John Gifford

1668 - Bef 1750  (82 years)

• Name	John Gifford
  Born	12 Jun 1668	Sandwich, , Massachusetts, United States
  Gender	Male
  AFN	9J3V-DC
  Died	Bef 6 Jul 1750	Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States   [1]
  Person ID	I1137	James Henry Martineau
  Last Modified	27 Oct 2015

  
  

  Family	Desire Sprague,   b. Abt 1668, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States ,   d. Aft 1705  (Age ~ 38 years)
  Married	24 Nov 1696	Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States   [2, 3, 4]
  Last Modified	27 Oct 2015
  Family ID	F467	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  ATGG: "Ancestry of Two Great Grandmothers, Esther (Root) Poole, Lois (Sprague) Mears", compiled by Winifred Lovering Holman, S.B., 1938, copy at the NEHGS, - D0007 BIRTH: Estimated from birth of wife. ATGG, pg. 112: "of Sandwich", prob. MA MARRIAGE: ATGG, pg. 112. 1992 AF: 24 Mar 1696

  
  

• Sources

  [S114] NEHGS Register (Reliability: 3). 10. John Gifford (John, William), born 12 June 1668, died testate, at Rochester before 6 July 1750.... Desire, the daughter of John Sprague (Francis) and Ruth (Basset) Sprague of Duxbury, was born about 1670. Her father was killed 26 Mar 1676 in "Capt. Pierce's fight at Pawtucket in Philip's War". [S153] Vital Records of Massachusetts to the Year 1850, New England Historic Genealogical Society, (Boston, Mass., 1911), Ref R. Rm. F 74., Sandwich, Vol. 1, pg. 56 (Reliability: 3). The Marriage between John Gifford and Desire Sprague solemnised before Shearjashub Bourne Esqr the 24th of novemr Anno 1696 [S105] Sprague Families of America, Warren Vincent Sprague, (The Tuttle Company, Printers,Rutland, Vermont, 1913), p. 11 (Reliability: 3). [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