Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . .He was a piember of the house of deputies forsixteen years between 1695 ald 1714; speaker of thehouse, 1703; and member of the town council eightyears from 1705 to 1712; clerk of the assembly in1707. In 1703, with two others, he w-as appointedto draw up the methods and proceedings of thecourt of common pleas. The Annals of Provi-dence says he was a decidedly religious man, pro-fessed the Baptist faith, and preached as an ex-horter. He di
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . .He was a piember of the house of deputies forsixteen years between 1695 ald 1714; speaker of thehouse, 1703; and member of the town council eightyears from 1705 to 1712; clerk of the assembly in1707. In 1703, with two others, he w-as appointedto draw up the methods and proceedings of thecourt of common pleas. The Annals of Provi-dence says he was a decidedly religious man, pro-fessed the Baptist faith, and preached as an ex-horter. He died in 1741. The children of Jonathanand Mehitabel Sprague were: l. Jonathan, a resi-dent of Providence and Smithfield, Rhode Island,married Bethiah Mann, November 28, 1699. Shewas born March 12, 1683. and died April 6, his second wife he married Hannah Hawkins,widow of Stephen Hawkins. He died April 22,1764. 2. William, born February 2, 1691, was a resi-dent of Providence, and also of Smithfield, RhodeIsland. Smithfield was set off from Providence andorganized as a town in 1730. He died in Smith-field, 1768. He bore the rank of captain in the. <^./?,^^ Q/rff<7,ia^ WORCESTER COUNTY 43 econd militia regiment of Providence in 1732. TheHistory of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, says: Forpwards of a century the Spragiies were prominentctors in the religious and political history of oldimithfield. He deeded much land to one causend another, and large tracts to his children. , married William Jenks, and they had tenhildren. 4. Joanna, married John Teft, who died1 1762. She died in 1757. They had eleven chil-ren. 5. Mary, married Daniel Brown, and theyad six children. 6. A daughter whose name isnknown, married Ebenezer Cook. (III) Captain William Sprague, son of Jon-than (2), born 1691, married September 16, 1714,lies Browne, who was born iMay 31, 1691. Theirhildren were: I. Nehemiah, born January 5. 1717,larried, 1738, Mary Brown. 2. Ales, born October, 1720. 3. Sara
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