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See SAMUEL GORTON OF RHODE ISLAND (op.cit Freelove Gorton):
EDWARD GORTON (Samuel, John, Samuel), born at Warwick, May 18, 169 8,married, March 9, 1720, Hannah Matteson, daughter of Zachariah an d firstwife, Sarah, and granddaughter of James and Hannah (Field) Ma tteson ofProvidence. This name is also written Matthewson. Hanna h was thegreat- granddaughter of John Field of Providence. Zacharia h's secondwife was Joanna Eddy, by whom he had no children. Among t he old listsof proprietors, early inhabitants of the town of Warwick , is oneentitled, "A List of ye Draft of Ye Last Division Drawn Ma y ye 21st,1748," in which Edward Gorton appears as present owner o f the propertyoriginally owned by John Gorton. Edward lived on th e west side of whatwas and is now known as Gorton Pond. He died i n 1786. His will, March8, 1874, proved June 12, 1786, mentions wif e Hannah, daughters, FreeloveJerauld (wife of Duty), Sarah Staffor d (wife of Stuckley), HannahGreene, Anna (Anne) Rice (wife of Job) , son Caleb."

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(Prior to finding THE LIFE OF SAMUEL GORTON [see below] the follow ingnote was input: "Based on sheer speculation, the surname of Freel ove mayhave been
Gorton. Sons were named Gorton and and Caleb. There was a deed in 1 796
from Caleb Gorton. The Reverend John Gorton performed the marriage ceremony
between their son Gorton Jerauld and his wife Phoebe Rice. There wa s adeed
in 1816 from Clarke Gorton to Gorton Jerauld. While the commonalit y of
names may be a coincidence, it is probable that Freelove was a daught er
of one of the above Gortons or was their sister.)
See THE LIFE OF SAMUEL GORTON OF RHODE ISLAND (FHL 1,036,278 [3] ) forinformation on the Gorton family. Regarding Freelove Gorton, s ee page204:
"FREELOVE GORTON (Edward, Samuel, John, Samuel) born at Warwick, M ay9, 1722, died October 31, 1803, married April 26, 1744, Dr. Dute eJerauld, born at Medfield, Mass. March 5, 1723, died at Warwick, Ju ly13, 1813, son of Dr. James and Martha (Dupree) Jerauld. Dr. Dute eJerauld came from Medfield, Mass., and settled in East Greenwich i n1743, where he resided and practiced medicine, much of his time administering to the sick and wounded soldiers of the war. He was ove rninety years of age when he died. His parents were Huguenot refuge es.His father was a physician. His daughter married Samuel Pearce , and herson, Honorable Dutee Jerauld Pearce, was an able lawyer, At torneyGeneral of the State, Member of Congress for twelve years. (Po tter'sFrench Settlement of Rhode Island. Dr. Greene's History of Ea stGreenwich. Dr. Parson's Sketches of Rhode Island Physicians. Ride r'sRhode Island Historical Tract, 5.)"

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See THE LIFE OF SAMUEL GORTON OF RHODE ISLAND FHL 1,036,278 (3), p g165:
"JOHN GORTON (of Samuel). We find no data from which to fix the t imeor place of his birth. He was given by his father all his land s west ofWarwick, including land in Cranston. He married, January 2 5, 1665,Margaret Weeden. In 1668 he bought land with orchard and bu ildings ofWilliam and Hannah Burton. In 1677 he and forth-seven oth ers received agrant from the colony of 5,000 acres of land in East G reenwich inconsideration of their "services in King Philip's War. " East Greenwichthen included what is now West Greenwich, the latte r having been setfrom it in 1741. John was a mariner, and this occa sion of protractedabsence from home may account for the but few refe rences to him that wefind among the records of the town and colony . The date of his death isinscribed on the Warwick records as occur ing February 3, 1714; no dataregarding his wife Margaret is given."

On February 6, 2002 I received an email from Howard M. Vail(hvail@@worldnet.att.net) in part as follows:
"Maher" is an abbreviation seen in the AGBI index. "Maher" is short for"Mahershallalhashbaz" a daughter, who married Daniel Cole(s).

