Pauline Dimumis Catherine Sparrow
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Mar 1900 - Eastham, Massachusetts 1
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John W Sparrow (1857-1938) 2
Mother: Catherine Flynn (1867-1943) 2
Notes
General:
first middle name unclear
Perlina Sparrow
Sex: F
AKA: Paulina Sparrow
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Aug 1813 - Orleans, Massachusetts 3
Baptism:
Death: 18 Sep 1836 - Orleans, Massachusetts 4
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 5
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joshua Knowles Sparrow (1787-1843)
Mother: Abigail Young (1786-1865)
Phebe Sparrow
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 22 Nov 1815 - Orleans, Massachusetts 7
Baptism:
Death: 23 Nov 1843
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 5
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Isaac Sparrow (1776-1843) 8
Mother: Mercy Snow (1780-1846) 9
Phebe Sparrow
Sex: F
AKA: Phebee Sparrow 10
Individual Information
Birth: 2 Jan 1738 - Eastham, Massachusetts 10
Baptism:
Death: 1829 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jonathan Sparrow (Abt 1695-1790)
Mother: Dorcas Vickery (1698-1776)
Spouses and Children
1. *Elnathan Snow (3 Mar 1734 - 1825)
Marriage: 4 Dec 1755 - Eastham, Massachusetts 11
Status:
Children:
1. Thomas Snow (1756-1804) 12
2. Isaac Snow (1758-1855) 12
3. Phebe Snow (1760-Bef 1818) 12
4. Aaron Snow (1763- ) 12
5. Abigail Snow (1766- ) 12
6. Dorcas Vickery Snow (1772-1838) 13
7. Elnathan Snow (1776-1865) 9
8. Mercy Snow (1780-1846) 9
Notes
General:
Town of birth not actually stated in Eastham records, which is unusual.
Polly Sparrow
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 8 Nov 1783 - Eastham, Massachusetts 14
Baptism:
Death: 29 Mar 1877 - South Orrington, Maine
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jabez Sparrow (1754-1846) 15
Mother: Molly Riordan (1758-1844) 16
Spouses and Children
1. *Reuben Stubbs (10 Jan 1781 - 2 May 1859)
Marriage: 5 May 1804 - Buckstown, Maine
Status:
Children:
1. Captain Reuben Stubbs (1806-1879)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Reuben Stubbs)
Children
Franklin STUBBS b: 11 Jul 1805 in Bucksport,,ME
Reuben STUBBS b: 24 Nov 1806 in Bucksport,,ME
Jabez S. STUBBS b: 6 Oct 1809 in Bucksport,,ME
Washington STUBBS b: 1 Oct 1810 in Bucksport,,ME
Joan S. STUBBS b: 6 Dec 1812 in Bucksport,,ME
Timothy R. STUBBS b: 16 Feb 1815 in Bucksport,,ME
Jonathan S. STUBBS b: 18 Mar 1817 in Bucksport,,ME
Nathaniel C. STUBBS b: 31 Oct 1819 in Bucksport,,ME
Francis A. STUBBS b: 5 Oct 1821 in Bucksport,,ME
Alexander STUBBS b: 12 Sep 1824 in Bucksport,,ME
Mary Jane STUBBS b: 27 Feb 1826 in Bucksport,,ME
(:1523699)
Priscilla Sparrow
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 8 Jul 1722 - Eastham, Massachusetts 17
Baptism:
Death: 1805
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Richard Sparrow (1670-1728) 18
Mother: Mercy Cobb (1685- ) 19
Spouses and Children
1. *David Snow (30 Oct 1711 - 23 Feb 1776)
Marriage: 5 Mar 1747 - Eastham, Massachusetts 20
Status:
Children:
1. Marcy Snow (1748- ) 21
2. Jonathan Snow (1749- ) 21
3. Eunice Snow (1751-1772) 21
4. Captain Stephen Snow (1752-1836) 21
5. Phebe Snow (1754- )
6. Priscilla Snow (1756- )
7. Mary Snow (1758-1778) 21
8. David Snow (1760- ) 21
9. Moses Snow (1763-Bef 1851) 21
Priscilla Sparrow
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 13 Feb 1658 - (Yarmouth, Plymouth colony) 18
Baptism:
Death: 29 Mar 1682
