Jonathan Spofford

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Settled in Rowley, Mass. (Georgetown), where he died, as his gravestone quaintly shows, "JANUr ye 16h 1772 in ye 89h YEAR OF HIS AGE." She was of York, Maine

It is related that from lack of devotional feeling, or want of confidence in the piety of her husband,--undoubtedly the latter,--she on at least one occasion continued her work while he was conducting family worship, and that, in making her the subject of one of his petitions, he very unhandsomely characterized her by an epithet quite inconsistent with conjugal tenderness.

Divers peccadilloes or eccentricities ascribed to him by tradition,--notably, taking a young son on a coveted excursion tightly tied in a bag,--leave to later generations scant room for doubt concerning which was the greater "sinner" of the two.

This pair are the progenitors of widely scattered and very important branches of the family, many representatives of which have become conspicuously eminent in political, financial, literary, and social life.

CHILDREN.

50. *SAMUEL, 

51. *DAVID, b. Dec. 4, 1710; m. Hannah Cheney.
52. *NATHANIEL, b. 1712; m. Sarah Smith.
53. *JOHN, b. Dec. 12, 1714.
54. HANNAH, b. Dec. 22, 1716; m. (???) Wood, of Bradford.
55. *ABEL, b. Nov. 14, 1718; m. Eleanor Poor, of Newbury.
56. *JOSEPH, b. July 13, 1720; m. Sarah Eams; 2d, Mary
Marble.
57. *JACOB, b. Aug. 17, 1722; settled in Salisbury, Conn.
58. DORCAS, b. Sept. 19, 1724; bap. at Bradford, Sept. 22.
59. *JOB, b. Dec. 21, 1726; m. Mary Brocklebank.
60. *JONAH, b. Apr. 19, 1729; m. Dorcas Frost.
61. *MOSES, b. Jan. 19, 1732.
62. *JEMIMA, b. May 30, 1733; m. Capt. Richard Peabody.

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Age: 89
Parent: John Spafford & Sarah Wheeler
Marriage: Jemima Freethee, probably d. of John Freethee, York, ME, int. May 13, 1708

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