(The Schoonmaker Line.)

The surname Schoonmaker is, like the family, Holland Dutch in origin, having, however, been changed in spelling from the ordinary form of the name in Dutch and German. Thus "macher" has become "marker," as Schmidt has become smith in other cases. The family appeared in New York at an early date and occupied a position of considerable prominence in the days of Dutch rule and after.

(I) Hendrick Jochemsen Schoonmacher, the immigrant ancestor and progenitor of the Schoonmaker family in America, was born at Hamburg, Germany, and died near Esopus, Ulster County, New York, in 1681. He came to America in the military service of Holland and settled at Albany previous to 1654. The early records of Albany contain frequent mention of his name and show him to have been a man of considerable financial standing, and that he even loaned money to governor Stuyvesant "in time of need". He was active in the military duties rendered necessary by the dangers of that time, being a "Lieutenant to the council of his Noble Honor, the Director General". In 1659 the company in which he was a lieutenant was ordered to Esopus to assist the settlers there in defending themselves against the Indians. While there the company was disbanded and General Stuyvesant offered grants of land to the soldiers to settle there. Among those who availed themselves of this provision was Hendrick Jochemsen Schoonmaker, as we find him a resident of Wilkwyck, on October 24, 1661, and in 1662 No. 1 of the promised lots was assigned to him. He was several times appointed a magistrate of that place. On May 30, 1662, the burgher guard was organized with Thomas Chambers captain, and Hendrick Jochemsen Schoonmaker as lieutenant. He married Elsie, daughter of Jans Jansen Van Breestede and widow of Andrian Pillusen Van Alenaer, probably in New York, as he owned a lot there previous to 1656. Children: 1. Jochem, mentioned below. 2. Egbert, born at Albany, married October 13, 1683, Anna Berry. 3. Engeltje, baptized March 18, 1663. 4. Hendrick, May 17, 1665, died in 1712. 5. Volekert, May 17, 1665, and 6. Hilletje, October 20, 1669.

(II) Jochem, eldest son of Hendrick Jochemsen Schoonmaker, was born and baptized at Albany (the church records at Albany prior to 1685 are lost) and died about 1730, as his will was proved at New York City, November 7, 1730. He was an early settler at Rochester, Ulster County, and was one of the first or charter trustees of Rochester under letters patent from Queen Anne bearing date June 25, 1703. He continued to hold this office until 1715, which at that time was one of great responsibility and influence, as not only were all the lands in the town under their control but they also took the general direction of affairs. At the time of the massacre and burning of Wiltwyck and Hurley June 7, 1663, Jochem, then about four years of age was taken captive by the Indians and probably kept until all the prisoners were returned. During his capture he suffered from the brutality of the Indians, who amused themselves by throwing burning coals and ashes from their pipes upon his head, thereby scarring it in many places. He married (first) August 31, 1679, Petronilla Slecht; and (second) anna, daughter of Captain Frederick and Margaret Hussey. Children by first marriage: 1. Cornelius, baptized January 15, 1682. 2. Hendrick, baptized August 17, 1683. 3. Tryntje, November 22, 1684. 4. Elsie, December 12, 1685. 5. Jacomyntje, April 29, 1687. Children by second marriage: 6. Rebecca, August 24, 1690. 7. Frederick, mentioned below. 8. Jan, June 3, 1694. 9. Margaret, December 25, 1695. 10. Jacobus, May 8, 1698. 11. Abraham, February 18, 1700. 12. Benjamin, April 19, 1702. 13. Antje, August 11, 1706. 14. Sarah, June 20, 1708. 15. Jochem, October 12, 1710, and 16. Dan, February 22, 1713.

(III) Frederick, son of Jochem and Anna (Hussey) Schoonmaker, was baptized January 28, 1692. He married (first) May 1, 1713, Anna de Witt,; and (second) Eva Swartout. Child, by first marriage: 1. Jochem, baptized October 23, 1715. Children by second marriage: 2. Antjen, baptized January 5, 1718. 3. Elizabeth, November 8, 1719. 4. Thomas, July

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1, 1722. 5. Jesyntejen, June 24, 1724. 6. Rachel, January 16, 1727. 7. Lydia, May 11, 1729. 8. Hester, 1731. 9. Maria, January 28, 1733. 10. Magdalena, February 2, 1735, and 11. Frederick, mentioned below.