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Jonathan Sparrow (Cir 1629-1707) 22
Mother: Rebecca Bangs (Abt 1636-Abt 1666) 23
Spouses and Children
1. *Edward Gray (19 Jun 1654 - 7 Jun 1726)
Marriage: Est 1680
Status:
Children:
1. Benoni Gray (1681-1733)
Rebecca Sparrow
Sex: F
AKA: Rebekah Sparrow 25
Individual Information
Birth: 25 Apr 1779 - Eastham, Massachusetts 25
Baptism:
Death: 1 Jun 1843 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 5
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Deacon Richard Sparrow (1747-1811) 26
Mother: Elizabeth Hurd (1751-1795)
Spouses and Children
1. *Captain John Kenrick (18 May 1781 - 1849) 27
Marriage: 4 Dec 1804
Status:
Children:
1. Sophia B Kenrick (1805-1833)
2. John Kenrick (1819-1898)
3. Rebecca Sparrow Kenrick (1822-1897) 27
Notes
Marriage Notes (Captain John Kenrick)
Children
Sophia KENDRICK b: 1805
John KENDRICK b: 1819
Rebecca KENDRICK b: 1822
Rebecca Sparrow
Sex: F
AKA: Rebeckah Sparrow 28
Individual Information
Birth: 23 Dec 1684 - Eastham, Plymouth Colony 28
Baptism:
Death: Bef 10 Jun 1765 - Middletown, Connecticut 29
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: John Sparrow (1656-1734)
Mother: Apphiah Tracey (Abt 1663-1739)
Spouses and Children
1. *Joseph Collins (Jun 1678 - Bef 29 May 1729) 30
Marriage: 25 Mar 1703 - Eastham, Massachusetts 31
Status:
Children:
1. Lois Collins (1704- )
2. Sarah Collins (Abt 1710-Bef 1769)
3. Joseph Collins (1726-1736)
2. Thomas Rogers (6 May 1672 - 23 Sep 1749)
Marriage: 11 Feb 1731 - Eastham, Massachusetts 32
Status:
Children:
1. Isaac Rogers (1745- ) 32
Notes
Marriage Notes (Joseph Collins)
see NEHGR 33
Rebecca Sparrow
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 30 Oct 1655 - Yarmouth, Plymouth colony 35
Baptism:
Death: 7 Feb 1740 - Harwich, Massachusetts
Burial: in Old Burial Ground, Brewster
Cause of Death:
Events
• Alt Birth, , Eastham, Plymouth Colony in Eastham, Plymouth Colony
Parents
Father: Captain Jonathan Sparrow (Cir 1629-1707) 22
Mother: Rebecca Bangs (Abt 1636-Abt 1666) 23
Spouses and Children
1. *Deacon Thomas Freeman (Sep 1653 - 9 Feb 1716)
Marriage: 31 Dec 1673 - Eastham, Plymouth Colony 36
Status:
Children:
1. Mercy Freeman (1674-1747) 37
2. Edmond Freeman (1674-Bef 1680) 38
3. Henry Freeman (1674- )
4. Thomas Freeman (1676-1717)
5. Jonathan Freeman (1678-1714)
6. Colonel Edmund Freeman (1680-1746)
7. Joseph Freeman (1682-After 1756)
8. Joshua Freeman (1684-Bef 1716)
9. Hannah Freeman (1687-1707)
10. Prence Freeman (1689-1769)
11. Hatsuld Freeman (1691-1773)
12. Rebecca Freeman (1694-After 1761)
Notes
General:
stone:
Here lyes ye Body
of Mrs REBECKAH
FREEMAN Wife to De'con
THOMAS FREEMAN
Who Departed this
life Feb'ry 1740 in ye
86th Year of her Age 24
Rebecca Sparrow
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 27 Jan 1727 - Eastham, Massachusetts 39
Baptism:
Death: 1798 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Richard Sparrow (1702-1774)
Mother: Hannah Shaw (1698-1780/1784)
Spouses and Children
1. *Joshua Hopkins (18 Jul 1725 - 15 Nov 1775)
Marriage: 14 May 1747 - Eastham, Massachusetts 40
Status:
Children:
1. Lydia Hopkins (1748- )
2. Rebecca Hopkins (1749-1826)
3. Mary Hopkins (1751-1797)
4. Joshua Hopkins (1753-1842)
5. John Hopkins (1756-1776/1783)
6. Elkanah Hopkins (1758-1810)
7. Marcy Hopkins (1761-1826)
8. Abigail Hopkins (1764-1829)
9. Elisha Hopkins (1767-1790)
10. Curtis Hopkins (1772-1847)
2. Moses Smith (15 Dec 1723 - Cir 1746) 41
Marriage: 22 May 1746 - Eastham, Massachusetts 42
Status: apparent broken engagement
Rebecca Sparrow
Sex: F
AKA: Rebeckah Sparrow 43
