Capt. Dennis Sprague

"[Married] daughter of Seth and Polly (Knowlton) Billington. They lived a few years in Dexter, ME, then moved to Milo in 1843. (Probably married in 1839.) Grandpa had a store there and built his house, still standing. They had four children of whom Seth was the oldest. Two little girls died in infancy."

From "Gerry Remembers: A history of the Howe Family of Port Orchard, Washington" by Gerry Howe Sprague Bruckart with Esther Bretthauer Sicks, 1997. According to a note, the information was sent to Wendell Phillip Sprague by his cousin Olive, in a letter in 1916.