(IV) Frederick (2), son of Frederick (1) and Eva (Swartout) Schoonmaker, was born January 13, 1740, and died December 2, 1810. He was a captain and was in the War of the Revolution. He raised two companies of soldiers, one of mounted volunteers, which he commanded. He owned several improved farms in Marbletown, and after his personal estate was exhausted he mortgaged these to raise money not only to pay his own men, but also to send provisions and other necessaries to the Continental Army. He was at Fort Montgomery at the time the chain was extended across the Hudson to prevent British vessels from going up the river. He fitted up his residence as a fort and when alarmed by the approach of the Indians the women and children living in the vicinity fled there for safety, and here a number of families found refuge after the burning of Kingston by the British, October 16, 1777. He married in 1760, Elizabeth Schoonmaker, who died September 7, 1818. Children: 1. Wynte, born June 13, 1761. 2. Eva, September 16, 1763. 3. Lydia, August 19, 1766. 4. Frederick, April 27, 1769. 5. Thomas, July 5, 1771. 6. Sarah, October 22, 1777, and 7. Egbert, mentioned below.

(V) Egbert, son of Frederick (20 and Elizabeth (Schoonmaker) Schoonmaker, was born July 5, 1788. He was in service on Staten Island in the War of 1812. He married (first) Ann Benson, and (second) Hannah Anderson (or Miller). Children: 1. John B. 2,. Eliza, who married Loton Kidd (see Kidd V). 3. Hiram. 4. William F. 5. Ann. 6. Lucas E. and 7. Mary Ann.

MULFORD. David Mulford, the first member of this family of whom we have any definite information, lived near New Hurley, Ulster County, New York, and died there, aged sixty years. He was a farmer; he married ------------- Rowe. Children, all born in New Hurley, New York: 1. James. 2. David. 3. John, referred to below. And 4. Harriet.

(II) John, son of David and -------- (Rowe) Mulford, was born on his father's far, near New Hurley, New York, and died in Galeville New York, aged sixty-five years and is buried at Sand Hill, New York. He was a farmer; he married Jane Alsdorf of New Hurley. Children: 1. Edmond, married Emma Garrison, of King's Hill, New York. child, Drake. 2. Daniel, married Sophia Herrick, children: i. Frederick, ii. Oscar, and iii. Mabel. 3. David, married Margaret Seymour; children, i. Jane and ii. Annis. 4. John, married Elizabeth Hasbrouck of Wallkill, New York, no children. 5. Oscar, now living in Poughkeepsie, New York, married Phileana DuBois of Highland, Ulster County, New York: children: i. Joseph, ii. Mabel, iii. Fannie and iv. Elizabeth. 6. James, referred to below. 7. Sarah Jane, married Jonathan Deyo, lived in Ulster County and had children: i. Alfred, ii. John, iii. Sophia Jane, iv. Anna and v. Ella.

(III) James, son of John and Jane (Alsdorf) Mulford, was born November 8, 1844, on his father's farm near Wallkill, New York, and died in Galeville, New York, January 2, 1880. He married Sarah, daughter of Simon L. and Maria J. (LeFevre) DuBois, born in Wallkill, New York, (see DuBois line). Children: 1. John, born March 27, 1867, died May 23, 1889. 2. James, born April 18, 1869, died aged six months. 3. Cornelia, living in Walden, New York, unmarried.

(The DuBois Line.)

Simon DuBois, the first member of this family of whom we have any definite information, lived at Wallkill, New York, and died there. He married Mary Deyo of New Paltz, New York. Children, all born in Wallkill and buried at New Hurley, new York: 1. Simon L., referred to below. 2. Margaret, married Alexander Petra, no issue. 3. Sarah, died unmarried. 4. Katherine, died unmarried.

(II) Simon LeFevre, son of Simon and mary (Deyo) DuBois, was born in Wallkill, New York, and died there aged sixty-six years. He is buried at New Hurley, New York. He married Maria J. LeFevre of New Paltz, New York, who died aged sixty-four years. Children: 1. Daniel, married (first) Esther A. Hunt of Plattekill, New York, he married (second) Cornelia Bogardus, and had children: i. Simon and ii. Bogardus. 2. Jonathan, married Elizabeth Alsdorf, of New Hurley, new York, and had children: i. John, ii. Maria, iii. Elizabeth, iv. Fraleigh, and v. Benjamin. 3. Andrew, married Katherine Ostrander, of Wallkill, New York,

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children: i. Amelia, ii. Frank, and iii. Andrew. 4. Mary, married Daniel B. Squires of Newburg, New York; no children. 5. Margaret, married Oliver H. Church of Modena, New York; child, Susannah. 6. Sarah, married James Mulford, referred to above.

BADEAU. The surname, Badeau, is French in origin and has been well known in certain parts of Southern New York since the beginning of the eighteenth century. Eli Badeau was one of the a number of French or Huguenot emigrants, including names such as Flandreau, and Coutant, that left La Rochelle, France, and founded New Rochelle, a suburb of New York. Baird says that Bristol, in England, at one time second only to London in commercial importance, received a great number of Huguenots or French emigrants. Of all the French colonies in Great Britain this one is said to possess the greatest interest for American. The register of the Huguenot congregation of Bristol, from its formation in 1687 to the close of the century, abounds in names that have become naturalized with us. There were the Badeaus, the bonnets, the Morins, the Quintards, who gathered inharmonious brotherhood in the hospitable city of Bristol. As a rule these emigrants had no intention of permanently remaining in England. England, as events proved, was simply a resting place for them as they prepared for their journey across the Atlantic. The Badeau family took root in New Rochelle, New York, and the name is still extent in Westchester County, New York, and elsewhere in the neighborhood.

(I) Eli Badeau, the immigrant ancestor of the Badeau family in America, was born at St. Georges, in Saintogne, France, about 1670, died in New Rochelle, New York. He came to this country in 1708 and on his arrival here purchased a hundred and twenty acres of land in what is now the town of New Rochelle. There he made his home and reared his children. He married, at Bristol, England, August 30, 1696, Claude, daughter of Don Fume, and widow of Francois Blondeau. The children were: 1. Eli, born October 29, 1698, baptized in the French church, New York. 2. Claude. 3. John, mentioned below.

(II) John, son of Eli and Claude (Fume-Blondeau) Badeau, was born at New Rochelle, New York, died at Mahopac Falls, Putnam County, New York, in 1787. He acquired a large tract of land in Putnam county when he arrived in that vicinity with his family from New Rochelle some time before the Revolution. His children were: 1. Peter, mentioned below. 2. Elias. 3. John. 4. Fanny, married Isaac Coutant, who belonged to another Huguenot family.

(III) Peter, the eldest son of John Badeau, was born about 1728 at New Rochelle, New York, died August 9, 1816. He arrived at Red Mills, Putnam County, New York, about the year 1775 with his father, and settled in the neighborhood. He built a house where the residence of the Pierces later stood. His son, Isaac, built his house on the present site of the Presbyterian Church. In April, 1782, John Hathorn and Samuel Dodge, the commissioners of forfeiture, sold to Peter Badeau the farm which he then held. This farm included all the land in the vicinity of the Presbyterian Church. Peter gave the land for the church and his son Isaac gave the land for the parsonage. He married Catherine Coutant. Children; 1. Peter, born in 1749, removed to Albany, New York. 2. Isaac, born May 13, 1750, died September 7, 1842; married Susannah Coutant. 3. John, born February 8, 1752; lived near Peekskill. 4. Elias, born July 13, 1755; lived at Troy, New York. 5. Jacob, born April 12, 1757, lived in Westchester County. 6. Catherine, born August 12, 1757, married Isaac Heroy. 7. James, mentioned below. 8. Magdalen, born November 4, 1783; married James Heroy. 9. David, born April 14, 1765, died young. 10. William, born September 15, 1767, died in 1860, in Port Byron, New York. 11. Isaiah, born April 2, 1770, lived in New York City.

