Individual Details

Gerard Spencer

(Bef 25 Apr 1614 - Abt Jun 1685)

Gerrard Spencer came with his older brothers, William, Thomas, and Michael, and other relatives to New England in 1632. They first settled at Cambridge, Mass., but by 1637 Michael and Gerard moved to Lynn. Gerard was admitted a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony March 9, 1637. He was a ferryman at Lynn in 1639 and served as a Sergeant by 1655 and Ensign by 1656 for the militarty company at Lynn.
Around 1660 he moved to Hartford, Conn. where his brothers William and Thomas lived. Two years later he moved with the first settlers to Haddam Conn. where he became a prominent citizen of that town.

Events

BirthBef 25 Apr 1614Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Baptism25 Apr 1614Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Will17 Sep 1683Connecticut, United States
DeathAbt Jun 1685Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
MarriageHannah

Families

SpouseHannah ( - 1683)
ChildHannah Spencer (1641 - 1691)
FatherGerard Spencer (1576 - 1645)
MotherAlice Whitebread ( - )
SiblingHon. William Spencer (1601 - 1640)
SiblingElizabeth Spencer (1602 - )
SiblingJohn Spencer (1603 - )
SiblingHenry Spencer (1605 - 1607)
SiblingThomas Spencer (1607 - 1687)
SiblingRichard Spencer (1608 - 1614)
SiblingMichael Spencer (1611 - 1653)

Endnotes

1. Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates ancestral lines : a memorial volume containing the American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes (Milwaukee: Wisconsin Cuneo Press, 1931-43, 1773 pgs.).

2. Whittemore, Henry, Our New England ancestors and their descendants, 1620-1900 : historical, genealogical, biographical (New York: New England Ancestral Pub. Co., 1900, 88 pgs.).

3. Whittemore, Henry, Our New England ancestors and their descendants, 1620-1900 : historical, genealogical, biographical (New York: New England Ancestral Pub. Co., 1900, 88 pgs.), p. 54.

4. Jacobus, Donald Lines, The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth (Woodstock, Vt.: N.G. Parke, 1960, 361 pgs. ), p. 11.

5. Lucius Barnes Barbour, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, reprint (Genealogical Publishing Com, 1977), 556; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com/books : accessed 26 September 2012.

6. Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates ancestral lines : a memorial volume containing the American ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes (Milwaukee: Wisconsin Cuneo Press, 1931-43, 1773 pgs.).

7. Whittemore, Henry, Our New England ancestors and their descendants, 1620-1900 : historical, genealogical, biographical (New York: New England Ancestral Pub. Co., 1900, 88 pgs.), p. 57.

8. Jacobus, Donald Lines, The ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley & his wife Emma Arabella Bosworth (Woodstock, Vt.: N.G. Parke, 1960, 361 pgs. ), p. 12.

9. Lucius Barnes Barbour, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, reprint (Genealogical Publishing Com, 1977), 556; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com/books : accessed 26 September 2012.