Thomas Sprigg (1660 - 1726)

Born 1660 in Northampton, Prince George's, Maryland

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Died 1726 at about age 66 in Prince George's, Maryland

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Biography

Colonel Thomas Sprigg was born around 1668, in the British North American Colony of Maryland. Thomas is shown as the son of Catherine Sprigg in John Frederick Dorman's, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5 (1987), pp.190-192. His date of birth is uncertain but was probably about 1660. It is most likely that his mother died around the time of his birth and that he was brought up by his stepmother, Eleanor Nuthall.

Thomas Sprigg served in the Calvert County Militia and is referred to as both a Major and Lieutenant Colonel.

Thomas became a member of the Lower House of the Maryland General Assembly and was a Justice in Prince George's County.

Thomas married Margaret Mariarte (b.1672/74, Anne Arundel Co., MD) on 27 Nov 1739, in Prince George's Co. MD. She was the daughter of Edward Mariarte (b. c.1640, County Killarney, Ireland - ?) and Honor O'Brien (or Osborn) (b. c.1645, Ireland - 1701, Maryland).

The Register of Queen Anne's Parish, Prince George's Co MD, names their children:-

1. Thomas Sprigg (V) (ca 1692, Prince George's Co MD- 1725) [M] m. Margery Beall;
2. Edward Sprigg (ca 1694, Prince George's Co MD- 31 November 1751, Prince George's Co MD) [M] m1. Mary Belt, m2. Elizabeth Pile;
3. Priscilla Sprigg (ca 1697, Prince George's Co MD- ca 1733) [F] m1. Ralph Crabbe in 1716, m2 Ralph Wright;
4. possibly Margaret Sprigg (ca 1698, Prince George's Co MD- 1755, Maryland) [F] m. Francis King on 26 September 1717 in Maryland.
5. Elizabeth Sprigg [M] Josiah Wilson, Jr. (Josiah Wilson, Jr., wedded Elizabeth Sprigg, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Sprigg and his wife, Margaret (Mariartee), all of Calvert and Prince George's counties, Maryland).^[1]

Thomas died in 1730. ^[2]

Legal matters involving Colonel Thomas Sprigg and his brother-in-law Captain Stephen Yoakley:-

SP 35 - Secretaries of State: State Papers Domestic, George I

Reference: SP 35/67/26 (The National Archives, Kew)

Description:

Part 1, Folio 39. Letter to Charles, Viscount Townshend.

Petition of sundry merchants and insurers of ships residing in London that Colonel Thomas Sprigg merchant and owner of the John and Thomas together with Stephen Yoakley ran the ship's cargo ashore at Gosport [Hampshire] and then destroyed the ship off Portland [Dorset]; that a warrant was issued by the High Court of Admiralty for the arrest of Sprigg and Yoakley, the latter is detained but Sprigg has fled and praying an advertisement be placed in the Gazette or some other public prints such reward for the apprehending and taking of the said Thomas Sprigg in Great Britain, Ireland or in any of his Majesty's dominions' as Townshend deems appropriate. 22 signatures.

Date: [c 1724 Jan 1 - 1724 Dec 31] ^[3]

C 11 - Court of Chancery: Six Clerks Office: Pleadings 1714 to 1758

Subseries within C 11 - Winter Division

C 11/478 - Pleadings

Reference: C 11/478/34 (The National Archives, Kew)

Description:

Short title: Radburne v Spriggs.

Document type: Demurrer.

Plaintiffs: John Radburne, Richard Cambridge, Fisher Jackson, Samuel Bonham, Christopher Emmott, Samuel Read, Francis Masters and Richard Chase.

Defendants: Thomas Spriggs and Stephen Yoakley.

Date of bill (or first document): 1724

Date: 1724 ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Biographies of representative women of the South; v. 4, Author Collier, Margaret (Margaret Wooton), Pages 266, Location St. George, (https://www.gengophers.com/book.html#/book/56303?page=83&given=George&surname=Lingan)
2. ↑ Marquis, Albert Nelson, -1943. The compendium of American genealogy: first families of America; the standard genealogical encyclopedia, Pg 694. FamilySearch International.
3. ↑ [1] U.K. National Archives, Kew.
4. ↑ [2] U.K. National Archives, Kew.

• Christopher Johnson. The Sprigg Family. Maryland Historical Magazine. Vol 8 No 1. 1913.
• Papenfuse, Edward C. Biog. Dict. Maryland Legislature, p. 765.
• Thomas Sprigg familysearch.org
• [http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~mdmalone/genealogy/sprig
• Col Thomas Sprigg Jr. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175530347/thomas-sprigg : accessed 05 June 2021), memorial page for Thomas Sprigg (1668–1730), Find a Grave Memorial ID 175530347, citing Northampton Manor, Mitchellville, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA ; Maintained by SUEBEE (contributor 48190714). Find A Grave: Memorial #175530347

See Also:

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• Repository: Name: Ancestry.com (see the story associated with Jean Nicholas Borsenberger associated with the birth of his son Michel Auguste Borsenberger) http://www.Ancestry.com
• Source: Abbreviation: Maryland & Virginia Colonials, Genealogies of Some Colonial Families, by Sharon Doliante, 1991. Title: Maryland & Virginia Colonials, Genealogies of Some Colonial Families, by Sharon Doliante, 1991. Parenthetical: Y Page: 677 Quality or Certainty of Data: 3