Grace Spencer

Bef 1676 - 1714  (> 37 years)

• Name	Grace Spencer  [1, 2]
  Birth	Bef 24 Sep 1676	Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut   [3]
  Baptism	24 Sep 1676	Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut   [3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	12 May 1714	Colchester, New London, Connecticut   [3, 4, 5]
  Person ID	I8157	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	26 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	John Spencer,   b. Abt 1636   d. 3 Aug 1682, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut (Age ~ 46 years)
  Mother	Rebecca Hayward,   b. 17 Aug 1648, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut d. Bef 1682 (Age < 33 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1665  [6, 7, 8]
  Family ID	F372	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Day,   b. Abt 1676   d. 4 Nov 1752, Colchester, New London, Connecticut (Age ~ 76 years)
  Marriage	21 Jan 1696	Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut   [3, 9]
  Children	+ 1. Lydia Day,   b. 11 Apr 1698, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut d. 2 Nov 1763, Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut (Age 65 years)
  Family ID	F186	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2015

  
  

• Notes

  Grace Spencer b. 27 Jul 1674 in East Haddam, Connecticut, daughter of Samuel Spencer and Hannah Willey, is named by several sources as the wife of John Day, Jr., among them Genealogical Notes, First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts, by Nathaniel Goodwin, 1982; and The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy ed. Frederick A. Virkus (1968). However, in his article "The Four Spencer Brothers -- Their Ancestors and Descendants", The American Genealogist 27, April 1951, Donald Lines Jacobus pointed out that the absence of this Grace Spencer from her father's will strongly suggests that she died young. Jacobus says that the Grace Spencer who married John Day was the one who was baptised 24 Sep 1676 in East Haddam, a daughter of John Spencer and Rebecca Hayward, and that she was a cousin to the other Grace Spencer. It is also this Grace Spencer that is given as John Day's wife in Jacobus and Waterman's Hale, House and Related Families.

  
  

• Sources

  [S634] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 4, Third Edition, Family of Edward Fuller by Bruce Campbell MacGunnigle. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006. [S3886] Homer W. Brainard, "Edward Fuller and His Descendants." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 33:171, Jul 1902; 33:227, Oct 1902; 34:17, Jan 1903. [S906] The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and His Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth by N. Grier Parke II, edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. Woodstock, Vermont: The Elm Tree Press, 1960. [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952., date only. [S119] Ancestors and Descendants of Andrew Lee and Clarinda Knapp Allen by Gerald R. Fuller. Esther Fuller Dial, ed. The Andrew Lee Allen Family Organization, 1952., date only. [S389] Donald Lines Jacobus, "The Four Spencer Brothers -- Their Ancestors and Descendants." The American Genealogist 27:79, April 1951. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England,1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011., "by 1666". [S906] The Ancestry of Lorenzo Ackley and His Wife Emma Arabella Bosworth by N. Grier Parke II, edited by Donald Lines Jacobus. Woodstock, Vermont: The Elm Tree Press, 1960., "about 1664". [S387] Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley by Donald Lines Jacobus and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hartford, Connecticut: Connecticut Historical Society, 1952.