Cause of death - Consumption illness.
TOWN RECORDS - Taunton, Massachusetts:
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Nancy Sproat died January 18, 1826 at Taunton at age 59. Widow of James Sproat.
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HISTORY OF BRISTOL COUNTY - J. W. Lewis:
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Mrs. Sproat was a most remarkable woman,
of large intellectual endowments, and highly gifted as an authoress. Her series of books for children had wide circulation, and her verses, like the 'Blackberry Girl' reappear every year in the holiday books and juvenile literature of the land. Her ' Family Lectures' published in Boston by Samuel T. Armstrong, in 1819, made her famous. In the preface she gives the history of the book: "It has been my practice on the Sabbath, after public worship, to collect my family, and read them one of the following essays, previously written for the purpose"."
TOWN RECORDS - Taunton, Massachusetts:
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Nancy Sproat died January 18, 1826 at Taunton at age 59. Widow of James Sproat.
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HISTORY OF BRISTOL COUNTY - J. W. Lewis:
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Mrs. Sproat was a most remarkable woman,
of large intellectual endowments, and highly gifted as an authoress. Her series of books for children had wide circulation, and her verses, like the 'Blackberry Girl' reappear every year in the holiday books and juvenile literature of the land. Her ' Family Lectures' published in Boston by Samuel T. Armstrong, in 1819, made her famous. In the preface she gives the history of the book: "It has been my practice on the Sabbath, after public worship, to collect my family, and read them one of the following essays, previously written for the purpose"."
Cause of death - Consumption illness.
TOWN RECORDS - Taunton, Massachusetts:
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Nancy Sproat died January 18, 1826 at Taunton at age 59. Widow of James Sproat.
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HISTORY OF BRISTOL COUNTY - J. W. Lewis:
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Mrs. Sproat was a most remarkable woman,
of large intellectual endowments, and highly gifted as an authoress. Her series of books for children had wide circulation, and her verses, like the 'Blackberry Girl' reappear every year in the holiday books and juvenile literature of the land. Her ' Family Lectures' published in Boston by Samuel T. Armstrong, in 1819, made her famous. In the preface she gives the history of the book: "It has been my practice on the Sabbath, after public worship, to collect my family, and read them one of the following essays, previously written for the purpose"."
TOWN RECORDS - Taunton, Massachusetts:
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Nancy Sproat died January 18, 1826 at Taunton at age 59. Widow of James Sproat.
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HISTORY OF BRISTOL COUNTY - J. W. Lewis:
************************************
Mrs. Sproat was a most remarkable woman,
of large intellectual endowments, and highly gifted as an authoress. Her series of books for children had wide circulation, and her verses, like the 'Blackberry Girl' reappear every year in the holiday books and juvenile literature of the land. Her ' Family Lectures' published in Boston by Samuel T. Armstrong, in 1819, made her famous. In the preface she gives the history of the book: "It has been my practice on the Sabbath, after public worship, to collect my family, and read them one of the following essays, previously written for the purpose"."
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