Richard Sparrow 1660
Pandora Sparrow
Jonathan Sparrow 1706
Rebecca Bangs Sparrow
Hannah Prince Sparrow

memorial memorial with new base

HERE RESTS THE DUST
OF
RICHARD SPARROW
AND HIS WIFE
PANDORA
WHO CAME FROM KENT COUNTY ENGLAND
ABOUT 1633 AND SETTLED IN PLYMOUTH
ABOUT 1650 THEY CAME TO EASTHAM
AND SETTLED NEAR THIS PLACE
WHERE HE DIED JANUARY 8,1660
HERE ALSO RESTS
JONATHAN SPARROW
ONLY CHILD OF RICHARD
TOGETHER WITH HIS FIRST TWO WIVES
REBECCA BANGS & HANNAH PRINCE
HE SETTLED IN THE PART OF EASTHAM
NOW EAST ORLEANS WHERE
AFTER FILLING MANY OFFICES OF HONOR
AND TRUST IN BOTH CHURCH AND STATE
HE DIED MARCH 21, 1706 AGED 73 YEARS
IN MEMORY OF
THESE EARLY SETTLERS OF OUR COUNTRY
WE THEIR DESCENDENTS HAVE ERECTED
THIS TABLET IN THIS CENTENNIAL YEAR
OF OUR AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE A D 1876



Hannah Prince, wife of Jonathan Sparrow as indicated on the monument, was the daughter of Governor Thomas Prence. He was elected Governor of Plymouth Colony three times. Both Prince and Prence appear in the old records but the more common spelling associated with the Governor's family is Prence.

The right photo shows the monument with a new granite base installed December 2006 to replace the broken base. Community Preservation Act funds paid for the new base.

The monument was cleaned with D/2 October 2008.
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