Individual Information
Birth: 7 Apr 1741 - Eastham, Massachusetts 43
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joseph Sparrow (Abt 1698-Abt 1752)
Mother: Hannah Doane (1700-1772)
Rebecca Sparrow
Sex: F
AKA: Rebaca Sparrow 26
Individual Information
Birth: 2 Oct 1756 - Eastham, Massachusetts 26
Baptism:
Death: 5 Feb 1848 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 45
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Isaac Sparrow (1725-1808) 39
Mother: Rebecca Knowles (1726-1809)
Spouses and Children
1. *Thomas Arey (10 Oct 1751 - 18 Feb 1810) 46
Marriage: 4 Nov 1773 - Eastham, Massachusetts 47
Status:
Children:
1. Thomas Arey (1780-1804)
2. Hannah Arey (1782-1803)
3. Joseph Arey (1785-1880)
4. Phebe Arey (1787-After 1850) 48
5. Rebekah Arey (1789-1869) 49
6. Sukie Arey (1791-1872)
7. Marcy Arey (1795- ) 48
8. Hannah Arey (1803- ) 50
Rebecca Sparrow
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth: 15 Sep 1702 - Eastham, Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death: 15 Sep 1736 - Canterbury, Connecticut
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Jonathan Sparrow (1674-1740) 18
Mother: Rebecca Merrick (1668-Bef 1712)
Spouses and Children
1. *Joshua Paine (28 Aug 1697 - Cir 1775)
Marriage: 20 Oct 1720 - Eastham, Massachusetts 52
Status:
Children:
1. Joshua Paine (1721-1763) 53
2. Ruth Paine (1723-1740)
3. Abigail Paine (1725- )
4. Elijah Paine (1725-1744) 53
5. Sparrow Paine (1726-1734) 53
6. Benajah Paine (1728-1745)
7. Ephraim Paine (1730-1786)
8. Rebecca Paine (1732- )
9. Ichabod Sparrow Paine (1736-1765)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Joshua Paine)
"Joshua Paine, son of Thomas and Hannah of Truro, married for his first wife Rebecca Sparrow, dau. of Capt. Jonathan, Jr., of Eastham, Oct. 20, 1720. She dying Sept. 15, 1736, he again married his cousin Constance, widow of William Baker of Canterbury, Jan. 6, 1737. He was a blacksmith and farmer. He removed from Truro to Canterbury after 1720, and from thence to Amenia, Duchess Co., N. Y., where he died about 1774. Children of Joshua Paine were:
1. Joshua, born in Truro, Sept. 11, 1721, a school teacher ; died Dec. 12, 1763.
2. Ruth, born in Truro, April 22, 1723, died April 3, 1740.
3. Abigail, born March 10, 1725, went to sea in 1745, and was never heard of after. [error?]
4. Elijah, also born March 10, 1725, died Nov. 7, 1744.
5. Sparrow, born August 4, 1726, died Nov. 15, 1734.
6. Benajah, born Oct. 10, 1728, went to sea in 1745 and never returned.
7. Ephraim, born Aug. 19, 1730, married for his first wife Elizabeth Harris of Amenia, N. Y. She died Jan. 1, 1766 ; for 2d wife he married Mary Thompson. She died Dec. 7, 1806. He died Aug. 10, 1786. He was a noted man. He was a State Senator and an Assemblyman, Judge and Physician. He was a member of the Provincial Congress from Duchess County in 1775.
8. Rebecca, born June 19, 1732, married Dyer.
9. Ichabod Sparrow, born Sept. 10, 1736, at Canterbury, mar. Jane Covil, dau. of Seth, of Duchess Co., N. Y., Jan. 1, 1761, died at Shaftsbury, Bennington Co., Vt., Dec. 28, 1765, in the 30th year of his age. He was a physician. He received a classical education. His son Ichabod Sparrow, born in Shaftsbury, Vt., Dec. 27, 1765, mar. Mary Dixon of Amenia, N.Y., and finally settled at Plattsburg, died June 24, 1807. His son, Lemuel Covil Paine, M.D., born in Shaftsbury, Vt., Nov. 9, 1787, still survives, and resides in Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y., where he has been a most skilful physician for many years.
