Nathaniel Sparhawk
1715 - post 1779
Nathaniel Sparhawk (born 1715, retired c. 1779) of Kittery Point, Maine was the son-in-law of Colonel William Pepperrell (1696-1759), later Sir William Pepperrell, of Kittery. Sparhawk gave a Gregorian telescope to Harvard College on behalf of his son, William Pepperrell Sparhawk (1746-1816), in 1764 after a fire had destroyed nearly all of the college's scientific apparatus. The son was a student at the time and heir to his grandfather's estate.
Here is the family tree:
Generation I
Sir William Pepperrell (1696-1759) and Lady Mary (Hirst) Pepperrell of Kittery, Maine.
---daughter, Elizabeth, b. December 29, 1723
---son, Andrew, b. January 4, 1726. (attended Harvard College)
Generation II
Elizabeth Pepperrell (1723-1797) married Nathaniel Sparhawk (b. 1715) in Kittery, May 1, 1742. They had 7 children, 5 live into adulthood, including:
---Son, William Pepperrell Sparhawk, b. 1746. (AB Harvard 1766)
Generation III
William Pepperrell Sparhawk (1746-1816) married Elizabeth Royall of Medford, Massachusetts, Oct. 24, 1767.
He was the heir to the estate of his grandfather, Sir William Pepperrell Baronet (1696-1759), on the condition that he legally drop the name of Sparhawk and be known as William Pepperrell. In 1766, the General Court of Massachusetts passed an act allowing the name change: John Henry Clifford, "The Acts and Resolves, Public and Private, of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay," Wright & Potter, printers to the state, 1896, accessed via Google Books, http://books.google.com/books?id=0HUDAAAAQAAJ&dq=william%20pepperrell%20sparhawk&pg=PA205#v=onepage&q=william%20pepperrell%20sparhawk&f=false (accessed 07/14/2015)
He waited until 1774 to be created the second Baronet.
Declared a royalist, William Pepperrell Sparhawk returned to England in 1775 at the start of the American Revolution. He remained there until his death, Dec. 2, 1816.