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Ruth Dillis (Sprague)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: New London, New London, Connecticut, United States
Death: 1730 (25-26)
Lebanon, New London County, CT, United States
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Lt. John Sprague, of Duxbury & Lebanon and Lydia Sprague
Wife of Claudius Dillis
Mother of Elizabeth Lamb and Lydia Terry
Sister of Captain Ephraim Sprague; Benjamin Sprague; Samuel Sprague; Capt. John Sprague; Lydia Way and 1 other

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About Ruth Dillis

Alternate birthplace Plimpton, Plymouth, Mass., United States.

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Ruth Sprague

  • Born 5 Sep 1704 Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States
  • Died Yes, date unknown
  • Father John Sprague, b. Abt 1656, Duxbury, , Massachusetts, United States, d. 6 Mar 1728, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age ~ 72 years)
  • Mother Lydia, b. Abt 1660, d. 18 Jul 1725, Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States (Age ~ 65 years) Married Abt 1684 Duxbury (of), , Massachusetts, United States

Family

Clodus Dillis, b. Abt 1700, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States d. Aft 1726 (Age ~ 27 years) Married 12 Nov 1724 Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States

Notes ATGG: "Ancestry of Two Great Grandmothers, Esther (Root) Poole, Lois (Sprague) Mears", compiled by Winifred Lovering Holman, S.B., 1938, copy at the NEHGS, - D0007

BIRTH: ATGG, pg. 130. Not in "Vital Records of Duxbury MA to 1850"
MARRIAGE: ATGG, pg. 130. "Ruth, born about 1688, married 5 Sept 1704, Lebanon, Clodus Delis, who was living there in 1726. (This is in error, as that is her birth date)
"Early CT Marriages", bk 2, pg. 39: Clodus Dillis(?) & Ruth Sprague, 12 Nov 1724, Lebanon, New London, CT.

Sources

  • 1.[S149] Barbour Collection, New England Historic Genealogical Society, (\i American Ancestors\i0 . http://www.americanancestors.org/.), (http://www.americanancestors.org/ : accessed 29 Sep 2009); Lebanon Vital Records. (Reliability: 3). “Sprague, Ruth, d. John & Lydia, b. Sept. 5, 1704”
  • 2.[S105] Sprague Families of America, Warren Vincent Sprague, (The Tuttle Company, Printers,Rutland, Vermont, 1913), p. 10 (Reliability: 3).
This gave her birth date only not the place.

*3.[S150] Lebanon Connecticut - Records of births, marriages, and deaths, vols. 1-4, 1700-1915, Lebanon (Connecticut). Registrar of Vital Statistics, (FHL microfilm 1312154. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.), Ruth Sprague birth; FHL microfilm 1312154, item page 280 (Reliability: 3). “Ruth Daughter of John & Lydia Sprague was born September the 5th 1704”

  • 4.[S77] American Genealogist, Maclean W McLean of Pittsburg, PA, "John Sprague (c. 1635-1676) of Duxbury, Mass.," vol. 41 (January 1965); digital images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, \i americanancestors.org\i0 (http://www.americanancestors.org/PageDetail.aspx?recordId=134868448) p. 178. (Reliability: 3). Article by Maclean W McLean
  • 5.[S214] Early Connecticut Marriages, (http://ancestry.com.), (http://ancestry.com : accessed 29 Sep 2009); Lebanon Marriages. (Reliability: 3). “ Clodus Dillis (?) & Ruth Sprague, Nov. 18, 1724
  • 6.[S152] Lebanon, Connecticut, First Congregational Church Record, First Congregational Church (Lebanon, Connecticut, USA), Ruth Sprague & Clodus Dillis marriage; FHL microfilm 4727, item 2 (Reliability: 3).
Sprague, Ruth m Clodus Dillis Nov. 12, 1724
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Ruth Dillis's Timeline

1704
September 5, 1704
New London, New London, Connecticut, United States
1725
January 14, 1725
1729
April 11, 1729
Groton, New London County, CT, United States
1730
1730
Age 25
Lebanon, New London County, CT, United States