10. Barnabas, born Nov. 28, 1737, married Martha Holdridge, April 15, 1760 ; she dying Dec. 9, 1775, he married 2d, Mary Burrows, Sept. 1, 1776 ; she died Sept. 20, 1829. He died June 6, 1822. He was a physician, and settled in Amenia. Much relating to his branch of the Paine family he gathered in his day, and left in manuscript.
11. Abigail, born Aug. 1, 1739, died Aug. 1, 1739.
12. Uriah, born June 5, 1741, died July 19, 1749.
13. Moses, born April 2, 1744, died July 24, 1749.
14. Phebe, born Oct. 21, 1746, mar. 1st, Seth Covil; 2d, Samuel Monroe; 3d, William Bently, by whom she was murdered, Oct. 15, 1799.
15. Anna, born Sept. 23, 1748, died Jan. 8, 1749. 53
Rebecca Sparrow
Sex: F
AKA: Rebeca Sparrow
Individual Information
Birth: 12 Oct 1704 - Eastham, Massachusetts 17
Baptism:
Death: After 1753 - Middletown, Connecticut
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Richard Sparrow (1670-1728) 18
Mother: Mercy Cobb (1685- ) 19
Spouses and Children
1. *Richard Mayo (13 Jan 1697 - 8 May 1744) 54
Marriage: 26 Dec 1728 - Eastham, Massachusetts 55
Status:
Children:
1. Richard Mayo (1729-1813) 56
2. Eunice Mayo (1731- )
3. Rebecca Mayo (1734-Bef 1767)
4. Sarah Mayo (1736- )
5. Ruth Mayo (1739- ) 56
Reuben Sparrow
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 25 Sep 1824 - Orleans, Massachusetts 3
Baptism:
Death: 3 Apr 1849 - (Orleans, Massachusetts)
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 5
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joshua Knowles Sparrow (1787-1843)
Mother: Abigail Young (1786-1865)
Spouses and Children
1. *Augusta (Est 1826 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Lucy Sparrow (1839-1849)
Reuben Chapman Sparrow
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 26 Aug 1822 - Orleans, Massachusetts 58
Baptism:
Death: 18 Jan 1879 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 59
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 5
Cause of Death: apoplexy 59
Parents
Father: Samuel Sparrow (1792-1865)
Mother: Hopey Paine (1796-1879) 57
Spouses and Children
1. *Abigail Hopkins (11 May 1823 - 9 Jul 1900) 60
Marriage: 26 Nov 1846 - Orleans, Massachusetts 61
Status:
Children:
1. Sparrow (1848-1848)
2. Lucy A Sparrow (1849-1849)
3. Abby Catherine Sparrow (1850-1851) 62
4. Mary Otis Sparrow (1854-1935) 63
Notes
General:
1846 wheelwright, OrleansMedical:
1850 carriage maker (dau. birth record), wheelwright (census) Wellfleet
1854 wheelwright, Wellfleet
Marriage intentions 19 Jan 1848 Barnstable Patriot
Reuben Sparrow of Wellfleet and Augusta W Williams of Provincetown
age 56-4-23
married
carpenter
b, bur Orleans
d Wellfleet
parents omitted
Richard Sparrow
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 26 May 1813 - Orleans, Massachusetts 7
Baptism:
Death: 30 Jun 1830 - Orleans, Massachusetts
Burial: in Orleans Cemetery 5
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Isaac Sparrow (1776-1843) 25
Mother: Mercy Snow (1780-1846) 9
Notes
General:
stone:
RICHARD
Son of
Isaac & Mercy
SPARROW
Died
June 30, 1830
Æt 17 24
Richard Sparrow
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 31 Aug 1785 - Eastham, Massachusetts 64
Baptism:
Death: 17 Sep 1848 - Orleans, Massachusetts 65
Burial:
Cause of Death: dysentery
Parents
Father: Deacon Richard Sparrow (1747-1811) 26
Mother: Elizabeth Hurd (1751-1795)
Spouses and Children
1. *Susanna Knowles (23 Apr 1784 - 5 Oct 1868) 66
Marriage: Feb 1809 - Eastham, Massachusetts 67
Status:
Children:
1. Warren Sparrow (1810-1812)
2. Emeline Sparrow (1816-1886)
3. Sarah A Sparrow (1820-1872)
4. Richard K Sparrow (1822-1883)
5. Susan Knowles Sparrow (1824-1911)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Susanna Knowles)
5 children
Richard Sparrow
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1605 - England
Baptism:
Death: 8 Jan 1660 - Eastham, Plymouth Colony 28
Burial: in Cove Burying Ground, Eastham 23
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Pandora Bangs (Est 1605 - After Jan 1665)
Marriage: Bef 1629
Status:
Children:
1. Captain Jonathan Sparrow (Cir 1629-1707) 22
Notes
General:
Great Migration Begins:
" RICHARD SPARROW
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1632
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
REMOVES: Eastham by 1653
OCCUPATION: Yeoman.
