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Download or read book Materials for a Genealogy of the Sparhawk Family in New England (Classic Reprint) written by Cecil Hampden Cutts Howard and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Materials for a Genealogy of the Sparhawk Family in New England Compiled by Cecil Hampden Cutts Howard, member of" The American Historical Association;" corresponding member of "The New England Historic Genealogical Society;" member of "The Long Island Historical Society;" and corresponding member of "The Maine Historical Society." Author of "Brattleboro in Verse and Prose" and "Life and Public Services of General John Wolcott Phelps." Nathaniel Sparhawk, the emigrant ancestor of all bearing that name in the United States, settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1638. This is the generally accepted date, although Mr. Paige gives, in his History of Cambridge, 1636. The birthplace of Nathaniel Sparhawk was in Dedham, Essex Co., England, and his parents were Lewis and Elizabeth (Bayning) Sparhawk. At the time of bis coming to New England, he was in the fortieth year of his age. He was made freeman. May 23, 1639, and a deacon of the church of Cambridge. Three years Liter he was deputy to the General Court, from 1642 to 1647. In May, 1645, he was one of "a committee to consider of some way whereby y negative vote may be tempered, y justice may have free passage." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.