The following is a continuation of notes of Joseph Sparks, spouse ofMartha (Moore) Sparks, from an article in THE SPARKS QUARTERLY, March,1999, Whole No. 185, continuing from page 5121:
"Joseph Sparks spent his youth in Queen Annes County, Maryland, and itwas doubtless there that he was married to Mary ------ although norecord has been found of the marriage. From Joseph's estate records,we know that he was the father of twelve children, seven sons and fivedaughters. There is always the possibility, of course, that he hadbeen married more than once. A birth record has been found for onlyone of these children; the son named William was born on April 27,1738, according to the records of St. Luke's Parish in Queen AnnesCounty. His parents were identified as Joseph and Mary Sparks. Hewas baptized at St. Luke's Church on June 4, 1738. (For a listing ofthe Sparks births, baptisms, mar-riages, and deaths found in therecords of St. Luke's Parish, 1728-1850, see the QUARTERLY of March1971, Whole No. 73, pp. 1389-91.)
"Joseph Sparks had inherited land from his father in Queen AnnesCounty that, in the end, amounted to 100 acres. He sold this to awealthy neighbor named Augustine Thompson, on March 21, 1719. We havefound no further record of Joseph in Queen Annes County until that ofhis son William's birth in 1738.
"Joseph Sparks had a nephew, William Sample Sparks, who was nearly thesame age as Joseph. William Sample Sparks had moved west to FrederickCounty, Maryland, before 1736, and Joseph Sparks followed him thereafter his son William's birth on April 27, 1738. Joseph died there,without making a will, in 1749, leaving his widow, Mary Sparks, withthe twelve children. In the subsequent division of Joseph's estate,the children were named as follows in a Frederick County Court recorddated August 22, 1750: Solomon, Joseph, Jr., Charles, Jonas, Jonathan,William [born 1738], George, Merum, Mary, Ann, Rebecca, and Sarah.
"William Sparks, son of Joseph, was a babe in arms when he accompaniedhis parents in their move from Queen Annes County to Frederick County,Maryland, probably in the autumn of 1738 or the spring of 1739. Itwas a decade later, when he was ten or eleven years old, that he losthis father.
"By 1759, in which year William Sparks came of age, he had moved toLancaster County, Pennsylvania. The distance was not great. He hadlived in that part of Frederick County that would become CarrollCounty in 1837. Carroll County, Mary-land, borders York County,Pennsylvania, on the north, and York County adjoins Lancaster Countyto the east. An assessor's return for Drumore Township in Lan-casterCounty for 1759 includes a "Freemen's Page" (i.e., a Usting ofunmarried males over 21 living in the township) on which he wrote:"Wm. Sparks, at Robert Dicksons.11 Robert Dickson was a blacksmith sowe can conjecture that young Sparks may have been apprenticed toDickson to learn the blacksmithing trade. Two years later, on March12, 1761, William Sparks was married to Martha Moore at St. JamesChurch in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
"Martha Moore was a daughter of Alexander and Margaret Moore ofDrumore Township where William Sparks had been shown as a "freeman" in1759. Alexander Moore had died, however, in 1750. In his will datedJune 30, 1750, and probated on August 17, 1750, Alexander Moore hadleft land to his wife and their sons, James, John, and William; and"unto my well beloved daughters Agnes, Margaret, and Mar-tha 40pound[s] Pennsylvania money to each of them as they come of age." Healso left 10 shillings to his daughter Hannah and 5 pounds to agranddaughter named Margaret. (This will was recorded in LancasterCounty Will Book A, Vol. 1, p.191.)
"On May 31, 1766, in Lancaster County Deed Book L, p. 224b, acuitclein dead was recorded by which the "Heirs of Alexander Moore"granted a portion of their inheri-tance "to Margaret Moore, widow ofAlexander Moore." One of the grantors was identified as "Martha, wifeof William Sparks of Drumore Township," thus proving that WilliamSparks was still living in Lancaster County in 1766.
"Margaret Moore, mother of Martha (Moore) Sparks, continued to live inDrumore Township in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, until her death in1777. She made her will on May 9, 1777, and it was probated onNovember 24, 1777. (See Lan-caster County Will Book C, Vol. 1, p.484.) In her will, she mentioned her sons, James and William, and herdaughters: Margaret Fullerton; Hannah, wife of Moses Irwin; AgnesDickinson; and Martha Sparks. Her clothing and other personal itemswere to be divided among these four daughters, with "a piece ofCallico not yet made up" to be set aside for Martha Sparks.
