STODDER, Stephen

Notes:

Stephen was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War. Lived on Fort Hill St.

Stephen married WATERMAN, Mary 10 Oct 1790. Mary (daughter of WATERMAN, Thomas and LINCOLN, Lydia) was born 14 Dec 1765, Hingham, Massachusetts.; died 18 Nov 1854. [Group Sheet]

1. STODDER, Lucy was born 9 Oct 1791; died 21 May 1877.

Notes:

Nathaniel lived on North St. near Marsh's bridge.

Nathaniel married SPRAGUE, Elizabeth 21 Dec 1747, Hingham, Massachusetts.. Elizabeth (daughter of SPRAGUE, Jeremiah and KNIGHT, Priscilla) was born 10/10 Mar 1723/1724, Hingham, Massachusetts.; died 18 Dec 1785. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Nathaniel died while serving in the Army. He lived on Main St. nearHobart St.
He sold the home to Jacob Sprague in 1756.

Nathaniel married GARNET, Abigail 25 Oct 1726, Boston, Massachusetts.. Abigail (daughter of GARNET, Stephen and WARREN, Sarah) was born 11/11 Jan 1698/1699, Hingham, Massachusetts.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Jeremiah lived "over the river".

Jeremiah — KNIGHT, Priscilla. Priscilla died 3 Aug 1775, Hingham, Massachusetts.. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Jacob lived on Main St. Near Hobart St.

Jacob married HOWARD, Sarah 17 Aug 1704, Hingham, Massachusetts.. Sarah (daughter of HOWARD, Daniel and PITTS, Deborah) was born 26 Sep 1674, Hingham, Massachusetts.; died 27 Apr 1756, Hingham, Massachusetts.. [Group Sheet]

Stephen married WARREN, Sarah 22 Dec 1687. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Anthony's home was burned in Philip's War.

SOURCE:
SAVAGE, VOL 4 DICT FIRST SETTLERS OF NE

SPRAGUE, ANTHONY, Hingham, eldest s. of William of the same, m.
26 Dec. 1661, Eliz. d. of Robert Bartlett of Plymouth, had Anthony,
Benjamin, John, Eliz. Samuel, Sarah, James, Josiah, Jeremiah, Richard,
and Matthew, as in the Sprague Geneal. rank.; but some d. young, and hisw. d. Feb. 1713. I n his will of 21 July 1716, pro. 12 Oct. 1719, in
our rec. XXI. 245 are nam. Anthony with Anthony his s. and other s.
Richard, James, Samuel, Matthew, Josiah, and Jeremiah, beside d. Sarah
Bates, w. of Caleb. He d. 3 Sept. 1719. His house was burn. 20 Apr.
1676 by the Ind. in Philip's war. Of this branch, of Anthony, thro.
Jeremiah, the seventh s. is the celebr. poet, Charles, descend. EDWARD,
Malden, youngest s. of the first John m. 24 Nov. 1693, Dorothy, d. of
Job Lane of the same, had William, b. 4 Sept. 1696; Ann, 20 Mar.
1697; Dorothy, 9 Sept. 1698; and d. 13 Apr. 1715. FRANCIS, Ply-
mouth, came with w. and a d. in the Ann 1623, but the names, Ann, and
Mercy, are all that are giv. in 1627, at the div. of cattle, so that it is
infer. that he left other ch. abroad, perhaps had John, or more b. here;
and at P. was tax. 1633 and 4, but aft. was of Dusbury. He was liv.
in 1666, as Winsor says, and he names the ch. John, Ann, Mary, and
Mercy. This last, he tells, m. 9 Nov. 1637, William Tubbs; and one
of the others m. Robert Lawrence; but I kn. no such man, and casually
turn. (three yrs. aft. writ. this maledict) from p. 317 to 275, of Winsor,
obs. that he calls him William. He was one of the orig. purch. of Dart-
mouth. * JOHN, Malden, eldest s. of Ralph, b. in Eng. freem. 1653, m.
2 May 1651, Lydia, d. of Edward Goffe of Cambridge, brot. from Eng.
had John, b. 9 Mar. 1651; Lydia; Jonathan, b. Oct. 1656; Samuel,
21 Feb. 1659; and Mary, 13 Aprl 1661; Phineas, Feb. 1666; Ed-
ward; Deborah, 21 Sept. 1670; Sarah, Feb. 1673; and d. 16 Dec.
1703. The wid. d. 11 Dec. 1715. A will of his br. Richard, wh.
outliv. him, in 1703, gives to five s. of this John, wh. was rep. 1689,90,
and 1. JOHN, Duxbury, only s. of Francis, liv. first at Marshfield, but
d. in D.; m. 1655, Ruth, d. of William Bassett, had John; William;
Samuel; Ruth, b. 12 Feb. 1659; Eliz.; Desire; and Dorcas; was k.
in Philip's war, 26 Mar. 1676, under Pierce, at the fierce fight of Paw-
tucket. JOHN, Plymouth and Duxbury, in Hutch. I. 354 call. one of
the counc. to Sir Edmund Andros, was perhaps s. of William, and if this
be true, he m. 13 Dec. 1666, Eliz. Holbrook, and Hosea S. in his
Geneal, tells no more, but that he sold in 1682 his est. at Hingham, andd.

