When Puella Sprague was born on 6 May 1794, in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States, her father, John Sprague, was 43 and her mother, Mary Mayhew, was 38. She married John Neal Cleveland on 29 December 1810, in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 4 daughters. She died on 15 January 1867, in Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Old Westside Cemetery, Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States.
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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.
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