Hannah Sparrow

Descendant of Elder William Brewster, "Mayflower" Passenger and Mary Brewster, "Mayflower" Passenger

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Hannah Sparrow formerly Prence aka Mayo was born in 1628 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts to Thomas Prence Jr. and Patience (Brewster) Prence. her siblings are: Rebecca (Prence) Freeman, Thomas Prence III, Mary Mercy (Prence) Freeman, Jane (Prence) Snow [half], Mary (Prence) Tracy [half], Judith (Prence) Barker [half], Sarah (Prence) Howes [half] and Elizabeth (Prence) Howland [half]

Wife of Nathaniel Mayo — married 13 Feb 1649 in Eastham, Massachusetts

Wife of Jonathan Sparrow — married after 5 Jun 1667 [location unknown]

Ahe is the mother of Thomas Mayo, Nathaniel Mayo II, Samuel Mayo, Hannah Mayo, Theophilus Mayo, Patience (Sparrow) Jenkins and Richard Sparrow. Mercy died before 23 Nov 1698 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts

Profile last modified 22 Mar 2019 | Created 11 Sep 2010 | Last significant change: 22 Mar 2019

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Biography

Hannah was born in 1629. She is the daughter of Thomas Prence and Patience Brewster.

Hannah, b. prob. at Plymouth bef. 1635; d. at Eastham aft. 23 Nov. 1698; m. 1) at Eastham, 13 Feb. 1648/9, Nathaniel Mayo, b. Eng. ca. 1627; d. at Eastham bet. 19 Dec. 1661 and 4 Feb. 1661; 2) at Eastham bet. 5 June 1667 and 11 Sept. 1671, Jonathan Sparrow, b. Eng. ca. 1633/4; d. at Eastham, 28 Oct. 1654, Rebecca Bangs; and 3) at Barnstable, 23 Nov. 1698, Sarah (Lewis) Cobb, wid. of James.[1]

Hannah and Nathaniel Mayo had the following children:

Thomas Mayo, b. Dec 7, 1650/1; d. Apr. 22, 1729; m. June 13, 1677, Barbara, dau. of Richard and Ruth (Bower) Knowles, of Plymuth, b. Sept. 28, 1656. Res. Eastham. 9 chn. Nathaniel Mayo, b. Nov. 16, 1652/3; d. Nov. 3, 1709; m. 1st, June 28, 1678, Elisa Wixam; m. 2d, June 10, 1708, Mercy, wid. of Nathaniel Young. 7 chn. of first w. Samuel Mayo, b. Oct 12, 1655; d. at Eastham Oct. 29, 1738; m. twice. 6 chn. Hannah Mayo, b. Oct. 17, 1657. Theophilus Mayo, b. Dec. 12, 1657. Bathsheba Mayo, m. Thomas Freeman. Hannah, m. 1st, Feb. 13, 1649/50, Nathaniel Mayo, at Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts son of Rev. John and Thomasine Mayo. His will was proved March 4, 1661.

Hannah married. 2d, at Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, after 05 JUN 1667 as his second wife, Capt. Jonathan Sparrow, son of Richard and Pandora Sparrow[2], who d. March 21, 1706/7, age 73. Res. Eastham. Nath. Mayo was a prominent townsman and Jona. Sparrow was 'a deputy, representative and magistrate many yrs., also a military man.'[3]

Jonathan Sparrow and Hannah had the following children:

Jonathan Sparrow, b. July 9, 1665; d. March 9, 1739/40; m.

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; 5 or more chn. Elizabeth Sparrow, m. (Freeman Gen., p. 356, says 'Feb. 5, 1654.' The yr. is prob. 1684, as the first ch., Pricilla, was b. Oct 27, 1686) as first w., Capt. and Dea. Samuel Freeman, son of Dea. Samuel and Mercy (Southworth) Freeman, of Eastham, b. March 26, 1662; d. Jan. 30, 1742/3. Res. Eastham. 'He was a man of large property, always much engaged in public affairs and a liberal supporter of education and religion.' 2 chn. Patience Sparrow, m. Joseph Paine, and had chn. Richard Sparrow, b. March 17, 1669/70. Lydia Sparrow, m. William Freeman, a des. of Edmund Freeman.[4] Hannah, d. before November 23, 1698 when her husband married again.[2] Eastham, Massachusetts (Barnstable)

