Rev. John Sparkhawk

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From http://conovergenealogy.com/sisler/sisler-p/p422.htm#i21752

Rev. John, son of Nathaniel (Nathaniel) and Patience (Newman) Sparkhawk of Cambridge, Mass., born about 1672, minister at Bristol for twenty-three years, died April 29, 1718. "Rev. John Sparkhawk of Bristol married for his second wife Priscilla Hemans." Her birth and parentage are unknown. She died before Mch. 31, 1755, probably at Kittery, York County, Maine, for her will dated July 12, with codicil dated July 15, 1749, was probated on that date. In it she names sons Nathaniel and John; daughters-in-law Jane and Elizabeth Sparhawk; and granddaughter Priscilla Sparkhawk, daughter of "my son," then unmarried and not twenty-one years of age. By Mr. Sparkhawk she had two children, viz.:--John, born Spet. 1, 1713 and Nathaniel, born Mch. 1714-15. The former settled in the ministry at Salem, and latter entered a commercial house as partner in trade with Benjamin Colman of Boston and married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Pepperell, May 1, 1742.