SYBILL SPARHAWK AVERY WIGGLESWORTH, born about 1655, baptized at Cambridge, Massachusetts. A daughter of Nathaniel Sparhawk and Patience Newman of Cambridge. Sybill was a granddaughter of Nathaniel Sparhawk, first Deacon of the Cambridge Church, and Mary Angier his wife; and of Reverend Samuel Newman, founder of Rehoboth, and his wife Sybill Featley. First married Dr. Jonathan Avery of Dedham. As widow of Dr. Avery, Sybill married 1691 to Michael Wigglesworth of Cambridge.

Dr. Jonathan Avery was a son of Dr. William Aveary and Margaret Allright; and brother of William Avery.
Children with Dr. Jonathan Avery:
1) Margaret Avery died young.
2) Sybil Avery, married 9 September 1708 to Thomas Graves. Born 11 August 1683 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Died 1 November 1721 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Father Dr. Jonathan Avery (1653 - Abt 1690). Mother Sybil Sparhawk (about 1655 - 1708). The surname Graves is also spelled "Greaves".
3) Margaret Avery, born August 20, 1686, died November 10, 1694, as per tombstone in Bell Rock Cemetery, at Malden, Mass.: "Margaret Avery died November 10 1694 & in ye 9 year of her age."
4) Dorothy Avery, born 4 July 1687 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts. Died 14 September 1752 in Pembroke, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Married about 1712 to her distant cousin, Samuel Angier. Both were descendants of John Angier and Anna (Sherman) Angier. The surname Angier is also spelled "Anger". Anna Sherman is called "Anne" in some records.

Dr. Jonathan Avery
(Source: Colonial Society of Massachusetts)
"The will of Dr. Jonathan Avery is also in the Suffolk Probate Files, No. 1856. He describes himself as "Jonathan Avery, resident in Dedham . . . Practitioner in Physiek, & aged about Thirty-five years." The will is dated February 18, 1689, and was recorded in May, 1691. The inventory, which is the only other document in the Files, is dated May 13, 1691, and was sworn to on May 27. The will mentions the Doctor's wife Sibyll, and his three daughters, Sibyll, Margarett, and Dorothy, all under age. His brother, William Avery, is also mentioned. The inventory values his "Bookes Devinitie & Pisicall & other small books" at £5, and his "Chyrurgion Jnstruments" at £1."
— Colonial Society of Massachusetts, February Meeting , 1912 — "A Stated Meeting of the Society was held at No. 25 Beacon Street, Boston, on Thursday, 29 February, 1912, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the President, Henry Lefavour, LL.D., in the chair."
https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/285

Sybil (Sparhawke) Avery Wigglesworth
The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1
Journalist, 176-173
By J. A. Leo Lemay · 2013
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Life_of_Benjamin_Franklin_Volume_1/aWwUBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=sybil+Sparhawk+Benjamin+Franklin&pg=PA148&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=sybil%20Sparhawk%20Benjamin%20Franklin&f=false

Sybil Sparhawk Avery Wigglesworth
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Memorials_of_the_Dead_in_Boston/OOVFAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=sybil+Sparhawk+Benjamin+Franklin&pg=PA336&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=Sparhawk%20&f=false

A quote:
Ben Franklin said: "Show me your burial grounds and I'll show you a measure of the civility of a community."

This is a letter from Benjamin Franklin to Sybil's nephew Nathaniel Sparhawk, son of Reverend John Sparhawk.
"From Benjamin Franklin to [Nathaniel Sparhawk], 15 June 1748
To [Nathaniel Sparhawk3]
als: Joseph W. P. Frost, Kittery Point, Maine (1954)
Philada. June 15. 1748
I receiv'd yours per Mr. Baynton with the Money as therein specified; and have since deliver'd it to Mr. Warren (who is now here) with Mr. Pepperill's Letter; of which please advise Mr. Pepperill.4 I am Sir, Your most humble Servant
B Franklin
[Note numbering follows the Franklin Papers source.]
3. Nathaniel Sparhawk (1715–1776), merchant at Portsmouth and Boston; married the daughter of Sir William Pepperrell, 1742. 6 Mass. Hist. Soc. Colls., x, 118 n.
4. Probably Andrew Pepperrell (d. 1751), A.B., Harvard, 1743; business partner of his father, Sir William, from 1744 until his death. Byron Fairchild, Messrs. William Pepperrell: Merchants at Piscataqua (Ithaca, N.Y., 1954). Baynton may be John Baynton (1726–1773), merchant of Philadelphia. Warren has not been identified.
Note: The annotations to this document, and any other modern editorial content, are copyright © the American Philosophical Society and Yale University. All rights reserved."
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-03-02-0128

Sybil Sparhawk married twice.

Addressing the two husbands, "Genealogy of The Sparhawk Family" gives the more reasonable date chronology, estimating 1690 to be the year Dr. Avery died.