(IV) James, son of Peter and Catherine (Coutant) Badeau, was born near New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York, May 13, 1761, died at Greenville, Greene County, New York, about 1799. He accompanied his father and family to Putnam County in 1775 and later settled himself at Greenville, Greene County, New York, where he was engaged in farming. He was in his early manhood when he died and was buried at Greenville. He married Hannah Palmer. Children: 1. Emily. 2. Ennui. 3. Fanny. 4. James A., mentioned below.

(V) James A., son of James and Hannah (Palmer) Badeau, was born at Greenville,

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Greene County, New York, May 9, 1790, died in 1871. He was a farmer and lived west of Catskill. He and his family were all members of the Baptist Church of Catskill, Greene County, New York. He married Rebecca Hedger, of Greenville, Greene County, New York, born December 5, 1800, died March 4, 1876, and buried wit her husband on the old farm. Children: 1. James, born October 2, 1829. 2. Henrietta, born July 25, 1831, died November 20, 1857, married henry Overbaugh, of Catskill, Greene County, New York, having one daughter, Rebecca, born May 28, 1853. 3. James H., mentioned below. 4. Annis E., born March 14, 1836, died May 18, 1858. 5. Emily, born September 8, 1838. 6. Fanny L., born August 23, 1841, died July 20, 1867.

(VI) James H., second son of James A. and Rebecca (Hedger) Badeau, was born at Catskill, Greene County, New York, January 25, 1834, died June 1, 1896. He was, like his father, a farmer and lived at Catskill. The family were all members of the Dutch Reformed Church of Catskill, and James H. Badeau was a deacon and elder of the church for some years. He married Catherina C., daughter of Henry Van Orden (see Van Orden IV). Children: 1. George, born November 12, 1860; married Salina Mower, and resides at Leeds, New York. 2. Henry A., born May 17, 1862; married Anna Darling, and resides at Catskill, Greene County, New York, where a daughter, Mary Grace, was born, who married William Tice. 3. Mary Grace, born November 21, 1869, died July 11, 1875. 4. William, born October 28, 1877, married Irene Readington, having two children, Emma and Gladys, born at Catskill, Greene County, New York, where the family resides.

(The Van Orden Family.)

The surname Van Orden is manifestly Dutch ad was already borne by the immigrant ancestor of the family in this country when he arrived on the American shores. This has not been the case with all Dutch families, nor with many of those who arrived here under the early Dutch government of New York. A great many of them were without surnames when they arrived and the surnames now borne by their descendants were for the most part established on American soil, sometimes by taking the name of the locality in Holland whence they had come and prefixing the Van, sometimes in other arbitrary ways. The ancestor of the Dutch family here dealt with was William Van Orden, who came here after the Dutch power, as such, had been terminated in the government of New York.

(I) William Van Orden, the founder and patriarch of the Van Orden family in America, was born about 1668 in Holland, died at Catskill, Greene County, New York, in 1765. He must have been very young when he arrived in this country from Holland in the ship "Arms of Norway," some time after 1670, and probably came in the custody of some friends of the family. He settled soon after his arrival at Catskill, New York, where in 1718, after his marriage, he took possession in right of his wife of Lot No. 4, containing about fifteen hundred acres. Here he built a house that was his home until the date of his death and later stood for over a century and a half before being pulled down. It was built partly of logs and partly of stone quarried from the Kalkberg. It was built against a hill, so that it was two stories high on the east side and one story high on the west side. In front was the Hudson and "jealously guarded Canon place" at which the boats were tied. William Van Orden was one of the first elders of the Dutch Reformed Church at old Catskill, where he was well known and highly respected. After his death in 1765 he was buried on the brow of the hill northwest from his home. The stone that marked his grave bears the inscription "W.V.O., 1765." The inventory of his property shows him to have been a wealthy man for his day.

