Individual Details
Thomas Spencer Sr
(1721 or 1726 - 8 Nov 1793)
Events
| Birth | 1721 or 1726 | Virginia |  | ||
| Marriage | 18 Sep 1741 | Amelia, Virginia, British America - Elizabeth Julia Flournoy | | ||
| Property | 13 Jul 1742 | may be a different Thomas Spencer - Brunswick, Virginia | | ||
| Property | 20 Mar 1745 | 400 acres - Amelia, Virginia, British America | | ||
| Residence | Bef 1764 | Amelia County, Virginia, United States | | ||
| Property | 4 Apr 1768 | purchased from John Pratt - Charlotte County, Virginia, United States | | ||
| Property | 4 Jul 1768 | sold 300 acres to son Sion - parish of Cornwall, Charlotte County, Virginia, United States | | ||
| Property | 2 Dec 1771 | 200 acres on head branches of Roanoke - Charlotte County, Virginia, United States | | ||
| Court | 13 Jan 1775 | appointed to Safety Committee with son Sion Spencer - Charlotte, Virginia | | ||
| Court | 13 Jul 1775 | Charlotte, Virginia | | ||
| Military | 1776 | DAR A107142; Rev War - member of committee of safety, justice, Charlotte, Virginia, British America | | ||
| Signature | 4 Oct 1779 | Charlotte, Virginia | | ||
| Tax List | 1782 | Charlotte, Virginia | | ||
| Census | 1782 | Charlotte, Virginia | | ||
| Will | 13 Jul 1793 | Charlotte, Virginia, United States | | ||
| Death | 8 Nov 1793 | Charlotte County, Virginia, United States | | ||
| Probate | 1795 | Charlotte, Virginia | | ||
| Residence | Lunenburg County, Virginia, United States | | |||
| Burial | family cemetery, Charlotte County, Virginia, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Elizabeth Julia Flournoy (1721 - 1793) |
| Child | Mary Spencer (1742 - 1829) |
| Child | Sion Spencer (1744 - 1775) |
| Child | Lt John Spencer (1745 - 1828) |
| Child | Elizabeth Julia Spencer (1747 - 1831) |
| Child | Ann Spencer (1749 - 1793) |
| Child | Lieut/Col Thomas Spencer Jr (1751 - 1806) |
| Child | Martha Owen Spencer (1753 - 1793) |
| Child | Samuel Flournoy Spencer (1755 - 1838) |
| Child | Judith "Julia" Spencer (1757 - 1793) |
| Child | Capt Gideon Spencer (1760 - 1822) |
| Father | ? Nicholas Spencer ( - ) |
| Mother | Living |
Endnotes
1. Will of Thomas Spencer dated 13 July 1793.
2. BF Johnson, Makers of America:biographies of leading men of thought and action...Volume 1 1915 Washington DC.
3. , Charles Spencer Wood, MD, Nat: 79209, Louisiana State Number 1001, approved 3/31/1955, Lt John Spencer ; Sons of the American Revolution, Ancestry.com, .
4. unknown, The Colonel Thomas Spencer, Jr. Family (Charlotte County, VA: unknown, unknown), V.
5. Carl Edwin Lindgren, Matthew Lyle Spencer: Educator, Administrator, Writer, and Journalist (online article: n.p., 2000), short article.
6. Compiled by James W Douglas, A Manual for the Members of the Briery Presbyterian Church: Keysville, VA (Richmond, VA: J MacFarlan, Main Street, December 1828), 21 in pdf of book.
7. , Charles Spencer Wood, MD, Nat: 79209, Louisiana State Number 1001, approved 3/31/1955, Lt John Spencer ; Sons of the American Revolution, Ancestry.com, .
8. unknown, The Colonel Thomas Spencer, Jr. Family (Charlotte County, VA: unknown, unknown), V.
9. H.W de Krafft, "Amelia County Marriage Bonds -- 1735-1755," The William and Mary Quarterly, 19 (January 1911): 176.
10. H.W de Krafft, "Militia Officers [Revoluntionary War]," The William and Mary Quarterly Historical Magazine, 2 (April 1922): 87.
11. "Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1989," digital images, FamilySearch (familysearch.org: accessed 11 June 2022), im 24, Thomas Spencer and Elizabeth J Flournoy, 18 Sept 1741; citing FHL microfilm 7736612.
12. "Virginia Patents, v.20, 1741-1743," digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org: accessed 2 March 2021), im 399-401, Thomas Spencer, 13 July 1742; citing FHL microfilm 29336.
13. Leonard Wilson 1916, MAKERS OF AMERICA BIOGRAPHIES OF LEADING MEN OF THOUGHT AND ACTION THE MEN WHO CONSTITUTE THE BONE AND SINEW OF AMERICAN, 257.
