Elizabeth Bick

Elizabeth Holbrook

• Birth: Abt 1642 of Weymouth, Plymouth Colony
• Father: William Holbrook c: 12 Jun 1620 in St. Johns, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England
• Mother: Elizabeth Pitts

Marriage

1. 13 Dec 1666 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts 1 2 to John Sprague (1638-1683), son of William Sprague & Millicent Eames
2. between 1684-5 and 1696 to John Bick or Buck

After John Sprague's death, Elizabeth married James Bick (per Anderson 1995).

Children with 1st husband

1. John Sprague b: 20 Jul 1668 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
2. Elizabeth Sprague b: 21 Jul 1670 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts
3. John Sprague b: 20 Jan 1675 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
4. William Sprague b: 13 Jun 1679 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
5. Persis Sprague b: 13 Jun 1681 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
6. Ebenezer Sprague b: 1682 in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts
7. Hannah Sprague b: in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts
8. Millicent Sprague b: in Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts

notes

• 1683, October 26. John Sprague died at Mendon as stated in Ballou's History of Milford. His will dated September 14, 1683, probated November 2, 1683, shows names of children and his sons not then of age. Father-in-law William Holbrook to be overseer of will.
• His children, mentioned in his will, were John, William, Ebenezer, Elizabeth, Hannah, Millesaint, and Perses. He had two sons by the name of John, and two by the name of William; the first of each name died in infancy.
• 1684-5, Jan. 11. His widow Elizabeth is assessed for minister's salary 10 shilling, 9 pence. Her name does not occur after this in annals of Mendon.
• 1686 to 1696. This James Bick seems to have been a resident of Mendon during which time he had a controversy with the authorities which ended with his being compelled to leave the town.
• 1695, April 3. James Bick purchased from John Mowry, Jr., a farm in the "Inman Purchase", No. Smithfield, RI about 2 miles south of Woonsocket Hill.
• 1696, Sept. 9. In the will of William Holbrook, his daughter Elizabeth Bick is given 12 pounds; therefore, it seems certain that her 2d marriage to James Bick occurred between 1684-5 and 1696
  • http://www.jtbullock.com/Tree/MajorJ_Sprague.html
    • His [William Holbrook's] wife Elizabeth died in 1696 and he married Abigail, daughter of Richard Wright, widow of Robert Sharp and of Thomas Clapp of Scituate. William Holbrook died on July 3, 1699, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, at the age of 79. His will was dated September 9, 1696 and was probably a rewrite of a previous will. In it, he provided for his wife Abigail, giving her what she brought into the marriage and half of the increase from it, some household goods, and £3 a year, as long as she relinquished all rights to his estate. To his son Cornelius he gave all his lands in Weymouth; to his daughter, ancestor Mehitable Holbrook, £5 at marriage, but also left her £12, to be paid out of the £20 her husband ancestor Jonathan Sprague owed him (this must have been added later); to his son William, 20s and his Gun Called a Carbine; to his daughters Elizabeth Buck and Hopestill Reed, £20 each; £12 was left to his daughter Jane Balcom, with the stipulation she was to pay her daughter Alice 20s; and the residue of his estate went to his eldest son Samuel, who was named executor of the will. William included a stipulation that said if anyone contested the will, he or she would lose their share. The will was proved on July 17, 1699.
• 1703, October 27. RI Historical Records state that In the matter of Jonathan Sprague v. James Bick, appealed to the General Assembly by the defendant, said Bick is said to have married the widow Elizabeth.
• 1707-8, Feb. 4. At the 5th division of lands in Mendon, at which 200 acres were granted to a 40-acre lot; the son John drew the 4th choice; the son William drew the 24th choice; the son Ebenezer drew the 53rd choice; the four sisters drew the 18th choice.
• 1771, April 27. James and Elizabeth Bick sold to Richard Phillips a portion of this farm.

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Alternate birthplace St. Johns, Glastonbury, Somerset, England.

• Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.
• The John Sprague that died in Mendon, also only had one wife, Elizabeth Holbrook. Like the above, she outlived him, and remarried to John Buck. See, Walter Goodwin Davis, Massachusetts and Maine families in the ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), 2: 29; and New England Marriages Prior to 1700, 697
• http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/t/a/f/Fletcher-Taft/BOOK-0001/0014-000...
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~amorrow/fg05/fg05...
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ssimonw&i...
  • 1. Title: Sprague Families in America Author: Sprague, Warren Vincent Publication: 1913, Rutland Vermont, Tuttle Co.Title: Massachusetts and Maine families in the ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): a reprinting, in alphabetical order by surname, of the sixteen multi-ancestor compendia (plus Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and his descendants) compiled by Maine’s foremost genealogist, 1916-1963 , 3
  • 2. Author: Walter Goodwin Davis Publication: Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996. Note: http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=48192 (48193 & 48194)