FREEMAN: In "1633" Plymouth list of freemen, in close proximity to others admitted on 1 January 1632/3 [PCR 1:4]. In 7 March 1636/7 Plymouth list of freemen [ PCR 1:52]. In Plymouth section of 1639 list of freemen, and in Eastham section of 1658 list [ PCR 8:174, 202].
EDUCATION: He signed his name to an agreement regarding the Kennebec trade, 6 October 1659 [ PCR 3:171]. His inventory included "a Bible [and] 2 small books" valued at 10s.
OFFICES: Deputy from Eastham to Plymouth General Court, 6 April 1653, 8 June 1655, 3 June 1656 [ PCR 3:24, 79, 99]. Grand jury, 4 June 1639, 6 June 1643, 7 June 1653, 7 June 1659 [ PCR 1:126, 2:56, 3:32, 162]. Jury, 3 March 1639/40, 1 September 1640, 1 February 1640/1, 1 June 1641, 6 July 1641, 6 September 1641, 7 December 1641, 7 June 1642, 7 November 1643, 3 March 1644/5, 28 October 1645, 7 July 1646, 2 March 1646/7, 7 June 1648, 3 October 1648, 6 March 1648/9, 29 October 1649, 6 March 1649/50, 6 June 1650, 2 October 1650, 4 March 1650/1, 7 June 1651, 4 June 1652, 4 June 1657 [ PCR 2:7, 112, 126, 7:16, 18, 20, 22-23, 25, 28, 31, 36, 40-43, 45-47, 49, 52-54, 60, 83]. Petit jury, 1 June 1647, 4 October 1648 of life and death for Allice Bishope [ PCR 2:117, 134]. Coroner's jury, 5 June 1638, 1 August 1648 on the body of a child of Allis Bishop [ PCR 1:88, 2:132]; committee to survey land, 5 May 1640 [ PCR 1:152]; committee on Kennebec trade, 3 October 1659 [ PCR 3:170-71].
Plymouth constable, 3 March 1639/40, 2 June 1640, 7 March 1642/3 [ PCR 1:141, 155, 2:53]; highway surveyor, 3 March 1639/40, 2 June 1640, 4 June 1645, 1 June 1647, 7 June 1648 [ PCR 1:141, 155, 2:84, 116, 124]; tax collector, 4 June 1650 [ PCR 2:155].
Eastham surveyor of highways, 1 June 1658 [ PCR 3:136].
In Plymouth section of 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear arms [ PCR 8:188].
ESTATE: Assessed 9s. in the Plymouth tax lists of 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 [ PCR 1:11, 28].
On 7 November 1636 granted six acres at Plymouth "to belong to their dwelling houses there, & not to be sold from their houses" [ PCR 1:46]. On 5 March 1637/8 granted forty acres "at the north end of Fresh Lake, and a parcel of marsh for meadow lying on the south side of Fresh Lake" [ PCR 1:78]. On 1 June 1640, granted five acres of meadow [ PCR 1:154]. On 2 November 1640 granted five acres at Lakenham [ PCR 1:166].
On 12 January 1639/40 John Barnes of Plymouth sold to Richard Sparrow of the same four two-year-old steers and one three-year-old bull, for £83 [ PCR 1:138]; Richard Sparrow immediately sold the bull and two of the steers to Josias Winslow of Plymouth, for £50 [ PCR 1:139]. On 16 September 1641 Richard Sparrow was granted two acres of meadow ground at Wood Island "which was Mris Fullers" [ PCR 2:25]. He was granted a parcel of upland 7 December 1641 [ PCR 2:29]. On 17 October 1642 he was granted four acres of upland at the head of Mr. Hicks's field [ PCR 2:48]
In 1653 (day and month not given) Richard Sparrow of Eastham sold to George Bonum of Plymouth "all that his house and garden plot on which the house standeth being scituate in Plymouth aforesaid in the South Street near the mill together with six acres of upland ... in the new field" [MD 3:138-39, citingPCLR 2:1:69]. (This same transaction was entered again under date of 22 November 1656 [ MD 10:215, citing PCLR 2:1:183]. On 4 June 1657 "Richard Sparrow of Eastham, planter," sold to Giles Rickard Sr. of Plymouth, weaver, "a parcel of upland meadow in the meadow commonly called Doten's Meadow in the township of Plymouth afo resaid containing five acres" [ MD 11:18, citing PCLR 2:1:191].
