Brief Life History of Lucy
When Lucy Sprague was born on 26 November 1783, her father, John Sprague, was 33 and her mother, Mary Mayhew, was 27. She married Samuel Coffin on 11 July 1813. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States in 1850. She died on 8 November 1879, at the age of 95.
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- Lucy Coffin in household of Samuel Coffin, "United States Census, 1850"
- Lucy Sprague, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Lucy Sprague, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1787 · The Making of the U.S. Constitution.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
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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