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John Spragg^[1]
Abt 1640 - 1698

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• Birth	Abt 1640  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	1692-1698  [1]
  Age	~ 58 years
  Person ID	I99736	Sprague Project
  Last Modified	05 Sep 2010

  
  

  Father	#05 Edward Spragg,   b. Abt 1616, England ,   d. 1685, Hempstead, Nassau Co., NY, USA    (~ 69 years)
  Mother	Wife [--?--],   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	Bef 1637
  Family ID	F36977	Family Group Sheet

  
  

  Family / Spouse	Mary [--?--],   d. Aft 1692
  Children	+ 1. Edward Spragg,  b. Abt 1665, Hempstead, Nassau Co., NY, USA ,  d. 1725, Hempstead, Nassau Co., NY, USA   (~ 60 years)
  Family ID	F36978	Family Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  "Early Spraggs of Hempstead, Long Island", by John R. Sprague III, J.D., published in "The Genealogist", Spring, 1998, pages 3-42 (note, the reader is left to review the original manuscript for references cited in Attorney Sprague's work.). JOHN SPRAGG (,Edward1) was born say 1640, assuming fie was twenty- five years old when his son Edward was born. He was living at Hempstead in March 1687/8, but he does not appear in the 1698 census, probably having died before that date. He married, but his wife's name is not known. Most likely, he was a farmer and a Presbyterian like his father. The Hempstead town records show that on 24 May 1682 John gave 10s. toward the ministry of Jeremy Hubard."O His name appears again on 6 March 1687/8, when he and thirty-one other owners of Coe Neck agreed to give land to Thomas Barker. Later appearances of the name John Spragg in Hempstead probably refer to a nephew, son of Edward2 Spragg (no. 5). It is difficult to deduce John's family. Eardeley mentions only that he was bom about 1668, which is a generation too late. Combes placed the Joseph Spragg of the 1698 census as a son of John2 Spragg, but for reasons already given, Joseph was most likely another nephew, a son of Edward2 Spragg (no. 2 iii). Similarly, Wardwell concluded that John2 Spragg's family was represented in the 1698 Hempstead census by the Spragg cluster, Mary, John, Thomas, and Richard, but, as discussed above, these names also refer to descendants of Edward2. The available records point with certainty to only one child of John2 Spragg: the Edward Spragg who married Abigail Southard. This Edward first appears in the town records on 7 October 1690, when he witnessed by mark O four statements concerning the disposition of the Southard estate. He next appears on 29 December 1691, when, again sign-in by mark O he acknowledged that he had reserved L3 6s. in settlement of that estate. 144 He was a contemporary of Edward (ES) Spragg, identified above as a son of Edward'. By elimination, Edward (O) Spragg should be a child of John2, the only other known son of Edward1 Spragg. The town records support that deduction. Since John owned land on Coe Neck, one may expect to find his children there. The 1698 Hempstead census lists Edward (O) Spragg one family away from "John carle," who was among those who had consented in March 1687/8 to give the Coe Neck land to Thomas Barker. Indeed, within a twenty-family "radius" from Edward (O) Spragg, we find ten men or members of their families who had agreed to the Coe Neck gift. A reasonable inference may be drawn that John2 Spragg owned land there, which, probably upon his death between 1688 and 1698, came into the possession of his son, Edward (O) Spragg.




• Sources

  [S536] Correspondent: Sonnichsen, Philip, note of November 12th, 2004. [S537] Periodical: The Genealogist, (Rockport, ME: Published for The American Society of Genealogists by Picton Press), Volume 12, No. 1, "Early Spraggs of Hempstead, Long Island, Spring 1998, by John Russel Sprague III, J.D, pages 3-42. .