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     Susannah Sparhawk was born on 19 September 1750.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. John Sparhawk and Jane Porter.¹ Susannah Sparhawk married George King Atkinson on 12 May 1771 they had no children.¹

     Susannah Sparhawk was born on 18 March 1779.¹ She was the daughter of John Sparhawk and Abigail King.¹ Susannah Sparhawk died in 1863 unmarried.¹

     Sybil Sparhawk was born in 1655.² She was the daughter of Nathaniel Sparhawk and Patience Newman.² Sybil Sparhawk married firstly Dr. Jonathan Avery on 22 July 1679.³ Sybil Sparhawk married secondly Rev. Michael Wigglesworth, son of Edward Wigglesworth, on 23 June 1691.⁴ Sybil Sparhawk died on 6 August 1708.⁵

     Thomas Sparhawk was born on 25 May 1706.² He was the son of Samuel Sparhawk and Sarah Whiting.¹ Thomas Sparhawk married Mary Oliver on 14 January 1730/31.³ Thomas Sparhawk died on 16 August 1783 at the age of 77.²

     Thomas Sparhawk was born on 17 June 1773.¹ He was the son of John Sparhawk and Abigail King.¹ Thomas Sparhawk died young.¹

     Dr. Thomas Sparhawk was the son of Samuel Sparhawk and Elizabeth McKinstry.¹

     William Sparhawk was baptised on 10 July 1743.¹ He was the son of Col. Nathaniel Sparhawk and Elizabeth Pepperell.¹ William Sparhawk died young.¹

     Sir William Pepperell Sparhawk was baptised on 30 November 1746.² He was the son of Col. Nathaniel Sparhawk and Elizabeth Pepperell.¹ Sir William Pepperell Sparhawk graduated in 1766 from Harvard.³ He married Elizabeth Royall, daughter of Hon. Isaac Royall, on 12 November 1767 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.⁴ His name was legally changed to Sir William Pepperell Bart was made the heir of Sir William Pepperell (1696-1759) if he dropped the name Sparhawk. He was soon deprived of his vast possessions, for, on account of his loyalty to the King, they were confiscated at the outbreak of the Revolution. He removed to England where he was allowed an annuity by the Crown.^5,3,6 Sir William Pepperell Sparhawk died in December 1816 in Portman Square, London, at the age of 70 without male issue living. The baronetcy became extinct.^3,7

     William Pepperrell Sparhawk was the son of Nathaniel Sparhawk and Catherine Sparhawk.¹ William Pepperrell Sparhawk graduated in 1789 from Harvard.¹ He died in 1817 in York unmarried.^1,2

     Jane Speirs married James Playfair.¹

     Harriet E. Spelman was the daughter of Israel Monson Spelman.¹ Harriet E. Spelman married Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow, son of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Frances Elizabeth Appleton, in 1868.¹

     Harriet Brackett Spence married Charles Lowell, son of Hon. John Lowell LL.D. and Rebecca Russell.¹

     Caleb Spencer was the son of Robert Spencer.² Caleb Spencer. A soldier of the Revolution. He married Jerusha Covell.² Caleb Spencer died in 1806.² He was buried in Windham, New York.³

     Elizabeth Spencer married Sir James Dashwood.

     Ellen Spencer was born on 13 May 1850 in Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio.² She was the daughter of Platt Rogers Spencer and Persis Duty.¹ Ellen Spencer married Brigadier Gen. Reuben Delavan Mussey, son of Dr. Reuben Dimond Mussey and Hetty Osgood, on 14 June 1871 in Washington, District of Columbia.² She was educated at the Geneva (Ohio) High School, Lake Erie College, Ohio, and Rockford College, Illinois. She then studied law in the office of General Mussey and practised with him until his death in 1892. In 1893 she was admitted to the bar, and was a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the thirteenth woman to be so admitted, and of the Court of Claims. Of her many cases before the Supreme Court she has never lost one. In 1896 she founded the Washington College of Law, which, in 1899, awarded her the honorary degree of LL.M., and was for seven years its Dean, the only woman dean of a law college. For twenty-five years she was attorney for the legations of Sweden and Norway and she has been counsel for several national patriotic and labor organizations. She has been the author of bills giving married women in the District of Columbia the right to their own earnings and giving mothers the same right as fathers in the guardianship of their children. She has also been instrumental in gaining legislation for the establishment of free kindergartens, free schools for sub-normal children, juvenile courts, compulsory education, and the Federal Child Bureau. As a member of the Woman Suffrage Association she spoke before the United States Senate Committee in 1910. She is the author of articles on Marriage and Divorce, Legal Relations of Parent and Child (Good Housekeeping Magazine, November, 1910), Laws Relating to Women in the Forty-Six States of the Union (1912), Laws of Nations Relating to Women (1912), and Historic Washington (American Monthly Magazine, April, 1912). For the first six months of 1912 she was the editor of the American Monthly Magazine.
Mrs. Mussey was one of the founders of the American National Red Cross, was chairman of the women's citizens' committee for the 36th National Encampment, G. A. R., in Washington in 1902, and was formerly Vice-President of the Board of Education, Washington. In September, 1911, she was a delegate to the International Council of Women at Stockholm and she is Chairman of the Committee on the Legal Status of Women of the National Council of Women. She was at one time Vice-President-General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, State Regent of the District of Columbia, D. A. R., and President of the Legion of Loyal Women. She was President of the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia, and a member of the National Geographic Society, an honorary member of the College Women's Club of the District of Columbia, and a member of the Dames of the Loyal Legion and of the Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots.³

