Born in Thornton, Grafton, New Hampshire
Ancestors 
Daughter of Matthew Lind Thornton
and Mary (Crawford) Thornton
Sister of
Dorcas Thornton, Joseph Thornton, Catherine Thornton, Jane Livermore (Thornton) Sprague, Mary (Thornton) Frost and Matthew Thornton
Wife of
Abiel Sprague III
— married
19 Nov 1797 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Moses Sprague, John Sprague, Hannah Getchell Sprague, Rachael Sprague, Leah (Sprague) Kincaid, Jane (Sprague) Bonney, Eli Thornton Sprague and Sally (Sprague) Babcock
Died
at age 71
in Cooper, Washington, Maine, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 13 Feb 2011
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Biography
Leah Thornton was born at Thornton, New Hampshire, 9 Mar 1774, the daughter of Matthew Thornton and Mary Crawford; [1] d at Cooper, Maine, Aug 1845; m 19 Nov 1797, Abiel Sprague. [2]
Sources
- ↑ Charles Thornton Adams, The Family of James Thornton, Father of the Hon. Matthew Thornton (New York City, 1905), p. 22 [1]
- ↑ Warren Vincent Sprague, M.D, Sprague Families in America 1940-1941 Supplement: Pioneers of Eastern Maine (Chauncey, Ohio, July 15, 1941), p. 191
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Leah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Leah:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Leah by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Leah:
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~3.12%
Sue (Bonney) Eckels
:
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
William Cox :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
J Mullin :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member J_Yenko
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~0.39%
Lawrence Moss :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch WH2245989 [compare], Ancestry member marshallthornton_1
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