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BIRTH
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Based upon her marriage date, she was probably born ca. 1600/1605.
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DEATH
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She died on 24 Feb 1679/80 in Charlestown, MA[5,6].
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PROOF OF HER TRUE IDENTITY
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Wyman and other sources have maintained that Ralph Sprague's wife is Joan CORBIN, daughter of John
CORBIN, citing a 1651 letter in NEHGR; 4:289[7,8]. However, the Parish Register
of Fordington, St. George, Dorsetshire, England states clearly that Ralph married "Johane
WARREN"[9]. Dowty clears all this up quite nicely by identifying John Corbin as
Ralph's stepfather. John's aforementioned letter to Ralph was written on 25 March 1651,
unfortunately after Ralph's death in November 1650. John's reference to himself as
"father-in-law" was at first incorrectly taken in the context of the term's meaning in
modern society. That is, that John Corbin would have been the father of Ralph's wife. In the
context of 17th century England, the term meant "stepfather". Thus, John Corbin was Christian
Sprague's second husband and Ralph's wife (as shown in the Parish registers) was Johane
Warren[10].
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COLONIAL CHURCH MEMBERSHIP
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Ralph and Joan were first admitted to the Boston church in early 1631 as members #102 &
#103[26]. They were dismissed from the Boston Church with the understanding that
they would help form a church at Charlestown on 14 October 1632[27]. They did and
were admitted to the church at Charlestown as founding members on 2 November 1632[8,28].
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ESTATE
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Joanna's will was written on 24 February 1674/5 and proved on 15 June 1680[11,12].
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MARRIAGE #1
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On 15 August 1623 Joanna/Joan/Johane first married
Lieutenant Ralph SPRAGUE, son of
Edward SPRAGUE & Christian [surname not known],
in Fordington, St. George, Dorsetshire, England[5,6,13,14,15,8,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25].
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