"William and Martha Sparks, however, were no longer residents ofLancaster County when Margaret Moore died. In fact, the assessmentrolls for Drumore Township did not include William Sparks's name in1769 nor thereafter.
"We know that by 1773 William Sparks and his family were living inwhat was to be-come Washington County, Pennsylvania. He was a"squatter" there, having settled on land then claimed by bothPennsylvania and Virginia. Their original charters had overlapped.We can be sure that William hoped to acquire a title at a later dateto the tract he had marked off. "Squatters" in what is nowsouthwestern Pennsylvania designated the land they wished to claim bychopping notches in trees to mark its borders. These were called"Tomahawk Claims," and as other squatters arrived, the earlier markedboundaries were usually respected. A descendant of William Sparksremembered family stories about his ancestor having settled on"tomahawk land" in Pennsylvania, but the meaning of the term had beenforgotten in the family.
"William Sparks's brother, George Sparks, also took up a "TomahawkClaim" in 1773 not far from William's. (See the cover of the QUARTERLYof June 1963 for a map showing the Sparks claims along with those oftheir neighbors.) Both William andWilliam Sparks of Washington County,Pennsylvania, with his brother, George Sparks, were subjects of anarticle that appeared in the June 1963 issue of the QUARTERLY, WholeNo. 42, pp. 728-34, although at that time we had not yet founddocumentary proof of where they had lived prior to 1773. Although wethen thought it likely that they were brothers, we could not be sure.Likewise, we had no knowledge of William Sparks's whereabouts after1781; we even thought that he may have died about then. We hadsucceeded in finding several Interested descen- dants of Williamthrough his son, James Sparks, born about 1865, but they could tell uslittle about James's parentage. We had considerably more informationabout George Sparks, however, when we prepared the June 1963 article.George had remained in Washington County for the rest of his life,making his will there on July 9, 1803; he died in the spring of 1806.George Sparks's wife's name had been Mary, and on page 734 of the June1963 QUARTERLY we gave a list of their children: Salathiel, George,Jr., William Bostwick, Solomon, James, and Mary.
"Our research since 1963 has proven that William and George Sparkswere, indeed, brothers; they were sons of Joseph Sparks who died inFrederick County, Maryland, in 1749. An article devoted to JosephSparks appeared in the QUARTERLY of March 1990, Whole No. 149, pp.3554-61. Joseph Sparks was born about 1690 in Talbot County, Maryland,and was the youngest son of William Sparks, who had been an immigrantto Maryland from Hampshire County, England, in or about 1662. WilliamSparks under consideration here was thus a grandson of the immigrantand had doubtless been named for him. This elder William Sparks madehis will on June 21, 1709, in Queen Annes County, Maryland; it wasprobated there in October 1709. In his will, William Sparks hadindicated that his son Joseph had not yet come of age. Two articlesin the QUARTERLY have been devoted to William Sparks (died 1709). Thefirst appeared in the issue for March 1971, Whole No. 73, pp. 1381-89;the second was in the issue of December 1992, Whole No. 160, pp.4025-34. We believe that William Sparks (died 1709) is the ancestor ofmore persons named Sparks in the U.S. today than of any other Sparksimmigrant.
"Joseph Sparks spent his youth in Queen Annes County, Maryland, and itwas doubtless there that he was married to Mary ------ although norecord has been found of the marriage. From Joseph's estate records,we know that he was the father of twelve children, seven sons and fivedaughters. There is always the pos-sibility, of course, that he hadbeen married more than once. A birth record has been found for onlyone of these children; the son named William was born on April 27,1738, according to the records of St. Luke's Parish in Queen AnnesCounty. His parents were identified as Joseph and Mary Sparks. Hewas baptized at St. Luke's Church on June 4, 1738. (For a listing ofthe Sparks births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths found in therecords of St. Luke's Parish, 1728-1850, see the QUARTERLY of March1971, Whole No. 73, pp. 1389-91.)
"Joseph Sparks had inherited land from his father in Queen AnnesCounty that, in the end, amounted to 100 acres. He sold this to awealthy neighbor named Augustine Thompson, on March 21, 1719. We havefound no further record of Joseph in Queen Annes County until that ofhis son William's birth in 1738.
