Jared Spencer

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt Jun 1685
• Alternate death: Bef 29 Jun 1685

Notes:

Jacobus calls him Gerard. He is called Jared in The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VI, R-S. He was a ferryman by trade.

From Donald Lines Jacobus, "The Four Spencer Brothers -- Their Ancestors and Descendants," citation details below:

"[M]arried first, Hannah _____, who died before her husband made his will in 1683 and perhaps much earlier; perhaps married second, after 1677, Rebecca (Porter) Clark, baptized at Felsted, co. Essex, England, 16 Sep 1630, died 9 Jan 1682/3 (recorded at Saybrook), daughter of John and Anne (White) Porter of Windsor, and widow of John Clark of Saybrook.

"Gerard settled in Lynn, Mass., later came to Hartford and thence to Haddam, Conn. There are several good accounts of him and his family in print, but some of them omit the daughter Sarah, proved by an undated deed in Haddam Deeds [1:49] given by "Steuen Backas with my wief Sarah of Norwich" to Daniel Brainerd of Haddam of one acre 'that fell to us by portion of the estat of our fther Garrard Spencer.'

"The second marriage is suggested for Gerard because there was, by elimination, no other adult Spencer in Connecticut of proper age to be the widow Clark's husband (and unencumbered with a wife known to be living) execpt his brother Thomas, who was an older man and resident at a greater distance from Saybrook. Nevertheless, she may have been a third wife of Sergt. Thomas Spencer. All that the records disclose is that she died under the name of Spencer, and the loss of the early New London probate records where her estate was settled may leave it forever a matter of conjecture who her Spencer husband was."

Family/Spouse: Hannah. Hannah died before Sep 1683. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1638
• Alternate death: Aft 3 Aug 1682

John married Rebecca Hayward about 1665. Rebecca (daughter of Robert Howard and Lydia Kilbourne) was born on 17 Aug 1648 in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; died before 1682. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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.

Grace married John Day on 21 Jan 1696 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut. John (son of John Day and Mary Gaylord) was born about 1676; died on 4 Nov 1752 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

The inscription on her grave at North Kent reads:

In memory of
Mrs. Lydia wife
of Deacon Joseph Fuller died Nov
ye 2d 1763 in ye 66
year of her age.

Lydia married Joseph Fuller on 22 Dec 1722 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut. Joseph (son of John Fuller and Mehitable Rowley) was born on 1 Mar 1700 in East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut; died on 19 Jul 1775 in Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut; was buried in North Kent, Litchfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]