224 History of Hingham. 



Hosea Sprague. 



The Genealogy of the Spragues in Hingham, arranged in Chronological 

 order, to the Fourth Generation, counting from William Sprague, one 

 of the first Planters in Massachusetts, who arrived at Naumekeag from 

 England, in the year 1628. To which is prefixed a short account of the 

 first settlement of this country before the arrival of the Old Charter in 

 1630. Hingham. Published by Hosea Sprague- 1828. Additions to 

 the first edition: Ralph Sprague, in Charlestown in 1628, and his 

 four sons, John, Richard, Phineas, and Samuel, and his daughter Mary. 

 (Scarce.) 



Register and Meteorological Journal in Hingham, Massachusetts, 1830 

 to 1837, inclusive. Printed at Hingham. Published 1837. Small 

 pamphlet. 



" Hosea Sprague's Chronicle." A small newspaper. Nos. 1 to 5. inclusive. 

 1842 and 1843. (Complete sets are rare.) 



Isaac Sprague. 



Son of Isaac and Mary (Burr) Sprague, was born in Hingham, 

 Sept. 5, 1811. He early displayed a decided taste and talent for 

 drawing, and attracted the notice of Audubon the naturalist, who 

 availed himself of his services in the preparation of his great work. 



Afterwards associated with Prof. Asa Gray, he furnished to a 

 large extent the sketches for the numerous plates and wood-cuts 

 which appear in his several botanical publications. Many of the 

 plants selected as specimens for illustration were gathered in 

 Hingham. In some instances not only were the drawings made, 

 but the plates were cut by his own hands. 



The plates illustrating the two large octavo volumes of " The 

 Genera of the Plants of the United States " were all sketched 

 from Nature by Mr. Sprague, and are models of neatness and 

 scientific accuracy. 



George B. Emerson, in his introduction to the third edition of 

 his " Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts," illustrated with colored 

 plates, says that the success of the edition, if it should succeed, 

 would be at least as much due to the artistic skill and exquisite 

 taste of his friend Isaac Sprague as to anything he himself had 

 done. 



His published works include, — 



The Genera of the Plants of the United States. Illustrated by Figures 

 and Analyses from Nature by Isaac Sprague, member of the Boston 

 Natural History Society. Superintended, and with Descriptions, &c, 

 by Asa Gray, M.D. Two volumes. Royal 8vo. With numerous 

 Plates. Boston. James Munroe and Company. New York and Lon- 

 don. John Wiley. 1848. 



The plates were destroyed by fire before the edition was all 

 struck off, and the work is now rare and valuable. 