"Joseph Sparks had a nephew, William Sample Sparks, who was nearly thesame age as Joseph. William Sample Sparks had moved west to FrederickCounty, Maryland, before 1736, and Joseph Sparks followed him thereafter his son William's birth on April 27, 1738. Joseph died there,without making a will, in 1749, leaving his widow, Mary Sparks, withthe twelve children. In the subsequent division of Joseph's estate,the children were named as follows in a Frederick County Court recorddated August 22, 1750: Solomon, Joseph, Jr., Charles, Jonas, Jonathan,William [born 1738], George, Merum, Mary, Ann, Rebecca, and Sarah.
"George Sparks, perhaps because of their Maryland origin, believedthat they had "squatted" on Virginia land and considered themselves tobe Virginians. Virginia had organized this disputed land as its WestAugusta County. Then, in 1776, Virginia set off a portion as OhioCounty, which included the claims of the Sparks brothers.Pennsylvania, on the other hand, had organized the area as part of itsvast Westmoreland County. Thus, references pertaining to William andGeorge Sparks are found in both Virginia and Pennsylvania sources. Weincorporated these refer-ences in our June 1963 article cited above;they will not be repeated here.
"The most important Virginia record pertaining to George and WilliamSparks has to do with the final settlement of this controversy betweenPennsylvania and Virginia. Virginia agreed in 1780 to give up herclaim to what the Decree of Trenton stipulated belonged toPennsylvania, with the understanding that she could issue certificatesto her settlers for their "tomahawk" land claims which would then behonored by Pennsylvania. About 400 settlers in what is now WashingtonCounty applied to Virginia for certificates. To obtain a certificate,it was necessary for an applicant to state the year in which he hadmade his first settlement in the disputed area. Both William andGeorge Sparks stated that they had settled on their claims in the year1773. (The official copy of these certificates retained by Virginia isnow preserved in the library of the University of West Virginia, amicrofilm of which was loaned to us.)
"The Virginia certificate issued to William Sparks was dated February5, 1780, and was for 400 acres "on the waters of Buffaloe to Includehis Settlement made in the year 1773. 11 George Sparks received twoVirginia certificates, one for 400 acres tton the waters of Buffaloand Cross Creek" and the other for a claim that he had purchased froma man named. William Bailey adjoining his own claim. Bailey had madehis settlement there in 1775. (The references to Buffalo Creek andCross Creek did not mean that these streams flowed through or adjoinedthese "tomahawk" land claims, but that they were nearby and could beused to help to locate them.)
"When actual surveys were subsequently made of the "squatterst"claims, they were almost always found to contain fewer acres than theclaimant had thought. When William Sparks's tract was finallysurveyed in 1786, it was found to contain slight-ly over 323 acres.By 1786, however, William Sparks was no longer living on his tract--hehad sold it to a man named Thomas Bines, but we do not know the dateof this transaction. It was not until 1787 that Bines finallyobtained a patent (deed) from the state of Pennsylvania for the tract. As was the custom in Mary-land and Virginia, the first owner of atract of land gave it a name to help in its future identification.George Sparks named his first tract "Sparta." The tract he hadpurchased from Bailey was called "Eleanoroon." When Thomas Binesobtained his patent on the tract he had purchased from William Sparks,it was called "Benington," but whether it had been given this name bySparks or by Bines, we do not know.
"Although the Decree of Trenton did not take effect officially until1782, both Virginia and Pennsylvania knew as early as 1780 that itwould become effective then. In anticipation, Pennsylvania createdthe new county of Washington in 1781, carving it out of WestmorelandCounty. The first tax list for the new county has survived; it isdated 1781 and has been published in the Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd.Series, Vol. 22. Both William and George Sparks were taxed inHopewell Township; William's taxable property consisted of 340 acresof land, 2 horses, 4 cattle, and 8 sheep. (Although when it wassurveyed, William's tract was found to comprise slightly more than 323acres, apparently it was thought to comprise 340 acres in 1781.)George Sparks was also taxed in 1781: 400 acres and the same number ofdomestic animals as his brother.
