Maria Sparks

From Morris, F.O., "Philipse of Philipsburgh", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 10 (1856), p. 26: "PHILIP PHILIPSE, of Philipsbourg, born in 1656, who married, at Barbadoes, in 1697 (whither he had been sent by his father to an estate he had there, called Spring Head, and where he quickly recovered his health, having been before of a very delicate constitution), Maria, youngest of the four daughters of ? Sparkes, Esq., governor of Barbadoes, by Joyce, his wife, daughter of ? Farmer, Esq., (two of whom had retumed to their father's estate in Worcestershire, and the others accompanied their parents to the island), and, dying in 1700, left a son and successor. She also died in 1700."

NOTA BIEN: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Barbados does not reveal a governor of Barbados with the surname Sparks or Sparkes. The only governor who might obviously be a blood relative of this Maria is John Farmer, who was acting governor from 1701 to 1703.

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Philipse#Family