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See SAMUEL GORTON OF GORTON ENGLAND and of WARWICK, RHODE ISLAND a ndHIS DESCENDANTS IN AMERICA 1592-1906 by Adelos Gorton, Member of t he NewYork Genealogical and Biographical Society, the Rhode Island H istoricalSociety and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philade lphia, 1907,pps 159-162:
"SAMUEL GORTON, clothier, of London, was born in 1592 (cite) in Gorton (now incorporated within the City of Manchester), "where the fathers of his body had lived for many generations, not unknown to the Heraldry of England." (cite)
"He was reared in the Established Church. In an address to King Charles the First he said that he had sucked in the so-called peculia rtenets attributed to him from the breasts of his mother the Churc h ofEngland. To the fundamental doctrines taught by the church he e verfirmly held, although he was a Nonconformist.
"England was under the rule of the conformist King James. Laud wa sconspicuous in the universities; and they had declared it to be unl awfulto be opposed to the king upon religion or any other subject. ( cite)Gorton was instructed by private tutors, and, being of studiou s habits,he secured a classical education, became well read in Engli sh law andmore than ordinarily skilled in the languages. "One of th ose noblespirits who esteemed liberty more than life, and counting n o sacrificetoo great for the maintenance of principal, could not dwe ll at ease in aland where the inalienable rights of humanity were no t acknowledged."He left his native country, he says, to enjoy liber ty of conscience inrespect to faith toward God and for no other end . (cite)
"He landed at Boston in March, 1636, with his wife Mary (cite), {daughter of John Maplet, Gent. of St. Martin's le Grand, London, and M aryhis wife} his son Samuel and one or two other children. At the t ime ofhis arrival, the Massachusetts government was proceeding again stWheelright, the brother- in-law of Annie Hutchinson. He says he f oundthe people of the colony at great varience in points of religion ,prosecuting it very hotly in their courts unto fines and punishment s.
"Their laws prohibiting non-subscribing churchmen from living ther e,he took up his residence in Plymouth, which was then a more libera lcolony. In June, 1637, he, while a resident of Plymouth, joined on e ofthe military companies which was raised in response to Massachus etts'call for aid to defend themselves against the Pequot Indians. ( cite)
"In 1638 he led the opposition to the illiberal changes, delegat erepresentation, etc., thrust into the government by Prence, then th eGovernor of Plymouth, was snared into Prence's court and, for his contempt of it, was banished.
"In 1639, at Pocasset, Aquidneck Island, he was a freeman and a member of the second or civil compact of government; the first governme ntupon the island of Aquidneck or Rhode which had as its official he ad aGovernor -- Governor Hutchinson -- a Deputy Governor and Assista nts; thefirst to grant universal suffrage; the first that constitute d regularQuarterly Courts, and the first with a jury for the trial o f causes.They changed the name of the place to Portsmouth.
"In 1640 he settled on land he purchased of Robert Cole at Papaquinapaug, near Massapaug Pond adjoining Providence. This land with th ebuildings he had erected thereon he abandoned on account of claim s hmadeby his opponents with fradulent underlying titles. In 1642 h e purchasedof the first owners, the Narragansett Sachems, the land s of Shawomet andfounding the town he named Warwick.
"In 1643 he was made a prisoner by soldiers [representing] the Massachusetts Magistrates who coveted the land, was tried for heresy an dwas confined at Charleston. In 1644 he was chosed a magistrate b y thepeople immediately after he was released and returned to the to wn ofPortsmouth. In 1644 he secured from the Narragansett Indians t heir deedin dominion of all their lands, their submission to the Eng lishgovernment and their appointment of him as their representativ e and"beloved commissioner" to attach them to the colony, for whic h RogerWilliams had departed to obtain a charter.
"In 1644, upon Williams' return with the charter which included th eNarragansett lands (the greater part of the present State), a gover nmentwas at one organized with Williams as Governor and Gorton as on e of theAssistants of "the Government of the Providence Plantations. "
"In 1645, after nearly two years of ineffectual operation of the government owing to the obstructions of the Arnolds and Coddington, an dthe war waged against it by the adjoining colonies, Gorton was chos enCommissioner to lay the grievances of the government before the En glishParliament. As expressed in Williams' letter [their purpose wa s] "topreseve the lives and liberties of the people."
"In August, 1645, [Gorton] took ship from Manhattan. In 1646 he secured from the Parliament Commissioners a mandate commanding the oth ercolonies not to disturb the petitioners and inhabitants living wit hinthe bounds of their charter. Upon this, in 1647 a union of all t hesettlements within the chartered government was effected.
"He returned, landing in Boston, on May 10th, 1648, where he was detained by the Massachusetts Magistrates in collusion with the Arnold-Coddington faction in violation of the Parlimentary order. It was impossible for him, a promising candidate for the chief office in th ecolony, to reach his government to be present at their annual cour t andelection. Coddington, the Arnold candidate for the Presidency , whosetreasonable acts and papers had confronted Gorton while he wa s inEngland, and against whom Gorton's testimony was desired by th e [RhodeIsland] court before the election, and against whom variou s bills ofindictment thus deferred were pending, was fradulently ele cted! [Later,after the matter was presented to the court] the major ity of the courtwas against him and they immediately suspended him f rom the governmentand deputed and installed Jeremiah Clark as Presid ent of the Colony.
"In 1649 Gorton was chosen a member of the Assembly. [Some of th efollowing is rephrased for clarity.] Gorton was chosen President o f thecolony in 1651, the most trying time in the history of the colo ny.Movement continued to subvert the colony to the authority of Ply mouthand Massachusetts, most of which activity occurred during the a bsence ofGorton when he was laying the grievances of the colony befo re theBritish Parliament. Gorton, and his assistants, were, in th e words ofthe historian of Warwick, a "crew of valiant men whose cou rage andwisdom were equal to the emergency."
"In 1652 he drafted and assisted [ the legislators] to [adopt] th efirst legal enactment abolishing slavery -- involuntary life servit udein the colonies. Hawes in his history says that Gorton and Willi amsdrew up this Act, but Williams was then in England, having gone t herethe year before. This law, [premature], could not be sustained . Notuntil about one hundred years later was a like statute again e nacted.
"He was one of the incorporators named in the new 1663 charter. F rom1664 to 1667 he was a Deputy, a judge in the high court and the equivalent of what is now a state senator. He was again chosen to thi sposition in 1670. When he was seventy-nine, on account of his age , hedeclined the proffered continuation in office.
"Although he is represented by some writers as a man given to ange r,he appears mild when compared with many others of that period. I t isobservable that his friends and the people, nearly all of whom w ere ofdissimilar religious views who lived in Warwick, did not fal l out withhim or complain of him. They had no difficulties among th emselves butthat were lovingly arbitrated, and he "never raised hi s hand in violenceagainst any human being, not even aginst his own c hildren."
"In debates with the Friends [Quakers?], in which he with Roder Williams and others took part against them, he is the one almost alon e whoexhibited no anger, flung no epithets, and is not accused by hi sopponents, as most of the others are, of unkindness and incivility . (Thearticle continues with the praises of Samuel Gorton includin g atestimonial from the Hon. Job Durfee, "one of the most able of th e ChiefJustices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court.")