"Township maps showing the tracts of land originally patented toindividuals in Washington County, Pennnsylvania, as well as in Fayetteand Green Counties, were drawn by John H. Campbell, chief draftsman inthe land Office Bureau of the Department of Interior of Pennsylvania,in the early 1900s. This project was necessitated by the rapidlyincreasing value of coal lands in western Pennsylvania. These mapswere reproduced and published as Vol. III of THE HORN PAPERS, in 1945under the title Early Westward Movement on the Monongahela and UpperOhio, 1765-1795. The map for Independence Township of WashingtonCounty appears as number 68 in this volume. The tracts of landclaimed by William and George Sparks were both located originally inHopewell Township in Washington County, but in 1856 In-dependenceTownship was created from part of Hopewell Township and included theland once "squatted" upon by William and George Sparks in 1773.Because Thomas Bines had purchased, and then obtained the patent for,William Sparks's tract, his name appears as its owner on this map, ithaving been surveyed on April 19, 1785, as containing slightly over323 acres. A small portion of this map is reproduced on page 5124showing the owners of tracts near that of Thomas Bines in the 1780s.As can be seen, in his description of the land of Thomas Bines, JohnCampbell noted that Bines was an "assignee" to this tract and that ithad been surveyed for him on March 25, 1786, "in pursuance of aVirginia cert[tificatel.11 That Virginia certifi-cate, of course, hadbeen issued to William Sparks.
"Independence Township in Washington County adjoined Ohio County,Virginia, on its western border. (Ohio County was divided in 1796 toform Brooke County to the north; after 1863 both Ohio and BrookeCounties became part of the new state of West Virginia.)
"Our belief that the William Sparks who "squatted" on land at MingoBottom, and whose cabin there had been among those destroyed by Capt.Dougherty on November 30, 1785, was the same William Sparks who hadbeen a pioneer in what had become Washington County, Pennsylvania, isbased in part on the fact that a tract of land adjoin-ing Sparks inWashington County had been claimed by a man named John Carpenter witha Virginia certificate. He was, we believe, the same John Carpenternamed by Capt. Dougherty in his report of houses destroyed on Indianlands. At the end of his report, Dougherty noted: "The house of JohnCarpenter with a sick family in it of George Norris's [was] leftstanding near the houses of his which were destroyed." The otherhouses belonging to Carpenter that were destroyed were described asbe-ing "along the shore below Cross Creek." Another name found onCapt. Dougherty's list, that of Francis Riley, appears, also, as thatof a neighbor of William Sparks in Washington County.
"Believing as we do that the William Sparks who, according to Capt.Dougherty, was a squatter at Mingo Bottom in 1785, was the sameWilliam Sparks who had "squatted" earlier on land in WashingtonCounty, we have to ponder why he would have then left the land forwhich he had obtained a Virginia certificate in 1780. Was he, likeDaniel Boone, a restless adventure seeker, always dreaming of findingricher land, perhaps a land speculator, or were there other personalreasons that we will never know? Might his wife, Martha (Moore)Sparks, have died and had he married a second time? As will be notedin more detail later, there is some reason to wonder whether there wasa second wife named Mary (Jolly) Sparks.
"A number of years ago, we corresponded with several descendants ofJames Sparks, a son of William Sparks of Washington County,Pennsylvania. None of these indi-viduals had any written records ordocuments pertaining to the early generations of the family. Someknew that James's father's name had been William Sparks, and one ortwo recalled hearing that his mother's name had been Martha Moore, butnone knew that she and William had been married in Lancaster County,Pennsylvania. They had assumed that William and Martha had met inMaryland. There was the general knowledge that William Sparks hadbeen born in Maryland and that he had once lived in Frederick County.
"In 1886, a biographical sketch of Allen Sparks (born in 1814), whowas a son of James, was included in a History of Clinton County,Indiana published by the Interstate Publishing Co. in Chicago.According to this account, believed by some to have been written byAllen's son, Elijah Sparks, a prominent attorney of his time, JamesSparks had been "born near Fredericksburg, Maryland, in September1759, and when fourteen years old moved across the Allegheny Mountainson pack-horses, to Washington County, Pennsylvania .... " (p. 819)There never has been a Fredericksburg in Maryland, but there was (is)a town named Frederick. James's parents had not been married until1761, and census records place his birth in about 1765. James wasshown as 85 years old when the 1850 census was taken. Even withinthis biographical sketch itself, the birth year of 1759 for JamesSparks is disputed with the statement: "He died in October 1855 in theninety-seventh year of his age. "
"We published an article entitled "James Sparks of Washington County,Pennsylvania, and Clinton County, Indiana," in the QUARTERLY of March1984. In this, we repeated, unfortunately, a number of the errorsappearing in this 1886 account. There can be no doubt that JamesSparks either remained in Washington County, Pennsylvania, when hisfather moved to claim land, we believe, at Mingo Bottom on the upperOhio River, or that he later returned. James became of age about1786, but he did not marry until about 1798. There is little doubtbut that he was married in Washington County, his bride being MargaretRay, daughter of James and Margaret Ray. James and Margaret were theparents of twelve children. It was not until about 1820 that Jamesmoved his family to Ohio, living first in the part of Richland Countythat helped to form Ashland County in 1846, but a decade earlier theyhad moved to Clinton County, Indiana. Information about the childrenof this couple can be found in the QUARTERLY for March 1984, Whole No.125, pp. 2588-2600; and June 1984, Whole No. 126, pp. 2612-36.
