Individual Details
Jacob Spencer
(16 Feb 1724 - 28 Oct 1782)
Jacob and Hannah Spencer had seven children. Of these four grew up, and three married. The other three died in childhood, within three days, in the Eighth month, 1768,—Elizabeth just past fifteen, Susanna almost ten, and Sarah in her eighth year. Dysentery, a scourge apparently more fatal in old times than now, caused this sad and sudden desolation of the family.
Events
| Birth | 16 Feb 1724 | Pennsylvania | |||
| Marriage | 28 Aug 1745 | Abington Meeting House, Upper Dublin Twp.,Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania - Hannah Jarrett |  | ||
| Death | 28 Oct 1782 |
Families
| Spouse | Hannah Jarrett (1726 - 1801) |
| Child | Jarrett Spencer (1746 - 1819) |
| Child | Mary Spencer (1748 - 1815) |
| Child | Samuel Spencer (1750 - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth Spencer (1753 - 1768) |
| Child | John Spencer (1756 - 1799) |
| Child | Susanna Spencer (1758 - 1768) |
| Child | Sarah Spencer (1761 - 1768) |
| Father | Samuel Spencer (1699 - 1777) |
| Mother | Mary Dawes (1701 - 1776) |
| Sibling | Joseph Spencer (1726 - 1793) |
| Sibling | Edith Spencer (1727 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Spencer (1729 - 1813) |
| Sibling | John Spencer (1731 - 1812) |
| Sibling | Nathan Spencer (1734 - 1806) |
| Sibling | Sarah Spencer (1736 - ) |
| Sibling | Abraham Spencer (1738 - ) |
| Sibling | Richard Spencer (1740 - ) |
| Sibling | Richard Spencer (1742 - ) |
| Sibling | William Spencer (1743 - ) |
| Sibling | Edith Spencer (1746 - ) |
| Sibling | Mary Spencer (1750 - ) |
Notes
Marriage
Whereas Jacob Spencer, of Upper Dublin Township, in the county of Philadelphia, in the Province of Pensyl'a, yeoman, and Hannah Jarret of the Township of Horsham, in the county and Province af'd, Having Declared their Intentions of Marriage with each other before several monthly meetings of the people called Quakers at Abington Meeting House [etc.] Now These are to Sartifye [etc.] this Twenty-First Day of the Ninth month, in the Yiare of our Lord 1745, they the said Jacob Spencer and Hannah Jarret appeared in a Publick meeting of the People called Quakers at Horsham and the said Jacob Spencer, Taking the said Hannah Jarret by the Hand did in a Sollem Manner Openly Declare that He Took Her the s'd Hannah Jarret to be His Wife, Promising through God's Assistince to be Unto Her a Loving and Faithfull Husband Untill (it Shall Please God by) Death to Separate them, and then and there [Hannah made the corresponding pledge, etc. Signed by :]John Evans
Ellis Lewis
Mary Lewis
Peter Cleaver
Robert Comely ju
Thos Rose
Joseph Spencer
Margret Rose
John Luckens Ju
Abraham Lucken
Joseph Lucken
Mary Dawes "
Lydia Dawes
Jacob Cadwalader
Jacob Spencer
Hannah Spencer
Samuel Spencer
Mary Spencer
John Jarret
Mary Jarret
John Jarret, Jr.
Alse Jarret
Magdalene Cadwalader Joseph Kenderdine
Jno Spencer Mary Kenderdine
Margaret Hallowell Mary Kirk Abraham Dawes
Thomas Hewitt Robert Comly William Spencer
Rynear Kirk Derick.Tyson Anne Lucken
Sarah Kirk William Hallowell Elisabeth Spencer
John Palmer James Paul Daniel Pastorius
Some of these signatures convey the impression, upon careful scrutiny, of having been placed on the certificate at a later time than the marriage. Among the witnesses, for example is Hannah Spencer. But at the time of this marriage, 1745, there was no person of that name in the family, except the bride herself, whose signature is given, as above, as one of the contracting parties. Later, in 1747, Hannah Lukens, by marrying Joseph Spencer, acquired the name, and in 1754 Hannah Lofborough also became Hannah Spencer.]