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Memorial and Family History of Erie County, New York
Vol. I, Biographical and Genealogical
The Genealogical Publishing Co., Buffalo; 1906-8

   [109]

        THE SPRAGUE FAMILY is of English origin, and, in its American
     branch, of Puritan antecedents. FRANCIS SPRAGUE arrived at Massachu-
     setts in the ship "Anne," in July, 1623. He was the first Secretary of
     Plymouth Colony and a man of influence in the Puritan commonwealth.
     JOHN SPRAGUE, son of FRANCIS, married RUTH BASSETT. SAMUEL SPRAGUE,
     son of John, married RUTH ALDEN in 1669. She was the daughter of
     DAVID ALDEN and MARIA SOUTHWORTH, of whom the former was the son of
     JOHN ALDEN, and PRISCILLA MULLINS. NOAH SPRAGUE, son of LIEUTENANT
     SAMUEL SPRAGUE, married SARAH HAMMOND. They had a son, NOAH SPRAGUE,
     who married MERCY DEXTER.  ALDEN, son of NOAH SPRAGUE, married EUNICE
     STODDARD.
        NOAH PAUL SPRAGUE, son of ALDEN, was born November 6, 1798.  He
     lived in Bath, New Hampshire, in his early manhood. In 1825 he removed
     to Buffalo, where he died August 21, 1879. He married for his first
     wife ABIAH CARLETON. The first of the American CARLETONS was EDWARD,
     who was appointed Judge at Rowley, Mass., in 1647. EDWARD CARLETON
     (2d), son of EDWARD, removed from Rowley to Haverhill, Mass.  EDWARD
     CARLETON (3d), son of EDWARD (2d), had a son, EDWARD CARLETON (4th),
     who had a son, PETER, who was a Revolutionary soldier, a member of the
     convention for revising the Federal Constitution in 1791, and a Repre-
     sentative in Congress in 1807 and 1808. EBENEZER CARLETON, son of
     PETER CARLETON, married MARY HEATH. They had a daughter, ABIAH, who
     married NOAH P. SPRAGUE, and who was the mother of the late HON. EBEN
     CARLETON SPRAGUE of Buffalo. The second wife of NOAH P. SPRAGUE was
     MARY BACH. His death occurred on the 21st of August, 1879.

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