Now that the Hotchkiss, Lee, Munn, Tilden book is done [!!!!] what is my next BIG project? Well, it started when I noticed this historic marker on Nine Mile Road in Farmington Hills, Oakland, Michigan:

I have Sprague as one of my ancestral names. How does Alonzo fit in? Well, the research started and I found out that Alonzo was my fourth cousin, five times removed! He was born in New York on 6 January 1822 and died in Wayne, Wayne, Michigan on 6 October 1915. Our relationship was obviously, not close. To get back to our most recent common ancestor, I needed to look to Jonathan Sprague (1648-1741) and Mehitable Holbrook Sprague (1649-1710). That got to look into from whom they descend. That got me back to Edward Sprague (1576-1614) and Christina Margaret Holland Sprague (1578-1651), Anthony Eames 1595-1686) and Margery Pierce (1599-1662), Thomas Holbrook (1589-1675) and Jane Powys (1589-1677), and the unknown parents of Elizabeth Pitts who was the wife of William Holbrook, son of Thomas and Jane.

Now I am trying to go back one more generation and nail down the Pitts family and looking into confirming the parents of Edward Sprague as being Tristram Sprague and Elizabeth Colt.

The whole project is coming out as a volume on the descendants of the top of each line that I can confirm: Sprague, Holland, Eames, Pierce, Holbrook, Powys, Pitts. Unless, of course I am successful in going back further in 16th century England.

Stay Tuned.