"In 1952, a member of the Association now deceased (Mrs. Edna Briggs)shared with us a letter dated September 9, 1939, written by ElizabethK. Sparks, widow of Joseph Sparks (born in 1866), who had been agrandson of James and Margaret (Ray) Sparks. Elizabeth K. Sparkscopied a record that Guy Sparks (1867-1955), nephew of her husband,had compiled "from hearsay and family tradition." He had written thefollowing regarding William Sparks, father of James Sparks:
"William Sparks was a soldier in the Revolutionary War; serving withdistinction throl the war. Was at Stony Point, Brandywine, andYorktown. He married Martha Moore. Her parents were wealthy and gavethem a farm in Maryland--east of the mountains. Sold this forContinental money and lost it. Came west of the mountains and settledon 500 acres of Tomahawk improvement in Washington Co., Pennsylvania."
"Based on "hearsay and family tradition" as Guy Sparks had confessed,this account doubtless has elements of truth along with obviouserrors. It does appear that William Sparks did serve in the AmericanRevolution based on Washington County Militia records (see p. 730 ofthe June 1963 QUARTERLY, Whole No. 42.) That service was much lessextensive, however, than described in the above account.
"Another descendant of William and Martha (Moore) Sparks through theirson James who had a keen interest in his branch of the Sparks familywas Dr. Alan Lee Sparks (1901-1978), a son of the Guy Sparks mentionedabove. Dr. Sparks stated in a letter dated September 20, 1952, that:"my remote ancestor was one William Sparks [who] took tomahawk land inPennsylvania .... They spent a generation or so in Pennsylvania & thenjourneyed westward to Ohio where there was a temporary settling." Webelieve that this family memory may have referred to William's briefstay at Mingo Bottom on the upper Ohio in 1785.
"Dr. Alan Sparks believed that William and Martha (Moore) Sparks werethe parents of sons named James, William, Jr., and Richard, anddaughters named Perunia, Marjory, Martha, and Margaret. As we havenoted, James Sparks either remained in Washington County,Pennsylvania, when his father left, or he returned later to be marriedto Margaret Ray about 1798. We believe that the son named William wasthe William Sparks, Jr. who, with William Sparks, Sr., signed apetition in 1786 as a resident of Bourbon County, Kentucky, askingthat a new county be formed that would be more convenient; WilliamSparks, Jr. paid taxes in Bourbon County from 1787 to 1797, afterwhich his residence may have been in Nicholas County, Kentucky, whichwas created from Bourbon and Mason Counties in 1799. He apparentlydied in 1799 (see the QUARTERLY of September 1980, Whole No. 111, pp.2240-41). We have no knowledge of the Richard Sparks thought by Dr.Alan Sparks to have been a son of William and Martha (Moore) Sparks.
"Earlier we noted the possibility that Martha (Moore) Sparks may havedied in the 1780s and that William Sparks had been married a secondtime. Our clue for this is the fact that in the biographical sketchof Allen Sparks (1814-1905), son of James Sparks, it was stated thatAllen's grandmother had been Mary (Jolly) Sparks, This was definitelyan error for there is ample proof that James Sparks's mother had beenMartha (Moore) Sparks, but could the writer of this biographicalsketch, believed to have been Allen's son, Elijah Sparks (1843-1916),have mistakenly recalled the name of Allen's step-grandmother? Wehave found records proving that there was a Jolly family living inWashington County, Pennsylvania, in the 1780s.
"If we are correct in conjecturing that the William Sparks, Sr. ofBourbon County, Kentucky, as early as 1786 was the same William Sparksborn in Queen Annes County, Maryland, on April 27, 1738, a son ofJoseph and Mary Sparks, when and where did he die? In 1799, the yearin which William Sparks, Jr. died in Kentucky, William, Sr. would havebeen 61 years old. Earlier we noted that Guy Sparks (1867-1955), agrandson of James and Margaret (Ray) Sparks, had prepared a record ofhis branch of the Sparks family "from hearsay and family tradition."This he shared in 1939 with his uncle, Joseph Sparks, and in 1952Joseph's widow shared it with Edna Briggs, who shared it with us. Inthis record, Guy Sparks stated that William Sparks, hisgreat-grandfather, had "died at the age of 75." He also listed thechildren of William as: "James, William, Marjory, Martha, andMargaret." Note that he did not include Richard and Perunia as had Dr.Alan Sparks in his list.