On 6 October 1657 Richard Sparrow and others were allowed to claim lands about thirteen English miles from Rehoboth [ PCR 3:123]. On 1 June 1658 he was granted a portion of land between Bridgewater and Weymouth [ PCR 3:142].
On 4 October 1658 Richard Sparrow of Eastham, planter, sold to Abraham Sampson of Duxbury, carpenter, "a parcel of marsh meadow containing three acres and three quarters or thereabouts ... lying on the east side of the great wood island in the township of Marshfield ... whereof two acres of the said three acres and three quarters was at first granted to Joshua Pratt and by him sold to Josias Cooke, and by him sold to Richard Sparrow; and the other acre and three quarters granted to Mistress Bridgett Fuller and exchanged with Richard Sparrow for two acres in Dotie's Meadow"; "the wife of the said Richard Sparrow hath given her consent" [ MD 13:141-42, citing PCLR 2:2:11].
In his will, dated 19 November 1660 and proved 5 March 1660/1, Richard Sparrow bequeathed to "Pandora my loving wife my dwelling house and housing with my garden plot adjacent in the Township of Eastham during her life and then to belong to Jonathan Sparrow my son" (along with some movables); "as for my uplands at Poche and my meadow ground ... the one half I have already given to Jonathan my son and the other half ... I give to John Sparrow my grandchild as his propere inheritance only my wife to have the use of my meadow or as much as she shall need during her life"; "whatsoever land shall befall to me from the country as my right it being purchased I give to John Sparrow my grandchild; "to the church of Eastham one ewe sheep to be disposed of according to the discretion of my overseers"; to "Pressila Sparrow my grandchild one ewe sheep to be improved in a small stock for her, and the rest of my ewe sheep I give to John and Rebecca Sparrow my grandchildren to be improved as a stock for them; to "Jonathan Sparrow my son my great cloth coat, and for the rest of my wearing apparel, my wife to dispose of them as she see cause"; wife Pandora and son Jonathan to be executors; friends and brethren Mr. Thomas Prence of Eastham, Mr. Thomas Willett of Rehoboth and Lieutenant Thomas Southworth of Plymouth to be overseers; residue of estate to be equally divided between wife and son [ MD 12:57-58, citingPCPR 2:2:66].
The inventory of the estate of Richard Sparrow was taken 22 January 1660/1 and totalled £85, with no real estate included [ MD 12:58, citing PCPR 2:2:67].
BIRTH: By about 1605 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Eastham 8 January 1660/1 [ MD 6:203; see also MD 8:4].
MARRIAGE: By about 1629 Pandora _____ (assuming she was mother of Jonathan); she survived her husband. (According to some sources, in "1665 the widow [Pandora] and son [Jonathan] sold the Eastham home and removed to what is now East Orleans where Pandora probably died" [Dawes-Gates 2:765, citingCCL 32:3]; this transaction is not recorded in the Plymouth Colony land records.)
CHILD:
i JONATHAN, b. say 1629; m. (1) Eastham 26 October 1654 Rebecca Bangs [ PCR 8:15], daughter of EDWARD BANGS ; m. (2) by 1671 (and probably by 1669) Hannah (Prence) Mayo, daughter of THOMAS PRENCE and widow of Nathaniel Mayo [ MD 14:193-203]; m. (3) Barnstable 23 November 1698 Sarah (Lewis) Cobb, daughter of George Lewis and widow of James Cobb (son of HENRY COBB ) [ MD 14:87;TAG 68:26].
COMMENTS: On 24 June 1639 "Mary Moorecock hath of her own voluntary will, with consent of her father-in-law, Thomas Whitton, put herself apprentice with Richard Sparrow, of Plymouth, and Pandora, his wife," for a term of nine years [ PCR 1:128-29].