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at Mendon 1690. Yet there is, in my opin. very slight reason for think,
the s. of William of Hingham to be the counsellor. Judge Mitchell
refers to the will of the Hingham, man, of 1683, as it ment. his ch. John,
William, Ebenezer, Eliz., Hannah, Milicent, and Persis. JOHN, Mal-
den, eldest s. of John of the same, by w. Eliz. had John, b. 23 July
1685; Abiah, 21 Aug. 1687; Mary, 27 Nov. 1689; was freem. 1690;
and he d. June 1692. JONATHAN, Weymouth, s. of William of Hing-
ham, by w. Eliz. had Eliz. b. 21 July 1670; rem. to R. I. by fam. tradit.
and may be the same, wh. at Providence had preach. in the early part of
18th centu. was town clk. in 1722, and perhaps d. at Smithfield, Jan.
1741, aged 92. JONATHAN, Malden, s. of the first John of the same, by
w. Mary had Richard, b. 28 June 1686; John, 7 May 1689; Joseph, 24
Oct. 1691; Nathan, 2 Feb. 1694; Hannah, and Mary, tw. 25 May
1696; David, 15 Aug. 1698; and was freem. 1690. P[HINEAS, Malden,
youngest s. of Ralph, freem. 1690, m. 11 Dec. 1661, Mary Carrington,
perhaps d. of Edward, wh. brot. him no ch. and d. 7 Dec. 1667; but by
sec. w. m. 5 Jan. 1670, Sarah Hasey, perhaps d. of William had
Phineas, b. 27 Dec. foll. William, 21 Nov. 1672; Ralph, Nov. 1674;
Sarah, 23 Apr. 1686; Joanna, 17 Apr. 1688; and Abigail, 2 Mar.
1690. But my suspicion is strong, that the three last belong to the other
man of the same, name in that town. He took the o. of fidel. 15 Dec.
1674, and was rep. 1689 and 90. PHINEAS, Malden, prob. s. of the first
John, by w. Eliz. had Eliz. b. 11 Oct. 1691; Mary, 15 Oct. 1693; Tab-
itha, 19 Oct. 1696; and I find nothing more of him * RALPH,
Charlestown 1629, came prob. with w. Joan, and s. John and Richard,
that yr. in the fleet with Higginson, certain. with brs. Richard, andprob.
William. They were s. of Edward prob. of Upway in Devonshire.
Sometimes it has been thot. that these gent. were paseng. in 1628, with
Endicott, but to me it seems more likely that, as they came, paying their
own charges, they were in the fleet of 1629. With Endicott, in the
Abigail, beside his fam. and serv. there not, I suppose, over twenty,
includ. men, women, and ch. and most of them sent by the adventurers
in London, as the first sh. for the planta. would naturally be occup. in
transport. of persons wh. they should wholly control. The much larger
exped. aft. gr. of the chart. 1629 had, also wider views of policy, and
in obedience to the direct. of the officers of the comp. at home the
Spragues, wh. came at their own charge, wre sent by Endicott to take
up the lands in C. but we kn. that the compiler of the Charlestown rec.
threw back his narra. of early transact, by one yr. mak. Winth. and the
gr. body of our early sett. come in 1629. As the Spragues came one
yrs. bef. Winth. Mr. Green, the compiler of that MS. compliment. by
Prince and most of us as the first rec. of C. natural. gave them the

