John Spring (1706 - 1794)

Born 28 Jul 1706 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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John was born on 28 July 1706 in Newton, Massachusetts, to John Spring and Joanna Spring.^[1]

He married Sarah Reed on 2 October 1735 in Newton.^[2] They had the following children:^{[citation needed]}

• John Spring (1736–1740)
• John Spring (1741–1797)
• Samuel Spring (1746–1819)
• Ephraim Spring (1750–1834)
• Others

"We have the following sorrowful accident from Uxbridge in the country of Worcester, viz., that on Friday night last the house of Mr. John Spring of that town was burnt down to the ground, and four persons consumed therein, viz., a child of Mr. Spring's, another child of his brother's, a servant maid, and a negro boy. Mr. Spring himself was sent for out to watch with a sick neighbor; Mrs. Spring was wak'd out of her sleep by the falling of that part of the house where the persons consumed lay, who wak'd up a laboring man that lodged in the house; which two were the only persons that remained in the house, and had but just time to save their lives."^[3]

John died on 13 March 1794, aged 88 years.^[4]

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1. ↑ Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 Name John Spring Event Type Birth Birth Date 28 Jul 1706 Birth Place Newton, Massachusetts Father Name John Spring Mother Name Joanna Spring
2. ↑ Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850 Name Sarah Reed Gender Female Spouse John Spring Marriage Date 2 Oct 1735 City Newton County Middlesex Source Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0745868.
3. ↑ The Boston Weekly Newsletter, Sunday, April 10, 1740, Boston, MA, Issue 1841, Page 2. GenealogyBank.com (https://www.genealogybank.com/nbshare/AC01181023153738220891707511506) Subscription.
4. ↑ Francis Jackson. (1854). A History of the Early Settlement of Newton, County of Middlesex, Stacy and Richardson (1854), Boston, p. 417.