Brief Life History of Sarah
When Sarah Sprague was born on 4 March 1771, in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, her father, Hezekiah Sprague Jr, was 33 and her mother, Mary Ballou, was 31. She married Ezekiel Day Angell on 2 April 1795, in West Pawtucket, Providence, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 5 October 1847, in Greenfield, Saratoga, New York, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Corinth, Saratoga, New York, United States.
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- Sarah Sprague Angell, "Find A Grave Index"
- Sarah Sprague, "Rhode Island, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1630-1945"
- Sarah Sprague, "Rhode Island, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1630-1945"
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1772 · The Gaspee Affair
On June 9, 1772, colonists that are angry with the trade restrictions that Britain put them under, board the HMS Gaspee and set it ablaze. This was the first act of violence against the British on the North American continent.
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
Name Meaning
English (Devon): nickname from Middle English sprag ‘brisk, energetic’, a variant of Sprake with voicing of the -k-, which survives in the 19th-century dialect word spragg ‘lively, ingenious’. It was occasionally used in the 12th century as personal name, recorded as Spreg'c. 1177–86.
History: William Sprague came from England to Salem, MA, in 1628 with his brothers Ralph and Richard. He was one of the founders of Charlestown, MA, and later of Hingham, MA. His descendants include Peleg Sprague, a jurist and MA legislator, who was born in 1793 in Duxbury, MA; William Sprague a textile manufacturer born in 1773 in Cranston, RI; and Yale College educator Homer Baxter Sprague, who was born in 1829 in South Sutton, MA, and whose legacy lives on in Yale's Sprague concert hall.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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