SPRAGUE, Francis

1600 - 1676  (76 years)

• Name	SPRAGUE, Francis
  Birth	CA 1600	London, London, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1623	Plymouth, MA   [2]
  	Shared in the division of lands with those who came in the Anne
  Arrival	Jul 1623	Plymouth, MA   [2]
  	aboard the "good ship Anne"
  Residence	1627	Plymouth, MA   [2]
  	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.
  _COLOR	3
  Death	26 Mar 1676	Duxbury, MA   [1]
  Person ID	I50597	Puffers
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family	ARCHER, Lydia,   b. CA 1600, London, London, England d. 1660, Duxbury, MA (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	1620	England   [1, 2]
  Children	1. SPRAGUE, Mary\Mercy,   b. 1617, England d. Bef 1623 (Age < 5 years)   2. SPRAGUE, Anne,   b. CA 1620, England d. 1669, MA (Age 49 years)   3. SPRAGUE, Mercy,   b. 1623, Plymouth, MA d. 1668, Plymouth, MA (Age 45 years)   4. SPRAGUE, John Francis,   b. 26 Mar 1633, Duxbury, MA d. 26 Mar 1676, Hingham, MA (Age 43 years)   5. SPRAGUE, Dorcas,   b. 1638, Duxbury, MA d. 1716, Dartmouth, MA (Age 78 years)   6. SPRAGUE, Francis,   b. CA 1620, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F18991	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Apr 2024

  
  

• 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.)

  
  

• Sources

  [S507] Millennium File. [S854] North America Family Histories 1500-2000.