He married, in 1716, Temperance, daughter of William and Margrietje Loveridge. William Loveridge was the patentee of what is known as the "Loveridge Patent". The children were : 1. William, born in 1717; married, December 22, 1742, Sarah DuBois, died March, 1793, aged seventy-six, daughter of Hezekiah Dubois, of Kingston; children: i. Temperance, married James Burhans, ii. Hezekiah, married (first) Engeltje Loeck, (second) Elizabeth Van Vechten, iii. Annatje, married James Milliken. Hezekiah served in the Revolutionary War, was a justice of the peace, supervisor, and very influential. 2. Margaret, baptized January 23, 1726, married Jan Baptist Dumond, children: i. Ignatius, ii. Temperance, iii.

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Loveridge, iv. William Van Orden, v. Ignatius (2), vi. David, vii. Jan Baptist. 3. John, born May 20, 1727, married February 15, 1751, Tryntje (Catherine) Dubois, children: i. Catryntje, ii. William, iii. Benjamin, iv. Sarah, v. Peter, vi. John, vii. Margery. John was too old to become a soldier in the Revolutionary War, but he was very active and zealous in the cause of the colonies. William, his oldest son, fought at Stillwater and Saratago, and died in the service. Benjamin the second son, was commissioned quartermaster of the Eleventh Regiment, New York Volunteers and served until the close of the war. 4. Elizabeth, baptized June 29, 1729, married David Dumon. 5. Ignatius, mentioned below. 6. Peter, baptized December 9, 1732, died before January 30, 1761. 7.. Sarah, baptized in 1735.

(II) Ignatius, third son of William and Temperance (Loveridge) Van Orden, was baptized at Catskill, Greene County, New York, February 4, 1731, died July 9, 1807. From 1765 until his death he lived in the house which his father had built near the Hudson. In 1778 he received a major's commission in Colonel Anthony Van Bergen's regiment and saw active service. He married (first) Annatje Oosterhoudt, who was the mother of his children; (second) Sarah Breasted Mynderse. Children: 1. Sarah, born July 1, 1758, married March 1, 1781, Jeremiah Overbaugh. 2. Jane, married Hendrick Freligh. 3. Willian, mentioned below. 4. Ignatius, died about 1854.

(III) Willian (20, son of Ignatius and Annatje (Oosterhoudt) Van Orden, was born at Catskill, Greene County, New York, April 4, 1765, died November 14, 1840. He built his own house on a beautiful knoll, "Green Point". He was a farmer and a noted sportsman. At the age of seventy-five, while out gunning for wild ducks, he was drowned in the Hudson on the flats near his dwelling. He married, December 19, 1787, Catherine Ten Broeck, born October 19, 1766, died February 12, 1820, daughter of Wessell and Jannetje (Persen) Ten Broeck, of Germantown, New York. Children: 1. Wessell Ten Broeck, born September 12, 1788, died at new Baltimore, New York, January 31, 1871; married Maria Schoonmacher or Schoonmaker (Schumacher), born in 1795, died May, 1892, daughter of Tjirck and Jan Mynderse Schoonmaker, of Ulster County, New York; the children of this union were: i. Jene Catherina, born November 12, 1812, married John Ham, of Columbia County, ii. Wessell Ten Broeck, born January 24, 1821, died August 11, 1877, iii. Edmund Henry. 2. Henry, mentioned below. 3. Willian, born October 16, 1794, died July 18, 1839. 4. Jane Ann, born February 3, 1799; married Benjamin Van Denburg.

(IV) Henry, second son of William (2) and Catherine (Ten Broeck) Van Orden, was born September 4, 1790, died in 1862. He was a farmer and lived at Catskill practically all his life. He married, February 20, 1822, Temperance, died July 13, 1863, daughter of Henry and Catherine (Dumond) De Witt, of Catskill, New York. Children; 1. Jacob, born at Catskill on the homestead; married Catherine Saxe, of Catskill, by whom he had two children; Henry De Witt and Margaret Emily. 2. Henry D., mentioned below. 3. Samuel, married mary Snyder, by whom he had six children: i. Mary J., ii. Lizzie L., iii. William H., iv. Chauncey, v. Samuel, vi Emily. 4. Catherine C., married James H. Badeau (see Badeau VI).

