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!SOURCE: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to Weldon Whipple, 17 Mar 2000.
!SOURCE: Email from Ralph W. Lange (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 16 Oct 2000.
!SOURCE: Abby Isabel Brown Bulkley, The Chad Browne Memorial, Consisting of Genealogical Memoirs of a Portion of the Descendants of Chad and Elizabeth Browne (Brooklyn, N.Y., 1888), p. 29. Gives title Lieutenant-Colonel. (Previously entered as Colonel.)
!SOURCE: Email from Joanne Lahr-Kreischer to Weldon Whipple, 4 May 2003. Joanne writes: " Found Ebenezer Sproat's Commission paper, designating him a Colonel of the Miitia of he County of Washington (Ohio) dated 5 Aug 1797 and signd by Winthrop Sargent, Esq. acting as Governor and Commander in Chief of the Territory of the United States, North West of the River Ohio."
!OCCUPATION: "Sproat was granted the job of surveyor for the Northwest Territory by Congress after he wrote a letter to George Washington requesting the post. Which led Abe [Sproat's father-in-law] and his wife to move to Marrietta where Sproat settled." --R.W. Lange
!ANCESTRY: "Of the Massachusetts line." --A.I.B. Bulkley
!SOURCE: Email from Hugh Hudson (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 26 Nov 2020. Cites Find a Grave web site memorial 9726826.
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