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and books), plus 168 oz. plate; FB, £3,446.10.7,
plus 168 oz. plate. LAND: over 1,500 acres in Charles
and St. Mary's counties.
SPRIGG, EDWARD (1697-1751). BORN: in 1697,
in Prince George's County; second son. NATIVE:
third generation. RESIDED, in Queen Anne Par-
ish, Prince George's County. FAMILY BACK-
GROUND. FATHER Thomas Sprigg (by 1670-by
1739). MOTHER. Margaret Mariartee (?-by 1739).
UNCLE: Daniel Mariartee (ca. 1676-ca. 1726/27).
BROTHERS: Thomas (?-1725); Osborn Sprigg (ca.
1707-1749/50). SISTERS: Priscilla, who married
Ralph Crabb (?-1733/34); Margaret; Eleanor; and
Elizabeth (?-1787), who married Turner Wootten
(ca. 1695-1760). FIRST COUSINS: John Smith Prather
(1706-1763); Sarah Pierce (?-ca. 1700), who
married John Beall, of Lawson (ca. 1674-1751).
NEPHEWS Thomas Sprigg (1715-1781); Edward
Sprigg (ca. 1721-1790); Joseph Sprigg (1736-1800);
Osborn Sprigg (ca. 1741-1815); Thomas Sprigg
(ca. 1747-1809); Henry Wright Crabb (1722/23-
1764); Francis King (1724/25-1771); and Thomas
Sprigg Wootten (?-1789). NIECE: Margaret Sprigg
(ca. 1726-1804), who married William Bowie
(1721-1791). MARRIED first, on April 26, 1720,
Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Richard Pile (?-1731)
and wife Mary. Her brother was William, who
married Elizabeth (last name unknown). MAR-
RIED second, ca. 1744, Mary (1722-?), widow of
Edward Hall (?-ca. 1741/42), daughter of Joseph
Belt (ca. 1680-1761) and wife Hester (Esther)
Beall; stepdaughter of Margery Wight Sprigg (?-
1783). Mary was the granddaughter of Ninian Beale
(ca. 1625-1717/18). She was the niece of Sarah
Beall (?-1734), who married Samuel Magruder
(1654-1711). Her brothers were John (ca. 1707-
?); Joseph, Jr. (1717-1761); Tobias (1720-1785);
Jeremiah (1724-1784); and James (1726-?). Her
stepbrothers were Thomas Sprigg (1715-1781);
Edward Sprigg (ca 1721-1790). Her sisters were
Anne (1708/9-?); Rachel (1711-?), who married
Osborn Sprigg (ca. 1707-1749/50). Her first cous-
ins were Joshua Beall (ca. 1719-ca. 1796); Thomas
Beall, of George (1735-1819); and J oh n Magruder
(1694-1750). Her nephews were Joseph Sprigg
(1736-1800); Osborn Sprigg (ca. 1741-1815); and
Thomas Sprigg (ca. 1747-1809). Her niece was
Elizabeth Belt (?-1808), who probably married
Thomas Sprigg (ca. 1747-1809). Mary Belt Hall
Sprigg married third, by 1756, Thomas Pindell
(?-1779). CHILDREN. SONS: Richard (1721-ca.
1776), who was in "foreign parts" and presumed
dead when his father died, but returned briefly
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to Maryland ca. 1769 before going to Virginia and
North Carolina; Edward Sprigg (1723-1758); James
(1724/25-1778), who married Elizabeth (?-1811);
Thomas (1726/27-?); Gilbert (?-1765); Jacob (?-
1770); and Frederick. DAUGHTERS: Elizabeth;
Mary; Margaret (?-ca. 1783), who married in
1772 Samuel Dorsey (?-1777); and Lucy (1752-
?), who married first, ca. 1774, Nicholas Dorsey
(1741-1788), and second, in 1793, Thomas Sprigg
(?-1810). STEPDAUGHTER: Ann Hall, who mar-
ried Joshua Griffith (1730-?). ADDITIONAL COM-
MENT: Jacob, Frederick, Margaret, and Lucy were
Sprigg's children by Mary Belt Hall; Lucy was
born several months after Sprigg's death. PRIVATE
CAREER. EDUCATION: literate. RELIGIOUS AFFILI-
ATION: Anglican, Queen Anne Parish, Prince
George's County. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVI-
TIES: Gent., by 1729. Sprigg's obituary states, "His
death is much lamented not only for his firm and
zealous conduct ..... but for his friendly dispo-
sition and open candor." OCCUPATIONAL PRO-
FILE: merchant; planter. PUBLIC CAREER. LEGIS-
LATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Prince George's
County, 1729-1731 (elected to the 2nd session of
the 1728-1731 Assembly), 1732-1734 (Accounts
1-Cv), 1734/35-1737 (Accounts 1, Cv, 2-4; Bills
of Credit 1, Cv), 1738 (Accounts), 1739-1741
(Accounts Cv-3), 1742-1744 (speaker), 1745
(speaker), 1745/46-1748 (speaker), 1749-1751
(Elections Cv-3; Laws 2; Accounts Cv-3), 1751
(elected to 1751-1754 Assembly, but died before
the 1st session). OTHER PROVINCIAL OFFICE: jus-
tice, Provincial Court, commissioned 1732. LO-
CAL OFFICES: justice. Prince George's County,
1727-1731, 1747-1751 (quorum, 1747-1751);
justice. Especial Court of Oyer, Terminer, and
Gaol Delivery, Prince George's County, ap-
pointed 1747, 1748 (quorum, 1747, 1748); Queen
Anne Parish Vestry, Prince George's County,
1723-1726, 1728-1731, 1742-1743, 1748-1750;
churchwarden, Queen Anne Parish, Prince
George's County, 1727, 1744. MILITARY SERVICE:
captain, by 1728; major, by July 1733-at least
November 1742; colonel, by November 1743-
death. WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST
ELECTION: 915 acres in Prince George's County
(502 acres received as gift from father, 1722; 413
acres by patent). SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND
BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: purchased
at least 2,290 acres in Prince George's County,
patented 500 acres in Prince George's (later be-
came part of Frederick) County, and sold 354
acres in Prince George's County for a net gain of
2.436 acres, 1731-1739; patented 55 acres in Prince
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