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date 1628, and on the same premises our confidence reposes, that the true
yr. was 1629. He had w. Joan, and the Nos. of hims. and her on our ch.
list are 102 and 3. He had Samuel, bapt. 3 June 1632, but he may
have been b. many mos. for his was the sixth ch. nam. in our list, and
the rite had not been perform. since Nov. 1630, by reason of the abs. of
Wilson the pastor, wh. came back from Eng. the wk. bef. this bapt. He
and his w. were of the 33, wh. had desir. dismiss. from the congr. ofBoston
"to enter into a new ch. body at C." and were dismiss. 14 Oct. 1632;
and his d. Mary was bapt. 14 Sept. 1634; s. Phineas, 31 July 1637.
He had sprung, I imagine, from Dorsetsh. and own. lds. in Upway of
that Co. as by let. of 25 Mar. 1651 from his f.-in-law, John Corbin, at
that parish, appears. On 19 Oct. 1630 he req. adm. and 18 May foll.
was sw. as freem. made constable at the Gen. Ct. Oct. 1630, serg. lieut.
and capt. in regular success, rep. May 1635, being the third time of such
an assemb. and very frequ. aft.; ar. co. 1639; but I believe that in later
days he liv. on Mistick side, or Malden, for his name is in a commiss. to
set. bounds there, and he d. Nov. 1650, and his s. Jonathan next mo.
and his name of the wid. is the sec. on the women's memo. to the Gen.
Ct. 1651 in favor Matthews; and she may have m. eleven yrs. later
Edward Converse of Woburn. Mary, his d. m. Daniel Edmunds, oft.
writ. Edmunds, and in the will of her br. Capt. Richaard has good provis.
* RICHARD, Charlestown, came, no doubt, with the preced. wh. was
elder br. bring. w. Mary, and on the Boston list of ch. mem. stands bef.
his br. being No. 79, adm. freem. 18 May 1631, was with w. dismiss.
Oct. 1632, to form new ch. at C. in 1637 took side with Wheelwright,
and sign. the remonstr. against the proceed. of the Ct. but on express.
his regret, the signa. was eras.; was of ar. co. 1639, capt. rep. 1659 and
sev. yrs. more, prob. had no. ch. and d. 25 Nov. 1668, aged 63. His
will of 15 Sept. preced. names w. Mary, Richard, John, Samuel, and
Phineas, s. of his br. Ralph, his br. William of Hingham, and gave to
Harv. Coll. 30 ewes with their lambs. By the will of his wid. 12 Nov.
1671, pro. 16 June 1674, we gain a fine fam. crop. It names kinsmen,
lieut. John, Samuel, and Phineas Sprague; kinsman Nathaniel Rand,
and his s. Nathaniel; kindsman, Lawrence Dowse and his two ds. Eliz.
and Mary; childr. of Thomas Rand, and Lawrence Dowse; Jonathan,
s. of Daniel Edmands; br. William Sprague, and his childr. sis. Alice
Rand; kinsmen Thomas Rand, Nathaniel Rand, Lawrence Dowse,
Abraham Newell, Nathaniel Brewer, and Thomas Lord; Mary Dowse,
d. of Lawrence; made Excors. Nathaniel Rand, and lieut. John Sprague.
His inv. summed up well. * RICHARD, Charlestown, s. of Ralph, b.
in Eng. m. 25 Feb. (but Goodwin says 1 Feb.) 1673, Eunice, d. of
Leonard Chester, wh. d. 27 May 1676; in 1674 dur. the Dutch war, he

