Lydia (Leavitt) Sprague (1691 - 1781)

Born 28 May 1691 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Jonathan Sprague — married 23 May 1712 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 31 Aug 1781 at age 90 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

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Biography

Birth

Lydia Leavitt was born in about 1691 to Israel Leavett and Lydia Jackson in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[1]

Father Israel Leavitt2 b. 23 Apr 1648, d. b 25 Jan 1698/99^[1]

Mother Lydia Jackson2 b. 1658^[1]

Marriage

Lydia Leavitt married Jonathan Sprague on 23 May 1712 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay.^[2]

Jonathan Sprague b. 1687, d. 10 Apr 1756 was the son of William Sprague and Deborah Lane.^[2]

Children:

Lydia and Jonathan had 9 children together, all born in Bridgewater, Mass.^[3]

1. Lydia Sprague. Born 31 Jul 1715.
2. Hannah Sprague. Born 25 Jul 1717.
3. Jonathan Sprague Jr. Born 13 Mar 1720.
4. Mary Sprague. Born 26 Mar 1722. 
5. Sarah Sprague. Born 3 May 1725, d. 16 Jun 1726. ^[4]
6. John Sprague. Born 8 Jul 1727. 
7. Content Sprague. Born 7 Apr 1729 
8. Betty Sprague. Born 10 May 1731 
9. Benjamin Sprague. Born 4 Jul 1736, d. 31 Mar 1778.^[4]

Death

"Old Grannie" died on 31 August 1781 in Bridgewater4

Burial: South Precinct Burying Place, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Vol. II. Genealogical. 1893. Published by the Town. Leavitt, pages 428-439. [1]
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Sprague, Frank William. The Brothers Ralph and William Sprague and Some of Their Descendants, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1909) Vol. 63, Page 149
3. ↑ 1Vital Records of the Town of Bridgewater, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Vol. I. Births. 1916. page 306-07.[2]
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} 2Vital Records of the Town of Bridgewater, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Vol II. Marriages and Deaths. 1916. page 560-61. [3]

• Sprague, Frank William. The Brothers Ralph and William Sprague and Some of Their Descendants, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1909) Vol. 63, Page 149
• 1Vital Records of the Town of Bridgewater, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Vol. I. Births. 1916. page 306-07.[4]
• 2Vital Records of the Town of Bridgewater, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Vol II. Marriages and Deaths. 1916. page 560-61. [5]
• History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Vol. II. Genealogical. 1893. Published by the Town. Leavitt, pages 428-439. [6]

• Sprague, Frank William. The Brothers Ralph and William Sprague and Some of Their Descendants, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1909) Vol. 63, Page 149
• Genealogy Brick Walls - Who Were These People... Person Page - 27
• Nahum Mitchell, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, including an extensive Family Register. Note: page numbers differ slightly between publications used in our research, including FHL copy, Google Books, Boston Public Library EBooks online and our personal library reprint published by Heritage Books. (Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc., original publication date was 1840; reprinted for the third and fourth times in 1970 and 1975; first reprinted in 1897 by Henry T. Pratt, Bridgewater, Massachusetts; originally printed in 1840 by Kidder and Wright, Boston, Massachusetts), Sprague, pages 321-322. Hereinafter cited as History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater.

• New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts to 1850, Births, Volume I, page 306.
• New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vital Records of Bridgewater, Massachusetts to 1850, Births, Volume I, page 307.
• "Sprague Families in America", Warren Vincent Sprague. Part 2. William Sprague of Hingham. Mass. 1913. Tuttle Co. Rutland, VT.; Genealogical Society of Utah Library; #249, Image #153.[7]

Further Reading

The following source books are linked to archive.org which can be freely downloaded.

• History of the Early Settlers of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. 1840. By Nahum Mitchell.[8]
• History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Vol. I. Historical. 1893. Published by the Town.[9]
• History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Vol. I. Part II. Historical. 1893. Published by the Town.[10]
• History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Vol. II. Genealogical. 1893. Published by the Town. Leavitt, pages 428-439. [11]
• History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts. Vol. III. Genealogical. 1893. Published by the Town. Sprague, page 165. [12]
• Sprague, Frank William. The Brothers Ralph and William Sprague and Some of Their Descendants.1909. Page 5.[13]
• Vital Records of the Town of Bridgewater, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Vol. I. Births. 1916.[14]
• Vital Records of the Town of Bridgewater, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Vol II. Marriages and Deaths. 1916. page 561 referencing P.R.3: citing a private record; from a record of burials in the South Precinct Burying Place, kept by Lt. John Washburn, 1739-1797. [15]