Peter: Here is an all encompassing and very large Web Site for SPRAGUE & allied families: http://www.sprague-database.org/sp_lines.htm Relatively yours, Richard Leon Herrick President, Herrick Family Association, HFA List Administrator, RootsWeb HERRICK-L & -D lists RLH:mtf:20020428 ----- Original Message ----- From: "ph1003309@onemain.com" <Travels@jps.net> To: <MABERKSH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 6:57 PM Subject: SHIPPEE/ROSS/SPRAGUE 1777-1800 before and beyond > My 5G Grandfather was Elijah SPRAGUE who lived and died in Adams, > Berkshire, MA from about 1777 up to 1800 when he died. Elijah was > married to Anna ???? after losing his wife Avis Mitchell/Mitshall during > childbirth of Avis Sprague in 1777 in Providence, RI. > His daughter (Zerviah) (mothered by Anna ???) married David Ross, (Whose > parents I cannot find) a land owner in Florida, Berkshire, MA. David was > a cooper and a school teacher according to history and he and Zerviah > were married in 1801 in Stamford, Bennington, VT shortly before their > first kid was born. > > The plot thickens: The witness to Elijah Sprague's estate was Silas > SHIPPEE who married Philadelphia ROSS, the daughter of Isaac Ross (I > understand) Silas Shippee's father was "Henry" Shippee and he married > "Zerviah" BROWN > > Interestingly enough, Elijah Sprague's three children were "Henry," > Zerviah" and George (There seems to be a great afinity between Sprague > and Shippee families here and marriages to Ross too) > > These families seem to have wandered from MA to RI/Providence to the > Berkshires about the same time. > > There was a Samuel Ross, Jr. 1756-about 1840 who married (get this) > "Freelove" Shippee, the daughter of Henry Shippee and Zerviah Brown (she > was also the sister of Silas Shippee. They had a son whom they named > Elijah > Ross who was born about 1785--- one year before Zerviah Sprague was born! > > The interconnections of coincidence here is too much to bear. I have no > documentation of a David Ross being born in this crown. My David Ross > was supposed to have been born in 1776 and Zerviah, his bride, Sprague, > born in 1786. > > The Spragues had been in Sackville Nova Scotia until about 1776 when the > Canadians kicked the colonial sympathizers out and they went briefly > back to Smithfield/Providence, RI before moving to Adams, Berkshire. > > If you aren't bored--- maybe you have knowledge that can knit this Ross > Sprague Shippee yarn into a sweater of completion. > > Thank you very much indeed. > > Peter > http://members.aol.com/ancestour/MASTHEAD.html > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >