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GENEALOGICAL SKETCH OF THE
DESCENDANTS OF

Samuel Spencer

OF PENNSYLVANIA

BY

HOWARD M. JENKINS

AUTHOR OF " HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RELATING TO GWYNEDD,"

VOLUME ONE, "MEMORIAL HISTORY OF PHILADELPHIA,"

ETC., ETC.

|)l)Uabei|it)ia :
FERRIS & LEACH

29 North Seventh Street
1904

CONTENTS.

I. Samuel Spencer, Immigrant,
11. John Spencer, of Bucks County,

III. Samuel Spencer's Wife : The Whittons,

IV. Samuel Spencer, 2nd,

V. William. Spencer, of Bucks,
VI. The Spencer Genealogy

1 . First and Second Generations,

2. Third Generation,
J. Fourth Generation,
^. Fifth Generation,
J. Sixth Generation,

6. Seventh Generation, .
VII. Supplementary ....

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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

Page 32, third line, "adjourned" should be, of course, "adjoined."

Page 33, footnote, the date 1877 should read 1787.

Page 37, twelfth line from bottom, " Three Tons " should be "Three
Tuns. ' '

Page 61, Hannah (Shoemaker) Shoemaker, Owen's second wife, must
have been a grand-niece, not cousin, of Gaynor and Eliza. Thus :
Joseph Lukens and Elizabeth Spencer.

Hannah, m. Shoemaker. Gaynor Eliza Other children.

I
Charles Shoemaker

Hannah, m. Owen S.

Page 62, the name Horsham is divided at end of line as if pronounced
Hor-sham ; the pronunciation is Hors-ham. The same error occurs on
p.105.

Page 105, the ^ after No. 235 should be omitted.

Page 127, the number of Ann Kemble, who married Thomas Km
Spencer, should be 393, not 303.

Page 136, the name of Katharine Miller's husband is given as Albert
Lewis ; it should be Levis.

Page 141, A ^ should be supplied after the name of Harry Lindley
Spencer (480). Information in regard to Ellen (477) and John P. (481),
which was omitted from its proper place, will be found in Chapter VII.

Page 208, the generation number of Samuel Spencer should be VI,
not VII.

IV,

PREFACE.

The preparation of the present sketch, extending as it has over
almost two decades, has been attended with many difBculties.

The materials were gathered in the intervals of other and most
exacting labors, which effectually prevented any attempt at continuous and
sustained work. As was inevitable where much the larger part of the work
was carried on by correspondence, the materials were often tardy in
coming in, and faulty and incomplete when received.

Of many remote branches of the family, particularly those which were
transplanted to Virginia, and later to Ohio and the middle West, it has
seemed impossible to obtain full and reliable information. Like so many
others who have "moved West," the old life and the old kindred have
been left behind, the home ties have been snapped, and the thread we have
been following comes to an abrupt end.

Gathered from many sources, and at intervals sometimes of several
years, the record is thus too often broken and meagre, and the treatment
of different branches, and even of different individuals in the same family,
ragged and uneven. It was plainly impracticable to write to many corre-
spondents frequentiy or at length, and the data from them had to be
accepted as sent.

Another difficulty arose from the fact that the sheets of the book were
printed as fast as the material was ready, thus forbidding the insertion of
whatever more full and accurate data were received later, and compelling
the omission of births, marriages, and deaths which have occurred in the
years since the first sheets went to press. There has been some attempt
to remedy this by adding in a short supplementary chapter matters which
it was thought desirable, for one reason or another, to include. Even with
this, however, much of the later data of the family has necessarily been
passed over.

In spite of the many difficulties, nevertheless, the book presents a
record of the descendants of Samuel Spencer which is believed to be
practically as full and as accurate as it is possible to make it. No facts

vi. THE SPENCER FA MIL V

are stated without due authority from some record or correspondent, and
the effort to include every member of the family was conscientiously made.

The use of numerals for the different months throughout the book —
Third month, Fourth month, etc., instead of March and April — may
require a word of explanation. Practically all the early records being
made by and relating to ' ' Friends ' ' (to which religious body, it may be
remarked, most of the Spencers have belonged), they had the months so
designated, and it was thought best to keep them uniform throughout the
book.

There has been no attempt to magnify the Spencers. They have
been for the most part a plain people, a large proportion of them tillers of
the soil to this day, industrious, worthy, and unpretending. Whatever
noble and illustrious connections the first Samuel may have had in
England (a matter treated briefly in the last chapter of this book), his
descendants have been men and women of the people, who may neverthe-
less be regarded with no less admiration, and frequently with far more
respect, than their titled cousins. It must be the chief distinction of the
family, not that many have climbed high, but that few have fallen low.

In conclusion, grateful thanks must be returned to the many friends
and correspondents whose cheerful and intelligent co-operation has made
the preparation of the book possible. Special acknowledgments for most
valuable aid are due to EUwood Roberts, of the Norristown (Pa.) Herald,
Anna Spencer, of Germantown, Lemuel Thomas, of Philadelphia, uncle of
the author, and to EUwood Michener, of Toughkenamon, Pa.

In a conversation some months previous to his death, my father,
Howard M. Jenkins, spoke of the Spencer book as "nearly done,"
remarking that he thought he might turn it over to me to finish, as the
material for the rest of the book was already collected, and needed only
to be arranged and copied. This I have found to be not altogether correct,
as considerable matter in one or two branches was not at hand, and had
to be sought from correspondents in several States. The proportion of the
whole work which I have thus prepared, however (further than to arrange
and transcribe the materials), is quite small.

The foregoing Preface has been written from brief notes prepared by
my father, and follows, I beUeve, the general hne he intended it should
take.

THE SPENCER FAMIL Y vii.

It is a source of much gratification that the book was so far advanced
that it could be taken up and finished practically as my father had planned.
Correspondingly deep is the regret that he did not live to see the completion
of the work in which he took such lively interest and pleasure.

The preparation of the book was in my father's case (as, in a different
sense, it has been in mine), a true labor of love. The Spencers as a
family he held in high esteem, and his own Spencer strain he regarded
with considerable satisfaction. The completed volume goes out to its
little world of relatives and friends a testimony to the healthy family pride,
the perseverance, and the unselfishness of its author.

Arthur Hugh Jenkins.
Gwynedd, Pa.

I.

Samuel Spencer, Immigrant.

IN 1705 there died, between November 26 and December 18,
presumably in the county of Philadelphia, Samuel Spencer.
It is a tradition which seems to have been generally preserved
among the members of the family descended from him that he
was a sea-captain, that he came from England about 1700, that
having purchased a tract of land in Upper Dublin,' he returned
to England, intending to make one more voyage, but died on the
passage. This is the account preserved in the branch of the
family descended from Jacob Spencer, his grandson, while k
memorandum by Sarah, daughter of Nathan Spencer, of Ger-
mantown (great grandson of Samuel), briefly but explicitly says :
" Samuel the parent, was a sea-faring man and died at sea."

The documentary evidence concerning Samuel Spencer
shows that there must be an element of error in this well-pre-
served tradition. Samuel Spencer's will is on record, and shows
these facts : That he died in 1705, " of the county of Philadel-

' Upper Dublin is a township in Montgomery (originally Philadelphia) county, ii
miles north from the city of Philadelphia, adjoining the townships of Gwynedd, Hors-
ham, Moreland, Abington, Springfield, Whitemarsh, and Whitpain. Its form is nearly
square, 0^% miles long, 3ji( wide; its area called 8,840 acres. When it was formally
made a township is not stated in the historical accounts known to the writer, but evi-
dently before 1705, as it is referred to as such in documents of that year cited in this
volume. It was called as early as 1693, " the second Dublin township," to distinguish
it from Dublin township, several miles below (and entirely detached), in Philadelphia
county, afterward called Lower Dublin.

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phia," that he called himself a "merchant," and that he had
been previously " of Barbadoes." His will is dated November
26, 1705, and w^as proved December 20, following. He must
therefore have been alive on the former date, and dead on the
later one, only twenty-four days after, in which interval there was
no time for a voyage to England, and scarcely for information of
his death to reach land, if he had actually sailed away from the
American shores. ' Moreover he describes himself in the will as
" sick of body," which makes it rather unlikely that he would
then set off upon a voyage, — though not impossible, of course.

Nor is it permissible for us to surmise that he might have
been at sea when he made the will, and that it came to land
promptly after his death, so that the witnesses might offer it for
probate, twenty-four days later, for the will is witnessed by,
and is evidently in the handwriting of, Edward Farmer, of White-
marsh township, a well-known citizen, member of the Colonial
Assembly, and justice of the peace, who in November, 1705,
was undoubtedly at his home, and not " following the sea."

We may therefore proceed- to consider the record evidence,
consisting of the will of Samuel Spencer and some accompany-
ing documents.

The will is recorded in the office of the Register of Wills of
Philadelphia County, in Will Book C, page 17, and the original
is among those kept in the fire-proof It is as follows :

1 The reader must bear in mind that those were the days of sailing ships, when a
voyage from Pennsylvania to England might take anywhere from six weeks to three
months, or even longer.

SAMUEL THE IMMIGRANT 3

In the Name of God Amen the Twenty-Sixth day of Novemb. An-
noque. Dne. one thousand seven hundred & five/ 1 Samuel Spencer late of
Barbados, but now of the county of Philada. Mercht. being Sick of Body
but of good and perfect memory — (Praised be God for it) Do make and or-
dain this to be my Last Will and Testamt, revoking all former Will or
Wills Either in writing or Verball whatsoever & this only to be my Last
Will and Testamt, in manner and form following.

Imprimis I give and bequeath my Soul into the hands of Almighty
God who gave it me and my Body to be buried where my Exec'rs shall
think fitt — Secondly for the Settling and disposing of my Temporal Estate
wch it hath pleased God to bless me wth'all, I do order & dispose of in
manner and form following, that is to say. It is my will, first of all That
my just debts wch I do owe shall be duely paid and contented. Item I
give and bequeath unto my Eldest son Samuel Spencer, Twenty pounds,
to be paid unto him when he shall come to the age of Twenty -one years
wthout any Interest & to be fitted with a good Suit of Cloathes fitt for
such a Lad & to be forthwth sent to Barbados to his Relacons there. Item
I give and bequeath unto my son Will'm Spencer the Sum of Twenty
pounds to be paid unto him when he shall come to the age of Twenty one
years, and in case Either of them should die that then the Survivor Shall
inherit his Brother's Share. Item I give and bequeath unto my Wellbe-
loved fiiend Mary Maddox, daughter of Thos. Maddox the sum of fifteen
pounds to be paid at the Expiration of four years after my decease. Item
I give and bequeath all the rest of my Estate boath Reall and personall
unto my Good ffriend Thomas Maddox who I do appoint to be my sole
Exec'r of this my Last Will and Testam't.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this Day
& first above written.

Samuel Spencer.
Sealed and acknowledged to be his Last Will & Testam't in the pres-
ence of us Tho. Millard

Edward ffarmer

1 It must be observed that these dates are " Old Style.'' The year, in England
and all English Colonies, prior to 1753, began and ended on the 2Sth of March. Samuel
Spencer made his will in November, the witnesses proved it in December, and Thomas
Maddox, the Executor, qualified and received his Letters Testamentary in February, —
all in the year 1705.

4 THE SPENCER FAMILY

[Following the record of the Will are the following official additions.]
Philad'ia. Decemb. 20th, 1705. Then p'sonally appeared Thomas
Millard, & Edward Farmar the Witnesses wth'in named and on their
Solemn oaths did declare they saw the wth'in named Sam'l Spencer Sign
Seal Publish & Declare they saw the wth'in writing to be his Last Will and
Testamt. and that at the doing thereof he was of sound mind memory and
understanding to the best of their knowledge. Coram. Pet. Evans D'
Keg'r.

Be it Remembered that on ye 20th day of Feb'y, 1705 The Last Will
& Testamt of Saml. Spencer was proved in due form of Law and Probate
and Letter of Adm'n was Granted to Thomas Maddox, the Exec'r therein
named being first Attested Well and Truely to Adm'r and bring an Inven-
tory of the Deced'ts Estate into the Reg's Office at Philad'ia on or before
ye 20th day of March next. Given under the Seal of the Sd office.

Pet. Evans, D' Reg'r.

[A memorandum on the back of the original Will shows that Letters
of Administration, with the will annexed, were granted Dec. 26, 1705, to
Robert Whitton, "the Ex' or named absenting." But this is struck out,
by lines drawn across it, and under it is the word ' ' Revoked. ' ' ]

Thomas Maddox' s bond for the faithful performance of his
duties as Executor was filed and approved in the Register's Office,
February 20, 1705-6. It is made by "Thomas Maddox, of the
township of Upper Dublin, in the county of Philadelphia, yeom'n,
Edward ffarmar,' of Whitemarsh, in ye same county, Esquire,
and John Roades, of White Marsh afforesaid, malster," and is
" in the sume of three hundred pounds curr't money of the said
Province." The signature of Thomas Maddox is a "-mark."
Roades makes a good signature, as well as Edward Farmer.

1 It may be noted here in connection with the double / with which Justice Farmer
wrote his name, that it was the usage of that time, in order to preserve the firm sound
of/. George Fox wrote his name ffox, and Edward Foulke, one of the Gwynedd
settlers, ffoulke. The single /, it is presumable, was then pronounced soft, like v, so
hat Farmer (with one /only) would have been pronounced Varmer, and Fox, Vox.
1 his is the rule with the Welsh pronunciation.

SAMUEL THE IMMIGRANT 5

It is " sealed and delivered in the presence of Toby Leech and
Peter Evans."

It may be worth while to note the failure of Thomas Mad-
dox, the Executor of the will, to appear with the witnesses,
when they offered it for probate, he " absenting," as the Register
declared, and the additional fact, shown by the canceled endorse-
ment, that six days later, December 26, letters of administration
" with the will annexed " were granted, or proposed to be, by
the Register, to Robert Whitton, though these were revoked
when Maddox came forward in February. What this implied is
now unknown : whether, if it really was true that Samuel Spencer
died "at sea," his friend Thomas Maddox thought the news of
his death not yet sufficiently definite until February, when he
came forward and qualified, can only be matter for surmise.

The Inventory of Samuel Spencer's effects is on file with the
will. It was taken by Edward Farmer and John Roads, on the
1 8th of December, two days before the offering of the will, and
only twenty-two days after the latter was made. Most of the
articles enumerated are personal belongings, and a few are such
as a farmer would use, but several are evidently those of a
trader, a " merchant " in a modest way of business. They might
be the remnant of a larger stock, to replenish which he was
about making the traditional " voyage to England." The barrel
of rum — partly sold, — the 2 1 yards" of cloth serge, the barrel of
" verry course," and half barrel of "pretty good" sugar, the
" parcel " of pork, the barrel of (salted) beef, the pieces of dried
beef, and the box of beads all suggest themselves, unquestion-
ably, as articles which a storekeeper in the Colony of Pennsyl-
vania might have in stock in the year 1705, — or indeed such as
the captain or supercargo of a merchant vessel might have
brought in for sale on his private account. The Inventory in
full reads as follows :

THE SPENCER FAMILY

An Inventory of the Goods of Sam' I Spencer deceased appraised by

Edward ffarmar & John Roads this 1 8th of Xber

Two Indiferent good Shirts at 8s each . .

one do at

one pretty good Osson brigs jacket & britches

one do worsser

Two pair of old worsted stockings

one good sarge coate

one old broad cloath coate & britches

one hatt at 12s

four worn neck cloaths . . .

two handkerchiefs at 3s each

one pair shows

two old Chests at

one box with lock and key . .

one do without Lock

one sea bed & bolster ...

two old blanketts at 5s each . .

one pretty good small rug . . .

one Iron Kettle at 6. 6 . . .

one small buckett at 1 2d . . ,

two old spoons & a tin pudding

one old Can'le stick . ...

one Cleaver at 4s & a Chopping Knife

one Dung ffork at 3s

one plow shear & colter ....

a p'cell of old iron at 3s . . . .

one old broad ax at 2s 6d . . . .
two poor cows and calves at . . .

one barrill of rum part sold before
since 34 gall at 3s 4d . . . .

one pockett book at 5s

one ps of narrow cloath sarge 21 yds
one barrill of verry course sugar
one half barrill do pretty good .
a p'cell of pork at fifty shill . .

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SAMUEL THE IMMIGRANT

one barrill of beef at 40s 02 . 00 . 00

some dryed ps : of beef at 153 00 . 15 . 00

a pair of brettle [?] rings and i good do 00 . 03 . 06

a book Intituled the English Phisitian 00 . 05 . 00

A box of beads at 24 shill 01 . 04 . 00

one razor & case at 2od 00 . 01 . 08

one large stone jugg 00 . 03 . 04

lent Tho : Maddox which was paid to Jno Roads

forty -three pounds by ord'rof Tho : ffairman . . 43 . 00 . 00
lent E : Buck twelve pounds for w'ch Mary Maddox
daughter of Tho : Maddox has an obUgation in
her own name being part of her legacy left her

by will 12 . 00 . 00

one thre leged round table & an Inkhorn 00 . 01 . 10

due from Benjamin Charles worth upon ac't of his

Land to the Estate 06 . 00 . 00

.102 19 04
Signed by me the date above written

Edward ffarmer

Where was Samuel Spencer's residence when he made his
will ? He says he is " of the county of Philadelphia," but does
not name the township. The residence of Edward Farmer, who
witnessed the will, and undoubtedly wrote it, was in Whitemarsh,
and so was that of John Roads, who helped Farmer make
the appraisement. So also was that of Benjamin Charlesworth,
who is alluded to in the inventory. Robert Whitton (Samuel
Spencer's father-in-law, as will presently appear), who was pro-
posed as an Administrator, lived in Upper Dublin, and so did
Thomas Maddox the Executor of the will. In the marriage
certificate of William Spencer (hereafter to be cited), in 1733, he
is described as the "son of Sam'U Spencer, late of Horsham, in
the county of Philadelphia, and Province of Pensilvania, De-
ceased."

8 THE SPENCER FAMILY

That Thomas Maddox, who was no kindred at all, so far as
is known (the will names him only as a " good ffriend "), should
have been not only executor but residuary legatee, to the exclu-
sion of Samuel Spencer's father-in-law, Robert Whitton, and his
brother-in-law, Richard Whitton, seems somewhat odd.

One more point may be noticed : the will conveys all prop-
erty, "reall and personall." Had Samuel Spencer any land?
The tradition says he "bought land in Upper Dublin." No
record of it has been found. If he held any at the time of his
dea!th it passed by his will to Thomas Maddox, who in 1709, as
will be seen below, had a "plantacon," and left it to be sold by
his executors. The mention in the inventory of the name of
Thomas Fairman in connection with the forty-three pounds
"paid to John Roads," suggests a possible operation in land,
because Thomas Fairman, had been Deputy Surveyor General
and then Surveyor General, of the Province of Pennsylvania,
and had taken up in different parts of the country near Philadel-
phia considerable tracts of land, some of which he had sold.
So, too, the item of Benjamin Charles worth's debt has the same
look, for it is said to be due from him to the Estate " upon
account of his land," — as if Samuel Spencer had sold him land,
— or a land warrant, possibly, — and a balance of six pounds re-
mained upon it, unpaid.

It may be of interest to print, here, Thomas Maddox' s will,
though it throws no further Ught on the subject. It is recorded
(Philadelphia county) in Book C, p. 166, and is as follows :

In the Name of God Amen I Thomas Maddox of Upper Dublin Town-
ship in the County of Philadelphia finding myself weake of body butt of
p'fect & Sound Memory (Bles'd be God for it) doe make this my last Will
revokeing all other Wills heretofore made by me or for me Imprimis I Give
& bequeath my Soule into the hands of Almighty God who Gave it me &
my body to be buried where my Ex'rs shall see fitt Item it is my will yt

SAMUEL THE IMMIGRANT 9

after my decease my plantacon & all my stock and whatever I dye pos-
sessed of my own shall be sould to the best advantage by my Exe'rs to
pay my Debts and whatever there be over and above paying my
Debts it is my Will yt it be putt out to Interest & the Interest money to be
Given unto my Deare & well beloved Wife dureing her Natureal life &
after her decease to be Equally divided amongst all my children as they
shall come to their age, as the Law Directs Item it is my will that my three
sons John Thomas and Tobey Madox shall be putt out to prentice as soon
as possible to such Trades as my Ex'rs shall see most proper &my Daugh-
ter Hester to be putt out to Service to such places as her Mother shall see
convenient. Item I appoint my true and well beloved ffriends Edward
ffarmer & John Roads to be my Ex'rs of this my last Will In Wittnes
wherof I have hereunto sett my hand & Scale this twenty -fourth day of
Sept'r, 1709. Thomas Maddox, his mark.

Sealed and signed in the presence of us, Robert Jones, Joseph Charles-
worth his mark, Benjamin Charlesworth his mark.^

[Proved October 8, 1709, by the two Charles worths.]

The statement of Samuel Spencer in Kis will that he was
" late of Barbadoes," and his instructions that his son Samuel
should be sent " to Barbadoes to his relations there," identifies
him as having been a resident of that Island, and also shows that
other members of the family remained there. Who they were,

^ The two Charlesworths, though unable, apparently, to write their names, were
men who acquired property and ' ' made their mark ' ' otherwise than with the pen.
Benjamin, who lived in Whitemarsh, acquired a part of the Farmer tract, and in 1734
was assessed for 200 acres. He was one of the three trustees to whom Rev, Malachi
Jones, in 1719, conveyed half an acre of land in Abington, on which the old Presby-
terian Church (Mooretown) was subsequenfly built. Joseph Charlesworth lived in
Upper Dublin, and was assessed in 1734 for 200 acres. His land lay adjoining that
which Samuel Spencer, 2nd, held at that time (1734), and some of it was acquired
afterward by James Spencer, Samuel's nephew, — grandson of Samuel, the immigrant.
There were other Charlesworths in and about Upper Dublin : Caleb, who had learned
the trade of a blacksmith, but who in 1731 bought 140 acres of farm land of Hugh
Pugh, on what was in later time the " Engardtown Road " (now called Fort Washing-
ton Avenue), (in 1891) the property of J. R. Vanzandt. He had an older brother,
John Charlesworth, who in 1747 lived in Whitemarsh, and also a brother James. All
these, — Caleb, John, and James, — were apparently brothers of Joseph and Benjamin.
None of the family name now remain in the neighborhood.

lO THE SPENCER FAMILY

however, is not disclosed. Barbadoes then as now was a de-
pendency of England. The English visited it in 1605, and sent
a colony there in 1625. The name Spencer occurs in the lists
of English emigrants to the island as early as 1635. In the
published " Lists of Passengers which Passed from the Port of
London," we find the following : '

[Nov. 20, 1635.] Theis vnder -written names are to be transporteda
to the Barbados imbarqued in the Expedition, Peter Blackler M[aste]r
The men have taken the oaths of Allegeance and Supremacie : And have
been examined by the Minister of the Towne of Gravesend touching their
Conformitie to the orders and discipline of the Church of England.

[A list of over 200 names, including :]

Peter Spencer [aged] 1 5

John Spencer " ^9

[Dec. 19, 1635. The same statement as above in relation to the
Falcon, Tho : Irish, Master. There were 446 passengers altogether, in-
cluding : ]

James Spencer [aged] 25

1 See " Original Lists," etc., edited by John Camden Hotten. New York : J. W.
Bouton. 1874.

^ It must be understood here that the word " transported " means simply conveyed.
As the passengers named took the oath of allegiance, and were certified by the parish
minister as attached to the EstabHshed Church, they were clearly voluntary emigrants.
Fifty years after, in the barbarous execution of Judge Jeffreys' sentences, in the trials
of those implicated in the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion, many were "transported "
in the more modern sense of the word, and sold to the Barbadoes planters as slaves.

II.

yohn Spencer of Bticks County.

THE record evidence concerning Samuel Spencer given in
the preceding chapter is explicit and unquestionable. I
propose to add here some further data, which may give a defi-
nite clue to the paternity of Samuel Spencer, but whose value
to that effect is not perfectly made out.

The Exemplifications of Record, in the office of the Recorder
of Deeds, Philadelphia, show (No. 5, p. 615) a Lease and Re-
lease, executed October 10 and 11, 168 1, by William Penn to
"John Spencer of London, Taylor," for 125 acres of land in
Pennsylvania.

The same (No. 5, p. 619) show that this Lease and Release
was assigned, by John Spencer, at Philadelphia, October 16,
1683, to Henry Jones, of Barbadoes. (The witnesses were
Tho: Hooton, David Powell, Geo. Langhorne, Pat: Robinson.)

The records of the Orphans' Court of Bucks county, (Pa.),
show that John Spencer died Tenth month (December) 22, 1683,
leaving two children :

James, born Eleventh month 27, 1670.
Samuel, born Eleventh month i, 1672.

And the Minutes of the Board of Property (Penn's Commis-
sioners to sell his lands, etc.), in Minute Book G, as published
in the Second Series of Pennsylvania Archives, vol. xix., p.
491), have the following interesting entry :

12 THE SPENCER FAMILY

7 mo. 23 [1707]
John Spencer, Orig'l Purchaser of 250 acres of Land, as appears by
the List, by Virtue of a Warrant from the Surv'r Gen'l, dat. 11, 7 mo.,

1682, took up 125 acres of Land in the county of Bucks upon Neshaminie
on the N. side, and Soon after dyed. Possessed thereof, Surv'd 10, 6 mo.,

1 683, and no more Appearing to Be Taken up in right of the said Purchase,
his Eldest Son, James Spencer, req'ts a warrant for takeing up the remain-
ing 125 acres. The Prop'ry, also, by his Warrant in the Surv'r's Office,
dat. 2, 5th mo., 1683, Granted to the said Jno Spencer to take up a lot
in the 3d Str. from Dela[ware] in right of the Purchase aforesaid, which
Warrant haveing never been executed (both the said Jno. and his wife have-
ing lost their lives by an Inundation of the said River Nesham[iny] in the
year 1684, Or thereabouts), the said James req'ts the Same to be renewed ;
both Granted.

From these documents I conclude : (i) That the John
Spencer, tailor, of London, 1681, was the same person as John
Spencer, who made the assignment in Philadelphia, 1683, and
who was drowned with his wife in Bucks county, and whose
children are recorded there ; and (2) that there is a strong proba-
bility that the Samuel Spencer, son of this John, was the same
person as the Samuel who died in 1705, and with whom, as the
ancestor of this family, we are now concerned.

As to this latter probability, the following facts are of value :
I. The identity of name. The name Spencer is rare in the
Colonial annals, so that this identity counts more than would
otherwise be the case. 2. The Barbadoes residence of Henry
Jones, assignee of the land of John Spencer. This is an inter-
esting and suggestive fact. 3. The suitable age of Samuel
Spencer. Our second Samuel, (of whom we shall presently
speak), was born in 1699, when his father, if he was the son
of this Bucks county John, bom in 1672, would be twenty-
seven years old.

It may be that the two sons of John Spencer and his wife,

JOHN SPENCER OF BUCKS 13

upon their parents' death in the flood on the Neshaminy, in 1683,
were sent to Barbadoes, to be brought up by relatives there, such
as Samuel Spencer mentions in his will, 1705, and that they re-
turned after growing up, to Pennsylvania, as we know to have
been the case with our Samuel. The minutes of the Board of
Property indicate that James Spencer, in 1707, was in Philadel-
phia, (or in Bucks county), making his application for the war-
rant for his father's remaining right of land.

There were Spencers in Barbadoes about the time of Penn's
coming to Pennsylvania. The parish lists of the Island show
the following :

"Ano 1680. A list of the Inhabitants in and about the Towne of St.
Michaells, with their Children, hired Seruants, Prentices, bought Seruants,
and Negroes." [A long list, including :]

John Spencer and Wife, 2 children, 3 hired servants, 3 slaves.

Similar list, "Parish of Christ Church," Dec. 22, 1679, shows John
Spencer with 23 acres of land, and 7 negroes.

Similar list. Parish of St. James, ' ' as was taken by the Church Wardens
of the said Parish, the 2od December, 1679," shows the name of " Marg't
Spencer, 6 [acres land] . ' '

These people may have been of kin to John Spencer, the
London tailor, but in the absence of evidence I do not suggest
that they were.'

' The Friends' records, kept in London, referring to Barbadoes, are very meagre,
and throw no Hght on this question, so far as I can ascertain.

III.

Samuel Spencer's JVife: The IVhittons.

MEMORANDA preserved in the Spencer Family are to the
effect that the wife of the first Samuel Spencer was
named Elizabeth Whitton, that she came from England, and that
"she had two brothers." It is also added by some that " she
died of small-pox in Upper Dublin," leaving her two children to
be brought up by her brothers.

Nearly all the points in this account are easily provable by
the records, and it is probably correct throughout. The exact
time when the Whittons came is not so certain. Tradition says
"about 1700," but it was in all probability several years earlier.
The father of Elizabeth Spencer was Robert Whitton, who, as
early as August 12, 1686, bought land in Pennsylvania, of
Robert Lodge, "in the county of York, England." As the
Whittons were Yorkshire people, this purchase may have been
made in the old country, but in February, 1687, the land con-
veyed by it was surveyed for Robert Whitton, in Upper Dublin,
and this suggests the likelihood of his then being himself on this
side, locating his property. Again, in August, 1698, he bought
an additional tract in Upper Dublin, adjoining the other. ^

The Minutes of the Board of Property, {Pennsylvania
Archives, Second Series, vol. xix., p. 703), contain this entry :

1 See the record of the deed by the'^ Whittons to Richard Taylor, in 1713,/oj/,
and of the reconveyance of the same land to Richard Whitton, in 1730.

THE WHITTONS 15

The Prop'r, by Deeds of Lease and Release (large), dated the 21 and
22 days of 8b' r, 1681, granted unto Robert Lodge, of Machom, in the
County of York, yeoman, 500 acres of Land in this Province, quitr't i
Shilling Sterling for each Hundred acres.

Robert Lodge, by like Deeds dated the nth and 12th days of August,
1686, for £11 Granted and conveyed the said 500 acres with the app's
unto Robert Whitton, of .Snape, in the said County of York, now of this
Province, who in the 10 and 11 mo. 1686-7, obtained Warr'ts for 250 a's
and 500 a's but no return appears to either, also for his Lot and lib. Land,
which are laid out. He holds 300 acres in Dublin Township, where he
dwells, and the other 200 Rich' d Buffington holds in Chester County.

An old Bible, 'now (1897) in the possession of Anna Spencer
of Gemiantown, Philadelphia, ig evidently a Whitton heir-loom,
and contains several entries of births and deaths relating to the
iamily. Two of these are partially undecipherable, but the
others are plain enough, and altogether they are as follows :

Robert Whitton, [words illegible ; presumably a marriage] the 2 day
of the [number uncertain] month, 1673.

Thomas the son of Robert Whitton was born [words illegible ; part
of the date] of ye 6 month in the year 1674.

Elizabeth the daughter of Robert Whitton was born ye 27 of ye 7
month in the yeare 1676.

Richard the son of Robert Whitton was born ye 3 of 7 month in the
year 1679.

Joseph the son of Robert Whitton was born ye 15th day of ye 8th
month 1682.

^This interesting old book was " printed for the King's most excellent Magestie,''
at London, by Robert Barker, in 1613 ; but two years after the translation was made
under the authority of James the First, and must, therefore, be one of the earliest issues
of that translation.

1 6 THE SPENCER FAMILY

Katherina ye daughter of Robert Whitton was born ye 7th day of the
Sixth month 1685.

Elizabeth Spencer departed This Life the Eight day of August 1702.

Joseph Whitton, son of Robert Whitton, Departed this Ufe ye 8 day
of ye first Month on ye Second day of ye week in ye year 1703.

The analysis of this list (with confirmation from records here-
after to be cited) shows that Robert Whitton was the father of
the family. The name of his wife is probably contained in the
first entry, not deciphered in full : the time of her death is not
given. The children were Thomas, Elizabeth, Richard, Joseph,
and Katherina. Joseph, as stated in the list, died in 1703, aged
twenty-one, probably unmarried. Of Katherina we have no
further account. Elizabeth married Samuel Spencer, and her
death occurred, as here recorded, August 8, 1702. Of the re-
maining two, Thomas and Richard, who obviously were the
"two brothers" whom Elizabeth is said to have had, we
have considerable further information. Taking up Thomas
first, he appears to have married Susanna, the daughter of Benja-
min Duffield, a well-known early settler in Byberry, and to have
died near the close of the year 1702, — being then only in his
twenty-ninth year. September 5, 1698, his father had conveyed
him 350 acres out of the tract of 600 acres which he (Robert)
had then acquired in Upper Dublin, and the same year Thomas
purchased also 1 50 acres in Moreland, of Henry Comly. He
probably died in Moreland ; his descendants remained there at
. least as late as the beginning of the present century. From an
examination of the records we have the following details :

February 8, 1702-3, Letters of Administration upon the estate of
Thomas Whitton, deceased, late of Philadelphia county, were granted to
Susanna Whitton, Administratrix.

THE WHITTONS 1/

January 28, 1709, Release Nicholas Moore, of Philadelphia, gentle-
man, (son of Nicholas Moore, doctor of physic, deceased), William Sluby,
of Philadelphia, merchant, and Sarah his wife, to Thomas Whitton, ' ' only
surviving child and son of Thomas Whitton, of the same county, late de-
ceased. ' ' The release confirms the title of Thomas Whitton, (Junior), to
tvi'o tracts of land in Moreland, one of 150 acres, and the other of 13 acres.
It recites that the former tract was conveyed in 1698, by Henry Comely to
Thomas Whitton, Senior, that the latter tract was conveyed to him by John
Boucher, and that he (Thos. Whitton, Sen.), died intestate. It also men-
tions " Benjamin Duffield the guardian and grandfather of the said
Thomas Whitton, ' ' and leaves the impression that he (Thomas, Junior,) was
a minor at the time of this conveyance, as he must have been, according
to the presumption that his father was the Thomas Whitton of the Bible
record, born in 1674.

Sundry other papers referring to the Whittons of Moreland
are on record, but as their line was collateral only to that of
Elizabeth Spencer, we need not follow it much farther. In 1771
a release was executed from Thomas Whitton, of the manor of
Moreland, yeoman, " eldest son and heir-at-law of Thomas Whit-
ton, late of the same place, yeoman, deceased, Robert Whitton
and Richard Whitton' of the said manor, yeomen, sons of the
said Thomas Whitton the father, and executors of his last will
and testament," etc. The release was to Abel Marple, and re-
ferred to land bought at sheriff's sale, in 1764, by Thomas
Whitton, the father, who may be presumed to be the lad men-
tioned in the Nicholas Moore release of 1709, just cited. The
son, the Robert named in this release of 1771, died, it would
appear, early in the present century, as we find in the records of
the Register's Office of Montgomery county the will of Robert
Whitton of Moreland, dated July 19, 1805. He leaves prop-

^ See Vol. II., Penna. Archives, " new series," record of a double wedding,
June 4, 1770 : Richard Whitton to Martha Thomas, and Robert Whitton to Mary
Thomas.

1 8 THE SPENCER FAMILY

erty to his wife Elizabeth, his unmarried daughter Elizabeth, his
daughter Jerusha Morris, his grandson Robert Whitton Morris^
and his grandson Samuel Whitton. The last named, who evi-
dently was the son of a deceased son, was a minor, and was to
have 130 acres of land taken from the the tract of 136 acres
owned by his grandfather. The Robert Whitton who made this
will in 1805 was probably the grandson of the Thomas who
died in 1702, and who was the elder brother of Ehzabeth
(Whitton) Spencer.

Returning now to Robert Whitton, the father of the family,
and his second son Richard, they settled in Upper Dublin, and
are named in various records.

In 171 1, at the March sessions of the court of Philadelphia county,
Robert Whitton and Richard Whitton are among the signers of the petition
to have a public highway, the ' ' Welsh Road, ' ' opened to the mills on the
Pennypack.

At Abington Monthly Meeting of Friends, 12th month 25, 1711,
Richard Whitton produced a certificate from Snape, in Yorkshire, which
was read and accepted.

nth month 26, 171 2, at the same meeting, a 'certificate was granted
to Richard Whitton in order to marriage with Elizabeth Ayley, of
Philadelphia.

In the list of taxables in Upper Dublin township in 1734, Richard
Whitton is assessed as the owner of 200 acres of land.

In the office of the Recorder of Deeds for Philadelphia
county, the following deed throws further light on the subject :

December 19, 1730, Richard Taylor, of Cheltenham, Yeoman, to
Richard Whitton, of Upper DubUn, Yeoman, for a " messuage, plantation,
and tract of land " in Upper Dublin township. Purchase money ^126.
" Beginning by the side of a white oak, marked, in Richard Hilliard's
land. Thence extending along North Wales road, southeast 220 perches to
a stake in the land of Thomas Palmer and Samuel Spencer, Thence by
said Spencer's land southwest 238 perches to a post in Joseph Charles-

THE WHITTONS 1 9

worth's meadow, Thence northwest by the said Charlesworth's land 220
perches to a corner post in Hilliard's line aforesaid, Thence along the said
line northeast 238 perches to the place of beginning," containing 250
acres. "Some part thereof being of the 500 acres which one Robert
Lodge by Indenture of Lease and Release of the nth and 12th days of
August, A. D. 1686, granted unto Robert Whitton, father of the said
Richard Whitton, in fee ; other part of the 250 acres aforesaid being of the
300 acres which one Henry Johnson by Indenture of the ist day of August,
1698, granted unto the said Robert Whitton in fee. And the said Robert
Whitton by his deed of the 12th day of May, A. D. 1713, having granted
the 250 acres aforesaid unto the said Richard Whitton in fee, they, the
said Robert Whitton, Richard Whitton, and Elizabeth his wife, by their
deed of the 9th day of June, A. D. 17 13, granted the same unto the said
Richard Taylor in fee."

[Endorsement : ] ' ■ Note the within named Robert Lodge originally
purchased of the late proprietory, William Penn, said 500 acres by Inden-
ture of Lease and Release of the 21st and 22nd days of October, A. D.
1681. And his the said Proprietary's Commissioners, by Patent of the
20th day of February, A. D. 1690, granted the said 300 acres unto the
within named Henry Johnson, in fee."

The conveyance of the land to Richard Taylor, mentioned
above, in June, 171 3, was made by Robert Whitton, and by
Richard Whitton and Elizabeth his wife. It is on record, and
the main details are these :

The purchase money is 126 pounds " currant lawfuU silver money. "
The property conveyed is a "messuage & tract of land" in Upper Dub-
lin, 250 acres, "part of two several tracts of land . . . the first was
purchased of the Proprietor William Penn by virtue of a deed [etc.] unto
Robert Lodge, in the county of York," Oct. 22, 1681 (500 acres), and the
said Robert Lodge conveyed the same unto Robert Whitton, Aug. 12, 1686.
1 2th mo. 16, 1687, by the Surveyor General's order, 300 acres was laid
out. Another part was granted unto Henry Johnson, by a warrant from
the commissioners, 8th Mo. 2, 1684, and patented to him Feb. 20, 1690,
and came by a deed from Johnson to Robt. Whitton, Aug. i, 1698. R. W.
had then 600 acres, "all adjoining together," "and since that he con-

20 THE SPENCER FAMILY

veyed 350 acres of it to Thomas Whitton, Ms son," Sept. 5, 1698. The
remaining 250 acres is now sold. The trapt is not described by metes and
bounds.

Another document on record is a mortgage made in 1709,
by Robert and Richard Whitton to Henry Johnson, for a loan of
fifty pounds, for two years,- this being the same Johnson, no
doubt, from whom Robert had bought land in 1698. The de-
tails of the document are as follows :

May 12, 1709, Mortgage Robert and Richard Whitton, of Upper
Dublin, yeomen, to Henry Johnson, of Philadelphia, carpenter, for two
years, to secure 50 pounds principal, and 8 pounds, his two years' interest.
The property mortgaged is 200 acres, and appears to be nearly the same
(lying along the Horsham line), sold to Richard Taylor, in 1713, and then,
in 1730, bought back from him, by Richard Whitton ; beginning at a
corner post of land late of Richard Hilliard, thence south-east by land of
Joseph Fisher and Thomas Palmer [both in Horsham,] 200 perches to a
post at the corner of Joseph Hood's land, thence by the same south-west
160 perches to a corner post, thence by the land of the said Robert Whitton
north-west 200 perches to another corner post in the said Hilliard' s line,
and thence north-east 160 perches to the place of beginning.

The time of Robert Whitton' s death is not ascertained. He
was one of the signers to the marriage certificate of his grandson,
Samuel Spencer, 2d, in 1723. Richard married in 171 2 (as has
been shown in the citation from Abington records) Elizabeth
Ayley, of Philadelphia. We have no record of any children
born to them, and the time of her death does not appear, but
Richard married again 8th mo. 31, 1737, his second wife being
Rebecca Parry, who survived him, as appears by his provision
for her in his will. He died probably in the i ith month (Janu-
ary, O. S.) 1743, his will being probated on the 13th of that
month. The will reads as follows :

THE WHITTONS 21

I, Richard Whitton of Upper Dublin Township in the County of Phila-
delphia and Province of Pennsylvania, Yeoman, being vi'eak of body but of
perfect sound and Disposeing Mind and Memory Thanks be given to God
for the same Calling to Mind the uncertainty of my Time here thought
proper to Dispose of the Worldly Substance which it hath pleased God to
bless me withal by this my Last Will and Testament In manner following
(That is to say) First, my will is that all my just Debts which I may happen
to owe to any person or persons at the Time of my Decease together with
all my funeral Expenses be well truly and fully paid Item I give and be-
queath to Rebecca my beloved wife one Bed with the Furniture belonging
thereunto and one Qow and Eaight pound^ lawful money of Pennsylvania
to be paid to my said wife yearly and every year During her Life time.
Item I give and bequeath to my Couzin Thomas Whitton of the manner of
Mooreland fifty pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania Item I give and be-
queath Five pounds Pennsylvania Currancy to and for the use of Horsham
meeting Item I give and bequeath to my two cozens to wit Samuel Spencer
and William Spencer and to their Heirs and Assigns forever all my Lands
Houses Tenements or Plantations with the buildings and improvements
which at the time of my decease I may lawfully stand seized of as also all
my goods and chattels Rights and Properties, Interests, Claims, or De-
mands whatsoever, to be equally Divided between the said Brothers paying
the legacies hereinbefore Devised. And lastly I do hereby nominate or-
dain and appoint my aforesaid cozens Samuel Spencer and William Spencer
Executors, [etc.].

[Signed, etc., nth Month 26, (Jan.), 1742-3. Witnesses: Peter
Cleaver, William Atkinson, John Lukens. Proved Jan. 13, 1743-4.]

Obviously he left no children, as none are mentioned, and his
estate is substantially all bequeathed to his two nephews, the
sons of his sister, whom he here calls, according to the old-
fashioned usage, "cousins," — that designation being then ap-
plied indifferently to any collateral blood relation more remote
than brother or sister. (He refers also, it will be noticed, to his
" cousin " Thomas Whitton, of Moreland, the son of his de-
ceased elder brother Thomas, and therefore his nephew.)

IV.

Samuel Spencer, 2nd.

AT the death of the father (Samuel of Barbadoes), his two
boys were very young. Samuel, bom in October, 1699,
was six years old, while William, born in February, 1701, was
under four. The latter had been but a baby when his mother
died, in August, 1702.'

The will of the father, as we have seen, gave exphcit direc-
tion that Samuel, after being provided with suitable clothes,
should be " forthwith " sent to "his relations" in Barbadoes.
It is necessary therefore to remark that there is no evidence
whatever that this instruction was carried out. Samuel Spencer
the younger, according to the best evidence we have, never set
foot in the West Indies. What view Joseph Maddox, the ex-
ecutor of the will, may have taken as to his duty in the prem-
ises, is only to be conjectured, but it is probable that he yielded
to the judgment that the boy would be as well off if left with
his nearest relations on his ' mother's side, in Pennsylvania,
his grandfather Robert Whitton, and his uncle Richard
Whitton, of Upper Dublin. At this time, too, England was
at war with France and Spain, and frequent alarms of hos-
tile ships being in Delaware Bay disturbed the movement of
vessels sailing from Philadelphia, so that the quiet folk in Upper
Dublin may have been deterred from contemplating so bold an

' The reader is again cautioned tliat these dates, preceding 1752, are " Old Style."
The year 1701 ended on the 24th of March, of what we should now call 1702. William
was but six months old at the death of his mother.

SAMUEL SPENCER, SECOND 23

adventure as the voyage of their little lad to the distant island of
Barbadoes. The tradition that both boys, Samuel and William,
were brought up by their mother's family, the Whittons, is un-
doubtedly correct. Samuel evidently did not receive much of
an education, as we find him signing his marriage certificate, at
the age of twenty-four, with a " mark," but we must recall that
the opportunities of schooling in a rural neighborhood of Penn-
sylvania, at the beginning of the Eighteenth Century, were pain-
fully limited.

John G. Spencer of Oxford Valley, Bucks county ' (descended
from William), recalled a tradition in his family that the two
lads (Samuel and William) arrived in this country about 1700,
" supposed to have been spirited away by relatives to prevent
their inheriting property in the old country which others desired
to hold." This tradition, as will be seen from a survey of the
facts already stated, is altogether m3'thical, and yet it sounds like
a distant and distorted echo of the circumstance that Samuel
was retained in Pennsylvania by his mother's relatives, instead of
being sent to Barbadoes.

The home of Richard Whitton, in Upper Dublin, where
the Spencer boys were brought up, is easily identified,
both by tradition and otherwise. The stone house which
Richard built, in 1724, is still standing, near the road which runs
from Jarrettown to the Welsh road. The house, at the foot of a
httle hill, which protects it on the northern side, is reached by a
short lane from the road, and has been little altered in the cen-
tury and three-quarters it has been standing, and except that the
woodlands around were doubtless more extensive and more
dense in the days when the orphan Spencer boys were gathering

1 Deceased March 31, 1897, at an advanced age. He furnished cheerfully con-
siderable material for this volume.

24 THE SPENCER FAMILY

chestnuts, or picking wild fruits and berries, the landscape, as it
spreads away southward, — a view of fertile slopes and gentle
valleys, — is much the same as then. The house, with a small
farm attached, was recently the property of Amos Erb. For
many years it was the home of Yardley Cadwallader, and
previously it had been part of the estate of James Spencer, to
whom it descended through his father, from Richard Whitton, as
will appear hereafter.

The first facts of importance which we really know of Samuel
Spencer, 2nd, relate to his marriage. His wife was Mary, the
daughter of Abraham and Edith Dawes, of Whitemarsh. The
marriage took place at Plymouth meeting-house, in June, 1723.
The certificate in full is as follows :

Whereas Samuel Spencer of Horsham, in the County of Philadel-
phia and Province of Pensilvania, Yeoman, and Mary Dawes, daughter of
Abraham Dawes, of White Marsh in the said County & Province, Yeoman,
having declared their Intention of Marriage with each other before two
Monthly Meetings of the People called Quakers held at Gwinedd in the
said County, according to the good order Used among them, whose Pro-
ceedings therein after a deliberate Consideration thereof and having Consent
of Parents and Relations concerned their said Proceeding was allowed by
the said meeting.

Now These are to Certifie all whom it may Concern that for the full ac-
complishing of their Said Intentions this Eighteenth Day of the fourth
month called June in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and twenty-
three the Said Samuel Spencer and Mary Dawes appeared at a Solemn As-
sembly of the Said people, for«the purpose appointed at the Publick Meet-
ing-house in Plimouth in the Said County and the said Samuel Spencer took
the said Mary Dawes by the hand and did in a Solemn manner openly
declare that he took her to be his Wife, promising to be unto her a Faith-
ful and loving Husband until Death should Separate them And then and
there in the said Assembly the Said Mary Dawes did likewise declare that
She took the Said Samuel Spencer to be her Husband, in like manner
promising to be unto him a Faithful and loving Wife until Death should

SAMUEL SPENCER, SECOND

25

Separate them and Moreover the said Samuel Spencer and Mary Dawes
She according to the custom of Marriage assuming the Name of her Hus-
band as Further Confirmation thereof did then and there to these presents
set their hands and We whose Names are under Written being present
among others at the Solemnization of the said Marriage and Subscription
in manner afforesaid as Wittnesses thereunto have also to these presents Set
our hands the Day and Year above written.

Christiana Dawes
Mary Owens
Hannah Rees
Sarah Palmer
Hannah Trotter
Mary Colston
Lowrey Evan
Gwen Davies
Sarah Hank
Elizabeth Mitchener
Joshua Holt
Samson Davies
Owen Owen
WiUiam Trotter
Edward Dawes
John Cadwalader
Jane Cadwalader

Rowland Ellis
Wm. Harmer
Jno Cadwalader
Evan Lloyd
David Meredith
John Shiers
William Coulston
Evan Thomas
Hugh Jones
Thomas Palmer
Abraham Dawes
Abraham Cadwalader
Elizabeth Dier
John Michener
Sarah Dawes
Elizabeth Whitton
Rebecca Illiff

his

Samuel [S] Spencer

mark

her

Mary [M] Spencer

mark
Abraham Dawes
Edith Dawes
Robert Whitton
Richard Whitton
John Dawes

his
Wm. [Y] Spencer

mark
Joseph Dawes
John Craft
Hannah Dawes '
Mary Dawes

If we endeavor to realize the circumstances and surroundings
of this wedding, we shall have to imagine the gathering of plain
people in the little meeting-house of the Friends at Plymouth.
Presuming that the bride and bridegroom had come from her
father's house, they had not rode far, for the home of Abraham
Dawes, in Whitemarsh, was on the road (now the " Butler " turn-
pike) which forms the line of Whitpain, the house standing near
the road, a fraction of a mile east of the hamlet of Broad Axe.'

^ The place in 1891 was occupied by John Martin, and belonged to the estate of
Reese Conrad.

26 THE SPENCER FAMILY

Here Abraham Dawes had purchased a tract of 250 acres, of
Jeremy Hopton, and in 171 5 had built his house. It is yet
standing, though so enlarged and altered that the original struc-
ture is not readily distinguished ; in the front wall, facing south-
ward, is the old date-stone, showing plainly the inscription, "A &
E D 1715."

Abraham Dawes is said to have come from London. He
was in Whitemarsh at least as early as 171 3, when he petitioned,
with nineteen others, for a review of the order laying out the
Skippack road. He describes himself in his will as a malster.
He was a Friend, and a prominent citizen, and evidently a pros-
perous man, for he left a good estate at his death. Besides the
property where he lived he bought in 1725 a tract of 125 acres
on " Chestnut Hill," of William Harmer, which he left to his
eldest son John (who, however, died before his father), and in
1726 he purchased 418 acres in Whitpain, of Reese Thomas
and others, most of which he left to his son Abraham Dawes,
Jr. He, — Abraham the elder, — made his will March 1 5, 1727 ;
it was proved May 14, 173 1. Its principal details are as follows :

He appoints his wife Edith Daws, and son John Daws executors.
(John died before the date of probate.) To his wife "the sum of £11 a
year during her naturall life to be paid her as I shall hereafter direct, and
that she shall have the room called my parlour during her life in the house
I now live in, along with her son Joseph, (if she thinks fit) &her son Joseph
to find and provide for her sufficient meat and drink & fire during her
naturall life, & she shall hkewise have the best bed in the house, and aU
the furniture fitting for her room. " To his " eldest son ' ' John Daws, ' ' my
tract of land, lying on the side and adjoyning to Chestnut Hill," reputed
to be 125 acres, John to pay on it £(> per annum to his mother, during her
life. To his son Abraham, 350 acres, "which 1 lately purchased of Reese
Thomas and Anthony Morris," he to pay ^^4 per annum on it to his mother,
during her life. To his son Joseph, "the plantation I now dwell on, re-
puted to be 246 acres of land, which I bought of Jeremy Hopton, and like-

SAMUEL SPENCER, SECOND 2/

wise I give him 105 acres, which I bought of Robert Ashton, and likewise
I give him 68 acres, part of my purchase of Reese Thomas and Anthony
Morris, to be laid out from George Castner's corner, all along by my line
down to William Harmar's, so broad as it will allow to make up the af d
complement of 68 acres," Joseph to pay 40 shillings a year to his mother.
To his daughter Mary, wife of Samuel Spencer, ^30. To his daughter
Sarah Daws ;£ 1 00, "at the age of eighteen or her marriage, whichever shall
first happen." Fifty acres of land, bought of John Edwards and Robert
Roberts, to be sold to the best advantage, and also so much of personal
estate as will pay all debts and legacies.

Of Abraham Dawes, Jr., the brother of Mary Spencer, it
may be added here that he was a prominent citizen of Whitpain.
In 1752 he was commissioned a Justice of the Peace, being the
first in that township. He married, first. Eighth month (Octo-
ber, O. S.) 20, 173 1, Mary Harry, daughter of David Harry, of
Whitemarsh. In 1736 he built on his tract the handsome house,
still standing, called Dawesfield, which passed by inheritance to
his great-granddaughter, Phebe Morris Lewis, wife of Saun-
ders Lewis, of Philadelphia.^ During its occupancy by James
Morris it was the headquarters of the American army from
October 19 to November 2, 1777, and both Washington and
Lafayette occupied rooms in the house during that period.
Abraham Dawes, Jr., had died just previously. His will is dated
Second month 24, 1765, and was proved February 24, 1776.
The following are the chief details :

He speaks of himself as " now in a very weak state of health." He
leaves to " Hannah, my well-beloved wife," " mybest Bedd," "my negro
wench Parthenia," etc. He appoints as executors his sons-in-law, Robert

1 It was for many years the summer home of Mr. Lewis and his family. Eliza-
beth, the daughter of Abraham Dawes, Jr., married James Morris (son of Joseph, of
Philadelphia), and after her father's death, 1776, acquired this property ; from her, in
1826, it passed to their daughter Hannah, who married Dr. Thomas C. James ; and
from her, in 1842, to their daughter Phebe Morris, who married Saunders Lewis.

28 THE SPENCER FAMILY

Tuckness,' of the city of Philadelphia, hatter, Abraham Shewmaker, of
Germantown, shop-keeper, and John Jones, Jr., of Germantown, tanner.
He leaves a bequest to Samuel Shewmaker, son of Abraham. To his
daughter Edith he leaves ' ' my young Negro girl, named Ester ; to daughter
Mary " my young negro boy named Jeppo." He mentions his daughter
Lydia as deceased, Mary as the wife of Robert Tuckness, and Tacey as
the wife of John Jones, also his daughters, Edith, Judith, Elizabeth, and
Rachel, to each of whom he gives £,'2.00 when they shall be 21 yfears old,
or married, " whichever shall first happen." He also speaks of "my six
daughters." In aCodicilto the will, dated Jan. 25, 1773, he increases the
bequest to his grandson Samuel Shoemaker to what his mother (Lydia)
"would have had if she had lived," and now divides his residuary estate
among "my five daughters," omitting Tacey from the list ; and also ap-
pointing Robert Tuckness and Jonathan Paul, " only " as executors.

Returning now to the marriage of Samuel and Mary Spencer,
at Plymouth meeting-house, we find among the company who
signed the certificate quite a number of notable and familiar
figures. All the signers named Dawes were probably of Abra-
ham's family. The Whittons we are acquainted with : Robert,
grandfather of the bridegroom, and Richard and Elizabeth, his
uncle and aunt. The bridegroom's brother William we also
know. A conspicuous figure in the meeting, no doubt, was the
Welsh patriarch, Rowland Ellis, who was now in the closing
years of his honored life, about seventy-four years old. He had
come from Bryn Mawr in Wales, in 1686, and settled in Merion,
but in 1720 had removed to Plymouth. (He died in 1729 at
Gwynedd at the house of his son-in-law, John Evans.) Another
prominent person (one of the two signing by this name) was
John Cadwalader, of Horsham, a preacher of note, who died in
1742 on the island of Tortola in the West Indies, and was buried

1 Plymouth Meeting (Gwynedd Monthly Meeting), marriage record says of
" Robert Tuckness, son of Henery Tuckness, late of the city of Burlington, in ye
Province of New Jersey, cordwainer, Dec'd," that he married Mary Dawes at Ply-
mouth m. h., Fifth month 17, 1764.

SAMUEL SPENCER, SECOND 29

there side by side with his traveling companion, John Estaugh.
And still another preacher in the company was William Trotter,
of Plymouth, youngest of the three. He was now but twenty-
eight years old, but he had " appeared in the ministry " at the
age of twenty-one. If all the ministers spoke on this occasion
he at least probably did not long detain the company, for his
memorial says his ministry " was not tedious or burdensome."
Then there were William Coulston; a well-known early settler of
Whitemarsh, and Thomas Palmer, a large landholder in Hors-
ham, — a neighbor of Samuel Spencer, who had rode over to
see his young friend married. Another witness was Sarah Hank,
the wife of John Hank, of Whitemarsh, She was the sister of
John Evans, of Gwynedd, and probably was the great-grand-
mother (or thereabout) of the mother of Abraham Lincoln.
William Harmer was Abraham Dawes's neighbor in Whitemarsh,
a large landholder. And there were a dozen or so Welsh neigh-
bors from Plymouth and Gwynedd — the Owens, the Jones's, the
Thomas's, the Merediths, the Lloyds, the Davies's, the Evans's,
and others, — most of them lately enough come from their native
hills to be still full of reminiscences of life in Wales.

The couple thus married lived together, — happily, it may be
presumed, — for fifty -three years, and both died in the very midst
of the tumults of the Revolutionary War, Mary a few days before
the day of the Declaration of Independence, and Samuel about
an equal space before the battle at Brandywine. She died June
16, 1776, and he August 30, 1777. His will, however, was not
proved until December, 1782, the long delay being due, we may
suppose, to the disturbed condition of public affairs. It was
made at the close of 1775, and describes the maker as being
then " weak of body." Its details are as follows :

30 THE SPENCER FAMILY

I Samuel Spencer, of Upper Dublin township, in the County of Phila-
delphia and Province of Pennsylvania, Yeoman, being weak of body
[etc.] First, my will is that all my just debts [etc.] be paid, Item I give
and bequeath unto my two sons Jacob and John at the time of my decease
and to their heirs and assigns forever all my Lands, Tenements, or Planta-
tions with Buildings, which at the time of my decease I may stand seized
of, to be divided equal in Quantity in manner as foUoweth : Beginning at
the Pennypack road ten perches northwest from the middle of that line
of my land, thence extending southwest three-fourths of the distance
through my land ; Thence southeast 30 perches ; Thence southwest the
other fourth part of the distance through my land to my lower line, each
one of them to have that part of the division adjoining the Plantations they
now live on, Jacob paying out of his part . . . £271, John paying out of
his part . . . £z77i lawful money of Pennsylvania, which £6/^^ is to be
paid in manner as I shall herein after direct.

Item, I give and bequeath unto Mary my beloved wife £10, to be paid
to her out of my personal estate [etc., also] £^^0 p. annum, to be paid to
her [yearly during her life. Also] one Bed at her Choice, with the proper
Furniture thereunto belonging, a case of Drawers, an Oval Table, six
Chairs, all my pewter, looking glass, and warming pan, all which I desire
her to accept of in lieu of her Right of Dower. Furthermore my will is
that if in case I should depart this life before the year of our Lord 1781
my Daughter Edith should have the uninterrupted Privilege of, my stove-
room, and to sit by the fire in the out-house, cook victuals therewith for ii
Home for herself and her two small children unto the beginning of the
af'sd provided she remain a widow until that time.

Item, I give and bequeath unto my eldest son Jacob J! 50 out of my
personal estate.

Item, I give and bequeath unto my other six children, viz. : Joseph,
Elizabeth, Nathan, Sarah, Edith, and Mary . . . ^{^61 8 lawful money of
Pennsylvania [in equal shares].

[His personal property to be sold, and his residuary estate to be
equally divided among the children] .

And lastly I do hereby nominate, constitute, and appoint my two sons
Jacob and John Spencer, and my son-in-law, Joseph Lukens, Executors.
. . . [Signed] this first day of the 12th month, 1775.

Samuel Spencer [his mark].
[Witnessed by] James Spencer, James McCrory, Samuel Spencer.

SAMUEL SPENCER, SECOND 3 I

One thing I have seen cause to alter before signing, concerning the
division of my Land between my two sons ; where mention is made of three-
fourths of the distance through my land my will is that that line be ex-
tended through all my cleared land to the edge of my woodland on the first
described course, Thence on the other two courses mentioned, so as to
add more woodland to my son John's part, and divide the place equal in
quantity between my two sons.

[Proved 7th December 1782 by James Spencer and Samuel Spencer,
they affirming ' ' that the writing below the within written Will was the in-
tent and meaning of the Testator to be a part of his last will and Testa-
ment, it being wrote before and at the time the Testator declared the said
writing to be his last will and testament." The will appears to be drawn
by James Spencer, — judging from the similarity of the handwriting and
his signature as witness] .

Samuel Spencer appears to have been a prosperous man.
He bought, March 4th, 1723, of Jonathan Hood, 250 acres of
land. This had come to Jonathan Hood through several
transfers.

The eastern corner of what is now Upper Dublin Township
is marked on " Holme's Map of Original Purchases " made in
168 1, (and added to later), as granted to Samuel Claridge. He,
of course, was a non-resident, and apparently he did not take
out a Patent at all. Thomas Holme, however, did receive the
Patent, "in right of Samuel Claridge," in 1688, and the transfers
down to Samuel Spencer thus were, (as found on the back of a
later deed) :

1. Patent to Thomas Holme, in right of Sam'l Claridge, for 2,500
acres. Recorded in Rolls Office, Philad'a, 8th of the 5th mo., 1688.
Patent Book A, p. 237.

2. Deed of Silas Crispin, in behalf of the said Thomas Holme, to
Jno. [Joseph?] Hood for 1,000 acres. Recorded in the Rolls Office,
Philad'a' 25th of ye nth mo. 1697-8, in Book E 3, vol. 5, p. 44.

3. Deed, the said John [Joseph ?] Hood to his son Jonathan Hood,
for 500 acres, dated October i6th, 1708.

32 THE SPENCER FAMILY

4. Deed, said Jonathan Hood, to Samuel Spencer, for 250 acres, dated
4th of the 1st mo., called March, 1723.

This land, purchased of Hood, adjourned that held by the
Whittons : as we have already seen, in the mortgage which they
' made to Henry Johnson, in 1 709, (see p. 20) the lower line ran
for 160 perches along the property of Joseph Hood.' Probably
the Hoods had not occupied the land, and Samuel Spencer may,
therefore, have been the first who began its tillage.

Having thus purchased 250 acres in 1723, we cannot explain
why Samuel Spencer is assessed in 1734 for only 100 acres.
Whether he had meantime sold a part of his tract, or whether
we are to ascribe the discrepancy to the assessor, is not plain.
The " Return of 1734" is recorded as being "according to the
uncertain returns of the assessors," and it is evident they were
not very exact.

Samuel Spencer was an active member of the Society of
Friends. The minutes of Abington Monthly Meeting show him
frequently appointed, for many years, on the various services of
the meeting. It appears, also, that he was a recognized minis-
ter. He made at least two extended trips in the ministry, — one
to Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, in 1746, and the
other to "the Northern Colonies," in 1752. The minutes at
Abington are as follows :

6th mo. 25, 1746. " Our friend Sam'l Spencer requests the Concur-
rence & Certificate of friends of this meeting to Travel in the Service of
Truth to the provinces of Mary Land Virginia and North Carolina."
Robert Comly and Peter Comly were appointed to inquire into the concern.
— Next month the certificate was granted.

nth mo. 23, 1746. "A certificate from a mo: meeting of frd's held
in the county of Pasquetanck & province of No ■ Carolina Dated ye ist of

1 There is apparently an error somewhere in the records, as to this name. One calls
him Joseph and another John-

SAMUEL SPENCER, SECOND 33

nth mo. last & another Do from a mo : meeting of frd's held in Nance-
mond in the province of Virginia Dated the 8th day of i ith mo. last, was
produced to this meeting by our frd Samuel Spencer, Both signifying the
good satisfaction Said friends had in the late visit of our sd friend to these
parts. Which certificates was read and well received."

2nd mo. 25, 1748. "A certificate was produced to this meeting by
our fr'd Samuel Spencer from a mo : meeting of West River in Maryland,
dated the 27th of 5th mo : 1747, Signifying their unity and satisfaction in a
visit our sd friend made sometime ago to those parts on Truth's acct — ^the
which was read and well received."

