Individual Details

Mercy Sprague

(1617 - Abt, 1688)

Mercy Sprague sailed to America at about age 6. Her family was in the Plymouth Colony and interacted with Miles Standish, John and Elizabeth Howland, William Bradford and all the other pilgrims. Mercy married William Tubbs at age 20 or so but it seems she was in love with Joseph Rogers of the Mayflower. Mercy and William were in court, a lot, for marriage issues. Once they were granted a divorce Mercy probably followed Joseph to Rhode Island he'd been banished because he couldn't stay away from Mercy.

Events

Birth1617England
Arrival1623on the Anne - Plymouth, British America
ResidenceMay 22, 1627Plymouth, British America
MarriageNovember 9, 1637Plymouth, British America - William Tubbs
CivilMarch, 1651Plymouth, British America
CivilJune 1, 1663Plymouth, British America
CivilOctober, 1663Plymouth, British America
CivilJune, 1664Plymouth, British America
Divorce1668Massachusetts, British America - William Tubbs
CivilJune 3, 1668Plymouth, British America
DeathAbt, 1688Rhode Island, British America
Burial

Families

SpouseWilliam Tubbs (1612 - 1688)
ChildSamuel Tubbs (1638 - 1695)
FatherFrancis Sprague (1590 - 1679)
MotherLydia Archer (1600 - 1666)
SiblingJohn Sprague (1635 - 1676)
SiblingDorcas Sprague (1632 - 1702)

Notes

Birth

Birthdate is an estimate.

Residence

Mercy was 10 yeas old when her family was part of division of cows in Plymouth Colony.

Civil

the Court had admonished Goodwife Tubbs for -mixed dancing-

Civil

the Court required Josepth Rogers 'to remoue his dwelling from Namassakeesett aforsaid by the twentieth day of this instant une, and haue alsoe declared vnto him that if att any time hee shall bee taken att the house of the said Tubbs, or in the companie of the said Marcye Tubbs alone in any place, that then hee shall forth with bee taken and seuerly whipt'.

Civil

Mercy, William and Joseph Rogers are all fined for bad behavior

Civil

Att this Court, a protest was openly published, att the request of William Tubbs, against Mercye, his wife, as disowneing all debts that shee shall make vnto any from this time forward

Civil

An ultimatum, att Plymouth the first Tusday in July next, that then hee, the said William Tubbs, shalbe diuoreed from her.

Burial

She may have joined Joseph Rogers of the Mayflower, he was banished from Plymouth and went to Rhode Island, maybe and maybe Mercy followed him. -Josepth Rogers, of Namassakeesett, hath frequently and from time kept companie with Mercye, the wife of Wiliam-

Endnotes

1. Goodwin, John A. The Pilgrim Republic: an Historical Review of the Colony of New Plymouth, With Sketches of the Rise of Other New England Settlements, the History of Congregationalism, And the Creeds of the Period. Boston: Ticknor and company; [etc., etc.], 1888, Chapter XXIX The Cattle Division Page 291, 294.

2. (1884). || Page 95.

3. (1995). || Great Migration Begins, Vol 3, P-W page 1727 Francis Sprague.

4. (2008). || Volume 3 page 1547.

5. New Plymouth Colony. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, In New England. Boston: Press of W. White, 1855, Volume 1-2 page 68.

6. New Plymouth Colony. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, In New England. Boston: Press of W. White, 1855, Volume 3-4 page 5 Mercy in court for mixed dansing.

7. New Plymouth Colony. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, In New England. Boston: Press of W. White, 1855, Volume 3, 4 page 42 Joseph is ordered t leave, stay away from Mercy..

8. New Plymouth Colony. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, In New England. Boston: Press of W. White, 1855, Volume 3,4 page 46 Mercy and William and Joseph Rogers all fined for bad beahvior.

9. New Plymouth Colony. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, In New England. Boston: Press of W. White, 1855, Volume 3, 4 page 66 William refuses Mercy's debt.

10. (1995). || Great Migration Begins, Vol 3, P-W page 1727 Francis Sprague.

11. Tubbs, Charles Myron. Tubbs Ancestral Notes: a Genealogy Traced From William Tubbs of Duxbury, Mass., Rev. ed. Bath, Me., 1957, Page 2.

12. Goodwin, John A. The Pilgrim Republic: an Historical Review of the Colony of New Plymouth, With Sketches of the Rise of Other New England Settlements, the History of Congregationalism, And the Creeds of the Period. Boston: Ticknor and company; [etc., etc.], 1888, Page 596 Appendix Marriage Celebrations.

13. (2008). || Volume 3 page 1547.

14. New Plymouth Colony. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, In New England. Boston: Press of W. White, 1855, Volume 3, 4 page 187 court sets a date if Mercy doesn't follow thru, William gets a divorce.

15. , "FindAGrave.com," online database, Find a Grave ( http://www.findagrave.com : accessed ), .