Roger Sprague (1769 – July 1848) was an American businessman and politician in New York and the Territory of Michigan.
[2] Silas Sprague moved his family to Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in 1772,[3] and attained the rank of captain in the Continental Army.
[4] At the age of 22, Roger Sprague walked to western New York state and settled in the town of East Bloomfield,[1] where he, his father, and three brothers were among the first settlers.
[1] When the government of the Territory of Michigan was restructured to include a new legislative council, Sprague was one of the top 18 vote-earners in a general election.
Those names were sent to President James Monroe, who selected nine, including Sprague, to form the First Michigan Territorial Council in 1824.