The minute made at West River Monthly Meeting when this
certificate was prepared, is as follows :

"At a monthly meeting held at West River, Anne Arundel county.
Maryland, Eleventh month 30, 1747, copies of Samuel Spencer's and John
Scarborough' s' certificates from Abington and Buckingham Monthly Meet-
ings, in the Province of Pensylvania, signifying that Friends united with
them as members and ministers, was communicated to this meeting, and
approved of, also [return] certificates for our said friends to the aforesaid
monthly meetings. ' '

The journey to New England is thus minuted at Abington
Monthly Meeting :

7th mo. 27, 1752. "Our fr'd Samuel Spencer acquaints this m'g that
he has a Concern of visiting frd's in the northern Colonies on a rehgious
acct. Requesting the Concurrence and Certificate of this m'g on that Occa-
sion, "[etc.] Thomas Loyd and Ellis Lewis were appointed to make in-
quiry. Next month the certificate was granted.

3d mo. 26, 1753. " Our friend Samuel Spencer being lately returned
from his visit to friends in the northern Colonies now produced two Certifi-
cates, the one from frd's of Dartmouth Monthly Meeting, in New England,
and the other from a mo : meeting of frd's at Westbui-y on Long Island,
both signifying that the visit was well accepted and to satisfaction."

• There is a memorial of John Scarborough, by Buckingham Monthly Meeting,
in the Collection of Memorials published by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1877.
He appeared in the ministry about 1740, and "at different times visited most of the
northern colonies." He died Fifth month 5, 1769, in his 66th year.
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34 THE SPENCER FAMILY

William Nichols, of Columbiana, Ohio, in a note dated
Seventh month 29, 1891 (forwarded to the author by William
Piggott, of Virginia), says :

" I have an old returning minute from Westbury Monthly Meeting, on
Long Island, 27th of Twelfth month, 1752, for Samuel Spencer, on his
return from a religious visit to New England, addressed to Abington
Monthly Meeting, Pa. My father preserved it as a memento of olden
times, often showing it to us as an example of good old simplicity."

This certificate in full is as follows :

From our monthly meeting held in the meeting house at Westbury on
Longisland ye 17th day the 12th mo 1752

To the monthly meeting of friends at Abbington in Pensilvania — Dear
friends and Brethren, in a degree of pure and unfeigned Love we Salute
you, And by this Informe you that our Esteemed friend Samuel Spencer
(in his Return home from New England) has visited friends in most or all
of Our meetings Belonging to this monthly meeting ; Wherein his Publick
Testimony was well received — -Being Sound and Edifying ;_ His conversa-
tion Examplary and agreeable to our Christian profession ; which for good
Orders sake we were willing to Communicate to you : Being Desireous for
his Preservation in the Truth and the Blessed Reward of peace in his own
Bosom at his Return home from this visit.

From your friends and Brethren in the fellowship of the gospel.
Signed in and on behalf of our Said meeting by
Richard Willets Richard Vallantine Peter Titus

Samuel Prior Thos : Pearsall, Ju'r Joshua Cock

Jos : Carpenter Thomas Powell James Chichester

Thomas Seaman Obediah Valentine John Titus

Jacob Seaman Jacob Mott Joseph Wood

Sam'l Dodge Wait Powell John Cock

Jeremiah Wood Samuel Willis Tristram Dodge

Mathew Prior

The home of Samuel Spencer 2nd, was in Upper Dublin,
and an old house on the premises now (1897) the Estate of
Joshua W. Paxson, in the rear of the larger and more modem

SAMUEL SPENCER, SECOND 35

dwelling in which he lived, was always designated by tradition
as the Spencer place. For many years it was used as a tenant-
house of the Paxson farm. Inside it was substantially built, of
oak, and there were curious old closets which marked it as a
building of the early Colonial times. We have no means of
knowing precisely when it was built, but we may presume not
distant from the time of Samuel and Mary's marriage, in 1723.
In this house, doubtless, their large family was born and grew
up. The view given herewith is from a photograph, taken in
August, 1891, and shows the front of the house, (the south side,
looking over the intervales toward Camp Hill.) The house was
torn down in 1894.

The children of Samuel and Mary Spencer were thirteen in
number, of whom eight lived to marry, and survived their par-
ents. Edith, next to the youngest of all, whose first husband
was George Shoemaker, had already become a widow in 1775,
when her father made his will, — as appears from the provision he
makes for her.

V.

IVilliam Spencer, of Bucks.

CONCERNING William Spencer, the brother of Samuel, 2nd,
and the younger of the two orphans named in the will of
the first Samuel, we know a number of substantial facts.
Reared, no doubt, by his mother's relatives, as Samuel was,
William married, ten years later than his brother, and removed
to Bucks county, where he lived and died, scarcely passing the
period of middle life. His wife was Elizabeth, the daughter of
Ellis Lewis, of Upper Dublin, and their marriage occurred at
the meeting-house of the Friends, at Gwynedd, Third month
(May) 24, 1733. The certificate reads as follows :

Whereas William Spencer son of Sam' 11 Spencer, Late of Horsham, in
the County of Philadelphia, and Province of Pensilvania, Deceased, and
Elizabeth Lewis, Daughter of Ellis Lewis, of Upper Dublin in the County
and province aforesaid Having Declared their Intentions of Marriage with
each other before several monthly meetings of the People called Quakers
held att Gwynedd in the said County ace' ding to the Good Order used
Amongst them, and having Consent of parents and Relatives Concerned
their said proposal was allowed of by the said Meeting Now These are to
Certifie whom it may concern yt for ye full accomplishing of their said In-
tentions this Twenty fourth day of the Third month 1733, They the said
William Spencer and Eliz'th Lewis appeared in a Publick Meeting of the
said People for that purpose appointed att Gwynedd afors'd, and the said
Wm. Spencer taking the said EUz. Lewis by ye hand [etc., after the usual
form of the Friends' marriage certificate, and signed] :

36

WILLIAM SPENCER, OF BUCKS

17

John Conrad
John Tyson
Evan Griffith
John Humphrey
John Jones
Evan Griffith
Geo: Lewis
Rob't Humphrey
Charles Hubbs
Robert Robert
Thomas Fitzvyater

Jane Lewis
Mary Spencer
Marg't Jones
Mary Fitzwater
Jane Lewis
Jane Robert
Gwen Morris
Jane Jones
Eliz'a Davis
Eliz'a Jones
Eliz'a Roberts
Eldad Roberts
Robert Evans
Mary Evans

Wm. Spencer
Eliz'a Spencer
Ellis Lewis
Anne Lewis
Sam'U Spencer
Richard Whitton
Eliza. Whitton
Lewis Lewis
Ann Lewis
Ellis Lewis
Mary Lewis
John Robert
Mordica Robert
Row : Hugh
John Roberts
Ed'd Ffoulke

The signers to this certificate are nearly all easily recognized.
The right-hand column is first occupied, — according to the
usage, — with the family of the contracting parties. First there is
Ellis Lewis with his wife Anne, parents of the bride. Their
home was on the farm which they owned in the north corner of
Upper Dublin township, where the hamlet of Three Tons now
is, — property which passed out of the possession of their de-
scendants within a few years, being purchased by Thomas and
Wilmer Atkinson. The other Lewises who signed were the
children of Ellis and Anne, with their wives and husbands.
Lewis Lewis had married Anne Lord ; Ellis (2nd) had married
Mary Tyson, daughter of Matthias and Mary, of Abington ;
Jane, (who signed at the top of the second column), was not yet
married, but her signature would have been the same, as she
married (1736) Enos Lewis, of Gwynedd, and so did not change
her name. Samuel Spencer and Mary were in the company, of
course, and so were Uncle Richard Whitton and his wife, Eliza-

38 THE SPE'NCER FAMILY

beth, she being alive, as appears from this signature, as late as
1733. Among the other signatures are those of Edward
Foulke, Robert Evans, and John Humphrey, prominent men of
Gwynedd, since they were of the Welsh company who came
when that township was first settled, in the autumn of 1698.

The Lewis family of Upper Dublin were Welsh, as their
name would suggest. Ellis and Anne, the parents of Elizabeth
Spencer, were the first in the township, and came there, it is said,
from the Welsh settlement in Merion. The time of their coming
was probably about or soon after 1700. From the dates of the
births of their children, they were probably married about that
time, and removed to make their new home in Upper Dublin.
The small stone house in the lane, on what was for many years
the Lukens place, now (1897) belonging to Mr. McCallum, was
built, it is said, by the pioneer Ellis Lewis, and he also built the
middle portion of the larger house near by, formerly the home
of John L. Jones, but now belonging to Wilmer Atkinson, and
used as a tenant-house.

William Spencer did not remain at Upper Dublin, but having
purchased a tract of about six hundred acres of land in Bucks
county, lying mainly in Northampton township, extending into
Warminster, he removed there, and, as already stated, died there,
in 1756. In 1745 he inherited, under the will of his uncle Rich-
ard Whitton, one-half of the latter's estate in Upper Dublin, and
this he left to his son James, who held and occupied it for more
than half a century.

The will of William Spencer is on record in the office of the
Register of Wills of Bucks county, in Will Book 2, page 291.
In substance it is as follows :

WILLIAM SPENCER, OF BUCKS 39

The 29th day of February, A. D. 1756, I, William Spencer, of North-
ampton township, [etc.] yeoman, being sick and weak of body, but of
sound mind, memory, and understanding, [etc.]

I give and bequeath unto my eldest son James Spencer one horse and
one mare and saddle that are now called his own ; and I give and be-
queath unto my son Thomas Spencer one mare and saddle now usually
called his own. And all the residue of my personal estate I give and be-
queath unto my beloved wife, Elizabeth, and my two daughters, Anna and
Sarah, to be equally divided : but my wife shall have the use of my said
daughters' estate until they shall respectively attain their ages of 2 1 years.

I give and bequeath unto my before named son James a messuage,
plantation, and all the land there^mto belonging, formerly the property of
my uncle Richard Whitton, situate in Upper Dublin township, containing
about 150 acres to be by him. enjoyed as soon as he shall attain to the age
of 24 years. [Subject, however, to the payment of .^150 to the widow,
and also of ^4 per annum to her after October 25, 1766, " provided she
be a widow, whether in my name or any other," and also of ^25 " unto
the child whereof my said wife is now pregnant (provided she be so) when
the said child shall attain the age of 21 years."]

I will that my Plantation and Land where I now dwell in the county
of Bucks be divided in three parts : as one hundred acres is in Warmin-
ster and the rest in Northampton, there shall be fifty acres with the house
in which I now dwell taken off from the land in Northampton contiguous
to the said 100 acres, by a line beginning in the line of Derrick Kroesen's
land, and running thence northwest to William Ramsey's land. And the
remainder of land in Northampton shall be divided into two equal parts
by a line beginning in the line of Jonathan Willetts's land, and running
thence southwest to the Hne of the fifty acres before mentioned.

And I give and bequeath unto my son Thomas Spencer that part of
the said land adjoining to John Beard's land, and on which Leonard
Kroesen now dwells to be by him enjoyed when he shall attain the age of
21 years. [Subject to £\oo to the widow, and ^25 to the supposed un-
born child.]

I give and bequeath unto my son Samuel Spencer that messuage
where I now dwell with 150 acres of land, according to the first mentioned
division, when he shall attain the age of 24 years. [Subject to the same
provisions as the devise to James.]

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THE SPENCER FAMILY

I give, devise, and bequeath unto my son Enoch Spencer the other
division, being that adjoining the lands of Garret Kroesen and Derrick
Kroesen, on which EHzabeth Dean now dwells, when he shall attain his
full age of 21 years. [Subject to the conditions required in the devise to
Thomas.]

[Further provision is made for the ultimate division of the personal
estate, shares being given to his sons Job and Abel, He appoints his wife
Elizabeth and his son James executors. The will is dated (as above) Feb.
29, 1756, and was proved April 22, 1756. The witnesses were Joseph
Hart, Leonard Kroesen, and John Hart.]

Eight children were born to WiUiam and EHzabeth. The
Hst of these is preserved in the Friends' records of Abington
Monthly Meeting, where their membership remained. The
youngest recorded is Abel, who was in his third year when his
father died, and there is no mention of a posthumous child.

We proceed, now, to a more concise and orderly statement
of the Genealogy of the later generations of the family, adding
here a diagram to show the facts already stated :

Samuel Spencer
From Barbadoes

DIAGRAM : FIRST TWO GENERATIONS.

Robert Whitton, of Yorkshire,
Emigrated to Pennsylvania.

Thomas
(Moreland. )

J'-AMUEL Spencer, 2nd
of Upper Dublin,
m. Mary Dawes.

Richard Joseph
(U. Dublin.) d.

William Spencer

of Northampton,
m. Elizabeth Lewis.

Katharina
?

VI.

The Spencer Genealogy.

NOTES.

1. The Roman numerals (I., II., etc.) placed at the beginning of
the family headings, and preceding lists of children show the number of
the generation, counting from the first Samuel and his wife Elizabeth.

2. The Arabic numerals (i, 3, etc.), running through the Genealogy,
are individual, each person belonging to the Family (including generally
those by marriage), receiving a distinct number, by which he or she may
be identified if subsequently named.

3. The character ^ following a name or line in the lists of children
signifies that the person named will again be taken up as one of the par-

- ents of a family, and his or her children be separately named.

4. Where the character P does not follow a numbered name or line
it signifies that nothing further will be given concerning that person.

5. It has not been attempted to completely trace all female lines.

I. — I. — Samuel Spencer, merchant, previously of " Barbadoes,"
originally, no doubt, from England, was in Pennsylvania
about 1700, and may have come a few years earlier. He
died there, 1705. The time and place of his birth are not
known. His will indicates that he had relatives in Bar-
badoes when it was made, 1705. His wife was (2) Eliza-
beth, daughter of Robert Whitton, who came, from
Snape, in Yorkshire, England. Their home after mar-
riage is presumed to have been in or near Upper Dublin,
Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county, Pa. Elizabeth
died there August 8, 1702, " of small pox," according to

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42 THE SPENCER FAMILY

the family tradition. Samuel died between November 26,
and December 20, 1705, his will being made on the former
date, and proved on the latter. They left two small
children :

//. Children of Samnel and Elizabeth Spencer :

3. Samuel, 6. 8. 22. 1699, m. Mary, dau. of Abraham and Edith
Dawes. ^

4. William, 6. 11. i. 1701, ot. Elizabeth, dau. of EUis and Anne
Lewis. ^

II. (3) Samuel Spencer, son of (i) Samuel and Elizabeth,
born Eighth month (October, O. S.) 22, 1699, probably in
Upper Dublin, left an Orphan at a tender age, reared by the
family of his mother, the Whittons, married Fourth month
(June) 18, 1723, (5) Mary, daughter of Abraham and Edith
Dawes, of Whitemarsh, Philadelphia (now Montgomery)
county, the ceremony being according to the order of the
Society of Friends, in their meeting-house at Plymouth.
Mary was born Eleventh month (January) 22, 1701.
Samuel bought property in Upper Dublin ; inherited some
in 1743 under the will of his mother's brother, Richard
Whitton ; and also bought land in Moreland. He lived, it
appears, on the property now (1897) the estate of Joshua W.
Paxson, in Upper Dublin, .adjoining the line of Horsham.
On the tax list of 1734 he is assessed for 100 acres of land,
in Upper Dublin. In the list of 1776 he is marked "aged,"
and is assessed for i 50 acres. He died Sixth month 30,
1777. His wife, Mary, died Fourth month 16, 1776.

11/. Children of Samuel and Mary Spencer :

6. Jacob, 6. 2. 16. 1724, m. Hannah Jarrett. ^

7. Joseph, 6. 2. 21. 1726, m. Hannah Lukens, Abigail Conrad. ^

8. Edith, d. 11. 28. 1727, d. " in her 14th year."

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9. Elizabeth, b. 10. I. 1729, m. Joseph Lukens. ^

10. John, b. 9. I. 1731, in. Elizabeth Kirk. P

11. Nathan, b. 5. 30. 1734, m. Hannah Lofborough. ^

12. Sarah, b. 3. 14. 1736, m. William Nichols. ^

13. Abraham, b. 8. 17. 1738, d. aged 3.

14. Richard, b. 6. 16. 1740, rf. in childhood.

15. Richard, b. 9. 16. 1742, ^. in childhood.

16. William, ^. 11. 8. 1743 ; (probably d. young.)

17. Edith, b. 3. 22. 1746, m. ist, George Shoemaker, 2nd, Joseph
Clark. P

18. Mary, b. 8. 28. 1750, m. Jonathan Roberts. ^

II. (4) William Spencer, son of (i) Samuel and Elizabeth,
born Eleventh month (January, O. S.) i, 1701, probably in
Upper Dublin, left an orphan, reared probably by Richard
Whitton, his uncle, married Third month (May, O. S.) 24,
1733. (19) Elizabeth, daughter of Ellis and Anne Lewis, of
Upper Dublin, the ceremony at Gwynedd meeting-house,
according to the order of Friends. William died in Bucks
county. Third month 20 (or 28), 1756 : he was buried in the
Friends' ground at Horsham. The membership of the
family had continued at Horsham, but Seventh month 26,
1762, Elizabeth obtained a certificate of Abington Monthly
Meeting for herself " and four of her children, Sarah, Sam-
uel, Enoch, and Abel,'^ to Middletown Monthly Meeting,
Bucks county. She died Fourth month 11, 1789, "aged
84 years and one month."

///. Children of William and Elizabeth Spencer :

20. James, b. 3. 16. 1734, m. Sarah Walton, Elizabeth Marple. ^

21. Thomas, b. 9. i. 1736, m. Mary Hallowell. ^

22. Ann, b. 11. 16. 1737, m. James Hayhurst, of Middletown,
Bucks county, cordwainer, at Horsham m. h., under care of
Abington Monthly Meeting, 4th mo. 7, 1757.

23. Sarah, b, 1.6. 1739.

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24. Samuel, b. 8. 14. 1742, m. ^

25. Enoch, 3. 12. 8. 1744, »2. ^

26. Job, 3. I. 8. 1750, m. Hannah Kenderdine (widow). ^

27. Abel, b. 8. 8. 1753, m. Rebecca Hayhurst. ^

III. (6) Jacob Spencer, of Moreland, Montgomery county,
Penna., (in his lifetime, Philadelphia county), son of (3) Sam-
uel and Mary, of Upper Dublin, was born Second month
(April, O. S.) 16, 1724. He married (28) Hannah Jarrett.
She was born Second month (April, O. S.), 1726. The cer-
tificate of their marriage, now preserved by his great-great-
grandson, Jesse F. Spencer, is as follows :

Whereas Jacob Spencer, of Upper Dublin Township, in the county of
Philadelphia, in the Province of Pensyl'a, yeoman, and Hannah Jarret of
the Township of Horsham, in the county and Province af 'd. Having De-
clared their Intentions of Marriage with each other before several monthly
meetings of the people called Quakers at Abington Meeting House [etc.]
Now These are to Sartifye [etc.] this Twenty-First Day of the Ninth month,
in the Yiare of our Lord 1745, they the said Jacob Spencer and Hannah
Jarret appeared in a Publick meeting of the People called Quakers at Hors-
ham and the said Jacob Spencer, Taking- the said Hannah Jarret by the
Hand did in a Sollem Mannor Openly Declare that He Took Her the s' d
Hannah Jarret to be His Wife, Promising through God's Assistince to be
Unto Her a Loving and FaithfuU Husband Untill (it Shall Please God by)
Death to Separate them, and then and there [Hannah made the corre-
sponding pledge, etc. Signed by :]

Jacob Spencer
Hannah Spencer
John Evans John Luckens Ju Samuel Spencer

Ellis Lewis Abraham Lucken Mary Spencer

Mary Le\vis Joseph Lucken John Jarret

Peter Cleaver Mary Dawes Mary Jarret

Robert Comely ju Lydia Dawes John Jarret, Jr.

Thos Rose Jacob Cadwalader Alse Jarret

Joseph Spencer Magdalene Cadwalader Joseph Kenderdine

Margret Rose Jno Spencer Mary Kenderdine

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Margaret Hallowell Mary Kirk Abraham Dawes

Thomas Hewitt Robert Comly William Spencer

Rynear Kirk Derick Tyson Anne Lucken

Sarah Kirk William Hallowell Elisabeth Spencer

John Palmer James Paul Daniel Pastorius

[and by 31 others. Some of these signatures convey the impression, upon
careful scrutiny, of having been placed on the certificate at a later time
than the marriage. Among the witnesses, for example is Hannah Spencer.
But at the time of this marriage, 1745, there was no person of that name
in the family, except the bride herself, whose signature is given, as above,
as one of the contracting parties. Later, in 1747, Hannah Lukens, by
marrying Joseph Spencer, acquired the name, and in 1754 Hannah
Lofborough also became Hannah Spencer.]

The parents of Jacob Spencer's wife Hannah were John and
Mary Jarrett, of Horsham. John Jarrett was the first of his
family in that township. He probably was not, as tradition has
reputed him, from Scotland, ("from the Highlands," one form
of it says), but doubtless was one, or a son of one of the German
or Holland company who settled at Germantown. Old records
show his name spelled Jerrett, and this was no doubt a variation
of Gerrett. Jacob Gerrett, or Gerrets, was in Germantown in
1703, and in the Horsham assessment of 1734 John Jarrett's
name is spelled John Garret. (He is assessed for 200 acres of
land.) His wife Mary was a daughter of Jan Lucken, the immi-
grant, of Germantown, which makes the probability of his
German blood all the more strong.

John Jarrett died in 1759. His will was dated Fourth month
22, of that year, and proved a few weeks later, Sixth month 13.
Its main features are as follows :

" I, John Jarret, of Horsham Township, [etc.], yeoman, being weak
in body [etc.] I give and bequeath unto Mary, my well beloved wife,
my large folio Bible, my best Bed, Bedstead, and Furniture thereunto be-
longing. Six chairs. Six silver tea-spoons. Teakettle and China ware, an

46 THE SPENCER FAMILY

oval table, Two pewter Dishes, Six plates and Six spoons, a large Kettle
and Iron pott, and also one Horse Bridle and Saddle and two Cows, and
also one Spinning wheel, reel, etc., all for her own proper use and behoof.
And my will further is that my said Wife shall have my Messuage, planta-
tion, and two Tracts of Land thereunto belonging, whereon I now dwell
and Receive and Take the Rents issues and proffits thereof (without com-
mitting any waste thereon) for her own use. And further my :vill is that
my Executors herein after named do pay unto my said Loving Wife for her
support in her Declining Years the just and full sum of Twelve pounds
Money of Pennsilvania Yearly and every year during her Natural life [etc. J
Nevertheless the above Bequests & Devises . . . are upon this Con-
dition that she remain my widow ' ' [otherwise a different and less liberal
provision is made for her.] To his granddaughter Mary Kenderdine " the
proportionate part of my estate that I intended for her mother," ;£ioo,
half when she is 21 years old, the other half a year after his wife's de-
cease. To his daughter Hannah Spencer jSjo, and to her children ^i 50.
To his grandson John Jarret " all my messuage and Lott of Land there-
unto belonging which I now Live on, Containing about 27 acres, with the
buildings" [etc.] he to pay £\o to the Executors. To his grandson
William Jarret " all those my 47 acres I purchased of the Executor of
Peter Lukens, dec'd . . he paying unto his Two Brothers Jonathan

and David ^20 each. ' ' And as for and concerning the residue and re-
mainder of my Estate ... I give and bequeath the same unto my
loving son John Jarret. [He appoints his said son John Jarret, and his
son-in-law Jacob Spencer Executors, and my Esteemed Brothers in Law
Abraham Lukens and Joseph Lukens, and my Son in Law Joseph Kender-
dine, Trustees of this my Will."]

Mary Jarrett, the widow, survived her husband several years
— at least as late as 1772. Her will is dated in that year, and
runs as follows :

Be it Remembered that I Mary Jarret of the Township of Horsham
[etc.] widow of John Jarret of the same place aforesaid deceased, being
weak in body [etc.] My will is that all my just debts [etc., be paid.]
Item I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Hannah Spencer my riding
mare and my iron pip'd stove . . . unto Jarret Spencer, my grandson, all

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my bonds and cash, and my Large Bible . . . unto my Grand Daughter
Mary Spencer all my Beds and Bedding thereunto belonging, and six silver
tea-spoons . . . unto Samuel Spencer my grandson a colt of three years
old . . . unto Mary Tomkins, my Grand Daughter, my best gown and
quilted petticoat . . . also unto my Daughter Hannah Spencer afforesaid
all the residue and remainder of my Estate. [Grandson Jarret Spencer,
Executor. Signed Ninth month 22, 1772. J

The home of Jacob Spencer is still in the possession of his
descendants of the family name. It is a farm, which originally
consisted of 200 acres, and occupied the north corner of the
township of Moreland. To this Jacob added by purchase ; later,
after division among his sons, some parts were sold.

The original tract of 200 acres was bought at '' Publick Ven-
due," November 17, 173 S, by Samuel Spencer, and, for £160.
It hadbelo nged to the estate of Ralph Dunn, of Northampton,
Bucks county, being part of a tract of 300 acres which he
owned in Moreland, and had been ordered to be sold at public
sale by the Court of Chancery in Philadelphia. It was accord-
ingly so sold by Sarah Evans, " lately called Sarah Dunn,
widow, rehct and Executrix " of Ralph Dunn, and was purchased,
as already said, by Samuel Spencer. The conveyance to him is
dated December 2, 1735.

In 1746, Samuel Spencer and Mary deeded this property to
their son Jacob, for £i'io. In the meantime a substantial house
had been built on it. The tradition of the family is that this was
erected in 1744, — the year before Jacob's marriage, — and if this
date is correct the building was doubtless done with the view of
his settling there with his, expected wife. The old house is not
now standing, but that which took its place is on the same site.
A letter from Anna Spencer, of Germantown, Fifth month 30,
1 89 1, says :

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' ' According to some memoranda that I have, our house [Moreland]
was built for my great-grandfather, Jacob Spencer, by his father, in 1744.
I hardly can say the house is still standing, tho' the one now occupied
by my brother John is on the very same spot, and they claim it to be the
old house. When my grandfather, John, was married, in 1783, two new
rooms were added to the west side, and they are still there, much the same,
but my brother took down the older part in 1879, and rebuilt, using the
same stone."

An old clock stands in the dining-room at the Jacob Spencer
place. Of this Anna Spencer says :

" It was purchased by my father, Jesse Spencer, at a public sale at
John Spencer's [in Upper Dublin ; brother of Jacob] after his death, in
181 2. The clock was at that time so old that my father asked Isaiah
Lukens, a prominent clock-maker to examine it, and see whether it was
worth purchasing. Isaiah did so, and said he guessed it would run for
another hundred years. It still keeps very good time. ' '

The deed of Samuel and Mary, conveying the 200 acres to
Jacob, is dated Eighth month 10, 1746.1 It identifies the property
as the same which had been purchased of the Dunn estate, and
describes it by metes and bounds. Beginning " at a stone, a cor-
ner of Dirk Tyson's land, and a corner of the Manor of More-
land," it extended north-east by the land of Dirk Tyson and
Thomas Palmer, in Horsham, 1761^ perches. The line then
ran south-east 181^ perches, by land of Paul Penington and
Thomas Penington, to a corner of Thomas Hallowell's land ;
then south-west by his land 176%; perches to a stone ; and then
north-west " along the old Manor line," the present "Welsh
Road," 1811^ perches, to the place of beginning.

It was thus an exact parallelogram, and very nearly a square,
occupying the corner of the township. Along the north side the

'As the fact of Samuel making his " mark" to his wedding certificate has been
noted, it is only fair to mention that he signed his name, in plain, if not flowing char-
acters, to this deed. His wife made a " mark."

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 49

present township line road had not yet been opened. This was
laid out in May, 1770, by order of the Court, by a jury com-
posed of John Jarret (Jacob Spencer's brother-in-law), Abraham
Lukens, Robert Iredell, Samuel Erwin, Isaac Knight, and Jacob
Tomkins, and was confirmed by the Court in the June following.
' As laid out it was thus described in the jury's report :

' ' Beginning at the corner between the Manor of Moorland and Town-
ship^ of Horsham, in Pennepack Road ; Thence north 42° 10' east, 415
perches to a Road leading to Greime Park (bearing due North and South
22° East) and 127 perches to a road leading to Daniel Thomas's mill and
the Crooked Billet ; in all 542 perches on the line that divides the Manor
of Moorland from the Township of Horsham, between the Land of Jacob
Spencer, Caleb Davies, William Lukens, Anthony McNeal, and Laurence
Sentman, of the Manor of Moorland, and Derick Tyson, the Widow
Kenderdine, John Palmer, and John Cadwallader, of the Township of
Horsham."

Besides the farm purchased from his father, Jacob Spencer
added to it, in 1768, a tract of 47 acres. This adjoined the
main place on the eastern side, and was bought of John Care
and his wife Mary. The deed bears date June 10, 1768. John
Care is described as "of the Northern Liberties, in the county
of Philadelphia, inn holder and sadle-tree maker." Besides ad-
joining " Jacob Spencer's other land," it joined the property
also of Paul Pennington, Thomas Pennington, and Robert
Barnes, and one of the courses ended " at a stone on the bank
of a run of water, near a beech tree." The purchase was made,
very probably, to secure more water and meadow. The price
was £2,70.

In addition to the Moreland property Jacob also had his
share of the tract in Upper Dublin, which under the will of his
father, as we have seen,' was divided between him and his brother

^ See will of Samuel Spencer 2d, p. 30.
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50 THE SPENCER FAMILY

John. This Upper Dublin land lay along the Welsh road, and
forms part of the present farm of Joshua W. Paxson. Near the
close of his life (he died in 1782), Jacob's large estate appears
to have been divided among his three sons. Samuel acquired
the Upper Dublin land, and Jarrett and John most of that in
Moreland. Subsequently, as we shall hereafter more particularly
mention, Samuel sold the Upper Dublin property, — part of it to
his uncle John Spencer, at whose death it descended to his
daughter, Elizabeth Mcllvaine, and afterward came by purchase
to the Paxson family.

Jacob and Hannah Spencer had seven children. Of these
four grew up, and three married. The other three died in child-
hood, within three days, in the Eighth month, 1768, — Elizabeth
just past fifteen, Susanna almost ten, and Sarah in her eighth
year. Dysentery, a scourge apparently more fatal in old times
than now, caused this sad and sudden desolation of the family.
Jacob died Tenth month 28, 1782. Hannah died Ninth month
14, 1801.

IV. Children of Jacob and Hannah Spencer :

29. Jarrett, b. Nov. 10, 1746, m. Hannah Evans. P

30. Mary, b. Dec. 31, 1748, d. 4th mo., 1815, unm.

31. Samuel, b. Feb. 2, 1750-51, m. Mary Fitzwater. "§>

32. Elizabeth, b. 7. 6, 1753, d. 8. 18, 1768.

33. John, b. 5. 29, 1756, m. Lydia Foulke. ^

34. Susanna, b. 9. 6, 1758, d. 8. 20, 1768.

35. Sarah, b. 2. 23, 1761, d. 8. 21, 1768.

III. (7) Joseph Spencer, second son of (3) Samuel and Mary,
of Upper Dublin, was born Second month 21, 1726, and
died Third month 31, 1793. He was twice married : first, to
(36) Hannah Lukens, daughter of Mathias and Ann ; and
second, to (37) Abigail Conrad (born West), widow of John
Conrad, Jr.

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY SI

Joseph learned in his youth the trade of a weaver, — with
whom is not known. It was usual, then,- for every boy in a
farmer's family, except perhaps the eldest, to have some trade
besides that of husbandry. He went early in life to the neigh-
borhood of Germantown, on the eastern side of that place, then
Bristol township, and remained there permanently. His first
wife was the granddaughter of Jan Lucken, one of the company
who made the first settlement at Germantown, and as his sister
Elizabeth married another member of that family, we may give
at this point some facts concerning it.

The first Germantown company, Mennonites and Friends,
came in 1683, from the city of Crefeld, in Rhenish Prussia, near
the line of Holland, and a short distance west of the Rhine.
Omitting Francis Daniel Pastorius, and one or two others, who
came separately a few weeks earlier, these settlers included thirty-
three persons, — thirteen men with their famihes. Three of these
were the Op. den Graeffs, Abraham, Dirck, and Hermann ; and
among the others were Willem Streypers, Thones Kunders, Rey-
nier Tyson, and Jan Lucken, the ancestors of the Streeper, Con-
rad, Tyson, and Lukens families. They were nearly all related
by blood or marriage to one another. They had purchased land
of William Penn before leaving home, and, sailing from Rotter-
dam to London, they left the latter city in the ship Concord,
William Jeffries master, July 24, 1683, and reached Philadelphia
on the 6th of October. Lands were then promptly surveyed
for them at Germantown, and in its neighborhood.

The wife of Jan Lucken was named Mary. As the first of
their children was born Seventh month (September, O. S.) 1684,
it is probable that he was married about the time of his arrival
here. The list of their children, with his own and wife's deaths

52 THE SPENCER FAMILY

is recorded in an old family Bible," printed in Platt-Deutsch
(North German), by Peter Sebastian, in 1595, and brought over,
no doubt, in the Concord. The record is as follows :

1684 the 28th day of ye 7th month Elizebeth Luckenborn
1686 the loth of ye 5th month Elase [Alice] Lucken was born

1688 the 22th of ye 12th month William Lucken was born

1689 the 19th of ye 7th month Sarah Lucken was born
1 69 1 the 27th of ye 9th month John Lucken was born
1693 the 1 8th of ye nth month Mary Lucken was born
1696 the 30th of ye ist month Peter Lucken was born
1698 the 25th of ye sth month Hannah Lucken was born
1700 the 13th of ye Sth month Mathias Lucken was born
1703 the 1 6th of ye 7th month Abraham Lucken was born.
1705 the 3th of ye 9th month Joseph Lucken was born
1742 Mary Lucken dyed in ye Lord

1 744 John Lucken dyed in ye Lord

1 77 1 27th day of March Susanna Lucken ye Wife of Joseph Lucken
departed this Life a half an Hour past tenn in the fournoon

Of these eleven children six were deceased at the time their
father made his will, in the Eighth month, 1741. These six
were Elase (Alice, or Alitia), who married John Conrad ; Wil-
liam, who had married, settled in Upper Dublin,^ and left chil-
dren ; John, who had married, but left no issue ; Peter, who had
married, settled in Horsham, and left several children, one of
whom subsequently married Elizabeth Spencer, sister of Joseph ;
and Elizabeth and Sarah, who being unmentioned in their father's

' In 1897 the property of William H. Lukens, of Gwynedd, Pennsylvania.

^ His will, on record at Philadelphia, is dated " 15 of the 4th month, called June,"
1739, and was proved February 26, 1739. I* leaves to his eldest son, 100 acres in
Horsham, bought of William Hall, mentions his second son John, as already married
and provided for ; also provides for his wife Elizabeth, his daughter Mary, his " second
daughter, Sarah," and his " five younger children, Reinear, Matthew, Jacob, Elizabeth,
and Joseph." He directs, also, the ultimate disposition of his homestead, 200 acres,
in Upper Dublin, bought of William Runuls (Reynolds ?).

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY S3

will, were probably deceased without issue, at the time it was
made.

The will of Jan Lucken describes him as "of Germantown, weaver,"
he " being antient. " If was dated Eighth month 9, 1741, and proved
January 24, 1 744. It names as Executors his sons Mathias and Abraham,
and provides that in case of the death of either, his son Joseph shall act
instead. (Mathias did die a few months after the will was made, and
about three years before his father's decease.) To his son Abraham he
leaves 300 acres of land whereon he (Abraham) now dwells, being part of
500 bought of Benj. Furley's attorneys, " above North Wales," [in Towa-
mensing Township, Montgomery county] adjoining Wm. Tunnis, land
now or formerly George Claypoole's, and Jacob Gotschalk, — ^the tract " to
be laid out so as to include the Spring called the Pan. ' '

All his other property to be kept whole during the lifetime o,f his wife
Mary, and she to use the house and lot in Germantown, where they now
live. To his granddaughter Sarah Conrads £6. His 200 acres (remainder
of the 500 in Towamensing), and the house and lot, to be sold by his
Executors, at his wife's death, and the fund to be divided in eight portions :

To grandchildren, children of son William, deceased, one portion.

To grandchildren, children of son Peter, deceased, one portion.

The remaining five portions to children Mathias, Abraham, Joseph,

Mary,' ar^d Hannah.

To grandchildren, children of daughter Alit:e Cunrads, dec'd, one
portion.

As already stated, John Lukens, son of Jan, (and uncle of
Joseph Spencer's wife), died before his father. His (John's)
will is on record. It describes him as of Bristol township, Phila-
delphia county, yeoman, is dated October 24,- 1732, and was
proved April 13, 1737. Its chief details are as follows :

He provides for his wife Marget, and for her mother, Elizabeth Kuster.
He appoints his wife and his " trusty friend " Heniy Pastorius, of Ger-
mantown, executors, whom he directs to sell his farm in Bristol, 136 acres,
purchased of Nicholas Hellings. The proceeds of the sale to be distributed,

' Mary married (see p. 45) John Jarrett, whose daughter Hannah married Jacob
Spencer.

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part to Elizabeth Cunrads, " daughter of John Cunrads and his first wife,
my sister Alitia," she to have it when she is 19 years old, or married. To
his wife, for her lifetime, he leaves the 201 acre farm in Bristol township
where they now dwell, bought of Thomas Godfrey, at her death to be di-
vided equally among "all and every of my Brethren's children which are
named John Lucken."

Joseph Spencer married Hannah, daughter of Mathias and
Ann Lukens,' at Germantown meeting-house, Ninth month 25,
1747. He was then in his 22nd year; her age was probably
nearly the same. Her father (Mathias) had died in 1741. His
will is dated Eleventh month (January, O. S.), 1741, and was
proved February 19, of the same year. It disposed of a large
amount of property. Its details are as follows :

He describes himself as of Bristol township, yeoman. He leaves to
his wife Anne the income of the plantation, 136 acres, in Warminster,
Bucks county, bought of Job Goodson. To his eldest son, John, he leaves,
when he shall be 23 years old ' ' all that, my plantation or Tract of land,
(except what is hereinafter reserved), with the two mills and their con-
venience thereon, [etc.], the which I purchased of John Peters, and was
formerly the Estate of Rich'd Townsend," dec'd." (Ten acres of this, on
the S. E. side of the York road, contiguous to the 20 acres which he pur-
chased of his brother John, deceased, being reserved.)

To son Dirk, when 22 years old, place where 1 now dwell, 150 acres,
purchased of my father John (Jan) Lucken.

To son Daniel, when 2 1 years old, land and tenements in Horsham
township, purchased of Joseph Hall.

To daughter Mary, when 20 years old or married (whichever first),
two lots in Germantown, one purchased of Thomas Rose, the other of
George Bringhurst.

1 Mathias Lukens and Ann, daughter of Derrick Johnson, married Second month
24, 1721. — Abington Records,

' To this old mill, here described as that of Richard Townsend, a high degree of
historical interest attaches. It was no doubt the first mill erected in the county of
Philadelphia, and probably the third in Pennsylvania. It will be alluded to hereafter,
in this volume, as the " Roberts Mill."

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 55

To daughter Hannah, when 20 or married, the 20 acres on York
Road, bought of brother John Lucken deceased, and the 10 acres reserved
out of the place adjoining, devised (as above) to John.

■To daughters Rebecca and Sarah, when 20 or married, ;£5oo apiece.

To daughter Ann, to be enjoyed by her after the death of her mother
(to whom, as above, it is granted for life), the property in Warminster.

He appoints as Executors his beloved wife Ann, his trusty friend and
brother-in-law, John Johnson, of Germantown, saddler, and his esteemed
brother, Joseph Lucken, — they also to be guardians of his children during
their minority.

In the appraisement of Mathias's estate, the appraisers not
only took account of his personal property, but also of his realty.
The former they valued at £^€>\, 20s, 4d ; it included " 2 looms,
warping mill, spooling wheels and geers, etc., remnants of woolen
stuff, & a piece of huckaback, 40 yards of course linen and
linstey." The land was valued as follows :

Homestead, 150 acres, (left to Dirck), . ;£500

Mill property, (John), 800

Horsham property, (Daniel), 500

Germantown lots, (Mary), 100

The 30 acres on York Road, (Hannah), . 100
Warminster property, 130 acres, (Ann), . 160

Total of real estate, . . . £1, 1 60

It is probable that Joseph and Hannah settled at their mar-
riage on her patrimonial land. Joseph had built a stone house on
it, at any rate, by 1750, for it is marked on Nicholas Scull's map
made at that time. The name "Spencer" appears upon this
map, on the lower side of the Old York Road, just south of the
junction of the Limekilm road with School Lane.

For many years afterward the place was well known as the
home of Dr. George de Benneville. To him Joseph and Hannah
sold the property in 1758. Their deed is dated April 1 1, of that

$6 THE SPENCER FAMILY

year. The parties to it are described as Joseph Spencer, of
Bristol township, weaver, and Hannah his wife, daughter of
Mathias Lucken, late of Bristol aforesaid, yeoman, deceased ;
and George Benneville,' late of Oley township, Berks county,
" now also residing in Bristol township aforesaid, practitioner of
physick." The price was ^450, lawful money of Pennsylvania^
and the provisions of the will of her father, by which Hannah
inherited the land, are recited. The twenty acres, the recital
says, was part of a tract of 10 1 acres which Thomas Godfrey
conveyed Januaty i, 1725, to John Lucken ("otherwise tho'
erroneously called Lucan ") and which the said John and Marga-
ret his wife, conveyed March 30, 1736, "unto his brother the
aforesaid Mathias Lucken." The lo-acre tract was part of a
larger one of 108 acres, 26 perches, which John Peters, of Bristol
township, fuller, conveyed to Mathias Lucken, September 8, 173 1.
The two pieces adjoined lands of Bernard Razer (Raysor), Thomas
Griffith, Joseph Fox, and " John Lucken, eldest son of the late
Mathias." It was conveyed to the grantee (Dr. de Benneville)
" with the two-story stone messuage or tenement since erected
on the said premises by the said Joseph Spencer."

In selling their home, Joseph and Hannah were arranging
for a larger purchase. They got the deed a few days later. May
4, 1758, for 149 J^ acres, which they had purchased of John
Lucken, son of Abraham, of Towamencin, Hannah's first cousin.
This purchase was really made, however, directly or indirectly,
of five grantors. It was part of the property which John Lukens
of Bristol township, as we have seen by his will above, left after
the death of his wife, to all the sons of his brethren who bore his
own (and his father's) name. Joseph Spencer handed down in
his family the tradition that he " bought the place of five John

1 The de is omitted in the recorded deed.

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Lukens's,"' and it is not difficult to see how this came about, the
five Johns being respectively the sons of William of Upper Dub-
lin, Peter of Horsham, Abraham and Joseph of Towamencin,
and Mathias of Bristol. These five first cousins, of precisely the
same name, were the nephews of John Lucken, who died in 1737,
and heirs of this property under his will.

As was stated in the will of 1737, the farm of which this was
a part had been the property of the Godfrey family. On this
estate lived and died several of them, including Thomas, to whom
belongs the credit, if not alone then jointly with Hadley, of in-
venting the well-known mathematical instrument, the " mariner's
quadrant." In a little burial place in one of the fiields the re-
mains of Thomas Godfrey, and several others, were interred, but
when, after the lapse of eighty years, the spot had become neg-
lected and the marks of sepulture were in danger of being en-
tirely obliterated, they were removed, under the direction of John
F. Watson, the Annalist, to the cemetery at Laurel Hill, (where,
since, a monument has been erected over them), and the work
of disinterment was performed by two of Joseph Spencer's great-
grandsons, Spencer and Hugh Roberts, aided by their brother-
in-law, Charles S. Rorer.

Hannah Spencer lived but a short time after this property
was acquired. She died on the 4th of Twelfth month, in the
same year, 1758, and was buried at the Germantown Friends'
ground, on the 6th of Twelfth month (December, N. S.). She
had had four children, three of whom survived her, but only one
of them grew up, and he, apparently, did not marry. Joseph
married, the second time, Abigail Conrad, Eleventh month 1 2,
1 76 1. She was then a widow. Abington records show the
certificate of her first marriage, in brief as follows :

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John Conrad, Jr., of Horsham, weaver, to Abigail West, seamstress,
of Warminster, Bucks county. Pa., at Horsham meeting-house. Fourth
month 8, 1748.

The time of her first husband's death is not ascertained. It
seems likely that Abigail may have been housekeeper for Joseph
after the decease of his first wife. We have no names of
children by her first marriage ; she bore Joseph two sons. She
died Eighth month 3, 1806, " aged "jj years."

IV. Children of Joseph and Hannah Spencer :

38. Ann, i. March 28, 1749, d. 12. 25, 1756.

39. Samuel, i. March 21, 1751, d. 2. 10, 1776.

40. Matthias, 6. March 21, 1751, d. 4. 10, 1769.

41. Jesse, 6. March 25, 1754, d. 8. 31, 1759.

Children of Joseph and Abigail Spencer :

42. John, b. June 23, 1762, d. 2. 16, 1763.

43. Nathan, ^. 5. I, 1764, m. Rachel Pirn. ^

III. (9) Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of (3) Samuel and
Mary, of Upper Dublin, born Tenth month (December,
O. S.) I, 1729, married at Friends' meeting-house, at Hor-
sham, Ninth month (November, O. S.) 10, i/Si, to (44)
Joseph Lukens, of Horsham, blacksmith. Joseph was bom
Ninth month — , 1729.

Beyond the facts just stated, we know very little of Eliza-
beth (Spencer) Lukens. Her husband, Joseph, as shown by
the record of his marriage, had learned the trade of a black-
smith, but he acquired property in Horsham, and doubtless pur-
sued the occupation of a farmer. He was the son of Peter and
Gaynor (Iredell) Lukens, Peter being, as already stated, the son
of Jan Lucken, of Germantown, the immigrant of 1683. Peter
had died before this marriage of his son, at the age of 45 ; his
will is dated April 27, 1741, and was proved July 22, following,

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showing that he died between these dates. Its details are briefly
as follows :

He speaks of " Gaynor, my dearly beloved wife," and leaves her for
life the 5p acres, with buildings, " I purchased of John Thompson," and
the 25 acres purchased of WiUiam Reynolds, "it being the place whereon
I now dwell," this to be for her home and her children's, until the youngest
son, Peter, Jr., should be twenty-one years old. He leaves property to be
ultimately divided between " my six sons," John, Abraham, Joseph, Ben-
jamin, Evan (?), and Peter ; and provides also for " my four daughters, "
Mary, Hannah, Anne, and Gaynor.

It may be added as to Peter Lukens, that his father, Jan the
immigrant, purchased, January 10, 1709,' of Samuel Carpenter,
505 acres of land in Horsham township, of which, in 1720, he
conveyed 150 acres to Peter.

Joseph and Elizabeth had several children, but they have
proved somewhat difficult to trace. What is learned of them
from the meeting and other records will be given, leaving those
especially interested in this branch of the family to work it out
more fully. Joseph probably died late in the year 1784, or early
in 1785, as we presume from his will, which is dated Seventh
month 27, 1780, and was proved January 6, 1785. Its details
are as follows :

It leaves "to my beloved wife Elizabeth Lukens one of my best
beds, and furniture thereunto belonging, the case of drawers & Dining
table which she brought with her, a tea Table, seven of the best Chairs,
& the largest looking Glass, all the Pewter, the earthen, Glass, stone, and
Chinaware, a warming pan, dough trough, & an iron pot and brass
kettle, one of my best horses, her choice, and my rideing Chair, one Cow
her Choice ; also I give unto my sd Wife £^0 to be paid her in one month
after my decease, & ^50 more to be paid her in one year [thereafter] to

1 See, in the Penn- Logan Correspondence, volume L, a letter from Samuel
Carpenter to Jonathan Dickinson, in 1705, in which he speaks of this property, describ-
ing it as " about four miles from North Wales," — z. e., the Gwynedd settlement.

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enable her to bring up, Clothe my two sons, Joseph and Samuel, untill
they arrive at the age of sixteen years (at which age I order that they be
put to such Trades or Business as they with the advics of my Executors
hereinafter mentioned shall choose), as also to bring up, clothe, and school
my Daughter Ehzabeth." His wife to have all the profits, etc., of the
place " on which I now live [in Horsham], containing about 91 acres,
until my said son Joseph shall arrive at the age of 2 1 years. ' ' He also
leaves to his wife the revenue of two other tracts, 66 acres altogether, until
his son Samuel is 21. (The latter two tracts, 60 acres purchased of Ben-
jamin Lukens, and 6 acres of James Craven.) When of age Joseph to have
the 91 acres and at the same age Samuel the 66. He mentions his daugh-
ter, Hannah Shoemaker, and also enumerates his "five children, namely,
Hannah, Gainor, Joseph, Samuel, and Elizabeth." He appoints his wife,
Elizabeth, and his two brothers-in-law, Joseph and John Spencer,
Executors.

The property on which Joseph and Elizabeth lived in
Horsham, and which was left to Joseph, Jr., by this will, lies on
the " Carr's Flats road," near its junction with the Horsham
road, and was for many years in the ownership of Kersey Sill.
Upon the township list, in 1776, Joseph is assessed for 178 acres
of land, 3 horses, and 5 cows.

From the will, as already recited, and from the records of
Abington Meeting, we have the names of eight children of Joseph
and Elizabeth. Five of these, it .appears, survived at the time
their father made his will. The dates of the deaths of two others
are recorded. Of three, Gaynor, Joseph, and Ehza (Elizabeth),
we have information, and another, Samuel, who is provided with
a farm by his father's will, appears to have been " Doctor Sam-
uel," and if correctly identified on the meeting records, was twice
married.

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IV. Children of Elizabeth Spencer and Joseph Lukens {Surname Lukens) :

45. Hannah, b. 10. 5, 1752, m. at Horsham m. h., 11. 19, 1779, Jona-
than Shoemaker, of Cheltenham, blacksmith. The will of Jo-
seph Lukens, Hannah's brother, 1836, refers to "my nephews,
David, George, and Charles Shoemaker."

46. Mary, b. 5. 5, 1754, d. 5. i, 1757.

47. Samuel, b. 2. 14, 1756, d. 8. 3, 1758.

48. Joseph, Jr., b. 8. 9, 1758. [This cannot have been the Joseph
mentioned in his father's will, for he is there spoken of, in 1780,
as not yet sixteen years old.]

49. Gaynor, date of birth not ascertained, put probably about 1760.
She married James Knight, of Byberry, son of Jonathan and Ann
'(Paul) Knight. James, who was bom 8. 16, 1753, died soon
after his marriage, in the year 1784, leaving no children.
Gaynor survived him to the middle of the nineteenth century,
making her widowhood sixty to seventy years, and died, over
ninety years old, at the home of Owen Shoemaker, in Gwynedd,
and was buried at Gwynedd Meeting. Owen Shoemaker's
(second) wife Hannah, daughter of Charles Shoemaker, of
Baltimore, was a cousin (" once removed ") of Gaynor Lukens
Knight, and her sister Eliza, and had lived with them, in
Horsham, before her (Hannah's) marriage.

50. Eliza, (presumed to be Elizabeth named in the will : she was al-
ways called Eliza in her later years). She lived, as stated above,
in Horsham, with her sister Gaynor, and died there at an ad-
vanced age, but before Gaynor. She was buried at Horsham.

51. Joseph. He married Elizabeth Kirk, daughter of Jacob, of Ab-
ington, and retired to Philadelphia, where he lived on Green
street, opposite the Friends' meeting property, (4th and Green).
The writer's uncle, Lemuel Thomas, remembers to have visited
him in that house with his mother, (Hephziba (Spencer) Thomas).
He died in 1836, his will being dated Fifth month 7, of that year,
and proved June 18, following. He refers to his wife Elizabeth,
his sisters Gainor and Elizabeth (Eliza) and his nephews and nieces.

52. Samuel. He is spoken of in one family account, as Doctor
Samuel. He appears to have married, first, Hannah Tompkins,
second, Elizabeth Briggs. The will of his brother Joseph, 1836,
mentions "the children of my brother Samuel Lukens, deceased,
to wit : " Hannah, Mar}', Susan, and Joseph."

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III. (lo) John Spencer, of Upper Dublin, son of (3) Samuel
and Mary, born Ninth month (November, O. S.) i, 173 1, mar-
ried (53) Elizabeth, daughter of John and Sarah Kirk, of
Abington. She was born Seventh month (September, O. S.)
25, 1730, and died First month 10, 1820. John died Second
month 6, 18 12;

John Kirk, the father of Elizabeth, was the second son
of John Kirk, of Darby, in Chester (now Delaware) county,
who came from Derbyshire, England, in 1687, and married
Joan, daughter of Peter Ellet (or Elliott). The younger John,
who was a stone-mason by trade, came to Abington. In 1 7 1 2
he purchased a tract of 200 acres of land in Abington, on the
Upper Dublin line. In 1722 he built for Sir William Keith,
then Governor of Pennsylvania, the historic mansion in Hor-
sham, known as Grseme Park, still standing, though now unused.
The solid walls of this old house remain a monument to his
thorough work. He married at Abington Meeting, in the same
year (1722) Sarah, daughter of Reynier Tyson, the Mennonite
or Quaker immigrant, whose arrival at Germantown, with others
of the Crefeld company, has already been mentioned.

In 1 735 John Kirk built on his farm in Abuigton a stone
dwelling-house which is yet standing and in use. It has been
somewhat enlarged and altered, but the original part remains.
Here Elizabeth, his daughter, who married John Spencer, spent
seventeen years of her life. Her marriage occurred at Abington
meeting-house, Eleventh month 21, 1752. The certificate' is as
follows :

Whereas John Spencer, of Upper Dublin Township, in the County of
Philadelphia, cordwainer, and Elizabeth Kirk, daughter of John Kirk, of
the Township of Abington, and county aforesaid, having declared their in-

' Now in possession of Lemuel Thomas, great-grandson of John and Elizabeth.

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63

tentions of marriage with each other before several monthly meetings of the
People called Quakers at their publick Meeting House at Abington in the
county aforesaid [etc.]. Now These are to Certify [etc.] this 21st day of
the nth Month, 1752, they [etc.] appeared at a meeting appointed for that
purpose at Abington aforesaid, and [following then the usual form of
Friends' certificates, and signed] :

John Spencer
Elizabeth Spencer
Mary Spencer
Sarah Kirk
Jacob Spencer
Joseph Spencer
John Kirk
Isaack Kirk
Jacob Kirk
Nathan Spencer
Abraham Dawes
Margaret Edwards
Joseph Lukens
Elizabeth Lukens
Hannah Spencer
William Spencer
Eliz'th Spencer
Mary Dawes
Liddia Dawes
Henery Tyson
Rynear Kirk
Mary Kirk
John Edwards
Peter Tyson
Mary Tyson
John Tyson
John Cadwalader
Isaac Tyson
Benjamin Hallowell
WilUam Hallowell

Derick Tyson
Abraham Tyson Juner
Rynear Luken
Jane Luken
Isaac Tyson
Esther Tyson
John Cleaver
Deborah Clever
Susanna Tyson
Abraham Tyson Sener
Mary Tyson
Grace Michener
Jane Michener
Esther Kinnard
Eliz'th Baldwin
Esther Dubre
Sarah Spencer
Thos Maule
James Glentworth
Elizabeth Hillborn
Frances Hillborn
Rynear Tyson
Joseph Luken
Rynear Tyson
Grace Tyson
Elizabeth Fitzwater
Prissilla Tyson

Abigail Tyson
Mary Hallowell
Mary Bewly
J. William Collom
Samuel Hallowell
Mary Hallowell
John Fitzwater
Nathan Bewly
Samuel Tyson
Matthew Tyson
John Tyson
Sarah Tyson
W'm Loofborough
Mary Kirk
Alice CoUum
Benjamin Hallowell
John Collom
Robert Henry
Thomas Hallowell
William Hallowell
Abraham Charlesworth
Isaac Bewley
Thos Hallowell
Matthew Hallowell
Nicholas Austin
John Michener
John Preston
Elizabeth Lukin

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By the will of his father, as already cited, John Spencer
received half of the estate of the latter, in Upper Dublin. He
lived upon this, now the property of Charles S. Paxson, during
most of his married life, and probably built part of the present
large dwelling-house. The barn he built in 1804, and his initials,
cut in the wall, may still be plainly seen some fifteen feet above
the ground, close to the eastern corner of the structure. Besides
the land received- under his father's will John purchased, in 1785,
a tract of 84^ acres in Upper Dublin, on the Welsh road, from
his nephew, Samuel Spencer, (son of Jacob), it being part of that
which (3) Samuel Spencer 2d, left by will to Jacob. (This tract
is now included in the farm of Joshua W. Paxson.) At John's
death, in 18 12, without a will, his property descended, under the
intestate law, to his two daughters, and was divided between them,
Sarah taking the upper farm (afterward her son, Spencer
Thomas's), and Elizabeth the lower, afterward the property of
(the elder) Charles Paxson. April i, 18 13, deeds of release were
executed by the two sisters and their husbands to each other, —
as we shall more particularly state hereafter.

Some anecdotes of John Spencer survive. In his advanced
years he was complaining, in the hearing of his wife, that young
women no longer came up to the standards of " the good old
times." "The girls are depreciating,'' he declared.' " O, no,
John," said Elizabeth, "not depreciating ; thee means degener-
ating." " Poh, poll ! " rejoined John, " I know what I mean. I
mean depreciating. Don't I remember in the Revolution how
the Continental money depreciated? Well, that's the way with
the girls."

John and his wife had eight children, but only two of these
survived their childhood. These were Sarah and Elizabeth, who
lived respectively to be 84 and 72. From the dates of the deaths

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of the others it appears probable that the two eldest, who died
within 'six days, in the winter of 1765—66, and the two next to
them, who died within three days, in the summer of 1769, may
have been the victims of epidemic diseases.

IV. Children of John and Elizabeth Spencer :

54. Abraham, b. 10. 4, 1753, d. i. 26, 1766.

55. Sarah, b. 2. 2, 1756, d. I. 21, 1766.

56. Samuel, b. 12. 11, 1759, d. 7. 30, 1769.

57. Mary, b. 6. 23, 1763, d. 7. 28, 1769.

58. Jacob, b. I. 27, 1766, d. [prob. in infancy].

59. Sarah, b. 7. 29, 1768, m. Jonathan Thomas. ^

60. EHzabeth, b. 9. 30, 1770, m. Jeremiah Mcllvaine. ^

61. Samuel, b. 11. 3, 1772, d. 12. 17, 1775.

III. (11) Nathan Spencer, of Loudoun county, Virginia, son

of (3) Samuel and Mary, of Upper Dublin, born Fifth month

(July, O. S.) 30, 1734, married (62) Hannah, daughter of

Nathaniel and Margaret Lof borough. Nathan died 1806.

The marriage of Nathan and Hannah was not " according

to the order of Friends." The records of Abington Presbyterian

Church show their marriage, by the pastor of the church at that

time, under the date of April 19, 1756. Hannah's family,

however, were probably Friends. One of her brothers, William,

a tailor by occupation, married at Abington meeting-house.

Sixth month 19, 1753, Mary Kirk, daughter of John, a sister of

Elizabeth, the wife of John Spencer. The will of Nathaniel

Lof borough, the father, " of Hatboro, in Mooreland, in the

county of Philadelphia, Freeholder," is on record in Philadelphia.

It is dated June 29, 1740, and was proved August 17, of the

same year.

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He appoints his wife Margaret Executrix, and leaves her all of his
estate, " both real and personall . . . lying and being either in this
Province of Pennsylvania, New Jerseys, or in any other place in the Do-
minion of Great Britain." He leaves legacies of "stocking money,"
five shillings, " unto each of my five children, William, Hannah, Rebekah,
John, and David," to be paid them at the age of 21 years. [William, as
stated, married Mary Kirk, and Hannah, Nathan Spencer.]

Nathan and Hannah no doubt removed to Virginia at the
time of their marriage. The minutes of Abington Monthly-
Meeting (Penna.) show that, Tenth month 27, 1760, Nathan,
who had previously lost his right of membership among Friends,
was reinstated, " some Friends living in the parts where the said
Nathan resides giving a pretty good account of his conduct "
[etc. J . And, Eighth month 31, 1 76 1 , the same monthly meet-
ing records that " Nathan Spencer requests a certificate to
recommend him to the notice of Friends of Fairfax Monthly
Meeting, in Virginia." Next month the certificate was granted
him. And —

"At our monthly meeting of Fairfax [Va.J held the 26th of the nth
month, 1 76 1, Nathan Spencer produced a certificate from Abington
Monthly Meeting in Pennsylvania, recommending him a member of our
Society, which was read and accepted."

Joseph Nichols, of Lincoln, Va., in a letter to the author,
dated Seventh month 10, 1891, says :

"I am now 82 years of age, and most of my contemporaries are
gone. I recollect hearing my father [Isaac] speak of his uncle, Nathan
Spencer, who lived in a stone house, about a mile from Goose Creek
meeting-house. I have also heard father tell of his death ; he lost his
mind, and was a care to his family. None of his descendants now Uve in
Loudoun county. The name Spencer is not found with us."

A minute in the records of Fairfax Monthly Meeting is as
follows :

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"At our Monthly Meeting of Fairfax, held 3d Mo. 30, 1765 ; Nathan
Spencer and Hannah his wife Request that their children, namely, Mar-
garet, Samuel, Mary, and John Spencer, may be received and Deemed
members of our Society, their parents being so, which this meeting grants."

The children of Nathan and Hannah were nine in number,
of whom all but one grew up, married, and had families. This
appears from a letter written in 1822, by his daughter Hannah
Burson, then living in Ohio, to which State the whole family had
removed. The letter, which is here printed in full, as containing
all that is known to the writer about most of the children of
Nathan and Hannah, is as follows :

Short Creek, Jefferson County, State of Ohio,
5th Mo. 9th, 1822.

Dear Cousin : — I Who address thee am the seventh child of Nathan
Spencer (of Virginia, deceased), and am the wife of Isaiah Burson ; the
mother of five living children namely, Thirza, Jonah, Rachel, Mariah, &
Anna. The eldest was 17 years of age the 24th day of the 1st Month last
past, and the youngest will be ten if she lives to see the 12th of the 9th
Month next, and' through the blessings of Divine Providence we are all
enjoying good health.

It might be interesting to hear of our family in general, I mean the
Spencer family ; my Father deceased in the year of 1806, in his 73d year,
on the place he raised us. Margaret the second of my Sisters married a
second husband, an elderly man, and buried him some 2 or 3 [years]
since, and is now living in this State, about 20 miles from Mt. Pleasant,
enjoying poor health. Samuel removed with a second Wife to this State,
near the town of Wooster, we know not whether he is living. Mary
Deceased some 18 years since in Virginia, John my second brother Deceased
in Belmont County, this State, leaving a number of children, and Widow,
who is since dead, and the Heirs enjoy a good estate. William is now
living in Belmont County, State as above, with a numerous family.
Nathan hves in Ibid.' Rachel, next in years to myself, lives near Nathan,
unfortunate in raising her children ; she lost 4 of them, all grown except

[' i- e., the same place : Belmont county, Ohio.]

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one, who was killed by the kick of a horse, short time since, at the age of
half past eleven. Sarah, my youngest sister, emigrated with her family to
this State and shortly died, about 4 or 5 years since.

Thus I have given thee a short account of our family. And now with
some diffidence proceed to give thee some account of our misfortunes ; we
began this world with a small beginning of about 11 or 1200 hund. dollars
between us, in Virginia, and removed to this State with 2 children. In
the course of some years improved it pretty well, so that our little was
thought to have grown to be valuable. Being engaged in Salt Works in
partnership, which was a loss, my Husband hke others of the day when
Banking was uppermost, got a falling stroke by them, in various ways,
which we have not recovered, but have got nearly clear of them, and
property too. But as we are now about to improve a new Salt well of
which we claim one-half, it is among the possibles we may realize a
good property in it. My Husband thinks that 250 dollars would set us
fairly on foot to do business to advantage. But my dear cousin, we hope
to not make wealth the principal object of our pursuit, but endeavor to be
content with a little of this world's goods, which is sufficient to supply the
real necessaries of life. We live a distance of about 4 miles from Meet-
ing, and having no horse, makes it somewhat hard, as we are all inclined
to go as often as possible. I fear really I shall tire thee with my epistle,
but hope thee will not neglect to send some account of thyself and Family
as such will be very pleasing, as my Husband always feels Interested
with me in a reception of that kind. So conclude with grate respect to
thee & thine, my Husband joining me in this.

Hannah Spencer Burson.

Sarah Thomas.

[Outside endorsement : "Sarah Thomas, Philadelphia County, Penn-
sylvania State. Pr Ann Uil worth."]

From this it appears that the whole family was raised in
Virginia, that Nathan and probably Hannah, died there, and
also their daughter Mary. As to their son Nathan, and his
descendants, we have considerable information, but as to the
seven others named in Hannah Burson's letter we can add
nothing.

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IV. Children of Nathan and Hannah Spencer •

63. Margaret, b. I. 29, 1757, ni. twice.

64. Samuel, b. 4. 26, 1759, m. twice.

65. Mary, b. 4. 29, 1 761, a?, in Virginia, probably unmarried, about
1804.

66. John, b. 3. 11, 1763, ;«., and </. in Ohio, leaving issue.

67. William, b. 7. 12, 1765, m., and had issue; was in Belmont
Co., O., in 1822.

68. Nathan, b. 3. 16, 1767, m. Ann Smith. ^

69. Hannah, ^. 3. 26, 1770, m. Isaiah Burson, and in 1822 lived at
Short Creek, Jefferson Co., Ohio, with children : Thirza, Jonah,
Rachel, Maria, and Ann.

70. Rachel, b. g. 6, 1773, in., and had issue.

71. Sarah, b. 3. 7, 1776, ni., and had issue.

III. (12) Sarah Spencer, daughter of (3) Samuel and Mary,
of Upper Dublin, born Third month (May, O. S.) 14, 1736,
married (72) William Nichols, of Loudoun county, Vir-
ginia, Third month (March, N. S.) 22, 1770.
William Nichols was the grandson of Thomas and Mary
Nichols, " who came from England about the year 1716." They
had eight children, one of whom, Isaac, married in 1741, Mar-
gery Cox, and was the father of William.

The farm owned (1891) by William McCray, in Loudoun
county, two miles north of Lincoln, was the home of William
and Sarah. It came into the possession of their youngest son
William, who built an addition to the house for his mother, after
his father's death. In 1836, WiUiam (the son) sold the property
to William Hatcher, and removed to Columbiana county, Ohio,
where he spent the remainder of his life. His son William
Nichols, already alluded to,' in a letter dated Seventh month 29,
1891, says :

'See p. 34.

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• • My grandfather [William Nichols] lived and died on the farm
my father sold to William Hatcher, in 1836, now the William McCray
farm. My father moved to Columbiana county, O., and settled on a
farm joining the village of Columbiana. His father [William] died
about the year 1800, aged nearly 60. Grandmother [Sarah] lived sev-
eral years after him, with my father. I think the small brick room, at-
tached to the stone house at McCray' s was built expressly for her. 1 often
heard father speak of Nathan Spencer. ' '

The children of William and Sarah Nichols were five in
number, and all married and had families :

IV. Children of Sarah Spencer and William Nichols {surname Nichols^ :

73
74

75
76,

77

Edith, iJ. 4. 16, 177 1, ^. 9. 7, 1840, m. Levi Tate. W-
Isaac, i. 2. 6, 1773, m. Lydia Walters, Mary Gibson. P
Samuel, i. 10. — . 1774, d. 5. 27, 1824, m. Mary Janney.
Mary, d. 7. 10, 1776, d. 6. 18, 1855, m. William Piggott. \
William, b. 5. 14, 1779, d. 6. 11, i860, m. Mary Janney.

III. (17) Edith Spencer, daughter of (3) Samuel and Mary
of Upper Dublin, born Third month 22, 1746, and was twice
married, first to (78) George Shoemaker ; second to (79)
Joseph Clark. Her first marriage occurred Fourth month
19, 1768, at Horsham meeting-house. George Shoemaker
is described in the marriage record as "of Warring-
ton township, Bucks county. Pa., weaver." He died
within a few years after marriage, for in the will of Edith's
father, Samuel Spencer, 2d., as cited on page 28, made in
177s, she is spoken of as a widow, and provision is made
for her " and her two small children." As she had three
children, I interpret this to mean a provision for her two
youngest (unless the "two" be a clerical error). Her mar-
riage to Joseph Clark occurred after several years of widow-
hood. Twelfth month 9, 1791, and she had no family by

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him. He is said to have been a school teacher, but I am not
able to add any further details concerning him, and have no
record of the time of Edith's decease.

IV. Children of Edith Spencer and George Shoemaker {sumajneShoemaker):

80. Samuel, b. 3. 16, 1771, m. Elizabeth Ellis. ^

81. Abraham, b. 10. i, 1772, m. Martha Webster. ^

82. Rachel, 7n. Samuel Robinson. The records of Horsham show
that they "declared their intentions," First month 30, 1799.
Fifth month i, 181 1, Samuel and his wife Rachel, with their
children Edith, John, and George, obtained a certificate to re-
move within the limits of Abington Monthly Meeting.

III. (18) Mary Spencer, daughter of (3) Samuel and Mary,
of Upper Dublin, born Eighth month (October, O. S.) 28,
1750, married (83) Jonathan Roberts, son of Thomas and
Rachel. Jonathan was born Eleventh month (January, 0. S.)
8, 1743, and died Ninth month 8, 1797. Mary died Fourth
month 3, 1784.

The Roberts family to which Jonathan belonged were early
settlers near Germantown. His marriage to Mary Spencer took
place at Horsham meeting-house. Eleventh month 15, 1774.
The certificate describes him as " of Bristol township, yeoman,"
and shows that his father (Thomas) was then deceased. Jonathan
had been previously married ; his first wife was Martha Kirk, by
whom he had two sons, Jonathan and Jesse.

Mary died ten years after her marriage, as shown by the
dates given above. She left four children, the youngest being
only a few days old, — all of whom lived to grow up, marry, and
have families. Her husband afterwards was married again, to
Mary Jones, by whom he had two children, Martha and Enoch.
Jonathan's home was a farm, at what is now called Felton-
ville, near Olney, in the 22nd Ward of Philadelphia. His land

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extended to the corner around which the village is clustered, and
his brother Thomas lived opposite. The farm-house which was
his (Jonathan's) home was still standing, as late as 1891, though
altered.
IV. Children of Mary Spencer and Jonathan Roberts, {surname Roberts):

84
85
86

87

Joseph, b. I. 27, 1776, d. 7. 19, 1777.
Levi, b. 12. 26, 1777, m. Lydia Sharpless. ^
Rachel, b. 7. 27, 1779, ni. Matthew Conard.
George, b. 10. 30, 1781, m. Alice Fell. ^
Joseph, b. 3. 18, 1784, m. Bathsheba French.

III. (20) James Spencer, of Upper Dublin, oldest son of (4)
William and Elizabeth, of Northampton, born Third month
(May, O. S.) 16, 1734, married twice, and died in Upper
Dublin, Third month 19, 18 13.

As already shown in the will of William Spencer, James
received by it William's half of the Richard Whitton estate,
about 156 acres, and probably removed from Northampton to
Upper Dublin soon after his father's death, 1756. He married
(ist) at Horsham meeting-house. Fifth month — , 1761, (89)
Sarah Walton, daughter of Jeremiah and Elizabeth, of More-
land, — Jeremiah being then deceased. Sarah died between
February 3, 1786, and April 21, 1787, as she made her will on
the former date and it was proved on the latter.' James then
married, in 1788, (they " declared their intentions " to Horsham
Monthly Meeting, Fourth month 2, of that year), (90) Elizabeth
Marple, widow of John Marple, of Horsham. Her maiden name
was Lukens, and she had children by her first marriage. She

1 She left her husband her share in land, " bequeathed by will to me by my mother
Elizabeth Walton, deceased, situate in the Manor of Moreland, in or near the little
borough called the Billet." The will is witnessed by Josiah and Enos Spencer. (This
property, which Sarah, at the time of her decease, held in common with her brothers,
Thomas, Jeremiah, and Jacob Walton, James sold to David Kennedy, May i, 1787.)

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survived her second husband, James Spencer, as appears by the
provision made for her in his will.

James appears to have been an active and prosperous man.
The will of his uncle Samuel, already cited (p. 30) is evidently in
his handwriting, and from this and other evidence we conclude
he was a man of business. He was for some years a supervisor of
the township, and the records of 1 776 show that he was that year
assessor. He bought and sold numerous pieces of real estate,
one of his purchases being the Abraham Charlesworth property,
which now is the home of his great-grandson, Louis Spencer
Whitcomb. This place James made his residence, and the house,
now 'Squire Whitcomb's, is particularly referred to in his will.
One of his sales of land was 131^ acres, in 1804, to his son Wil-
liam Spencer, for " 5 shillings and natural love and affection."

James's will is quite long, and evidently was drawn with the
purpose of making a safe provision for all his heirs. It is dated
Tenth month 17, 1812, with a codicil Third month 6, 1813, and
was proved Fifth month i8, 1813. In substance it is as follows :

Being far advanced in years, yet [etc.] I give to my dear wife
Elizabeth Spencer all the property she brought to me at her marriage
that is now in being, [also] a large chest of drawers, a card table, a large
looking-glass, my bed curtains, two new blankets, two new sheets, my horse
and riding chair, and all my tea ware, and also the sum of ^50, to be paid
to ier by my Executors out of my personal estate, soon after my decease
... all which said property shall be for her sole and entire use and
disposal [also, for life] my pipe stove, and after her decease to my son
Abner [also, for life] the use of my lodging room which I now occupy, and
the kitchen adjoining thereto, with the cellar under the same (the said
premises being the north side of my house in which I now dwell), the room
up-stairs, at the north corner of the said house, the lintel loft, and privilege
of the oven necessary for her use, with all such privilege of the garden and
apples in the orchard as shall be necessary for her use. . . I also give
her 3 cords of good sound fire-wood, yearly [and son Abner to keep her

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horse] "in good hay and pasture," and also provide her " a good stable
and chair-house," and to pay her ^25 yearly.

To son William, a tract of 36^ acres, in Upper Dublin, part of that
[the Whitton place] received from testator's father William, adjoining land
1 bought of the heirs of Abraham Charles worth, and also adjoining the
other land heretofore given William.'

To my executors in trust for the support of my son James, "his present
wife," and their children, 25 acres and 143 perches in Upper Dublin,
part of that [Whitton estate] received from my father, adjoining Abner
Lukens, John Lukens, and land late of John Spencer, deceased ; to be held
in trust until James's sons [grandsons of testator] Josiah Spencer and
Samuel Spencer come of age, and then to be conveyed in trust to them for
James [their father, testator's son] and when he dies to be sold, and the
proceeds divided among all his children. ^

To daughter-in-law Mary Spencer, testator's share of his son [her
husband] Josiah Spencer's estate, which he [James] was entitled to, and
which she now has.

To grandson Morgan Spencer the messuage where he now lives, in
Upper Dublin, 33 acres, 50 perches, being remainder [of Whitton estate].
Morgan to pay, however, ^240 to Executors.

To daughters-in-law Miriam Spencer and Mary Spencer domicile in
house devised to Morgan, with other privileges, and income from estate.

To daughter Elizabeth Shoemaker a house and two lots in Upper
Dublin, part of the purchase from Abraham Charles worth's heirs, the one
with the house on being five acres, the other one and one-half acres.' As
Elizabeth and her son James Shoemaker ' ' are both in a weak and insane
state of mind, ' ' provision is made in trust for them.

" I give and devise to my son Abner Spencer . . my messuage or
tenement wherein I now dwell, and all the residue and remainder of the
lands and real estate which I purchased of the heirs and devisees of
Abraham Charlesworth . . situate in Upper Dublin [subject to the
privileges granted his widow, and sundry payments, one being £,\^o to the
children of son Ezra, deceased.]

His sons William Spencer and Abner Spencer are appointed Executors.

^ This devise of 36^ acres was part of the Michener place in later years,
1891, A. E. Smith's.

' This was the Charles Edgar place of later time.
' Later the property of Catharine M. Whitcomb.

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 7S

The children of James Spencer, whose names are ascer-
tained, are eight in number, and most, if not all of them were
apparently by his first marriage. As we have not, however, the
dates of their births, except Abner's, we do not undertake to
speak positively on this point. Abner is here given as the
youngest ; if this is correct, his birth being in 1/75, it is obvious
all the children were Sarah's, as she survived until 1787.
IV. Childreii of James Spencer .■

91. Josiah. His father speaks of him, 18 12, as deceased, and men-
tions his widow, Mary. (See will above.) As he was a witness
to the will of James's first wife Sarah, 1786, he obviously was
not a son of the second wife. He married Mary Lloyd, and his
children are named as Josiah and Ezra.

92. Enos. Being also a witness to Sarah's will, 1786, he was not
issue of the second vrife. He died before his father. Miriam,
who is mentioned in James's will, was probably his wife ; she
was a sister of Mary (Josiah' s wife, above), and of David Lloyd.
She survived as late as 1827, when she administered upon the
estate of her sister Mary. Ends and Miriam had one son, Enoch
Morgan Spencer, who was doubtless the "Morgan" mentioned
in James's will, at whose house (the Richard Whitton place) his
mother and aunt Mary were to have a home.

93. William. He was one of the Executors of his father's vnll. A
deed from his father speaks of him as a tailor. He married Hannah
Walton, and left issue, one daughter, Lydia, to whom his farm
descended. Lydia married Charles Michener, and died without
issue, surviving her husband several years.

94. Seneca. He is mentioned in an old family list, and placed next
after William. Esquire Whitcomb says : " I have heard mother
[Catharine, dau. of Abner Spencer] speak of Seneca." As he
or his children are not named in James's will he was probably
deceased in 181 2, without issue.

95. Ezra. He was deceased in 1812, and James's will makes pro-
vision for his children. His wife was named Sarah, and he had
issue, Hugh, Hannah, and Sarah ; the last named married David
Atkinson, " and lives in Maryland."

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96. Elizabeth. She died May 21, 1849. She married (see records
Abington Presbyterian Church), November 3, 1786, Peter Shoe-
maker, and had a family stated in memoranda in the writer's
possession as ten in number, — as follows, surname Shoemaker :

(1) James. (Mentioned in JAMES'S will. )

(2) Samuel.

(3) Thomas.

(4) Peter. (Named in James's will.) He married Elizabeth , and

left issue Adrianna, who ot. Joseph M. Vandever, of Marlborough,
Chester county.

(5) Spencer, m. Sarah Gentle (whose mother's name was Rachel), and had

issue : B. Frank, Mary, Lydia S., m.; Rachel, m.; Charles S., Ed-
ward, — all of Philadelphia.

(6) Margaret, m. Peter Lightcap, and had no issue.

(7) Sarah, m. '1 homas Hallowell ; issue, Lydia, Sarah, Margaret, Eliza.

( Margaret OT. John Brand, lives (1891) "near Line Lexington,"
and has issue : Spencer, tk., Lydia B., ?«.,■ and others.)

(8) Elizabeth, m. Cadwallader Cooper, and removed to Illinois. Issue:

Theophilus, Margaret, and others,
(g) Mary.
(10) Angeline, m. Joseph Magill, " and lives in Solebury, Bucks Co., Pa."

97. James, Jr., m. Elizabeth Smith. P

98. Abner, b. I'TJ'^, in. Mary Muckleson. P

III. (21) Thomas Spencer, of Northampton, Bucks county,

son of William and Elizabeth, born Ninth month (November,

O. S.) 1736, married Twelfth month 16, 1760, at Horsham

meeting-house, according to the Friends' order (99) Mary

Hallowell, daughter of Thomas, of the manor of Moreland.^

Thomas Spencer was a young man of twenty at the death of

his father, in 1756. By the latter's will he received 150 acres in

Northampton township, Bucks county, where he lived. He died

Fourth month 3, 181 1, at the age of 70, his wife surviving until

Sixth month 5, 1824, her age being " 84 years, 3 months."

I This Thomas I conclude to he the son of William and Margaret HalloweU : if
so, his wife was named Mary. William was the son of Thomas and Rosamond, and
Thomas the son of John and Mary, who appear to have been the earliest of this line
in Pennsylvania, coming from Nottinghamshire, England, m 1682, first to Darby, and
then, about 1696, to Abington.

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 7?

1 V. Children of Thomas and Mary Spencer :
loo. William, b. 12. 8, 1761, d. 7. 10, 1840, m. Margaret Spencer,
daughter of Samuel, she being his first cousin, and was disowned
for "marrying out of unity," by Horsham Monthly Meeting,
Tenth month 17, 1788. They had daughters : Mary, Sarah,
Margaret, Elizabeth, all of whom d. unm.
loi. Mary, b. 12. 10, 1764. (This is the record at Abington Meet-
ing : a memorandum sent me by John G. Spencer, of Oxford
Valley, Bucks county, Pa., 6. 4, 1891, says she was born 2. 26,
1764.) She married Isaac Walton, of Warwick, Bucks county,
Pa., and d. 2. 24, 1839. They had one daughter, who i/. unm.

102. Thomas, -j r m. Esther Worthington. P

103. Elizabeth, J ' ' ' '' \b. T. 25, 1802, unm.

104. Margaret, b. 2. 19, 1770, m. William Worthington, of Wrights-
town, Bucks county, (brother to Esther, the wife of Thomas
Spencer), and had children (surname Worthingtori) : Thomas,
Mary, William, Jesse, Esther, Spencer, all of whom married.
" Many of the present numerous family of Worthington, of
Wrightstown and Buckingham, came from this ancestry."

105. Amos, b. I. 8, 1773, m. Ann Brown.

106. Sarah, b. 9. II, 1775, m. Isaac Hallowell, of Lower Dublin,
Philadelphia county ; and had children, (according to a family
memorandum) : Benjamin, Mary, Eleanor, Thomas.

III. (24) Samuel Spencer, son of William and Elizabeth of
Northampton, born Eighth month (October) 14, 1742. By
the will of his father, he received the home farm, 1 50 acres
in Northampton township, Bucks county. He married, and
had, as a family memorandum indicates, five children.

IV. Children of Samuel and Spencer :

107. John. He married, and had children : Sarah, Ann, Samuel,
John, and Mary. Ann d. young ; the others married and had
children. Sarah ?ti. Amos Sagers. " Samuel m. a daughter of
John Hermon. John married a Hart. He and Samuel re-
turned from Philadelphia (where the family had previously

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gone), and died here a few years back. Some of their de-
scendants are hving here at the present time." — (John G.
Spencer. 1 89 1.)

108. Samuel. With his brother John he inherited from their father
the Northampton homestead, " but early in the present century
he sold his portion to Griffith Miles, and removed to New Jersey.
He left a number of children." — {John G. Spencer.')

109. Margaret. She married her first cousin, William (100) son of
Thomas.

1 10. Elizabeth, m. Thomas Bowers.

111. Ann, m. Joshua Walton.

III. (23) Enoch Spencer, son of William and Elizabeth of
Northampton, b. Twelfth month (February) 8, 1744. Ac-
cording to a family memorandum he had three children.
JV. Children of Enoch and Spencer:

112. Mahlon.

113. Sarah.

1 14. Elizabeth.

III. (26) Job Spencer, son of William and Elizabeth, of North-
ampton, born First month (March) 8, (or 5 ?) 1750. He
married (ns) Hannah, who, as one memorandum in the
writer's possession says, was the daughter of Enoch Morgan,
and was born Fourth month 21, 1754. The records of
Horsham Monthly Meeting, Seventh month 27, 1785, show
that Job was granted a certificate of clearness to Gwynedd
Monthly Meeting, in order to marry, and the records of
Gwynedd Monthly Meeting show that he was then married
to Hannah Kenderdine, widow of John. Very probably
she was the same person as Hannah Morgan, this latter
being her maiden name.
In 1796, March 29, Philip Summers conveyed to Job Spencer

of Horsham, yeoman, for 1,412 pounds, 165 acres of land,

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 79

" strict measure," in Horsham, lying on the Bucks county line.
One course, in the description in the deed, crossed " Neshaminy
Branch," and the property holders adjoining were John Simpson
(grandfather of General Grant), Jacob Wright, and Daniel Jones.
The property had been bought by Summers of Charles Stedman,
in 1774. Portions of it were resold by "Job Spencer and
Hannah his wife," by deeds dated October 9, 1799 ; Jacob Wright
taking 4 acres, 26 perches, for ^^30, 6s ; David Dowlen 40 acres,
II perches, for ;£'26o ; and John Wilgoss 15 acres, 9 perches, for
;^I09, 3$. April i, 1818, Job and Hannah Spencer executing a
deed of release, it is stated that she is the " widow of John
Kenderdine, deceased."

IV. Children of Job and Hannah Spencer :

116. Edward, m. Mary Roberts. P

117. Job, b. 2. 26, 1788. He married, and his children are given in
a family memorandum as : Edward, Rebecca, Jacob, William,
Hannah, and Elizabeth.

118. Mary, b. 3. 27, 1790, m. Cadwalader Lloyd, and had (surname
Lloyd) : Job, John, Martha.

119. Hannah, b. 2. 18, 1795, m. William Harding, and had (surname
Harding) : Charles, Mary.

in. (27) Abel Spencer, son of William and Elizabeth, of
Northampton, born Eighth month 8, 1753. He appears to
have married (120) Rebecca Hayhurst, Fifth month 20,
1779. Of their children, if any, we have no account.'

IV. (29) Jarrett Spencer, of Moreland, son of Jacob and
Hannah, born November 10, 1746, married at Gwynedd

> It is proper to add, here, thai the account given of the children of William and
Elizabeth Spencer is quite fragmentary in several places, and is only presented as the
best to be had, after considerable inquiry and correspondence.

8o

THE SPENCER FAMILY

meeting, Eleventh month 22, 1774, (i2i) Hannah Evans,
daughter of Thomas and Hannah, of Gvvynedd. The
marriage certificate is as follows :

Whereas Jarret Spencer son of Jacob Spencer, of the Manor of Moor-
land in the County of Philadelphia and Province of Pennsylvania, and
Hannah Evans, Daughter of Thomas Evans of the Township of Gwynedd
in the County and Province aforesaid, having declared [etc.] before several
Monthly Meetings of Friends in Gwynedd aforesaid [etc.] Now These
are to Certify [etc.] this 22nd day of the Eleventh Month, 1774, they the
said [etc.] appeared in a public meeting of the aforesaid People at Gwynedd
[etc. , after the usual form of the Friends' marriage certificate, and signed ] :

Jarret Spencer
Hannah Spencer
Jacob Spencer
Hannah Spencer
Thos. Evans
Mar)' Evans
Samuel Spencer Sr
Jane Roberts
Edith Shoemaker
Samuel Spencer
Mary Spencer
Mary Spencer
John Spencer
Hugh Evans
Sarah Geary
John Spencer
Elizabeth Spencer
Alex'r Anderson
Susanna Anderson
Levi Foulke
Ann Foulke
Sam'l Spencer
Jane Harry
Jonathan Jarret

Rachel Moore
Priscilla Foulke
Deborah Moore
Mary Roberts
Lydia Foulke
Jane Siddon
Jesse Foulke
Henry Moore
Rich' d Moore
Hugh Howell
Benjamin Harry
Wm. Foulke Jun'r
Thomas Foulke
Samuel Foulke
Samuel Harry

Joseph Ambler
George Roberts
Mary Evans
Mord'a Moore
John Forman
Thos Shoemaker
John Williams
Joseph Lukens
Eliz'a Lukens
Rees Harry
John Jarret
Priscilla Jarret
Hannah Lukens
Eliza. Hallowell
Priscilla Hallowell
John Hallowell
Geo. Geary
Wm. Foulke
Hannah Foulke
John Evans
Marg't Evans
Amos Roberts
Humphrey Waterman

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The Evans family, of whom Hannah was one, were de-
scended from the company of original settlers in Gwynedd.
Four of those who took up that township in 1698 were brothers,
Thomas, Robert, Cadwalader, and Owen Evans, (ap Evan), from
Wales. Thomas had four sons, one of whom, Robert, was the
father of Thomas Evans, who was the father of Hannah, whose
marriage to Jarrett Spencer we now speak of He lived at
Gwynedd at the time of the marriage, 1774, — as the certificate
shows. Hannah was bom Fifth month 26, 1745, a year earlier
than her husband.

This Thomas Evans, Hannah's father, was three times mar-
ried : to Katharine Jones, in 1730, who died two years later,
then to Hannah (last name not ascertained), and she having died
in 1 760, then in 1 764 to Mary Brooke. The Hannah whom we
are now considering was the daughter of Hannah, the second
wife, who had also other children : Susanna, who is presumed to
have married Richard Anderson ; Ann, who married Levi
Foulke ; Mary, who married Richard Humphreys ; and Hugh,
of Gwynedd, who inherited his father's property in Gwynedd,
and died in 1792.'

The home of Jarrett and Hannah Spencer was in More-
land, half a mile east of the home of Jacob Spencer ; the house
was built for them by Jacob, at their marriage. It passed out of
the family by sale to John K. Bready, in 1848. Jacob Spencer
dying without a will, his land was divided, by mutual agreement,
among his three sons, each receiving a release from the other
heirs. These releases were executed in the Spring of 1783.
Jarrett received a part of the old tract of 200 acres which

1 For a fuller account of the Evans Family, of Gwynedd, the reader is referred to
" Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd," by Howard M. Jenkins, published 1884;
second edition, 1897.

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Samuel Spencer, 2nd, had conveyed to Jacob, in 1746, and he
also received the tract of 47 acres, which Jacob had bought in
1768 of John Care, and Maty, his wife,' and which adjoined the
homestead property, lying on two streams, affluents of the
Pennypack, and extending out to the " Keith road," — now the
Willow Grove and Doylestown Turnpike. (Out of this tract of
47 acres, a curious irregularly shaped " meadow lot" of 5 acres
was sold by Jarrett to his brother John, Fourth month 2, 1783,
as appears by an old deed preserved by Jesse F. Spencer.) A
neat draft of the property of Jarrett Spencer, made by Robert
Loller, the distinguished surveyor, is among the same collection
of papers. This was made in 1783, and shows Jarrett's pos-
session of about 86 acres. (The adjoining properties were those
of Thomas Hallowell, Daniel Ryan, Robert Barnes, " land now
or late of Paul Penington," and Jacob Spencer.) In 1784 he
bought of Caleb Davis, and Margaret, his wife, a tract of 65
acres and 97 perches, and in 1785 sold 8 acres and 114 perches
of this to his brother John. It lay along the township line
between Moreland and Horsham, and adjoined other land of
John's.

Jarrett Spencer died Fifth month 17, 18 19. His wife sur-
vived him, and died at the age of 87 years, 6th month 22, 1832.

V. Children of Jarrett and Hannah Spencer :

122. Jacob, b. II. 7, 1775, d. 1806, unm.

123. Thomas, b. 2. 4, 1777, d. 3. 10, 1856, m. Alice Lukens, and had
two children, Mary Ann, Rebecca. The records of Horsham
Monthly Meeting show that Thomas Spencer and Alice Lukens
declared their intentions of marriage 9. 30, 1812, and 11. i, 1815,
obtained a certificate to remove to Indian Spring Monthly
Meeting, Md. The records of that meeting, 10. 24, 181 7, show
that they were then members of the particular meeting at
Washington, D. C.

' See page 49.

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124. Caleb, b. 9. 26, 1778, d. 1799, "of yellow fever."

125. Charles, b, 1780, d. 1862, m. Mary Paxson. ^

126. Hannah, b. 8. 26, 1782, d. 12. 29, 1862, m. 11. 7, 1815, at Hors-
ham Friends' Meeting, Arnold Boone, of Georgetown, D. C,
son of Isaiah and Hannah (deceased), and had issue, surname
Boone, six children, of whom three married : (i) Mary S., b.
1816, d. 1853, ;«., 1835, Charles H. Shoemaker, and had issue,
William, Margaret, Hannah, Isaac; (2) Anne S., b. 1819, d.
1849, m. Isaac Evans ; (3) Ellen, b. 1821, m. Levi Cook, and
"left three children," Samuel, Hannah, Ruth, all of whom
married. The other three children of Arnold and Hannah
(Spencer) Boone were (4) Isaiah, b. 1818, ^. 1844 ; (5) Susanna,
(twin with Ellen), b. 1 821, d. 1837 ; (6) Samuel S., b. 1823, d.
1851.

127. Mary, b. 7. 6, 1784, d. 7. 10, 1847.

128. Samuel E., b. 9. 20, 1788, d. I. 19, 1844, m. Rebecca Story,
daughter of Thomas and Rachel, of Newtown, Bucks county.
Pa., under care of Wrightstown Monthly Meeting, 12. 18, 1816.
Will of Samuel E. Spencer, of Moreland, dated 4. 25, 1838,
proved 2. 13, 1844, mentions his wife, Rebecca, wife's sister
Elizabeth Kirkbride, his sisters Mary, Anne, and Hannah,
brothers Thomas and Charles, nieces Mary Shoemaker, Anne
S. Boone, and Rebecca Spencer, nephew Samuel S. Boone ;
appoints brother Charles, cousin George Spencer, and brother-
in-law Samuel Story, executors.

129. Anne, b. 7. 14, 1790, d. in Frankford, Philadelphia, Ninth month
30, 1883, being in the 94th year, "her mind clear and bright."
Shew., Fifth month , 1851, William Hilles.

[A letter from Anna Spencer, of Germantown, i. 19, 1892,
says the supposition is correct that the name Spencer, in the
line of Jarrett and Hannah, is extinct.]

IV. (31) Samuel Spencer, of New London, Chester county,
Pa., second son of Jacob and Hannah, of Moreland, was
born 2d of Twelfth month (February, O. S.), 1750-51, and
died Third month 31, 1834. He married (130) Mary

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FiTZWATER, daughter of John and Elizabeth, of Upper
Dublin. Mary was born lOth of Sixth month (August,
O. S.), 175 1, and died Sixth month 14, 1844.
The marriage of Samuel and Mary took place, according to
Friends' order, at Abington meeting-house. Fourth month 14,
1774. Mary's father, John Fitzwater, was a descendant of
Thomas Fitzwater, who came in the Welcome, in 1682, with
William Penn, and was a preacher among Friends, member of
the Colonial Assembly frorh Bucks county, etc. In the assess-
ment of Upper Dublin township, 1776, John Fitzwater is taxed
for 300 acres of land and a grist mill.

For nine years after his marriage, Samuel Spencer probably
lived in Upper Dublin. A deed from his father, Jacob, prepared
in 1 78 1 (but not executed) described him as of that township. In
1783, however, with his family, he removed to New London, in
southern Chester county, and there passed the remainder of his
life.' He purchased there a farm of about 200 acres. I insert,
here, memoranda furnished me by his grandson, Ellwood
Michener :

"At that time the neighborhood had acquired the name ' Scrogy,' —
the exact location of which could not be found, as the inquirer for it was
always directed ' a little further on,' or ' a little way back.' There can be
no question that the country thereabout was then wild and the residents
rude. The tillable land had been worked down, and the buildings were
old and poor. The dwelling on the farm purchased by Samuel was of
logs, one and a half stories high, and the old barn was of the same mate-
rial. Soon after locating, Samuel built a stone house over a spring at the
foot of the hill below the dwelling, with an upper room for storage, etc.
From this spring all the water for the use of the family had to be carried
up the hill for about thirty years, — until, in 1813, they built a stone end to

1 Second month 27, 1783, Horsham Monthly Meeting granted a certificate of re-
moval to New Garden Monthly Meeting for Samuel Spencer, his wife Mary, and five
minor children, Joseph, Jonathan, Asa, Aaron, and Elizabeth.

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the old log house, where they had a well sunk, and furnished with wind-
lass and an ' old oaken bucket. '

' 'As time passed on other Friends settled around them. They were
more than four miles from West Grove Meeting, and often found it diffi-
cult to get there. A stone school-house had been built on a part of the
farm. In 1812 the Friends living near asked and obtained of New Gar-
den Monthly Meeting the privilege of holding a meeting for worship in
Spencer's school-house. The meeting was held here until a year or two
after the Separation of 1827. In this school-house my father (Dr. Ezra
Michener) and mother were married.

' ' The use of lime as a fertilizer had become a necessity, but they
were miles away from the quarries. The stone had to be hauled, the wood
cut, and hauled also to the kilns. This was winter's work. But with
industry and economy they prospered. The sons, Joseph, Jonathan, and
Asa had grown up to manhood and desired homes for themselves. An
adjoining farm was purchased. On it was a comparatively good log-house,
and Joseph, married in 1800, occupied this dwelling and farm. Asa mar-
ried in 1803, and desired a home, and so a new log-house was built on the
homestead farm, and part of it assigned him. In 1814 Jonathan married,
and the father and mother (Samuel and Mary) withdrew into the new
stone end, and gave the newly-married couple the older log end. But
this did not long serve, and in 18 18 they removed their kitchen into the
room over the spring, made some additional temporary provision, tore away
the old log house, and built a comfortable stone dwelling. The workmen
employed on it slept in the old log barn. Since that day the homestead
has been constantly occupied by two families of Spencers. Some years
ago an additional kitchen was added to the west end, and a porch extended
along the whole of the building, 93 feet in length. The house is now
occupied by Pennock Spencer and his two sisters, Ruthanna and Lydia
Ann Spencer.

" Samuel Spencer suffered much loss of property by his refusal to
give support to war by the voluntary payment of militia taxes, etc. In
1803, his three sons, Joseph, Jonathan, and Aaron, were all taken to the
jail at West Chester for non-payment of these taxes, — they being young
men, and without property that could be seized.

"A story preserved in the family is that some time after Samuel's
removal to New London, an old friend and neighbor from Montgomery

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county, with his family, came to visit him, and drawing near the new home
but not knowing exactly where it was, inquired of a Friendly-looking man
in a field along the road if he knew Samuel Spencer. The man re-
sponded : ' Samuel Spencer ? I know him well. And a worse man I
never want to know. ' The strangers were shocked, and felt almost like
turning about, but reflecting a moment, and perceiving a gleam of humor
in their informant, paused, and the joke was made plain, and heartily en-
joyed when it was related on their arrival. The man inquired of was
Jacob Lindley."'

Samuel Spencer sold his property in Montgomery county
after removing to New London, part of it to his brother John
Spencer, of Moreland, and part to his uncle John, of Upper
Dublin. (The deeds for these conveyances remained unrecorded
until 1895.) Of his character, an account by his son-in-law,
Dr. Michener, says : " He was circumspect in life and conversa-
tion, diligent in the attendance of religious meetings, a kind
friend and obliging neighbor. . . He died as he had lived,
respected and beloved, — of a paralytic affection of slow but
certain progress."

V. Children of Samuel and Mary (Fitsuiater) Spencer :

131. Joseph, b. 1776, d. 1845, m. Rebecca Good. "'§>

132. Jonathan, b. 1778, d. 1841, m. Lydia Michener. P

133. Asa, b. 1780, d. 1862, in. Hannah Good, Ann Mercer. ^

134. Aaron, b. 8. 20, 1780, d. 12. 28, 1810, unin.

135. Elizabeth, b. 10. 28, 1782, d. 12. 30, 1784.

136. Hannah, b. 8. 2, 1786, d. 3. 5, 1850, in., 1820, Thomas FaiTa,
son of Oliver and Phebe, of New London, and had issue :
Mary, who m. Lewis Farran, and Spencer, who in. Mary Regis-
ter. Ann Spencer, dau. of Hannah, vi. Joseph Hutton.

137. Sarah, b. 1789, d. 1843, in. Dr. Ezra Michener. ^

' Jacob Lindley was a Friend, very prominent in his day. He was one of the
committee sent by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, in 1793, to observe the treaty made
with the Indians at Sandusky, Ohio. He died suddenly, by being thrown from his
carriage, on his way home from meeting. This anecdote suggests him as one having a
vein of humor.

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IV. (33) John Spencer, of Moreland, son of Jacob and
Hannah, was born Fifth month 29, 1756, and died Ninth
month 7, 1799. He married (138) Lydia, daughter of Wil-
liam and Hannah Foulke, of Gwynedd. William Foulke was
the son of Thomas, who was the son of Edward Foulke, one
of the Welsh immigrants who settled at Gwynedd, in 1698,
and who came that year from Coed-y-foel, on the Treweryn,
near Bala, in Merionethshire, Wales. The genealogical
record of Edward Foulke, carefully preserved and well at-
tested, shows him to have been descended from Rhirid Flaidd,
of Penllyn, a Welsh chieftain who flourished in the latter half
of the Twelfth Century, and who is repeatedly alluded to in
the Welsh chronicles and traditions of that period, and whose
arms were : Vert, a chevron between three wolves' heads erased,
arg. (Welsh genealogists also trace for Edward Foulke a
descent through a female ancestor from Charlemagne, emperor
of Germany and king of France, A. D. 742—814.)
Lydia Foulke was born Fourth month 9, 1756. She was a
young woman of twenty-one, when in the autumn and winter of
1777-8, after the battle at Brandywine (and subsequently Ger-
mantown), the home of her family at Penllyn, in Gwynedd, was
in the near vicinity of the operations of both the American and
Royal armies, and she is repeatedly alluded to in the vivacious
diary of Sally Wister, kept at the Foulke house from September
25, 1777, to June 20, 1778.'

John and Lydia were married at Gwynedd, 1783. Horsham
Monthly Meeting granted John his certificate of clearness to
marry. Seventh month 30, 1783. Their home was on the family
homestead of his father, Jacob Spencer, in Moreland. At the
time of his marriage, a new western " end," — two rooms, — was

'This Diary is printed, with notes, in "Historical Collections Relating to
Gwynedd," by Howard M. Jenkins.

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added to the house which had been built by Jacob in 1 744, and
this part remains, little altered. (Memorandum of 1891.) John
died a comparatively young man, and left his wife with a family
of nine children, the oldest only in her sixteenth year, and the
youngest but a month old. He had not made a will, and on the
31st of Tenth month, (1799), letters of administration were
granted to his brother Jarrett Spencer, and his brother-in-law,
Jesse Foulke. In the Eighth month, 18 14, proceedings were
taken in the Orphans' Court, at Norristown, before Judge Bird
Wilson, to have a jury of inquest in partition, application being
made by Lydia Spencer, widow, and children Susanna, Edith,
George, Priscilla, Jesse, and Jonathan, and by Jonathan Jarrett,
guardian of Rebecca, Rachel, and Lydia, who were still in their
minority. A jury was appointed (Jarrett Spencer, Jesse Foulke,
Job Roberts, John Iredell, Jonathan Iredell, Gove Mitchell, Evan
Jones, William Foulke), who reported that the property, "a cer-
tain messuage and about 200 acres of land," could not be divided
without injury. They valued the property at ^102.50 per acre,
and November 14, 18 14, "George Spencer, the eldest son, ap-
peared in open court," and took it at the valuation, Jesse Foulke
and Jarrett Spencer being his sureties.

In the old mansion, George Spencer continued to live the re-
mainder of his life, — until 1876. Facts concerning him will be
given below, but here I may record an incident which serves to
suggest the character of his home, and also gives a clue to the
progress of refinement in country life. Lemuel Thomas, (the
writer's uncle), says that in his youth (say 1845), he went one
day in summer "to help Cousin George Spencer with his
harvest." When he returned, he told them at home (Spencer

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Thomas's, Upper Dublin), how at Cousin George's house " they
had netting to the doors and windows to keep the flies out ! " '

V. Children of John and Lydia {Foulke) Spencer :

139. Susan, b. 4. 10, 1784, d. 3. 14, 1872, unm.

140. Edith, b. 12. 16, 1785, d. 6. 4, 1865, unm.

141. George, b. 4. 29, 1787, d. 4. 10, 1876, m., 10. 21, 1839, Mary,
daughter of David and Hannah (Jacobs) Thomas, of Cayuga,
N. Y. Mary was born 12. 25, 1800, and d. 3. 11, 1889. Her
father, David Thomas, born in Montgomery county, Pa., 1776,
removed to Cayuga county in 1805, and was chief engineer of
the Erie Canal, west of Rochester, and later principal engineer
of the Welland Canal, of Canada. " He was distinguished as
a florist and pomologist, and by his writings rendered great ser-
vice to scientific agriculture." Two of his sons, brothers of Mary,
were John J. Thomas, famous as an agricultural writer, and
botanist (one of the editors of the Genesee Partner, Country
Gentleman, etc.), and Dr. Joseph Thomas, distinguished as a
scholar and author, editor of several standard gazetteers, diction-
aries, etc. — George and Mary Spencer both lived, as shown
above, to advanced age, each dying at 89. George was an
estimable and cultured man, whose home, for more than sixty
years, (after he took the homestead, in 1814), was a centre of
Friendly hospitality. He had no issue.

142. Priscilla, b. 8. 27, 1788, d. 6. 8, 1865, unm.

143. Jesse, b. 1790, d. 1841, m. Mary Custard. P

144. Jonathan, b. 8. 18, 1792, d. 4. 6, 1867, m., 1st, Sarah Harris,
2d, Sarah Lang. By his second marriage he had three children :
(l) Florence, who m. Samuel E. Stokes, and had issue, surname
Stokes, Samuel E., Jr. ; (2) John E., d. young ; (3) George E.,
d. young.

145. Rebecca, b. 7. 19, 1794, d. 2. 28, 1877, umn.

146. Rachel, b. 11. 12, 1796, d. 4. 8, 1851, unm.

147. Lydia, b. 8. 10, 1799, d. 12. 30, 1823, ;«. John Lloyd, left no issue.

■ From my own knowledge I can say this must have been very rare in country
houses at that time. Flies were "minded" off the table, at meals, with a brush of
peacock feathers, " for best," and a bunch of cut paper tacked on a stick, or a branch
broken from a tree, " for common."

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THE SPENCER FAMILY

IV. (43) Nathan Spencer, son of Joseph and Abigail, born
Fifth month i, 1764, married (148) Rachel, daughter of
Thomas and Frances Pim. Rachel was born Ninth month
13, 1762, and died Fifth month 17, 1831. Nathan died
Ninth month 21, 1839.

Being the only surviving child of Joseph Spencer, Nathan
inherited from him a considerable estate, and was esteemed, ac-
cording to the family tradition, " born with a gold spoon in his
mouth." His marriage to Rachel Pim took place according to
the order of Friends, and the details may be learned from the
certificate, the main parts of which are as follows :

Whereas Nathan Spencer, son of Joseph Spencer, of the township of
Bristol, in the County of Philadelphia, and the Commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania, by Abigail his wife, and Rachel Pim, daughter of Thomas Pim,
of East Cain, in the County of Chester, and Commonwealth aforesaid, by
Frances his wife (the latter Deceased), having declared their intentions
[etc.] before several monthly meetings of the People called Quakers at
West Bradford and East Cain in the said County [etc.].

Now These are to Certifie [etc.] the thirtieth day of the Ninth month,
1786, they the said Nathan Spencer and Rachel Pim appeared at a Publick
Meeting of the aforesaid People at East Cain aforesaid and the said Nathan
Spencer, taking the said Rachel Pim by the hand [etc. signed by]

Nathan Spencer

Saml. Downing
Jno. Baldwin
Thomas Greeves
Owen Morris
Willm. Nicholson
Jacob Lukens
Mary Lukens
Richd. Thomas
Joel Lanier (?)
Thomas Stalker

Martha Webb
Sarah Bond
Rebekah McPherson
Grace Stalker
Jane Hoopes
Moses Coates
Isaac Coates
William Iddings
John Hutton
[order Richard Paynter

Eleanor Mendenhall by Thos. Hughes

Rachel Spencer
Joseph Spencer
Abigail Spencer
Thos. Pim
Sarah Mendenhall
Edith Shoemaker
Jno. Pim
Hannah Pim
Moses Pim
William Culbertson
John Edge
Ann Edg-e

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91

Thomas Parke
Elizabeth Downing
Rebeckah Parke
Mary Pim pr order
Josa. Weaver
Mary Weaver
Phinas Witaker
Isaac Pim

William Trimble Jun.
Thomas Stalker Junr.
Benj. Cheesman
Sarah Culbertson
Samuel Hunt
Mary Hunt
Mary Kimber

Isaac Spackman
Elizabeth Byers
Jane Parke
Susanna Trimble
Elizabeth Stalker
Mary Baldwin
Francis Wilkinson
Hannah Wilkinson
Thos. Wilkinson
Alice Wilkinson
Sarah Pratt
Rebekah Wilkinson
Phebe Hughes
Lydia Stalker
Richard Trimble

Amos Lee
Sarah Lee
John Spencer jnr.
Sarah Spencer
Elizabeth Spencer
Rachel Shoemaker
Ganor Knight
Grace Child
Betsy Culbertson
Isaac Miller
Joshua Baldwin
Mary Downing
Hannah Iddings
Thos. Vicker jnr.
Wm. and Phebe Moode
Jonathan Roberts
Mary Roberts

[Study of the names attached to the above certificate will show
several branches of the Spencer family represented, — among them
Nathan's parents, his cousin John Spencer, Jr. (of Moreland, son of
Jacob), his two young cousins from Upper Dublin, Sarah and Eliza-
beth Spencer (daughters of John, the elder) ; his cousin Rachel Shoe-
maker; quite a young girl (daughter of Edith Spencer and George
Shoemaker) ; his cousin Gaynor Knight, already a widow, at twenty-
six (daughter of Elizabeth Spencer and Joseph Lukens) ; his aunt
Mary (Spencer) Roberts, and her husband, Jonathan. All these had
rode over to "the Great Valley," to Cain, to attend Nathan's mar-
riage.]

The Pim family, of which Rachel was one, can be traced to
Richard, of Leicestershire, England, who about 1655, being then
an old man, removed to Ireland. His son William also removed
to Ireland the same year. John Pim, son of William, born in
Leicestershire, married, 1663, Mary Pleadwell, and lived in
Montrath, Ireland. He had eleven children, of whom the eldest

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was Moses, born 1664, who married Ann, daughter of
Christopher and Philippa Raper. A son of this Moses, named
William, born 1692, married Dorothy, daughter of Thomas and
Dorothy Jackson, and came to Pennsylvania in 1730, settling in
East Cain, Chester county, where Dorothy died two years later,,
and her husband in 1751. He was an active and useful citizen,,
a Friend, many years clerk of Bradford Monthly Meeting, etc.
William and Dorothy had six children, of whom Thomas, father
of Rachel, was the third. He was born in 1721 and died 1786.
He married, 1746, Frances Wilkinson, daughter of James of"
Wilmington, Delaware, and they had eight children : (i) Moses,
d. 1751, five years old ; (2) Ann, in. John Edge ; (3) William, m,
Mary Stalker ; (4) Thomas, m. Mary Pim ; (5) Hannah, m.
James Miller, (who settled at Erie, Pa., and will be mentioned
later, in connection with Hannah's nephew, Thomas Pim
Spencer) ; (6) Sarah, m. Amos Lee, of Oley ; (7) John, vi.
Hannah Fisher ; (8) Rachel, vi. Nathan Spencer.

The Pirns were related to the Copes, of Philadelphia, and
Thomas Pim Cope, the first of the latter family in that city, (he-
was born in Lancaster county, and went to Philadelphia in 1786,
becoming subsequently a successful and famous merchant and
ship-owner), was a cousin, and it is said the namesake of Thomas
Pim, of Cain.

William Pim, the immigrant, died suddenly ; so also did his
son Thomas, father of Rachel, (the latter was at a blacksmith
shop, getting his horse shod, when he was fatally seized), and so,
likewise, did his son Thomas, (brother of Rachel), who was
riding in his carriage.'

' Of this Thomas, 2d, his daughter Anne Pim (who died in West Chester, Pa.,
First month 30, 1882, unmarried, at the age of 90 years), said she did not remember
him as ever being sick. He was 6 feet 3 inches in height, and weighed 280 pounds.
(His brother John, who died in Ohio weighed 300 pounds.) He, Thomas Pim, 2d,

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The home of Nathan and Rachel Spencer was that just
-east of Germantown, which had been occupied by Joseph
Spencer, on the farm which he had bought of the " five John
Lukens's." The house was enlarged, 1790, by Nathan, and is
standing (1897), substantially unaltered, and used as a farm-
house, at the corner of Township Line and Mill Street. There
is also still standing beside it the brew-house (now used for
storage, etc.), of probably the same age as the dwelling.

Nathan Spencer was a Friend. A conveyance of ground
rents belonging to Germantown Meeting, 25th December, 1812,
shows that he was then one of the seven trustees of the meet-
ing's property. In 18 14 he sold his farm and another tract to
Benjamin Lehman, " of Germantown, lumber merchant," and
■"James S. Spencer, of Germantown, merchant." The deed is
dat'ed January 15 of that year, and conveys the main tract, 149
acres, 88 perches (the same dimensions as when Joseph Spencer
bought it in 1758, of John Lukens), and the small one contain-
ing I acre, 72 perches, for a total price of ;^30,6oo. The small
tract was conveyed " with the mansion-house and tavern, called
the sign of The Drover, thereon erected." '

Soon after the sale of the homestead, Nathan bought for
,^40,000 a large property on the Frankford and Bristol turnpike,
■" Prospect Hill," which extended to the Delaware river, on the
lower side of Poquessing creek, and included most of what is
now Torresdale. The deed for this is dated April 5, 18 14. The

married his first cousin, Mary Pirn, daughter of Richard and Hannah, and they had six
children : (i) Rachel, who died two years old ; (2) Hannah, who m. Job Remington ;
{3) Sarah, m. William Abbott ; (4) Mary, m. Abraham Gibbons; (5) Anne, (named
above) d. unm. ; (6) Richard, m. Mary Edge, and had issue one son, George E. Pim,
and several daughters, one of whom to. Thomas H.Savery, one Prof. Edward D. Cope,
one Enos E. Thatcher, one John H. Dillingham, and one John E. Carter.

t This is the hotel at Branchtown. It was kept, 1879, when I collected notes on
this subject, by Hamilton Clayton.

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grantors were John Rankin and Caleb Dilworth, who had bought
the property in 1811 of William Bell, " of Philadelphia, mer-
chant." The property was in two tracts, one of 303^ acres,
and the other 14 acres and 24 perches. It lay on both sides of
the turnpike, called in the deed the " Great Road." Part of the
description says it was bounded "by other lands of which this-
was part, now or late in the possession of the negroes of Thomas
Robinson, deceased."

At Prospect Hill, Nathan lived hospitably, and for that day
handsomely. The property ultimately passed out of his hands
(partly, it is stated, in order to " make a clear title ") by sheriff's
sales in 1828 and 1829. (The property was bought for $\g,-
000, by Jonathan Thomas.) He returned after that to live at
Germantown, but his death occurred at Cinnaminson, N. J.'
Some time after the death of his first wife, he married Rebecca.
Nichols, who survived him.

V. Children of Nathan arid Rachel (Piiri) Spencer :

149. Sarah, 6. 1788, d. 1874, m. Hugh Roberts, Joseph Hirst. P

150. Abigail, 6. 4. 25, 1791, d. 4. 17, 1792.

151. Hephziba, 6. 1793, d. 1879, m. Spencer Thomas. P

152. Maria, i. 1794, d. 1879, m. Richard L. Thomas. ^

153. Thomas Pim, 6. 1796, d. 1879, m. Ann Kemble. ^

154. Joseph, ,5. 1798, d. 1866. He ?«., 1st, CorneHa Davidson, of
Trenton, N. J., and had three children : (i) John, who left home
and was supposed to have gone West, and died there ; (2)
Hannah, who m, William Staats, and removed to the Far West
(? Nevada), and had issue ; (3) Josephine, m. William Welling,
of Pennington, N. J., and d. soon after. Joseph, m., 2d,
Rachel Brelsford, by whom he had two sons, Zachary and Nathan.

155. Lydia, li. 12. 13, 1799, d. 8. i, 1806.

1 A letter from his grandson, Spencer Roberts, to his (Spencer's) brother, Ed-
mund Roberts, "at Canby's Mills, Wilmington, Delaware," dated September 21,
1839, says : " Our dear grandfather departed this life this afternoon, at 2 o'clock. He;
has been sick for three or four weeks of dysentery."

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IV. (59) Sarah Spencer, daughter of John and Elizabeth,
of Upper Dublin, born Seventh month 29, 1768, died Tenth
month 8, 1854. She married, Tenth month 21, 1791 (156),
Jonathan Thomas, of Moreland, son of Mordecai and Eliza-
beth. Jonathan was born Ninth month 4, 1768, at Hatboro',
and died Seventh month 31, 1842, at Bristol, where he was
buried in the Friends' ground, on Wood street.
Jonathan Thomas was the great-grandson of Daniel Thomas,
of Abington, who married Catherine, daughter of Evan Morris,'
and had by her nine children, one of them being a second
Daniel (the fourth child), born Ninth month 2, 1711. Daniel,
the elder, died in 1740 ; his son Daniel married. Seventh month
30, 1734, Susanna Livezey, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth,
of Lower Dublin, and had nine children, one of whom (fifth
child) was Mordecai, the father of Jonathan Thomas. This
second Daniel Thomas lived in Moreland, and died 1760. He
was one of the organizers, 1755, of the Union Library, at Hat-
boro' (" Crooked Billet "), and first treasurer of the company.
Mordecai Thomas, his son, married Elizabeth, daughter of John
and Alice (Conrad) Jarrett. He was a miller at Hatboro', and
in the assessment of 1787 is assessed for 194 acres of land, 4
dwellings, grist-mill, 3 horses. His will, dated Ninth month 5,
18 1 3, was proved Second month 13, 18 16. He describes him-
self as then " in a declining state of health."

Jonathan Thomas, after he married Sarah Spencer, lived
with his father, at Hatboro', for a year or two. They then re-
moved to the mill on the Wissahickon, for many years (and now,
1 897) belonging to the Cleavers, and their oldest son, Spencer, was

> Much remains to be learned of this Daniel Thomas. I think it probable that he
came from Merion to Abington. He may have been the same Daniel who appears in
the Pennsylvania Tax List of 1693, as a taxable in " the Welsh Tract." He was in
Abington soon after 1700, if not earlier.

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born there. . Leaving the Wissahickon, they were a year or more
at Boucher's Mill, on the Pennypack, at Huntingdon Valley, and
then removed to the mill at the mouth of Poquessing creek, in
Bensalem township, — the extreme southern corner of Bucks
county, now Torresdale. About 1817 he removed to a farm,
" Ishmael Hall," on the Bristol turnpike, near the Poquessing
mill (and near also to " Prospect Hill," the home at that time of
Nathan Spencer), and here he spent most of the remainder of
his life. In 1839 he removed to Bristol, where he died, in a
house on the river front (Radcliffe street), where later his son
Mordecai passed the closing years of his life. A letter from
Spencer Thomas (son of Jonathan, see below) to his sister Eliza-
beth, at Westtown Boarding School, First month 10, 1817, says :

" I believe I have little [news] to communicate. The chief may be
the conclusion of Father and Mother to remiove in the spring to ' Ishmael
Hall.' M. Hibbs [tenant there] has had notice to remove, so the thing is
settled. Samuel [younger brother of Jonathan, uncle of the writer of the
letter] is to have the grist-mill [Poquessing] , I the saw-mill and board-
yard, and Mordecai to live at home until something may offer for him. . .
I suppose Grandmother Thomas [Elizabeth, widow of Mordecai] and
Aunt Rachel [Jonathan's unmarried sister] will keep house for Samuel, and
I board with them."

Jonathan was a Friend, and took a somewhat active part in
the affairs of the Society. He was an energetic business man,
and prosperous in his affairs. Of his personal appearance
Jacob T. Williams, of Philadelphia, says, in a letter, 1890: "As
I remember him when I was a small boy, he was tall, of erect
figure, with locks nearly white, and gentlemanly, commanding
appearance." He appears to have been fond of a joke. Ac-
cording to a preserved story, a person driving along the road
near his house met him walking, and — not being acquainted with

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him — asked who lived " over in that house," pointing t6 Jona-
than's home. "That?" said Jonathan, " O, that's where my
washerwoman lives ! " '

Sarah (Spencer) Thomas was the elder of the two sisters who
alone survived and grew up, of the eight children of John and
Elizabeth Spencer. She and her sister Elizabeth, when they
were young women, are said to have planted two walnut trees
on the lawn at their father's house, in Upper Dublin. These
trees grew and flourished for at least a century, but were blown
down (with all the other trees about the house) in a frightful
wind-storm, or tornado, in June, 1896. The picture given in
this volume, of the house (Charles S. Paxson's) and grounds, in
1891, shows these fine old trees as they then appeared, standing
in full growth and vigor.

Upon the death of (10) John Spencer, father of Sarah, in
1812, his property in Upper Dublin descended, under the intes-
tate law, to his two daughters. His two sons-in-law were ad-
ministrators of his estate. Sarah took the upper place, her old
home (now, 1897, Charles S. Paxson's), and Elizabeth the lower,
on which stood the old house of (3) Samuel Spencer. Deeds of
release were mutually executed, April i, 18 13, by the two sisters
and their husbands, — Jonathan Thomas and wife Sarah, of Ben-
salem, Bucks county, to Jeremiah Mcllvain and wife Elizabeth,
of Ridley, Delaware county, for the consideration of one dollar ;
and similarly the Mcllvains to the Thomas's, for ^2,450. The
upper place, which Sarah took, contained 161 acres ; the lower
132^^ acres. The former was described in the release as lying
along the Welsh road, on one side, and on the other lines ad-
joining lands of John Lukens and James Spencer. (The road
on the south-eastern side, from the Welsh road to Dreshertown,

^ Which reminds us of the joke by Jacob Lindley, on a preceding page.
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is called " the Lime-Kiln road.") The farm is identified as
"being the same messuage and tract of land which Samuel
Spencer, by his indenture March i6, 1757, conveyed to his third
son, the said John Spencer, deceased."

Sarah (Spencer) Thomas died at the home of her daughter
and son-in-law, Nathan T. and Elizabeth (Thomas) Knight, at
the " Ishmael Hall " place, on the Bristol turnpike, and was
buried in the Friends' ground at Byberry.

157
158,

'59
160.

161
162

V. Children of Jonathan and Sarah {Spencer) Thomas .
Spencer, b. 1793, d. 1850, m. Hephziba Spencer. ^
Jesse, b. 7. 22, 1795, d. 8. 14, 1795.
Mordecai, b. iJgT, d. 1854, m. Grace Wilson. '^
Elizabeth, b. 1800, d. 1891, m. Nathan T. Knight. ^
Mary, b. 6. 2, 1806, d. 6. 8, 1806.

Sarah, b. 7. 2, 1808, d. 8. 29, 1832, unm. " She died rather
suddenly from the effects of exposure to the sun." — (Note by
Jacob T. Williams, 1890.)

IV. (60) Elizabeth Spencer, daughter of John and Elizabeth
of Upper Dublin, born Ninth month 30, 1770, died Third
month 12, 1842. She married, Eleventh month i, 1792, at
Horsham meeting-house, (163) Jeremiah McIlvain, of
Ridley, Delaware county, son of John and Lydia. Jeremiah
was born Sixth month 29, 1767, and died Second month 19,
1827.

Jeremiah McIlvain was the grandson of James and Jane
McIlvain, who with six children came to Pennsylvania from
County Antrim, Ireland, about 1740. Their oldest child, John,
was a miller, and settled on Crum Creek, in Chester (now
Delaware) county ; he was twice married, first to Mary Roman,
of Chichester, by whom he had two children, Isaac and Mary,
and second to Lydia, daughter of Richard and Ann Barnard, of

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Chester county, by whom he had eight children, Judith, John
Lydia, Jeremiah, James, Margaret, Richard, and Hugh.

In the division of the estate of John Spencer, of Upper
Dublin, in 1813 (already referred to), his daughter Elizabeth
took the lower farm, now (1897) the estate of Joshua W. Paxson.
It lay along the Welsh road, and the " Lime-kiln road," and ad-
joined lands of Nathan Comly, Jesse Hallowell, and Elijah
Lukens. "It is partly composed [said the release] of certain
84^ acres, which Samuel Spencer, nephew of said decedent
[John Spencer] and Mary his wife, Fourth month i, 1785, con-
veyed to said decedent, and partly of certain lands bequeathed
said decedent by his father, Samuel Spencer."

Jeremiah McIlvain lived in Ridley township, Delaware
county, on the east bank of Crum Creek. He carried on farm-
ing, tanning, and the lumber business. His farm was mostly on
the east side of the creek. The farm on which the Pennsylvania
Military Academy (Hyatt's) stands belonged to his wife
Elizabeth.

V. Children of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Spencer) McIlvain :

164. Sarah, b. 10. 27, 1793, d. 7. 28, 1795.

165. Lydia, b. 1795, d. 1854, m. Edward H. Bonsall. ^

166. Eliza, b. 1798, d. 1874, 7n. Jacob Hewes. ^

167. John, b. 5. 2, 1800, d. 9. 26, 1801.

168. Spencer, b. 1803, d. 1889, m. Sarah Crosby. ^

169. John S., b. 1805, d. 1880, m. Susan Morton. ^

170. Jeremiah, b. 1808, d. 1893, m. Ann Crosby Harlan. ^

171. Ann, b. 1810, d. 1893, m. Levis Miller. ^

172. Samuel, b. 2. 6, 1813, d. 11. 11, 1833, unm.

IV. (68) Nathan Spencer, of Ohio, son of Nathan and
Hannah, of Virginia, was born Third month 16, 1767, and
died in Ohio, in 1833. He married (173) Ann, daughter of

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THE SPENCER FAMILY

William and Ann Smith. He died Sixth month 28, 1833 ;

Ann died Fourth month 20, 1833.

Nathan and Ann were married, according to Friends' order,
in the meeting-house at Goose Creek (now Lincoln), Va., Fourth
month 29, 1790. The Certificate is as follows :

Whereas Nathan Spencer, Jr., in the county of Loudoun, and
State of Virginia, and Ann Smith. Jr., in the county and State aforesaid,
having declared their intentions of marriage with each other before the
several monthly meetings of the people called Quakers at Goose Creek in
the county and State aforesaid [etc.] Now these may certify [etc.] this
29th day of the Fourth month, 1790, the said [Nathan and Ann] ap-
peared in a public meeting of the said people at Goose Creek meeting-
house, [etc.] and the said Nathan Spencer, Jr., taking the said Ann
Smith, Jr,, by the hand, did declare [etc., etc., after the usual manner of
the Friends' certificates.]

Nathan Spencer
Ann Spencer
Rachel Spencer Nathan Spencer

Sarah Spencer Hannah Spencer

Amy Gregg William Smith

Rebeckah Gregg Ann Smith

Thomas Gregg Margaret Spencer

Jane Smith Samuel Spencer

Mercy Smith Alice Spencer

Rachel Daniel John Spencer

Edeth Smith Lydia Spencer

John Gregg Elizabeth Smith

Mary Hirst Mary Smith

Sarah Smith Hannah Spencer

Mary Janney William Spencer

Ann Mead Thomas Janney

Hannah Pool

Amy Gregg
Samuel Howell
Jane Howell
Esther Daniel
Joseph Daniel
Jacob Gregg
Benjamin Mead
Jane Hatcher
Blackstone Janney
William Daniel
John Hirst
Stephen Gregg
Israel Janney
Isaac Nichols
Joseph Pool

In 1806 Nathan and Ann removed to Ohio. They ob-
tained of Goose Creek Monthly Meeting, Third month 24, that

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year, a removal certificate, addressed to Concord Monthly Meet-
ing, Belmont county, Ohio, for themselves and eight children,
David, Betsey, Jonathan, Mercy, Abner, Sarah, Phebe, and Mary.
Three more children were born to them in Ohio, and of this large
family all but one grew up and married. Letters from Phebe E.
Spencer, of Spencer Station, Guernsey county, Ohio, written in
1 89 1, and addressed to the author of this volume, may be here
cited in part. She is the widow of Asa Spencer, son of Nathan
and Ann. She says :

" Nathan Spencer and Ann (formerly Smith) emigrated to
Ohio in the early part of the century, and had a family of 12
children. Both died within ten weeks of each other, in 1833,
leaving all their children living but one, who died in infancy.
I am now the only one living who called them father
and mother. . . Our marriage was the ninth in the family ;
there were two single daughters, then. My husband died in
1876, and the others are all gone some years ago."'

V. Children of Nathan and Ann Spencer :

174. David,**. 1791, d. 1858, m. ^

175. Betsey, b. 1792, m. Ralph Cowgill. p

176. Jonathan, b. 1794, ;«., d. "in Belmont county, Ohio, near
Barnesville."

177. Samuel, b. 1795, d. 6. 28, 1797, in Loudoun county, Va.

178. Mercy, b. 1797, m. Hezekiah Windom. ^

179. Abner, b. 1799, m. ^

180. Sarah, b. 1800, d. 1851, m. Thomas M. Foulke. ^

181. Phebe, b. 1803, m. Elijah Gregg, d. 10. 25, 1871, "in Johnson
county, Iowa."

182. Mary, b. 1805, m. Edwin Penrose, d. " in Jasper county, Iowa."

183. Asa, b. 1807, m. Phebe E. Piggott. P

184. Rachel, b. 1809, d. Eleventh month 20, 1881, m. William Craft,
and had issue.

185. Jonas, b. 1811, d. " in Jasper county, Iowa."

1 1 have a letter. Ninth month 3, 1897, from Frank S. Spencer, son of Asa and
Phebe, in which he states that his mother was then living, in her 88th year, but unable,
rem mental decline, to write.