     Louise M. Spencer was born in 1894.¹ He married Winifred Emerson, daughter of Charles Hart Emerson and Melinda Elizabeth Stearns.¹

     Platt Rogers Spencer was born on 7 November 1800 in East Fishkill, New York, (also found as 7 September).² He was the son of Caleb Spencer and Jerusha Covell.^1,2 A descendant of John Spencer of Rhode Island who sailed from England, March 26, 1633, and died in 1684.
He removed with his family to Jefferson, Ohio, in 1810; taught writing, and until 1832 was variously engaged as a student, teacher and bookkeeper. He was an earnest advocate of total abstinence, to which principle he had become convert in 1832; was county treasurer for twelve years; a zealous promoter of the antislavery movement; influential in organizing several business colleges in the United States, and was an instructor in business colleges throughout the country. He was the originator of the Spencerian system of penmanship, and in 1848 published Spencer and Rice's System of Business and Ladies' Penmanship, which appeared in a second edition as Spencerian or Semi-Angular Penmanship. He was married, April, 1828, to Persis, daughter of Duty Ebenezer and Sallie Warren of Ashtabula, Ohio, and of his children, Ellen (Spencer) Mussey (q.v.), became prominent in Washington in the legal profession. He is the author of several books on penmanship and the Key to Spencerian Penmanship completed in 1864.² Platt Rogers Spencer married Persis Duty, daughter of Mark Duty and Sallie Warren, in April 1828.¹ Platt Rogers Spencer died on 16 May 1864 in Geneva, Ohio, at the age of 63.²

     Sarah Spencer married Joseph Morgan.¹

     Augusta Sprague was born on 27 April 1836 in Massachusetts.^2,3 She married Ammi Richamah Sewall, son of Samuel Sewall and Tryphosa Fuller, on 29 August 1861 The 1900 census records five children being born and only three surviving until then.^1,4 Augusta Sprague appears on the census of 1920 at Madison Avenue, Albany, New York.⁵

     Dr. Lawrence Sprague was born on 3 May 1781 in Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.¹ He married Sarah Titcomb, daughter of Gen. Jonathan Titcomb and Sarah Steadiman, on 13 December 1802.

     Lydia Sprague was born in 1832.¹ She married Haynes Jewett Jr., son of Haynes Jewett and Hannah Wood.¹

     Lois Addison Sprigg was born on 5 June 1896.¹ She was the daughter of William Mercer Sprigg MD and Lucy Derby Page.¹

     William Mercer Sprigg was born on 9 May 1899.¹ He was the son of William Mercer Sprigg MD and Lucy Derby Page.¹

     William Mercer Sprigg MD married Lucy Derby Page, daughter of Prof. Charles Grafton Page and Priscilla Sewall Webster, on 25 January 1894.¹

     Rev. Alpheus Spring was born on 10 May 1739.¹ He was the son of Henry Spring and Reziah Converse.¹ Rev. Alpheus Spring married Sarah Frost, daughter of Judge Simon Frost and Mercy Sewall, on 19 May 1769.¹ Rev. Alpheus Spring died on 14 June 1791 in Kittery, Maine, at the age of 52.¹

     Elizabeth Spring married John Mason.¹

     Henry Spring married Reziah Converse.

     Lydia Spring was baptised on 15 January 1775.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. Alpheus Spring and Sarah Frost.¹ Lydia Spring married Rev. Samuel Chandler circa 1793.¹