Ancestry of
William Sprague

27th Governor of Rhode Island

Francois Michel Jr.

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• • Great-grandfather of William Sprague — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 14 
  • Father:
  • Francois Michel 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1746 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Bordeaux, France 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1811 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Groton, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Leeds
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  • Children:
  
  

  Priscilla Mitchell

  Mary Mitchell (Ahnentafel No:7 )

  • Notes: 

  • Francois Michel is said to have been a sea captain who anglicized his name to Francis Mitchell.

• Sources for Francois Michel Jr.

  • ¹ Magazine of the Daughters of the Revolution, 1894, Vol. 2, No. 3, p. 35 .
  • ² Rhode Island Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950, Death record for daughter Priscilla Smith.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1984, Vol. 60, p. 217.
  • ⁴ Connecticut Society of Genealogists, The Connecticut Nutmegger, 2004, Vol. 37, p. 282.
  • ⁵ Smith, H. Allen, A Genealogical History of the Descendants of the Rev. Nehemiah Smith of New London County, Conn., with Mention of . . ., Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, Publishers (1889), 122.
  • ⁶ Wildey, Anna Chesebrough, Genealogy of the Descendants of William Chesebrough of Boston, Rehoboth, Mass., New York: Press of T. A. Wright (1903), 419.