Capt. Elkanah Sprague, Sr.

Elkanah Sprague, Sr.

• DAR Ancestor #: A107555
• Service: VERMONT Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE, PATRIOTIC SERVICE, CAPTAIN
• Birth: 1-25-1732 LEBANON WINDHAM CO CONNECTICUT
• Death: POST 2-16-1787 HARTFORD WINDSOR CO VERMONT
• Parents: Benjamin Sprague and Abigail Hodges
• Service Source: NARA, M881, COMP MIL SERV RECS, ROLL #903; TUCKER, HIST OF HARTFORD VT, P 51, 52; WALTON, RECS OF THE COUNCIL OF SAFETY & STATE OF VT, VOL 2, P 343
• Service Description: 1) MEMBER OF COMMITTEE; MODERATOR, SELECTMAN
• Spouse: 1) Katharine Shield (not married) 2) Mehitabel Moulton

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A Patriot of the American Revolution for VERMONT with the rank of CAPTAIN. DAR Ancestor #: A107555

Disambiguation

https://sprague.one-name.net/getperson.php?personID=I17525&tree=spr...

You see there are four Elkanah Spragues; not two. The attached report contains Family Group Sheets for each of the four. You'll find in there that it was a totally different Elkanah Sprague who is from Lebanon, NH.

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Family

• Father: Benjamin Sprague (15 Jul 1686 - Abt 7 Jul 1754) 7
• Mother: Abigail Hodges (Abt 1697 - 29 Jul 1760)

Spouse: Katharine Shield ( - Yes, date unknown) 8 Married: No Place:

Children:

1. Elkanah Sprague (6 Nov 1749 - 17 Aug 1835) 8

Spouse: Mehitable Moulton (Bef 19 Aug 1733 - Yes, date unknown Married: 9 Dec 1754 Place: Windham, Windham Co., CT, USA 9, 10

Children:

• 1 Abigail Sprague (18 Jul 1755 - Yes, date unknown)
• 2 Vine Sprague (31 Oct 1756 - Young) 11
• 3 Ignatius Sprague (17 Nov 1758 - Yes, date unknown)
• 4 Elkanah Sprague, Jr. (19 Dec 1760 - 17 Mar 1846)
• 5 Irene Sprague (2 Feb 1763 - 5 Oct 1853) 12
• 6 Olive Sprague (Bef 5 May 1765 - 4 Aug 1847) 13
• 7 Roger Sprague (Abt 1767 - Abt 1787) 14
• 8 Mehitable Sprague (Abt 1770 - 12 Sep 1856) 15
• 9 Mary Sprague ( - Child)
• 10 Vine Sprague, 2d. (20 Aug 1772 - 11 May 1813)
• 11 Roger Sprague (Abt 1777 - 1832)

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Revolutionary War [3, 4]

(served 16 August to 4 October 1777 and 27 April to 28 June 1779)

Elkanah lived in Windham, Connecticut and Hartford, Vermont from 1757 to 1777. He served in the American Revolution first as a private in Captain Hodge's Co., Colonel Marsh's Regiment form 16 Aug to 4 October 1777. Later he served as Lieutenant in Captain Burt's Co., Col. Samuel Fletcher's Regiment of Militia in service on frontier at Rutland form 27 April to 28 June 1779. He was Ensign to Captain Joshua Hazen's Co., Col. Wood's 3rd Regiment. He was a Lieutenant in the same company as son, Elkanah Sprague, Jr. He served as Captain of a company of Hartford troops in service at Ft. Bethel on the White River. It is said that three of his sons served under him.

From Charles Tieman.

Communication from S. Headley reports that Elkanah Sprague died in Hartford, Windsor Co., VT.

Windham 1757, Hartford, Windsor Co., VT 1777, Lt. in Revolutionary War; one of three Sprague brothers who were induced by Sir William Johnson to settle around Northville, NY.

"The Revolutionary War - Vermont" d. Hartford, 1781."

Sources

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sprague-2374 cites
• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 12 Jan 2019), "Record of Elkanah Sprague, Sr", Ancestor # A107555.
• Sprague, Warren Vincent, MD, Sprague Families in America, 1913,The Tuttle Company, Rutland Vermont p 25
• "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F74Q-1VQ : 11 February 2018), Elkanah Sprague, 25 Jan 1732; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
• Lineage Book : NSDAR : Volume 098 : 1913
• https://sprague.one-name.net/getperson.php?personID=I17525&tree=spr... cites
• 1. [S352] Publication: Sprague Families in America, Sprague, Warren Vincent, (Rutland, Vt: The Tuttle Company, Printer, 1913), page 16.
• 2. [S427] Lebanon Town Records, "b. January 25, 1732.".
• 3. [S72] DAR Patriot Index, Capt. CS, VT, page 2762.
• 4. [S976] Publication: Revolutionary War - VT, "Sprague, Elkanah, Rf. Capt, VT; b Lebanon, CT 1732; r Hartford; cdr of co 1781; d Hartford 1781; m. Mehitable; 41, p 421; 42, p 142; CL-10, 98:199; CL-33.
• 5. [S123] DAR Application, "d. abt 1805:, of Mary Rosamond Curtis, Great Grandaughter of Elkanah.
• 6. [S835] Correspondent: Goss, David, note of October 26, 2008.
• 7. [S510] Correspondent: Fricke, Dick, note of June 17th, 2002.
• 8. [S352] Publication: Sprague Families in America, Sprague, Warren Vincent, (Rutland, Vt: The Tuttle Company, Printer, 1913), "m. December 19th, 1754.", page 25.