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- - Emigrated with his three brothers to America and settled first at Old Saybrook, then at Haddam CT. They came over in 1631 in the Colony of Lord Say and Seal, and settled at Old Saybrook at the mouth of the CT river. Baptized 04/25/1614 in Statford Parish Eng
- The book "Spencer Family Record of the Springfield, VT. and Evansville, Wis. Spencers. (Descendants of Garrard Spencer of Haddam, Conn. Emigrant of 1630," by William Henry Spencer, New York, Tobias A. Wright, 1907 - Gerrard Spencer:
"(Our emigrant Spencer, spelled his name in a quite original way. His father spelled his briefly Gerat. His uncle Richard in his will spelled it Gerard. It is spelled in the Court Records at Hartford, Jared or Garred. In his will, dated Dec. 17, 1683, he writes his name Garrard. As he was the father of thirteen children he may have reasoned he had a right, if not to a pension, at least to an extension to his name.) Garrard Spencer, the emigrant (son of Gerat), bap. April 25, 1614; m. Hannah ___, whose last name not recorded, by whom he had thirteen children, as follows:
John, b. 1638, at Lynn; made Freeman, 1669; settled in Haddam; m. 1665, Rebecca Howard, b. 1648, dau. of Robert of Windsor. He d. 1682; she d. 1684. Had five children, two sons: Jared, Benjamin.
Hannah, b. 1640, at Lynn; m. 1665, Daniel Brainard. Had eight children.
Mehitable, b. 1642; m. Daniel Cone of Haddam. Had ten children.
Alice, m. (1) 1662, Thomas Brooks of Haddam who d. 1668; m. (2) 1673, Thomas Shaler of Haddam, who was lost at sea 1692. She had four children by each husband.
Thomas, m. Elizabeth Bates; settled at Saybrook, Conn., where he d. 1699. Children: Jared, Thomas, Caleb.
Samuel, m. (1) 1673, Hannah Blackford (nee Willey). Had four children, sons: John, Isaac. He m. (2) 1689, Miriam Willery, widow (nee Moore); no children. He d. 1705.
William, m. Sarah Ackley of Haddam; had nine children, sons: Joseph, James, Hezekiah, William, Jonithan, Ichabod. He d. 1711.
Nathaniel, m. 1681, Lydia Smith; had nine children, sons: Nathaniel, John, Daniel, Phineas. He d. 1722.
Rebecca, m. (1) 1682, John Kennard, who d. 1689; m. (2) John Tanner of Lyme; had two children by each husband.
Elizabeth, m. Joseph Stannard of Haddam.
Sarah, m. Stephen Backus of Norwich.
Ruth, m. Joseph Clark of Haddam; had six children.
Timothy, m. ___. It is from this youngest son and the thirteenth child of Garrard Spencer that the Springfield Spencers are, in the opinion of the writer, descended. Note how scant the records! We know not the year of this ancestor's birth, when he married or whom. Our only source of information respecting his death, and that he was the father of a family, we get from the Hartford Probate Records. In Vol. VII, p. 57, under date of Aug. 4th, 1704, appears this entry: 'Thomas Spencer of Haddam presented an inventory of the intestate estate of his father, Timothy Spencer, deceased, of Haddam, and was appointed administrator.' The value of the property amounted to over $1,200, which was divided between his widow and his six children."
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1614 - 1685 (71 years)
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