Individual Details

Ralph SPRAGUE

(1599 - 24 Nov 1650)



Married Johane Warren. On 23 May 1624, their son John was baptised in St. George's Church, Fordington.

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Ralph, Richard and William Sprague, together with John Endicott and others set sail from Weymouth on 20th June 1628 on board the ship Abagail. There is a commemorative plaque in Weymouth harbour to this affect which greets passengers as they disembark form ferries that land there. The Abigail arrived at Salem New England on 6th September 1628.

We know from surviving records that Ralph together with his wife Joan and his brother Richard were among the 160 original members of the first Church formed in Charlestown as they signed a covenant to form a congregation there on 27 August 1630. According to Massachusetts Records, on 28th September 1630 Ralph sat on the first ever jury empanelled in Massachusetts, and on the 19th October he made a requisition to be admitted as a freeman of the colony. He took the freeman’s oath on 18th May 1631 and was made Constable of Charlestown the same month.

Ralph died on 24th November 1650 at Malden Middlesex County in Massachusetts and bequeathed his homestead and its farm to his sons John and Phineas, and his farm in Pond Feilde" to his sons Richard and Samuel. His home was located in what is now Mountain avenue. Joan remarried 2nd Sep 1662 to Edward Converse and died 24 February 1679/80 at Woburn, Middlesex Massachusetts leaving a will (“Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Probate Records,” [MPR], Case #4930) which was proved 15 June 1680.

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Events

Birth1599
Death24 Nov 1650Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
MarriageJohanne Warren

Families

SpouseJohanne Warren (1603 - 1679)
ChildJohn Sprague (1624 - 1692)
ChildPhineas SPRAGUE (1637 - 1690)
FatherEdward SPRAGUE ( - 1614)
MotherLiving
SiblingAlice SPRAGUE (1597 - )
SiblingEdward SPRAGUE (1601 - )
SiblingRichard SPRAGUE (1605 - 1668)
SiblingChristopher SPRAGUE (1607 - )
SiblingWILLIAM SPRAGUE (1609 - 1675)