Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

William Sprague

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Ben Jealous — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2622 
  • Father:
  • Edward Sprague 
  • Mother:
  • Christian -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1611 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Upway, Dorsetshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Oct 1675 
  • Death Location:
  • Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Millicent Eames
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1635 
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  Anthony Sprague

  Joanna Sprague (Ahnentafel No:1311 )

  Jonathan Sprague

  William Sprague

• Sources for William Sprague

  • ¹ Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, Summer 2019, Vol. 67, No. 2, p. 142.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1909, Vol. 63, p. 147.
  • 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), 1735-1739.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 390.
  • ⁵ Sprague, Frank William, The Brothers Ralph and William Sprague, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1909), 3.
  • ⁶ Sprague, Warren Vincent, Sprague Families in America, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, Printers (1913), 124-127.
  • ⁷ Wakefield, Robert S. and Judith H. Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 1, Richard Warren, 17, 30.

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