"Sibley's Harvard Graduates" shares the following information, which conclusively demonstrates Jonathan Avery died before 1691:
"In the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, xvii. 139-142, are two letters written to her by Wigglesworth before their marriage. In the first, dated II February, 1690-1, wherein he makes known his purpose, he writes: "If you cannot conveniently return an answer in writing so speedily, you may trust the Messenger to bring it by word of mouth, who is grave & faithful, and knows upon what errant he is sent." After he had made her a visit, he writes another letter, 23 March, proposing still another visit, and sends ten "Considerations," drawn up in sermon style, which, he says, "Possibly may help to clear up yo' way before y° return an answer unto y* Motion w** I have made to you, I hope you will take them in good Part, and Ponder them seriously.""

Wigglesworth, quite simply, would not have proposed to a married lady. From Probate records of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1689/90 is the accurate date of Avery's death. Colonial Society of Massachusetts, February 1912 Meeting, published information regarding Dr. Jonathan Avery of Dedham and his father Dr. William Avery. Sibyll Sparhawk his wife and their three surviving children, daughters Sybill, Margaret, and Dorothy are named in the will of Dr. Jonathan Avery. Dr. Jonathan Avery's will also names his brother William Avery.
https://www.colonialsociety.org/node/285

Records
Jonathan Aurey and Sibbele Sparhauke marryed 22d, 5: 1679 (Dr. Jonathan Avery married Sybil Sparhawk on July 22, 1679).

Dr. Jonathan Avery died 1689 / 1690.

Sybil Sparhawk and Jonathan Avery were direct ancestors of John Lowell "Jack" Gardner, husband of Isabella Stewart Gardner — founders of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts.

Sparhawk House
Nathaniel Sparhawk, nephew of Sybil Sparhawk
Portland Monthly Magazine October 2013 https://issuu.com/portlandmagazine/docs/201308oct/26

*Inaccurate published information states Dr. Jonathan Avery died 1694 – this has been corrected by modern scholarship. His will is documented by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. 1691 is the year Sybill (Sparhawk) Avery was married to her second husband, Reverend Michael Wigglesworth.

SPARHAWK
History of Newton
https://books.google.com/books?id=4n_ZIXrSssgC&q=Sparhawk#v=snippet&q=Sparhawk&f=false

Harvard scholar Edward Wigglesworth Sr. was the son of Sybil (Sparhawk) Wigglesworth & her second husband Reverend Michael Wigglesworth.

Sybil was the sister of Samuel Sparhawk. Samuel married Sarah Whiting, daughter of Reverend Joseph & Sarah (Danforth) Whiting, daughter of Hon. Judge Thomas Danforth and his wife Mary (Withington) Danforth (daughter of Henry Withington of Dorchester and Elizabeth Smith, his wife.
https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0311

Edward Wigglesworth, Jr. and his cousin (by marriage) William Pepperrell:
"..Edward Wigglesworth (A.B. 1749) was the only professor who was extremely cool to the patriot cause. There were, of course, Loyalists among the graduates of this decade such as Samuel Rogers (A.B. 1765), William Pepperell (A.B. 1766).."
https://colonialsociety.org/node/1239

Memorials of the Dead in Boston
Containing Exact Transcripts of Inscriptions on the Sepulchral Monuments in the King's Chapel Burial Ground, in the City of Boston. With Copious Historical and Biographical Notices of the Early Settlers of the Metropolis of New England
By Thomas Bridgman · 1853

Descendant of Henry Sherman
Sybil Sparhawk Avery Wigglesworth was a descendant of Henry Sherman. He was Sybil's third great-grandfather.

Henry Sherman, with his wife Agnes Perpoynt, is an ancestor to four presidents of the United States of America.

Roberts, Gary Boyd. Ancestors of American Presidents. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009)
p. 463.
Ancestors of four U.S. presidents: William Taft through son Edmund, and Herbert Hoover, George H.W. Bush and George Bush (3) through son Henry.

Sybil Sparhawk Avery Wigglesworth
Sister of Samuel Sparhawk
Samuel Sparhawk married Sarah Whiting, daughter of Reverend Joseph Whiting and Sarah Danforth.

Stansell, Maxine. The Middlebrook Sisters: Mother and Mother-in-law of Michael Wigglesworth. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Oct 2002)
156:318. "Sybil (Sparhawk) Avery, of Dedham, Massachusetts, born about 1655, died 6 August 1708, aged 53, buried in the Old Burying Ground, Cambridge, Massachusetts, daughter of Nathaniel and Patience (Newman) Sparhawk, and widow of Dr. John [Jonathan] Avery."

Spelling variations
Sybell, Sybil, Sybille, Sibyll, other possible spellings
Sparhawk Sparhauke Sparhawke Sparrowhawk Sparrowhawke
Avery Aveary