SPRAGUE, Dorcas

Puffer Genealogy

1638 - 1716 (78 years)

Generation: 1

1.	SPRAGUE, Dorcas was born in 1638 in Duxbury, MA (daughter of SPRAGUE, Francis and ARCHER, Lydia); died in 1716 in Dartmouth, MA. Other Events and Attributes: _COLOR: 2 Dorcas married EARLE, Ralph on 26 Oct 1659 in Plymouth, MA. Ralph and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Generation: 2

SPRAGUE, Francis was born in CA 1600 in London, London, England; died on 26 Mar 1676 in Duxbury, MA.

Other Events and Attributes:

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Residence: 1623, Plymouth, MA
Arrival: Jul 1623, Plymouth, MA; aboard the "good ship Anne"
Residence: 1627, Plymouth, MA

Notes:

He arrived at Plymouth on the "Little Anne" in 1623. He was one of those "passengers" who, as Morton writes, "seeing the low and poor conditions of those that were before them, were much daunted and dismayed, and according to their divers humors, were diversely affected. Some wished themselves in England again; others fell to weeping, fancying their own misery in what they saw in others; other some pitying the distress they saw in their friends had long been in, and still were under. In a word, all were full of sadness; only some of their old friends rejoiced to see them, and it was no worse with them, for they could not expect it should be better, and now hoped they should enjoy better days together. And truly it was no marvel they should be thus affected, for they were in a low condition, both in respect of food and clothing at that time." Governor Bradford, in allusion to the passengers who came in the Anne and the James, says: "The best dish we could present them with, is a lobster, or a piece of fish, without bread, or any thing else but a cup of fair spring water; and the long continuance of this diet, with our labors abroad, has somewhat abated the freshness of our complexion; but God gives us health." (New England's Memorial, Davis' edition, p. 102, and Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrims, P. 353.)

Residence:
Shared in the division of lands with those who came in the Anne

Residence:
At the division of cattle he gives the name of his children as Ann and Mary. in July he signed an agreement with William Bradford and others pertaining to the carrying on of the fur trade.

Francis married ARCHER, Lydia in 1620 in England. Lydia was born in CA 1600 in London, London, England; died in 1660 in Duxbury, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

ARCHER, Lydia was born in CA 1600 in London, London, England; died in 1660 in Duxbury, MA.

Other Events and Attributes:

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Children:

SPRAGUE, Mary\Mercy was born in 1617 in England; died before 1623.
SPRAGUE, Anne was born in CA 1620 in England; died in 1669 in MA.
SPRAGUE, Mercy was born in 1623 in Plymouth, MA; died in 1668 in Plymouth, MA.
SPRAGUE, John Francis was born on 26 Mar 1633 in Duxbury, MA; died on 26 Mar 1676 in Hingham, MA; was buried on 26 Mar 1676 in RI.
1. SPRAGUE, Dorcas was born in 1638 in Duxbury, MA; died in 1716 in Dartmouth, MA.
SPRAGUE, Francis was born in CA 1620 in England; and died.