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See THE LIFE OF SAMUEL GORTON OF RHODE ISLAND, FHL 1,036,278 [3] , pps168-9:
"SAMUEL GORTON (John, Samuel), born July 22, 1672, at Warwick, married, May 9, 1695, Elizabeth Collins, born November 1, 1672, daughte r ofCaptain Elizur and Sarah (Wright) Collins. During the years 171 4 to1718 he was Deputy to the Rhode Island Legislature. He died Jun e 5,1722. His will bequeathed to wife Elizabeth use of household an d allmovables; to his son Edward the old place, so called, which hon oredfather John formerly dwelt on and lot at Horses Neck; to son Sam uel thehomestead farm; to son William lot at Soweset; and to daughte rs Ann,Margaret, Sarah, Elizabeth, money, etc. The Warwick record s of deathsgive, under date September 9, 1724, "Elizabeth, wife of S amuel of Johnand Elizabeth." Doubtless should be "of John" and Marg aret;" Samuel ofJohn and Elizabeth was yet a lad."

See SQ p. 2886

She is buried in the Mater Dolorosa Cemetery, West 9th St., Owensboro, KY.

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Susan Mary Graves is the daughter of John Graves and Catherine Nob le.

A picture of Hazel Sparks (Gray) Dyer appears in THE SPARKS QUARTERLY onpage 4869.