(V) Henry D., second son of Henry and Temperance (De Witt) Van Orden, was born at Catskill, Greene County, New York, about 1825. He married Mary J., daughter of John Gaul, a lawyer of New York, who had a residence at Hudson, Columbia County, New York. children: 1. Henry, died in infancy. 2. Henry, died aged two years. 3. Mary. 4. Temperance. 5. Alice. 6. Catherine. 7. Louise.

SCRIBER. Philip Scriver, the first member of this family of whom we have definite information, was born at Kingston or Rondout, New York, in 1793, died in 1889. He was a farmer and a soldier in the War of 1812. He married --------- Wright, of Navesink, who died in 1865. Children: 1. Martin. 2. John Eli, referred to below. 3. Philip. 4. Mary. 5. Margaret, married Reuben Cochran.

(II) John Eli Scriber, son of Philip and --------- (Wright) Scriver, was born in Rockland township, New York, January 8, 1835, died May 4, 1903. He entered the mercantile life, but ill health caused his retirement, and he became a farmer. He married, December 10, 1863, Mary Esther, daughter of Thomas D. and Maria Ann (Grant) Purris. Children, all born in Rockland township in what

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is now Livingston Manor: 1. Adelbert Marvin, referred to below. 2. Blake Dixon, born May 30, 1871, married Harriet, daughter of Ira and Paulina Wolcott; child, Blake Leroy, born January 30, 1907. 3. Bert Baynard, born November 20, 1874; member of the hardware firm of Hindley & Scriber of Monticello, New York. 4. Caroline Myrtle, born May 16, 1882, unmarried.

(III) Adelbert Marvin, son of John Eli and Mary Esther (Purris) Scriber, was born January 5, 2865. He is self-educated as on his first day of attendance at school when five years of age, he met with an accident in getting into a wagon that deprived his of one leg. He worked for the Times , a newspaper at Livingston Manor, and at the age of sixteen he bought out and edited the paper. He studied diligently and in 1885 he sold out and went to Monticello, New York, where he worked for the Republican Watchman , the principal Democratic newspaper of Sullivan County. A few years later he bought a one-half interest in the paper, and on the death of his partner in 1909 purchased the remaining half interest and is now the editor of the paper. It possesses a new and fully equipped printing office, and has the largest circulation in Sullivan County. He is a member of and is licensed to preach in the Methodist Episcopal Church. He is a fine and forceful writer, and is very active in politics, being at present a member of the state Democratic committee. He is a member of the school board and president of the Board of Education.

He is a member of Pleasant Lodge, No. 416, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Monticello, of which he has been deputy grand master. He married, April 26, 1899, Susan Wilkes Osborn, of Monticello. Children: 1. John Osborn, born May 16, 1904. 2. Elizabeth Esther, December 23, 1906. 3. Emma Jean, April 12, 1909.

SPRAGUE. The Sprague family is of ancient English origin. Among the earliest pioneers in New England were three brothers, Ralph, Richard and William, brothers, and Francis Sprague, mentioned below. In Prince's Chronology we read: "Among those who arrived at Naumkeag are Ralph Sprague with his brothers Richard and William, who with three or four more were by Governor Endicott employed to explore and take possession of the country westward. They traveled through the woods to Charlestown on a neck of land called Mishawum, between the Mystic and Charles rivers, full of Indians called Aberginians, with whom they made peace." The Spragues founded the town of Charlestown. They were sons of Edward Sprague, of Upway, Dorsetshire, England. Edward Sprague was a fuller by trade and early in life resided at Fordington, Dorsetshire; married Christiana Fordington, Dorsetshire; married Christiana ---------------. Edward's will was proved June 5, 1614, in the prerogative court of Canterbury and copies of the will have been preserved in the family of descendants and printed in various family sketches. Children of Edward: 1. Ralph. 2. Alice. 3. Richard. 4. Christopher. 5. William, of Hingham, Massachusetts.