"What may have been Guy Sparks's source for stating that WilliamSparks had died in at the age of 75, we do not know. If he wasaccurate, and the William Sparks, son of Joseph and Mary Sparks, bornin Queen Annes County on April 27, 1738, was the same William Sparkswho was married to Martha Moore, we could then calculate that Williamdied in or about 1813. We cannot, however, substantiate this datebased on any written record known to us.
"Following is a tentative list of the children of William Sparks. Weconjecture that he was the William Sparks, son of Joseph and MarySparks, born in Queen Annes County, Maryland, on April 27, 1738, whoaccompanied his parents in their move about 1739 to Frederick County,Maryland; who was married to Martha Moore in Lancaster County,Pennsylvania, on March 12, 1761; who "squatted" on "tomahawk" land inWashington County, Pennsylvania, in 1780; who "squatted" on land atMingo Bottom on the upper Ohio River prior to November 1785; who, webelieve, was in Bourbon County, Kentucky, in 1786; and who, accordingto one descendant, died at the age of 75, probably in Kentucky, in orabout 1813.
"A. B. C. D. Daughters whose names were recalled by descendants ofhis son James, but for whom we have no further information: Perunia,Marjory, Martha, and Margaret. We have no basis for calculating theirdates of birth.
"E. William Sparks, Jr., born ca.1762, died ca.1799. The name ofhis wife has not been found. Information regarding him and his familycan be found in the QUARTERLY for September 1970, Whole No. 71, p.1336; September 1971, Whole No. 75, p. 1416; March 1977, Whole No. 97,p. 1878; and Sep-tember 1980, Whole No. 111, p. 2240. His childrenwere:
1. Caleb Sparks.
2. Joseph Sparks.
3. Mary Sparks.
"F. George Sparks, born ca.1764, died ca.1835. He was married (lst)to Elizabeth ["Betsey"] Wells, and (2nd) to Rachael McClanahan in1805. Information regarding him and his family can be found in theQUARTERLY of June 1970, Whole No. 70, p. 1319; and December 1970,Whole No. 72, p. 1370. His children were:
1. John Thornton Sparks.
2. Mary Sparks.
3. James Sparks.
4. Otho Sparks.
5. George Sparks, Jr.
6. Cytha Ann Sparks.
7. Ellen ["Nellie"] Sparks.
8. William Sparks.
9. Charles Sparks.
G. James Sparks, born ca.1765, died in 1855. He has beendiscussed at some length in the preceding pages. He may have been theJames Sparks who was taxed in Bourbon County, Kentucky, in 1790, 1795,and 1796. He may then have returned to Washington County,Pennsylvania, where he was mar-ried about 1798 to Margaret Ray.Information regarding James Sparks and his family can be found in theQUARTERLY of March 1984, Whole No. 125, pp. 2588-2600; and June 1984,Whole No. 126, pp. 2612-36. When that re-cord was compiled, however,certain errors were made that have been cor-rected in the pages of thepresent article. The twelve children of James and Margaret (Ray)Sparks were:
1. Martha ["Marthy'll Sparks.
2. Margaret Sparks.
3. Sarah Sparks.
4. William Sparks.
5. James Sparks.
6. Margery Sparks.
7. Mary Sparks.
8. Joseph Sparks.
9. Thomas Sparks.
10. Robert Sparks.
11. Allen Sparks.
12. Elizabeth Sparks.
"H. Michael Sparks, born ca.1769, died ??. He was married toElizabeth Wells, 1794. No further information.
"I. John Sparks, born ca.1770, died 1814. He was married toCatherine Waddel in 1792. Information regarding him and his familycan be found in the QUARTERLY of September 1972, Whole No. 79, p.1498; and December 1980, Whole No. 112, p. 2262.
1. William Sparks.
2. Micha Sparks (daughter).
3. Jonas Sparks.
4. Elizabeth Sparks.
5. Martha Sparks.
6. Susan Sparks.
7. Catherine Sparks.
(For reasons of space, this article is concluded at the top of thenotes of their son William Sparks, Jr.)