Francis Spafford (1700 - 1785)

Born 19 Feb 1700 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Priscilla (Walcott) Spafford — married 28 May 1722 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 15 Aug 1785 at age 85 in Windham, Windham County, Connecticut

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Biography

Francis was born 19 February 1700-1701, in Rowley, Massachusetts. He passed away 15 August 1785.

Sources

• See: FamilySearch FamilyTree Profile - KP4M-TLS [1]

• "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FC3H-C8Z : 10 February 2018), Francis, 19 Feb 1700; citing , 2:NPWX85; FHL microfilm 767,311. [2]

• Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016) (Rowley Births, p.201 - Francis (Spoford) s. John and Dorcas, Feb. 19, 1700-1701) [3]

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/Q29G-GC72 : 5 November 2017), Francis Spafford and Priscilla Walcot, 28 May 1722; citing Marriage, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 877,468. (Digital Folder Number 007009706, Image Number 00433) [4]

• Spofford, Jeremiah. Descendants of John Spofford and Elizabeth Scott 1888 (Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston, Massachusetts, 1888), pp 41 and 45.

Problematic Sources

• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 05 May 2018), memorial page for Francis Spofford (19 Feb 1699–15 Aug 1785), Find A Grave Memorial no. 157365511, ; Maintained by Debbie Gandy (contributor 47294802) Unknown, who reports a Burial Unknown.
  (Problem: Because the person maintaining this Find-A-Grave page affirmatively states the actual burial information for Francis Spafford is “unknown” as of 5 May 2018, this cannot be considered a reliable source. Unlike those Find-A-Grave pages which contain transcriptions or photographs of historic gravemarkers or the cemetery’s own burial records created at or near the time when the events occurred, this modern day memorial consists entirely of unsourced statements made 400 years after the fact, and offers no better proof than an unsourced profile copied from an unidentified and similarly unsourced family tree.)