(I) Francis Sprague, the immigrant ancestor, was the first of the name in New England. He is said on good authority to have come to Massachusetts in the ship "Ann" in July, 1623. At any rate he settled in Plymouth colony in that year and was admitted a freeman, June 17, 1637. He settled in the adjacent town of Duxbury in 1632 on the southeast part of the peninsula called the Nook. He had landed on the North River in 1640. He sold land at Duxbury, April 1, 1644, to his son-in-law, William Lawrence. He and his daughters, Anna and Mercy Sprague, shared in the division of the cattle in 1627 at Plymouth. He was a proprietor of the town of Bridgewater in 1645. He was living in Duxbury in 1666, but died soon afterward. Children: 1. John, mentioned below. 2. Anna. 3. Mary. 4. Mercy, married William Tubbs. One of the daughters married William Lawrence.

(II) John, son of Francis Sprague, was born about 1630 at Plymouth or Duxbury. He married, in 1650, Ruth Bennett, and they lived at Marshfield, a town near Plymouth and Duxbury. He was a soldier in King Philip's War in Captain Michael Pierce's company, and was killed at Pawtucket, March 26, 1676. Children; 1. John, mentioned below. 2. William. 3. Samuel. 4. Eliza. 5. Ruth, born February 12, 1659. 6. Desire. 7. Dorcas, married January 19, 1673. 8. Joseph Hatch.

(III) Lieutenant John (2) Sprague, son of John (2) Sprague, was born at Duxbury or Marshfield about 1650. He was constable of Duxbury in 1602, and a prominent citizen. He resided in Duxbury from 1684 to 1701,

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when he settled in Lebanon, Connecticut. In the new town he was prominent in town and military affairs from the first. He was selectman in 1710, and 1714; deputy to the genera; assembly of Connecticut for many years--1708-09-11-13-14-16-18-20; 1717; and he served on many important church committees. He married Lydia ----------. Children: 1. John, married Mary Babcock, February 2, 1711. 2. Ephraim, mentioned below. 3. Benjamin, born at Duxbury, July 15, 1686, married Mary Woodworth, and lived at Lebanon.

(IV) Captain Ephraim Sprague, son of Lieutenant John (2) Sprague, was born at Duxbury, March 15, 1685. He was also prominent in Lebanon, captain of the military company, selectman in 1727, deputy to the general assembly in 1729. He married Deborah ------------. Children, born at Lebanon: 1. Perez, born July 22, 1705. 2. Peleg, mentioned below. 3. Ephraim, March 14, 1709. 4. Deborah, April 2, 1712. 5. Betty. October 28, 1714. 6. Irene, February 9, 1717. 7. Mary, December 20, 1721, died young.

(V) Peleg, son of Captain Ephraim Sprague, was born at Lebanon, May 16, 1707. He married, February 24, 1732-33, in Lebanon, Hannah Marsh, born November 9, 1704, daughter of Captain Joseph Marsh, granddaughter of John Marsh, son of John Marsh, the immigrant. Captain Joseph Marsh married Hannah ----------. He enlisted April 28, 1761, in the French and Indian War under Major General Phineas Lyman, of Suffield, in the first company, and was reported dead, August 1, 1761. (French and Indian War Rolls, vol. I, Conn. Hist. Society, page 239). But tradition has it, according to Dr. W. V. Sprague, of Chauncey, Ohio, that Peleg removed to Stephentown, Rensselaer County (Manor), then Albany County, New York, and lived to be quite an old man. No other Peleg has been discovered in Connecticut at this time. His son David and perhaps other children located at Stephentown. Children of Peleg Sprague:: 1. Joseph, born at Lebanon, April 17, 1734, married, March 10, 1774, Mary Jackson. 2. Abel, mentioned below. 3. Sarah, born October 27, 1740, died February 15, 1741. 4. David, born May 15, 1742, married Lydia Lamb, settled in Stephentown and had eight children. 5. Simeon, born May 15, 1745, married, in Sharon, Connecticut, Elizabeth Everett, one of the first settlers of Canfield, Ohio; had twelve children.

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