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CAPTAIN JONATHAN SPARROW, son of Richard Sparrow and Pandora Unknown
REBECCA BANGS, daughter of Edward Bangs and Rebecca Unknown
HANNAH PRENCE, daughter of Governor Thomas Prence and Patience Brewster
Jonathan Sparrow married first Rebecca Bangs on 26 October 1645 in Eastham. [EAS0][GMB0] He married second Hannah (Prence) Mayo. [GMB1] He married third Sarah (Lewis) Cobb. [GMB1][GEB]
Rebecca Bangs was born say 1636. [GMB0]
Hannah Prence married first Nathaniel Mayo. [GMB1]
Jonathan's father Richard mentioned his grandchildren John and Rebecca Sparrow in his will of 19 November 1660. [GMB1]
In 1644 the Court granted land to "those that goe to dwell at Nausett [Eastham]." Jonathan was an early settler of Eastham and his name appears on a 22 May 1655 list of inhabitants. [FSE]
Samuel Smith and John Mayo of Eastham were charged with illegally catching mackeral on Cape Cod and called to court to defend themselves. In October 1686 their attorney, Captain Jonathan Sparrow, appeared in court and requested more time, which was granted. [RPC6, 203]
Children of Jonathan Sparrow and Rebecca Bangs:
i. Rebecca Sparrow married Thomas Freeman.
ii. Jonathan Sparrow married Rebecca Merrick.
Children of Jonathan Sparrow and Hannah Prence:
iii. Richard Sparrow was born about 1674. He died on 13 April 1728 in Eastham. He married Mercy Cobb.
iv. John Sparrow
John was amitted an inhabitant of Eastham before 1675. [FSE]
v. Patience Sparrow married Joseph Paine on 27 May 1691 in Eastham. [MLT][9, 7:235] She married second John Jenkings of Barnstable on 28 November 1715.
vi. Elizabeth Sparrow married Captain Samuel Freeman.
Children of Hannah Prence and Nathaniel Mayo:
i. Alice Mayo died on 12 October 1748. [MLT] She married as his second wife Deacon John Paine on 3 March 1719/20. [VRE]
ii. Thomas Mayo married Barbara Knowles on 13 June 1677 in Eastham. [CTL]
iii. Samuel Mayo married Ruth Hopkins. [thop]
Endnotes:
EAS0. Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony: Its History & People 1620–1691 (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1986), 238–9.
GMB0. "Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620–1633, Volumes I–III," digitized books, AmericanAncestors, 86–89.
GMB1. "Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620–1633, Volumes I–III," digitized books, AmericanAncestors, 1715–8.
MLT. Mrs. M.L.T. Alden, "The Snow Genealogy," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 102 (1948): 47.
VRE. "Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620–1850," database with images, AmericanAncestors > Eastham-Orleans, records from the Mayflower Descendant.
CTL. Charles Thornton Libby, “The Knowles Family of Eastham, Mass.,” New England Historical and Genealogical Register 79 (1925): 286–97.
RPC6. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of Plymouth Colony: Court Orders, Vol. 6, 1678–1691 (Boston: William White, 1856).
FSE. David Hamlin, "First Settlers of Eastham, Mass.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 6 (1852): 41–46.
thop. Timothy Hopkins, "Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower and Some of his Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 102 (1948): 46–6
GEB. George Ernest Bowman, "Richard and Mercy Sparrow's Children and Their Marriages," Mayflower Descendant (1909): 1–5.
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