On 5 November 1638 "Richard Sparrow, of Plymouth, yeo[man]," was surety for William Burne (i.e., Bourne) of Duxbury [ PCR 1:101]. On 7 December 1641 he was one of eight men who brought various actions against James Luxford, primarily for trespass [ PCR 7:27]. On 2 October 1650 Richard Sparrow was censured for failing to report the theft of corn from his barn and for "concealing of the aforesaid act of Tho. Shereve, upon an engagement so to do unless called before authority" [ PCR 2:162-63]. Sparrow won an action 7 March 1653/4 against Nathaniel Mayo for defamation [ PCR 7:69]. On 5 October 1656 Captain Myles Standish brought suit against Richard Sparrow of Eastham, in behalf of Elizabeth Hopkins, charging that Sparrow had not performed the terms of an agreement concerning Elizabeth [ PCR 7:80]. On 6 October 1657 Richard Sparrow won his suit against Ralph Smith for taking away a piece of timber, though having been forbidden, and refusing to give it back [ PCR 7:84]. "
Sources
1. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), 496:11 (Eastham).
2. Margaret H. Weiler, Cemetery Inscriptions. Congregational & Soldiers Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery, Eastham Mass. (1987. Eastham Mass: Eastham Historical Society).
3. births and marriages 1740-1841, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs), files H01_02a - H01_02g), 165.
4. Robert Paine Carlson, Cape Cod Gravestones, 2003 ff. Eastham MA. CapeCodGravestones.com. .... Barnstable Patriot (Barnstable, Mass [archives 1830-1930 online at Sturgis Library, Barnstable]), 2 nov 1836.
5. index to Orleans, Massachusetts cemeteries (1970. Excel file at Orleans Historical Society, http://orleanshistoricalsociety.org/collections.html).
6. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, "Vital records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (Mayflower Descendant [several sections]), 34:136. highly incomplete .... births and marriages 1740-1841, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs), files H01_02a - H01_02g), 136.
7. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, "Vital records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (Mayflower Descendant [several sections]), 34:136. .... births and marriages 1740-1841, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs), files H01_02a - H01_02g), 136. .... births by family 1628-1855, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs). files H01_01a - H01_01g), 102.
8. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 178 (MD33:81). Col. Leonard H Smith, Jr. and Norma H Smith. Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans. An authorized facsimile reproduction of records published serially 1901-1935 in "The Mayflower Descendant." With an added index of persons.
1980, 1993. Baltimore MD: reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co.
9. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 166 (MD32:70).
10. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 71 (MD16:30).
11. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 67 (MD15:232).
12. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 165 (MD32:69).
13. Rosemary West, "R.K. West's Master List" (Sept 2003. Rootsweb). .... Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 166 (MD32:70). .... John Bearse Newcomb, Genealogical Memoir of the Newcomb Family (Elgin Illinois, 1874).
14. births and marriages 1740-1841, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs), files H01_02a - H01_02g), 144.
15. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 112 (MD24:88.
16. Robert P Smith, "Historic Records of the Federated Church of Orleans, Massachusetts"
annotated marriage records, 1772-1828 (Mayflower Descendant 46:109-120, 47:21-26, 47:111-116, 48:49-58, 48:141-148), 46:115.
17. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, p 17 MD7:17.
18. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), 7:280. First Settlers of Eastham, Mass.
19. Rootsweb.com, :a14220, referencing Hist. Cobb Family, 1907; Gen. Rec Plymouth Families.
20. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 136 (MD28:83).
21. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 122 (MD27:104).
22. Alice A. Lowe, Nauset on Cape Cod. A History of Eastham (1968. Eastham [MA] Historical Society), 14.
23. Alice A. Lowe, Nauset on Cape Cod. A History of Eastham (1968. Eastham [MA] Historical Society), p 14.
24. Robert Paine Carlson, Cape Cod Gravestones, 2003 ff. Eastham MA. CapeCodGravestones.com.
25. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 178 (MD33:81).
26. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 117 (MD24:190.
27. Alexis Anderson, Cunninghams of Southwest Nova Scotia (Rootsweb file alex1136), ref Edward Kenwrick: The Ancestor of the Kenricks or Kendricks of Barnstable County and Nova Scotia and His Descendants. 1915. Josiah Paine.
28. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 24 (MD6:203).
29. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), 151:11 (1997).
30. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 10 (MD3:230).
31. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 49 (MD9:10).
32. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 90 (MD17:32).
33. Stanley Newcomb Collins, Jr, Joseph Collins of Eastham and Three Generations of his Descendants (1997. New England Historical and Genealogical Register 151:3-30), 11.
34. George Ernest Bowman, "Capt. Jonathan Sparrow's Wives and their Children" (1912. Mayflower Descendant 14 (4): 193-202), 194.
