England in the autumn of 1754, accompanied by his wife; but the death of his wife induced him to return to America in February 1756 without becoming a bishop. 'He had rather dwell,' he said, 'in the hearts of his parishioners than wear all the bishop's gowns in the world.' He longed in reality for preferment in Ireland, for which he knew himself to be peculiarly well qualified, as he could read and write, and upon occasion preach, in Irish. His chief work is entitled America Dissected: being a Full and True Account of the American Colonies, Dublin, 1753. It consists of three letters addressed respectively to the Hon. Colonel Henry Cary, his cousin the Rev. Paul Limrick, and William Stevenson, and was published to warn 'unsteady people' against emigrating to America on account of bad climate, bad money, danger from enemies, pestilent heresies, and the like. This curious work, which is among the scarcest of Americana, was reprinted in an appendix to Wilkins Updike's History of the Episcopal Church in Narragansett, New York, 1847, with portraits of Macsparran and his wife. Mac Sparran likewise published several sermons, which are also very scarce. He contemplated printing an extended history of the colonies, especially of New England, but of this no trace could be found among his papers. Death Mac Sparran died at his house in South Kingston, Rhode Island, on 1 Dec. 1757, and was buried on 6 Dec. under the communion table in St. Paul's, Narragansett. On 22 May 1722 he married Hannah, daughter of William Gardiner of Boston Neck, Narragansett. She died in London of smallpox on 24 June 1755, and was buried in Broadway Chapel burying-yard in Westminster, leaving no issue. He was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 1998. References 1693 births 1757 deaths