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IV. (73) Edith Nichols, daughter of William and Sarah
(Spencer) Nichols, of Loudoun county, Virginia, was born
Fourth month 16, 1771, and died Seventh month 9, 1840.
She married (186) Levi Tate, of Delaware, who was born
Seventh month 4, 1766, and died Second month 13, 1846.

V. Childre7i of Levi and Edith Tate:

187. William, b. i. 20, 1796, m., 10. 15, 1823, Priscilla Fenton. No
children.

188. Jesse, b. 7. 8, 1799, d. i. 31, 1806.

189. Sarah, b. 11. 15, 1801, m. Naylor Shoemaker. W

190. Ann, b. 12. 31, 1803, d. 5. 6, 1865, unm.

191. Edith, b. I. 8, 1807, d. 8. 8, 1812.

192. Mary, b. 3. 20, 1809, d. 7. 29, 1889, unm.

193. Ehzabeth, b. 7. 5, 181 1, d. 12. 22, 1888, unm.

IV. (74) Isaac Nichols, son of William and Sarah (Spencer)
Nichols, of Loudoun county, Virginia, was born Second
month 6, 1773, and died Seventh month 27, 1848. He was
twice married, — to (194) Lydia Walters, and (195) Mary
Gibson.

His first marriage is mentioned in the minutes of Goose
Creek Monthly Meeting, when. Tenth month 26, 179S, he was
granted a certificate to Crooked Run Monthly Meeting (in
Warren county, nine miles south of Winchester), to marry ; and
in Fourth month following Lydia brought her certificate of
membership from Crooked Run to Goose Creek. After Lydia's
death, Isaac married, 1804, Mary Gibson. She was born Fourth
month 16, 1777, and died Eighth month 18, 185 i.

V. Childreti of Isaac and Lydia Nichols .

196. Ehzabeth, b. 10. 3, 1798, m. WiUiam Wilson. ^

197. Thomas, b. 3. 3, 1802, m. Emily Holmes. ^

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103

199,
200.
201
202

Children of Isaac and Mary Nichols :
Joshua, b. 7. 3, 1805, m. Naomi White. ^
Miriam, b. 6. 8, 1807, m. Thomas PurJue. ^
Joseph, b. 9. 17, 1809, ;k. Mary Ann McPherson. ^
Lydia, b. 9. 15, 181 1, m. Samuel Hatcher. ^
William, b. 8. 8, 1813, d. 3. 18, 1866, m., 1854, Phila Cockerill,
and had two children : Walter, b. 1856, d. 1882, and Arthur,
b. 1864, ;«., 1893, Celesta Brufif.

203. Sarah, b. 9. 25, 1815, d. 1 1. 25, 1846, m. Alfred Logan, and had
issue three children, surname Logan . Mary Alice, b. 1838, m.
Isaac C. Hull; Margaret, b. \?>\o\ John W., b. 1844, m. Ann
Eliza Holmes.

204. Phebe, b. 5. 14, 1821, m. Joseph Mead, of Ohio. 18

IV. (75) Samuel Nichols, son of William and Sarah
(Spencer) Nichols, of Loudoun county, Virginia, was born
1778, died Fifth month 27, 1824, married (205) Mary
Janney.

V. Children of Samuel and Mary Nichols :

Amor, b. 11. 25, 1802, m. Maria Brown. ^
John, b. 2. II, 1804, m. Sarah Brown. P
William, b. 7. 24, 1806, m. Catherine Tavenner. P
Phebe, b. 8. 2, 1808, ?«. Thomas Brown. ^
Samuel, b. 10. 26, 181 1, (^. ««?«.

211. Eli, b. 5. 27, 1813, d. untn.

212. Thomas J., b. 6. 5, 181 5, m. Nancy Dillon. P

213. Mary, b. 8. 9, 1817.

214. Lydia, b. 11. 8, 1818.

206
207
208
209
210,

IV. {j6') Mary Nichols, daughter of William and Sarah
(Spencer) Nichols, of Loudoun county, Va., born Seventh
month 10, 1776, died Sixth month 18, 1855, married (215)
William Piggott.

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V. Children of William and Mary Piggott :

216. Sarah, b. 12. 13, 1798, d. 4. 16, 1877, wz. William Brown. W

217. John, b, I. 16, 1 801, d. 10. 28, 1825.

2 1 8. Isaac, b. 10. 14, 1802, d. 5. 2, 1871, m. Rebecca Hatcher. ^

219. Burr, b. 9. 3, 1805, d. 2. 4, 1852, wz. Hannah J. Nichols. ^

220. Elizabeth, b. 12. 26, 1807, d. 9. 23, i860, »z. Richard Brown. ^

221. Phebe, b. 9. 12, 1810, rf. 9. 22, i860, »2. Lot Tavenner. ^

222. Jesse, ^. 8. 25, 1812, »z., ist, Mary Florida; 2nd, Mary Fritz,
and had issue : Burr, m. Lloyd, Georgietta, tn.

223. William, b. 12. 28, 1815, d. 4. 6, 1833.

224. Mary, b. 5. 23, 1818.

IV. {jj) William Nichols, son of William and Sarah
(Spencer) Nichols, of Loudoun county, Va., was born Fifth
month 14, 1779, died Sixth month 11, i860, married, 1804,
(225) Mary Janney, daughter of Stacy.
As already mentioned (p. 69), this William Nichols came
into possession of the homestead place, two miles north of
Lincoln, Va., which he sold in 1836 to William Hatcher, and re-
moved to Columbiana county, Ohio, where he remained and
died.

V. Children of William and Mary Nichols :

226. Isaac, b. 3. 27, 1805, d. 4. i, 1886. He married, 1828, Mary
Jane Gregg, (who is living, 1897, at the age of 88), in Virginia,
and had four children : (i) Samuel G., b. 1829, d. 1893, in
Illinois, was three times married, and had issue by each ; (2)
William H., i5. 1831 ; (3) Nathan, b. 1833, d. 1872, U7tm.; (4)
Mary Jane, b. 1847, m., 187 1, William Dejayne, and has issue
one son, William Nathan, b. 1872.

227. Samuel, b. I. 21, 1807, d. 5. 23, 1873, m. Tryphena Hanna. ^

228. Hannah, b. 11. 19, 1808, d. I. 2, 1872, m. Arthur Rogers, of
Belmont county, Ohio.

229. Sarah, b. 10. 7, 1810, d. 9. — , 1838, ni. Lot Holmes.

230. Stacy, b. 12. 13, 1812, m. Martha Brown. P

231. Jesse, b. 10. 21, 1814, d. 10. i, 1883, m. Mary Brown. ^

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232. Mary, b. 11. 18, 1816, m., 1838, Jesse M. Allen, of Ohio. No
issue. He d. 1874.

233. Margery, b. 4. 3, 1819, d. 5. 11, 1884, m., 1838, Dr. George S.
Metsger, of Belmont county, Ohio, formerly of Hanover, York
county. Pa. He d. 7. 5, 1885. They had three children who
grew up : (i) Margery, b. 1839, m., 1870, James F. Todd, and
d. 1883, leaving two sons, George S. and Charles ; (2) Anna, b.
1841, m., 1867, George Vogleson, and d. 1896, having had five
children, four surviving, Edgar, John, Helen, Mabel ; (3) Paul,
b. 1843, m. 1873, Ada Griner, of Salem, Ohio.

234. William, b. 3. 2, 1821, m., 10. 23, 1873, Mary A. K. Mather,"
daughter of Thomas and Ehzabeth, of Mahoning county, Ohio.
Mary was b. i\. 17, 1840, and d. 2. 3, 1891. They had issue,
one son, William Nichols, 4th, b. i. 1, 1879.

235. Mahlon, b. 9. 16, 1823, m. Ruth H. Pancoast, of Loudoun
county, Va. P

IV. (80) Samuel Shoemaker, son of George and Edith
(Spencer) Shoemaker, born in Montgomery county, Pa.,
Third month 16, 1771, and died in Bethesda district, Mont-
gomery county, Md., Fifth month 21, 1848.
When he was eighteen years old, Samuel appears to have
gone to Gwynedd ; he received a certificate of removal for Hor-
sham to Gwynedd Monthly Meeting, Second month 25, 1789,
and Seventh month 29, 1801, was certified back to Horsham.
He married (236) Elizabeth Ellis, of Upper Dublin. She was
born in 1777, and died Twelfth month 19, 1839. A letter from
Lewis Shoemaker, of Tennall3^own, D. C, First month 4, 1892,
says :

" Samuel Shoemaker was my grandfather. He lived on the
John Spencer farm in Upper Dublin [after John's death, 18 12]
for some years preceding the year 1820, when he removed with

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his family to Montgomery county, Md., where he Hved until his
death. His life's occupation was that of a farmer. He had ten
children [as below]. All of the children living [1892] are
residing in Montgomery county, Md., except Edward, who is in
Iowa. All the children except Jonathan married, and all who
married had children, except Edith, who died at the birth of her
first child, which died with her."

V. Children of Samuel and Elizabeth Shoemaker :

237. George, 6. 12. 27, 1799, d. 10. 12, 1838. P

238. Isaac, i. 8. 17, 1802, d. 8. 10, 1883. P

239. Edith, 6. 4. 9, 1805, d. 2. 4, 1833. ^

240. David, i. 10. I, 1807, d. 12. 6, 1886. ^

241. Jonathan, d. 7. 20, 1810, d. 5. 17, 1877, unm.

242. Charles, 6. 4. 3, 1813. d. ^

243. Jesse, 6. 12. 6, 1815, d. 12. 14, 1887. ^

244. Samuel, 6. 7. i, 1818, d. 11. 18, 1891. ^

245. Edward, 6. i. 26, 1821. d. ^

246. Rachel, i. 5. 10, 1823. ^

IV. (81) Abraham Shoemaker, son of George and Edith
(Spencer) Shoemaker, was born Tenth month i, 1772, and
died Eleventh month 25, 1842. He married (247) Martha
Webster, daughter of Naylor and Martha. Martha was
born Seventh month 18, 1773, and died Third month 31, 1836.
Horsham Monthly Meeting records show that Abraham and
Martha declared their intentions of marriage, Eighth month 27,
1800. They removed to Lancaster county, Pa., then to Mont-
gomery county, Md., and finally settled in Loudoun county, Va.

V. Children of Abraham and Martha Shoemaker ■

248. Naylor, b. 6. 21, 1801, m. Sarah Tate. ^

249. Eliza, b. 10. 3, 1802, d. 7. 8, 1875, unm.

250. Hannah, b. 11. 3, 1806, d. 9. 21, 1859, m. John Young.

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251. Rachel, b. 8. 13, 1808, d. 11. 20, 1861, m. Joseph Gibson, and
had issue : Clementina, Webster, Laura, m. Charles Moore,
Ella (Richmond, Indiana).

252. Edith, b. 6. 17, 1810, d. 3. 2, 1885, unm.

253. Sarah, b. 7. 6, 1813, d. 10. 10, 1892, unm.

254. Samuel, b. 6. 8, 1815, d. 11. 12, 1885, ot. Catherine Bell.
" His widow and children are living in Kansas." (Mem. 1891.)

255. Basil W., b. 10. 28, 1817, m. Caroline Thomas. ^

256. George W., b. 8. 27, 1820, d. 3. 20, 1868, unvi.

IV. (85) Levi Roberts, physician, son of Jonathan and (18)
Mary, was born in Willistown township, Chester county, Pa.,
Twelfth month 26, 1777. He married (257), Lydia Sharp-
LES, daughter of William and Ann, Twelfth month 9, 1799.
He studied medicine with Dr. Peter Yarnall, of Hatboro',
Montgomery county. Pa., but Dr. Yarnall dying, Levi completed
his studies with Dr. 'Samuel Lukens, of or near Sandy Spring,
Md. He first practiced in East Goshen, Chester county. Pa.,
afterward in Willistown, and later at or near what is now known
as Lincoln University, below Oxford ; subsequently removing to
Friendsville, Susquehanna county, where he died of pleurisy,
Eighth month 20, 1825. His widow removed to West Chester,
Pa., where she died Second month 15, 1844. Both were mem-
bers of the Society of Friends.

V. Children of Levi and Lydia Roberts :

258. Mary Ann. b. 8. 21, 1803, d. 1883, ;«. 11. 27, 1828, William Kin-
nard, b. 2. 28, 1807, and had issue, surname Kinnard, Benjamin
R. , d. in childhood, Anne T., m. Edward Porter, Gulielma, d. in
childhood, Charles.

259. William S., b. 10. 22, 1804, d. 1890, m. 5. i, 1829, Eliza Clark,
of Dublin, Ireland, and 2nd, Jane Johnson, 7. 30, 1862. Issue,
William Johnson.

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260. Ann, b. 7. 13, 1807, d. 8. 17, 1889, m. i. 9, 1825, Abraham
Marshall, ^.3. i, 1799, and had issue, surname Marshall, Mira
Louise, Henry, Caroline, Nathan S., Lydia Ann.

261. Benjamin Rush, b. 5. 7, 1810, d. at Sandy Spring, Md., 11. 28,
1880. He was a prominent member of the Society of Friends,
and especially interested in the work for the Indians, under the
"Peace Policy" of President Grant, 1869-1877, being asso-
ciated in this with Samuel M. Janney, Benjamin Hallowell, and
others. He was by profession a druggist, and carried on the
business successfully in Baltimore, removing to Sandy Spring,
Md., in 185 1, where he devoted his attention to agriculture,
practically and scientifically. His death was caused by pneu-
monia, due to a 1 2-mile ride in a public stage, in his Indian
work. His wife, Mary, was the eldest daughter of John Needles,
of Baltimore, a prominent citizen and philanthropist. She was
born 5. 31, 1812. They were married 10. 10, 1836. Of their
home at " Sherwood," Sandy Spring, a servant there said that
' ' if people were not nice when they came there, they got so be-
fore they left." (Farquhar's "Annals of Sandy Spring.") He
left no issue.

262. Howard, b. 9. 3, iZ\i,d. 11. 6, 1887, in. 5. 14, 1834, Henrietta
Debell, of Chester, Pa., and had twelve children : William R.,
Evaline, d. in childhood ; Lydia Ann, Adahne Suplee, Elma
Townsend, Elizabeth Suplee, d. in childhood ; Howard Debell,
d, in childhood ; Sarah Suplee, d. in infancy ; Howard Debell
(2d), d. in infancy ; Emily Frances, Edward Hinkson, George, d.
in infancy.

263. Robert Barclay, b. 12. 3, 1814, d. 3. 17, 1896, 7n., 1838, Ann Sill
Johnson, and had issue : R. Levi, Anna Mary, Hannah Elizabeth,
Augusta B.

264. Hannah Sharpies, b.i.i, 1818, d. 10.6, 1887, m., ist, 6.20, 1835,
Louis W. H. Kervey, (from Stuttgart, Germany, son of Louis Ker-
vey, a German army officer), and had issue, surname Kervey, three
children : (i) Theresa Lavinia, b. 2. 7, 1836, d. 2. 7, 1854, unm.;
(2) Anna Gertrude, b. 5. 19, 1847, »'■ F. S. Hickman, of West
Chester, Pa. , and has issue four children ; (3) Harry Rush,

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druggist, West Chester, Pa., b. 5. 15, 1850, m. Mary Marcy Baily,
daughter of Dr. Elisha Ingram Baily, surgeon United States
army, retired, and has issue two children. — Hannah m., 2nd,
Samuel King Hammond, West Chester, Pa. ; no issue.
265. Alfred Clarkson, b. 6. 20, 1821, m. 5. 11, 1842, Elizabeth Mc-
Bride, and had issue: Mary Helen, George A., Rachel A.,
Lavinia.

IV. (86) Rachel Roberts, daughter of Jonathan and Mary
(Spencer) Roberts, born Seventh month 27, 1779, died Sixth
month 12, 1863, married (266) Matthew Conard. They
had one son, (267) Charles S., born Third month 20, 1820,
died Eighth month 10, 1821.

IV. (87) George Roberts, son of Jonathan and Maiy
(Spencer) Roberts, born Tenth month 30, 1781, died Fourth
month 3, i860, married Eleventh month 12, 1807, (268)
Alice Fell, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth. Thomas
Fell was the son of John, who was the son of Joseph Fell,
who emigrated from Cumberland, England, 1705, and settled
in Buckingham, Bucks county, Pa. Thomas Fell was a
blacksmith by trade, and is said to have shod the horses of
the American army, in the Revolution, " and Washington
would have no one but him to shoe his own horse." ' In 1788
he removed to Penn township, Chester county. Pa. Alice
was his oldest child, in a family of ten. Her mother, Eliza-
beth Fell, was the daughter of Thomas and Margaret Kinsey.
Alice was born First month 14, 1783, and died, in Wilmington,
Del, Seventh month 15, 1870. George was a farmer by
occupation, and lived for many years near Avondale, Chester

1 " Genealogy of the Fell Family," by Sarah M. Fell, p. 46.

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county, Pa. He removed to Wilmington in 1854. In the
Memoir of Louisa J. Roberts, (wife of George and Alice's son
Spencer — see below), she says, in her Journal :

"Fourth month 8, i860. — Father Roberts departed this life
in Wilmington, Del., on the 3d of this month, in his 79th year.
On Fifth-day following we assembled in New Garden meeting-
house, Chester County, Pa., to pay the last sad rites to one who
had by his many virtues and close relationship endeared himself
to us. As we rode back to Wilmington, I recalled to mind the
many times the dear old man had traveled that road on our ac-
count, and how the tediousness of the journey had been en-
livened by his cheerful, animated conversation. His children may
well be proud to call him father, and his grandchildren need
never fear that the mention of his name will in any way dim the
lustre of their station, be it ever so exalted."

V. Children of George and Alice Roberts .

269. Joseph W. , b. 1808, ;«. Sarah Garrett. ^

270. Eliza, b. 1810, in. Benjamin Conard. ^

271. Rachel, b. 1812, m. Sharpless Moore. ^

272. Spencer, b. 1814, d. 1897, m. Louisa J. Raymond. ^

273. Evan, b. 18 16, m. Phebe E. Dowdall. ^

274. Rebecca, b. 2. 7, 1819, d. 6. 5, 1847, unm.

275. Lydia, b. 182 1, m. Sharpless Moore.

276. George, b. 1824, ot. Amanda Anderson. ^

277. Lewis, b. 1826, d. in infancy.

278. Emily, b. 1831, m. Samuel G. Lewis. P

IV. (88) Joseph Roberts, son of Jonathan and Mary (Spen-
cer) Roberts, born Third month 18, 1784, died Tenth "month
30, 1 84 1, married Fourth month 20, 1806, (279) Bathsheba
French. She was bom Third month 15, 1783.

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V. Children of Joseph and Bathsheba Roberts :

280. George S., i. 1807, m. Lydia Grubb.

281. Caroline, b. 1809, m. Garrett Williams.

282. Matilda Ann, b. 10. 5, 1814.

283. Franklin, b. 1820, m. Georgianna Wilcox.

284. Susan H., b. 6. 20, 1824.

IV. (97) James Spencer, Jr., of Upper Dublin, son of James,
and (probably) Sarah, married May 9, 179S, by the pastor of
Abington Presbyterian church, (285) Elizabeth, daughter of
George and Elizabeth Smith. By the terms of his father's
will (see p. 74), a tract of 25 acres and 43 perches of land,
in Upper Dublin, was left in trust for him, it being the Charles
Edgar property of later time. James and Elizabeth had
ten children.

V. Children of James and Elizabeth Spencer:

286. Hannah, m. Jesse Cline, and had issue, " several children."
Removed to New York.

287. Josiah, W2. Cooper, and had issue three children. Removed

to Illinois.

288. Rachel, m. Jacob Ryner, and had three children, ' ' one named
Spencer." Removed to Illinois.

289. Samuel, ??z. Elizabeth Clark, and removed to Illinois. They had
issue Dr. Cadwalader Spencer, of Cincinnati, Ohio, also George,
and perhaps others.

290. Sarah, m. William Ryner, and had issue Charles and others.
Removed to Chester county.

291. Elizabeth, m. Jesse Banes, and had issue, who were all de-
ceased 1891.

292. Anne S., ni. Enoch K. Morgan, and had issue three children .
Lydia, m. John Maxwell ; John, m. Sarah (dau. of Charles)
Jackson ; Tacy, m.

293. Ruth, m. Rowland Robbins, and had issue Spencer, and others.

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294. George, m. Mary, daughter of Joseph Detwiler, and had issue ;
Gardette, d. without issue ; Lydia, m. John Jones, of Philadel-
phia, now, 1897, of Gwynedd, Trustee of the Pennsylvania
Asylum for the Insane at Norristown, etc. ; Anne, m. Harrison
Walton, of Philadelphia, teacher, in the public schools of that
city.

295. John, m. Eliza, daughter of Jacob and Catharine New, and had
issue seven children.

IV. (98) Abner Spencer, of Upper Dublin, son of James and
Sarah, born 1775, died Eleventh month 15, 1839, married,
Seventh month 7, 18 14, (296) Mary, daughter of Peter
Muckleson. Mary died Twelfth month 15, 1839, aged 61
years, 9 months, 10 days. By the will of his father, Abner
received the homestead place in Upper Dublin (see p. 74),
and continued his home there.

V. Children of Abner and Mary Spencer ■

297. Catharine M., b. 10. 10, 1815, in. Isaac J., son of John
and Elizabeth Whitcomb, of Upper Dublin. Isaac was born
12. 5, 1813, and ^. 7. 24, 1849. Their children were five in
number, surname Whitcomb : (i) Louis Spencer, Justice of the
Peace, Upper Dublin township, b. 12. 18, 1838, m. 12. 31, 1867,
Sallie, (b. 4. 6, 1842), dau. of Jonathan and Isabella B. Shay,
of Horsham, and has issue, Kate S., b. 1869, S. Belle, b. 1871 ,
(2) Abner Spencer, b. 2. 20, 1840, d. 2. 15, 1884, m. 4. 30,
1863, M. Louisa, [b. 7. 16, 1843, d. 7. 14, 1885), dau. of Ben-
jamin and Susan Foster, and had issue, Benjamin Foster, b. i.
28, 1864; (3) George Ross, b. 1841, d. 1842 ; (4) James, b.
1843, d. 1843 ; (5) John, b. 1845, d. 1846.

298. Louis, b. I. 29, 181 7, m. Elizabeth France, and d. without issue,
4. 14, 1842. His widow married Bolivar Peale, of Gwynedd.

299. Moses, b. 5. 18, 181 8, d. 3. 28, 1843, unm.

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IV. (102) Thomas Spencer, son of Thomas and Mary, of
Bucks county, bom Second month 26, 1767, died Third
month 20, 1841, married. Tenth month 16, 1803, at Wrights-
town meeting-house, (300) Esther Worthington, daughter
of WilHam and Esther, of Buckingham, Bucks county. Wil-
ham Worthington, the father of Esther, was the son of
John Worthington, who with his brothers Samuel and
Thomas came from Lancashire, England, and settled in Byberry,
in 1705. (William was bom 1732, married Esther Homer, and
settled near the Forks of Neshaminy, Bucks county.)' Esther
was the sister of William Worthington, who married (see p. yj')
Margaret Spencer, sister of Thomas. The home of Thomas and
Esther was in Northampton township, Bucks county, part of
the original estate of his grandfather, William. Esther, after
the death of her husband, lived there to an advanced age.

V. Childreji of Thomas and Esther Spencer :

301. Mary, b. 8. 23, 1804, d. unm.

302. William, b. 6. 10, 1807, d. 9. 18, 18 19.

303. Thomas, b. 10. 16, 1809, m. Rebecca W. Beans. P

304. Esther, b. g. 17, 1813, d. unm.

305. Lewis, b. 12. 28, 1815, d. 8. 14, 1825.

IV. (105) Amos Spencer, son of Thomas and Mary, of Bucks
county, bom First month 8, 1773, died Fifth month 11, 1851,
married (306) Ann Brown, of New Britain, Bucks county.
Ann died Fifth month 20, 1844, "aged about 70 years."
Their descendants, says John G. Spencer's memorandum,

1 See Martindale's History of Byberry and Moreland. William and Esther
(Homer) Worthington's other children were Mary, ot. Benjamin Smith ; William, (see
above) ; Jesse, m. Martha Walton ; Benjamin, m. Mary Welding ; Hiram, m. Agnes
Walton.

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(i8gi) "constitute the major portion of the Spencer Family
in Bucks county at the present time." They had nine chil-
dren, of whom one died young. The others are given below.

V. Children of Amos and Ann Spencer :

307. Thomas B., 6. 6. 26, 1798, d. y. 1, 1869, unm.

308. Sarah, i. 10. 21, 1801, d. 1882, unm.

309. John G., m. Elizabeth Fetter. P

310. William H., m. Sarah Search. P

311. Charles, m. Elizabeth Porter. ^

312. James, d. 12. 29, 1809, d. 12. 21, 1871, m. Matilda Dunlap.
No issue.

313. Mary B., 6. 6. 7, 18 13, m. Henry Land, who died 1S91, in
Philadelphia, she surviving. No issue.

314. Isaac W., m. Louisa Jamison. ^

IV. (116) Edward Spencer, son of Job and Hannah, of
Horsham, married, Fourth month 12, 1808, at Gwynedd
meeting-house, (315) Mary, daughter of Cadwalader and
Mary Roberts, of Montgomery township. Cadwalader
Roberts was the son of Robert Roberts, of Gwynedd, whose
father, Robert Cadwalader, came from Wales, and settled in
Gwynedd about 1700. Mary was born Twelfth month 23,
1780, and died Eighth month i, 1830.

V. \Children of Edward and Mary Spencer ■

316. Cadwalader R.

317. Agnes, »2. Josiah E. WiUis.

V. (125) Charles Spencer, of Horsham, son of Jarrett and
Hannah, born Seventh'month 30, 1780, died Tenth month
29, 1862. He married. Eleventh month 16, 18 10, Mary
daughter of William and Elizabeth Paxson. Mary died
Fifth month 23, 1872.

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"S

VI. Children of Charles and Mary Spencer -•
318. Elizabeth L., 6. 7. 15, 1812, m. 4. 8, 1841, Thomas Dutton, (who
d. 4. 6, 1849), son of Thomas and Sarah J., of Aston, Delaware
county, Pa., and had issue, surname Dutton, four children :
(i) Charles Spencer, b. 12. 8, 1842, d. 10. 12, 1867 ; (2) Han-
nah, b. 12. 29, 1843, d., (also her infant), 3. 21, 1869, m. 9. 5,
1867, H. C. Ellis; (3) Thomas, b. 6. 16, 1846, m. 6. 19, 1867,
Emma F, Kinsey ; (4) Georg-e, b. 8. 24, 1848, d. 10. 26, 1848.
Ruth'Anna, b. 4. 20, 18 14.
Ellen, b. 12. 20, 181 5.
Hannah, b. 11. 28, 1817, d.
Sabilla, b. 10. 14, 1819, d. 7
Anna, b. 5. 29, 1823, vi. i.

319
320

321,

322,

323

324-

26, 1840.

17, 1842.

II, 1866, Joshua Cope, son of
Caleb and Hannah, of Montgomery county, Pa. No issue.
Mary B., b. 5. 5, 1833, m. 5. 15, 1857, Edward Reeve, son of
John and Priscilla Reeve, of Medford, N. J., and had issue, sur-
name Reeve: Edith S., b. 1858, John N., b. i860.

V. (131) Joseph Spencer, of New London, son of Samuel
and Mary, bom Seventh month 3, 1776, died First month 2,
1845, married, 1800, Rebecca Good, (324.0) daughter of
Francis, of Londongrove. Some facts about Joseph are
given, (p. 85) in connection with the account of his parents.
A family memcrandum furnished me says : " They settled in
New London, on property belonging to his father, and there
he lived and died. He performed well his several duties. In the
division of the Society of Friends, 1827, he chose the 'Ortho-
dox ' side of the body. He died near the close of his 69th year,
having labored for several years under a progressive attack of
paralysis agitans, or shaking palsy."

VI. Children of Joseph and Rebecca :

325. Rachel, b. 1803, d. 1851, in. Joel Thompson. ^

326. Elizabeth, b. 2. 2, 1805, d. 10. 2, 1891, m., 1829, Israel
Hughes, and 2d, 1862, William Richards.

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327. Ann, b. and d. 1807.

328. Miriam, b. 8. 21, 1808.

329. Mary Ann, b. 2. 24, 1812.

330. Sarah, ^. 1818, m. Henry Townsend. P

V. (132) Jonathan Spencer, of New London, son of Samuel
and Mary, born Second month 20, 1778, died Twelfth
month 19, 1 84 1, married, 18 14, Lydia Michener, (330a)
born Eleventh month 13, 1788, died Sixth month 25, 1868.
Reference to Jonathan has been made, page 85. " He was
an enterprising man, a kind neighbor, and good citizen.
With a large family, his attention was closely given to his pri-
vate affairs, which prevented his entering much into social enjoy-
ments, or religious duties, until deprived by disability of strength
to attend to business. He died of paralysis in his sixty-ninth
year," — at the same age as his brother Joseph.

VI. Children of Jonathan and Lydia Spencer:

331. Alice, b. 3. 22, 1815, d. 7. 31, 1824.

332. Samuel, b. 1816, d. 1890, m. Phebe Pennock. ^

333. Phebe Ann, b. 1818, d. 1819.

334. Jesse, b. 2. 22, 1820, ^. 3. i, 1824.

335. Sidney, b. 10. 15, 1822, d. 7. 28, 1824.

336. Jesse, b. 1824, m. Margaretta Chalfant. ^

337. Rachel, b. 1826, d. 1884, m. James Michener. ^

338. Alice M. b. 1829, m. Harry Stackhouse. ^

339. Davis, b. 1831, »2. Sarah Biles. P

340. Phebe, b. 1834, m. John P. Biles. ^

V. (133) Asa Spencer, of New London, son of Samuel and
Mary, born Eighth month 20, 1780, died Eighth month 2,
1862, married, 1st, 1803, (340a) Hannah Good, who died
Second month 15, 1815, and 2d, 1817, (340i5) Ann Mercer,

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who survived him, dying Sixth month 6, 1868. Hannah
was the daughter of Thomas and Esther Good, of London-
derry, Chester Co., Pa. She died of puerperal fever, having
had six children, of whom but three survived her, the youngest
(not named below) dying with the mother. Ann, the second
wife, was the daughter of David and Elizabeth Mercer, of New
London.

VI. Children of Asa and Hannah Spencer :

341. John, i. 12. 13, 1804, d. 8. 26, 1808.

342. Maria, 6. 1S06, d. 1882, m. Joshua B. Pusey. ^

343. Jesse, 6. 10. 10, 1808, d. 12. 15, 1811.

344. Louisa, i. 11. 15, 1810, d. 2. 7, 1877, »'■. 1843, Lewis Paxson,
and had issue, surname Paxson: Emma, b. 1844, d. 1854;
Mary M., b. 1846, d. 1852 ; Edward, b. 1850, d. 1852.

345. Jarrett, b. 1812, d. 1888, m. Elizabeth Smock. ^

VI. Children of Asa and Aftn Spencer :

346. Ehzabeth Ann, b. 1818, d. 1886, ?«. Linton Stevens. P

347. Hannah C, b. 1820, m. Richard White. ^

348. Mary J., b. 1822, m. Jesse Stevens. ^

349. David H., b. 1826, d. 1891, m. Maria Chalfant. ^

350. Miranda H., b. 5. 29, 1828, in. 1865, James Hatton, {b. 12. 22,
1827), and had issue, surname Hatton: Samuel, b. 1866;
Wilmer, b. 1868 ; Jesse, b. 1869, d. 1870.

351. Aaron, b. 1830, ;k. Leah L. CrowelL P

352. Susanna J., b. 1833, d. 1888, in. James K. Taylor. ^

V. (137) Sarah Spencer, of New London, daughter of
Samuel and Mary, born First month 24, 1789, died First
month 21, 1843. She married, 1819, (352^) Ezra, son of
Mordecai and Alice Michener, of London Grove.' Ezra

1 " My father, Mordecai Michener, was a son of Mordecai and Sarah (Fisher)
Michener. My mother Alice (Dunn) Michener, was the daughter of Ralph and Anna
(Heaton) Dunn." (Dr. Michener's "Autographical Notes," Philad'a., 1893.)

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was born Eleventh month 24, 1794, and died Seventh month

24, 1887.

Dr. Michener, as will be seen from the dates just given,
lived to his ninety-third year. In this long life he was dist n-
guished as a man of physical and mental activity. He main-
tained his home, from 1829 to his death, in New Garden, Chester
county, Pa. He worked on the farm until twenty-one, and then
studied medicine in Philadelphia. Of this he says, ("Auto-
graphical Notes ") : " The obstacles, indeed, seemed insur-
mountable. I . . had lived very much apart from the out-
side world, had only Been Philadelphia once, and that for three
hours. Then there was little intercourse between the city and
country. My cousins. Dr. David Jones Davis, and his sister
Mary were the only persons whom I knew in the city ; but their
living there opened a door of entrance and afforded facilities
that I could not otherwise have had." He entered the medical
department of the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated,
1 8 17, locating for the practice of his profession in the neighbor-
hood of his birthplace. He was married to Sarah Spencer,
Fourth month 15, 18 19. He says: "We were poor, but we
believed we could be happy, and by industry and economy we
could build up the comforts of life around us, and enjoy them so
much the more. Such was the conclusion reached, and my
father became my bondsman for a lot of fourteen acres, with a
small log-house." Ten years later he purchased and removed
to a small farm in New Garden, near Toughkenamon, where he
remained.

Dr. Michener was an ardent scientific student, especially in
botany, an earnest and persistent advocate of total abstinence,
and a voluminous writer. A memorandum preserved by him of
his published productions, including newspaper articles, made a

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total of 497, of which 15 were books, and 23 medical reports,
etc. He was in correspondence with many distinguished scien-
tists, and he formed large collections in natural history, including
specimens of birds, mammalia, reptiles, etc., a valuable herba-
rium, and a cabinet of salt-, fresh-water, and land shells. A
valuable work is his " Retrospect of Early Quakerism," in which
are given historical studies of the meetings of the Friends in
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, with extracts from official records
illustrating the internal history of the Society. In 1855 he
built a new house, and planted around it many choice trees, living
" to see many of them attain surprising proportions. Several
years previous to his decease, one of these (a Paulownia Imperi-
alis) was cut down, and the trunk sawed into boards, of which,
at his request, his coffin was made."

To the memory of his wife, Sarah Spencer, Dr. Michener
left a feeling tribute. " She inherited the meek and unpretend-
ing disposition of her father in an eminent degree. Mild and
affable, yet unobtrusive in her manners, those only who best
knew her were able to appreciate her worth. Having passed
thirty years under the parental roof, in the faithful discharge of
those affectionate duties which we all owe to our parents, she
exchanged with becoming dignity the relations of the child for
those of the wife — of the daughter for those of the mother —
with a full consciousness of the high responsibilities which de-
volved upon her — and a prayerful concern to discharge them
with fidelity — and she was mercifully favored to do so. A life
so spent in the practical duties of the Christian prepared her for
the solemn change that was approaching. When the cry was
heard, 'behold the bridegroom cometh — go forth to meet him,'
she bowed in submission to the summons saying, ' Not my will,
but thine, be done.' After a short but severe illness, she, on the

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morning of the 2ist of First month, 1843, quietly departed this
life, and on the 23d was interred in New Garden Friends' bury-
ing-ground, in the presence of a large company of sorrowing
relatives and friends."

Dr. Michener married, second, Fifth month 9, 1844, (352(5)
Mary S., daughter of WiUiam and Hannah Walton. • Mary was
born Tenth month 27, 1797, and died Third month i, 1885.
Her mother died in 18 19, and her father in 1836. She taught
school, "mostly in the vicinity of Kennett Square," 1836 to
1840. " In the spring of 1840 she bought a house, located her-
self at London Grove, and soon after opened a small school for
girls, mostly boarders." Her marriage occurred (as stated
above) in 1844. An obituary memoir of her was prepared and
printed by her husband, (Philadelphia, 1885). She was an active
member of the Society of Friends, an overseer, elder, clerk of
business meetings, etc.

VI. Children of Ezra atid Sarah Michener .

353. Spencer, b. 2. 15, 1820, d. 8. 31, 1822.

354. Ellwood, 6. 2. 25, 1821, m., II. II, 1847, Ruthanna C. Gilpin,
^.11. 24, 1824, daughter of George F. and Elizabeth (Harlan)
Gilpin, of Birmingham, Delaware county, Pa. Ellwood is a
prominent citizen, an active member of the Society of Friends,
a conveyancer, etc., his home being near Toughkenamon,
Chester county, Pa. In a memorandum furnished the author of
this volume, he says : ' ' We first settled in New Garden town-
ship, adjoining our present home. After three years we removed
to the home of my father-in-law, where we remained about five
years, and then purchased a farm, five miles north of Wilming-
ton, Del., and became members of that Monthly Meeting. In

1 William Walton was the son of Jacob and Mary, of Buckingham. Bucks countj',
and Hannah was the daughter of Isaac and Hannah Shoemaker, of Upper Dublin,
Montgomery county.

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1855 my father erected a new set of buildings on a part of his
farm in New Garden, and removed to them. After the sudden
decease of my brother Lea, in i860, my father desired us to
return and take his place, which we did, and have since re-
sided at our present home. ' '

355. James, b. 6. 11, 1822, d. 1. i, 1824.

356. Spencer, b. 8. 14, 1824, d. i. 8, 1839.

357. Lea, b. 2. 6, 1826, d. i. 6, i860, m. 5. 22, 1856, Susan Y.
Shoemaker, daughter of Silas and Hannah, of Upper Dublin,
Montgomery county. Pa. Lea was accidentally killed in a rail-
road collision on the Philadelphia and Baltimore Central Rail-
road, First month 6, i860. (Susan subsequently married David
Foulke, of Gwyneddand Norristown, whom, 1898, she survives.)

358. Mary, b. 2. 3, 1828, m. 5. 25, 1876, Joel M. Walton, son of
William and Sarah. They reside (1898) in New Garden town-
ship, Chester county. Pa.

359. Phebe, b. 12. 22, 1831, d. 7. 5, 1890, m. 2. 14, 1866, George
Webster, b. 4. 15, 1826, d. 3. 31, 1883. Issue one son, Ezra
J., b. 9. I, 1871.

V. (143) Jesse Spencer, of Gwynedd, son of John and

Lydia, born Twelfth month 22, 1790, died Ninth month 30,

1 84 1, married, at Gwynedd meeting-house, Fourth month

24, 1 82 1, (360) Mary Custard, daughter of Joseph and

Ameha, of Richland, Bucks county, Pa. Amelia was the

daughter of Samuel Foulke, of Richland, member of the

Colonial Assembly of Pennsylvania, 176 1-8, and her daughter

Mary was thus descended, as was Jesse Spencer, from Edward

Foulke, the Gwynedd settler of 1698. Amelia (Foulke) Custard

died Eighth month 7, 1 8 1 1 .

Jesse Spencer was reared by his uncle and aunt, Jesse and
Priscilla Foulke, and lived all his married life in the old Edward
Foulke mansion at Penllyn, in Gwynedd, now (1898) the Estate

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of D. C. Wharton. Part of this house was built in 1738 ; the
property was sold 1854, upon the construction of the North
Pennsylvania Railroad, by George Spencer, Jr., (son of Jesse),
to Dr. Drinker, of Philadelphia.

Mary survived her husband over forty years ; she died
Eighth month 16, 1885, at Germantown, Philadelphia.

VI. Children of Jesse and Mary Spencer :

361. Amelia, b. \%ii, m. James C. Jackson. ^

362. John, b. 1824, m. Mary J. Rhodes. ^

363. George, b. 1826, d. 1895, m. Ella L. Shoemaker. P

364. Lydia, b. 1829, m. Samuel Morris. ^

365. Anna, b. 9. 4, 1831, (of Coulter street, Germantown), umn.

366. William F., b. 1833, m. Christiana Bradley. P

V. (149) Sarah Spencer, daughter of Nathan and Rachel,
born Third month 30, 1788, died First month 22, 1874.
She married, ist, in 1806, (367) Hugh Roberts, (born Sec-
ond month 16, 1782, died Third month 28, 1821), son of
Amos and Margaret (Thomas), of Richland, Bucks county, Pa.
Amos Roberts was the son of David, and grandson of Edward,
a Friend, who came from Merionethshire, Wales, in 1699.
Amos removed from Richland in 1791 to " Stenton," the Logan
estate, Philadelphia county, and later purchased a farm, " Mount
Pleasant," near Branchtown.

Hugh Roberts was a miller ; he was thus engaged in More-
land after his marriage, but in 1 8 1 1 he bought the historic
Townsend mill, east of Germantown, on the Wingohocking
creek,^ and conducted it until his death. A family tradition says
that Nathan Spencer, his father-in-law, "helped him buy the

^ See page 54, foot-note. It was called Lukens' Mill, in the Revolution, and part
of the action in the Battle of Germantown occurred here,

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mill," having been induced by Rachel, the mother-in-law, to
take a favorable view of Hugh and Sarah's marriage, which he
had at first strongly opposed. (They " ran away " to be married,
and were consequently both " disowned " by the Friends.) Sarah
was one of the earliest scholars at the Friends' School at
Westtown, being No. 7 on the Girls' List. She was an ener-
getic and capable woman, assisting her husband in the mill, in
busy times, and learning to "talk Dutch," in order to deal with
the up-country farmers, who brought their grain for sale, or
" grist." In her later life, in the extended period of her widow-
hood, her animation of manner, active mind, and pleasant con-
versation made her a welcome visitor, while her skill in needle-
work, — for which she made her own designs, — was notable.

She married, secondly. Tenth month 12, 1822,(368) Joseph
Hirst ; he was originally from Huddersfield, England, and by
occupation a manufacturer of cloth. He died 1833.

VI. Children of Hugh and Sarah Roberts :
368a. Lydia, i. 1807, d. in infancy.

369. Caroline, i. 1809, d. 1872, m. Charles S. Rorer. ^

370. Spencer, 6. 181 1, d. 1885, m. Elizabeth Y. Hagy, Elizabeth
Ann Taylor. 3

371. Margaret, 6. 1813, m. Gideon Lloyd. ^

371a. Edmund, d. 6. 30, 1815, d. 5. 20, 1866, unm. He was a
miller, employed for some time at Brandy wine Mills, Delaware,
but later for many years mentally afflicted.

372. Hugh, i. 8. 5. 1 82 1, m. Alice A. Gallagher. ^

[Two children, Alfred, i. 1817, Maria, i. 1819, d. in infancy.]

Children of Joseph and Sarah {Hirst):

373. Joseph Josiah, b. 1823, d. 1870, m. Abigail Wharton. P

374. Sarah Ann, b. 1825, m. Henry Van Horn. ^

375. Rachel Abigail, b. 1827, m. Casper Souder, Jr. ^

376. Nathan Elwood, b. 1829, d. in infancy.

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V. (i so) Hephziba Spencer, daughter of Nathan and Rachel,

born Fourth month 26, 1793, died First month 11, 1879.

She married ( 1 57 this Genealogy), her second cousin, Spencer

Thomas, son of Jonathan and Sarah (Spencer) Thomas.

She was born at the Spencer home, east of Germantown, and

one of the recollections of her childhood was seeing George

Washington and " Lady " Washington come there to call on

Oliver Wolcott, and his wife, who were boarding at her father's.

This must have been in the summer or early autumn of 1796.'

The President came in his usual state, in the coach with four

cream-colored horses, and after he and his wife had passed into

the Wolcott apartments the little girl, Hephziba, ran with other

children to peep in through the window at the distinguished

visitors. " Why," said she, as she came away, " is that Lady

Washington ? She's only a woman after all ! "

Hephziba went for a time to the boarding-school at Wil-
mington, Delaware, kept by Joshua Maule.^ She was married
to Spencer Thomas, at Byberry meeting-house. Fourth month
8, 1 8 18. Her father was then living at " Prospect Hill." Cousin
Anne Pirn told the writer, at West Chester, 1879, that she was
a bridesmaid at the wedding, being " waited on " by Henry Cope.
Spencer and Hephziba lived after their marriage at the
Poquessing mills, on the Delaware, (now Torresdale), and a year,
1827-8, at Newportville, on the Neshaminy. In the spring of
1828 they removed to his mother's inheritance, the Spencer
farm in Upper Dubhn, (now Charles S. Paxson's), and Spencer,
died there Sixth month 23, 1850. He was a prominent and re-

1 The President was in Philadelphia from August 21, to September 19, 1796.

2 This was a well-known school in its day, and was kept after Joshua Manle's time
by Eli and Samuel Hilles, and later by Dubre K night.

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spected citizen, a man of exceptional mental ability, a " great
reader," and a student in many directions. His collection of
books showed his tastes for metaphysics, philosophy, and sci-
ence. Of many whom I have heard speak of him none ever
varied from an enthusiastic testimony to his attractive manners,
genial disposition, and well-informed mind. Hephziba survived
him nearly twenty-nine years. She died at her home, where
she lived with her son Mordecai, in Moreland (Philadelphia),
and is buried in the Friends' ground at Upper Dublin, with her
husband and children.

VI. Children of Spencer and Hephziba Thomas .■

377. Anna Maria, b. 1819, d. 1864, m. Algernon S. Jenkins. ^

378. Mordecai, b. I. 16, 1821, d. 3. 31, 1893, unm.

379. Sarah, b. 10. 30, 1822, d. 8. 9, 1850, unm.

380. Caroline, b. 1824, m. Basil W. Shoemaker. ^

381. Lemuel, b. 1826, in. Drusilla Rowlett. ^

382. Elizabeth, b. 1. 18, 182S, d. 3. 3, 1864, unm.

383. LydiaS., b. 3. 21, 1830, m. 10. 9, 1856, John S. Paul, ofBen-
salem, Bucks county, Pa., son of Jonathan and Anne. Joh?i d.
at Bristol, Pa., 4. 18, 1888.' No issue.

384. Jonathan, b. 8. 7, 1832, d. 4. 18, 1863, m. 10. 11, i860, Mar-
garetta N. , dau. of Peter and Lydia Phipps of Whitemarsh. She
d. before him. No issue.

385. Mary W., b. 1833, m. W. Henry Brown. ^

386. Hannah R., b. 8. 29, 1836, d. 8. i, 1854, unm.

V. (152) Maria Sfencer, daughter of Nathan and Rachel,
was born Eleventh month 14, 1794, and died in Philadel-
phia, Twelfth month 5, 1879. She married (387) Richard
Leedom Thomas. He was the son of Jacob and Rachel
(Leedom) Thomas, of Bucks county. Jacob was a son (the
oldest) of Mordecai Thomas, of Hatboro', of whom we have
already spoken. Richard was therefore first cousin to

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Spencer Thomas, (No. 157), who married Maria Spencer's
sister Hephziba, (No. 151)- Richard was brought up by his
grandfather, Richard Leedom, at Richboro', Bucks county, and
learned his trade as miller and mill-wright in the Thomas mill at
Poquessing, (Torresdale). He married Maria at Byberry meet-
ing-house. Twelfth month 13, 1826.' After his marriage he
was several years engaged in milling, and for six years, 1833
to 1839, was a tenant at Mearns's Mill, on the west branch of
the Neshaminy, in Bucks county. He removed in April, 1839,
to the mill at Newportville, on the Neshaminy, and in June of
that year suffered a disastrous loss by a fire, which destroyed
the mill and its contents. His partner, William Penrose, was
burned to death. The property loss was ruinous, and Richard,
later, pursued his trade as a mechanic. He lived in Philadelphia
the later years of his life.

VI. Children of Richard L. and Maria {Spencer) Thomas :

388. Nathan Spencer, b. 1828, d. 1890, m. Hannah Ann Iredell. ^

389. Isaac, b. 1829, 7n. Sarah Ann Harborn. ^

390. Rachel, b. 8. 15, 1831, d. 2. 19, 1888, unin. She was for
eighteen years a teacher in the public schools of Philadelphia.

1 The wedding festivity in that day, among the Friends, was an invited company of
guests to dinner, after the marriage ceremony in the meeting-house. This took place
at the home of the bride, but the invitations were issued, not by her parents, Ijut in the
name of the bridegroom expectant and herself. I have one of the cards sent out for
this wedding dinner. It is written in a fine old-fashioned hand, on a very small en-
tirely plain card, 2% inches by iK and is as follows :

Maria Spencer and Richard Thomas's respects
to Spencer and Hephziba Thomas, and request the
favor of their Company to dine at Nathan Spencer's
on the 13th of the X2th month next.

nth month 27th, i8z6.

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She graduated from the Normal School, Seventh month 20,
1849, having entered from the Madison School ; in 1851 she was
appointed assistant teacher in the Jefferson Boys' Grammar
School, Fifth street above Poplar ; in 1865 she was made Prin-
cipal of the Jefferson Girls' Grammar School, and in 1869 she
ceased teaching. She spent the closing years of her life at her
home, a farm in Bucks county, near Woodbourne.

391. Edwin, m. Gulielma Roberts, Clara Clayton. ^

392. Hugh M., b. 1838, m. Mary Emma S. Boyle. ^

V. (153) Thomas PiM Spencer, son of Nathan and Rachel,
born Ninth month 5, 1796, died in Lower Makefield, Bucks
county, Pa., Sixth month 30, 1879. He married, at Byberry
Friends' meeting-house. Third month 14, 1827, (303) Ann
Kemble, daughter of John and Charity, of Bensalem. The
certificate of the marriage is in possession (1898) of Lemuel
Thomas, of Philadelphia, his nephew. It reads :

Whereas Thomas P. Spencer son of Nathan Spencer of the Township
of Lower Dubhn, and County of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania,
and Rachel his wife, deceased, and Ann Kemble, daughter of John Kem-
ble of the Township of Bensalem and County of Bucks, and State afore-
said, deceased, and Charity his wife, having declared their intentions of
marriage with each other before a monthly meeting of the Religious
Society of Friends held at Byberry, [etc., etc.j Now These are to Certify
[etc.] this 14th day of the Third month, 1827, they [etc.] appeared in a
public meeting of the said people held at Byberry, and [following then
the usual form of Friends' certificates. The signatures follow : ]

Thomas P. Spencer
Ann K. Spencer
Beulah James James Townsend Nathan Spencer

Elizabeth W. Knight Giles Knight Spencer Thomas

Ann Knight James Bonner Hephziba Thomas

Ann B. Comly Amos Wilson Richard L. Thomas

Sarah Walmsly Yarnal Walton Maria Thomas

Margery Knight John Roberts Jon'n Thomas

128 THE SPENCER FAMILY

Margaret Walmsley Jeremiah Comfort Sarah Thomas

Benj. Walmsley Joshua V. Buckman Spencer Roberts

Isaac Comly Charles Walmsley Margaret Roberts

Samuel Newbold Amos Knight Anna Maria Thomas

Grace Wilson Rebecca B. Comly Jesse Wilson

Tacy Townsend Beulah Walmsley Israel Walton

Mary Wildman Martha Walton Susan Walton

Sarah Singley (by order)Sarah B. Comly Charles Knight

A sister of Rachel (Pim) Spencer, Hannah Pirn, married
James Miller, and settled at Erie, Pennsylvania, and Thomas P.
Spencer, in early life, probably before his marriage, made what
was then regarded as an adventurous journey to visit the Millers,
going from his home to Erie in a wagon, in which he lived on
the way. In 1829, after his marriage, he bought a farm in
Lower Makefield township, Bucks county, which became his
home for the remainder of his life. His wife died before him,
and he spent much of his closing year in visits to relatives. He
was fond of the company of young people, to whom his genial
and cheerful temper made him welcome. He and his wife had
no children.

V. (159) MoRDECAi Thomas, of Milford, N. J., son of Jona-
than and Sarah (Spencer) Thomas, born Tenth month 16,
1797, died at Bristol, Pa., Eighth month 2, 1854. He mar-
ried (394) Grace Wilson, daughter of Jesse and Amy, ot
Byberry, the marriage at Byberry Friends' meeting-house.
Fourth month 9, 1828. He was a miller by occupation, and
for many years successfully carried on business at Milford, N. J.,
on the Delaware river, the mills being subsequently operated by
his sons, Wilson and Edward. He had removed before his
death, to Bristol, where he lived on Radcliffe street, in the house

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in which his father had lived at the close of his Ufe. Grace sur-
vived him ; she died Second month 4, 1887, at Phillipsburg, N. J.

VI. Children of Mordecai and Grace Thomas :

395. Wilson, i. at New Hope, Bucks county. Pa., 5. 28, 1829, m.
Elizabeths. Egbert, dau. of William and Elizabeth (Van Syckel)
of Hunterdon county, N. J. She was i. 3. 20, 1840, at Patten-
burg, N. J. They have one son, Wilson Egbert Thomas, 6. 6.
8, 1868. Wilson Thomas and his brother Edward, as men-
tioned above, for many years, after the retirement of their
father, carried on milling, etc., at Milford, N. J. Since the
death of Edward (see below) the business has been conducted
by Wilson and his son, as W. and W. E. Thomas.

396. Edward, i. 12. 13, 1830, d. at Milford, N. J., 5. 8. 1896, ?«.
Virginia Van Syckel, dau. of Daniel and Mary (Carhart).
Their children were four : (i) Isabella, m. Rev. Horace D.
Sassaman, and has issue, Dorothy ; (2) Frances, m. Dr. Thomas
Craig Detwiler, of Lancaster, Pa., and has issue, Virginia T. ;
(3) Howard Van Syckel ; (4) Susan Spencer.

397. Frances. She married Samuel Thomas, Jr. , son of Samuel and
Martha, (of Torresdale, and Philadelphia. Samuel Thomas the
elder was the younger brother of Jonathan Thomas, who married
(No. 59) Sarah Spencer, and was the uncle, therefore, of Spencer
Thomas who married (No. 151) Hephziba Spencer). Samuel
has been engaged for a number of years in milling, etc., at
Belvidere, N. J. Their children are four : (i) Emma, m. Rev.
William Harrison Decker, now (1898) of Lewistown, Pa., and

has a daughter, Ruth ; (2) Grace, m. William S. Euckman ; (3)
Herbert, (4) Clarence.

V. (160) Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of Jonathan and
Sarah (Spencer) Thomas, bom Seventh month 20, 1800,
died Tenth month 8, 1891. She married, at Byberry meet-
ing-house, Fifth month 10, 1826, (398) Nathan T. Knight,

130 THE SPENCER FAMILY

son of Israel and Sarah.' Nathan was born Eleventh month
25, 1796, and died Fifth month 18, 1853. Their home was
in Lower Dublin, Philadelphia county, the " Ishmael Hall "
place, where Elizabeth's father had lived. Both Nathan and
Elizabeth died there, she surviving him thirty-eight years, and
making her home with her daughter and her husband, John and
Sydney Wood. This homestead property passed out of the family
possession six years after her death. A paragragh in a local
newspaper, August 14, 1897, made this announcement :

' ' The farm on the Bristol pike, opposite All Saints' Church, Torres-
dale, belonging to the estate of Elizabeth T. Knight, deceased, has been
sold by the executors, William Taylor and John Wood, of Philadelphia,
and Walter F. Leedom, of Bristol, to a Philadelphia syndicate for $47,500.
This farm has been in possession of the family since the year 1800. [?] A
new avenue now being opened from Torresdale to Bustleton, passes through
the place."

VI. Children of Nathan T. and Elizabeth Knight :

399. Sydney, b. 1829, i?i. John Wood. ^

400. Sarah T., b. 1832, m. Edward Leedom. ^

401. Jonathan, (twin with Sarah T.), b. 4. 29, 1832, d. 7. 30, 1832.

402. Ellen, b. 2. 20, 1835, d. 6. 4, 1874, unm.

403. EUzabeth, b. 4. 4, 1837, d. 8. 26, 1839.

404. Mary Elizabeth, b. 11. 12, 1839, d. 9.4, 1893, m. (2d wife of)
Jonathan Thomas, son of Samuel and Martha, issue one dau.,
Ella Knight Thomas, b. 10. 10, 1878.

405. Annie, b. 1842, m. ii. 12, 1872, William Taylor, son of Joseph
and Anna Betts Taylor, of Lower Makefield, Bucks county, Pa.
Their children, surname Taylor: (i) Herbert K., b. 3. 13,
1874, m. II. 3, 1897, Elizabeth E. Thomson, dau. of Thomas

' Giles Knight, of Gloucestershire, England, his wife Mary, and son Henry, were
passengers on the Welcome, with William Penn, in i68z. The Knights settled in
Byberry, and were among the first there. Nathan T. Knight (above) was the great-
great-grandson of Giles, the immigrant.

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 13 1

and Mary E. Thomson, of Cheltenham, Pa. ; (2) Wilson T., b.

3. 4, 1882, d. 7. 29, 1882.
406. Julianna, b. 5. 22, 1846, d. 12. 29, 1849.
[Three other children d. in infancy.]

V. (165) Lydia McIlvain, daughter of Jeremiah and EHza-

beth (Spencer) McIlvain, born Tenth month 4, 1795, died

Twelfth month 28, 1854, married Twelfth month 6, 18 15, in

Friends' meeting-house, Chester, Pa., (407) Edward Horne

BoNSALi.,' son of Isaac and Mercy (Milhous) Bonsall.

Edward was a conveyancer, of Philadelphia. He was born

Fifth month 28, 1794, and died Fourth month 14, 1879. (After

the death of his first wife he married, 2d, Third month 25,

1857, Mary Buckley Hutcnin, widow of William Hutchin, and

daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth W. Underhill ; Mary H.

Bonsall died at Germantown, Philadelphia, Ninth month 12,1 870,

her husband surviving her nine years.)

Edward was a prominent Friend, and an active business
man. In a notice of his death in the Philadelphia Evening
Bulletin, May 18, 1879, (by Dr. James J. Levick), this paragraph
occurs ;

" The late Edward H. Bonsall, who died on the 14th ult., aged nearly
85 years, was a remarkable illustration of the fact that the winter of life,
as it is sometimes called, which is often regarded as necessarily a dreary
season, may, notwithstanding physical infirmities, be yet a bright and
happy one. For nearly twenty years a sufferer from attacks of angi7ia
pectoris, a very painful malady, he permitted it to interfere neither with his
pubUc duties nor his private social enjoyments. With a mind of much

1 He was descended from Richard and Mary Bonsall, ofMouldridge Grange,
parish ofBradbome, Derbyshire, England, who settled in Darby, (now in Delaware
county) , Pennsylvania, 1683. Richard brought a certificate from the Monthly Meeting
of Friends at Ashford, in Derbyshire, dated Twelfth month (February, O. S.), 22,
1682. (See MS. Genealogy of the Bonsall Family, by Spencer Bonsall, son of Edward
H., in Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.)

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native force, improved by careful observation at home aild travel abroad,
with great powers of conversation, and with a kind heart, he was in his
old age a most delightful, genial companion, one whom the few left of his
own years gladly welcomed to their homes, and whom the young sought
as an intelligent, loving friend and associate."

He was fond of and quite ready in writing familiar pieces of
poetry for social use. A manuscript volume which is preserved
in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania's Collections contains
many of his pieces, copied by himself, beginning in 1818. One
of these is a poem to Ann Mcllvain, his wife's sister, (afterward
Miller), on her wedding day, and others are mottoes and verses
for her album, and that of Sarah Mcllvain, (wife of Spencer).

408.

409.
410.
411.

412,

413
414,

415
416

417

VI. Children of Edward H. and Lydia Bonsall :

Spencer, b. 11. 30, 1816, d. 4. 14, 1888. He married at St.

Luke's P. E. Church, Philadelphia, 5. 10, 1854, Ellen Crosby

Martin, dau. of William and Sarah Ann, of Chester, Pa. Ellen

was b. 12. 23, 1826, d. 12. 17, 1879. Spencer Bonsall was

some time Surveyor of the City of Philadelphia, and several years

Assistant Librarian in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

He had issue, William Martin Bonsall, who?«.,4. 3, 1893, Helen,

dau. of Charles Frederick and Helen Klauder, and has issue,

surname Bonsall, one dau., Eleanor Crosby Martin.

William Milhous, b. 1818, d. 1819.

William, b. 1820, d. 1823.

Edward H., Jr., b. 9. 23, 1821, d. 6. 3, 1841. His death was

due to consumption ; he was ' ' confined to the house nearly

nineteen months." An obituary notice by his father appeared

in The Friend, Philadelphia, 6. 19, 1841.

Jeremiah, b. 1825, m. Margaret F. Hutchinson. ^

Charles, b. and d. 1827.

Elizabeth, b. 1829, d. 1830.

Jane, b. 1831, d. 1832.

Joseph Hartshorne, b. 7. 7, 1833, d. 4. 9, 1876, unm.

Jesse Maris, b. i. 15, 1836, d. 11. 11, 1841.

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 133

V. (i66) Eliza McIlvain, daughter of Jeremiah and Eliza-
beth (Spencer) Mcllvain, bom First month 13, 1798, died
Seventh month 19, 1874, married (418) Jacob Hewes, of
Leiperville, Delaware county, Pa., son of Jacob and

Esther. Jacob was bom Fourth month 5, 1795, and died

Eleventh month 25, 1881.

VI. Children of Jacob and Eliza Hewes :

419. Spencer.

420. Charles.

V. (168) Spencer McIlvain of Chester township, Delaware
county. Pa., son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Spencer) Mc-
Ilvain, born Third month 27, 1803, died in Philadelphia,
Twelfth month 13, 1889. He married (421) Sarah
Crosby, daughter of John, Jr., and Sarah L. Sarah was
born Fourth month 25, 1802, and died Twelfth month 21,
1865.1

V/. Children of Spencer and Sarah Mcllvain :

422. Ann Eliza, b. i. 28, 1833, m. 2. 18, 1857, Edward Clark Diehl,
of Philadelphia, son of William and Mary A. (Foucbe).
Edward C. Diehl, b. 7. 22, 1833. Their children are : (i)
Sarah M., b. 1859; (2) Ella Fouch^, b. 1861 ; (3) Mary, b.
1868.

423. Henry, b. 7. 20, 1834, d. 12. 27, 1893, m. Sarah C. Pearson,
dau. of Edwin and Mary Ann, and had issue : (i) Spencer, b.
3. 6, 1859 ; (2) Edward Pearson, (3) Henry.

V. (169) John Spencer McIlvain, son of Jeremiah and
Elizabeth (Spencer) Mcllvain, bom Ninth month 24, 1805,

1 She was descended from Richard Crosby, a Friend, of Cheshire, England, who
settled first in Middletown, in what is now Delaware county, about 1682, but in 1684
removed to Chester, where he purchased property on Ridley creek, long known as
Crosby's Mill. Sarah's mother, wife of John Crosby, Jr., was the daughter of
William and Hannah Lane.

134 THE SPENCER FAMILY

died First month 23, 1880. He married (424) Susan

Crosby Morton, daughter of John S. and Susanna, of

Delaware county. Pa., (and sister to the wife of his brother

Jeremiah).^ They were married Ninth month 2, 1827. Susan

was born Fourth month 27, 1809.

VI. Son of John S. and Susan Mcllvain :
425. Edward Bonsall, b. at Leiperville, Delaware county, Pa., 3.
17, 1830, d. in the Island of St. Thomas, W. I., 11. 13, 1856.

V. (170) Jeremiah McIlvain, of Harford county, Md., son

of Jeremiah and EHzabeth (Spencer) Mcllvain, bom Second

month I, 1808, died Fifth month 26, 1893, married Third

month 8, 1833, (426) Ann Crosby Harlan, widow of Dr.

Ellis C. Harlan, and daughter of John S. and Susanna

Morton, of Delaware county. Pa., (sister to the wife of his

brother John). Ann was born Eighth month 2, 1804, and

died Third month 29, 1866, in Harford county, Md. (She had

married Dr. Harlan, Third month 5, 1824; he died Fifth month

4, 1826, aged twenty-eight years.)

Jeremiah purchased a tract of land, 283 acres, in Harford
county, Maryland, in 1842, and made it his home the remainder
of his life — fifty-one years. He was buried in the Friends'
ground at Darlington, in that county.

VI. Children of Jeremiah and Ann Mcllvain .

427. George W., b. 7. 9, 1840, m. Rachel, dau. of Dr. Samuel and
Susanna G. Ramsey, and had issue, John Morton, M. D.,
Bernard Stump, Henry Stump.

428. Anne Crosby Morton, b. %. i, 1842.

' Through their father Susan and her sister were descended from John Morton,
one of the Signers, on the part of Pennsylvania, of the Declaration of Independence.

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 135

V. (171) Ann McIlvain, daughter of Jeremiah and Ehza-
beth (Spencer) McIlvain, born Fifth month 4, 18 10, died in
Philadelphia, Twelfth month 13, 1893. She married,
Eleventh month 7, 1832, at Friends' meeting-house, Chester,
Pa., (429) Levis Miller, son of George and Mary. Levis
was bom Seventh month 16, 1806, and died at his home at
Media, Pa., Tenth month 24, 1891, and was interred in the
cemetery at that place."

Levis Miller's father, George Miller, Jr., born 1771,
married Mary, daughter of Isaac and Phebe (Pancoast) Levis.
Levis received part of his education at Westtown Friends'
School. At his marriage, 1832, he built a house on his father's
farm, "Maple Grove," near Media, and in it his eleven children
were all bom. In 1866 he sold it and removed to Media. He
was many years president of the Delaware County Mutual
Insurance Company, and treasurer of the Delaware County
Institute of Science, which, with two of his brothers, and three
other young men, he was instrumental in organizing.

A memorandum furnished by Edgar T. Miller, his son, is of
interest :

" In i847heandhis brother- in-law Hugh L. Tyler, spentsome days in
Virginia. They were entertained at the home of Ex-President John
Tyler, also by Robert R. Boiling, who owned a large plantation below
Richmond, and had more than a hundred slaves. The visitors were

1 He was descended from Henry and Sarah Deeble Miller, who settled in 1714, in
Upper Providence township, in what is now Delaware county. Henry came from
Devonshire, and Sarah from Somersetshire, England. He died 1732, she ayear earlier.
He was a member of the Provincial Assembly of Penna., 1717. He owned a tract of
626 acres on Ridley creek, two miles n. w, of Media, and the house built by him is still
standing, 1898. His son George (1716-1797) married Phebe, dau. of Thomas and
Sarah Taylor Massey, of Willistown, Chester county, Pa. " In his early life George
visited the West Indies as supercargo of merchant vessels, and was so impressed with
the evils of slavery that he resolved never to use the products of slave labor, a reso-
lution to which he firmly adhered during the remainder of his life. ' '

136 THE SPENCER FAMILY

treated with much kindness during the visit. Little did they think
at parting that in a few years the sons of the visitor and host would be
arrayed in deadly conflict, on that same plantation — one on behalf of
freedom and the other in the interest of slavery. But such was the fact ;
Levis Miller, Jr. , lost his life in the Union cause, and Robert R. Boiling
lost several sons on the other side."

VI. Children of Levis and Ann Miller :

430. Elizabeth Spencer, b. 1833, m. Joseph Bunting. ^

431. Edgar Thomson, b. 1835, m. Mary Haldeman. P

432. Mary Lavinia, b. 2. 19, 1837, d. 10. 20, i860, unin.

433. George Deeble, b. 1839, m. Ann C. Thomas. ^

434. Anna, b. 1 841, m. Joseph W. Hawley. ^

435. Levis, Jr., b. 2. 27, 1843. He d. unm., at a date not precisely
known. A memorandum furnished by Edgar T. Miller says :
"Brother Levis enlisted Oct. 5, 1861, as a private soldier in
the 6th Regiment of Cavalry, (70th Regiment, P. V.), com-
manded by Col. Richard H. Rush, of Philadelphia. Col. (now
General) Chas. L. Leiper, who commanded the regiment after
Col. Rush's resignation, speaks in the highest terms of my
brother's qualities as a soldier and a man. Levis had been
made a sergeant at the time of his capture, — in an engagement
at Beaver Dam Station, Va., May 10, 1864. During a charge
which he led to dislodge the opposing forces from a piece
of timber, his horse fell in attempting to jump a deep gully,
and the charge being repulsed he was taken prisoner. He was
next heard from at Lynchburg, Va., where he remained a short
time, and later was removed to one of the terrible ' prison pens '
in the South. One letter was received by his father, after which
nothing definite was ever heard of him, and the presumption
is that like thousands of others he perished in the prison."

436. Samuel, b. 2. 25, 1845.

437. Sallie Levis, i5. 9. 9, 1847, d. 6. 13, 1894, in West Philadelphia.
She m. 4. 15, 1884, Clement William, son of William and
Hannah Tyler Smith. Clement W. d. 6. 25, 1890, at Long-
port, N. J. They had no children.

438. Katharine, b. 1850, m. Albert Lewis. ^

439. Ellen, b. 1853, m. George M. Booth. ^

440. Hannah J., b. 1855, m. Joseph E. Mickle. ^

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 137

V. (174) David Spencer, son of Nathan, Jr., and Ann, bom
in Loudoun county, Va., 1791, removed to Ohio with his
parents when a child, married. Tenth month 27, 181 3, (441)
Leah Pickering, daughter of John and Mary, of Concord,
Belmont county, Ohio. David died at Cambridge City,
Wayne county, Indiana, Ninth month 25, 1858, "aged 67

years, 5 months, 6 days." Leah died Eighth month 30, 185 1,

and was buried at the " Ridge burying-ground."

VI. Children of David and Leah Spencer :

442. Mary Ann, 6. 8.30, 1814, d. 5. 9, 1864, m. William Ken-
worthy, and had issue two children, suma.me Kenworihy : (i)

Phebe Ann, ;«. Dowd, and resides, 1898, at San Jose,

Cal. ; (2) Amos, of Tigardsville, Oregon.

443. Samuel, d. 1815, d. 1858, m. Ann Summers. ^

444. Phebe, 6. 11. 30, 18 17. "She married Joseph Smith, brother
to the wife of Edwin L. Spencer, and has one daughter, Mrs.
Clara Cope." (Dublin, Wayne county, Ind.)

445. Nathan, 6. 1820, d. 1892. m. ^

446. Eleanor, d. 9. 20, 1823, d. 6. 9, 1870, m. Daniel Rulon. No issue.

447. Rebecca, 6. 1825, m. Joel Kenworthy. ^

448. Edwin L., d. 1832, m. Latu-a F. Smith. P

449. David, d. 7. 17, 1834, d. 12. 18, 1863, in hospital, a private in
the 2d Regiment, Cavalry, Indiana Volunteers.

V. (17s) Elizabeth (" Betsey ") Spencer, daughter of Nathan
and Ann, of Ohio, born in 1792, in Loudoun county, Vir-
ginia, died at St. Clairsville, First month 21, 1851. She
married at the Friends' meeting at St. Clairsville, O., 18 16,
(450) Ralph Cowgill, son of Isaac and Sarah (Fred) Cowgill.
Ralph was born in Loudoun county, Virginia, Third month 3 1 ,
1794, and died at St. Clairsville, Twelfth month 4, 1851.'

^ Ralph Cowgill was the great-great-grandson of Ralph Cowgill, who is believed
to have been the son of Ellen Cowgill, who came to Pennsylvania in the Welcome,
with William Penn, in 1682. The immigrant Ralph was indentured to Randolph

138 THE SPENCER FAMILY

Ralph Cowgill was taken by his parents from Loudoun
county, Virginia, to Belmont county, Ohio, in 1796. They are
said to have " encamped, on the way, a year on the east bank of
the Ohio river, where the city of Wheehng now stands, waiting
for the subsidence of the Indian troubles." Later, they crossed
the river, and settled on a farm twelve miles west of the Ohio,
and three miles from the present town of St. Clairsville. His
father gave him a quarter-section of land, being one-half of his
own purchase. " Early in life Ralph became an interested
Friend, and was an Elder, and for many years sat at the head of
St. Clairsville Meeting."

VI. Children of Ralph and Betsey Cowgill :

451. Phineas, b. 1817, d. 1872, m. Sarah Ann Branson, Lydia Mc-
Clure. ^

452. Jonathan, b. 1818, m. Rebecca Satterthwait, Mary Askew. ^

453. Jeptha, b. 1820, m. Amanda Mead. ^

454. Ann, b. 1823, m. Nathan Satterthwait. ^

455. Sarah, b. i. 29, 1826, unin., (West Branch, Iowa.)

456. Isaac, d. in infancy.

457. William, b. 1832, m. Dorcas L. Brown, ^

V. (176) Jonathan Spencer, son of Nathan and Ann, born
in Loudoun county, Virginia, 1794, died near Bamesville,
Ohio. He was a child when his parents removed to
Ohio. He married (458) Sarah Cowgill. She was the
daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Fred) Cowgill, and was sister to

Ralph Cowgill, who married (No. 175) Betsey Spencer. There

was no issue of this marriage.

Blackshaw, of Bucks county, Pa., and married his daughter Sarah. Their oldest child,
Absalom, was born 1690. (From E. B. Cowgill, Topeka, Kansas, who is compiling a
Cowgill Genealogy. )

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 139

V. (178) Mercy Spencer, daughter of Nathan, Jr., and Ann,

born Sixth month 16, 1797, in Loudoun county, Virginia.

She married, in Belmont county, Ohio, Eighth month 20,

1817, (459) Hezekiah Windom. They lived in Belmont

county until 1837, when they removed to Knox county,

Ohio; about 1848 or 1849 they again removed to Stirling,

Illinois, where Mercy died Fourth month 30, 185 1, and

Hezekiah died Seventh month 8, 1865.

A biographical sketch of their son. Secretary William Win-
dom, says : " His paternal and maternal grandfathers, George
Windom and Nathan Spencer, removed to Ohio during the mi-
nority of his parents, and were among the pioneer farmers of
Belmont county. . . The home of Hezekiah and Mercy
Windom was a humble one, but it was a home of purity and
peace. The mother always wore the Quaker garb, and the chil-
dren as well as the parents used the Quaker forms of speech.
After he was grown to manhood, and as long as his parents
lived, Mr. Windom, when visiting them, or i:i writing to them,
naturally and easily resumed the ' thee ' and ' thou ' of his
childhood.

" In 1837 the family removed to Knox county, in the same
State. . . In that early day Knox county was far removed
from the great markets, and the lack of any adequate means of
transportation kept the price of farm products so low that little
money came to fill the family purse. But the poverty of
Hezekiah Windom was ' the poverty of the frontier, which is
indeed no poverty ; it is but the beginning of wealth.' "

VI. Children of Hezekiah and Mercy Windom .

460. Jonas, b. 1818,^. 1886. ^

461. William, b. 1827, d. iSgi, m. Ellen T. Hatch. ^

I40 THE SPENCER FAMILY

V. (179) Abner Spencer, son of Nathan, Jr., and Ann, born
in Loudoun county, Va., 1799, died in Cedar county, Iowa,
Ninth month 12, 1861, " aged 62 years, 8 months, 29 days."
He married (462),

VI. Children of Abner and Spencer:

463. Lydia Ann, tn. Absalom Cowgill. (Pasadena, Cal.)

464. Ira, m. Mattie Pearson. (Pasadena, Cal.)

V. (180) Sarah Spencer, daughter of Nathan, Jr., and Ann,
born in Loudoun county, Va., 1800, married, Twelfth month
2, 1819 (465) Thomas McCarty Foulke, son of Judah and
Sarah (McCarty) Foulke, of Ohio.'
Thomas M. Foulke died in Fourth month, 1855 ; Sarah

died Tenth month 31, 1851, and was buried at Haskellville,

Lawrence county, Ohio. (A family memorandum furnished me

says her age was 5 1 years, 7 months, 2 days.)

VI. Children of Thomas M. and Sarah Foulke :

466. Samuel, d. in infancy.

467. Ann, d. in infancy.

468. Joshua, i. 5. 30, 1823, m. Sarah Ann Hatfield. ^

469. Milton, 6. 6. 23, 1826, m. Jane Connor. ^

470. Phebe, 6. 10. 21, 1827.

471. Mary, i. 6. 17, 1830.

472. Nathan, 6. 2. 26, 1834.

473. Miles, d. in infancy.

474. Silas, 6. 12. I, 1840.

475. Eliza J., d. in infancy.

• Judah Foulke was the son of Samuel and Ann, of Richland, Bucks county, Pa.,
and the brother of Amelia Foulke Custard. He was thus the uncle of Mary Custard
who married Jesse Spencer (No. 143, this Genealogy). Judah and Sarah had a large
family, and removed from Richland, 1818, to Miami, Ohio.

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V. (183) Asa Spencer, of Spencer's Station, Guernsey county,
Ohio, son of Nathan, Jr., and Ann, born in Loudoun county,
Virginia, Third month 28, 1807, died Fifth month 8, 1876,
and was buried at Barnesville, Ohio. He married. Second
month 27, 1833, (476) Phebe E. Piggott, daughter of John
and Eleanor, of Loudoun county, Va. Phebe was born Twelfth
month 14, 1809. She is living with her son Frank, at the prep-
aration of these pages.

VI. Children of Asa and Phebe E. Spencer :

477. Ellen Plummer, b. 1835, d. 1895, m. Phineas C. Cowgill. ^

478. Ann, b. 1837, tn. Emory Vinton Shipley. "§>

479. Frank Sylvanus, b. 1841, m. Rachel Nora Lee. ^

480. Harry Lindley, b. 1842, m. Mary Elizabeth Paine.

481. John Piggott, b. 1845, '"^^ Lydi^ G. Frame, Ella M. Needham. ^

482. Amos Peasley, b. 1847, m. Hannah Ann Kinsey.^

483. Nathan, b. 1850, m. Estella M. Leffer.^

484. Melissa, b. 1853, ;«. Justice G. Roberts. P

V. (184) Rachel Spencer, daughter of Nathan, Jr., and

Ann, born in Belmont county, Ohio, Second month 12,1 809,

and died Eleventh month 20, 1881. She married. Sixth

month 25, 1834, (485) William Craft, who was born in

Burlington, N. J., Third month 16, 1792, and died at St. Clairs-

ville, Ohio, Eleventh month 23, 1847. William was the son of

John and Margaret Craft. He was a Friend, prominent in the

Society, a storekeeper by occupation, (at St. Clairsville), and an

earnest friend of the movement in opposition to Slavery.

VI. Children of William and Rachel Craft :
486. Mahlon, b. 1. 7, 1861, m. 7. 17, 1836, Margaretta W. Paris, and
had issue, surname Craft: Frank, Nellie A., Laura F., Delia,
and Marguerite. (Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio.)

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487. Anna, b. i. 12, 1838, m. 5. 22, 1889, Rezin Thompson. (West
Branch, Iowa.)

488. Margaret, b. 12. 4, 1840, m. 10. 12, 1876, William R. Clark,
of Emerson, Ohio ; issue one son, surname Clark : Frank W.

. 489. Rebecca, b. 5. 23, 1845, m. i. 9, 1862, Evan G. Evans, of
Emerson, Ohio, and has issue, surname Evans: Arthur W.,
Austin G., Ella S., Anna C, Channing E., Marietta C. (Evan
G. Evans is the son of George I. and Sarah (Griffith) Evans,
and is descended from Owen Evans, one of the Welsh company
who settled at Gwynedd, Pa., 1698.)

V. (189) Sarah Tate, daughter of Levi and Edith, born
Eleventh month 15, 1801, died Fifth month 30, 1885, mar-
ried Naylor Shoemaker, (No. 248, this Genealogy), son of
Abraham and Martha. Naylor was the grandson of Edith
(Spencer) Shoemaker, and Sarah was the granddaughter of
Sarah (Spencer) Nichols, so that both were great-grandchildren
of Samuel Spencer, 2nd, of Upper Dublin. Naylor was born
Sixth month 21, 1801, in Lancaster county, Pa., and died Third
month 7, 1872. He lived nearly the whole of his life in Lou-
doun county, Va., and died there. He was a farmer, a Friend,
and a man highly esteemed.

VI. Children of Naylor and Sarah Shoemaker :

490. Levi Tate, b. 10. 18, 1832, d. 4. 19, 1866.

491. Martha A., b. 7. 26, 1835, m. 2. 16, 1869, William HenryTaylor,
and has issue two children : Caroline, b. 11. 22, 1870 ; Levi S.,
b. 8. 20, 1874.

492. William T., b. 3. 15, 1838, in. 2. 23, 1864, Mary Ann, dau. of
Samuel M.' and Elizabeth Janney, and has issue four children :

iSamuel McPherson Janney, (1801-1880), of Loudoun county, Va., was one of
the most prominent of the Friends in the United States, in the period of his active hfe,
author of a History of Friends, Life of WilHam Penn, Life of George Fox, and other
works. He was descended from Thomas Janney, of Cheshire, England, who came in
1683 to Pennsylvania, and settled in Bucks county.

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY HS

(i) Elizabeth J., b. 6. 19, 1868, d. 12. 5, 1870 ; (2) Cornelia
Janney, b. 2. 16, 1871 ; (3) Sarah T., b. 4. i. 1873 ; (4) b. 12.

3. 1875-

493. Abraham, b. 6. 6, 1840, m. Mary Kindley of Preble county,
O., and has issue five children : (i) Susan Elizabeth, b. 7. 26,
1867, d. ID. 20, 1871 ; (2) Daniel Naylor, b. 11. 16, 1869 ; (3)
Levi Tate, b. 2. 15, 1873, m. 8. 18, 1897, Susan Gillingham ;
(4) Martha, b. 6. 22, 1874 ; (5) Robert Furnas, b. 7. 6, 1879.

494. Edith EUza, b. 6. 21, 1844.

V. (196) Elizabeth Nichols, daughter of Isaac and Lydia
(Walter) Nichols, of Loudoun county, Virginia, born Tenth
month 3, 1798, died Fifth month 14, 1873. She married
(495) William Wilson, and had twelve children, as below.

VI. Children of William and Elizabeth {Nichols) Wilson :
4g6. Martha A., b. 5. 9, 1818, d. II. 15, 1887, m. 2. 21, 1839,
George Gregg ; issue one dau. Phebe, b. 9. 17, 1852.

497. Lydia, b. i. 12, 1819, d. 7. 25, 1896, m. 12. 12, 1839, Armis-
tead Gregg, and had four children, surname Gregg : (i)
Octavia, b. 1841, d. 1842 ; (2) CaroUne, b. 1842, d. 1848 ; (3)
Stephen, b. 1843, d. 1845 ; (4) Edgar, b. 10. 4, 1845, ^- Mary
E. Nichols.

498. Isaac, b. 7. 28, 1820, m. Theodate Pope, and had five children :
(l) Folger, b. 1845, "'■■ Fanny Tyson, and has issue ; (2) Eliza-
beth, b. 1846, m. Nathan Brown, and has issue ; (3) Laura J., b.
1852, d.; (4) WiUiam, b. 4. 14, 1854, m. Elizabeth B. Smith,
and has issue; (5) Franklin P., b. 12. 24, 1857, m. 1896,
Elizabeth H. Hoge, and has issue.

499. Sarah J., b. 8. 15, 1822, d. 7. 22, 1868.

500. Hannah P., b. 11. 22, 1824, m. 5. 20, 1853, Nixon Brown, of
Ohio, and has issue, surname Brown: Mary L., Harriet.

501. Thomas, b. 1827, d. 1830.

502. Jesse S., b. 2. 20, 1829, m. 5. 30, 1855, Rebecca D., dau. of
Benjamin Strattan, of Richmond, Indiana, and has issue six
children : (i) Henry, b. 10. 12, 1856 ; (2) Charles, b. 8. 25,
1858 ; (3) Emily E., b. i860, tn. Albert R. Lawton, A. M., now

144 THE SPENCER FAMILY

of New York, and has issue; (4) William, h. 8. 8, 1862 ; (5)
Eva, b. 1867 ; (6) Florence, b. 1875.

503. Samuel, b. 1830, d. 1831.

504. Mary N., b. 3. 15, 1832, d. 2. 14, 1890, m. 11. 18, 1857,
Thomas Walters, and had issue one child, William, b. 1859.

505. Elizabeth, b. 7. 16, 1834, m. 2. 22, 1861, William Gregg, and
had issue three children: (i) Emma, b. 1863, d. 1888; (2)
Laura, b. 1865, (3) John W., b. 9. 18, 1869, tn. Agnes Wood-
man, and has issue.

506. Miriam, b. 8. 10, 1837, m. i. 9, 1857, Mortimer Thompson, and
has issue four children : (i) William, b. 10. 29, i860, m.\ (2)
Charles, b. 10. 30, 1865; (3) Henry, b. 9. 17, 1870; (4)
Blanche, b. 9. 29, 1878.

507. Harriet, b. i. 5, 1840, m. 8. 30, 1887, John Gregg.

V. (197) Thomas Nichols, son of Isaac and Lydia, of Lou-
doun county, Va., born Third month 3, 1802, died in Seventh
month, 1864, married (508) Emily Holmes, and had six
children as below.

VI. Children of Thomas and Emily H. Nichols :

509. Lydia A., b. 3. 27, 1828, d. 1888, m. Albert Janney, and had
issue three children : (1) Abijah, b. 4. 25, 1846 ; (2) Thomas,
b. I. 4, 1850, d. 10. — , 1885 ; (3) Phineas, b. 5. 2, 1852, d. 6.
— , 1858. Lydia m., 2d, Charles Hughes, and had issue one
dau., Georgia, b. 7. 9, 1870.

510. Isaac H., b. 5. 13, 1830, d. 9. 11, 1868, w. ii. 15, 1853,
Rebecca Brown, and had four childrem : (i) Anna Belle, b.
1855, d. 1867 ; (2) Ella Mae, b. 1857, d. 1867 ; (3) Laura, b.
3. II, i860, m. II. II, 1885, G. M. Emerson ; (4) Morgan, b.
3. 12, 1865, m. 12. 15, 1893, NeUie Wissler.

511. Elizabeth, b. 2. 19, 1832, m. 2. 20, 1861, William G. Smith,
and had three children: (i) Thomas, b. 7. 29, 1862; (2)
Charles, b. i. 26, 1864, m. 2. 15, 1888, M. Ellis, and has issue ;
(3) Mary E., b. 9. 26, 1868.

512. Mary J., b. 6. 23, 1835, d. 8. — , 1865, m. Joshua Pusey.

513. Joseph H., b. 5. 9, 1841, d. 9. i, 1884, m. Susan Gregg, and
had issue one dau., Emma.

514. Julia, b. 2. 8, 1844, m. 5. 26, 1887, Philip Thorp.

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V. (198) Joshua Nichols, son of Isaac and Mary (Gibson)
Nichols, of Loudoun county, Va., born Seventh month 3,
1805. He married (515) Naomi White, daughter of Levi
and Mary (Holmes). They had six children as below.

Joshua was a farmer, and lived where Thomas R. Smith now lives

(1898), two miles from Lincoln, Va.

VI. Children of Joshua and Naomi Nichols :

516. Jonah, m. Martha Mifander.

517. Miriam, m. Daniel T. Wood, and had eight children : Mary C,
Maria, Lucretia, Samuel, Margaret, Clara, Laura, Daniel.

518. Phebe, in. Jonathan Gore.

519. Mary A., jn. Samuel Brown.

520. Lucretia.

521. William.

V. (199) Miriam G. Nichols, daughter of Isaac and Mary

(Gibson) Nichols, of Loudoun county, Va., born Sixth month

8, 1807, married (522) Thomas H. Purdue, and had two

children, as below. At Goose Creek Monthly Meeting, Va.,

Fourth month 11, 1833, Thomas produced a certificate from

Bradford Monthly Meeting (Chester county), Pennsylvania, and

he and Miriam declared their intentions of marriage. After the

usual procedure. Sixth month 13, 1833, the committee appointed

by the meeting, William Smith and Bernard Taylor, reported the

marriage, and that it was "orderly." Eleventh month 16, 1834,

a certificate was granted Miriam to Sadsbury Monthly Meeting,

Pennsylvania. " Thomas was in business at Shannondale Springs,

Va., and then removed to Chicago."

Vf. Children of Thoinas and Miriam Purdue :
, 523. Isaac N., m. Elizabeth Doble, and had one dau., Charity, who
m. George T. Bacon, and has issue.
524. Mary Virginia, m. George T. Haines, and had issue three
children : Frederic, Bessie, Herbert.

146 THE SPENCER FAMILY

V. (200) Joseph Nichols, son of Isaac and Mary (Gibson)
Nichols, of Loudoun county, Va., born Ninth month 17,
1809, died 189S, married (525) Mary Ann McPherson,
daughter of Daniel and Susan (Alstadt) McPherson, of Jef-
ferson county, Va., and had six children, as below. Joseph lived
at Mountain View, five miles from Lincoln. (A letter from him,
in 1 89 1, to the author of this volume, is at p. 66.)

VI. Children of Joseph and Mary Ann Nichols :

526. Virginia J., ni. Elias Hughes, and had four children : (i) Mary
E. ; (2) Clara V., m. Charles Hoge, and has one child, George ;
(3) Daniel, m. Cosmelia J. Brown ; (4) Anna C, d.

527. Rebecca J., m. Samuel N. Brown.

528. M. Cornelia, m. Philip T. Stabler, and has two children : Vir-
ginia M., Maurice J.

529. Daniel M., d.

530. Julia, d.

531. Lucy A., m. James W. Janney, now of Chicago, 111., and has
one child, Mildred.

V. (201) Lydia Nichols, daughter of Isaac and Mary
(Gibson) Nichols, of Loudoun county, Va., born Ninth
month 15, 1811, married 1831, (532) Samuel Hatcher.
They had seven children, as below. Samuel was a farmer
near Barnesville, Belmont county, Ohio. Lydia married, 2d,

Tenth month 9, 1849, (533) James Dobbins, and had three

children, as below.

VI. Children of Samuel and Lydia Hatcher :

534. Mary, b. 1832, d. 1890, in. 1849, D. H. Judkins, and had
seven children : Linnaeus, Arretious, Arabel, Addie, Thomas,
Wallace, Minnie.

535. Isaac,*. 1834, m. 1859, M. A. Thornberry, and had issue:
William, Clara.

536. Hannah, b. 1836.

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537. Miriam, i. 1838.

538. Phebe, i. 1840, m. 1858, W. Thornberry, and had issue ; Vir-
ginia, Belle, Charles, Lucy, William, Wilbur.

539. Louisa, 6. 1842, m. 1876, William Harris, and had issue :
Walter, Bert.

540. Sarah, i. 1845, m. William Enseminger, and had issue : Emma,
John.

Children of James and Lydia Dobbins :

541. Charles, i. 8. 1, 1850, m. 3. 30, 1876, Amanda M. Blakemore,
and had two children : Willard, b. 1879, La-ur^i. b. 1884.

542. Annie, b. 10. 20, 1852, m. 12. 23, 1885, P. D. Hunt, and had
two children: James Browning, 6. 1886, Charles, b. 1888.

543. James A., b. 11. 30, 1853, m. 3. 15, 1887, Ada Piper.

V. (204) Phebe G. Nichols, daughter of Isaac and Mary
(Gibson) Nichols, of Loudoun county, Va., born Fifth month
14, 1 82 1, died Eighth month 24, 1881, married Fifth month
6, 1839, (544) Joseph Mead, of Belmont county, Ohio, and
had eleven children, as below. Joseph was a physician, and
a minister of the Society of Friends.

VI. Children of Joseph and Phebe G. Mead :

545. Isaac J., b. 1840, d. 1841.

546. William T. , 5. 4. 2, 1842, d. 10. 9, 1894, tn. 1867, Martha
Hamilton.

547. Joseph J., b. 2. 26, 1844, m. 1865, Susan Nichols.

548. Charles E., b. 9. 10, 1845, d., m. Irene Potts.

549. Mary Emily, iJ. 11.30, 1847,^. 3. 27, 1881, m. 1866, Isaac
Haines.

550. Marian C, b. 1849, d. 187 1.

551. Julia, b. 1851, (/. in infancy.

552. Frances J., b. 11. 17, 1853, d., m. 1882, Parley A. Collins.

553. Phebe Ahce, b. 1855, </.

554. Phineas Eugene, b. 1857, d. 1887.

555. Aveline Ray, b. i860, d. 1886.

148 THE SPENCER FAMILY

V. (206) Amor Nichols, son of Samuel and Mary (Janney)

Nichols, of Loudoun county, Va., born Eleventh month 25,

1802, died 1872, married (556) Maria Brown, daughter of

Nathan and Nancy (Holmes), and had nine children, of whom

four, Mary, Sarah, Philothea, and Kersey, " are dead without

issue," (1898). The others are mentioned below. The family

removed from Loudoun county to Ohio. The minutes of Goose

Creek (Va.) Monthly Meeting of Friends, Fifth month 17, 1838,

record that a certificate was granted Amor and Maria B.

Nichols and their seven children to join Plainfield Monthly

Meeting, Belmont county, Ohio. (The seven children named in

the minute are Nathan B., William Albert, Mary, Lydia Ann,

Eli, and Martha.)

VI. Children of Amor and Maria Nichols :

557. Nathan B., m. 1853, Sarah E. Hoge, and had seven children :
William E., J. Wilbur, d., Clayton A., Mary ^., Flora M.,
Nathan C, and Jesse E., d.

558. William A.

559. Lydia A., m. John Taylor, and has issue : Allie, m., Lorin, d.

560. Eli, m. Margaret Welling, and had five children : Hugh,
Mattie, William, ?«. Daisy Dunn ; Eva, Annie M.

561. Martha, m. John W. Cockerill, and had one son, Horace.

V. (207) John Nichols, son of Samuel and Mary (Janney)

Nichols, of Loudoun county, Va., born Second month 11,

1804, died Sixth month 5, 1884, married under the care of

Goose Creek Monthly Meeting, Va., (the committee reported

the wedding "orderly" at the meeting, First month 12, 1826),

(562) Sarah Brown, daughter of Nathan and Nancy (Holmes),

and had ten children, as below. John was a farmer, and lived

near Circleville, Loudoun county, Va.

\i. 7- 5. 1841.

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VI. Children of John and Sarah Nichols :

563. Eliza A., i. 4. 19, 1828, d. 10. 22, 1877.

564. Harriet, 6. 12. 29, 1830.

565. Samuel, /5. 1833, d. in infancy.

566. Phineas J., 6. 1. 11, 1836, m. i860, Mary A. Brown, and had
five children : S. Elizabeth, Martha J., Thamazine E., John, d.,
Flavius, d.

567. Infant son, 6. and d. 1838.

567. Martha A., d. 1840, d. 1841.

568. Caroline,

569. Cornelia,

570. Maria, 6. 5. 27, 1844, m. William H. Brown, and has one
child, Sarah Elma.

571. Eli, 6. g. 13, 1846, m. Lydia E. Hewes, and had four children :
Howard, Wilmer, d., Samuel, d., Alena.

V. (208) William Nichols, son of Samuel and Mary (Jan-

ney) Nichols, of Loudoun county, Va., born Seventh month

24, 1806, died Seventh month 7, 1886, married (572)

Catherine Tavenner, daughter of Joseph and Mary (White).

William was a farmer, and lived a mile east of Philomont

»

Loudoun county, Va. They had nine children, as below.

V/. Children of William and Catherine Nichols :

573. Phebe A., b. 10. 10, 1828, d. 4. 19, 1891.

574. Susan T., b, 5. 6, 1830, d. 3. 3, 1896.

575. Thomas, b. 5. 20, 1832, d. 5. 8, 1865.

576. Lydia J., b. 7. 20, 1834, d. 3. 8, 1896, m. John W. Piggott.

577. William, b. 8. 2, 1836, m. Beavers, and had four children .

Addie, Lillie, Thomas, Mattie.

578. Mary J., b. 1840, d. i860.
57g. Samuel, b. 7. 15, 1842, in.

580. J. F., b. 8. 16, 1845, m., and had two children: John, Mary.

581. Virginia E., b. 11. 7, 1847.

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V. (209) Phebe Nichols, daughter of Samuel and Mary
(Janney) Nichols, of Loudoun county, Va., born Eighth
month 2, 1808, married in 1835, under the care of Goose
Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends (582) Thomas Brown,

son of William and (Jackson), the latter from Frederick

county, Va. Thomas was a merchant and farmer, at Circleville,
three miles south of Lincoln, Va. They had three children, as
below.

VI. Children of Thomas and Phebe Brown .

583. Samuel N., m. Mary Ann Nichols, Rebecca J. Brown.

584. William, »2. Lydia Janney, and had three children : (i) Thomas
J., of Washington, D. C, m. Elsie Palmer, of Baltimore ; (2)
Samuel N., (3) Cossie J., m. Daniel Hughes, and has issue, a
son, Donald.

585. Mary Hannah, in. Edward J. Smith, and had four children :
(i) Elizabeth, m. William Wilson ; (2) Mary Anna ;«. Edward
B. Rawson, of New York, and has issue, (3) Bertha, (4)
William.

V. (212) Thomas J. Nichols, son of Samuel and Mary
(Janney) Nichols, of Loudoun county, Va., born Sixth
month 6, 1815, died Seventh month 16, 1893, married Fifth
month 21, 1835, under care of Goose Creek Monthly Meet-
ing of Friends (586) Nancy Dillon, daughter of Abner and
Annie (Pancoast). Thomas was a farmer and lived near Purcell-
ville, Loudoun county, Va.

VI. Children of Thomas f. and Nancy Nichols :

587. James W., m., 3. 20, 1866, Hannah Howell, and had five
children : (i) Joseph V., (2)T. Plaster, (3) Thomas L. , (4) Craven
J., (5) Larena May, ot. Herbert H. Thompson, of Mecklenburg
county, Va.

588. Annie E., d. 6. 15, 1895, m. 7. 25, 1866, Asbury Janney.

589. Samuel E., ?«. ist, 5. 25, 1876, Mary E. Stocks, and had two
children: Hattie, d. 1881, Annie, d. 1885; Samuel in., 2d,
5. 12, 1886, Ella M. Stocks, sister of Mary E.

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V. (216) Sarah Piggott, daughter of William and Mary

(Nichols) Piggott, of Loudoun county, Va., born Twelfth

month 13, 1798, died Fourth month 16, 1877, married (590)

William C. Brown, son of Richard and Mary (Cox), the

latter of New Jersey. William was a farmer near Hamilton,

Loudoun county, Va. They had five children, as below.

VI. Children of Williavi C. and Sarah Brown :

591. Samuel, b. 12. 29, 1817, m. J. Virginia Taylor, and had six
children: (i) MaryE., m. R. R. Brown, and had seven chil-
dren : Leslie, Lily, Lucy, Mary, Anna, Richard, Carroll ; (2)
Sarah Ann, b. 10. 18, i860; (3) Edwin M., b. 7. 26, 1862 ;
(4) William T., b. 6. 3, 1866 ; (5) Walter, b. 10. 13, 1868, m.
Mary E. England ; (6) Emma.

592. Burr, b. -z. i, 1820, m. Mary E. Nichols, and had three chil-
dren : (i) James W., m. Elizabeth Williams, and has three chil-
dren, Mary, Horace, James; (2) Alberta J., m. Bushrod
Piggott, and has three children, Mary, Albert, Hannah ; (3)
Mayo, m. Maggie Alder, and had four children, Melval,
Maurice, Ralph, Burr.

593. Jonathan, b. 3. 20, 1822, d.

594. Mary Elizabeth, b. 9. 18, 1824, m., ist, Daniel Nichols, m.,
2d, Samuel T. Ramsey, and had four children : (i) Sarah, m.
Wilham Moore, and has three children; (2) James W. , b. 8.
18, 1857, m. Alice Zimmerman, and has four children ; (3)
Jonathan, b. 10. 18, 1859, m. Emma Thomas, and has six
children ; Samuel, b. i. 16, 1836, m., in Kansas.

595. Bushrod, b. 8. 25, 1829, m. Cecilia H. Taylor, and had issue
five children: Oscar M., b. 1854, William, b. 1856, Laura, b.
1861, Gulielma, b. 186;, Henry W., b. 1871.

V. (218) Isaac Piggott, son of William and Mary, of
Loudoun county, Va., born Tenth month 14, 1802, died
Fifth month 2, 1871, married (S96) Rebecca Hatcher,
daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Reeder). Isaac was a

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farmer, near Unison, Loudoun county, Va. They had nine
children, as below.

VI. Children of Isaac and Rebecca Piggott :

597. Sarah Ann, b. 12. 20, 1825, m. JohnW. Newlin, and had seven
children : Mary V., Samuel E., Lena, Elizabeth, WilHam,
Catherine, Thomas.

598. Mary Jane, b. \Zii, d. 1833.

599. John William, b. i. 18, 1830, m. Lydia J. Nichols, and had one
child, Dolly N., m. Leeds.

600. Samuel H., b. 1832, d.

601. Phebe A., b. i. 25, 1834, m. David Smith, and had four chil-
dren : William P., Bella, Jefiferson, Samuel.

602. Rebecca E., b. 11. 9, 1836, m. (2d wife of), David Smith, and
had two children: Elizabeth, John.

603. Mary, b. 3. 6, 1839, d. 3. 22, 1887.

604. Ruth n.,b. 1842, d.

605. Thomas H., b. 9. 12, 1844, m. 1st, 9. 4, 1872, Harriet A.
Beaver, and had six children : Sarah E. , Thomas J., Dehlah,
Martha, Samuel, Mary ; Thomas H. m., 2d, 12. 9, 1891,
Dehlah C. Nichols, and has two children, Leonard, Paulina.

V. (219) Burr Piggott, son of William and Mary, of
Loudoun county, Va., born Ninth month 3, 1805, died
Second month 4, 1852, married Fourth month 16, 1835,
(606) Hannah J. Nichols, daughter of Thomas and Letitia.
(The latter the daughter of Stephen Janney.) Burr was a

farmer, and lived near Silcott's Springs, Loudoun county, Va.

They had seven children, as below.

VI. Children of Burr and Hannah f. Piggott :

607. William, b. 3. I, 1836, ?;z. 10. 20, 1869, EUzabeth D. Holmes,
and has issue : Emma H., b. 1872, Hugh H., b. 1877.

608. Mary Jane, b. 12. 9, 1837, m. 9. 23, 1867, Thomas E. Taylor,
and has issue : Emma, b. 1869, d. 1870 ; Henry Burr, b. 1873 ;
Thomas Eppa, b. 1875, d. 1881.

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609. Thomas, b. 9. 25, 1839, m. 10. 10, 1868, Sallie A. Brown, and
has issue : William B., b. 1870 ; Henry E., b. 1873 ; Clara E.,
b. 1876.

610. John, b. 3. 29, 1842, m. 9. 5, 1876, Elizabeth H. Love, and
has issue : J. Burr, b. 1877 ; Fenton L., b. 1879.

611. Isaac, b. 3. 30, 1844, m. 10. 21, 1890, Mary J. Thomas, and
has issue: Stanley b. 1 89 1 ; Mary Hanna, b. 1894.

612. Bushrod, b. 12. 9, 1845, d. i. i, 1889, m. 10. 25, 1882, Alberta
Jeanette Brown, and had issue : Mary Elizabeth, b. 1883 ;
Albert B., b. 1885 ; Hannah J., b. and d. 1887.

613. Sarah Letitia, b. 185 i, d.

V. (220) Elizabeth Piggott, daughter of William and Mary,
of Loudoun county, Va., born Twelfth month 26, 1807,
died Ninth month 23, i860, married (614) Richard Brown,
son of Richard and Mary (Cox), the latter from New Jersey.

Richard was a farmer, and lived near Hamilton, Va. They had

six children, as below.

VI. Children of Richard atid Elizabeth Brown :

615. Isaac, b. \i. i, 1828, m. Mary E. Pierpoint, and had six chil-
dren: (i) Richard H., b. 3. 2, 1851, m. Margaret Myers, and
had issue, Daniel, Melva E., Samuel ; (2) J. Edward, b. 11. 4,
1852, d. 4. 9, 1897, m. Gertrude Billet, and had issue. Mar)',
William, Raymond, Morris, Bertha, Ruth; (3) Annie E., b.
1^55 ; (4) Francenia, b. 1858 ; (5) Isaac L., b. 1861 ; (6)
Samuel, d. 1S90.

616. Samuel, b. 6. 23, 1831, m. Francenia Nichols, and had six
children : (i)Ida E., m. Samuel Mosier, and had issue, Foster,
Carl, Chester ; (2) Wm. Henry, in. Adella Monroe, and had
issue, Harold, Mary, Elsie, Stella ; (3) Emma, d. ; (4) Flavins,
in. Nevada Gardner, and had issue, Francis G. ; (5) Thaddeus,
d. ; (6) Eva, in. Leslie Coomer.

617. John William, d. g. 9, 1840.

618. Richard Henry, d. 5. 29, 1837.

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619. Mary Ann, b. 3. 22, 1838, m. Phineas J. Nichols. (See No.
566, this Genealogy.)

620. Sarah E., b. 12. 2, 1841, in. Daniel Shafer, and had issue:
Mary E., in. H. Clifford Nichols.

621. William Henry, b. 12. 25, 1843, m. Maria P. Nichols, and had
issue, Sara Elma.

V. (221) Phebe Piggott, daughter of William and Mary, of
Loudoun county, Va., born Ninth month 12, 18 10, died
Ninth month 20, i860, married (622) Lot Tavenner, son
of Jonah and Hannah (Janney, dau. of Stephen). He was
a farmer and lived near Lincoln, Va. They had seven
children, as below.

VI. Children of Lot and Phebe Tavenner :

623. Ruth H., b. 10. 17, 1832, m. Joel Craven, and had issue,
Mary A., b. 2. 28, 1858.

624. Sarah E., b. 4. 23, 1834.

625. Mary, b. 9. 10, 1836.

626. William P., 5. 4. 11, 1838, d. 3. 8, 1889, m. Emma Foster,
and had four children : (i) William L., b. 1866, d. 1892 ; (2)
Robert F., b. 12. 14, 1868, in. Virginia Castle, and had issue,
W. Brown, b. 1892, Graham, b. 1894 ; (3) Eva G., b. 2. 28,
1871 ; (4) Jonah, b. 12. 31, 1872.

627. Maria, b. 11, 18, 1839, ^- '2. 20, 1867, m. John J. Otley.

628. Miriam, b. 9. 30, 1841.

629. Amanda, b. 6. 20, 1845, 111. Edwin Beall, and had three
children . (i) Anna L., b. 8. 10, 1869, d. 12. 20, 1892 ; (2)
Harry C, b. 2. 17, 1873, m. Margaret Tavenner, and has issue,
Maggie, b. 1897 ; (3) Lot L., b. 7. 30, 1882.

V. (227) Samuel Nichols, son of William and Mary
(Janney) Nichols, of Loudoun county, Va., born First month
21, 1807, died Fifth month 23, 1873. He removed, when

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23 years old, from Loudoun county, Va., where he was
born, to Columbiana, O., and engaged in dry goods business,
which he continued about fourteen years, and then went on a
farm, where he remained until 1867, when he removed to
Marshall county, Iowa, and engaged with his two youngest
sons in the grocery business.

Samuel married (630) Tryphena Hanna, daughter of
Benjamin and Rachel Hanna. Benjamin came to Columbiana
county, Ohio, about 1800, from Virginia; he was a prominent
and active man, president of the Sandy and Beaver Canal
Company, a Friend, "not much of a speaker," but " sat at the
head of the meeting." His wife's maiden name was Dixon ;
she came from the neighborhood of Redstone, Pa. " They
raised a large family, seven sons and four daughters," of whom
Tryphena was one. Her brother. Dr. Leonard Hanna, was a
prominent man in Ohio, interested in public affairs, and the
father of Marcus A. Hanna, now (1898) United States Senator
from Ohio, who is, therefore, the nephew of Tryphena Nichols,
and first cousin to her children, named below.

VI. Children of Samuel and Tryphena Nichols :

631. Benjamin F., 6. 1836, m. M. Lauretta Hessin. ^

632. William J., i. 1838, ?«. Elizabeth Potts. ^

633. James H., m. Althea Brayton. ^

634. Spencer Jones, ?«. Harriet Jones. ^

635. Rachel Alice, m. John Mills. ^

V. (228) Hannah Nichols, daughter of William and Mary

(Janney) Nichols, born Eleventh month 19, 1808, died First

month 2, 1872, married Fourth month 29, 1830, (636)

Arthur Rogers, son of Hamilton and Dinah, of Loudoun

county, Va. Arthur was born 1797, and died Eighth

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month 5, 1884. The children of Arthur and Hannah were
eleven in number, as below.

VI. Children of Arthur and Hannah Rogers :

637. Mary C, 5. 3. 10, 1831, d. 8. 8, 1849.

638. Hamilton, b. 10. 23, 1832, d. 10. 19, 1862.

639. William, 6. 11. 6, 1834, d. 9. 16, 1836.

640. Sarah D., 6. 12. 13, 1836.

641. Martha, 6. 2. 3, 1839.

642. Hugh, i. 1. 10, 1 84 1.

643. Samuel, i. 10. 19, 1843.

644. Thomas, 6. 3. 9, 1846.

645. Arthur, i. 5. 23, 1848.

646. William J., 6. i. 4, 1851.

647. Elizabeth H., i. 8. 3, 1854.

V. (230) Stacy Nichols, son of William and Mary (Janney)
Nichols, of Loudoun county, Va., born Twelfth month 13,
1812, married Third month 19, 1835, (648) Martha Ann
Brown, daughter of Nathan and Ann. (The marriage under
care of Goose Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends. )i The
same year they removed to Ohio. At Goose Creek Monthly
Meeting, Eighth month 15, 1835, a certificate was granted
to Stacy and Martha Ann Nichols, to Middletown
Monthly Meeting, Ohio. Martha Ann died, (in child-birth),
and her child also. First month 19, 1836, at Columbiana, Co-
lumbiana county, Ohio.

Stacy married, 2d, Ninth month 14, 1837, (649) Faithful
Mercer. Both are now living, (1898), at Minerva, Marshall
county, Iowa. They had eight children, as below, all born at

'At meeting held Fourth month 16, 183S : Daniel Janney and John Smith, who had
been appointed by the meeting " to attend the marriage of Stacy NICHOLS and
Martha Ann Brown, report it was orderly accomplished."

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Columbiana, Ohio, except the two youngest, who were born at
Minerva, Iowa.

VI. Children of Stacy and Faithful Nichols :

650. Martha Ann, 6. 3. 24, 1839, d. 3. 19, 1894, m. at Minerva,
Iowa, September, i860, Newton L. Hixson. (Kingsley, Iowa.)

651. Thomas, 6. 4. 4, 1841, m. 10. 31, 1867, at Marietta, Iowa,
Mary C. Ball. (Minerva, Iowa.)

652. William R., 6. 11. 10, 1843, ^- 9- 25, 1867, at Greenmountain,
Iowa, Amy Evans. (Bradshaw, Neb.)

653. Warren, d. 8. 20, 1846, m. ist, 10. 30, 1868, Laura Dixon ; 2d,
1890, Olive Townsend. (Minerva, Iowa.)

654. Oliver, b. \. •], 1849, m. 3. 9, 1870, MattieE. Page. (Minerva,
Iowa.)

655. Sarah Alice, b. 12. 28, 1851, d. 3. 5, 1863.

656. Horace M., b. 11. 25, 1854, th. Mary Tomlinson, Ida Ingram,
(Hartland, Iowa.)

657. Hannah Mary, b. 10. 8, 1863, d. 11. 8, 1864.

V. (231) Jesse Nichols, son of William and Mary (Janney)
Nichols, of Loudoun county, Va., born Tenth month 21,
1814, died Tenth month i, 1883, at Purcellville, Va., mar-
ried (658) Mary E. Brown, daughter of Nathan and Ann.
The marriage took place in Second month, 1839, under care of
Goose Creek Monthly Meeting. At this meeting, Third month
4th of that year, Daniel Janney and David Brown, committee ap-
pointed to attend the wedding, reported it " orderly."

Jesse had previously removed to Ohio. Goose Creek
Monthly Meeting granted him a certificate, Third month 17,
1836, to Middletown Monthly Meeting, Columbiana county,
Ohio, and when he was about to marry Mary E. Brown, he
produced a satisfactory certificate from that meeting. They had
eight children, as below.

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VI. Children of Jesse and Mary E. Nichols :

659. William A., b. 1839, d. 1893, m. H. E. Anderson, andhadfour
children, of whom the eldest, Caroline V., is living, the others,
Mary E., Jesse, and Percy B., died in infancy. Williajn A.
Nichols was a member of the bar of Columbiana county, Ohio,
and for many years Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of that
county, occupying that position at the time of his death, 1893.

660. Nathan, b. 1842, d. in infancy.

661. Thamsin A., b. 1844, d. 1857.

662. Edward, b. 1847, unm. He is a member of the bar of Loudoun
county, Va., residing at Leesburg, the county seat, vice-presi-
dent of the Loudoun National Bank, etc.

663. Charles, b. 12. 19, 1849, ™- Louisa J. Fenton, and has issue
five children ; Mabel, Nelly G., William Harvey, Edward E.,
Mary. He is a farmer, and resides near Purcellville, Va.

664. Mary C, b. 6. 7, 1853, m. Edgar B. Gregg, {b. 10. 4, 1845),
and has four children, Edgar B., ElmaV., Russell S., Horace L.
He is a farmer, near Hamilton, Va.

665. Alice, b. 1856, d. in infancy.

666. Virginia, b. 1859.

V. (237) George Shoemaker, son of Samuel and Elizabeth
(Ellis) Shoemaker, born Twelfth month 27, 1799, died
Tenth month 12, 1838. He married (667) Mary Payne.
He " removed to Kentucky, where he died, leaving eight

children." The names of seven of them are given below, and

all, a letter to the author, Eleventh month 19, 1897, states, are

deceased, except William.

VI. Children of George and Mary Shoemaker ■

668. Isaiah, d.

669. Mary A., d.

670. Jacob, d.

671. Samuel, d.

672. George, d.

673. Charles, d.

674. William.

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V. (238) Isaac Shoemaker, son of Samuel and Elizabeth
(Ellis) Shoemaker, bom Eighth month 17, 1802, died Eighth
month 10, 1883, married Twelfth month 18, 1832, (675) Ann

Williams. He was a farmer, and resided in Montgomery

county, Md. They had five children, as below.

VI. Children of Isaac and Ann Shoemaker :

676. Sarah E., b. 9. 21, 1833, m. Francis Greenwell.

677. Elizabeth A., b. i. 25, 1836, m. Louis Parker. (Washington,
D. C.)

678. Louis E., b. 9. 10, 1837, m. Mary Eld. (Bethesda, Mont-
gomery county, Md.)

679. Isaac, b. 7. 16, 1840, d. unm.

680. Phinehas, d.

V. (240) Edith Shoemaker, daughter of Samuel and Eliza-
beth, born Fourth month 9, 1805, died Second month 4,
1833, married (681) William Councilman. Edith died in
child-birth, her child dying with her.

V. (241) David Shoemaker, son of Samuel and EHzabeth,
born Tenth month i, 1807, died Twelfth month 6, 1886,
married. First month 12, 1830, (682) Louisa Tomlinson.

He was a farmer, and resided in Montgomery county, Md.

Their children were four in number, as below.

VI. Children of David and Louisa .

683. Elizabeth, b. 10. 22, 1830, m. L. McCubbin.

684. William, b. 9. 4, 1833, d., in., 1st, Martha Long, 2d, Martha
Bohrer.

685. Harriet, b. i. 8, 1835, d. April, 1897, unm.

686. Edith, b. 7. 17, 1837, m. Rev. Dr. Black.

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V. (242) Charles Shoemaker, son of Samuel and Elizabeth,
born Fourth month 3, 1813, died Second month 14, 1895,
married Ninth month 5, 1843, (687) Mary Elizabeth Col-
lins. He was a farmer, and resided in IVIontgomery county,
Maryland. They had six children, as below.

VI. Children of Charles and Mary E :

688. Joseph, 6. 6. 26, 1845.

689. Mary Ellen, 6. 1. i, 1848, m. Thomas Tallman.

690. Charles Edward, d. 12. 17, 1853, m. Elizabeth Wendell.

691. Margaret A., 6. i. 21, 1856.

692. Ellis, d. II. 3, 1858.

693. William, 6. i. 24, 186 1, m. Sallie Perry.

V. (243) Jesse Shoemaker, son of Samuel and Elizabeth,
born Twelfth month 6, 181 5, died Twelfth month 14, 1887,
married First month 13, 1837, (694) Elizabeth A. Wil-
liams. He was a farmer, and resided in Montgomery county,
Maryland. They had eight children, named below.

695
696
697

700,
701
702

VI. Children of Jesse and Elizabeth:
Hannah, b. i. 15, 1838, m. George Lainhardt.
Edward, b. i. 12, 1840, m.
John, b. 9. 5, 1842, d., m. Miss Carroll.
Jesse, b. 9. 18, 1844, d. unin.
EUza, b. 7. 14, 1850, wz. J. Francis Davison.
George T., b. 9. 5, 1852, m.
Isaac W., b. 8. 22, 1854, m. Mary Carroll.
WilHam F., b. i. 10, 1856.

V. (244) Samuel Shoemaker, son of Samuel and Elizabeth,
born Seventh month i, 18 18, died Eleventh month 11, 1891,
married Second month 23, 1846, (703) Elizabeth R. Lane.
He removed after his marriage to Washington, D. C, where

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he continued to live, and died. He was buried in Oak Hill
Cemetery. His widow, son, and two daughters live, 1898, in
Washington.

VI. Children of Samuel and Elizabeth R :

704. Samuel J.

705. Sophie J.

706. Anna R.

V. (245) Edward Shoemaker, son of Samuel and Elizabeth,
born First month 26, 1821, died First month 19, 1893,
married Fifth month 18, 1843, (707) Jane Lucretia Dean.

" Edward removed to Iowa, and settled there, where his family

now live." A partial list only of his children has been obtained,

and is given below.

VI. Children of Edward and fane :

708. Thomas.

709. Franklin.

710. Louisa.

711. Nicholas.

V. (246) Rachel Shoemaker, daughter of Samuel and Eliza-
beth, born Fifth month 10, 1823, married Eleventh month
12, 1843, (712) J. Thomas Dean. They reside, 1898, in
Montgomery county, Md.

VI. Children of f. Thomas and Rachel Dean .

713. Edith, b. 2. 8, 1845,-OT. John Willett.

714. Sarah, b. 8. 28, 1847, d., m. Joseph Colhns.

715. Edward, b. 7. 7, 1853, d., m. Emma Goodrich.

716. Charles, b. 2. 10, 1857, m.

717. Alice, b. 8. 27, 1859, m. Francisco Perna.

718. Henry, b. 6. 28, 1862, m. Alice Beach.

719. Martha, b. i. 20, 1867, m. David Volinten.

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1 62 THE SPENCER FAMILY

V. (248) Naylor Shoemaker, son of Abraham and Martha.
He married Sarah Tate (No. 189), and data concerning them
have been given at p. 142.

V. (255) Basil W. Shoemaker, of Loudoun county, Va.,
son of Abraham and Martha, born Tenth month 28, 18 17,
died Eleventh month 28, 1890. He married (No. 380, this
Genealogy), Caroline Thomas, daughter of Spencer and
Hephziba (Spencer) of Upper Dublin ; she was a great-grand-
daughter, through her father, of John Spencer, (10, this Gene-
alogy) and through her mother of Joseph Spencer (7). Basil
was the grandson of Edith (Spencer) Shoemaker, (17); they
were therefore distant cousins. He was a blacksmith, and a
farmer, and lived many years at Silcott's Springs, in Loudoun
county, where he died, his wife surviving him.

VI. Children of Basil W. and Caroline :

720. Lemuel T., b. 8. 29, 1849, d. i. 14, 1853.

721. Ellen, b. 11. 26, 1851, tji. i. 9, 1881, George W. Nichols,
(Loudoun county, Va.), and has issue : Estella, Ralph, Eugene,
Milton, Stanley.

721. Howard J., of California, b. 12. 24, 1853, in, 5. 7, 1889, Eva
Moshure, and has issue : Cora Lecta.

722. Ellwood, (Silcott's Springs, Va.), b. 2. 14, 1859, m. 10. 9,
1883, Lutie E. James, and has issue : Leland Stanford, Pauline,
James.

723. Edwin, (twin with Ellwood), b. 2. 14, 1859, m. 2. 3, 1892,
Pamelia Hickson, and has issue : Kathleen.

724. George, b. 8. 4, 1861.

725. Anna Elizabeth, b. 7. 28, 1864, in. 3. 14, 1879, Charles Hud-
son, and has issue : Raymond, Harold.

726. Thomas Spencer, b. 2. 20, 1867, d.

727. Edith Maria, b. 11. 25, 1869, m. 5. 30, 1895, B. FrankHn Hibbs.
[A dau. b. II. 25, 1856, d. aged nine days. J

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V. (269) Joseph W. Roberts, son of George and Alice, born
Eighth month 7, 1808, died Fourth month 8, 1879, married
Tenth month 14, 1835, (728) Sarah Garrett, daughter of
Joseph and Margaret. Sarah was born Fifth month 2,

18 1 5, and died Twelfth month 27, 1894. They owned and

occupied a farm in East Marlborough township, Chester

county. Pa.

VI. Children of Joseph W. and Sarah :

729. Margaret L., b. 10. 16, 1836, m. 4. 16, 1863, John C. Yeatman.
(Kennett Square, Pa.)

730. Sarah Jane, b. 7. 21, 1839, "^- 3-21, 1867, Pusey W. Buffing-
ton. (Storekeeper, Doe Run, Chester county. Pa.)

731. Alice A., b. 5. 25, 1844. (Kennett Square, Pa.)

732. Joseph G. , b. 2. 3, 1848, in. 12. 12, 1877, Elizabeth H. Eachus,
who d. 7. , 1880.

V. (270) Eliza Roberts, daughter of George and Alice,

born First month 27, 18 10, died Fourth month 29, 1854,

married. Second month 11, 1836, (733) Benjamin Conard,

of New London, Chester county. Pa., son of Cornelius and

Susanna. Benjamin was born Ninth month 14, 18 10, and

I am indebted to him for a full and interesting letter (in

reply to my inquiries), dated Fourth month i, 1898, from

Hillsboro', Ohio, though he said he was " entirely blind in

one eye, and almost blind in the other."

After their marriage they settled on a farm in New London,
but removed in 1839 to Eastland, Lancaster county, and in
1850 to Highland county, Ohio, where Eliza died, as above.
She left seven children, "all of whom are living [1898] and
all have been married."

After the decease of Eliza, Benjamin married, 2d, 1856,
Elizabeth Johnson.

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VI. Children of Benjamin and Eliza Canard :

734. Almira, b. 12. 29, 1836, ;«. 11. 29, 1854, William Carey, and
had nine children. William is a farmer, residence Samantha,
Highland county, Ohio.

735. Cornelius, b. 8. 13, 1838, m. 12. 28, 1864, Martha J. Hodgson,
and has three children. (Carthage, Missouri.)

736. Alice R., b. i. 22, 1840, m. 11. 12. 1863, Cyrus Johnson, and
has two sons. (Farmer, Hot Springs, Arka^'sas.)

737. George K., b. i. 5. 1842, m. i. 28, 1866, Martha Ellen Good,
and has four children. (Residence, New Vienna, Ohio ; phy-
sician and surgeon.)

738. William, b. n. 13, 1844, m. 1. 8, 1867, Mary S. Harwood,
and has one son. (Farmer, Hillsboro', Ohio.)

739. EUwood H., b. I. 21, 1849, m. 9. 28, 1871, Jane Susanna
Gawthrop, and has three children. (Farmer, West Grove, Pa.)

740. Mary, b. (in Ohio), 4. 23, 1852, m. 9. 25, 1879, J. P. Emil
Mante, and has one son., (Residence, Mt. Washington, Ohio.)

[Three children, Granville, b. 1843 ; Benjamin R., b. 1846, Rachel,
b. 1847, d. in infancy. — Benjamin Conard (No. 733, above) says, 4. i,
1898 : "The descendants of Eliza Roberts Conard now living are : Chil-
dren, 7 ; grandchildren, 23 ; great-grandchildren, 25 ; great-great-grand-
children i, total 56."]

V. (271) Rachel Roberts, daughter of George and Alice,

born Tenth month 19, 18 12, died Fourth month 30, 1884,

married Third month 14, 1833, (741) Sharpless Moore,

son of David and Martha (Sharpless) of New Garden,

Chester county. Sharpless was born Ninth month 23, 1809,

and died Third month 12, 1897. He and his wife, Rachel,

celebrated their golden wedding on the appropriate date in

1883, and she died a little more than a year later, having lived,

except the last three months, "in or in sight of the house where

she was born," in New Garden township.

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Sharpless Moore, married, 2d, Lydia Roberts, (No. 275,
this Genealogy), sister of his first wife, the marriage " on his
seventy-sixth birthday," Ninth month 23, 1885. Lydia sur-
vives, 1898.

Children of Sharpless and Rachel Moore :

742. George Roberts, d. 2. 19, 1835. He was a successful teacher,
when a young man, removed 1858 to Illinois, and later to Iowa,
and is a physician in large practice at Oxford Junction. He
has been three times married : ist, 9. 8, 1859, in Fulton
county, 111., to Annie E. Carter, (d. 4. 18, 1840, in Gallipolis,
O., d. 3. 14, i86g), dau. of George and Elvira (Chetwood) ;
2d, m. 10. 4, 1870, Martha L. Carter, {i. 3. 3, 1838, d. 11. 8,
1871), sister of first wife ; 3d, m. i. 31, 1877, Sarah Ann
Beaver, (d. 12. 9, 1838, d. 7. 29, 1888), dau. of Daniel H. and
Hannah (Essick) of Charlestown, Chester county. Pa. Issue of
first marriage, Sarah Blanche Moore, 1^. 12. 21, 1865, physician at
Three Rivers, Michigan, m. 5. 15, 1890, Dr. Thomas J. Haines.

743. Elma, i. II. 12, 1837, in New Garden, Pa., m. ist, 3. 15,
i860, Dr. Nathan P. Walton, (6. 2. 12, 1835, d. 11. 30, 1869),
son of Nathan and Eliza (Bernard) ; 2d, m. 4. 6, 1880, Levi
Preston, (d. 6. 23, 1820, d. 10. 6. 1886), son of Amos and Mar-
garet (Smith). By her first marriage, Elma had four children,
surname Walton: (i) Florence, b. 1861, d. 1869; (2) Sharp-
less M., b. I. 10, 1863, m. 1886, Jennie Champ, of Wyoming;
(3) Anna, b. 1864, d. in infancy ; (4) Nathan P., b. 3. 6, 1866,
m. Minnie V. Roche. — Elma (Moore) Preston since the death of
her second husband, has resided in Kennett Square, Pa. ; she
was two years, 1895-7, Matron at George School, (under care of
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends), Newtown, Pa.

744. Spencer, b. 12. 4, 1840, d.2. i, 1864, iittm. He was a soldier
of the Union army, and died in the service, at Fairfax Court-
House, Va.

745. Sarah, b. 10. 27, 1844, m. 3. 12, 1870, Caleb P. Cooper, {b. 6.
30, 1845), son of James R. and Elizabeth R. (Pennock). Resi-
dence near Avondale, Chester county. No children.

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746. Lydia R., b. 8. 25, 1850, m. i. 15, 1877, Asahel W. Linvill,
son of Sylvester D. and Sarah (Walker). Asahel was born in
Lancaster county, Pa., 6. 22, 1851, and d. in Sumter county,
Florida, 10. 8, 1890, whither he had removed with his family,
1884. Issue three children : Lucy A., b. 1879, (graduate of
George School, 1897), AUce R., b. 1881, Arthur Sylvester, b.
1889.

V. (272) Spencer Roberts, of Philadelphia, son of George

and Alice, born in New Garden, Pa., Ninth month 25, 18 14,

died at Glen Ridge, N. J., Ninth month 14, 1897, married

Eighth month 6, 1840, (747) Louisa Jewett Raymond,

daughter of Nathaniel Lynde and Sarah Ann Raymond.

Louisa was born Second month 19, 1819, at Cannon's Ferry,

(now Wooddale), Sussex county, Delaware, and died in Phila-

phia, Third month 8, 1893.

Spencer Roberts was born in Chester county, on the farm
which was his father's home. When quite a young man, he
opened a private school in Philadelphia. About 1 842 he began
to study dentistry, and later entered upon practice. In 1 849 he
went to California, (accompanying two cousins of his wife), and
was absent about two years. Returning, he devoted himself
successfully to his profession, in Philadelphia, only discontinuing
it near the close of his life. His home was for many years on
Sixth street near Noble. He received the honorary degree of
D. D. S. from the Pennsylvania Dental College. He was in-
terested in scientific study, was a manager of the Spring Garden
Institute, sometime a Member of the School Board of the
Thirteenth Section of Philadelphia, and an elder of Green Street
Monthly Meeting of Friends.

In 1837, when he was conducting a school in Philadelphia,
he engaged Louisa Raymond, then a young girl of eighteen, to

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assist him. Her father, Captain Raymond, was a descendant of
a family of that name who first settled on Block Island, off the
coast of Rhode Island, and later were in Connecticut. He was
a sea-captain, chiefly engaged in trade between Baltimore and
the Bermuda Islands. His wife, Sarah Ann Martin, (Louisa's
mother), was the daughter of John and Nancy Martin, of Sea-
ford, Del. Captain Raymond died when Louisa was but three
years and a half old, and she spent most of her childhood at
her grandmother Martin's, at Seaford, going for two years, how-
ever, to Connecticut, to her father's relatives, to secure better
educational opportunities. She had come to Philadelphia, in
1832, and had opened a private school, when, as stated above,
she joined Spencer in the care of his school, in 1837. Their
marriage followed in 1840.

Louisa joined the Society of Friends (of which her husband
was a birthright member), in 1857, and later appeared as a
minister, being " acknowledged " such by her monthly meeting
in 1886. She was active in the establishment of First-day
Schools among the Friends, in 1861 and thereafter. She was one
of the most devoted workers in behalf of the Freedmen, after the
war, and also for the Indians in the West. She was one of the
organizers of the Society for Organized Charity, in Philadelphia,
President from its beginning of the Northern Day Nursery, and
one of the managers of the House of Industry, for the employ-
ment of poor women. She was one of the editors of Fiiends'
Intelligencer, from 1875 to her death. This bare recital of some
of her activities — never carried on to the neglect of her home
duties, to which she was ardently devoted — gives but an imper-
fect idea of her hvely interest in many directions. Her warm
sympathies, and her animated and earnest devotion to every
good work which came to her hand, made her a notable charac-
ter, and brought her many friends.

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VI. Children of Spencer and Louisa J. Roberts :

748. Nathaniel Raymond, 6. 6. 20, 1842, d. 7. 20, 1844.

749. Sherwood Raymond, l>. 1845, m. Jane T. Dillin, Jane H.
Griffin. ^

750. George, i. 1846, m. Louisa J. Raymond. ^

751. Charles Spencer, i. 7. 25, 1855, d. 11. 29, 1862, (of diphtheria).

752. Horace, li. 5. 23, 1857, </. 11. 2, 1862, (of diphtheria).

753. Clinton, 6. 4. 6, 1859, d. 10. 29, 1862, (of diphtheria,)

V. (273) Evan Roberts, son of George and Alice, born in New
Garden, Chester county, Pa., Tenth month 3, 18 16, died in
Coatesville, Pa., Sixth month 25, 1897, married Second
month 20, 1840, (754) Phebe E. Dowdall, born in East Brad-
ford, Chester county, Pa., Eighth month 26, 18 14, died Eighth
month 22, 1893, at Coatesville.

VI. Children of Evan and Phebe :

755. Kersey, b. 2. 3, 1843, ^- H- 8, 1884, m. 8. 11, 1868, Louisa
P. Faucett, {b. 11. 18, 1843), dau. of Josiah and Sarah. Issue,
five children : George F., b. 1869, Horace G., b. 1872, Herbert
Warren, b. 1874, Jay Kersey, b. 1877, Mildred Penelope, b. 1879.

756. Mary Ehzabeth, b. 8. 5, 1846.

757. Alfred, b. 9. 4, 1849, d. 6. 15, 1851.

758. Aliceanne, b. 12. 25, 1854.

V. (276) George Roberts, son of George and Alice, born Third
month 5, 1825, died Twelfth month 14, 1892, married Ninth
month 15, 1854, (759) Amanda Anderson, born Ninth month
16, 1827, daughter of John and Lydia, of Kennett Square, Pa. In
1854, after his marriage, George removed to Talbotton, Georgia,
where he practiced his profession, dentistry, until the outbreak
of the Civil War. He then removed to Philadelphia, and after
being three years engaged in practice with his brother Spencer,

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he engaged in business alone, and so continued up to the time of
his death. His children were four in number, as below.

VI. Children of George and Amanda Roberts :

760. Howard Lawrence, b. at Talbotton, Ga., 1855.

761. Cftarles Arthur, b. at Talbotton, Ga., 11. 18, 1858, ?«. 6. 30,
1890, Elizabeth Scattergood, dau. of Henry and Hannah S.
Russell ; issue, a son, Rowland Russell, b. 6. 30, 1872.

762. Mary Rowena, b. at Kennett Square, Pa., 1866.

763. Chester, *. in Philadelphia, 1870. Now (1900), of Boston, Mass.

V. (278) Emily Roberts, daughter of George and Alice, born
First month 17, 183 1, married Third month 12, 1851,(764)
Samuel G. Lewis, son of Samuel and Rachel (Phillips), of
Pottsville, Pa. Samuel G. Lewis was a resident of Philadel-
phia, and for about twenty-one years connected with the Penn-
sylvania Railroad Company, holding the position of Comptroller
at the time of his resignation from active service with the Com-
pany. At the time of his death, he was vice-president of the
Sunbury and Lewistown Railroad Company, a director in the
Pennsylvania and Northwestern Railroad Co., etc. He was some
time a member of the firm of Helffenstein, Lewis & Greene,
printers. He died December 9, 1895.

VI. Children of Samuel G. and Emily R. Lewis :

765. Edward R., d. in infancy.

766. Frank Spencer, 6. 12. 22, 1854, m. 9. 26, 1877, Margaret
Warder, dau. of Dr. William and Josephine, of Philadelphia,
and has issue, three children : Howard W., 6. 1879, Emily R.,
b. 1 88 1, Marion Elizabeth, b. i88g. Margaret Warder Lewis
d. I. 3, 1897.

767. Harold R., b. 8. — , 1856, d. 5. 3, 1897, m. 6. 12, 1879, Sarah
A. Young, who d. 3. 19, 1890. Issue one son, Edwin Harold,

I70 THE SPENCER FAMILY.

b. 1880. Harold R. m. 2nd, 10. 28, 1891, Hannah C. Dowd-
all, of Avondale, Chester county, Pa. , by whom he had issue,
Samuel G., Jr., b. 9. 15, 1892, d. 2. 19, 1893.

768. Alfred, b. 6. 12, 1859, d. in infancy.

769. Clara, b. 4. 30, 186 1, d. in infancy.

770. Louisa R., b. 3. 17, 1864, d. in infancy.

V. (280) George S. Roberts, of Willistown, Chester county,
Pa., son of Joseph and Bathsheba, bom Third month 4,
1807, died Fifth month 14, 1870, married Fifth month 7,
1829, (771) Lydia Grubb, of Willistown, daughter of Samuel
and Hannah. Lydia was born Third month 9, 1809. She
survived her husband, and died in West Chester, Pa. They
had three children, as below.

VI. Children of George S. and Lydia Roberts :

772. Samuel G., b. 1830, d. 1840.

773. Joseph, b. 3.29, 1832, m. Amanda Rennard, and had issue.

774. Elma, b. 6.20, 1841, d. unm.

V. (281) Caroline F. Roberts, daughter of Joseph and
Bathsheba, born Third month 9, 1809, died Second month
18, 1884, married Tenth month 9, 1828, (775) Garrett
Williams, born in Willistown, Chester county, Pa., Twelfth month
26, 1806, died Second month 5, 1875. He was the son of Ellis
and Jane Williams, of Willistown. After his marriage, he re-
moved to Philadelphia, and was engaged there in business as
a carpenter and builder. They had five children, as below.

VI. Children of Garrett and Caroli?ie F. Williams :

776. Rachel, b. 5.12, 1830, d. 1843.

777. Mary Jane, b. 9.9, 1833, d. 1843.

778. Joseph, R., d. infancy.

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779. Joseph F., b. 12.12, 1842,^. i. 5, 1892, ot. Mary Johnson, and
had issue two children, J. Clarence and Caroline R. During the
war of the Rebellion, /oje/^ enlisted, 1861, in the 5th Regi-
ment, Penna. Cavalry, and served during the campaigns of the
Army of the Potomac, in this and the following year, being
discharged for disability.

780. Josiah G., b. 2. 11, 1845, of Philadelphia, some time of the firm
of Amos Hillborn & Co., m. EUzabeth Rodgers, daughter of
Andrew and Mary, of Philadelphia, and has issue : Gertrude,
Mary C. , Geraldine. During the War of the Rebellion, Josiah
enlisted, in September, 186 1, in Co. C, 97th Regiment Penn.
sylvania Volunteers, being then only in his seventeenth year,
and served three years, being mustered out, Sept. 17, 1864,
at the expiration of his term of service.

V. (283) Franklin Roberts, son of Joseph and Bathsheba,
born Seventh month 27, 1820, died Third month 18, 1887.
He removed to New Orleans, where he remained and died,
his occupation a watchmaker and jeweler. He married in that
city Seventh month 2, 1849, (Z^i) Georgianna Wilcox, born
Second month 10, 1827, and had four children, as below.
Franklin served in the Confederate army, in the Civil War,
1861-65.

VI. Children of Franklin and Georgianna Roberts :
781a. Julia, b. 1850, d. 1851.

782. George F., b. 8. — , 1852.

783. Orleana, b. 1855, m.
783a. Henry C, b. 1858.

V. (309) Thomas Spencer, of Bucks county, son of Thomas
and Esther (Worthington), born Tenth month 16, 1809, mar-
ried (784) Rebecca W. Beans, daughter of Jonathan and

172 THE SPENCER FAMILY.

Elizabeth (Winder). Rebecca was born Tenth month 15, 18 14.
They had one daughter, who survived and married, as below.

VI. Child of Thomas and Rebecca :
785. Mary Elizabeth, m. Miles Bennett, and had issue : Anna B.,
Harriet, Esther E.

V. (309) John G. Spencer, of Bucks county, Pa., son of Amos
and Ann, born Sixth month 9, 1803, died Third month 31,
1897. He married, in 1834, (786) Elizabeth Fetter,

daughter of George, of Montgomery county. Pa. John G.

Spencer lived, as the dates above show, nearly to the age of

ninety-four years. .A.n obituary notice at the time of his death is

in part as follows :

"John G. Spencer, one of Bucks county's oldest and best citizens,
died at his home in Oxford Valley, on Wednesday, [3. 31, 1897] aged 94
years. He was born in 1803. In early life he was for some years a school
teacher. In 1833 he commenced the mercantile business at Springville.
In 1 840 he purchased and removed to the store property at Oxford Valley,
and that village has ever since been his home. In 1873 he turned over the
mercantile business to his son, C. Watson Spencer. He was for twenty-
six years a school director in Falls township. He was postmaster at
Oxford Valley from the time of the establishment of the office in 1849 until
a few years ago, when he resigned and C. Watson Spencer was appointed.
He was a well-preserved man for one of his years and his writing would
put to shame that of many a young man. Mr. Spencer took a live and in-
telligent interest in what was going on about him. In politics he was an
earnest Republican."

It may be added to the above notice that he furnished infor-
mation for this volume ; his letters, at eighty-eight years of age,
are clear, orderly, and precise. Elizabeth died in 1880, aged
seventy-seven.

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VI. Children of John G. and Elizabeth :

787. Arnie Ann, m. William R. Vandegrift, of Newportville, Bucks
county, and has issue eight children.

788. Amos L., graduate of the West Chester Normal School, many
years a teacher, sometime principal public school at Langhorne,
;k. Louisa Knight, dau. Owen, of Somerton, Philadelphia.

789. C. Watson, storekeeper and postmaster at Oxford Valley, ?«.
Angelina, dau. of I. W. Gerhart, of Northampton township,
Bucks county, and has issue three children.

790. G. Franklin, farmer, near Breadyville, Bucks county, m. Mary
E. Darrah, dau. of Lewis, of Middletown, and has issue three
children.

V. (310) William H. Spencer, of Spencerville, Maryland, son
of Amos and Ann, born Third month 21, 1805, died Twelfth
month 22, 1892, married (791) Sarah Talbert Search.
daughter of Christopher, of Southampton, Bucks county, Pa.
Sarah was born Ninth month 7, 1 799, and died Ninth month,
12, 1865.

William H. Spencer removed to Maryland, from Bustleton,
Philadelphia, April 5, 1848, and settled in Montgomery county,
at the place since known as Spencerville, where he remained and
died. His son-in-law, Uzziel W. Jamison " had the name (of the
place) on his sign-board when he first started business in the vil-
lage, so he named it for father.'' (Statement by Margaret H-
Jamison.)

VI. Children of William H. and Sarah T. :

792. Amos, d. 5. 20, 1829, d. 12. 31, 1883, m. Evaline Reigle, and
had six children : WiUiam, George, d., Sallie, d., Robert, d.,
Elizabeth, wz. Frank Woodward, James, d.

793. Amelia Ann, i. i. 15, 1831, d. 4. 8, 1861, m. Charles Dickin-
son, of Philadelphia, who d. i. i, 1858. He kept a flour and
feed store at 404 N. Front street. They had an adopted dau. ,
Anne, who ?n. George Stabler.

1 74 THE SPENCER FAMIL Y.

794. Margaret Hall, ^. i. 4, 1833, m. Uzziel Wakefield Jamison, son
of William and Clarissa (Wakefield), b. 4. 4, 1828, d. 9. 27,
1882. Margaret had two children, surname Jamison: (i)
Anna Amelia, b. 2. 22, 1857, m. Frank L. Wilson, and has
three children, Bessie, Maggie, Frank; (2) Clara, b. 9. 25,
1859, d. 6. 6, 1886, m. G. Frank Phair.

795. Mary Jane, b. 9. 8, 1834, m. Louis Duval, and has issue seven
children : (i) William, m. S. E. Rich, and has seven children ;
(2) Sarah, m. John Kelley, d., and has three children ; (3)
Alice, d., m. Frank Firmey, of Pennsylvania, and had two chil-
dren ; (4) Thomas, m. Elnora Kelly, and has six children 7
(5) Charles, m. Laura Bogg, of Massachusetts, and has one
son ; (6) Margaret, tn. Francis Newhouse, d., and has one
daughter ; (7) Mary Lillian.

796. George W., b. 2. 20, 1837, d. in infancy.

797. Hiram, b. 10. 21, 1838, d. 4. 23, 1870, m. Mary E. Moss, and
had one son, Hallowell.

798. John Search, b. 3. 31, 1844.

V. (311) Charles Spencer, of Northampton, Bucks county,.

son of Amos and Ann, born Sixth month 3, 1807, died 1880,.

married, 1836, (799) Elizabeth Porter, of Northampton.
They had six children, three sons and three daughters, as below.

V/. Children of Charles and Elizabeth ;

800. Ann B., b. 1837.

801. Oren P., b. 1839, m., 1863, Mary Elizabeth Randall, and has
eight children : (1) Charles Y., m. Letitia Warner, and has
three children ; (2) Comly R., m. Cora Richardson, and has
one son ; (3) Annie R. , m. Watson Rice, and has three chil-
dren ; (4) John J., (5) Sarah, m. Howard W^ilkinson, and has
one son ; (6) Lizzie, d. inf. ; (7) Edith C, (8) Abner W.

802. James, b. 1842, m. 1866, Alice Elizabeth Craven, and had five
children, Albert S., Johanna C, (m. Abram H. Slack, and has.
issue) ; C. Watson, Elizabeth, S. Ella.

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803. Alice P., b. 1844.

804. Albert S., b. 1847, m., 1872, Sarah Ella Pearson, and had five
children : Carrie L., (?«. J. Sackett Lear, and has issue) ;
Howard M., Walter C, Ruth Anna, Horace W.

805. Sarah S., b. 1850.

V. (314) Isaac W. Spencer, son of Amos and Ann, born Fifth
month 24, 181 5, died Second month 14, 1868, married (806)
M. Louisa (Jamison) Michener, daughter of John and
Martha Jamison, of Warwick, Bucks county. Pa., and widow of
Dr. George H. Michener, of Newtown. M. Louisa was born
Fourth month 24, 1814, and died Twelfth month 23, 1883.
VI. Child of Isaac W. and M. Louisa :
807. John Jamison, b. in Philadelphia, 10. 24, 1849, ^- 7- 23, 1900,
m. 1885, Caroline B. Myers, and had issue Arthur M., ^. 11. 15,
1887, Ada Louisa, b. 9. 29, 1889. John J. was a Justice of the
Peace for Warwick township, Bucks county, from 187910 1894;
later he was a clerk in the Protho notary's office at Doylestown,
and at the time of his death had been for a short time a clerk
in the Agricultural Bureau of the Census Office, at Washington.

VL (325) Rachel Spencer, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca
(Good) Spencer, born Sixth month 14, 1 803, died Second
month 24, 185 1, married, 1829, (808) Joel Thompson, who
was born Sixth month 16, 1799, and died Seventh month 20,
1874. Joel and Rachel, after their marriage, settled on a farm
of about 1 50 acres in New Garden township, Chester county,
Pa., and there lived until Rachel's decease. Subsequently,
Joel was elected one of the Commissioners of Chester county,
and removed to West Chester, the county seat, where he con-
tinued his home until his death. He had quite a taste for the
higher mathematics, " and could calculate an eclipse, or the
places of the stars."

1/6 THE SPENCER FAMILY.

VII. Children of Joel and Rachel Thompson .

809. Eli, b. 4. 15, 1825, m., ist, 1846, Deborah V. Taylor, b. 8.
15, 1825, d. 4. 18, 1848. Eli m., 2nd, 1852, Deborah
Swayne, b. 8. 13, 1830. By his first marriage, Eli had Joshua,
b. 1848, who tn. 1870, Anna Louisa Stackhouse, b. 1849, and
had issue ; and by his second marriage Eli had Mary Anna, b.
1853, d. 1886, who;«., 1875, WiUiam Swayne, b. 1851.

810. Sarah, b. 5. 21, 1827, m., 1852, Francis Good, b. 4. 4, 1824 ;
issue, Lewis P., b. 1853, m., 1885, Phebe A. West, ^. i860;
EllaT., b. 1864, 7«., 1888, Solomon J. Pusey, b. 1862.

811. Rebecca, b. 7. 5, 1830, m., 1848, Mordecai V. Taylor, b.
1823 ; issue, (i) Spencer, b. 1849, /«. 1872, Deborah Mercer,
b. 1848 ; (2) Mary, b. 1852 ; (3) William S., b. 1854, m.,
1889, Phebe Emma Passmore, b. 1862 ; (4) Rachel S., b.
1858 ; (5) Wilson, b. 1862 ; (6) Thompson, d.; (7) Annie R.,
b. 1865, wz., 1889, Lawrence Kartzhaltzen.

812. Spencer, b. 3. 19, 1833, m. Annie Jamison, b. 8. 28, 1835 ;
issue, Ella, d., Addie, b. 1859.

813. Wilson, b. 9. 30, 1837, m. Clara Baird ; issue, Anna L., b.
1 86 1, »2. William J. Pusey, b. 185 1 ; William, Charles, Ella.

VI. (330) Sarah Spencer, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca
(Good) Spencer, born Fourth month 30, 1 8 18, married
1842 (814) Henry Townsend, born Twelfth month 25, 1820,

died Seventh month 26, 1897. Henry and Sarah took up their

residence, after marriage, on a farm in Little Britain, Lancaster

county, Pa. Their children were as below.

VI L Children of Henry and Sarah Townsend :

815. Marietta, b., i. i, 1844.

816. Joseph S., b. 1. 9, 1845, m. Kercilla L. Smedley, b. 1853.

817. Ellwood H., *. 6. 14, 1847, m., 1868, Susan C. Wood, b. 10.
5, 1847 ; issue, James Wood, Elizabeth R., Mercy Wood, Mary,
John Harvey.

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY. 1/7

8i8. John P., b. 12. 23, 1849, d. of typhoid fever in Kansas, 12. 10,

1874.

819. Israel H., b. 11. 9, 1850, m. 1876, Emma Reynolds, b. 11. 9,
1852 ; issue, Ella, Henry, Florence.

820. Annie Eliza, b. I. 22, 1855, m. Cecil Stubbs, b. 5. 2, 1853 ;
issue, Sarah Etta, Cecil Clarence.

821. William Henry, b. 4. 22, 1857.

822. Sallie G., b. 5. i, i860.

823. Harvey, b. 1864, d. 1865.

VI. (332) Samuel Spencer, son of Jonathan and Lydia
(Michener) Spencer, born Eighth month 4, 18 16, died Fifth
month 22, 1890, married, Twelfth month 3, 1840, (824)
Phebe Pennock, born Twelfth month 4, 181 1, died Fourth
month I, 1882, daughter of Nathaniel and Ruth Pennock, of
New London, (now Franklin) township, Chester county. Pa.
Samuel inherited from his father the farm in Franklin township,
on which he was born, and on which his grandfather, Samuel, had
settled when they removed from Montgomery county, in 1783.

VII. Children of Samuel and Phebe :

825. Jonathan, b. 1842, d. 1844.

826. Ruthanna, b. 8. 29, 1843.

827. Pennock, b. 2. 6, 1845, m., 1st, lo. 15, 1873, Susan M. WoUas-
ton, (dau. of Thomas and Minerva, of New Garden),/^. 1.24, 1852,
d. I. 26, 1875 ; m., 2nd, 3. 19, 1884, Susan Way, (dau. of
William and Mary A. Way, of New London), b. 3. 19, 1845,
d. I. 8, 1887, issue, one son, De Leon, b. 2. 28, 1885 ; m., 3d,
3. 23, 1892, Ehzabeth C. Barber, (dau. of William and Hannah,
of Camden. N. J.)

828. Lydia Ann, b. 8. 29, 1846.

829. Joel, 5. 3. 30, 1848, ?«., 1st, Anna M. Headley, d. 2. 16, 1881 ;
issue, Aaron P., b. 2. 6, 1881 •,Joelm., 2nd, Mary Jane Nichols,
issue, Samuel Cotton, b. 4. 15,1886, J. Brinton, b. 6. 17, 1889.

830. Emma, d.

178 THE SPENCER FAMILY.

VI. (336) Jesse Spencer, son of Jonathan and Lydia, born
Second month 10, 1824, married, 1850 (831) Margaretta
Chalfant, born Eleventh month 26, 1828. Jesse and
Margaretta resided many years on a farm in Franklin

township, adjoining the homestead, and removed later to Penn

township, near Jennerville.

VII. Children of Jesse and Margaretta :

832. John E., i. II. 20, 1850, m., 1881, Rebecca Wade; issue,.
Willie, d. 1888.

833. Jonathan, i. 1852, d. 1853.

834. Norris, i. 1853, d. 1854.

835. Eugene, 6. 11. 26, 1855, m., 1884, Catherine A. Moore, i. 3.
23, 1859; issue, J. Harlan, i. 1886.

836. Laura M., 6. and d. 1858.

837. Minerva, i. 11, i, 1859, m., 1884, A. Wilson Mackay ; issue,
Raymond, Jessie, Margaretta.

838. EUwood, i. 7. 10, 1863, ?«., 1889, Emma Thompson ; issue,
Clyde P., Wilmer T.

VI- (337) Rachel Spencer, daughter of Jonathan and Lydia,
born Tenth month 15, 1826, died Seventh month 8, 1884,
married, 1847 (836) James Michener, son of William and

Ann, born First month 9, 1829, died Seventh month 21, 1874.

They were engaged in farming, on the old homestead, in New

London township, Chester county. Pa. Their children were

as below.

VII. Children of James and Rachel Michener :

840. Lydia Ann, b. 10. 10, 1851.

841. Jonathan S., b. 8. 17, 1852, m., 1877, Matilda Massey, b. 3.
26, 1853 ; issue, Ethel R., d., Norman E., Letitia D., Helen
T., Florence, Edith, Clifford.

842. William, b. 11. 2, 1854, m., 1883, Mary Patchell, b. 2. 6,
1 86 1, issue, Clara, d., Morris J., d., Elsie, Raymond W.

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843. Charles, b. 10. 23, 1856, w:., 1884, Lydia L. John, b. 12. 11,
1859; issue, Marian R., Nellie H., Ella, d.. Bertha P.

844. Ella, b. 4. 28, 1859.

845. Mira, b. 9. 27, i86l.

846. Mary, b. 10. 9, 1864, ;«. Thomas Steele, b. 3. 25, 1853 ; issue,
EUwood M., J. Reese, Marshall G., d., Eugene S. and C.
Arthur, d., twins, Samuel G., William S.

847. Ellwood, b. II. 8, 1867, m., 1893, Hilda Boehme ; issue, J.
Arthur.

VI. (338) Alice M. Spencer, daughter of Jonathan and
Lydia, born First month 9, 1829, married, 1848, (848) Har-
vey St.-^ckhou.se, born Twelfth month 28, 1822, in New
Garden township, Chester county, Pa. They Hve in New Gar-
den, near Tbughkenamon.

VII. Children of Harvey and Alice M. Siackhouse :

849. Anna Louisa, b. 8. 15, 1849, m., 1870, Joshua Thompson, b.
I. 19, 1847; issue, Ella M., Harvey E., Mary, Walter J.,
m. Emma W. Whitford ; Alice N., Arthur G., Lydia C.

850. Lydia, b. 5. 29, 185 1, m., 1877, Israel H. Cooper, b. 4. 26,

1847.

851. Charles,^. 1852, d. 1854.

852. Mary, b. 9. i, 1857, »z., 1883, William J. Yerkes, b. 7. 4, 1852.

853. Etta, b. 1861, d. 1867.

854. Willie, b. 8. 4, 1865.

V. (339) Davis Spencer, son of Jonathan and Lydia, born
Eighth month 29, 1831, married, 1856 (855) Sarah Biles,
born Sixth month 16, 1832. Davis is a farmer in New
London township, Chester county, Pa. Their children were
as below.

VII. Children of Davis and Sarah :
856. Edmund B., b. 2. 27, 1857, m., 1883, Ella R. Sharpless, b. 9.
19, 1858, dau. of Caleb and Rebecca; issue. Bertha E., Ger-
trude S., Helen R.

l8o THE SPENCER FAMILY.

857. Laura E., b. i. 31, 1859, m., 1886, George C. Reynolds, b. 7.
10, 1848 ; issue, Curtis S., Ethel M.

858. Luella, *. 8. 15, i860.

859. Lindley, b. 1862, d. 1869.

860. Samuel T., b. 12. 19, 1863, m., 1890, Mary W. Walton, b. 10.
13, 1866 ; issue. Grade L.

861. Evan, b. 10. 20, 1865.

862. Emmor, b. 12. 5, 1867.

863. Charles Henry, b. 6. 25, 1870.

VI. (340) Phebe Spencer, daughter of Jonathan and Lydia,
born Eighth month 7, 1834, married, 1863 (864) John P.
Biles, born Fourth month 16, 1834. Soon after their

marriage they settled in Buck Valley, Bedford county, Pa., but

later returned to Chester county, and purchased a farm in New

Garden township.

VII. Children of John P. and Phebe Biles :

865. Samuel Spencer, b. 8. 2, 1864.

866. Emma Jane, b. 2. 26, 1866.

867. Lydia Ann, b. 5. 7, 1868.

868. Jesse Jones, b. 1873, d. 1874.

869. Harvey H., b. 1875, d. 1877.

VI. (342) Maria Spencer, daughter of Asa and Hannah,
born Seventh month 18, 1806, died Sixth month 23, 1883,
married, Third month 10, 1830, (870) Joshua B. Pusey, born
Fifth month 14, 1806, died Tenth month 4, 1870. They settled,
after marriage, in London Grove township, Chester county. Pa.,
where Joshua carried on milling on one of the branches of
White Clay Creek.

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY. l8l

VII. Children of Joshua B. and Maria Pusey :

871. Lewis Pusey, b. 12. 10, 1830, d. 5. 7, 1892, m., 1862, Edith
T. Phillips, (dau. of Harvey and Hannah S.), b. 4. 19, 1834 ;
issue, Joshua B., 711. Ella Tatum ; Marian, Harvey P., d.,
Hannah S., d., Robert W., Joseph H.

872. Joel B., b. 5. I, 1833, in., 1858, Matilda Wilkinson, b. i. 17,
1834, d. 5. 13, 1900; issue, Louisa, James C, m., 1900, Susan
V. Kohn ; Mary H., Edward, Charles J., Maria S.

874. Emily, b. 7. 23, -1835.

875. Sarah Ann, b. 12. i, 1838, d. 12. 23, 1861.

876. Isaac, b. 10. 25, 1841.

876a. Louisa, b. 7. 16, 1844, d. 9. 7, 1852.

877. Edith H., b. 3. 25, 1848, m., 1875, Warren R. Shelmire, b. 2.
8, 1850; issue, Emily P., ;«., 1898, Ellis Pusey Passmore ;
Robert W. , Mary K.

878. William, b. 9. 6, 1851, m., 1886, Annie Thompson, b. :o. 14,
1 86 1 ; issue, Elizabeth R., Maurice B., Florence T., Clarence, d.

VI. (345) Jarrett Spencer, son of Asa and Hannah, born

Twelfth month 9, 18 12, died Seventh month 11, 1888,

married, 1840 (879) Elizabeth Smock. Jarrett learned

the milling business with his brother-in-law, Joshua B. Pusey,

and soon afterward removed to the West, settling in Wisconsin,

where he married. He served in the Union army during the

war. His wife survived him as late as 1891. Their children

were then "mostly settled in Minnesota."

VII. Children of Jarrett and Elizabeth :

880. Maria L., m., 1866, J. M. Showalter.

881. Sarah Ann, m., 1866, J. A. Guernsay ; issue three children.

882. Mary Ann, m., 1870, Osborn Showalter, d. 1876 ; issue, Jessie,
and two others (older).

883. Allan B., m., 1872, Nancy I. Lewis, d. 1890 ; issue Harvey A.,
Dana J., Mabel L. , Bessie.

884. Eleanor, d. 1854.

1 82 THE SPENCER FAMILY.

VI. (346) Elizabeth Ann Spencer, daughter of Asa and
Ann (Mercer) Spencer, born Eighth month 4, 18 18, died
Fifth month 10, 1886, married, Third month 22, 1838, (885)
Linton Stephens, born Fourth month 21, 18 16, died Tenth
month 17, 1887. After their marriage they purchased a farm in
Elk township, Chester county, Pa., "where they Hved, raised
their family, and died."

V/I. Children of Linton and Elizabeth Ann Stephens :

886. Thomas Spencer, b. 3. i, 1839, m., 10. 3, 1859, Rebecca Ellen
Millard, b. 6, 15, 1837 ; issue, surname Stephens, thirteen chil-
dren : (i) Mary Elizabeth, d., (2) Laura Ellen, (3) William
Henry, m. Flora Wright and has issue ; (4) David Linton, m.
Amanda C. Robinson, (5) Edward Millard, m. Sarah McConkey,
and has issue ; (6) Asa Spencer, ni. Annie McCush, and has
issue ; (7) Walter H., m. Maud Clendenin, and has issue ; (8)
Elizabeth Ann, m. Alfred Wright, and has issue ; (9) George
Myers, m. Florence Morton, and has issue ; (10) Elsie Dins-
more, (11) Ernest Oscar, (12) Cecil Chester, (13) Thomas C, d.

887. Sarah F., b. 10. 27, 1840.

888. William Henry, b. 1843, '^- 9- J7i 1862, on the battle-field
near Sharpsburg, Md., a private in the 124th Penn'a Vol's.

889. David M., b. 9. 27, 1845, m., 1879, Emma T. Barrett; issue,
Henry Clifford, John B., Clifford, d., Beulah, Thomas W.

890. Anna L., b. 3. 3, 1848, d. 12. 16, 1898, m., 1874, John T. Hila-
man ; issue, Albert L., Elma E., Robert R., Elsie L., Helen
M., Bayard S.

891. Hannah Mary, b. 6. 22, 1850, m.. 1873, Samuel F. Johnson ;
issue, EUwood M., Ella B., Jennie M., Linton S.

VI. (347) Hannah C. Spencer, daughter of Asa and Ann
(Mercer) Spencer, born Eighth month 31, 1820, married,
1839, (^92) Richard White, born Eleventh month 25,

THE SPENCER GENE A LOGY. 1 8 3

1805, died Seventh month 27, 1887. She was the second wife
■of Richard. He had a farm in Franklin township, Chester
county, Pa., near Chesterville, where they hved until his death.

VII. Children of Richard and Hannah C. White :

893. John, b. 5. 25, 1841, m. Elizabeth Gilmore, Mary Letitia
Mackey.

894. Philena, b. 9. 12, 1843, m. Nathan Janney, b. 10. 27, 1839.

895. Asa, b. 10. 19, 1845, ;«. Lydia Ann Baker, b. 1845 '• issue,
Elizabeth M., George C, Emma G. , Flora L. , Maurice.

896. Edith, b. 2. 19, 1848, d. 8. 5, 1854.

897. Georgeanna, b. 3. 5, 1851, m. Ohver Russell ; issue, Edith H.,
Howard L.

898. Margaretta, b. 10. 5, 1854, ?«., 1876, Swithin Shortlidge, b. 11.
II, 185 1 ; issue, Orville W. , Harry L., d., Evan W., Harvey
G., AdaD.

VI. (348) Mary J. Spencer, daughter of Asa and Ann (Mer-
cer) Spencer, born Eleventh month 20, 1822, died Third
month 12, 1897, married. Sixth month 4, 1 85 1, (899) Jesse

Stephens (son of David and Catherine), born Second month 28,

1822, died Third month 2, 1897.

VII. Children of fesse and Mary J. Stephens :

900. Franklin S., b. 3. i, 1852, m., 1878, Louisa Jones, b. 6. 19, 1857;
issue, Anna T., Martha J., Jesse Spencer.

901. Asa Spencer, b. 10. 2, 1853, t>i., 1883, Ella Pauline Palmer ;
issue. Wanton, Amber T., Mary Jane.

902. Anna Mary, b. 11. 8, 1855, m., 1879, EUwood C. Potter ; issue,
Mary Anna, d.

903. Catharine Miranda, b. 9. 27, 1858.

904. William Henry, b. 3. 2, 1861, m., 1887, Mary Scherer ; issue,
Harvey.

905. Charles Mercer, b. 10. 22, 1863, m. Flora Adams.

1 84 THE SPENCER FAMILY.

VI. (349) David H. Spencer, son of Asa and Ann (Mercer)
Spencer, born Seventh month 15, 1826, died Sixth month
22, 1891, married, i860 (906) Maria Chalfant, born
Twelfth month 4, 1835. David was a farmer ; "he lived for a
few years after marriage on his father's farm, and then sold it,
and removed to Buck Valley, Bedford county. Pa., where he
died."

VII. Children of David H. and Maria :
907. Blanche, 6. 9. 16, i860, m. 1888, Charles G. Lashley.

908
909
910
911
912

913
914,

915

Jesse Chalfant, 6. g. 1, 1862.

Lily May, i. 12. 4, 1864.

Asa, 6. 10. 26, 1866.

Charles Chester, i. 6. 30, 1869, m. Florence McKee.

Miranda, 6. 10. 4, 1871.

Mabel, 6. 9. 5, 1873, ;«. Samuel Cornell.

Maud Mary, i. 3. 29, 1875.

David Hannum, d. 8. 13, 1878.

VI. (351) Aaron Spencer, son of Asa and Ann (Mercer)
Spencer, born Tenth month 12, 1830, married, 1857, (916)
Leah L. Crowell, born Ninth month 2, 183 1. They settled

after marriage " upon a farm in Elk township, Chester county,

Pa., where they continued to live."

VII. Children of Aaron and Leak .

917. Sarah Ann, b. 1857, d. i860.

918. David Harvey, b. i. 8, i860, m., 1887, Mary Louisa Scott,
and has issue.

919. Charles Baker, ^. 11. 4, 1861, »?., 1885, Sarah L. Shakespeare,
and has issue.

920. William Henry, b. 1863, d. 1866.

921. George W., b. 2. 22, 1868, m., 1889, Eliza Jane Robinson, b.
8. 22, 1868 ; issue, T. Carl, Marion R.

922. John Marshall, b. 6. 17, 1872.

923. Amos C, i. 8. 24, 1876.

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VI. (352) Susanna J. Spencer, daughter of Asa and Ann
(Mercer) Spencer, bom Fifth month 28, 1837, died Twelfth
month 2, 1888, married. Twelfth month 4, 1856, (924)
James K. Taylor, born Sixth month 17, 1828. They followed
farming, in Franklin township, Chester county. Pa., until the
decease of Susanna, after which James bought a mill in New
Garden township, one of his sons being a miller.

VII. Children of James K. and Susanna Taylor :

925. Harry J., 6. 10. 9, 1857, m., 1884, Catharine Cowden ; issue,
Lizzie L. , Bertha C, Frank J.

926. Mary E., 6. i. 31, 1859, ;«., 1881, Barclay Riley, issue, Grace
E., Street E., Florence T., Chester C, Anna B.

927. Sallie A., d. 8. 17, 1861, m., 1891, Frank Brackin.

928. Asa Spencer, 6. 9. 29, 1862.

929. Elmer E., d. 6. 7, 1864, ;«., 1888, Mary D. Hill ; issue, Paul
E., d., Leroy.

930. Elizabeth E., i. 8. 9, 1865, m., 1889, Francis Worth ; issue,
Clyde E.

931. Anna M., 6. and d. 1869.

932. Frank J., d. 10. 31, 1871, d. 10. 17, 1889.

933. Clara M., i. 3. 3, 1873, d. 1883.

VI. (361) Amelia Spencer, daughter of Jesse and Mary
(Custard), Spencer born at Gwynedd, First month 23, 1822,
married, at Gwynedd meeting-house (of the Orthodox body),
near Penllyn, Fifth month 16, 1844, (934) James C. Jackson, son
of Thomas and Jane (Griffith) Jackson, of Hockessin, Delaware.
James was born Seventh month 13, 18 16.' His business,
during most of his life, has been farming, especially fruit-grow-
ing; he resided at Hockessin until 1868.

The Jackson Family are descended from Isaac Jackson, a Friend, who came in
1725, from BaUitore, Ireland, to Pennsylvania, and settled in New Garden township,
Chester county. — (See Genealogy of the Family, pubUshed 1878.)
16

1 86 THE SPENCER FAMILY.

VII. Children of James C. and Amelia S. Jackson .

935. Mary S., b. i. 19, 1847, d. 3. — , 1881, m., 3. 11, 1868,
Frank Pyle, b. 6. 8, 1846, d., son of Cyrus and Mary M., of
Wilmington, Del. ; issue, three children, Gertrude C, Amelia
S., Frank.

936. Edward Foulke, b. 6. i, 1850.

937. Francis, b. and d. 1859.

938. Alice W., i5. 7. 12, 1863, graduated, A. B., at Swarthmore
College, 1883, and is a. teacher, for some years engaged at
Swarthmore Preparatory School.

VI. (362) John Spencer, son of Jesse and Mary C. Spencer,
of Gwynedd, born Fourth month 20, 1824, married, Third
month, 1848, (939) Mary J. Rhoads, daughter of William
and Sarah, of Philadelphia. Mary J. died Fifth month 28,
1883. John is the owner of the homestead place, in Moreland,
where Jacob Spencer, (No. 6, this Genealogy), settled in 1745,
but he has been for much of his life engaged in business in New
York city. He and his wife had four children as below.

VII. Children of John and Mary J. :

940. Laura, b. 1. 12, 1849.

941. William Rhoads, b. 7. 4, 1850, m., 1883, Amy Kimber, daughter
of George and Harriet Kimber, of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; issue,
Frederic, b. 1884, Edith, b. 1888. (Brooklyn, N. Y.)

942. Jesse Foulke, b. 2. 23, 1856, m., 6. 14, 1892, Mary Levick
Crew, daughter of Lewis and Anna L. Crew, of Philadelphia ;
issue, Jesse, b. 1893; Lewis Crew, b. 1894; Mary Crew, b.
1895.

943. Emily, b. 7. 27, i860.

VI. (363) George Spencer, Jr., son of Jesse and Mary C.
Spencer, of Gwynedd, born Twelfth month i, 1826, died
Eleventh month 6, 1895, married. Tenth month, 1754, (944)

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY. 1 87

Ella L. Shoemaker, daughter of Edward M. and Mary-
Shoemaker, of Philadelphia. George resided on the old place
at Penllyn, the site of the dwelling built by Edward Foulke,
the settler, but sold it (as stated, p. 122), in 1854, and later was
engaged in business in Richmond, Ind., and Philadelphia.
VII. Children of George and Ella L. •
945. Mary Annetta, 6. 3. 8, 1856, d. 4. 7, 1890, lenm.

946

947
948

949

Lizzie E., 6. 1857, d. i860.
Edward M., i. 10. 28, 1866.
Lilian, i. 11. 27, 1862.
Genevieve, 6. 6. 3, 1876.

VI. (364) Lydia Spencer, daughter of Jesse and Mary, bom
at Gwynedd, Third month 22, 1829, married Second month
17, 1853, at Gwynedd meeting-house (of the Orthodox body),
near Penllyn, (950) Samuel Morris, son of Samuel B. and
Hannah (Perot) Morris, born Tenth month 7, 1827.^ Samuel is
an esteemed minister of the Society of Friends ; he has made
several religious journeys, including a very extended one, in
1892—93, to Japan, Australia, and islands of the Pacific Ocean.
His home is at Olney, (Philadelphia).

VII. Children of Samuel and Lydia Morris :

951. Hannah Perot, b. 2. 20, 1854.

952. Luke Wistar, b. 6. II, 1858, d. 6. 15, 1874.

953. George Spencer, b. 7. 11, 1867, m. 6. i, 1895, Lydia, dau.
of William and Nancy M. (Ellis) Ellicott ; issue Samuel Jr., b.
1896, Nancy, b. 1898.

VI. (366) William F. Spencer, son of Jesse and Mary C, of
Gwynedd, born Twelfth month 31, 1833, married First month

1 The Morris family are descended from Anthony Morris, a Friend, who came to
New Jersey from London in 1682, and subsequently removed to Philadelphia, where
he was one of the most prominent citizens. He was Mayor in 1703, and died 1721.

l88 . THE SPENCER FAMILY.

17, i860 (954), Christiana Bradley, daughter of Thomas
and Maria, of Philadelphia. William F. has resided for many
years in Richmond, Indiana, where he and his sons are engaged
in the manufacture of school furniture.

VII. Children of William F. and Christiana :

955. Elizabeth E., d. i. 19, 1861, m., 1892, Robert B. Kersey ;
issue, Emily, 6. 1893 ; Christine, 6. 1895.

956. Mary T., d. 4. 27, 1864, m., 1890, Linnaeus Boyd ; issue,
Helen, 6. 1892; John C, 6. 1894, d. 1895 ; William, 6. 1897.

957. Gertrude, 6. 11. 8, 1866, m. 1896, George Francis McCurdy.

958. Anna, i. 2. 25, 1869.

959. George M., i. 7. 27, 1871, m., 1895, Grace Tibbetts, of Madi-
son, Indiana.

960. William F., Jr., 6. 11. 28, 1873, m., 1897, Estelle Cunningham.

VI. (369) Caroline Roberts, daughter of Hugh and Sarah
(Spencer) Roberts, of Germantown, born Twelfth month 2,
1809, died Second month 24, 1872, married, 1835, (961),
Charles S. Rorer, son of Joseph Rorer, of Philadelphia county.
Charles was born April 14, 181 1, and died September 22,
1889; his mother's maiden name was Smith. He removed in
185 1 to a farm near Prospectville, in Horshman township, Mont-
gomery county, Pa., where he lived afterward to the close of his
life. He was a director of the Bank of Germantown, 1849-51,
and a director of the Hatboro National Bank from 1874. For
many years he was one of the school directors of the township,
and from 1875 a justice of the peace. He was an active member
of the Baptist church, and an earnest advocate of the temperance
movement.

After the death of his first wife, Charles married, June 17,
1875, Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Jerusha Taylor, of
Philadelphia, who survived him.

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY. 1 89

VII. Children of Ckas. S. and Caroline Rarer:

962. Clementine, b. 3. 20, 1838, m., 3. 20, 1865, Albert French, son
of William and Charlotte, of Hatboro, Pa. ; issue one child,
Charlotte, who m. Newton Walton, and has issue.

963. Adelaide, b. 9. 13, 1839, ;«. William Hill, (residence near
Pleasantville, Bucks county, Pa.), and had issue : (i) Caroline,
who m. Charles Shutt, and had three children, became a widow,
and remarried ; (2) Susan, unm. ; (3) Charles, d. , (4) Clemen-
tine, m. Lowell Hoover, and had issue, Maria.

964. Bartlett T., b. 11. 2, 1841, m. Emeline Williams, dau. of David
and Mary; issue, Anna G., d. y., Charles S., d., Mary W.,
Caroline R. , Elizabeth U., Ahce P. Bartlett was several years
a storekeeper near Glenside, in Cheltenham, Montgomery
county. Pa., now (1900) residing in Germantown, Philadelphia.

VI. (370) Spencer Roberts, of Germantown, son of Hugh
and Sarah (Spencer) Roberts, born Eighth month 10, 181 1,
died Tenth month 22, 1885, married, ist. Third month 3,
183s, (965) Elizabeth Yerkes Hagy, bom Second month 4,
18 1 3, died Second month — , 1843. Spencer married, 2nd,
Fifth month 16, 1845, (966) Elizabeth Ann Taylor, daughter
of Maris Taylor; she died First month 26, 1886. By both
marriages he had children, as below.

Spencer Roberts was many years a prominent citizen, and
active business man, at Germantown. In 1835, he purchased
with his brother-in-law, Charles S. Rorer, the historic old mill,
originally the " Townsend mill," later the " Lukens Mill," and
in the present century, the " Roberts MUl," on the Wingohocking
creek, east of Germantown,^ which had belonged to his father,
Hugh Roberts. They carried it on together, until 1841, when

1 See mention of its belonging to Mathias Lukens, Joseph Spencer's father-in-law,
ante, p. 54, f. n., and as having been purchased in 1811, by Hugh Roberts, p. 122, f. n.

ipo THE SPENCER FAMILY.

Spencer bought Charles's interest, and continued in business
there until 1856. He was for several years a school director of
the Twenty-second Ward, was a member of the City Council,
1855—56, and long a member of the Philadelphia Board of
Education. He became in 1867 President of the Mutual Fire
Insurance Company of Germantown, and so continued until his
death.

VII. Children of Spencer and Elizabeth {Hagy) Roberts :

967. Hugh Oscar, b. 1836, m. Anna Maria Gemrig. P

968. Susanna Hagy, b. 8. 27, 1837, m. Lylburn H. Steel. ^

969. Charles R., b. 1839, m. Janie Shaw Pearson, Louisa Jane
Gay. 3

970. Algernon Sidney, b. 1840, ?n. Elizabeth J. Pearson. ^

Children of Spencer and Elizabeth ( Taylor) Roberts :

971. John Taylor, b. 1847, m. Hannah Maule Matlack. ^

972. Enoch Taylor, b. 1849, m. Helen A. Woods. ^

973. Annie Taylor, b. 8. 19, 1850, tn. Ferdinand V. Hoyt ; issue,
Albert Maurice.

974. Elizabeth, b. 12. 4, 1851, m. William H. Wriggins, d. ; issue,
Annie R., m. W. Seymour Runk ; Thomas, Charles C, Helen
V. Elizabeth, ;«., 2nd, 12. 16, 1895, Benjamin F. Dewees.

VI. (371) Margaret Roberts, daughter of Hugh and Sarah
(Spencer) Roberts, of Germantown, born Sixth month 22,
1813, died Ninth month 27, 1891, married (975) Gideon
Lloyd. He was born in Chester county, Pa., about 1812, and
died in IndianapoHs, Indiana, January 9, 1877. They were
married March 15, 1847, by Rev. Stockton, at his resi-
dence in Philadelphia. They lived for some time in Philadelphia,
and afterward at Bristol, Pa., but in i860 removed to Indian-
apolis, where, or in that vicinity, they continued their home until
the close of their lives.

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VII. Children of Gideon and Margaret Lloyd :

976. Spencer Clay, d. 11. 25, 1847; engaged in farming near
Indianapolis.

977. Sarah Virginia, 6. 1849, d. 1850.

978. Washington Byron, 6. 6. 3, 1851, m., 12. 4, 1884, Rhoda M.
Johnson, of Indianapolis, Ind. ; issue, Spencer E., 6. 1886,
Harold J., 5. 1889, Hugh B., i. 1891, Marguerite, 6. 1893.
(Farmer and dairyman, near Indianapolis, Ind.)

979. Clara Virginia, 6. 1853, d. 1854.

980. Mary Carohne, 6. at Bristol, Pa., 11. 13, 1855. In 1883 she
began the study of dentistry, and graduated from the Ohio
College of Dental Surgery, Cincinnati, in 1885, since which
time she has been practicing her profession in Indianapolis, Ind.

VI. (372) Hugh Roberts, son of Hugh and Sarah (Spencer)
Roberts, of Germantown, born Eighth month 5, 1821, died
at Norristown, Pa., Eighth month 23, 1894, married Eighth
month 8, 1842, before John M. Scott, Mayor of Philadelphia,
(981), Alice A. Gallagher, daughter of John and Margaret
Stotsenburg Gallagher.

Hugh, whose father had died before his birth, was cared for
by an aunt, in childhood, and spent his boyhood with his uncle
Thomas P. Spencer, (No. 153, this Genealogy) on the farm in
Lower Makefield. He learned the milling trade with his brother
Spencer, at the " Roberts Mill " on the Wingohocking. Refer-
ring to this period of his life, in notes furnished the author of
this volume, he described in an interesting manner the business
carried on at the old mill.

It was mainly a ' ' grist ' ' mill ; some merchant work, however, was
done. There was a large overshot wheel, perhaps 25 feet in diameter, out-
side the mill. But the water, in a dry season, was insufficient, causing
many lamentations from the millers, and steam was put in, about 1841.
No other mill stood above it, on the stream. A dam had been made, some

192 THE SPENCER FAMILY.

50 yards above the mill, and a " trunk " constructed from the dam face.
(A new trunk was put in, in Hugh's time, say 1837-38.) In the back part
of the mill, on the second floor, land plaster (gypsum) was ground. Two
■ ' run ' ' of stone were operated on flour (one on wheat exclusively, and one
on corn, rye, and oats), and one "run" on plaster. The rock was bought
in the city, 60 tons at a time, at Vine street wharf, on the Schuylkill, (it
came from Nova Scotia), and had to be hauled to the mill by teams. The
rock cost $2.50 to )!S3.5o per ton, and was sold ground at 25 cents a bushel.
— about 25 bushels to the ton.

The plaster stone was a solid one, a " country stone," those for grind-
ing flour were " French burr." Three kinds of flour were made, "super-
fine," "coarse," and bran. " Conestoga wagons " used to come to the
mill in the time of Hugh Roberts, Sen. He, (Hugh, Sen.) ground a good
deal of rye flour, and had at one time a profitable contract to supply it to
the almshouse, but in the time of his sons, wheat flour was chiefly ground.

In 1840, having completed his apprenticeship, Hugh went to
Wilmington, Delaware, and was employed there for several years
in the famous Brandywine Mills, carried on by the Leas and
Canbys.

"A short time prior to the war he engaged in farming, residing in New
Castle county, Delaware, and later in Cecil county, Maryland. He was
an ardent Abolitionist, and on the formation of that party became an active
Republican, advocating the election of Lincoln to the Presidency, and
being one of the few who voted for him in that election district. In March,
1 86 1, he sold out his Maryland farm and came to Pennsylvania, settling
after two or three years at Gwynedd, in this [Montgomery] county. There
he resided, pursuing the occupation of a farmer until about twelve years
ago, when he removed to Norristown." [Obit, notice in Norristown
Her aid. '\

In Norristown, where he spent the closing years of his life,
he was for some time actively engaged in the development of the
town, he and his son Ellwood erecting some fifty or more dwell-
ings in the Seventh and Tenth wards. He was buried at Ply-
mouth Friends' ground.

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VII. Children of Hugh and Alice A. Roberts :

982. Charles Henry, b. 6. 18, 1843, m., 3. 23, 1865, Sarah Elizabeth,
dau. of Samuel and Louisa Stradling ; issue, (i) Alice A., b.
1866, teacher ; (2) Hugh, ^. 1868, attorney-at-law ; (3) Samuel,
b. 1 87 1, druggist, Lemars, Iowa ; (4) Louisa, b. 1886. — Chas.
H. Roberts was for a number of years a teacher, but later
studied law and successfully practiced his profession, — now,
1900, at Kansas City, Mo.

983. Edmund, b. 1844, d. 1845.

984. Ellwood, b. I. 22, 1846, m., 9. 12, 1878, Mary Long Carter,
dau. of Job and Rachel Carter, of Mickleton, N. J., and has
issue : Howard Carter, b. 1879 ; Charles Alfred, b. 1881, d.
1888 ; Alice Rachel, b. 1886 ; William Hugh, b. 1888 ; Mary
Carter, b. 1892. — Ellwood was some time a teacher, was en-
gaged in farming in Gwynedd, and removed to Norristown,
where he has been for a number of years an editor of the Nor-
ristown Daily Herald. He is the author of several books, in-
cluding a volume of poetry, ' ' Lyrics of Quakerism and Other
Poems," (1895) ; a volume of Genealogy and historical collec-
tions, "Old Richland Families," (1898), and "Plymouth
Meeting," another of similar character, (igoo).

985. Mary, b. 10. 25, 1847, m., 11. 7, 1877, Samuel Livezey, son of
Samuel and Rachel ; issue, Thomas Hugh, b. 1879. Resi-
dence, Norristown, Pa.

986. William, b. 1851, d. 1855.

987. Spencer, b. 1854, d. 1855.

988. Alfred, b. 1857, d. i860.

VI- (373) Joseph Josiah Hirst, son of Joseph and Sarah
(Spencer) Hirst, of Germantown, born Seventh month 31,
1823, died 1870, married (989) Abigail Wharton, daughter
of Moses Wharton, of Lower Makefield, Bucks county. Pa.

He was brought up by his uncle, Thomas Pirn Spencer, (No.

153, this Genealogy), on his farm in Lower Makefield, and " set-

194 THE SPENCER FAMILY.

tied on a farm near Fallsington (Bucks county) in the 'so's."
His death was due to an accidental fall from a tree, causing a
partial paralysis. His widow died a few years later.

VII. Children of Joseph J. and Abigail Hirst.

990. Sarah, d. , m. Joseph White, and left issue,

991. Phebe Ann, d., m., and left issue.

992. Rachel, d. unm.

993. Susanna, m. Robert Clark ; issue, one child.

994. Hannah, d. unm.

995. Mercy, d., m.

996. Wharton. He is living, unm., (1900), on the homestead place.

997. Caroline, d. unm.

VI. (374) Sarah Ann Hirst, daughter of Joseph and Sarah

(Spencer) Hirst, born Seventh month 19, 1825, married. Fifth

month 6, 1 8 5 1 (998) Henry Van Horn, born Sixth month

18, 1818, died Sixth month 16, 1893. He was a resident of

Philadelphia, and died there. Their children were as below.

VII. Children of Henry and Sarah A. Van Horn .

999. Anna Therese, m. William Selman, of Philadelphia, and had

issue : Henry Pim, Edith, William, Jr.
1000. Spencer Roberts, m. Ida V. Smith; issue, Helen R., d.,

Spencer R., Jr., Ethel,
looi. Harry, d.

1002. Ella.

1003. William Hirst, d.

VI. (375) Rachel Abigail Hirst, daughter of Joseph and
Sarah (Spencer) Hirst, born Second month 2, 1827, married
Twelfth month 23, 1851 (1004), Casper Souder, Junior, of

Philadelphia, journalist and editor, born Eleventh month 8, 18 19,

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died Tenth month 21, 1868, son of Casper and Leah Bickerton
Souder.

Casper Souder, Jr., gave most of his active life to the news-
paper press of his city. He became in 1850 a reporter on the
Sunday Dispatch, and retained for fourteen years a connection
with that newspaper; in 1853, however, he joined the Evening
Bulletin, and remained one of its staff to the close of his life. It
had been established in 1847, and in i860, a joint-stock associa-
tion being formed for its ownership and conduct, he became one
of the stockholders. He was then and later one of the prin-
cipal editors. His interest as an author, was especially directed
to history and reminiscence connected with Philadelphia, and he
wrote for the Sunday Dispatch (then edited by his friend Thomp-
son Westcott), an extended " History of Chestnut Street," in
which each building was identified and particularly described.

VII. Children of Casper, Jr. , and Rachel A . Souder :

1005. Kate Maria, m. 7. 24, 1873, Theodore A. Langstroth, of Ger-
mantown, Phila. , son of James Fawcett and Harriet Ashmead
Langstroth ; issue Katharine Bartram, James Heidel, Charles
Souder, Francis Drexel, Theodora Ashmead, Louise Drexel
MorreU.

1006. Leah Bickerton, d. i. 23, 1891, ?«. 2. 3, 1881, William Smith
Parker, d. 5. 6, 1890.

1007. Rachel H., m. 6. 19, 1883, Rev. Thomas A. Gill, chaplain
United States Navy, son of John S. and Sarah S. Gill ; issue,
Madeline Kate, Thomas Sidney, d.

VI. (377) Anna Maria Thomas, daughter of Spencer and
Hephziba (Spencer) Thomas, of Upper Dublin, born at
Poquessing, Philadelphia (now Torresdale), Sixth month 19,
1 8 19, died at Gwynedd, First month 16, 1864. She married

196 THE SPENCER FAMILY.

Second month 11, 1841, (1008) Algernon Sydney Jenkins, ol
Gwynedd, son of Charles Foulke and Mary (Lancaster) Jenkins.^
Algernon S. Jenkins was born in Philadelphia, Eleventh
month 28, 1 8 16, and died at Gwynedd (as the result of an acci-
dental fall), Seventh month 9, 1890. He was a justice of the
peace for forty-four years (i 846-1 890), and a citizen and business
man highly esteemed in his township, and in the county. After
the death of his first wife he married, 2nd, 1867, Alice A. Davis,
of Edgmont, Delaware county, Pa., by whom he had one son,
George Herbert Jenkins, born at Gwynedd, 1871 ; now a mem-
ber of the bar, Philadelphia.

VII. Son of Algernon S. and Anna Maria Jenkins :
1009. Howard M., b. 1842, m. Mary Anna Atkinson. ^

VI. (380) Caroline Thomas, daughter of Spencer and Heph-
ziba (Spencer) Thomas, of Upper Dublin, born Ninth month
14, 1824, died at Silcott's Springs, Va., Eleventh month 12,

1899. She married (No. 255, this Genealogy), Basil W.

Shoemaker, and their children are given, p. 162.

VI. (381) Lemuel Thomas, son of Spencer and Hephziba, of
Upper Dublin, born Fourth month 4, 1826, married Fifth

month II, 1854 ( 1 010), Drusilla Rowlett, daughter of John

and Drusilla (Phipps) Rowlett, of Nicetown, Philadelphia.

Lemuel grew up on the homestead place at Upper Dublin.

After his marriage he was sometime connected in business with

1 Algernons. Jenkins was descended from Jenkin Jenkin, of Wales, who settled in
Hatfield, in Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county, near the present town of Lans-
dale, in 1729. His (Algernon's) mother was descended from Thomas Lancaster, of
Richland, Bucks county, a minister of the early Friends, and by female lines from John
Sotcher, of Pennsbury Manor, William Penn's steward, and many years a member of
the Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania.

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY. ig?

his father-in-law at Nicetown, and for several years was engaged
in farming near Somerton in the (then) 23d Ward of Philadelphia.
He later resided at " Springlands, " on the Neshaminy, near
Bridgewater, in Bucks county, and had a business connection
with his cousin, N. Spencer Thomas, of Elmira, N. Y. He is
now (1900) a resident of West Philadelphia.

VII. Child of Lemuel and Drusilla R, Thomas :
ion. Caroline Lee, d. 6. 21, 1856.

VI. (385) Mary W. Thomas, daughter of Spencer and Heph-
zeba (Spencer) Thomas, born at Upper Dublin, Twelfth
month 6, 1833, married Eighth month 18, 1856, in Philadel-
phia, before Alderman Brazer, (1012) William Henry
Brown, son of Joseph Elgar and Hannah Carpenter Brown. ^
W. Henry Brown was born at Salem, N. J., First month 3,
1832 ; he is a printer and editor, and has for a number of years
resided at Peekskill, N. Y., being the editor and proprietor of the
Peekskill Blade.

VII. Children of W. II. and Mary W. Brown .

1013. Joseph Francis, b. 9. 11, 1857, d. 3. 4, 1862.

1014. Charles Perrin, b. 6. 8, i860, d. 5. 10, 1889, m. Mary Eliza-
beth Crawford, b. 12. 12. 1862, dau. of Andrew J. and Mary
E. Crawford ; issue, Mary Elizabeth, b. 1883, d. 1884, Florence
Crawford, b. 8. 2, 1885, d. 8, 15, 1900.

1015. Lydia Paul, ^. 10. I, 1864, d. 2. 28, 1885.

1016. William Henry, b. 11. 14, 1868, d. 2. 22, 1873.

I Hannah Carpenter Brown was the daughter of John and Mary EUet, of Salem,
N. J., and a descendant both from Samuel Preston and Samuel Carpenter, prominent
merchants of Philadelphia, in the early Colonial time, and members of the Provincial
Council of Pennsylvania. (See Keith's " Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania," in
which the very full article on the Preston Family was contributed by Charles Perrine
Smith, of Trenton, N. J., half brother of W. Henry Brown.)

1 98 THE SPENCER FAMILY.

1017. Mary Francis, b. 2. 26, 1871.

1018. Thomas Pirn Spencer, b. at Peekskill, N. Y., 3. 19, 1875, m.
4. I, 1900, Bertha Mausback, b. 11. 7, 1879, dau. of Joseph
and Minnie Mausback.

VI. (388) Nathan Spencer Thomas, son of Richard L. and
Maria (Spencer) Thomas, born Third month 16, 1828, and
died at Elmira, N. Y., Third month 30, 1890. He married
Sixth month 14, 1855, (1019) Hannah Ann Iredell, daughter
of Charles T. and Rebecca N. Iredell, of Bristol, Pa. Hannah
Ann was born Seventh month 12. 1830.

N. Spencer Thomas was a manufacturing chemist. He was
placed, as a lad, with Robert Shoemaker & Co., of Philadelphia,
and after completing his apprenticeship with that well-known
house, went into business for himself on New Market street. A
destructive fire closed his stay there, and he removed to New
York State, where he engaged extensively in the extraction of
tannin from oak bark, and the manufacture of dye-stuffs, estab-
lishing factories at Painted Post, N. Y., and at Trout Run, Pa.
These undertakings he pressed forward successfully with much
energy, and upon broad plans.

VII Children of N. Spencer and Hannah Ann Thomas :

1020. Rebecca Iredell, b. 12. 4, 1857, m. 2. 5, 1891, George Picker-
ing, son of George and Annie (Rowlett), and has issue, sur-
name Pickering: Dorothy Iredell, b. 12. 20, 1891 ; Ruth
Thomas, b. 6. 20. 1893 ; Hannah Rowlett, b. 5. 24, 1896.
(Elmira, N. Y.)

1021. Anna A., b. i. 17, i860, d. 8. 8, 1873.

1022. Charles Iredell, b. 11. 30, 1861.

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VI. (390) Isaac Thomas, son of Richard L. and Maria (Spencer)
Thomas, bom at Yardleyville, Pa., Eighth month 15, 1829,
married Tenth month 26, 1858, (1023) Sarah Ann Harborn,
daughter of William and Ann, of Philadelphia. Sarah Ann was
born 1837 and died 1882. Isaac followed many years the oc-
cupation of ship blacksmith in Philadelphia, and is now (1900)
living in that city.

VII. Children of Isaac and Sarah Ann Thomas :

1024. Eleanor, b. 12. 25, 1859, d. 1891, m., no issue.

1025. Walter, b. 7. 14, 1861, m. Mary Cress, and has issue : Rebecca,
d., Walter.

1026. Maria, b. and (/. 1864.

1027. Mary, b. 1866, in., no issue.

1028. Frank, b. and d. 1870.

1029. Edwin, b. 4. 4, 1872.

VI. (391) Edwin L. Thomas, son of Richard L. and Maria
(Spencer) Thomas, born at Richboro', Bucks county. Pa.,
Twelfth month 25, 1833, died in Philadelphia, (of small-pox).
Third month 7, 1872. He was twice married, ist to (1030)
GuLiELMA Roberts, daughter of Charles and Sarah Ann, of
Upper Dublin, Montgomery county. Pa., Twelfth month 8, 1864;
she was born 1834, and died (of consumption) Third month 31,
1865 without issue. Edwin married, 2d, (103 1) Clara Hamil-
ton Clayton, daughter of Zephaniah and Margaret, of Philadel-
phia ; she was born Sixth month 27, 1843, and survived her
husband.

Edwin learned the business of a druggist and chemist with
his brother, N. Spencer Thomas (No. 388) and Robert Shoe-
maker & Co., and in October, 1856, engaged in business for
himself as wholesale druggist and manufacturing chemist, carry-

200 THE SPENCER FAMILY.

ing this on until his death. He was first on Market street, at No.
121 5, and later at other locations, lastly at 123 North Seventh
street. His brother, Hugh M. (No. 392), was in partnership with
him from 1859 to 1865, and B. F. Twining from 1865 to 1872.

VII. Children of Edwin L. and Clara Thomas :

1032. Lillie Victorine, 6. 12. 23, 1868.

1033. Harry Leedom, 6. 12. 16, 1870, graduated M. D. at the Jeffer-
son Medical College, Philadelphia, in Fifth month 1893, and
located later at Langhorne, Bucks county, Pa., for the practice
of his profession. He m. 10. 28,. 1899, at the home of her
brother-in-law, Charles Chevrier, Trenton, N. J., Annie Leaw.

VI. (392) Hugh Mearns Thomas, son of Richard L. and
Maria (Spencer) Thomas, born First month 18, 1838. He
married by Friends' ceremony, at Bristol, Pa., Tenth month
24, 1865 (1034), Mary Emma S. Thomas, daughter of Hugh and
Elizabeth S. Boyle, both of whom were born in Philadelphia.
(Elizabeth S. Boyle was the daughter of Abraham Schofield,
granddaughter of Jonathan and Rebecca Schofield, and great-
granddaughter of Ann Chapman, of Bucks county, a prominent
minister among the Friends.) Mary Emma was born Ninth
month 4, 1839.

Hugh was for some time with his brother, N. Spencer Thomas,
later was in business himself as a druggist, and afterward in
partnership with his brother Edwin engaged in the manufacture
of pharmaceutical and chemical preparations, — all in Philadelphia.
Later he removed to Bucks county, where the family con-
tinued for several years. He is now (1900) of Philadelphia.

VII. Children of Hugh and Mary Emma Thomas :

1035. Elizabeth B., 6. 7. 25, 1867, d. 2. 21, 1878.

1036. Willis Hugh, i. 11. 23, 1868, d. 4. 8, 1874.

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VI. (399) Sydney Knight, daughter of Nathan T. and EHza-
beth (Thomas) Knight, bom Eleventh month 3, 1829, died
near Torresdale, Philadelphia, Tenth month 16, 1900, mar-
ried, Eleventh month 21, 1853 (1037) John Wood, of Moreland,
son of Joseph and Rachel, of Horsham, Pa. John and Sydney,
during most of their married life, resided at the old home of
Nathan T. and Elizabeth Knight, near Torresdale, previously the
" Ishmael Hall " place, owned by Jonathan Thomas. Some
time before the sale of this property, in 1897,' they ceased farming
and made their home with their children.

VII. Children of John and Sydney Wood :

1038. Ella, b. 7. 30, 1854, d. 3. 13, 1857.

1039. Caroline H., b. 11. 27, 1851, iit., 12. 22, 1874, William
F. Morgan, of Horsham, son of Benjamin and Ann (Con-
rad) ; issue, Clinton W., b. 10. 4, 1875, Edward B., b. 4. 4,

1877-

1040. Frank H., of Byberry, Pa., farmer, b.d. 12, 1856, wz., 12.30,
1880, Mary M. Stout, dau. of Henry and Mary; issue,
Marion C, b. 9. 1, 1883, John H., b. 6. 27, 1885.

1041. Elizabeth K., b. 9. i, 1859, in., 6. 5, 1889, Charles E. Morgan,
of Wilkesbarre, Pa. , son of Charles and Ellen Morgan ; issue,
C. Byron, b. 12. 24, 1891, EUzabeth K., b. 9. 5, 1895.

1042. J. Byron, b. 3. 21, 1862 (Byberry, Pa.).

1043. Albert W., b. 2. i, 1867, d. 3. 7, 1889, ii?t?n.

VI. (400) Sarah Tyson Knight, daughter of Nathan T. and
Elizabeth (Thomas) Knight, born Fourth month 29, 1832,
married. Third month 24, 1859(1044) Edward Leedom, son
of Charles and Lydia, of Newtown, Bucks county, Pa., born Sec-
ond month, 1826, died Tenth month 18, 1892, at Bristol, Pa.
They resided for a number of years after their marriage on a farm

^ See reference to this, p. 130.
17

202 THE SPENCER FAMILY.

near Newtown, in Bucks county, and then removed to a farm in
Byberi-y ; later, they removed to Bristol, where Edward was
engaged in the coal business at the time of his death.

VII. Children of Edward and Sarah T. Leedom .

1045. Jesse, b. 7. 27, i860. (Of New York, N. Y., 1901.)

1046. Walter Francis, of Bristol, Pa. (dealer in coal, etc.), b. 3. 7,
1862, m., 12. 24, 1885, Lottie Miller; issue, Hiram K., b. i.
20, 1887, MedoraW., b. 9. 12, 1889, Augustus W., b. and d.
1892.

1047. Ellen Knight, b. 9. 15, 1865.

1048. Alice, b. 2. 22, 1868, d. 10. 12, 1899.

VI. (412) Jeremiah BoNSALL, of Philadelphia, conveyancer, son
of Edward H. and Lydia (Mcllvain) Bonsall, born Fifth
month 28, 1825, and died Seventh month 29, 1892. He
married, Ninth month 29, 185 1, by Friends' ceremony, in the
presence of Charles Gilpin, Mayor of Philadelphia (1049) Mar-
garet FiMisTER Hutchinson, daughter of Robert and EHzabeth.
(Robert Hutchinson was originally in the leather business ; after-
ward, for many years succeeding consolidation, an Alderman of
the City of Philadelphia. His wife was Elizabeth S. Paxson, also
of Philadelphia.)

VII. Children of Jeremiah and Margaret F. Bo?tsall :

1050. Lydia, b. 12. 20, 1854, d. 7. 27, 1875.

105 1. Robert Hutchinson, b. 4. 10, 1857.

1052. Edward Home, 6. 11. 19, 1859, m., at St. Matthew's P. E.
Church, Philadelphia, 10. 4, 1887, Hannah Rodney Tunnelle.
(She was the daughter of George Tunnelle, of Georgetown,
Delaware, merchant, and his wife, Elizabeth Stockley, who
was a descendant of William Rodney, father of Csesar Rod-
ney, Signer of the Declaration of Independence.) Edward
H. .5o;z.y«// studied law with Richard L. Ashhurst, Esq., and
was admitted to the bar in December, 1880. Upon the organ-

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY. 203

ization of the Commonwealth Title Insurance and Trust Com-
pany, in 1886, he became title and trust officer, and sub-
sequently second vice-president of the company, and in 1899
resigned that position to become second vice-president of the
Land Title and Trust Company, which place he now holds.
Children of Edward H. and Hannah Rodney BonsaU :
Edward H., b. 8. 14, 1888, Rodney Tunnelle, b. 8. 19, 1893.

1053. Henry, b. 5. i, 1862, d. 5. 4, 1895.

1054. William Spencer, 1 , ^ o^ j 00^
•"^ ^ ' \ b. d. 14, 1869, d. 7. 28, 1869.

1055. Alfred J., J

1056. Elizabeth Paxson, b. 12. 22, 1871, d. 12. 25, 1874.

TI. (430) Elizabeth Spencer Miller, daughter of Levis and
Ann (Mcllvain) Miller, born Twelfth month 21, 1833, mar
ried, Eleventh month 7, 1855, (1057) Joseph Bunting, son of
Josiah and Sarah (Sellers) Bunting, of Darby, Delaware county.
Pa. (Joseph was a descendant of Anthony and Ellen Bunting,
of Derbyshire, England, and of Samuel Sellers, who came from
Belper, in Derbyshire, in 1682, and settled in Upper Darby, Del-
aware county. Pa.) Joseph Bunting died First month 29, i8go.

VII. Children of Joseph and Elizabeth S. Bunting :

1058. George Miller b. 7. 28, 1856, ;«., 11. 22, 1882, Caroline Sellers
Keen, dau, of J. Sidney and Hannah Mcllvain Keen, of Phil-
adelphia ; issue, Howard Keen, Edith Sellers, Clement Smith,
George M., Jr.

1059. Anna Miller.

VI. (431) Edgar Thomson Miller, of Media, Pa., son of
Levis and Ann Mcllvain Miller, born Fifth month 4, 1835,
married. Eleventh month 7, 1865, (1060) Mary Haldeman,
daughter of Issac and Eliza West Haldeman. Mary was born
Fourth month 24, 1840, in Upper Providence, Delaware county.
Pa., (the house now within the borough of Media). Her father.

204 THE SPENCER FAMIL Y.

Issac Haldeman, wsa born in Charlestown, Chester county,
1 797 ; her mother was the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth
(Maris) West, of Springfield, Delaware county, the former of the
same family as Benjamin West, the painter.

Edgar T. Miller was educated at schools near his home,
and at Salem, N. J., and was a pupil at the latter place, for a
time, of Aaron B. Ivins, later principal of the Friends' Central
School, Philadelphia. In 1852-3-4 he attended Treemount
Seminary, kept by Rev. Samuel Aaron, at Norristown, Pa.^
He was engaged, in 1 861, at Keokuk, Iowa, when the Civil War
broke out, and having entered the military service he had an ex-
tended experience therein.

In the summer of 1861, Keokuk, being on the border of
Missouri, was considered in danger of attack, and he joined
a company of "City Rifles," commanded by Captain W. W.
Belknap, afterward a major-general and Secretaiy of War, under
whom he served in the engagement at Croton, on the Des Moines
river, in August, 1861. In April, 1862, he was mustered in as
an officer of the 15th i^egiment infantry, Iowa Volunteers, and
then served for thirty-eight months, until after the war had closed.
He was in numerous battles and engagements, including Corinth,
Vicksburg, and Atlanta, and was in the "March to the Sea,"
under General Sherman. He served with his regiment for about
half the time, and during the remainder was on the staffs of Gen.
Alexander Chambers, and Gen. Frank P. Blair, holding success-
ively the rank of Second and First Lieutenant, Captain, and
Brevet-Major.

After the war he was for some time in business in Phila-

1 Samuel Aaron {b. 1800, d. 1865), was one of the most famous educators of
eastern Pennsylvania, for many years. He conducted the Seminary at Norristown
from 1844 to 1859. Edgar T. Miller says : " I thinlc Samuel Aaron was the noblest man
whom I everlcnew."

THE SPENCER GENEALOGY. 205

delphia, but from 1867 to 1890 resided on a farm near Swarth-
more, retiring then to Media, where he has taken an active in-
terest in the schools, and in municipal affairs, etc. He is
(1900-01) President of the School Board of Media, and a Curator
of the Delaware County Institute of Science.

VII. Children of Edgar T. and Mary H. Miller ■

1061. Elizabeth Haldeman, b. 7. 11, 1868, m., 2. g, 1901, Samuel
Sebastian Evans, of Cedartown, Polk county, Ga.

1062. John Spencer, ^. 5. 5, 1872, student at law.

1063. Clarence Haldeman, b. i. 10, 1881, student of medicine.

1064. Marion, b. 4. 8, 1885.

VI. (433) George Deeble Miller, of Philadelphia, son of
Levis and Ann (Mcllvain) Miller, bom at " Green Dale,"
near Media, Second month 3, 1839, married. Tenth month
17, 1865 (1065) Ann Charlton Thomas, daughter of Isaac
Thomas, M. D., and Mary H. (Brinton) Thomas, of West
Chester, Pa.

George D. Miller enlisted as a private in Co. D., 124th
regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, recruited for nine months'
service, in August, 1862. This regiment was commanded by
Colonel Joseph W. Hawley, of Media, (who subsequently
married Anna Miller, No. 434, this Genealogy). It had scarcely
been organized, at Washington, before it was sent into Maryland,
with the Army of the Potomac, and on the 17th of September
was sent into action at Antietam. Here George sustained a
terrible wound, being shot through by a rifle-ball, which entered
the abdomen, and passed out near the spine. " He was never
able to return to the regiment, for active service, again. His
life was despaired of for months, but ultimately, by careful
nursing, he recovered."

2o6 THE SPENCER FAMILY.

He was for some time in the service of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, at Altoona, Pa., but has been (1901) for
more than twenty years engaged in the lumber and coal busi-
ness in West Philadelphia.

VII. Children of George D. and Ann C. Miller :

1066. Henry Spencer, b. 8. 31, 1866, at Altoona, Pa.

1067. Mary Thomas. She is a graduate of the Women's Medical
College of Philadelphia, and (1901) is engaged in a hospital in
Washington, D. C.

1068. Anna Mcllvain.

VI. (434) Anna Miller, daughter of Levis and Ann (Mc-
llvain) Miller, of Media, born Fourth month 28, 1841,
married Tenth month 6, 1864(1069) Joseph W. Hawley,
son of Joel and Catherine, of Lionville, Chester county, Pa.
After his service in the Union army, as below, he became in
1864 cashier of the First National Bank of Media, Pa., then
organized, and in 1894 was made president of the bank, which
position (1901) he occupies. He has been for several years one
of the Managers of the House of Refuge ; he is president of the
American Pipe Manufacturing Company, and is extensively inter-
ested in plants for the supply of water to cities and towns in dif-
ferent parts of the country.

The 1 24th regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers was recruited
for nine months' service, (as stated, under Geo. D. Miller), in
August, 1862. Joseph W. Hawley had been made captain of
Company A, and at Washington, when the regiment was organ-
ized, was chosen Colonel. He was in command when the
regiment participated in the battle of Antietam, September 17,
1862, and was wounded in the action. Owing to sickness he was
not in the Battle of Chancellorsville, in Februaiy, 1863. He
was mustered out with the regiment, May 17, 1863.

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VII. Children of Joseph W. and Anna M. Hawley :

1070. Mary Miller, i. 4. 14, 1868, ?«., 11. 15, 1893, Justice Mitchell
Thompson, son of Samuel S. Thompson, of Philadelphia.

VI. (438) Katharine Miller, daughter of Levis and Ann
(Mcllvain) Miller, born Eleventh month 22, 1850, married
Eleventh month 7, 1879, (1071) Albert Levis, son of
Samuel Garrett and Esther Hibberd (Lobb) Levis, of Upper
Darby, Delaware county, Pa. Albert Levis was born
Second month 25, 1847, and died First month i, 1898 ; he was
buried at Darby Friends' burial ground. He was educated at
the Military School of Col. Theodore Hyatt, West Chester, Pa.,
and subsequently was associated with his father in the manu-
facture of woollen and cotton goods, at Glenwood Mills, on Darby
creek.

VII. Children of Albert G. and Katharine Levis .

1072. Samuel Garret, b. 6. 26, 1882.

1073. Spencer Mcllvain, b. 12. 6, 1883, d. 6. 30, 1884.

1074. Clement Smith, ^. J. 26, 1886.

VL (439) Ellen Miller, daughter of Levis and Ann
(Mcllvain) Miller, born Second month 5, 1853, married,
Eleventh month 29, 1876 (1075) George Martin Booth,
son of William and Elizabeth Martin Broomall Booth, of
Chester, Pa. George M. Booth is a member of the bar of
Delaware county. Pa., having studied with his uncle, the late
John Martin Broomall (Representative in Congress and Judge).
He has been for several years president of the First National
Bank of Chester.

208 THE SPENCER FAMILY.

VII. Children of George M. and Ellen Booth :

1076. Levis Miller, b. i. 19, 1878. He was graduated at Swarthmore
College, 1899, with the degree of B. S.

1077. EUzabeth Martin, b. 3. 23, 1882.

1078. Newlin Trainer, b. 10. 23, 1886.

VI. (440) Hannah John Miller, daughter of Levis and
Ann (Mcllvain) Miller, born Third month 23, 1855, married,
Eleventh month 7, 1881 (1079) Joseph Evans Mickle, son

of William and Mary (Evans) Mickle,^ of Springfield, Delaware
county, Pa.

VII. Children of Joseph E. and Hannah J. Mickle :

1080. Joseph Evans, b. 7. 3, 1883.

1081. Grace Evans, 6. 7. 2, 1885.

1082. George Miller, i5. 12. 28, 1886.

1083. Francis King, b. 8. 17, 1889.

VII. (443) Samuel Spencer, son of David and Leah (Picker-
ing) Spencer, born Twelfth month 28, 181 5, died Third
month ID, 1858, married, Tenth month 17, 1840 (1084)

Eve Ann Summers, daughter of Nicholas and Mary Summers,
of Morris, Grundy county, Illinois. Eve Ann was born First
month 9, 18 16, and died Eighth month 24, 1872.

VII. Children of Samuel and Ann Spencer :

1085. Henry H., b. 3. 4, 1841, d. 7. i, 1841.

1086. David E., b. g. 25, 1842, at Morris, Grundy county. 111.,
m., 8. 30, 1 87 1, Caroline Augusta, dait. of Moses and Cath-
erine Pangborn, of Morris, 111. ; issue, Charles O' Conor, b.

1 William Mickle was the son of George and Mary Mickle, of New Jersey. His
(William's) wife, Mary Evans, was the daughter of Joseph and Grace (Trimble)
Evans. Joseph Evans was a descendant of Thomas Evans, one of four brothers who
came from Merionethshire, Wales, in 1698, and settled in Gwynedd, Montgomery
county, Pa.

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1872; Edna-Mabel, b. 1874; Walter-Wallace, b. 1876; Clar-
ence-Edwin, b. 1879 ; Katie-Myrtle, b. 1882. David E. is a
farmer at Morris, 111. He served in the national army in the
Civil War, one year in Co. M, First Illinois Light Artillery, and
two years in the Mississippi Marine Brigade, ' ' the last year as
vidette and dispatch carrier for Gen. A. W. Ellet. ' ' He was
thirty-one days in the siege of Vicksburg and in numerous
other smaller engagements.

1087. George F., b. 4. 17, 1845, m., and has issue six children. Ad-
dress, 1898, Raub, Benton county, Ind.

1088. Mary E., b. 10. 9, 1847, d. 9. 30, 1871. She in. James
Green, and left issue a son, and a dau. who married James N.
Southard.

1089. John W., b. 10. 31, 1849, d.- 4- 23, 1884. He m., and left
issue one dau.

1090. Asa P., b. and d. 1852.

1091. Charles A., b. and ^. 1854.

1092. Sarah A., b. 11. 12, 1856, m. Samuel McDonald, and has
issue three sons and four daughters. Address, 1898, Hale,
Carroll county, Missouri.

VI. (445) Nathan Spencer, son of David and Leah (Pickering),
bom Fourth month 20, 1820, died in Milton, Wayne county,
Indiana, First month 25, 1892, married Third month 28, 1844,
(1093) Louisa, daughter of Silas Hiatt, born Tenth month 29,
1822, died Eleventh month 15, 1899. During his life Nathan
followed the occupation of teamster and farmer at Milton, Indiana.

VII, Children of Nathan and Louisa {Hiatf) Spencer :

1094. Benajah Hiatt, b. 1845. P

1095. Joseph Henry, b. 1846. P

1096. Viola, b. 4. 13, 1849, m. Rees E. Griffith, b. 7. 23, 1849, '^■
2. 21, 1895. Rees was a blacksmith, and foreman of that
department in an agricultural implement factory. Their
children, surname Griffith : (i) Fleda L., b. 12. 3, 1877 ;

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(2) infant, b. and d. 9. 4, 1881 ; (3) Erminnie J., b. 3. 16,
1883 ; (4) Ethel Ina, b. 7. 18, 1889.

1097. Lexemuel, b. 6. 21, 1851, d. 9. 22, 1870.

1098. Jerome, b. i. 6, 1854, »z. in 1876, and has issue : (i) Myrtle,
b. 7. 5, 1877 ; (2) Minnie, b. 8. 7, 1879 ; (3) Maud, b. 8. 9,
1881.

1099. Alvaretta, b. 7. 22, 1857, in. in 1881 John P. Steed, and has
issue, surname Steed: (l) Bertha Merle, b. 4. 21, 1882 ; (2)
Grace, i5. 5. 13, 1884; (3) (4) Ira Chase and Ina Ellen, *. 6. i,
1888 ; (5) Frank, b. II. 24, 1892.

1 100. Charley, b. 7. 17, 1859, m. 5. 30, 1882, Molly Hilderbrand (/5.
7. 3, 1859) and has issue one daughter, Elma, b. 12. 25, 1883.

VI. (447) Rebecca Spencer, daughter of David and Leah, was
born Fourth month 25, 1825, at Concord, Ohio, and married.
Seventh month i, 1846, (noi) Joel H. Kenworthy, son of

Amos and Mary Kenworthy, of Raysville, Henry county, Indiana.

Joel was born Ninth month 12, 1824, and died Eleventh month

7, 1888. Rebecca was hving (1898) at Columbus, Kans.

VII. Children of Joel and Rebecca (Spencer) Kenworthy :

1 102. Albanus, b. 6. 13, 1847, in. 8. 8, 1872, Maggie Frazier.

1103. David E., b. 9. 21, 1848, m. 12. 12, 1872, Maggie Harper,
and has issue : (i) Fred ; (2) Louis.

1104. Alcinda E., b. 7. 15, 1852, m. 6. 6, 1872, Ira D. Kellogg, and
has issue, surname Kellogg : (l) Charley ; (2) Lilly ; (3) Earl ;
(4) Maud ; (5) Smith ; (6) Nida ; (7) Leah ; (8) Clarissa ; (9)
Clinton; (10) Glen ; (11) Homer; (12) Jennie. Two others,
Fred and Willie, d. in childhood.

1105. Oliver A., b. 3. 10, 1854, m. 2. 24, 1877, Julia Kelsey, and
has issue : Mabel, Alice, Harry, and Dessel.

1106. Lydia Ann, b. 4. 6, 1856, m. 3. i, 1881, Howard Miller, and
has issue, surname Miller : (i) Maud ; (2) Ray.

1 107. Smith J., b. 5. 20, 1858, m. i. i, 1887, Nettie Smith. They
have three children . Alma, Carl, Elda.

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1108. Elda, b. 6. II, 1861, unm.

1 109. Ruth M., b. 2. 25, 1863, unm.
mo. Cora A., b. i. 23, 1865, unm.
nil. WiUis, i5. I. 7, 1867, ^. 8. 10, 1867.

1112. Jennie R., b. 3. 3, 1870, ?«. 6. 11, 1895, Royal J. Davis, and
has issue, surname Davis, one daughter, Irma.

VI. (448) Edwin L. Spencer, son of David and Leah, bom
First month 27, 1832, married Tenth month 26, 1854, (i 1 13)
Rebecca K. Edmondson, who died Third month 5, 1856,
without issue. Edwin married (2nd) Twelfth month 9, 1858,
(11 14) Laura Frances Smith, who was bom Second month 7,
1837, and died at Richmond, Indiana, Twelfth month 18, 1897.

VII. Children of Edwin L. and Laura Spencer :

1115. Frances Rebecca, b. 10. 29, 1859, d. 3. 11, 1888, at her home
in Ouenemo, Kansas. She m. i. 14, 1880, at Cambridge
City, Indiana, WiUiam A. Myers, and had issue, surname
Myers: (i) Laura May, b. 5. 7, 1882 ; (2) Emma EHzabeth,
b. 9. 25, 1883 ; (3) Charles, b. 12. 23, 1884, d. 7. 20, 1885 ;
(4) Walter Edwin, b. 1.4, 1886.

1 1 16. Mary Olive, b. 7. 30, 1861, d. lo. 4, 1895, at Richmond,
Indiana, m. 12. 7, 1881, Robert R. Morrey. They had no
children.

1117. Lenna Leota, b. 3. 13, 1866, m. at Richmond, Indiana, 12.
24, 1893, Samuel O. Nossett, and has issue, surname Nossett :
(i) Ruth L., b. 5. 23, 1895 ; (2) Virginis C, b. 10. 13, 1896.

1 1 18. Edwin L., Jr., b. i. i, 1868, m. 10. 20, 1896, Pearle F. Paul,
of New Paris, Ohio. They are without issue.

11 19. William Camahan, b. 9. 5, 1869, d. 7. 17, 1870.

1120. Walter Scott, b. 3. 22, 1871, lives, unm., at Richmond, Ind.

1 121. Minnie May, b. 6. 24, 1874.

VI. (451) Phineas Cowgill, son of Ralph and Betsy, born at
St. Clair.sville, Ohio, Eighth month 29, 18 17, died at West

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Branch, Iowa, Twelfth month 19, 1872, and was buried there.
He married at the Colerain, Ohio, Friends' Meeting-house, Fourth
month 22, 1844, (1122) Sarah Ann Branson, daughter of Isaac
and Sarah (Bracken), born Fifth month 6, 1824, died at West
Branch, Iowa, Second month 12, 1853. After the death of
Sarah, Phineas married, in 1857, ("23) Lydia McClure, and
had children as below.

VII. Children of Phineas and Sarah (^Branson) Cowgill :

1124. Elias Branson, b. 1845, m. Helen Prescott, Rena Harriman. ^

1 125. Henry, b. 1847, m. Cornelia Teneyck. ^

VII. Children of Phineas and Lydia {Mc Clure) Cowgill :

1 1 26. Mary, d. in infancy.

1 127. Elizabeth, b. 7. 15, i860, d. She had one daughter, who d.
in childhood.

VI. (452) Jonathan Cowgill, son of Ralph and Betsy
(Spencer), born Tenth month 27, 18 18, married, at Plainfield,
Ohio, by Friends' ceremony, (i 128) Mary Sharp. Jonathan
married, after the death of Mary, which occurred Fourth month
7, 1844, (1129) Rebecca Satterthwaite, daughter of Joseph
and Ann, of Plainfield, by whom he had no children. He died
at West Liberty, Iowa, Fourth month 29, 1886, and was buried
at Hickory Grove Friends' burying ground.

VII. Child of fonathan and Mary {Sharp) Cowgill .

1 130. Samuel S., b. 3. 15, 1844, jn. Mary Askew, daughter of Parker
and Rebecca, and has issue ; (i) Rebecca S., b. 6. 25, 1872 ;
(2) Henry P., b. 4. i, 1874, m. Ada Oilman, and has two
children ; (3) Parker J., b. 10. 28, 1879. Samuel lives with
his family in Pasadena, California.

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VI. (453) Jeptha Cowgill, son of Ralph and Betsy (Spencer),
bom Eighth month 9, 1820, at St. Clairsville, Ohio. He
married, at Fairview, Ohio, (1131) Amanda Mead, daughter

of Samuel, who died at Colorado Springs, Twelfth month 23,

1897. Jeptha died Second month 2, 1885, and was buried at

Oasis, Iowa.

VII. Children of Jeptha and Amanda {Mead) Cowgill:

1 132. Agnes, b. 1849, m. Nathan Scott of Wheeling, West Virginia.

1 133. Laura, b. 1851, m. Dr. H. O. Bates, of Chicago.

1 1 34. Anna Belle, b. 2. 22, 1853, m. Wilham Lennox, of Colorado
Springs, Col.

1135. Carrie, b. 1855, m. George Trowbridge, of Chicago.

1 136. Milo, b. 12. 25, 1861.

1137. Jessie, b. 1863, in. Edward Howbert, of Colorado Springs, Col.

1 138. Samuel Mead, b. 1865.

VI. (454) Ann Cowgill, daughter of Ralph and Betsy
(Spencer), bom Tenth month 29, 1823, at St. Clairsville, O.,
married (1139) Nathan Satterthwaite, who was son of
Joseph and Ann, and brother of Rebecca, who married (452)
Jonathan Cowgill. Ann died Sixth month 6, 1890, and was
buried with Jonathan at Hickory Grove burying ground, Iowa.

VII. Children of Nathan and Ann {Cowgill) Satterthwaite :

1 140. Charles, b. 1858, m. Alice Branson.

1 141. Ida, b. i860, m. Arthur Smith.

1 142. Sarah, b. 1863, m. Benjamin Smith.

VI. (457) William Cowgill, son of Ralph and Betsy
(Spencer), bom Third month 25, 1832, married (1143)
Dorcas L. Brown, daughter of Hiram Brown of Wheeling,

West Virginia (whose wife was a Sims). William, like the rest

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of his family, left Ohio and went further west ; he lived during
the latter part of his life at Fredonia, Kansas, where he died and
was buried Sixth month 19, 1889.

VII. Children of William and Dorcas {Brown) Cowgill :

1144. Lida, i. 8. 16, 1857, m. 12. 29, 1875, William B. Lee.

1145. Cora, m. Baxter Brown.

1 146. Ella, m, Corwin C. Cantrell.

VI. (460) Jonas Windom, son of Hezekiah and Mercy
(Spencer) Windom, born Fifth month 10, 1818, died in
Sterling, Illinois, Eighth month 14, 1886. He married
Eighth month 27, 1840, (1147) Ruth Hannah, daughter of
John and Nancy (Dillon) Lunn, who was born First month 30,
18 18, and died Tenth month 20, 1899.

Jonas was, during most of his life, a resident of Sterling,
111., where he was one of the most prominent men of the
community. He was the organizer of the Sterling Burial Case
Company, and served as President and manager of the company
for a number of years. He held several positions of trust, and
was a man whose character was above reproach.

VII. Children of Jonas and Ruth Windojn :

1148. Mercy Ann, 6. 6. 10, 1841, d. 3. 29, 1852.

1 149. John William, 6. 2. 7, 1843, d. 3. 28, 1859.

1150. Franklin French, 6. 7. 3, 1849, '"■ 5- 8, 1878, at Elgin,
Illinois, Cora Lee Hunter. After the death of his wife in
Tenth month, 1893, Frank married (2nd) at Batavia, Illinois,
Ninth month 26, 1900, Anna V. Wood. There are no
children by either marriage.

1 151. Mary Ellen, 6. 4. 19, 1851, d. 9. 4, 1851.

1152. Sarah Virginia, i. 10. 14, 1852, d. 11. 12, 1890.

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1 153. Charles Edwin, b. 8. 14, 1856, m. 8. 6, 1890, Grace Francis,
daughter of the Hon. Daniel Richards, and has one daughter,
Ruth Helen, b. 7. 21, 1896.

1154. William Lincoln, b. 6. I, i860, m. 10. 3, 1893, Lotta Cornelia
Gardner.

1 155. Edward Hezekiah, b. 4. 18, 1862.

VI. (461) William Windom, son of Hezekiah and Mercy
(Spencer), born Fifth month 10, 1827, in Belmont Co., Ohio,
died in New York City, First month 29, 1891. William
married, Eighth month 20, 1856, in Warwick, Mass., (1156)
Ellen Towne Hatch, third daughter of Reverend R. C. and
Hannah (Fay) Hatch, bom Second month 9, 1831.^

Very early in life William Windom marked out for himself
the courses which were to win for him an illustrious name in the
annals of his country. By untiring effort he secured to himself
an academic and legal education, and in 1850, at the age of
twenty-three, was admitted to the Ohio bar. After five years in
the practice of his profession at Mt. Vernon, he removed to
Minnesota, where a young and growing commonwealth seemed
to promise greater opportunities, and settled in Winona, where
he maintained a legal residence until his death.

" Destiny," says the biographical sketch quoted earlier in
this volume (p. 139), "Destiny had evidently marked Mr.
Windom for a life of public service. In the autumn of 1858, at
the age of thirty-one, he was elected as a Republican to the

1 Rev. R. C. Hatch was the son of Dr. Josiah Hatch, who was the son of Zephaniah
H. Hatch. The family belonged in Connecticut, and R. C. Hatch was born in Middle-
town, but his progenitors, for three generations, were of Guildford. His wife, Hannah
Fay, was the daughter of Benjamin Fay, of Westboro', Mass., who was descended
from John Fay, first of the family in Massachusetts, who came in the Speedwell from
England, 1656.

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Thirty-sixth Congress, and was successively re-elected to serve
in the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth
Congresses, a period of ten years, terminating in 1869. In that
year he was appointed to the United States Senate to fill the
unexpired term of Hon. D. S. Norton, deceased." In 1871 and
again in 1877 he was regularly elected to the Senate, resigning
his chair in 188 1 to take the portfolio of the Treasury in the
cabinet of President Garfield. Resigning this position when
Garfield died and Arthur became President, Mr. Window was
re-elected to fill out his own unexpired term in the Senate,
ending Third month 3, 1883.

" From the last named date until March, 1889, he devoted
himself to his private business, which hitherto had claimed too
little of his attention. From this he was called by President
Harrison to serve again as Secretary of the Treasury, the duties
of which post he re-assumed March 4, 1889."

On the evening of the 29th of First month, 1891, Mr.
WiNDOM was the guest of honor and the chief speaker at the
banquet of the Board of Trade and Transportation of New York.
His address upon the sentiment, " Our Country's Prosperity
Dependent upon its Instruments of Commerce" — Transportation
and Monetary System — stands as a model of eloquence and
force. At its close the speaker seated himself amid enthusiastic
applause, and almost instantly expired.

This record of the occupancy of high official station dur-
ing nearly all the years of Mr. Windom's mature life, signifies
little. To it should be added that those years of service to his
country, in Congress and Cabinet, were characterized by
unflagging industry and a tremendous capacity for work. His
career was notable rather for high and sustained devotion to duty,
than for brilliant and isolated successes, though the latter were
by no means wholly wanting. His financial coup as Secretary

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of the Treasury in 1881 was superb/ and the ingenuity,
simplicity, and originality of the plan by which he accomplished
it proved him one of the masters of finance.

Of other public services and achievements it is impossible to
speak here. The many spontaneous and sincere expressions of
regret and sorrow which his death called forth, from political
opponents as well as friends, are evidence that in his life and
work there was that which is above and beyond the zone of
partisan interests, and which commanded the esteem and
admiration of the wisest and best of his countrymen of whatever
party name. Probably no one of the descendants of Samuel
Spencer has been so widely known ; certainly none has lived
more worthily.

VII. Children of William and Elleti {Hatch) Windom :

1 157. William Douglas, b. 4. 20, 1859, m. Jane Hutchinson, dau.
of Joseph, of Columbus, O., and has issue : (l) William H.,
b. nth mo., 1887; (2) Margaret N., b. ist mo., 1892;
(3) Paul, b. loth mo., 1894 ; (4) Roger, b. 6th mo., 1896.

1 158. Ellen Hatch, b. 12. 25, 1866, m. 6. 6, 1894, Bentley Wirt
Warren, of Boston, and has issue, surname Warren . (i)
Ellen Windom, b. 4. 20, 1898 ; (2) Bentley Wirt, Jr., b. 5.
24, 1900.

1 159. Florence Bronson, b. 2. 14, 1873.

VI. (468) Joshua Foulke, son of Thomas M. and Sarah
(Spencer), bom Fifth month 30, 1823, married, First month

I This was the retirement of nearly six hundred millions of dollars of 6 per cent,
and 5 per cent, coupon bonds, which were approaching maturity, and for whose redemp-
tion no provision had been made by the last Congress. Secretary Windom simply
declared that the bonds were to be redeemed absolutely, but gave holders the privilege
of receiving in their place a new issue of 3K per cent, bonds, running at the option of
the Government. Practically all the holders accepted the offer, thereby extricating the
Government from an awkward situation, and saving many millions of dollars in interest
payments to the nation.

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23, 1848,(1160) Sarah Ann Hatfield, daughter of John and
Elizabeth (Cook), born Ninth month 24, 1829. Joshua learned
the trade of cooper and iron moulder, and followed the latter for
many years. He died at Richmond, Indiana, Sixth month 5, 1898.
Sarah survived her husband, and is living (1902) at Richmond.

VII. Children of Joshua and Sarah Foulke :

1161. John Thomas, 6. 12. 3, 1848, m. 11. 16, 1887, Lora Shellen-
burger, and has issue : (i) Kenneth Joshua, 6. 8. 8, 1889 ; (2)
Rodney Chnton, d. 12. 23, 1891. He lives at Richmond, Ind.

1162. Lizzie AHce, i. 2. i, 1851, m. 6. 19, 1878, Leroy Mansfield,
and has issue, surname Mansfield : (1) Pearlie A., b. 10. 6,
1879, d. 10. 24, 1885 ; (2) Cyrus Evreau, b. 7. 26, 1881.

1 163. Jesse Fremont, b. 4. 19, 1857, d. 4. 26, 1857.

VI. (469) Milton Foulke, son of Thomas M. and Sarah
(Spencer), born First month 23, 1826, died Seventh month
31, 1893. He married, Twelfth month 29, 1849, (1164)
Jane, daughter of James Connor, born Eighth month i, 1826,
died Eleventh month 22, 1891. Milton, like his brother Joshua,
was early "put out to service," and had scant opportunity for
education. During his life he followed the trade of cooper.

VII. Children of Milton and Jane (^Connor') Fottlke .

1 165. Emma Jane, b. 5. 29, 1851, d. 7. 30, 1851.

1166. Viola Volumnia, b. 7. 10, 1856, d. i. 29, 1858.

1 167. Mary Neoma Clark, b. 6. 4, 1858, m. 8. 19, 1887, Charles W.
Palmer, lives at Richmond, Indiana.

1168. Serenia Finet Alisteen, b. 10. 5, 1861, in. i. 14, 1890, Silas
F. Hastings, and is living at Richmond.

VI. (478) Ann Spencer, daughter of Asa and Phebe (Piggott),
born Eleventh month 20, 1837, died First month 27, 1892.

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Ann married, on the 9th of Second month, i860, (i 169) Emory
Vinton Shipley, who was born Twelfth month 20, 1836, and
survived Ann six years, dying Tenth month 28, 1898. Their
children are as follows :

VII. Children of Emory V. and Ann (Spencer) Shipley :

1 170. Spencer, li. 2. 11, 1861, d. 3. 29, 1876.

1 171. Annie H., 6. 8. 20, 1862, ;«. 10. 26, 1882, Martin N. Lake.

1172. Adeline Frances, 6. 6. 21, 1865, m. 9. 24, 1890, Frank B.
Doudna.

1 173. Ella, &. 7. 18, 1867, m. II. 21, 1893, Fred Hunt.

1174. Grace, d. 10. 4, 1873, m. 12. 21, 1898, John T. Heizer.

1175. Fay, d. 12. 22, 1877, m. 10. 2, 1901, Joseph DeWees.

VI. (479) Frank, Sylvanus Spencer, son of Asa and Phebe
(Piggott), born Second month 5, 1841, married Eleventh
month I, 1865, (i 176) Rachel Nora Lee. Rachel was
born Tenth month 14, 1841. The mother of Frank, Phebe
Piggott Spencer (476, this genealogy), lived with him at his
home at Spencer's Station, Ohio, until her death. Tenth month
25, 1900. She lived to the age of ninety years, ten months, and
eleven days, and was buried with her husband at Bamesville, Ohio.

VII. Children of Frank S. and Rachel {Lee) Spencer .

1 177. Cora, b. 6. 7, 1868, m. to D. L. Cowden, 9. i, 1891.

1178. Warren L., b. I. 29, 1875, m. 5. 30, 1895, Emma Eagon.

VI. (480) Harry Lindley Spencer, son of Asa and Phebe

(Piggott), born Twelfth month 30, 1842, in Guernsey county,

Ohio, married Tenth month 20, 1 869, (i 1 79) Mary Elizabeth

Paine, of Oskaloosa, Iowa. Mary was the daughter of Caleb

M. and Elizabeth H. Paine, both of whom died in 1 868. Harry

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was engaged for many years in a wholesale grocery business in
Oskaloosa, Iowa, and at the preparation of these pages is one of
the heads of the Western Grocer Company of that city, owning
and operating a large system of grocery houses in Iowa, Missouri,
Kansas, and Minnesota.

VII. Children of Harry L. and Mary (Paine) Spencer .

1 1 80. Annie E. , ;«. M. Eugene Sherman.

1 181. Gertrude M.

1 182. William Windom.

VI. (482) Amos Peasley Spencer, son of Asa and Phebe
(Piggott), born Fourth month 28, 1847, married Ninth
month II, 1872, (1183) Hannah Ann Kinsey, daughter of

Samuel B. and Rachel G. Kinsey. Amos is associated with his

elder brother as Secretary of the Western Grocery Company, and

lives at Oskaloosa, Iowa.

VII. Ckildre?t of Amos P. and Hannah (Kinsey) Spencer :

1184. Ada, m. 6. 21, 1898, William C. Sheppard, Jr., son of William
C. and Margaret.

1 185. Eva.

1 1 86. Wilbur E.

1 187. Harry K.

1 188. Helene.

1 189. Clarence M., d.

VI. (483) Nathan Spencer, son of Asa and Phebe (Piggott),
born Tenth month 22, 1850, married Ninth month 6, 1887,
(1190) Stella M. Laffer, daughter of Emanuel and Susan

F. Nathan is without children, and lives at Oskaloosa, Iowa.

VI. (484) Melissa Spencer, daughter of Asa and Phebe
(Piggott), born Eighth month 30, 1853, in Guernsey county,

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Ohio, married Third month 1 1, 1872, (i 191) Justice G. Roberts,
son of Morris and Mary E. Roberts, born Ninth month i o, 1 843
They live at Oskaloosa, Iowa.

1192

1 193

1 1 94
1195

1 196

1 197

VII. Children of Justice G. and Melissa Roberts .

Nellie A., h. 6. 18, 1873, d. 6. 25, 1896.

Irene E., b. 4. 27, 1876.

Fern M., b. 2. 27, 1878.

Spencer M., b. 7. 29, 1880.

Guy William, b. 2. 21, 1887.

Earle C, b. 8. 29, 1889.

VI. (631) Benjamin F. Nichols, son of Samuel and Tryphena
(Hanna), born Ninth month 23, 1836, married in the year i860
(1198) Lauretta Hessin, of Columbiana county, Ohio.
After his marriage, Benjamin engaged in farming, living in Ohio
until 1865, when he removed to Marshall county, Iowa. In 1893
he sold the Iowa farm, and went to Huntington, Indiana, where
he entered the lumber business, becoming owner of a planing mill,
and doing a general business in builders' supplies.

VII. Children of Benjamin and Lauretta Nichols -

1 199. Anna L., b. 2. 18, 1863, m. G. F. Goodnow.

1200. Henry H., 6. 4. 11, 1868, m. Laura Pyle.

1201. Mary A., b. 8. 15, 1869.

1202. Lucy, b. 8. 7, 1877.

1203. Samuel, b. 3. 9, 1881.

VI. (632) William J. Nichols, son of Samuel and Tryphena
(Hanna), born at Columbiana, Ohio, Tenth month 30, 1838.
He married Eleventh month 22, 1864, (1204) Elizabeth

Mary Ann Potts, daughter of William Hebdon and Catherine,

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of Homerville, Ohio. William is living in Chicago, Illinois,
where " for the past eighteen years he has been engaged in the
coal business." '

VII. Children of William J. and Elizabeth Nichols .

1205. Ariel Maria, b. 10. 11, 1865.

1206. Edgar Hebdon, b. 5. 5, 1867, m. 10. 4, 1894, Mae Wilson,
and has issue : (i) Donald Edgar, b. 11. 15, 1895 ; (2) Edna
Mae, b. 12. 4, 1898.

1207. Samuel Arthur, b. 6. 22, 1870.

1208. Catherine Tryphena, b. 2. 29, 1872.

1209. Alice Lavinia, b. i. 9, 1874.

1210. William Emmet, b. 3. 3, 1887.

VI. {(^Z'i) James H. Nichols, son of Samuel and Tryphena
(Hanna), born Third month 27, 1847, at New Lisbon, Ohio,
married Tenth month 12, 1871, (121 1) Althea Brayton,

daughter of Horatio S. and Jeanette F., of State Centre, Iowa.

He is Treasurer and General Manager of the Nichols Flour

Company of Des Moines, Iowa, where his home now is. Althea

died at Des Moines, Seventh month 22, 1896.

VII. Children of James H. and Althea (Brayton) Nichols .

1212. Bessie L. , b. 3. 3, 1873, m. 8. 18, 1892, David L. Skiff, and
has issue, surname Skiff : Marjorie, b. 9. 9, 1897.

12 13. Edith M., b. 6. 29, 1876, m. 9. 26, 1900, Wilford O. Clure.

1214. Flora A., b. 2. 23, 1883.

VI. (634) Spencer Jones Nichols, son of Samuel and Tryphena
(Hanna), bom First month 15, 1850, married Tenth month
I, 1879, (121 5) Hattie Emily Jones, daughter of John and

Amelia C, of State Centre, Iowa. As previously stated (p. 155),

' Letter received from W. J. N., in 1897.

THE SPENCER FAMILY 223

Spencer was engaged during his youth in the grocery business
in Iowa with his father, but later removed to Chicago and entered
the retail coal trade. Hattie died in Chicago, Seventh month
18, 1894, and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery, near
that city.

VII. Children of Spencer J. and Hattie E. Nichols :

1216. Emily Lavinia, b. 10. 6, 1883.

1217. Kittie Alice, b. 7. 27, 1885.

VI. (63 s) Rachel Alice Nichols, daughter of Samuel and

Tryphena (Hanna), born Twelfth month 6, 1856, married

Second month 28, 1877, (1218) John H. Mills, son of

Henry and Esther R., of Clear Creek, 111. John was bom First

month 18, 1844, and died Tenth month 28, 1887.

VII. Children of John H. and Alice Mills :
\-2.i<). Carrie T., b. 7. 18, 1878.
1220. Ruth E., b. 4. 10, 1885.

VI. (749) Sherwood Raymond Roberts, son of Spencer and
Louisa (Raymond), born in Philadelphia, Eighth month 30,
1845, married Sixth month 7, 1877, (1221) Jane Tagg
DiLLiN, daughter of Eli and Elizabeth R., bom Fifth month 10,
1847, "^i^fi Fifth month 19, 1878. There were no children of
this marriage.

In 1883 (Second month 13) S. Raymond married (2nd) Jean
Haydock Griffen (1222), daughter of John L. and Sarah H.
Griffen, of New York City, born Tenth month 13, 1852.

S. Raymond was educated in Philadelphia, and has been for
most of his life engaged in commercial pursuits. He is exten-
sively interested in natural history, and is regarded as an authority

224 THE SPENCER FAMILY

in some of its branches. He is recorder of the Conchology
section of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, and
has been a member of that institution since 1866. Before his
removal to his present home at Glen Ridge, New Jersey, he was
actively interested in First-day School work in Philadelphia, and
was one of the founders of the Beach Street Mission.

VII. Children of S. Ray7nond and Jean Roberts :

1223. Walter Ernest, b. 8. 30, 1885. He is (1902) a student at
Swarthmore College.

1224. Edith Adeline, b. 6. 8, 1887.

1225. Mildred Louise, b. 3. 29, 1891.

VI. (750) George Roberts, son of Spencer and Louisa J.
(Raymond), was born Twelfth month 6, 1846, and married
Eleventh month 2, 1871, (1226) Louisa J. Raymond,

daughter of Lemuel and Maria, of Waupun, Wisconsin. Louisa

was born Eighth month 30, 1849.

George is a physician, and is now (1902) living with his

family at Lincoln, Virginia.

VII. Children of George and Louisa (^Raymond) Roberts :

1227. Louisa Jane, b. 9. 3, 1872, d. 4. 16, 1902, m. 12. 8, 1893,
Herman V. Persells, and had issue, surname Persells : (l)
Harold V., b. 7. 24, 1894, d. 7. 15, 1900; (2) Geneveve
Helen, i. 6. 6, 1896 ; (3) Louisa Josephine, b. i. 13, 1899 ; (4)
Marguerite Alice, b. 3. 28, 1902, d. 8. 14, 1902.

1228. Emily Lewis, b. 12. 25, 1874, d. 11. 28, 1899, m. 2. i, 1899,
W. A. Hufsmith, and had issue one son, surname Hufsmith,
William, b. II. 12, 1899.

1229. Spencer, b. 2. u, 1876, m. 6. 28, 1901, Anna M. Vertz, and
has one child, Geneveve Harriet, b. 8. 4, 1902.

1230. Sarah, b. 10. 14, 1877.

THE SPENCER FAMIL V 225

1231. Helen, 6. 2. 19, 1879, '«■ 7- lo- 1901, W. H. Reed, and has
issue, surname jfi:^;/ .■ Sadie Arbutis, ^. 7. 10, 1902.

1232. Alice, d. 9. 22, 1882.

1233. Bessie, i. 12. 6, 1884.

1234. Mabel Arbutis, d. i. 10, 1888.

VII. (967) Hugh Oscar Roberts, son of Spencer and Elizabeth
(Hagy) bom Second month 2, 1836, married Ninth month
21, 1865, (1235) Anna Maria Gehrig, daughter of Jacob

H. Gemrig. " Oscar . . served in the Union army

during the war of the RebeUion, and was twice wounded," says

Ellwood Roberts, in "Old Richland Families."

V///. Children of H. Oscar and Anna Maria Roberts :

1236. Alvirda Dunham, d. 7. 12, 1868, d. 1874.

1237. Adelaide M., 6. 10. 25, 1873.

1238. Clarence J., i. 2. 7, 1878.

1239. Anna Gertrude, i. 10. 21, 1879.

VII. (968) Susanna Hagy Roberts, daughter of Spencer and
Elizabeth (Hagy), born Eighth month 27, 1837, married
Fourth month 25, 1866, (1240) Lilburn Harwood Steel,
son of Canby and Amelia (Martin) Steel, born in Philadelphia
Ninth month 10, 1829, and died Fifth month 21, 1885. He had
previously married (Ninth month 10, 1857) Jane Ann Leedom,
and had one son, George P. Steel, born Eighth month 2, 1858,
who married Kelsy Sanderson.

Lilburn was connected for thirty years with the Pennsylvania
Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities, and at
the time of his death was Secretary and Treasurer of that
corporation.

226 THE SPENCER FAMILY

VIII. Children of Lilburn and Susantia Steel :

1241. Helen Wriggins, 6. 2. 4, 1868, ;«. 4. 23, 1889, Clarence R.
Peterson, and has issue, surname Peterson, Clarence R., Jr.,
b. 12. 18, 1892.

1242. Canby, h. 12. 14, 1869.

1243. Estelle M., b. 6. 5, 1879.

1244. Lilburn Harwood, Jr., b. 9. 27, 1 88 1.

VII. (969) Charles Rorer Roberts, son of Spencer and
Elizabeth (Hagy) Roberts, of Germantown, born Fourth
month 4, 1839, married Fourth month 30, 1873, (1245)

Janie Shaw Pearson, daughter of Hamlet and Sarah E. Pearson.

Janie was born Third month 2, 1851, and died Ninth month 26,

1877. After her death, Charles married (2nd) Fourth month

22, 1 88 1, (1246) Louisa Jane Gay, daughter of John and

Deborah A. Gay, born Fourth month 9, 1855.

Charles has been employed for many years in the Custom

House, Philadelphia, and at the United States Mint in that city.

He lives in Germantown.

VIII. Children of Charles and fanie {Pearson) Roberts :

1247. Hamlet Pearson, b. and d. 3. 10, 1874.

1248. Charles Hamlet, b. 5. 29, 1875.

1249. Janie Shaw, b. and d. 9. 16, 1877.

1250,
1251
1252

1253
1254
1255

VIII. Children of Charles and Louisa (Gay) Roberts .

Lulu Evelyn, b. 3. 28, 1882, d. 8. 18, 1882.
Thomas S. Gay, b. 8. 25, 1883, d. 7. 7, 1884.
James Gay, b. 7. 7, 1885.
Mary Louisa, I
Adelaide Gay, j ■ "■• ' '
Spencer, 3rd., b. 8. 18, 1892.

THE SPENCER FAMILY 227

VII. (970) Algernon Sydney Roberts, son of Spencer and
Elizabeth (Hagy), born Ninth month 27, 1840, died Third
month 3, 1870, married Eleventh month 22, 1864, (1256)
Elizabeth Justice Pearson, born Eighth month 30, 1839,
daughter of Isaac and Ruth. Algernon was employed for
many years with Joel J. Baily and Company of Philadelphia.

VIII. Child of Algernon and Elizabeth (^Pearson) Roberts :

1257. Isaac Pearson, b. 3. 26, 1868, ;«. 4. 9, 1891, Louisa Pharo
Willits, dau. of Samuel Cowley and Phebe (Pearson), b. 7. 4,
1864, and has issue: (i) Elizabeth Pearson, b. 4. 26, 1892,
d. 7. 30, 1892 ; (2) Ruth Pearson, b. 10. 13, 1893 ; (3)
Samuel Willits, b. g. 29, 1894.

VII. (971) John Taylor Roberts, son of Spencer and Elizabeth
(Taylor), born Eighth month 14, 1847, married Third month
10, 1870 (1258) Hannah Maul Matlack, daughter of Dr.

Charles French and Sara Ann Matlack. John died in the

summer of 1899.

VIII. Children of fohii T. and Hannah {Matlack') Roberts .

1259. Sara Matlack, b. 5. 6, 1871, m. 6. 19, 1900, Cornehus
Weygandt.

1260. Spencer, b. 5. 2, 1873, m. 6. i, 1888, Helen S. White.

1261. Edith, b. 12. 31, 1875, m. 4. 17, 1895, Walter Gibson Sibley,
son of Edward Abbott and Ellen (Gibson), and has one child,
surname Sibley Edward A.

1262. EUzabeth Ann, b. 9. 18, 1877, d. 3. 10, 1892.

1263. John T., Jr., b. 9. 2, 1879.

VII. (972) Enoch Taylor Roberts, son of Spencer and Elizabeth
(Taylor) Roberts, was born in Germantown, First month 25,
1849, and married Sixth month 11, 1874 (1264) Helen A.

228 THE SPENCER FAMILY

Woods, born Second month 22, 185 1, daughter of George and
Caroline Woods, of Pittsburg. Enoch lives (1902) in Germantown,
Philadelphia, where he is a large dealer in coal, flour, grain, etc.

VIII. Children of Enoch and Helen ( Woods) Roberts :

1265. Elizabeth Taylor, l>. 4. 15, 1875, m. 6. 4, 1901, Dr. Robert S.
Macrum, of Pittsburg, and lives at Sewickley, Pa.

1266. Anna Woods, i. 11. 23, 1878.

VII. (1009) Howard Malcolm Jenkins, son of Algernon S.

and Anna Maria (Thomas), born Third month 30, 1842,

married at Upper Dublin, Pa., Third month 16, 1865 (1267)
Mary Anna Atkinson, daughter of Thomas and Hannah
(Quinby), born Twelfth month 5, 1843.

Howard was educated at Gwynedd, Pa., where he was born,
passing three years at the Gwynedd Boarding School, widely known
in its time, kept by Hugh Foulke. Upon leaving this institution
he taught school at New Britain, Bucks county, Pa., for one
winter. During his school life Howard had developed a marked
literaiy talent, and in 1862, with Wilmer Atkinson (later to become
his brother-in-law) he bought the Norristown (Pa.) Republican,
and conducted it as editor (in 1 864 it was merged into the Herald^
until 1 866. In this year he moved to Wilmington, Delaware,
and (again with W. A.) founded in that city the Daily Commercial
— the first daily paper in Delaware.

While editor of the Republican, he twice entered the emergency
service of the Pennsylvania militia, called out in 1862 and again
in iS63,to repel Lee's invasions of Pennsylvania. He was within
hearing of both the great battles in which Lee was checked,
Antietam and Gettysburg, but was actually engaged in neither.

Upon the. sale of the Cointnercial m 1877 he was connected

THE SPENCER FAMILY 229

with the Philadelphia Times and the West Chester Village Record,
and became in 188 1 editor of the American (Philadelphia) with
which he remained until 1891. In 1884 he bought Xh^ Journal
(Philadelphia, weekly) and upon its merging with the Friends'
Intelligencer in 1885 he became chief editor of the combined
paper, and retained that position until his death. For five years,
beginning in 1891, he was associated with Charles Heber Clark
in conducting the Manufacturer.

The purely literary labors of Howard M. Jenkins were
extensive. He wrote " Historical Collections Relating to
Gwynedd," volume I. of John Russell Young's " Memorial
History of Philadelphia," and "The Family of WiUiam Penn."
He was engaged at the time of his death on a comprehensive
histoiy of Pennsylvania,^ and had nearly completed this present
volume. The number of essays, historical sketches, and
pamphlets from his pen is large.

Not only as the editor of the Society's organ, but in many
lines of devoted effort, and by virtue of high character and
intellect, Howard M. Jenkins was a leader of the Society of
Friends. His activities in outside fields, historical, educational, and
philanthropic, were too extensive and varied for enumeration here.

He died (as did his father and his maternal grandfather,
Spencer Thomas) by an accidental fall, received Tenth month 1 1 ,
1902, at Cresco, Monroe county. Pa. He was buried at Upper
Dublin Friends' burying-ground, Montgomery county. Pa.

iThis work, in three volumes, has since been completed under the competent
editorship of Charles P. Keith, of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. The first two
volumes are devoted to a narrative and critical history of the State , while the last contains
chapters on special topics — the Railroads, the Laws, Libraries, etc. — by various writers.
In its historical accuracy, literary excellence, and wide scope, this work is probably the
last word to be spoken on the history of Pennsylvania for years to come. It is issued
by the Pennsylvania Historical Publishing Association, with Howard M. Jenkins as
Editor-in-chief.

230 THE SPENCER FAMILY

VIII. Children of Howat'd M. and Mary Anna (Atki7tson) Jenkins :

1268. Charles Francis, b. 12. 17, 1865, m. 2. 12, 1890, Maria
Galloway Cope, daughter of Edward and Isabella (Mitchell)
Cope, of Germantown, and has issue : (i) Algernon Sydney,
b. I. 27, 1891 ; (2) Isabella Cope, b. 9. 3, 1893 ; (3) Charles
Francis, Jr., b. I. 31, 1 901.

1269. Anna Mary, b. i. 7, 1867, in. 5. 10, 1893, I. Daniel Webster,
of Lancaster county, and has children, surname Webster: (l)
Dorothea, b. 2. 12, 1894 ; (2) Agnes Elizabeth, b. 3. 29,
1897 ; (3) Alan King, b. i. 12, 1899 ; (4) Philip Jenkins, b.
6. 7, 1900. Address Mankato, Minnesota.

1270. Thomas Atkinson, b. 5. 24, i868, m. 6. 19, 1894, Marian,
daughter of Edward H. and Sarah (Beans) Magill, of Swarth-
more, Pa. Their children . (i) Beatrice Magill, b. 7. 17,
1895 ; (2) Edward Magill, b. 9. 7, 1897 ; (3) Francis Arthur,
b. 6. 2, 1899 ; (4) Wilmer Atkinson, b. 4. 16, 1901.

1 27 1. Edward Atkinson, b. 7. 8, 1870, m. 8. 12, 1896, Mary Ellen
Atkinson, daughter of T. Howard and Mary (Williams) Atkin-
son, of Buckingham, Pa., and has issue : (i) Howard Malcolm,
Jr., b. 7. 23, 1897 ; (2) Miriam Atkinson, b. 2. 3, 1899; (3)
Barbara Schofield, b. 8. 26, 1902.

1272. Algernon Sydney, Jr., b. 10. 21, 1874, d. i. 21, 1878.

1273. Florence, /;. 9. i, 1876.

1274. Arthur Hugh, b. 12. 5, 1880.

VII. (1094) Benajah Hiatt Spencer, son of Nathan and
Louisa (Hiatt), born Third month 21, 1S45, married Seventh
month 9, 1865 (1275) Betsie Ann, daughter of Greenleaf
GHdden, born Fifth month 17, 1846. Benajah left the family-
residence in Indiana about the time of his marriage, and moved to
Buchanan, Michigan, entering the business of furniture manufac-
ture. In 1 89 1 he removed to Benton Harbor, in the same State,
and resides (1902) at this place, being President of the Spencer
and Barnes Company, manufacturers of furniture.

THE SPENCER FAMILY 231

VIII. Children of Benajah H. and Betsie {Glidden') Spencer :

1276. Ada Alvaretta, b. 8. 9, 1866, m. 3. 21, 1895, Olaf K. Monson,
b. 2. 22, 1846, and has issue, surname Monson . (i) Laurence
Spencer, b. 10. 27, 1896 ; (2) Robert Bayard, b. 2. 9, 1899.
Olaf lives in Chicago, Illinois, with his family.

1277. Mary Louisa, b. 8. 7, 1868.

1278. Alice Eugenia, b. 3. 24, 1874, m. 12. 17, 1902, Frank Martyn
Shaw, and Uves at Oneida, Illinois.

1279. Irvin E., b. i. I, 1879.

1280. Jean Winifred, b. 4. 12, 1887.

VII. (1095) Joseph Henry Spencer, son of Nathan and Leah
(Pickering), was born Ninth month 27, 1846, and is hving
(1902) in Indiana. He married Ninth month 18, 1870

(1281) Sarah Jane, daughter of John Van Dyne, born Twelfth

month I, 1844.

VIII. Children of foseph H. ayid Sarah Spencer :

1282. Ella, b. 4. 26, 1872, ;;/. 12. 12, 1893, Edwin Burwick, b. 6.
13, 1871. They have issue, surname Burwick: (i) Inez
Ethel, b. 9. 25, 1S94; (2) Alvah Henr)', b. 9. 18, 1896; (3)
William Lloyd, b. 10. 22, 1898 ; (4) Iva Fern, b. i. 16, 1901 ;
(5) John Edwin, b. 4. 17, 1903.

1283. Edmund, b. 5. 26, 1876, d. i. i, 1880.

VII. (1122) Elias Branson Cowgill, son of Phineas and

Sarah (Branson), born Third month 27, 1845, married Ninth

month 12, 1869, (1284) Helen Prescott, daughter of John

S. and Mary E. (Harris) Prescott, born Twelfth month 20, 1848,

died at Great Bend, Kansas, Twelfth month 13, 1874.

Elias subsequently married (2nd) Fifth month 27, 1877,
(1285) Rena Harriman, daughter of Dr. Leonard and Angelina
Harriman of Sterling, Kansas, born Second month 28, 1854.

232 THE SPENCER FAMILY

Elias is living at Topeka, Kansas, being President of the
Kansas Farmer Company, which publishes the Kansas Farmer,
in that city.

VIII. Child of Elias B. and Helen {PrescoW) Cowgill :

1286. Sarah Prescott, b. 7. 24, 1870, m. 11. 12, 1895, William J.
Graves.

VIII. Children of Elias B. and Rena (Harriman^ Cowgill :
1287.

12SH
1289
1290
1291
1292
1293
1294

Ruth, b. 5. 20, 1878.
Horace Branson, b. 10. 14, 1880.
Ella Lee, b. 9. 10, 1882.
Harry Leonard, b. 12. i, 1884.
Clyde Phineas, b. 10. 31, 1887.
Clinton Harriman, b. 9. 6, 1890.
Paul Kezer, b. 12. 18, 1892.
David Martin, b. 12. 18, 1894.

VII. (1123) Henry Cowgill, son of Phineas and Sarah
(Branson) born Fifth month 25, 1847, married Third month
16, 1870, (1295) Cornelia, daughter of Matthew Teneyck,
born at Iowa City, Iowa, Fourth month 19, 1849. Henry
lives on the farm in Johnson county, Iowa, which his father pre-
empted in 1852. He removed at one time to California, and
again to the State of Washington, but returned each time to the
old farm.

VIII. Children of Henry and Cornelia (Tencycli) Cowgill :

1296,
1297
1298
1299
1300
1301

Bertha, b. 10. 2, 1875, d.
Ralph Frederick, b. 7. 26, 1880.
Erma Mary, b. 5. 10, 1883.
Golden Clair, b. 8. 22, 1887.
Henry Lee, b. I. 19, 1891.
Clifton A., b. 12. 12, 1895.

VII.
Supplementary Chapter.

IT has seemed advisable to add to the purely genealogical
matter a short chapter dealing with certain points, of which
some bear but indirectly on the Spencer Family in America,
while others are facts which were inadvertently omitted from the
book, or were collected after its preparation.

SOME FURTHER GENEALOGICAL MATTER.

Since the preparation of the earlier part of this volume,
Robert Underwood Johnson, one of the editors of the Century
magazine, of New York, has been able to secure and has kindly
furnished considerable further information as to the family ol
Nathan Spencer, (ii), from whom he is descended.

IV. The children of Nathan were :

63. Margaret, daughter of Nathan and Hannah (Lofborough)
Spencer, b. i. 29, 1757, married (ist) John Nichols, and had

issue, saxTViXOR Nichols : (l) Mary, m. Evans ; (2) Ann,

m. Russell ; (3) Nathan, m. Sarah Thomas, dau. of

Owen Thomas. Margaret married (2nd) Asa Holloway. No
children.

64. Samuel, b. 4. 26, 1759, ^^^ married twice, as stated p. 67, and

had four children, Edmund, Mary m. Goldsberry,

Nathan and William.

65. Mary, b. 4. 29, 1761, married Ezekiel Smith, and had nine

children : Samuel, Nathan, Euphemia (m. Patton),

Mahlon, William, Hannah {m. Fisher), John, Spencer,

and Aaron.

234

THE SPENCER FAMILY

66.

John, b. 3. II, 1763, married and had issue: (i) Hannah,

m. Eaton ; (2) Joseph ; (3) AHce, m. Coffee ;

(4) Aaron ; (5) Euphemia, m. Pitman ; (6) George,

(7) Lydia, m. Branson ; (8) Amy, vt. White ;

(9) Betsey, ;«. Coffee ; (10) Sarah, m. White.