35. Chris Chirokas, "Freeman genealogy." .... George Ernest Bowman, "Capt. Jonathan Sparrow's Wives and their Children" (1912. Mayflower Descendant 14 (4): 193-202).
36. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, p 42 MD8:93. .... Louise H. Kelly and Dorothy Straw, compilers; Wynn, Rachel Linnell, author, Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850 (1982. Harwich MA: Harwich Historical Society), 1. poorly indexed.
Please note: Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts is 100 miles from Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts. There is no "Harwick." .... George Ernest Bowman, "Capt. Jonathan Sparrow's Wives and their Children" (1912. Mayflower Descendant 14 (4): 193-202).
37. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 42 MD8:93.
38. Jerry Landers, Landers Genealogy (http://www.landersgen.com/landers/index.htm), Frederick Freeman, "Freeman Genealogy in Three Parts."
39. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 72 (MD16:33).
40. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 113 (MD24:90.
41. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 70 (MD16:29).
42. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 136 (MD28:82).
43. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 78 (MD16:76).
44. Barnstable Patriot (Barnstable, Mass [archives 1830-1930 online at Sturgis Library, Barnstable]), 9 Feb 1848.
45. Robert Paine Carlson, Cape Cod Gravestones, 2003 ff. Eastham MA. CapeCodGravestones.com. .... index to Orleans, Massachusetts cemeteries (1970. Excel file at Orleans Historical Society, http://orleanshistoricalsociety.org/collections.html).
46. New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), 86:405 (1932) Richard Arey and some of his Descendants.
47. Robert P Smith, "Historic Records of the Federated Church of Orleans, Massachusetts"
annotated marriage records, 1772-1828 (Mayflower Descendant 46:109-120, 47:21-26, 47:111-116, 48:49-58, 48:141-148), 46:112.
48. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 172 (MD32:177).
49. Robert Paine Carlson, Cape Cod Gravestones, 2003 ff. Eastham MA. CapeCodGravestones.com. .... Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 172 (MD32:177).
50. births by family 1628-1855, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs). files H01_01a - H01_01g), 175.
51. Andrew P. Langlois, Descendants of John Young of Plymouth and Eastham. part 1 (2005. Mayflower Descendant 54 (2): 97-113).
52. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 65 (MD15:229).
53. Josiah Paine, "Thomas Paine of Eastham and posterity" (1868. NEHGR 22: 60-64, 187-191, 291-295), 291.
54. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, p 43 MD8:94.
55. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 86 (MD16:203). .... Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 87 (MD16:204).
56. Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 86 (MD16:203).
57. births and marriages 1740-1841, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs), files H01_02a - H01_02g), 218.
58. births by family 1628-1855, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs). files H01_01a - H01_01g), 127. .... births and marriages 1740-1841, in "Vital Records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (2002. Oxford, Mass: Holbrook Research Institute (2 CDs), files H01_02a - H01_02g), 218.
59. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 23.
60. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Deaths 1859-1907 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 45. 1900, #18. .... Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1900 deaths.
61. Massachusetts Vital Records, 1841-1910 (Massachusetts Archives. [online at AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGS) and FamilySearch.org]), Orleans.
62. Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1843 - 1858,. in vol. 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 24.
63. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1935. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Births 1843 - 1858,. in vol. 2 (Wellfleet, Massachusetts), 41.
64. George Ernest Bowman, compiler, "Vital records of Eastham and Orleans, Massachusetts" (Mayflower Descendant [several sections]), 33:84. .... Thomas W. Baldwin, compiler, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (1914. Boston: NEHGS
http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Cambridge/), 1:658.
65. Thomas W. Baldwin, compiler, Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (1914. Boston: NEHGS
http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Cambridge/), 2:744.
66. Charles Thornton Libby, "The Knowles family of Eastham" (1927-1928. NEHGR in 5 parts: vol. 79: 286-297, 379-392; vol. 80: 6-24, 119-130, 265-279.), 80:22.
67. Charles Thornton Libby, "The Knowles family of Eastham" (1927-1928. NEHGR in 5 parts: vol. 79: 286-297, 379-392; vol. 80: 6-24, 119-130, 265-279.), 80:22. .... Vernon R. Nickerson, Marriages and Marriage Intentions, 1795-1844. Town of Eastham, Masachusetts (1969. New England Historical & Genealogical Register 123: 117-124, 198-204), by Mr. Shaw. numerous transcription errors