Prudence Minor

Female 1688 - 1726  (~ 38 years)


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  • Name Prudence Minor 
    Christened 6 May 1688  Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Died 18 May 1726  Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Buried Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1343  James Henry Martineau
    Last Modified 27 Oct 2015 

    Family Benjamin Sprague,   b. 15 Jul 1686, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jan 1754, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years) 
    Married 20 Jan 1726  Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6, 7
    Last Modified 6 Apr 2016 
    Family ID F557  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsChristened - 6 May 1688 - Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - 20 Jan 1726 - Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 18 May 1726 - Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • BIRTH: "Ancestry of Two Great Grandmothers, Esther (Root) Poole, Lois (Sprague) Mears", compiled by Winifred Lovering Holman, S.B., 1938, copy at the NEHGS, pg. 131. Lists parents - D0007
      IGI lists parents as Joseph Minor and Mary Avery
      MARRIAGES: "Ancestry", pg. 131. Lists 9 children
      DEATH: "Ancestry", pg. 131

  • Sources 
    1. [S163] Stonington, CT: First Congregational Church Records, 1674-1874, First Congregational Church, Stonington, CT, USA, (New England Historic Genealogical Society. \i American Ancestors\i0 . http://www.americanancestors.org), Prudence Minor baptism (1688); First Congregational Church (Stonington, CT), \i American Ancestors\i0

      ?(http://www.americanancestors.org) (Reliability: 3).
      p. 197
      May 6, 1688
      The same day, Prudence, daughter of Joseph Minor
      http://www.americanancestors.org/PageDetail.aspx?recordId=6018629

    2. [S114] NEHGS Register, Joel Nelson Eno, "Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions," 74 (April 1920): 108. (Reliability: 4).
      Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions
      Lebanon, Old Cemetery
      Here lyes in gravened ye name of Mrs. Prudence Sprague, wife of Mr. Benjamin Sprague, who died in Stoneington. Formerly wife to Mr. Joseph Denison & Daughter to Mr. Joseph Minor Living in Stonington & Departed this Life May 18, 1726, Aged 38 years.
      http://www.americanancestors.org/PageDetail.aspx?recordId=133502348

    3. [S114] NEHGS Register, Louis Marinus Dewey Esq., "Inscriptions from Old Cemeteries in Connecticut," 60 (October 1906): 370. (Reliability: 3).
      Prudence, second wife of Benjamin Sprague, died in Stonington, 18 May, 1726, aged 38; formerly wife of Joseph Denison and daughter of Joseph Minor of Stonington.

    4. [S155] Connecticut, Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934, ((https://familysearch.org)), accessed 31 Oct 2012), Prudence Sprague. (Reliability: 3).
      name: ?tab?Prudence Sprague
      gender: ?tab?Female
      burial place: ?tab?Lebanon, Connecticut
      death date: ?tab?18 May 1726
      age: ?tab?38
      birth date: ?tab?1688
      indexing project (batch) number: ?tab?B03415-4
      system origin: ?tab?Connecticut-EASy
      source film number: ?tab?3206
      reference number: ?tab?p86
      https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/F76K-248

    5. [S216] Stonington, CT, Index to Records of the First Church, Edward H. Williams Jr., ((http://www.newenglandancestors.org : 2003)), accessed 29 Sep 2009), Benjamin Sprague; p. 232. (Reliability: 3).
      Sprague, 1726 Jan 20 Benjamin = Prudence Denison, Marriage
      http://www.americanancestors.org/PageDetail.aspx?recordId=6127642

    6. [S105] Sprague Families of America, Warren Vincent Sprague, (The Tuttle Company, Printers,Rutland, Vermont, 1913), p. 16 (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S163] Stonington, CT: First Congregational Church Records, 1674-1874, First Congregational Church, Stonington, CT, USA, (New England Historic Genealogical Society. \i American Ancestors\i0 . http://www.americanancestors.org), Sprague-Denison marriage (1726); First Congregational Church (Stonington, CT), \i American Ancestors\i0

      ?(http://www.americanancestors.org) (Reliability: 3).
      Jan. 20, 1726, Benjamin Sprague and Prudence Denison
      http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/stonington-ct-first-congregational-church-records-1674-1874/image/?volumeId=7366&pageName=232&rId=6127333