Mary Ann⁵ Carman (Caleb⁴, Caleb³, John², John¹) was born in 1720 in Hempstead, Queens County, New York; Baptized 10 October 1756 at St George's Church, Hempstead, Queens County, New York; died 24 October 1821 in Kings County, New Brunswick; and is buried in Bayview Cemetery, Spragg's Point, New Brunswick. She married 31 October 1752 at St George's Church, Hempstead, Queens County, New York to Thomas Spragg, born 23 February 1729/30; Christened 23 February 1729/30 (no sense in wasting time) at St George's Church, Hempstead, Queens County, New York; died 22 February 1812 at Springfield, Kings County, New Brunswick; and is buried with his wife in Bayview Cemetery, Spragg's Point, New Brunswick; son of Edward and Margret (Gritman) Spragg.

When the American Revolution started, Thomas Spragg refused to sign the association papers to support the revolution. He was taken into custody, and later escaped. He was forced to leave his family to the hardships of the war. His farm was taken over by the revolutionaries, by a Lt. Codwis. The farm (186 1/2 acres) was later sold in a forfeitures sale ( Mar 27 1782) and the mother and children put off the farm. The same Lt. Codwis was the purchaser of the farm. Thomas Spragg with twenty-eight other men left for New York City. With these men, (that he had engaged in Dutchess Co to serve under him), he became a part of the "Rogers Corp" of the British army. Because he was a farmer, he was not given a commission by the British and he fought as a private in the war. He and these men fought as part of the successful assault on Fort Montgomery on the Hudson River. Thomas Spragg received a "ball" in his arm, which remained for as long as he lived. One of his sons was sent nearly fifty times by the British officers, into the country- side for intelligence (this would have been son Richard). At the close of the war, in 1783, all Tories had to leave the new United States. Thomas Spragg was made a captain of a company of Torie Loyalist. With his and the families of the other Tories, they moved to St. John river area, of Kings Co, New Brunswick, Canada. As a result of their adherence to the Royal cause in the American Revolution, they asked the British for aid and relief for their loses in the revolution. Thomas Spragg received a grant of land of about 2000 acres on the "Belleisle Bay" on the St. John River, in Kings Co. New Brunswick, Canada. This area was called Spragg's Grant or Spragg's Pt. It was later changed to Hatfield's Pt - "ROYAL RAIDERS OF THE TORIES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION"

Children of Thomas and Mary Ann (Carman) Spragg:

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