Ancestry of
John Steinbeck

Author of The Grapes of Wrath

Ralph Sprague

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of John Steinbeck — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 684 
  • Father:
  • Edward Sprague 
  • Mother:
  • Christian -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1595 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Upway, Dorsetshire, England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • Nov 1650 
  • Death Location:
  • Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Forest Dale Cemetery, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Joanna Warren
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Aug 1623 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Fordington St. George, Dorsetshire, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  Samuel Sprague

  John Sprague (Ahnentafel No:342 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources list Ralph Sprague's wife as Joan Corbin, daughter of John of Fordington, County Dorset.

• Sources for Ralph Sprague

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/12/12).
  • ² Mayflower Descendant: A Journal of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, Summer 2019, Vol. 67, No. 2, p. 140.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1909, Vol. 63, p. 147.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 462.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 3, P-W, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 1728-1731.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 316.
  • ⁷ 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.
  • ⁸ Chamberlain, George Walter, The Spragues of Malden, Massachusetts, Boston: Unknown (1923), 41-73.
  • ⁹ Putnam, Eben, A History of the Putnam Family in England and America, Vol. 1, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press Publishing and Printing Company (1891), 63.
  • ¹⁰ Sprague, Frank William, The Brothers Ralph and William Sprague, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1909), 3.