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!CONFIRMATION:
FHL Microfilm roll 280,550: Isabella Gray was confirmed 2 Decembe r1859,
in the Roman Catholic Church in Methlick, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

I received an email from Linda Cheeks Pittano (Chico1226@@aol.com) on 5Jan 2000, and again on 18 Jan, 2000. She advised that she is related toLilbourn Everett Sparks (1890-1971), that he was married to HattieHaywood (1895-1948), that among their eight children was a daughter, EmmaMerl who was married to Clyde Logan. Emma Merl, still living, told Mrs.Pittano that her grandparents were John "Possom" Sparks and Sarah RebeccaGray. Mrs. Pittano speculated that the John Sparks who married RebeccaGray referred to in the article appearing in THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, isvery likely the John "Possom" Sparks married to Sarah Rebecca Gray. Theknown dates also lend credence to her speculation. I have entered thesenames based solely on that conjecture and will add substantiation whenand if it is obtained.

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I also received an email from Daryll Sparks on July 23, 2004, with thefollowing information:

Sarah Rebecca Sparks
First Wife of John Jackson Sparks
April 30, 1864 - May23, 1900

Sarah Rebecca has been documented with two different last names. At onetime she lived next to William Henderson Sparks, while they were courtingthey had a child out of wed-lock (Samuel Justin Sparks born in 1881).Later in 1887 records show her as Sarah Rebecca Cox who married JohnJackson Sparks. They had the following Children: Sherman, Everett, Eddie,Jan, Viola, Lucy. She only lived a few weeks after her last child Eddiewas born. I just recently found out that Sarah's parents were. Her motherwas Amelia Annis (Cox) Mauk born Nov. 30,1841, her father was John WesleyGray who was a traveling businessman who was a drifter. Later Ameliamarried Frederick (Fed) Mauk in 1860. Sarah took her mothers maiden namebefore she married John Jackson, which was the reason she is listed asSarah Cox in 1887. June of 2004 we took my dad Marshall Sparks (son ofSherman Sparks) to see if we could find were his grandmother Sarah wasburied in Mauk ridge cemetery. We did find the cemetery and also learnedafter speaking with some of the local folks, the cemetery and the landaround it was the same farm dad's father (Sherman) and grandfather (JohnJackson) had lived on at one time. In researching the names in thecemetery we have been able to trace the different relationships betweenthe Sparks, Mauk and Cox families.

See THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, p4869: "Walter Gray, son of Harvey and MeckGray, died tragically in 1910 when the boiler that ran the grist millexploded. He was only thirteen years old. Four other persons were alsokilled in the explosion."

SQ pg 4481: He may have been the John Green who served in Company G,14th Regiment Kentucky Infantry from 1861 to 1865 during the Civil War.

SQ p. 4750:

"...Samuel "Sam" Logan Green was an enterprising man. In addition tofarming, he had a general store and was postmaster at Ibex, Kentucky. Hewas elected judge of Elliott County for two terms...."

See Semmes pg 134

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SQ pg 2599: She married Homer Bramer and they had five children :Arlene, Richard, Robert, James, and George.

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SQ pg 2599: He married Harriet Klaberenges and they had three children: Kenlyn Annett, Carol, and Roger.

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See notes of Benedict and this note found in a genealogy file at t he
Family History Library, Salt Lake, (FHL 985191) on the tombstone of Alethia:
"ALETHEA
Wife Of
BENEDICT SPALDING
Died Sept. 29, 1868
Aged 68 Years"
The note adds: This is Alethea Greenwell, aunt to William F. Greenwel lwho
married Sarah Floyd and sister to William T. Greenwell [Sr.] (his fat her)
who married Julianna Floyd. Tomb Stone, 1868, St. Aloysius (old) near
Leonardtown, St. Mary's County, Maryland."

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Note found in genealogy file of C. C. Fenwick in Family History Library
Salt Lake (FHL 985191) shows the follow record of a tombstone:
MARGARET ANN
Wife of
DR. A. J. SPALDING
6-10-1832
9-3-1863
In an added note Mr. Fenwick adds "This is Margaret Ann Greenwell, da u.
of William F. Grenwell and Julianna Floyd.
(Children in this lot are:)
ALETHEA E.
ONLY DAUGHTER OF
A.J. AND M.A. SPALDING
10-22-1860
7-12-1864
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WILLIAM B.
ELDEST SON OF
A.J. AND M.A. SPALDING
9-11-1855
7-27-1864
Tomb Stone, St. John's, Hollywood, St. Mary's County, Maryland