Born ‎1633, died ‎8 Jul 1710 at Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States‎, age 76 or 77 years, buried at Old Burying Ground, Wakefield, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Possible info on Father:
Robert C. Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F (2001), 230-1 (_____ Crawford); digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.

Born ‎± 1632 at Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States, died ‎3 Oct 1696 at Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States‎, age approximately 64 years, buried at Bell Rock Cemetery, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

His home in Maiden was on the south side of the present Pleasant St., east of the river and not far from the Coytmore mill. He must have been a man having good self control and all of the christian graces according to the following incident for "A youth, Thomas Shepherd struck Samuel Sprague two blows, Sprague did not strike back but said 'What dost thou meane to play the foole? I: am Resolved: I: will: not strike:' although the other dared him with many Rending Speeches." He was appointed town "clarke" of Maiden in 1685; selectman many years; took the Freeman's Oath March 22, 1689-90; commissioner to join with other towns in 1687 to make the county tax rate; was Representative and deputy to the General Court from 1681-1680 and from 1088-1093; and was its secretary from 1682 to 1685; lieutenant of the militia in 1685 and is referred to in the early histories as lieutenant. In 1652 he sold to his brother John his share of the Ell Pond estate which his father Ralph had bequeathed to him. His brother Richard willed his estate to Samuel's two sons, Samuel and John in 1703. He d. October 3, 1690 in Maiden.
- From "The Ralph Sprague Geneology"