Sources

Bowman, George Ernest. "The Heirs of Captain Jonathan Sparrow as Shown by a Conveyance Dated 5 October, 1708", The Mayflower Descendant (Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Boston, 1912) Vol. 14, Page 2 Susan E. Roser. Mayflower Marriages. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990. [ ] Winsor, Justin. A History of the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, With Genealogical Registers. published online by Ancestry.com, The Generations Network, Inc., Provo, UT, 2007. Originally published Boston, 1849, reprinted for Clearfield Company, Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1995., [ ] Freeman, Frederick. The History of Cape Cod: The Annals of The Thirteen Towns of Barnstable County, Volumes 1 and 2,. Vol. II. Google Books Lowell, D.O.S., A Munsey-Hopkins Genealogy, being the ancestry of Andrew Chauncey Munsey and Mary Jane Merritt Hopkins (Boston, 1920) Ferris, Mary. Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines (Privately Printed, 1943) Page 693 Brewster, Lewis W., Elder William Brewster and the Brewster Family of Portsmouth, New Hampshire (A.G. Brewster, Portsmouth, 1908) Beaman, Alden G., Mayflower Ancestral Index (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth MA, 1981) National Genealogical Society Quarterly Mayflower Families, 1500s-1800s (Genealogical Publishing Company, Broderbund) CD #171: Knowles Family - pg. 442 Footnotes

↑ Lowell ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ferris: Page 693 ↑ Brewster: Page 21-22 ↑ Brewster: Page 22 findagrave

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Thomas Prence - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Prence

The Descendants of Elder William Brewster, Part 1, Generations 1 through 4, Barbara Lambert Merrick, General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth MA, 2014, p. 156-162

Maria Edmonds-Zediker

8/1/2010

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• History and Genealogy of the Bangs family in America (Montrose, Mass., 1896) Dean Dudley
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• 2. REBECCA2 BANGGS (Edward1), born at Plymouth, Mass. about 1635, m. Oct. 26, 1654, Capt. Jonathan Sparrow of Eastham, Mass. She d. before 1677, at Easham, and Capt. Sparrow m. 2nd, Hannah (Prence*) Mayo, dau. of Gov. Thomas, and widow of Nathaniel Mayo; and he m. 3rd, Sarah dau. of George Lewis and widow of James Cobb, Nov. 23, 1698. Nathaniel Mayo d. 1661.
• Jonathan Sparrow, son of Richard, the pilgrim, was constable in 1656, .... etc.
  • * She was dead in 1699, and her sons Thomas Mayo, Nathaniel Mayo and Samuel Mayo, inherited lands from her, which she received from her father, Gov. Prence, who d. 1673. Hannah (Prence) Mayo was then wife of Capt. Jonathan Sparrow.
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• Rebecca Bangs' and Capt. Sparrow's children were:
  • 10. i. REBECCA3, b. Oct. 30, 1655, m. Dea. Thomas Freeman, son of Major John.
  • 11. ii. JOHN3, b. Nov. 2, 1656, m. Apphia Tracy, Dec. 5, 1683. She d. Dec. 15, 1739.
  • iii. PRISCILLA3, b. Feb. 13, 1658, prob. m. Mr. Gray, and had Benoni4 Gray.
  • iv. MARY3, b. march 10, 1659.
  • 12. v. JONATHAN3, b. July 6, 1665, d. March 9, 1739-40, at Orleans, Mass.
  • vi. RICHARD3, b. March 17, 1669-70.
  • vi. APPHIA3, b. Dec. 11, 1660, d. Feb. 19, 1660-1.
  • 13. vii. PATIENCE3, m. Joseph Paine of Eastham. ___________________________________
• PRENCE, Hannah
• b. ABT 1630 Plymouth, Plymouth, Mass.
• d. 25 NOV 1698 Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.
• Parents:
• Father: PRENCE, Thomas
• Mother: BREWSTER, Patience
• Family:
• Marriage: 13 FEB 1649/50 Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.
• Spouse: MAYO, Nathaniel
• b. 1625
• d. 24 FEB 1661/2 Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.
• Children:
  • MAYO, Thomas
  • MAYO, Nathaniel
  • MAYO, Samuel
  • MAYO, Hannah b. 17 OCT 1657 Eastham, Barnstable, Mass. d. JUN 1676 Eastham, Barnstable, Mass.
  • MAYO, Theophilus
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