Notes:

!SOURCE: Printout (dated 18 Oct 1997) of the Sprague Database, mailed to the Whipple Web Site by Dick Weber (email hidden).

!SOURCE: Will of husband Jedediah Sprague, dated 17 Oct 1810, proved 27 Jan 1813. Abstracted in Lucille B. Beaman, "Abstracts of Glocester, Rhode Island, Wills," Rhode Island Genealogical Register, vol. 8, no. 4 (Apr 1986), p. 290.

!SOURCE: Freelove's will, dated 24 May 1827, proved 4 Jan 1828. Abstracted in "Abstracts of Glocester, Rhode Island, Wills," Rhode Island Genealogical Register, vol. 9, no. 2 (Oct 1986), p. 121.

Family/Spouse: Jedediah Sprague. Jedediah (son of Anthony Sprague and Ann or Anne Thurston) died before 27 Jan 1813 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Meribah Sprague was born on 23 May 1763 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 23 Jun 1810 in De Kalb, St. Lawrence, New York.
2. Alice Sprague was born in 1768; died on 23 Mar 1842 in of, Cooperstown, Otsego, New York; was buried in Amboy Center Cemetery, Amboy Center, Oswego, New York.
3. John Sprague was born about 1758; died on 17 Mar 1837 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island.
4. Jedediah Sprague, Jr. was born in of, Norwich, Chenango, New York.
5. Jonas or Jonah Sprague was born in Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island; died about 1820 in Cooperstown, Otsego, New York.
6. Jenckes or Jenks Sprague
7. Anthony Sprague was born on 27 Jan 1778 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island; died on 28 Dec 1818 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Lynda Ozinga (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 4 Oct 2000.

Obediah + Merebah Herendeen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Lynda Ozinga (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 4 Oct 2000.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Lynda Ozinga (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 4 Oct 2000.

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 27.

Obediah married Alice Eddy on 21 May 1713 in Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island. Alice (daughter of Zachariah Eddy and Mercy Baker) was born on 5 Jan 1694 in Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Email from Lynda Ozinga (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 4 Oct 2000.

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 27.

!SOURCE: Ruth Story Devereux Eddy, The Eddy Family In America (Boston, 1930), p. 49.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Genealogies of Rhode Island Families, from Rhode Island Periodicals (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1983), 2:8.

!SOURCE: M.M. Wilkinson, _Genealogy of Wilkinson and Kindred Families_ (Shelby, Miss.: Shelby Book Store, 1949), p. 75.

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 13.

!NOTE: The tallest man in Rhode Island in his day: 7 ft., 2 inches. --A.I.B. Bulkley

Joseph + Martha Brown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, N.Y., 1887; reprint ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978) p. 259.

!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 10, 13.

Notes:

!SOURCE: Edson Whipple Family Organization microfilm. Gives death 10 Apr 1737.

!SOURCE: Ruth Story Devereux Eddy, The Eddy Family In America (Boston, 1930), p. 48. Gives death 12 Apr 1737, in Glocester, Rhode Island.

!SOURCE: "Descendants of Zachariah Eddy," email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 10 Jul 2004. Gives birth 10 Apr 1664 (source: Ancestry World Tree), death aft. Jan 1690/91.

Zachariah married Mercy Baker on 13 Feb 1683/1684 in Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Mercy was born in of, Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts; died after 1 Oct 1703. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

!SOURCE: Edson Whipple Family Organization microfilm.

!SOURCE: Ruth Story Devereux Eddy, The Eddy Family In America (Boston, 1930), p. 48.

!DEATH: "Was living, on Oct. 1[?], 1703, when she signed a deed (B.C.D. 9. 469)." --R.S.D. Eddy

!RESIDENCES: "Of Swansea (V.R. also East Bridgewater V.R.)." --R.S.D. Eddy

!SOURCE: "Descendants of Zachariah Eddy," email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 10 Jul 2004. Gives death aft Sep 1691.