William, b. 7. 12, 1765. His children were John, Edith

{m. Smith), Ann {m. Ring), Mary {tii.

— Ady),

68.
69.

70.
7'-

Herford), James, Nathan, Samuel, Hannah {in. —
William, Sarah (twins), Catharine, Rebecca, and Margaret.
Nathan, for account of whom see page 99 and following.
Hannah, (see p. 69) had five children, of whom Rachel

111. Lanning, and Maria, Morris.

Rachel, b. 9. 6, 1773. P

Sarah, b. 3. 7, 1776, ?«. Jacob Smith, d. 5. 25, 1815. She

had issue, surname Smith : (i) Anna, m. Crampton ;

(2) Nathan ; (3) Letitia, wz. Morrow, d. 8. 20, 1840;

(4) Gulielma, m. Hasty, d. 10. 28, 1835 ; (5) Mary,

m. Morrow ; (6) Ezra ; (7) Sarah, d. 10. — , 1819.

h

12. 14, 1794.

IV. (70) Rachel Spencer married Noah Johnson, who was a
grandson of Garrett Johnson, an early arrival in New
Netherland from Holland. The children of Noah and
Rachel were :

Nathan,

Hannah,

Lucretia.

Joseph.

Achsah.

Aletha.

Charles.

Mary.

Bushrod.

Nathan Johnson, son of Noah and Rachel (Spencer), born
as above Twelfth month 14, 1794, died First month 4, 1872,
married Sarah Hoge. Sarah was born Eighth month 31,
1798, and died Third month 13, 1871.

THE SPENCER FAMILY 235

VI. Children of Nathan and Sarah Johnson .

1. Nimrod Hoge, b. 9. 16. 1820, in. in 2nd mo., 1844 (ist)
Clarissa M. Ireland, who d. 4. 22, 1845. They had one dau.,
Clarissa Lucetta, b. \. 11, 1845. Nimrod in. (2nd) Catharine
Coyle Underwood, by whom he had two sons, Henry Under-
wood and Robert Underwood.

2. Ruth Hoge, b. 4. 12, 1822, ;;;. 12. 5, 1843, Alfred D. Williams,
and had four children.

3. Lemuel Riddick, b. 6. 28, 1824, d. n. 12, 1889, iinm.

4. Ehzabeth Hoge, b. 8. 14, 1826, m. Paul H. Berkan, and had
one daughter. All three are now deceased.

Aletha Johnson, 4th daughter of Noah and Rachel
(Spencer), married Thomas Leeslie, and had six children :
Lucretia, Nathan, Nathaniel, Angelina, Bushrod, and Francis E. V.

III. (21) Some further dates as to Thomas Spencer and his
family are at hand. Thomas died Fourth month 3, 181 1.
His wife Mary (Hallowell) died Sixth month 5, 1824, "aged

84 years, 3 months, 2 days." William, the son of Thomas
and Mary, had four children, whose dates are as follows :

1. Mary, b. 3. 4, 1788, d. 8. 14, 1840.

2. Sarah, b. 3. 27, 1790, d. 3. 28, 1812.

3. Margaret, b. 9. 14, 1794, d. 5. 8, 1813.
7. Elizabeth, b. 7. 25, 1802, d. 6. 30, 1815.

Margaret (104) daughter of Thomas and Mary, who married
William Worthington, died Tenth month 8, 1802.

IV. (107) John Spencer's son, John K. Spencer, died at
Wrightstown, Pa., in 1871. His wife was Sarah D. Hart,
daughter of Joshua and Martha (Bonham) Hart, of Warmin-

236 THE SPENCER FAMILY

ster, Bucks County, born in 1827, and died in Newtown (Bucks)
Seventh month 29, 1898. John K. and Sarah had two sons,
Samuel K. and John Charles, both of whom lived (1898) in
Philadelphia.

VI. (427) The children of George W. McIlvaine, son of
Jeremiah and Ann, were :

1. John Morton, b. 8. 22, 1868, m. 12. 24, 1897 Mary Elizabeth
Fredenburgh, of Norwich, Conn. He is a graduate of the
medical and dental schools of the Universities of Maryland
and Michigan, and is in practise in Pawtucket, R. I.

2. Bernard Stump, b. 7. 29, 1871, graduated from Swarthmore
College in 1892 and lives at Churchville, Md.

3. Henry Stump, b. 11. 24, 1877.

VI. (435) Levis Miller, Jr., son of Levis and Ann, was heard
from, it appears, subsequently to the letter mentioned on page
136. A later letter was received by General Leiper, written
from the terrible Andersonville prison, saying that he was in
excellent health, and was at that time expecting to be exchanged
shortly. No further word was ever received, and the presump-
tion is that he was actually exchanged, but perished on his way
north with other released prisoners on a transport which foun-
dered at sea.

VI. (477) Ellen Plummer Spencer, eldest daughter of Asa
and Phebe E., was born Tenth month i, 1835, and died
Twelfth month 30, 1895, at Zanesville, O. She married

First month 2, 1855, Phineas C. Cowgill, who was born Eighth

month 9, 1828, and died Fifth month 19, 1895. Their children

follow.

THE SPENCER FAMILY 237

VII. Children of Phineas and Ellen Cowgill .

1. Alva B., b. 2. 9, 1856.

2. Charles D., b. 4. 17, 1858.

3. Ella, b. 8. 8, i860.

4. Grant H., b. 11. 23, 1864, rf. 11. 25, 1887.

VI. (481) John Piggott Spencer, son of Asa and Phebe E.
(Piggott), born Third month 27, 1845, in Guernsey Co.,
Ohio, married, Second month 20, 1872, Lydia G. Frame,

daughter of Thomas (died Tenth month 13, 1902) and EHzabeth.
John married (2nd) Third month 26, 1889, Ella (Moore)
Needham, daughter of Henry C. and EHzabeth L. Moore.
Lives at Oskaloosa, Iowa.

VII. (985) Thomas H. Livezey, son of Samuel and Mary
(Roberts) Livezey, married Tenth month i, 1902, Joanna M.,
daughter of WilHam and Caroline R. Miller, and resides at

Norristown, Pa.

VII. (1068) Anna McIlvaine Miller, youngest daughter of
George Deeble and Anna C. Miller, was married Eleventh
month 18, 1902 in Philadelphia, to Edward T. Biddle.

VII. (1075) George M. Booth, who married (439) Ellen
Miller, was the son of William and Elizabeth Martin Booth,
and was born Ninth month 19, 1 8 5 i . His eldest son, Levis

Miller (1076), married Fourth month 24, 1902, Alice, daughter

of Ezra and Anna (Sutton) Lippincott, of Riverton, N. J., born

Sixth month 2, 1878.

238 THE SPENCER FAMILY

FAMILIES IN ENGLAND NAMED SPENCER.

Emphasizing the absence of knowledge of the connection —
though presuming there was one — between the Barbadoes
Samuel Spencer and others of his name in England, it may still
be of interest to refer, very briefly, to some of the English
Spencers. They are numerous, and — like most families — are
found in all conditions of life.

In the present " Peerage" of England three titles are borne
by the family of Spencer : those of the Duke of Marlborough,
Earl Spencer, and Baron Churchill. These peers are descended
from one ancestry, represented in the early years of the Sixteenth
Century by Sir John Spencer of Wormleighton, in Warwickshire,
who died 1521. From him descended another Sir John
Spencer, of Althorp, in Northamptonshire, who died 1600. It
appears probable that the middle and northern counties of
England, especially Warwick and Northampton, were the home
of those families who earliest bore the Spencer surname. Robert
Spencer, the son of Sir John of Northampton, was " raised to
the peerage," in 1603, by Queen Elizabeth, with the title of
" Baron Spencer of Wormleighton," and it v/as this Robert
whose dispute over a question of " the king's prerogative," with
Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, in 1621, in the House of
Lords, occasioned an affront and a retort which the chroniclers
have preserved. "My Lord," said Arundel, with great con-
tempt, and designing to crush the "new creation" at a stroke,
" when these things were doing, your ancestors were keeping
sheep!" "When my ancestors were keeping sheep," shouted
Spencer, " your ancestors were plotting treason ! "

In the next generation these Baron Spencers rose to be Earls,
— thus taking two steps in the peerage. The son of Robert who
"sauced" the Howard in 162 1 was Heniy, whom in 1643

THE SPENCER FAMILY 239

Charles I. made Earl of Sunderland. This was in June of that
year, and in the following September he was killed in the battle
of Newbury, fighting — of course — on the side of the king. Just
ninety years later the Earls of Sunderland, lineal descendants ot
this Henry, became the Dukes of Marlborough, and so attained
the highest and most coveted place in the Peerage. Henry's
grandson, Charles, third Earl of Sunderland, Hved in the time of
Queen Anne and George I., and was one of the leaders of the
Whigs. It was he who was Prime Minister at the time of the
bursting of the "South Sea Bubble," in 1721, and who, narrowly
escaping the ruin of his reputation by that explosion, resigned
his office and soon died. His second wife was Anne, second
daughter of that famous soldier, John Churchill, the first Duke
of Marlborough, — the commander whose genius for war and
success in battle, fortunately for him, have overshadowed the
duplicity, the greed, and other sundry like qualities of his
character. When he died (1722) leaving no son, his title passed,
by virtue of a special Act of Parliament, through his daughters
to their children, and so it fell out in 1733 that Charles
Spencer, fifth Earl of Sunderland, became the third Duke of
Marlborough.'

The family of the Marlborough dukedom adopted in 1807,
"by royal license," the additional name of Churchill, and since
have been the Spencer-Churchills. In the ducal coat-of-arms,
half the shield is quartered for Churchill, and half for Spencer,
— the latter, in the jargon of heraldry, being : " Second and
third quarterly argent and gules ; on a bend sable, between two

^ Henrietta, elder daughter of the old Duke, inherited the title as Duchess of
Marlborough, snd so represented a second Duke; at her death it passed to her
nephew, Charles Spencer, as stated above, liis mother, Anne, having died before
Henrietta.

240 THE SPENCER FAMILY

frettes or, three escallops ^ of the first. Crest, for Spencer : out
of a ducal coronet a demi griffin " [etc].

The Earls Spencer are an offshoot from the line just described.
In 1 76 1, John Spencer of Althorp was made a Baron, by George
III., and in 1765 an Earl. This John Spencer was the grandson
of the Earl of Sunderland who, as above said, married Anne
Churchill, and he was therefore nephew to the Charles Earl of
Sunderland who became Duke of Marlborough. To his father,
John Spencer, is attributed the mot of "root and branch." His
grandmother, Sarah Jennings, the famous Duchess of Marlbor-
ough, survived her husband twenty-two years, and her enormous
private property, not attached to the dukedom, meanwhile awaited
distribution. She was accustomed to give an annual festival, to
which she invited all her relatives, many of whom were anxiously
expectant of legacies to come. Viewing the company, at one of
these gatherings, she exclaimed : " What a glorious sight ! so
many fine branches from one root ! " "Ah ! " said " Jack " Spen-
cer, aside, to a cousin, " the branches would flourish better if the
root were underground ! "

The old Duchess died in 1744, at the age of eighty-five, and
this " Jack " Spencer, her grandson, received a large part of her
wealth. From him descends the present Earl Spencer, the most
distinguished, doubtless, of the line — John Poyntz Spencer, born
in 1835, a leader of the Liberal Party of Great Britain, and a
member twice of the Cabinet of Mr. Gladstone. It is he who was
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1861 to 1865, and again from
1882 to 1885, and who after a most trying experience in the
administration of his office, incurring vehement criticism from the

1 The escallop, or " scollop " shells were, it is said, in the earliest arms of the
Warwickshire family. An escallop signified, in the old heraldry, that the bearer had
made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, such a shell being common on the seacoast of
Palestine, and therefore often carried about the dress of one returning from there.

THE SPENCER FAMILY 241

Irish leaders, became a convert himself to Home Rule. His
family are " Spencers of Althorp," and their seat is in Northamp-
tonshire. Their arms are the three escallops, already mentioned,
with a griffin and ducal coronet for crest.

The third place in the " Peerage," that of the Barons Churchill,
is a still more recent " creation." It dates from 1815, when Francis
Almeric Spencer, son of the then (fourth) Duke of Marlborough,
was created a peer, with the title Baron Churchill of Wychwood
Forest, county Oxford. He was then 36 years old, and died
thirty years later. The present peer, his grandson, is Victor
Albert Francis Charles Churchill-Spencer, born 1864, succeeded
1886, married 1887 the daughter of the Earl of Lonsdale. His
principal " seat " is Cornbury Park, Charlbury, Oxfordshire.

The arms of the Barons Churchill are a combination, like
those of the Dukes of Marlborough, of the insignia of Spencer
and Churchill.

This sketch of the Spencers who are accounted of the Nobility
of England, might of course be greatly amplified. Those who
desire to pursue the subject will find abundant further details in
the works devoted to such matters, — Debrett, Burke, Lodge, etc.
Looking, now, for those of the name who have not had the fortune
to become Dukes, or Earls, or even Barons, we may find in Burke's
" General Armory," many families and individuals of the name
mentioned as now or formerly existent. A Sir James Spencer
(of a Cheshire family, apparently), was Lord Mayor of London in
1527, and a Sir John Spencer held the same dignity in 1594, —
the latter possibly the same Sir John of Althorp who died in 1 600.
Other Spencers are mentioned by Burke in all parts of England,
— in Lancaster, Warwick, Bedford, London, Chester, Devon,
Kent, Northampton, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Norfolk, Suffolk, York,
Northumberland, Salop, Stafford, and perhaps others. Their

242 THE SPENCER FAMILY

coats-of-arms bore in numerous instances the "three escallops,"
but several families bore three, or six, sea-mews' heads,' while
others had devices altogether different.

The Spencers who became Earls of Sunderland and subse-
quently Dukes of Marlborough, appear to have been partisans of
the King's side of public questions, as may be judged from Robert
Spencer's dispute with the Earl of Arundel, and from his taking
the side of Charles in the Civil War. There were, however, other
members of the family who took the popular side in that great
struggle. Among these were the Spencers of Bramley Grange in
Yorkshire, now extinct, apparently, in the male line. They were
"presumed to be a branch of the noble house of Spencer," and
traced their descent to Thomas Spencer, who "came out of
Northamptonshire and settled at Sheffield," and who was
" descended from the ancient stock of Spencer of Bradley." This
Thomas Spencer's great-grandson, William, b. i6i2, d. 1686, was
a lieutenant-colonel in the Parliamentary army, in the Civil War,
(his family relatives, the Westbys, Brights, and Hatfields, generally
taking the same side), and he may have been in the battle of
Newbury, arrayed against Earl Robert, when the latter met his
death. His descendants maintained their ground, apparently, for
Colonel William Spencer's grandson, Thomas Spencer {b. 1670,
d. 1703), married Elizabeth Fairfax, the granddaughter of Sir
William Fairfax, the Parliamentary general who fell at the siege
of Montgomery Castle, in 1644. This family, the Spencers of
Bramley Grange, were represented in the present century ^
(probably to the middle, or later years), by Rev. William Paken-
ham-Spencer, who apparently left no heirs male. Their' arms

^ The arms of Spencer of Wormleighton (1500) were : " Azure, a fess ermine
between six sea mews' heads, erased, argent."

^ That is, the 19th. This sketch of the English Spencers was prepared about
iSgi.— A. H. J.

THE SPENCER FAMIL V 243

were an example of the sea-mews' head class : "Azure a fesse,
ermine, wavy, between six sea-mews' heads, erased, argent.
Crest, a rock, thereon a sea-mew proper."

Another Yorkshire family were the Spencers " of Cannon
Hall," near Barnsley. This family became extinct in the direct
male line, upon the death of John Spencer, in the last century.
His sister, Anne, having married Walter Stanhope, the latter's
son, Walter Spencer Stanhope, " assumed the additional surname
and arms of Spencer," the arms being the same as those of the
family of Bramley Grange.

To trace these families, whose dignity or possession of land
gives them a place in the heraldic records, is comparatively easy,
and they are here mentioned simply because of that fact. There
are many other Spencers in England, and an examination of the
records of the people,— parish registers, tenants' lists, voters' lists,
etc., etc., — even of a casual character, shows persons of the name
in all parts of the kingdom, many of whom may be, and very
probably are as much entitled to our attention and esteem as if
they had flattered a monarch, or defended his " prerogative," or
shared the plunder of his victorious armies. And it scarcely
needs to be repeated that the link of kinship which connects any
of them, great or small, eminent or obscure, with the Spencers
who are descended from the Barbadoes Samuel is not a matter
within our knowledge. Those of them whose record is most
honorable, — judged by the justest standards, — may be nearest in
blood to him and his descendants, or they may be the most
distant.

Index to the Descendants of Samuel Spencer

The female members of the family are indexed under
their birth-names, the names taken on marriage being
placed in parentheses. The figures in parentheses are
the genealogical reference numbers ; the others are the
pages where information will be found.

Anderson, Amanda (Rob-
erts) (759), 168
Atkinson, Mary Anna (Jen-
kins) (1267), 228
Beans, Rebecca W. (Spen-
cer) (784), 171
Biles, Emma Jane (866), 180
Harvey H. (869), 180
Jesse Jones (808), ISO
John P. (864), 180
Lydia Ann (867), 180
Samuel Spencer (865), 180
Sarah (Spencer) (855), 179
Bonsall, Alfred J. (1055), 203
Charles (413), 132
Edward Home (407), 131
Edward Home (1052), 202
Edward H., Jr. (411), 132
Elizabeth (414), 132
Elizabeth Paxson (1056),

203
Henry (1053), 203 '
Jane (415), 132
Jeremiah (412), 132, 202
Jesse Maris (417), 132
Joseph Hartshorne (416),

132
Lydia (1050), 202
Rohert Hutchinson (1051),

202
Spencer (408), 132
William (410), 132
William Milhous (409), 132
William Spencer (1054),
203
Booth, Elizabeth Martin
(1077), 208
George Martin (1075), 207,

237
Levis Miller (1076), 208,

237
Newlin Trainer (1078), 208
Boyle, Mary Emma S. Thom-
as (Thomas) (1034), 200
Bradley, Christiana (Spen-
cer) (954), 168
Branson, Sarah Ann (Cow-
gill) (1122), 212
Brayton, Althea (Nichols)

(1211), 222
Brown, Ann (Spencer) (306),
113
Burr (592), 151
Bushrod (595), 151
Cliarles Pc-rrin (1014), 197
Dorcas L. (Cowgill) (1143),

213
Isaac (615), 153
John William (617) 153
Jonathan (593), 151
Joseph Francis (1013), 197
Lydia Paul (1015). 197
Maria (Nichols) (556), 148
Martha Ann (Nichols)

(648), 166
Mary Ann (Nichols) (619),

154
Marv Elizabeth (Nichols)

(Ramsey) (594), 161
Mary E. (Nichols) (658),
157

Brown, Mary F. (1017), 108
Marj' Hannah (Smith)

(585), 150
Richard (614), 153
Richard Henry (018), 153
Samuel (691), 181
Samuel (016)), 153
Samuel N, (583), 150
Sarah (Nichols) (562), 146
Sarah E. (Shafer) (620),

154
Tliomas (682), 150
Thomas Pirn Spencer

(1018), 108
William (584), 150
William C. (.590), 151
William Henry (621), 154
William Henry (1012), 197
William Henry (1016), 197
Bunting, Anna Miller (1059),
203
George Miller (1058), 203
Jcseph (1057), 203
Clhalfant. Margaretta (Spen-
cer) (831), 178
Chalfant, Maria (Spencer)

(906), 184
Clark, Joseph (79), 70
Clavton, Clara Hamilton

(Thomas) (1031), 199
Collins, Mary Elizabeth
(Shoemaker) (687), 160
Conard, Alice E. (Johnson)
(736), 164
Almira (Carey) (734), 164
Benjamin (733), 163
(Charles S. (267), 109
Cornelius (736), 164
Ellwood H. (739), 164
George R. (737), 164
Mary (Mante) (740), 164
Matthew (260), 109
William (738), 104
Connor, Jane (Foulke)

(1164), 218
Councilman, William (681),

159
Cowgill, Agnes (Scott)

(1132), 213
Cowgill, Alva B., 237
Ann (Satterthwait) (454),

138, 213
Anna B?lle (Lennox)

(1134), 213
Bertha (1296), 232
Carrie (Trowbridge) (1135),

213
Charles D., 237
Clifton A. (1.301), 232
Clinton Harriman (1292).

232
C31vde Phineas (1291), 232
Co'ra (Brown) (1145), 214
David Martin (1294), 232
Elias Branson (1124), 212,

231
Elizabeth (1127), 212
Ella, 237

Ella (Cantrcll) (1146), 214
Ella Lee (1289). 232
Erma Mary (1298), 232

Cowgill,Golden Clair (1299),

232
Grant H., 237
Harry Leonard (1290), 232
Henrv (1125), 212, 232
Henry Lee (1300), 232
Horace Branson (1288), 232
Isaac (456), 138
Jessie (Howbert) (1137),

213
Jonathan (452), 138, 212
Jeptha (453), 138. 213
Laura (Bates) (1133), 213
Lida (Lee) (1144), 214
Mary (1120), 212
Milo (1136), 213
Paul Kezer (1293), 232
Phineas (461). 138, 211
Phineas C, 236
Ralph (450), 137
Ralph Frederick (1297),

232
Ruth (1287), 282
Samuel Mead (1138), 213
Samuel S. (1130), 212
Sarah (455), 138
Sarah (Spencer) (458), 138
Sarah Prescott (Graves)

(1280), 232
William (457), 138, 213
Oaft, Anna (Thompson)

(487), 142
Mahlon (486), 141
Margaret (Clark) (488),

142
Rebecca (Evans) (489), 142
William (485), 141
Crosbv, Sarah (Mcllvain)

(421), 133
Crowell. Leah L. (Spencer)

(916), 184
Custard, Mary (Spencer)

(360), 121
Dawes, Mary (Spencer) (5). 42
Dean. Alice (Pema) (717),

161
Charles (716), 161
Edith (Willett) (713), 161
Edward (715), 161
Henrj' (718), 161
Jane Lucretia (Shoemaker)

(707), 161
J. Thomas (712), 161
Martha (Volinten) (719),

161
Sarah (Collins) (714), 161
Dillin. Jane Tagg (Roberts)

(1221), 223
Dillon. Nancy (Nichols)

(.'=.86), 150
Dobbins, Annie (Hunt)

(542), 147
Charles (541), 147
James (533), 146
James A. (643). 147
Dowdall, Phebe E. (Roberts)

(754) 168
Edmonson, Rebecca K.

(Spencer) (1113), 211
Ellis. Elizabeth (Shoemaker)

(2.';e), 105

Evans, Hannah (Spencer),

(121), 80
Pell, Alice (Roberts) (2C8),

109
Fetter, Elizabeth (Spencer)

(786), 172
Fitzwater, Mary (Spencer)
(786), 172
Mary (Spencer) (130), 83
Foulke, Ann (467), 140
Eliza J. (475). 140
Emma Jane (1166), 218
Jesse Fremont (1103), 218
John Thomas (1161), 218
Joshua (468), 140, 217
Lizzie Alice (Mansfield)

(1162), 218
Lydia (Spencer) (138), 87
Mary (471), 140
Mary Neoma Clark (Palm-
er) (1167), 218
Miles (473), 140
Milton (469), 140, 218
Nathan (472), 140
Phebe (470), 140
Samuel (466), 140
Serenia Finet Alisteen

(Hastings) (1168), 218
Silas (474), 140
Thomas McCarty (465), 140
Viola Volumnia (1166), 21^
Frame, Lydia G. (Spencer),

237
French, Bathsheba (Rob-
erts) (279), 110
Gallagher, Alice A. (Rob-
erts) (981), 191
Garrett. Sarah (Roberts)

(728), 163
Gay, Louisa Jane (Roberts)

(1246), 226
Gemrig, Anna Maria (Rob-
erts) (1235), 225
Gibson, Mary (Nichols)

(195), 102
Glidden, Betsie Ann (Spen-
cer) (1275), 230
Good, Hannah (Spencer)

(340a). 116
Good. Rebecca (Spencer)

(324a), 115
Griffen, Jane Havdoek (Rob-
erts) (1222), 223
Grubb, L3'dia (Roberts)

(771), 170
Hagy, Elizabeth Terkes

(Roberts) (965), 189
Haldeman, Mary (Miller)

(1060), 203
HallowcU, Mary (Spencer)

(99), 76. 235
Hanna, Tryphena (Nichols)

(630), 155
Harhorn, Sarah Ann (Thom-
as) (1023), 199
Harlan, Arm Oosby (Mcll-
vain) (426), 134
Harriman, Rena (Cowgill)

(1285), 231
Hart, Sarah D. (Spencer),
235

246

THE SPENCER FAMILY.

Hatch, Ellen Towne (Win-

dom) (1166), 216
Hatcher, Hannah (536), 146
Isaac (585), 146
Louisa (Harris) (539), 147
Hatcher, Mary (Judkina)
(634), 146
Miriam (637), 147
Phebe (Thornberry) (538),

147
Rebecca (Piggott) (696),

151
Samuel (632), 146
Sarah (Enseminger) (540),
147
Hatfield, Sarah Ann (Foulke)

(1160), 218
Hawlev, Joseph W. (1069),
206
Mary Miller (Thompson)
(1070), 207
Hayhurst, Rebecca (Spencer)

(120), 79
Hessin, Lauretta (Nichols)

(1198), 221
Hewes, Charles (420), 133
Jacob (418), 133
Spencer (419), 133
Hiatt, Louisa (Spencer)

(1093), 209
Hirst, Caroline (907), 194
Hannah (994), 194
Joseph (868), 123
Joseph Josiah (378), 123,

193
Mercy (995), 194
Nathan Elwood (376), 123
Phebe Ann (991), 194
Rachel (992), 194
Rachel Abigail (Souder)

(375), 123, 194
Sarah (White) (990), 194
Sarah Ann (Van Horn)

(374), 123, 194
Susanna (Clark) (993), 194
Wharton (996), 194
Hoge, Sarah (Johnson), 234
Holmes, Emily (Nichols)

(508), 144
Hutchinson, Margaret Fim-
ister (Bonsall) (1049),
202
Iredell, Hannah Ann (Thom-
as) (1010), 198
Jackson, Alice W. (938),
186
Edward Foulke (936), 186
Francis (937), 186
James C. (934), 185
Mary S. (Pyle) (936), 186
Jamison, M. Louisa (Mich-
ener (Spencer) (806), 175
Janney, Mary (Nichola)
(205), 103
Mary (Nichols) (225), 104
Jarrett, 41annah (Spencer)

(28), 44
Jenkins, Algernon Sydney
(1008), 196
Algernon Sydney, Jr.

(1272), 230
Anna Mary (Webster)

(1269), 280
Arthur Hugh (1274), 230
Charles Francis (1268), 280
Edward Atkinson (1271),

230
Florence (1273), 230
Howard Malcolm (1009),

196, 228
Thomas Atkinson (1270),
280
Johnson, Achsah, 284
Aletha (Leeslie), 234, 235
Bushrod, 234
Charles, 234
Elizabeth (Conard) (733a),

163
Elizabeth Hoge, 235
Hannah, 234

Johnson, Joseph, 234
Lemuel Riddiok, 235
Lucretia, 234
Mary, 234
Nathan, 234
Nimrod Hoge, 235
Ruth Hoge (Williams), 235
Jones, Hattie Emily (Nich-
ols) (1216), 222
Kemble, Ann (Spencer)

(398), 127
Kenworthy, Albanus (1102),
210
Aleinda E. (Kellogg)

(1104), 210
Cora A. (1110), 211
David E, (1103), 210
Elda (1108), 211
Jeimie R. (Davis) (1112),

211
Joel H. (1101), 210
Lydia Ann (Miller) (1106),

210
Oliver A. (1106), 210
Ruth M. (1109), 211
Smith J. (1107), 210
Willis (1111), 211
Kinaev, Hannah Ann (Spen-
cer) (1183), 220
Kirk, Elizabeth (Spencer)

(68), 62
Knight, Annie (Taylor)
(405), 130
Elizabeth (403), 130
Ellen (402), 130
Jonathan (401), 130
Julianna (406), 131
Mary Elizabeth (Thomas)

(404), 180
Nathan T. (398), 129
Sarah Tvson (Leedora)

(400), 130, 201
Sydney Wood (399), 130,
201
Laffer, Stella M. (Spencer)

(1190), 220
Lane, Elizabeth R. (Shoe-
maker) (708), 160
Lee, Rachel Nora (Spencer)

(1176), 219
Leedom, Alice (1048), 202
Edward (1044), 201
Ellen Knight (1047), 202
Jesse (1045), 202
Walter Francis (1046), 202
Levis, Albert (1071), 207
Clement Smith (1074), 207
Samuel Garrett (1072), 207
Spencer Mcllvain (1073),
207
Lewis, Alfred (768), 170
Clara (769), 170
Edward H, (765), 169
Elizabeth (Spencer) (19),

43
Frank Spencer (766), 169
Harold R. (767), 169
Louisa R. (770), 170
Samuel G. (764), 169
Lippincott, Alice (Booth),

287
Livezey, Thomas H. (985),

237
Lloyd, Clara Virginia (9V9),
191
Gideon (975),; 190
Mary Caroline (980), 191
Sarah Virginia (977), 191
Spencer Clay (076), 191
Washington Byron (978),
191
Lofborough, Hannah (Spen-
cer) (02), 65
Lukens, Eliza (60), 61
Gaynor (Knight) (49), 61
Hannah (Shoemaker) (45),

61
Hannah (Spencer)' (36),

50
Joseph (44), 68

Lukens, Joseph (48), 61
Joseph (51), 61
Mary (46), 61
Samuel (47), 61
Samuel (62), 61
Lunn, Ruth Hannah (Win-

dom) (1147), 214
McClure, Lydia (Cowgill)

(1123), 212
Mcllvain, Ann (Miller) (171),
99, 135
Ann Eliza (Diehl) (422),

138
Anne Crosby Morton (428),

134
Bernard Stump, 236
Edward Bonsall (426), 134
Eliza (Hewes) (166), 99,

133
George W. (427), 134, 286
Henry (428), 138
Henry Stump, 236
Jeremiah (168), 98
Jeremiah (170), 99, 184
John (167), 99
John Morton, 236
John Spencer (169), 99, 138
Lydia (Bonsall) (166), 99,

131
Samuel (172), 99
Sarah (164), 99
Spencer (168), 99, 133
McPherson, Mary Ann (Nich-
ola) (625), 146
Marple, Elizabeth (Spencer)

(90), 72
Matlack, Hannah Maul (Rob-
erts) (1268), 227
Mead, Amanda (Oowgill)
(1131), 218
Aveline Ray (666), 147
Charles E. (548), 147
Frances J. (Collins) (652),

147
Isaac J. (645), 147
Joseph (544), 147
Joseph J (547), 147
Julia (551), 147
Marian C (550), 147
Mary Emily (Hainea)

(649), 147
Phebe Alice (563), 147
Phineas Eugene (644), 147
William T. (646), 147
Mercer, Ann (Spencer)
(340b), 116
Faithful (Nichols) (649),
156
Michener, Charles (848), 179
Ella (844), 179
Ellwood (364), 120
EUwood (847), 179
Ezra (352a), 117
James (366), 121
, James (839), 178
Jonathan S. (841), 178
Lea (367), 121
Lydia (Spencer) (830a), 116
Lydia Ann (840), 178 .
Mary (Steele) (846), 179
Mary (Walton) (358), 121
Mira (845), 179 ■
Phebe (Webster) (359), 121
Spencer (863), 120
Spencer (866), 121
William (842), 178
Mickle, George Miller (1082),
208
Grace Evans (1081), 208
Francis King (1083), 208
Joseph Evans (1079), 208
Joseph Evans (1080), 208
Miller, Anna (Hawley) (484).
186, 206
Anna Mcllvaine (Biddle)

(1068), 206, 237
Clarence Haldeman (1063)

206
Edgar Thomson (481), 136.
203

Miller, Elizabeth Haldeman
(Evans) (1061), 205

Elizabeth Spencer (Bunt-
ing) (480), 186, 203

Ellen (Booth) (439), 136
207 287

George Deeble (438), 136,
206

Hannah John (Mickle)
(440) 136, 208

Henry Spencer (1066), 206

Joanna M. (Livezey), 237

John Spencer (1062), 205

Katharine (Levis) (438),
136, 207

Levis (429), 136

Levis, Jr. (435), 136, 286

Marion (1064), 205
.lary Lavinia (432), 186

Mary Thomas (1067), 206

Sallie Levis (William)
(437), 186

Samuel (486), 136
Mills, Carrie T (1219), 223

John H. (1218), 223

Ruth E. (1220), 223
Moore, Ella (Needham)
(Spencer), 237

Elma (Walton) (743), 165

George Roberts (742), 166

Lydia R. (Linvill) (746),
166

Sarah (Cooper) (745), 166

Sharpless (741), 164

Spencer (744), 165
Morgan, Hannah (Kender-

dine) (Spencer) (U6), 78
Morris, George Spencer
(953), 187

Hannah Perot (961), 187

Luke Wistar (962), 187

Samuel (950), 187
Morton, Susan Crosby (Mc-
llvain) (424), 134
Muckleson, Mary (Spencer)

(296), 112
Nichols, Alice (666), 158

Alice Lavinia (1209), 222

Amor (206), 108, 148

Anna L. (Goodnow) (1199),

Annie E. (Janney) (588),

160
Ariel Maria (1206), 222
Benjamin P. (631), 166, 221
Bessie L. (Skiff) (1212),

Caroline (668), 149
Catherine Tryphena (1208),

222
Charles (663), 158
Cornelia (669), 149
Daniel M. (529), 146
Edgar Hebdon (1206) 222
Edith (Tate) (73), 70, 102
Edith M. (Clure) (1213),

Edward (662), 158

Eli (211); 103

Eli (671), 149

Eli (560), 148

Eliza A. (563), 149

Elizabeth (Smith) (511),

144
Elizabeth (Wilson) 096)

102, 143 ■' '

Emily Lavinia (1216), 223
Flora A. (1214), 222
Hannah (Rogers) (228).

104, 156
Hannah J. (Piggott) (606),

Hannah Mary (657), 157
Harriet (564), 149
Henry H (1200), 221
Horace M. (656), 157
Isaac (74), 70, 102
Isaac (226), 104
Isaac H. (510), 144
James H. 633), 155, 222

INDEX.

247

Nichols, Jaa. W. (587), 150
Jebse (231), 104, 157
John (207), 103, 148
Jonah (616), 145
Joseph (200), 103, 146
Joseph H. (513), 144
Joshua (198), 103, 145
Julia (530), 146
Julia (Thorp) (514), 144
J. F. (580), 149
Kittie Alice (1217), 223
Lucretia (520), 146
Lucy (1202), 221
Lucy A. (Janney) (531),

146
Lydia (214), 103
Lydia (Hatcher) (Dobbins)

(201), 103, 146
Lydia A. (Jarniey)

(Hughes) (509), 144
Lydia A. (Taylor) (5S9),

148
Lvdia J. (Piggott) (576),

149
Mahlon (235), 105
Margery (Metsger) (238),

105
Maria (Brown) (570), 149
Martha (CockeriU) (661),

148
Martha Ann (HixBon)

(650), 167
Martha A. (667), 149
Mary (218), 103
Mary (Allen) (232), 105
Mary (Piggott) (76), 70,

103
Mary A. (1201), 221
Mary A. (Brown) (519),

146
Mary C. (Gregg) (664), 158
Maxy J. (578), 149
Marv J. (Pusey) (612), 144
Miriam (Wood) (617), 145
Miriam G. (Purdue) (199),

103, 145
M. Cornelia (Stabler) (528),

146
Nathan (660), 158
Nathan B. (667), 148
Oliver (654), 157
Phebe (Brown) (209), 103,

150
Phebe (Gore), (518), 145
Phebe A. (573), 149
Phebe G. (Mead) (204),

103, 147
Phineas J. (666), 149
Eachel Alice (Mills) (636),

165 223
Rebecca J. (Brown) (527),

146
Samuel (76), 70, 103
Samuel (210), 103
Samuel (227), 104, 154
Samuel (665), 149
Samuel (570), \i3
Samuel (1203), 221
Samuel Arthur (1M7), 222
Samuel E. (689), 150
Sarah (Holmes) (229), 104
Sarah (Logan) (203), 103
Sarah AUce (655), 167
Spencer Jones (634), 155,

222
Stacy (230), 104, 156
Susan T. (674), 149
Thamain A. (661), 168
Thomas (197), 102, 144
Thomas (576), 149
Thomas (661), 157
Thomas J. (212), 103, 150
Virginia (666), 158
Virginia E. (681), 149
Virginia J. (Hughes) (526),

146
Warren (663), 157
William (72), 69
William (77), 70, 104

Nichols, WiUiam (202), 103
William (208), 103, 149
WiUiam (234), 106
William (521), 145
William (677), 149
WiUiam A. (558), 148
William A. (669), 158
WilUam Emmet (1210), 222
WUliam J. (632), 156, 221
William E. (652), 157
Paine, Mary Elizabeth (Spen-
cer) (1179), 219
Paxson, Mary (Spencer),

(317a), 114
Payne, Mary (Shoemaker)

(667), 168

Pearson, Elizabeth Justice

(Roberts) (1266), 227

Janie Shaw (Roberts)

(1245), 226

Pennock, Phebe (Spencer)

(824), 177
Pickering, Leah (Spencer)

(441), 137
Piggott, Burr (219), 104, 162
Bushrod (612), 163
Elizabeth (Brown) (220),

104, 163
Isaac (218), 104, 151
Isaac (611), 153
Jesse (222), 104
John (217), 104
John (610), 153
Johii William (699), 152
Mary (224), 104
Mary (603), 152
Mary Jane (598), 162
Mary Jane (Taylor) (608),

152
Phebe (Tavenner) (221),

104, 154
Phebe A. (Smith) (601),

162
Phebe E. (Spencer) (476),

141
Rebecca E. (Smith) (602),

152
Ruth H. (604), 152
Samuel H. (600), 162
Sarah (Brown) (216), 104,

151
Sarah Ann (Newlin) (597),

152
Sarah Letitia (613), 153
Thomas (609), 153
Thomas H. (605), 162
William (216), 103
William (223), 104
WiUiam (607), 152
Pim, Rachel (Spencer) (148),

90
Porter, Elizabeth (Spencer)

(799), 174
Potts, Elizabeth Mary Ann

(Nichols) (1204), 221
Prescott, Helen (Cowgill)

(1284), 231
Purdue, Isaac N. (523), 145
Marj' Virginia , (Haines)

(524), 145
Thomas H. (622), 145
Pusev. Edith H. (.Shelmire)
(877), 181
Emily (874), 181
Isaac (876). 181
Joel B. (872), 181
Joshua B. (870), 180
Lewis Pusey (871), 181
Louisa (876a), 181
Sarah Ann (876), 181
■ WiUiam (878), 181
Raymond, Louisa Jewgtt
■ (Roberts) (747), 166
Louisa J. (Roberts) (1226),
224
Rhoads, Marr J. (Spencer)

(939), 186
Roberts, Adelaide Gay
(1254), 226

Roberts, Adelaide M. (1237),
226
Alfred (757), 168

(1227), 224
Alfred (988), 193
Alfred Clarkson (265), 109
Algernon Sydney (970),

190, 227
Alice (1232), 225
AUce A. (731), 163
Aliceanne (768), 168
Alvirda Dunham (1236),

226
Ann (MarshaU) (260), 108
Anna Gertrude (1239), 225
Anna Woods (1266), 238
Annie T. (Hoyt) (973), 190
Benjamin Rush (261), 108
Bessie (1233), 226
Caroline (Rorer) (369), 123,

188
Caroline F. (WilUams)

(281), HI, 170
Charles Arthur (761), 169
Oluirles Hamlet (1248), 226
Charles Henry (982), 193
Charles Rorer (969), 190,

226
Charles Spencer (761), 168
Chester (763), 169
Clarence J. (1238), 225
Clinton (763), 168
Earle C. (1197), 221
Edith (Sibley) (1261), 227
Edith Adeline (1224), 224
Edmund (371a), 123
Edmund (983), 193
EUza (Conard) (270), 110,

163
Elizabeth (Wriggins) (974),

190
Elizabeth Ann (1262), 227
Elizabeth Taylor (Ma-

crum) (1265), 228
Ellwood (984), 193
Elma (774), 170
Emily (Lewis) (278), 110,

169
Emily Lewis (Hufsmith)

(1228), 224
Enoch Taylor (972), 190,

227
Evan (273), 110, 168
Fern M. (1194), 221
Franklin (283), 111, 171
George (87), 72, 109
George (276), 110, 188
George (750), 168, 224
George F. (782), 171
George S. (280), 111, 170
GuUelma (Thomas) (1030),

199
Guy WiUiam (1196), 221
Hamlet Pearson (1247), 226
Hannah Sharpies (Eervey)

(Hammond) (264), 108
Helen (Reed) (1231), 223
Henry C. (783a). 171
Horace (752), 168
Howard (262), 108
Howard Lawrence (760),
iqo

Hugh (367), 122
Hugh (372), 123, 191
Hugh Oscar (967), 190, 226
Irene E. (1193), 221 -
Isaac Pearson (1257), 227
James Gay (1252), 226
Janie Shaw (1249), 226
John Taylor (971), 190, 227
John T. (1263), 227 ^
Jonathan (83), 71
Joseph (84), 72
Joseph (88), 72, 110
Joseph (7.73), 170
Joseph G. (732), 163
Joseph W. (269), 110, 163
Julia (781a), 171
Justice G. (1191), 221

Roberts, Kersey (756), 168
Levi (86), 72, 107
Lewis (277), 110
Louisa Jane (PerselLi)
Lulu Evelyn (1250), 226
Lydia (368a), 123
Lydia (Moore) (275), 110,

166
Mabel Arbutis (1234), 225
Margaret (Lloyd) (371),

123, 190
Mai^garet L. (Yeatraan)

(729), 163
Mary (Livezey) (985), 193
Mary (Spencer) (316), 114
Mary Ann (Kinnard) (268),

107
Mary Elizabeth (766), 168
Mary Louisa (1263), 226
Marv Eowena (762), 169
Matilda Ann (282), 111
Mildred Louise (1226). 224
Nathaniel Raymond (748),

168
NelUe A. (1192), 221
Orleana (783), 171
Eachel (Conard) (86), 72,

109
Eachel (Moore) (271), 110,

164
Rebecca (274), 110
Robert Barclay (263), 108
Samuel G. (772), 170
Sara Matlack (Weygandt)

(1269), 227
Sarah (1230), 224
Sarah Jane (Buffington)

(730), 163
Sherwood Raymond (749),

168, 223
Spencer (272), 110, 166
Spencer (370), 123, 189
Spencer (987), 193
Spencer (1229), 224
Spencer (1260) „ 227
Spencer, 3d (1255), 226
Spencer M. (1195), 221
Susan H. (284), 111
Susanna Hagy (Steel)

(968), 190, 226
Thomas S. Gay (1251), 226
Walter Ernest (1223), 224
WiUiam (986), 193
William S, (259), 107
Rogers, Arthur (636), 165
Arthur (645), 166
Elizabeth H. (647), 156
Hamilton (638), 156
Hugh (642), 166
Martha (641), 156
Mary C. (637), 156
Samuel (643), 156
Sarah D. (640), 166
Thomas (644), 166
William (639), 156
WiUiam J. (646), 156
Rorer, Adelaide (HiU) (963),

189
Bartlett T. (964), 189
Charles S. (961), 188
Clementine (French) (962).

189
Rowlett, Drusilla (Thomas)

(1010), 196
Satterthwaite, Charles (1140),

213
Ida (Smith) (1141), 213
Nathan (1139), 213
Rebecca (Cowgill) (1129),

212
Sarah (Smith) (1142), 213
Sharp, Mary (Cowgill)

(1128), 212
Sharpies, Lydia (Roberts)

(257), 107
Shipley, Adeline Frances
(Doudna) (1172), 219
Annie H. (Lake) )(1171),
219

248

THE SPENCER FAMIL Y.

Shipley, Ella (Hunt) (1173),
219
Emory Vinton (1169), 219
Fay (DeWees) (1175), 219
Grace (Heizer), (117i), 219
Spencer (1170), 219

Shoemaker, Abraham (81),
71, 106
Abraham (493), 143
Angeline (Magill) (96-10),

Anna Elizabeth (Hudson)

(725), 162
Anna R. (706), 161
Basil W. (255), 107, 162,

196
CTharles (242), 106, 160
Charles (673), 158
Charles Edward (690), 160
David (240), 100, 169
Edith (252), 107
Edith (Black) (686), 169
Edith (Councilman) (239j,

106, 159
Edith Eliza (494), 143
Edith Maria (Hibbs) (727),

162
Edward (245), 106, 161
Edward (696), 160
Edwin (723), 162
Eliza (249), 106
Eliza (Davidson) (699),

160
Elizabeth (Cooper) (96-8),

76
Elizabeth (MoCubbm)

(683), 159
Elizabeth A. (Parker)

(677), 159
Ella L. (Spencer) (944), 187
Ellen (Nichols) (721), 162
Ellis (692), 160
Ellwood (722), 162
Franklin (709), 161
George (78), 70
George (237), 106, 158
George (672), 158
George (724), 162
George T. (700), 160
George W. (256), 107
Hannah (Lainhardt) (695),

160
Hannah (Young) (250), 106
Harriet (68S), 159
Howard J. (721a), 162
Isaac (238), lOS, 159
Isaac (679). 159
Isaac W. (701), 160
Isaiah (668), 158
Jacob (670), 158
James (96-1), 76
Jesse (243), 106, 160
Jesse (698), 160
John (697), 160
Jonathan (241), 106
Joseph (688), 100
Lemuel T. (720), 162
Levi Tate (490), 142
,. Louis E. (678), 159
Louisa (710), 161
Margaret (Lightcap) (96-

6), 76
Margaret A. (691), 160
Martha A. (Taylor) (491),

142
Marv (96-9), 76
Mar5' A. (S69), 158
Mary Ellen (Tallman)

(080), leo

Naylor (248), 106, 142, 162
Nichola-s (711), 161
Peter (96-4), 76
Phinehas (080), 159
Rachel (Dean) (246), 106,

161
Rachel (Gibson) (251), 107
Rachel (Robinson) (82), 71
Samuel (SO), 71, 105
Samuel (96-2), 76

Shoemaker, Samuel (244),

106, 160
Saiijoel (264), 107
Samuel (671), 168
Samuel J. (704), 161
Sarah (263), 107
Sarah (Hallowell) (96-7),

76
Sarah E. (Greenwell) (676),

169
Sophie J. (706), 161
Spencer (96-5), 76
Thomas (96-3), 76
Thomas (708), 161
Thomas Spencer (726), 162
William (674), 158
William (684), 159
William (693), 160
William F. (702), 160
William T. (492), 142
Smith, Ann (Spencer) (173),

99
Elizabeth (Spencer) (286),

111
Laura Frances (Spencer),

(1114), 211
Smock, Elizabeth (Spencer)

(879), 181
Souder, Casper, Jr. (1004),
' 194
Kate Maria (Langstroth)

(1006), 195
Leah Bickerton (Parker)

(1006), 195
Rachel H. (Gill) (1007),

195
Spencer, Aaron (134), 86
Aaron (351), 117, 184
Abel (27), 44, 79
Abigail (150), 94
Abner (98), 76, 112
Ahner (179), 101, 140
Abraliam (13), 43
Abraham (54), 65
Ada (Sheppard) (1184),

220
Ada Alvaretta (Monson)

(1276), 231
Agnes (Willis) (317), 114
Albert S. (804), 175
Alice (831), 116
Alice Eugenia (Shaw)

(1278), 231
Alice M. (Stackhouse)

(338), 116. 179
Alice P. (803), 176
Allan B. (883), 181
Alvaretta (Steed) (1099),

210
Amelia Jackson (361), 122,

186
Amelia Ann (Dickinson)

(793), 173
Amos (106), 76, 113
Amos (792), 173
Amos C. (923), 184
Amos L. (788), 173
Amos P. (482), 141, 220
Ann (38), 58
Ann (327), 116
Ann (Hayhurst) (22), 43
Ann (Shipley) (478), 141,

218
Ann (Walton) (111), 78
Ann B. (800), 174
Anna (366), 122
Anna (958), 188
Anna (Cope) (323), 115
Anne (Hilles) (120), 83
Anne S. (Morgan) (292),

111
Annie E. (Sherman) (1180),

220
Arnie Ann (Vandegrift)

(787), 173
Asa (133), 86, 116
Asa (183), 101, 141
Asa (910), 184
Asa P. (1090), 209

Spencer, Benajah Hiatt
(1094), 209, 230
Betsey (Cowgill) (175),

101
Blanche (Lashley) (907),

184
Cadwalader E. (316), 114
Caleb (124), 83
Catharine (Whitcomb)

(297), 112
Charles (125), 83, 114
Charles (311), 114, 174
Charles A. (1091), 209
Charles Baker (919), 184
Cliarles Chester (911), 184
Charles Henry (863), 180
Charley (1100), 210
Clarence M. (1180), 220
Cora (Cowden) (1177), 219
C. Watson (789), 173
David (174), 101, 137
David (449), 137
David E. (1086), 208
David Hannum (916), 184
David Harvey (918), 184
David H. (349), 117, 184
Davis (339), 116, 179
Edith (8), 42
Edith (140), 89
Edith (Shoemaker) (CJlark)

(17), 43, 70
Edmund (1283), 231
Edmund B. (856), 179
Edward (116), 79, 114
Edward M. (947), 187
Edwin L. (448), 137, 211
Edwin L., Jr. (1118), 211
Eleanor (884), 181
Eleanor (Rulon), (446), 137
Elizabeth (32), 60
Elizabeth (103), 76
Elizabeth (114), 78
Elizabeth (136), 86
Elizabeth, 236
Elizabeth (Banes) (291),

111
Ehzabeth (Bowers) (110),

78
Elizabeth (Cowgill) (175),

137
Elizabeth (Hughes) (Rich-
ards) (326), 115
Elizabeth (Lukens) (9), 43,

58
Elizabeth (Mcllvain) (60),

65, 9S
Elizabeth (Shoemaker)

(96), 76
Elizabeth Ann (Stephens)

(346), 117, 182
Elizabeth E. (Kersey)

(955), 188
Elizabeth L. (Dutton)

(318), 115
Ella (Burwick) (1282), 231
Ellen (320), 115
Ellen Plummer (Cowgill)

(477), 141, 236
Ellwood (838), 178
Emily (943), 186
Emma (830), 177
Emmor (862), 180
Enoch (25), 44, 78
Enos (92), 75
Esther (304), 113
Eugene (835), 178
Eva (1185), 220
Evan (801), ISO
Ezra (95), 75
Frances Rebecca (Myers)

(1116), 211
Frank Sylvanus (479), 141,

219
Genevieve (949), 187
George (141), 89
George (294), 112
George, Jr. (363), 122, 185
George F. (1087), 209
George M. (959), 188

Spencer, George W. (796),

174
George W. (921), 184
Gertrude (MoCurdy) (957),

188
Gertrude M. (1181), 220
G. Franklin (790), 173
Hannah (69), 234
Hannah (321), 115
Hannah (Boone) (126), 8.3
Hannah (Burson) (69), 61)
Hannah (Cline) (286), 111
Hannah (Farra) (136), 80
Hannah (Harding) (119),

79
Hannah C. (White) (347),

117, 182
Harry K. (11S7), 220
Harry Lindley (480), 141,

219
Helene (1188), 220
Henry H. (1085), 208
Hephziba (Thomas) (161),

94, 124
Hiram (797), 174
Ira (464), 140
Irvin E. (1279), 231
Isaac W. (314), 114, 175
Jacob (6), 42, 44
Jacob (58), 65
Jacob (122), 82
James (20), 43, 72
James (312), 114
James (802), 174
James, Jr. (97), 76, 111
Jarrett (29), 50, 79
Jarrett (345), 117, 181
Jean Winifred (1280), 231
Jerome (1098), 210
Jesse (41), 5S
Jesse (143), 89, 121
Jesse (334), 116
Jesse (336), 116, 178
Jesse (343), 117
Jesse Chalfant (908), 184
Jesse Poulke (942), 186
Job (26), 44, 78
Job (117), 79
Joel (SOS), 175
Joel (829), 177
John (10), 43, 62
John (S3), 50, 87
John (42), 68
John (66), 69, 234
John (107), 77, 235
John (295), 112
John (362), 122, 186
John (341), 117
John E. (832), 178
John G. (309), 114, 172
John Jami.son (807), 175
Jolm K., 235
John Marshall (922), 184
John P. (481), 141, 237
John Search (798), 174
John W, (1089), 209
Jonas (185), 201
Jonathan (132), 86, 116
Jonathan (144), 89
Jonathan (176), 101, 138
Jonathan (825), 177
Jonathan (833), 178
Joseph (7), 42, 50
Joseph (131), 86, 115
Joseph (154), 94
Joseph Henry (1005), 209,

231
Josiah (91), 75
Josiah (2S7), 111
Laura (940), 186
Laura E. (Reynolds) (857),

Laura M. (836), 178

^ W17), af ^ <No3aett)

Lewis (305), 113

Lexemuel (1097), 210

Lilian (948), 187

Lily May (909), 184

INDEX.

Spencer, Lindley (869), 180
Lizzie E. (946), 187
Louis (298), 112
Louisa (Paxson) (344), 117
LueUa (858), 180
Lydia (155), 94
Lydia (Lloyd) (147), 89
Lydia (Morris) (364), 122,

187
Lydia Ann (828), 177
Lydia Ann (Oowgill) (463),

110
Mabel (Cornell) (913), 184
Mahlon (112), 78
Margaret, 236 ,
Margaret (Nichols) (Hol-

loway) (63), 69, 233
Margaret (Spencer) (109),

78
Margaret (Worthington)

(104), 76, 236
Margaret Hall (Jamison)

(794), 174
Maria (Pusey) (342), 117,

180
Maria (Thomas) (152), 94,

126
Maria L. (Showalter) (880),

181
Mary, 235
Mary (SO), 60
Mary (57), 65
Mary (127), 83
Maiy (301), 113
Maiy (Lloyd) (U8), 79
Mary (Penrose) (182), 101
Mary (Roberts) (18), 43, 71
Mary (Smith) (65), 69, 233
Maiy (Walton) (101), 76
Mary Ann (329), 116
Mary Ann (Kenworthy)

(442), 137
Mary Ann (Showalter)

(882), 181
Mary Anuetta (945), 187
Mary B. (Land) (313), 114
Mary B. (Reeve) (324), 115
Mary Elizabeth (Bennett)

(785), 172
Mary E. (Green) (1088),

209
Mary Jane (Duval) (795),

174
Mary J. (Stephens) (348),

117, 183
Maiy Louisa (12V7), 231
Mary Olive (Morrey)

(1116), 211
Mary T. (Boyd) (966), 188
Matthias (40), 58
Maud Mary (914), 184
Melissa (Roberts) (484),

141, 220
Mercy (Windom) (178),

101, 139
Minerva (Mackay) (837),

178
Minnie May (1121), 211
Miranda (912), 184
Miranda H. (Hatton) (360),

117
Miriam (328), 116
Moses (299), 112
Nathan (ll), 43, 66, 233
Nathan (43), 68, 90
Nathan (68), 69, 99, 234
Nathan (446), 137, 209
Nathan (483), 141, 220
Norris (834), 178
Oren P. (801), 174
Pennock (827), 177
Phebe (Biles) (340), 116,

180
Phebe (Gregg) (181), 101
Phebe (Smith) (444), 137
Phebe Ann (333), 116
PrisciUa (142), 89
Rachel (70), 69, 234
Rachel (146), 89

Spencer, Rachel (Craft)

(184), 101, 141
Rachel (Johnson) (70), 234
Rachel (Miohcner) (337),

116, 178
Rachel (Ryner) (288), 111
Rachel (Thompson) (325),

116, 175
Rebecca (145), 89
Rebecca (Kenworthy) (447),

137, 210
Richard (14), 43
Richard (15), 43
Ruth (Robbins) (293), 111
Ruth Anna (319), 116
Euthanna (826), 177
Sabilla (322), 116
Samuel (1), 41
Samuel (3) 42
Samuel (24), 44, 77
Samuel (31), 50, 83
Samuel (39), 68
Samuel (56), 65
Samuel (61), 65
Samuel (64), 69, 233
Samuel (108), 78
Samuel (177), 101
Samuel (289), 111
Samuel (332), 116, 177
Samuel (443), 137, 208
Samuel E. (128), 83
Samuel T. (860), 180
Sarah, 235
Sarah (23), 43
Sarah (35), 50
Sarah (66), 66
Sarah (71), 69, 234
Sarah (113), 78
Sarah (308), 114
Sarah (Foulke) (180), 101,

140
Sarah (Hallowell) (100), 76
Sarah (Michener) (137), 86,

117
Sarah (Nichols) (12), 43,

69
Sarah (Roberts) (Hirst)

(149), 94, 122
Sarah (Ryner) (290), 111
Sarah (Thomas)<69), 65, 95
Sarah (Townsend) (330),

116, 176

Sarah Ann (917), 184
Sarah Ann (Guernaay)

(881), 181
Sarah A. (McDonald)

(1092), 209
Sarah S. (805), 175
Sarah Talbert (Spencer)

(791), 173
Seneca (94), 75
Sidney (335), 116
Susan (139), 89
Susanna (34), 60
Susanna J. (Taylor) (362),

117, 186

Thomas (21), 43, 76, 236
Thomas (102), 76, 113
Thomas (123), 82
Thomas (303), 113, 171
Thomas B. (307), 114
Thomas Pim (153), 94, 127
Viola (Griffith) (1096),

209
Walter Scott (1120), 2U
Warren L. (1178), 219
Wilbur E. (1186), 220
William (4), 42, 43
WflUam (16), 43
WUliam (67), 69, 234
WiUIam (93), 76
William (100), 76
William (302), 113
William Camahan (1119),

211
William F. (366), 122, 187
William F., Jr. (960), 188
William Henry (920), 184
William H. (310), 114, 173

Spencer, Wm. R. (941), 188
William Windom (1182),

220
Stackhouse, Anna Louisa

(Thompson) (849), 179
Charles (851), 179
Etta (863), 179
Harvey (848), W9
Lydia (Cooper) (850), 179
Mary (Yerkes) (862), 179
Willie (854), 179
Steel, Canby (1242), 226
Estelle M. (1243), 226
Helen Wriggins (Peter-
son) (1241), 226
Lilbum Harwood (1240),

225
Lilbum Harwood, Jr.

(1244), 226
Stephens, Anna L. (Hila-

man) (890), 182
Anna Mary (Potter) (902),

183
Asa Spencer (901), 183
Catharine Miranda (903),

183
Charles Mercer (906), 1S3
David M. (889), 182
Franklin S. (900), 183
Hannah Maiy (Johnson)

(891). 182
Jesse (899), 183
Linton (885), 182
Sarah F. (887), 182
Thomas Spencer (886), 182
William Henry (888), 182
William Henry (904), 183
Summers, Eve Ann (Spen-
cer) (1084), 208
Tate, Ann (190), 102
Edith (191), 102
Elizabeth (193), 102
Jesse (188), 102
Levi (186), 102
Mary (192), 102
Sarah (Shoemaker) (189),

102, 142, 162
William (187), 102
Tavenner, Amanda ( Beall)

(629), 154
Catherine (Nichols) (672),

149
Lot (622), 154
Maria (Otley) (627), 154
Mary (626), 154
Miriam (628), 154
Ruth H. (Craven) (623),

154
Sarah E. (624), 154
WiUiam P. (626), 164
Taylor, Anna M. (931), 185
Asa Spencer (928), 185
Clara M. (933), 186
Elizabeth Ann (Roberts)

(966), 189
Elizabeth E. (Worth)

(930), 185
Elmer E. (929), 185
Fl-ank J. (932), 186
Hannah (Rorer) (961a),

188
Harry J. (925), 186
James K. (924), 185
Mary E. (Riley) (926), 185
Sallie A. (Brackin) (927),

185
Teneyck, Cornelia (Cowgill)

(1295), 232
Thomas, Ann Charlton (Mil-
ler) (1065), 205
Anna A. (1021), 198
Anna Maria (Jenkins)

(377), 125, 195
Caroline (Shoemaker) (380),

126, 162, 196
Caroline Lee (1011), 197
Charles Iredell (1022), 198
Edward (396), 129
Edwin (391), 127

249

Thomas, Edwin (1029), 199
Edwin L. (391), 199
Eleanor (1024), 199
Elizabeth (382), 125
Elizabeth (Knight) (160),

98 129
EUzabeth B. (1035), 200
Frances (Thomas) (397).

129
Frank (1028), 199
Hannah R. (386), 125
Harry Leedom (1033), 200
Hugh Meams (392), 127,

200
Isaac (389), 126, 199
Jesse (158), 98
Jonathan (166), 05
Jonathan (384), 125
Lemuel (381), 125, 196
Lillie Victorine (1032), 200
Lydia S. (Paul) (383), 125
Maria (1026), 199
Mary (161), 98
Mary (1027), 199
Mary W. (Brown) (385),

125, 197
Mordecai (159), 98, 128
Mordecai (378), 125
Nathan Spencer (388), 126,

193
Rachel (390), 126
Rebecca IredeU((Pickering)

(1020), 198
Richard Leedom (387), 125
Sarah (162), 98
Sarah (379), 125
Sp«ncer (167), 98, 124
Walter (1025), 199
Willis Hugh (1036), 200
Wilson (395), 129
Thompson, Eli (809), 178
Rebecca (Taylor) (811), 176
Sarah (Good) (810), 176
Spencer (812), 176
Wilson (813), 176
Tomlinson, Louisa (Shoe-
maker) (682), 169
Townsend, Annie Eliza
(Stubbs) (820), 177
Ellwood H. (817), 176
Harvey (823), 177
Heniy (814), 176
Israel H. (819), 177
John P. (818), 177
Joseph S. (816), 178
Marietta (816), 176
SaUie G. (822), 177
William Henry (821), 177
Van Dyne, Sarah Jane (Spen-
cer) (1281), 231
Van Horn, Anna Therese
(Sehnan) (999), 194
Ella (1002), 194
Harry (1001), 194
Henry (998), 194
Spencer Roberts (1000), 194
WiUlam Hirst (1003), 194
Walters, Lydia (Nichols)

(194), 102
Walton, Mary S. (Michener)
(362b), 120
Sarah (Spencer) (89), 72
Webster, Martha (Shoemak-
er) (247), 106
West, Abigail (Conrad)

(Spencer) (37), 60
Wharton, Abigail (Hirst)

(989), 193
White, Asa (896), 183
Edith (896), 183
Georgeanna (Russell) (897),

183
John (893), 183
Margaretta (ShortUdge)

(898), 183
Naomi (Nichols) (615), 146
Philena (Janney) (894),

183
Richard (892), 182

2SO

THE SPENCER FAMILY.

(Vhitton, Elizabeth (Spen-
cer) (2), 41
Wilcox, Georgianna (Rob-
erts) (781), 171
Williams, Ann (ShoemaJser)
(675), 159
Elizabeth A. (Shoemaker)

(694), 160
Garrett (775), 170
Joseph P. (779), 171
Joseph E. (778), 170
Josiah G. (780), 171
Mary Jane (777), 170
Rachel (776), 170
Wilson, Elizabeth (Gregg)
(505), 144
Grace (Thomas) (394), 12S

Wilson, Hannah P. (Brown)

(500), 143
Harriet (Gregg) (607), 144
Isaac (498), 143
Jesse S. (502), 143
Lydia (Gregg) (497), 143
Martha A. (Gregg) (496),

143
Mary N. (Walters) (504),

144
Miriam (Thompson) (506),

144
Samuel (603), 144
Sarah J. (499), 143
Thomas (601), 143
William (496), 143

Windom, Charles Edwin

(1163), 215
Edward Hezekiah (1165),

215
Ellen Hatch (Warren)

(1168), 217
Florence Bronson (1159),

217
Franklin French (1150),

214
Hezekiah (459), 139
John William (1149), 214
Jonas (460), 139, 214
Mary Ellen (1161), 214
Mercy Ann ( 1148), 214
Sarah Virginia (1152), 214
William (461), 139, 216

Windom, William Douglaa

(1167), 217

WilUam Lincoln (1154),

216

Wood, Albert W. (1043), 201

Caroline H. (Morgan)

(1039), 201
Elizabeth K. (Morgan)

(1041), 201
Ella (1038), 201
Frank H. (1040), 201
John (1037), 201
J. Byron (1042), 201
Woods, Helen A. (Robert»)

(1264), 227
Worthington, Esther (Spen-
cer) (300), 113