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| Born: 26 Dec 1604 in Banbury, Northamptonshire, England
Died: 14th Jan 1677/8 in London ?beheaded Buried: in London Married Catherine Griffin b 1610 Kethering Northampton dau of George Griffin and Anne Augusta Nielson b 1598 Kettering d 1610 |
wikitree gives this information on Thomas Sprigg's likely ancestry: "Thomas Sprigg Volume: Barbados Wills and Administrations, Vol. I Section: Wills and Administrations Page Number: 335 Source Information Ancestry.com. English Settlers in Barbados, 1637-1800 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Original data: Joanne McRee Sanders. Barbados Records: Baptisms, 1637-1800. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1984.
Thomas Sprigg (also Sprigge), was born in Northamptonshire in 1629 although he spent most of his life in colonial Maryland.
When he was in his 50s in the 1680s he signed an inventory in Maryland. The original inventory survives, and in the wax seal he pressed a coat of arms from a signet ring he wore.
This shield could be described as ''checkey, a fess ermine'' I wrote to the College of Arms and the gentlemen there wrote back and said that this same shield description was connected with one Lawrence Spriggy of Mundesley in Norfolk in the 1300s. There was a William Sprigg in Norfolk in the previous century, and through the 1300s the names of Thomas, John and Nicholas Spriggy/Spriggey are found in Norfolk. By the 1380s the name Spriggy shows up in Northamptonshire when John Spriggy was bailiff and there were two Spriggys who were MPs in the early 1400s. Brockhall Church in Northamptonshire is supposed to have or have had a Spriggy coat of arms on the glass in the window".
How the exact line of descent runs through this list of names is, of course, an open question, but it is definitely what one might expect a Royalist Cavalier to have had.
There is also a record of Lawrence Spriggey's gr. grandaughter marrying Robert le Rous of Dennington b c 1375 |
| Thomas Sprigg and Katherine Griffen had issue:
Sp9-1 ELIZABETH SPRIGG b 1601/1602 in England. d 1628 in Maryland.
m on 1618 Northumberland VA Gov William Maximillan Stone Esq b 1603 Derbyshire d 21 Dec 1660 Poynton Manor Charles Co MD
he m2 Verlinda Graves
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Re: Thomas Sprigg-1600's-Resurrection Manor
Posted by: Marilyn Roth Date: May 14, 2000 at 19:44:42
In Reply to: Re: Thomas Sprigg-1600's-Resurrection Manor by Richard
Horman of 913
I corresponded with Nell Offutt Chesley, who did a lot of work on these families. The first Thomas SPRIGG died about 1674, and his wife was Catherine GRIFFIN. Will of Samuel GRIFFIN, 1703, says his sister Katherine SPRIGG was deceased. [VA Mag/o H. & Bio., 1:256]
The second Thomas SPRIGG, b. bef. 1630, m1. 3 Mar. 1650, in Virginia, Catherine [GRAVES], wid/o _ ROPER. The confusion with STONE seems to be a result of Thomas SPRIGG being uncle of Thomas STONE, but Verlinda GRAVES was second wife of Capt. Wm. STONE & mother of Thomas STONE. The will of Wm. STONE calls Thomas SPRIGG brother but meant brother-in-law. This Thomas SPRIGG (second generation) m2. Eleanor NUTHALL.
The date 29 Dec. 1704, was when the will was proved, not the date of death.
Thomas SPRIGG (third generation) m. Margaret MARIARTE (?Moriarti).
The will of Ann (BAKER GANTT) WIGHT [15 S 1725, pr. 26 May 1726, Pr. Geo. Co.] names dau. Margery SPRIGG and grandchildren Thomas, Ann, & Edward SPRIGG. [Margery {WIGHT} married one Thomas SPRIGG (fourth generation), apparently one born about 1694, married about 1715, deceased before 1725.] A Thomas Sprigg also married Margery Beall
Thomas SPRIGG (fifth generation), b. ca. 1716, was apparently the one
whose death was reported 3 Jan. 1782, in his sixty-seventh year, at West
River [M & D from the Maryland Gazette]. This Thomas married 14 Feb.
1737, Elizabeth GALLOWAY, dau/o Sophia & Richard, whose 1741 will names
dau. Eliz. SPRIGG.
Regarding Ressurection Manor: Is this not in St Mary's County, north
of MD235 A.K.A. Three Notch Road. MD 235 is on the ridge line above the
Patuxent river and the land slopes down gentlely to the river. Was this
property one of the six proprietary manors of St Mary's County owned by
the Calverts and rented out to the general public?
This area may well have been part of Calvert County when it was known
as (Patuxent?) County.