14. "Virginia Patents, v.25, 1745-1747," digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org: accessed 2 March 2021), im 58, Thomas Spencer, 20 Mar 1745; citing FHL microfilm 29341.
15. unknown, The Colonel Thomas Spencer, Jr. Family (Charlotte County, VA: unknown, unknown), V.
16. Charlotte Co., VA, Deed Book No. 2, 2:16-20, John Pratt to Thomas Spencer, 4/4/1768; Circuit Court, 125 David Bruce Ave, Charlotte Court House, VA.
17. Charlotte Co., VA, Deed Book No. 2, 2:39-42, Thomas Spencer to son Sion Spencer, 4 July 1768; Circuit Court, 125 David Bruce Ave, Charlotte Court House, VA.
18. Charlotte Co., VA, Will Book No. 2, 1791-1805, Part 1, ; Circuit Court, Charlotte Court House, VA.
19. Charlotte Co., VA, Deed Book 3, 1771-77: 39-41, Thomas Spencer to son John Spencer, 2 Dec 1771; Circuit Court, Charlotte Court House.
20. Charles Washington Coleman, "The County Committees of 1774-'75 in Virginia," The William and Mary Quarterly Historical Magazine, 5 (October 1896): 102.
21. "Chancery Records Index," digital images, Virginia Memory (www.virginiamemory.com: accessed 2 March 2021), index number:1787-003, im 8, Eliz Read, John Read vs James Speed Exr of Sion Spencer - Sion's will included, 13 Jul 1775 .
22. , Thomas Spencer Sr, A107142, member of committee of safety, justice; Daughters of the American Revolution DAR, DAR.org, .
23. "Chancery Records Index," digital images, Virginia Memory (www.virginiamemory.com: accessed 2 March 2021), index number:1781-001, im 7, John Spencer vs Bullard Fowler, 1779.
24. "Charlotte Co, VA, 1782 Tax List," database, USGenWeb Archives (http://www.vagenweb.org/: accessed 28 February 2021), Ahimaaz, Eleanor, Gedion, John, Mary, Thomas Senr, Thomas Jr, 1782.
25. Bureau of the Census, Heads of Families at the First Census, 1790: Records of the State Enumerations: 1782 to 1785 (N.p.: n.p., n.d.), image 13.
26. Clary Family Tree and Research Work, Paper Chart of Family Tree, research paper, 11/1/1936, photograph of the original taken 18 November 2012 and 21 April 2013 from Bettie Lobato and Bob Roddey by Ria Lobato, privately held by Edmund B Clary, , New York, New York. Family tree done by Edmund B Clary.
27. Charlotte Co., VA, Will Book No. 2, 1791-1805, Part 1: 39 Thomas Spencer, 13 Jul 1793; Circuit Court, Charlotte Court House, VA.
28. Charlotte Co., VA, Will Book 2, 1765-1791, ; Circuit Court, Charlotte Court House.
29. "Charlotte Co, VA, Will index 1765-1904 and Will books, v. 1-2, 1765-1805," digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org: accessed 8 September 2022), im 383, Thomas Spencer, 13 July 1793; citing FHL microfilm 30776.
30. Colonial Families, Volume VI, Spencer Family, Page 425 Genealogy.com Library. Spencer family..
31. "Chancery Records Index Under Collections," digital images, Virginia memory - Library of Virginia (www.lva.virginia.gov: accessed 10 May 2013), index no. 1795-010 Henry & Elizabeth Speed vs John Spencer exrs of Thomas Spencer.
32. , Charles Spencer Wood, MD, Nat: 79209, Louisiana State Number 1001, approved 3/31/1955, Lt John Spencer ; Sons of the American Revolution, Ancestry.com, .
33. unknown, The Colonel Thomas Spencer, Jr. Family (Charlotte County, VA: unknown, unknown), V.
34. "Charlotte Co, VA, Will index 1765-1904 and Will books, v. 1-2, 1765-1805," digital images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org: accessed 8 September 2022), im 383, Thomas Spencer, 13 July 1793; citing FHL microfilm 30776.
35. "Chancery Records Index," digital images, Virginia Memory (www.virginiamemory.com: accessed 2 March 2021), index number:1795-010, Elizabeth Speed etc vs John Spencer Exr of Thomas Spencer, 1795.
36. unknown, The Colonel Thomas Spencer, Jr. Family (Charlotte County, VA: unknown, unknown), V.
37. unknown, The Colonel Thomas Spencer, Jr. Family (Charlotte County, VA: unknown, unknown), 1.