Family: John Sprague / Lois Standish (F554)

• Father | Male John Sprague

  
  

  Born	Abt 1656	Duxbury, , Massachusetts, United States
  Died	6 Mar 1728	Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States
  Buried
  Married	21 Mar 1727  [1, 2, 3, 4]	Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Other Spouse	Lydia | F463
  Married	Abt 1684	Duxbury (of), , Massachusetts, United States
  Father	John Sprague | F465 Group Sheet
  Mother	Ruth Bassett | F465 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Lois Standish

  
  

  Born	Abt 1665	Plymouth, , Massachusetts, United States
  Died	Aft Apr 1731
  Buried		Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States
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  [S149] Barbour Collection, New England Historic Genealogical Society, (\i American Ancestors\i0 . http://www.americanancestors.org/.), (http://www.americanancestors.org/ : accessed 29 Sep 2009); Lebanon Vital Records. (Reliability: 3). Sprague, John, Lieut., m. Lois Abel, Mar. 21, 1726 Other than this record, there is no evidence that John married a Lois Abel. It is possible that this is an error on the part of the clerk and that she is Lois Standish Calkins, d. of Josiah Standish, who is shown in a deed as Lowes Sprague. It is also possible (but not likely), that she married a man surnamed Abel between the death of her first husband and the marriage to John. The third possibility is that John married a Lois Abel and Lois Standish married another Sprague. The first option seems more reasonable, but is unproven. [S105] Sprague Families of America, Warren Vincent Sprague, (The Tuttle Company, Printers,Rutland, Vermont, 1913), p. 11 (Reliability: 3). who survived him (Lebanon's Old Rec. p. 276) [S114] NEHGS Register, Merton Taylor Goodrich, M.A., of Keene, N.H., "Children and Grandchildren of Captain Standish," (April 1933). (Reliability: 3). p. 159-160 Lois, m. (1) 20 Nov. 1706, as his second wife, Hugh Calkins, b. in Jun 1659, d. 15 Sept. 1722, "in his 63rd [sic] yr, " son of John and Sarah (Royce) Calkins, who came with their older children from New London to Norwich. (Norwich Vital Records, pp. 19, 43, 172, Caulkins's History of Norwich, p. 172 and deductions from these data). He had m. (1) in May 1689 Sarah Sluman, who d. 5 Apr. 1703, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Bliss) Sluman (or Slonman). (Norwich Vital Records, pp. 13, 43, etc., Caulkins's History of Norwich). Lois did not marry an Abell, as the late Wesley Weyman thought possible, but Hugh Calkins, son of Hugh and Sarah (Sluman Calkins), married 9 Nov., 1714 Phebe Abell. (Norwich Vital Records, p. 77). Lois (Standish) Calkins m. (2) 21 Mar. 1727, as his second wife, Lieut. John Sprague, who d. 6 Mar 1728, son of John and Ruth (Bassett) Sprague. His first wife, Lydia, d. 18 July 1725. The identity of Lois as the widow of John Sprague is established by the following deed, dated 26 Jan. 1729 and signed by Lowis Sprague, Miles Standish, Elizabeth Standish, and Amie Standish, the last three being children of Israel Standish: "The subscribers heirs in part to the estate of our brother Miles Standish late of Preston deceased and ye other as Resedary part being nephews to our Honored Uncle Miles Standish" sell to Jabez Carey their rights in the real estate left by said Miles. (Preston Land Records, vol. 4, p. 657, quoted in the Wesley Weyman M.S., box 4, package 34. http://www.americanancestors.org/PageDetail.aspx?recordId=133074833 [S77] American Genealogist, Maclean W McLean of Pittsburg, PA, "John Sprague (c. 1635-1676) of Duxbury, Mass.," vol. 41 (January 1965); digital images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, \i americanancestors.org\i0 (http://www.americanancestors.org/PageDetail.aspx?recordId=134868448) p. 178. (Reliability: 3). Article by Maclean W McLean