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command. an arm. vessel of 12 guns to cruise in Long Isl. sound, for
secur. of the coast. trade. He took sec. w. Catharine Anderson, on
whose gr. stone appears, that she d. 12 July 1701, aged 45; but prob.
had no ch. by either w. as none is heard of. He was ar. co. 1681, capt.
rep. 1681, and aft.; and was bur. 13 Oct. 1703, hav. d. 7, two days
bef. wh. he made his will of unusual and judicious liberality to rela-
tives, to clerg. to ch. and L400 to Harv. Coll. See Budington, 192, wh.
in his valua. work had miscal. him s. of Richard, 33, but correct. the
error on last page. SAMUEL, Malden, s. of Ralph, m. in Bostron, 12
Aug. 1655, Recuba Crawford, says our rec. perhaps mistak. the name
(for the Malden rec. gives her name Rebecca), had Rebecca, wh. d. 15
Aug. 1658; Samuel, 4 May 1660; Samuel, again, May 1662; Rebecca,
again, Sept. 1666; and perhaps sev. more, for by the will of Capt.
Richard his elder br. 1703, est. was giv. to two s. of this Samuel, wh. d.
3 Oct. 1696. He was lieut. and town clk. freem. 22 Mar. 1690, when
his s. Samuel, and three other Malden Spragues took the o. His wid.
Rebecca m. Capt. John Brown, and d. 8 July 1710. in her 77th yr.
* SAMUEL, Marshfield, s. of William the first, m. a. 1666, Sarah, d. of
Thomas Chillingworth, had Samuel, b. 1674; John; Nathan; James;
Sarah; Mary; Joanna; and Hannah. Of this branch of Samuel, tho.
the eldest s. is the disting. Judge. Peleg, descend. He was rep. 1682,
and 3 yrs. more, the reg of deeds, and the last Secr. of the Col. WIL-
LIAM, Hingham 1636, br. prob. youngest, of Ralph, and perhaps brot. by
him in 1629, m. 1635, Milicent Eames, prob. d. of Anthony, bapt. says the
Marshfield early, but back to H. in few yrs. had Anthony, bapt. says the
rec. of Charlestown ch. 23 May 1636; John, b. 1638; Samuel, 1640;
Jonathan, 1643, d. at 4 yrs.; Jonathan, again, 1648; William, 7 May
1650, beside ds. Eliz. 1641; Persis, 1643; Joanna, 1644; Mary, 1652;
and Hannah, 25 Feb. 1655. He d. 26 Oct. 1675, and his wid. d. 8
Feb. 1696. Of his ds. Persis m. John Doggett; Joanna m. 16 Dec.
1667, Caleb Church; and Mary m. Thomas King of Scituate. WIL-
LIAM, Hingham, youngest s. of the preced. m. 30 Dec. 1674, Deborah,
d. of Andrew Lane, had William, b. 24 Dec. 1675; Deborah, 24 May

SOURCE:
General Register of the Society of Colonial Wars 1899-1902

SPRAGUE, ANTHONY, 1636-1719, Hingham, Massachusetts. His house burned byIndians during an att ack, 1676, King Philip's War.

Anthony married BARTLETT, Elizabeth 26 Dec 1661. Elizabeth (daughter of BARTLETT, Robert and WARREN, Mary) died 17/17 Feb 1712/1713, Hingham, Massachusetts.. [Group Sheet]