I was told, way back when, that our family could be traced back to the Pilgrims. I’ve not done much research into the topic but I recently decided to at least try to see if I could confirm what information I had without doing too much work.
The connection ends with Francis Sprague, who came over from England on the ship Anne. His son, John Sprague, was the first born in America (literally born in Plymouth, Massachusetts) in 1630. This line can be traced, but not completely confirmed to my liking, down the Sprague linage until 1867 when marriage links the Sprague family with the Rogers family. That marriage leads us to a marriage to the Betzer family in 1897 which then leads to a marriage to the Christensen family in 1930.
The lineage up to, and including, the connection to the Sprague family is well documented. Beyond that, it gets difficult. I’m quite surprised with the amount of “official” documentation available in Connecticut back several centuries. Still, once you get to a certain point, much of the research that needs to be done is in libraries and archives. The next on my list is “Sprague Families in America”, by Dr. Warren Vincent Sprague which may or may not provide confirmation of the lineage that has been laid out in my documentation.