sprague and Nancy W Bates.
  • ⁵ Fiske, Jane Fletcher, et. al., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 20, Part 2, Henry Samson, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2005), 223.
  • ⁶ Sprague, Warren Vincent, Sprague Families in America, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, Printers (1913), 293, 378.

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