C)\\vA CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 924 096 785 351 Cornell University Library The original of this bool< is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924096785351 In compliance with current copyright law, Cornell University Library produced this replacement volume on paper that meets the ANSI Standard Z39.48-1992 to replace the irreparably deteriorated original. 2003 CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 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 .... Page I II H 22 36 79 114. 175 225 233 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. (i) 2 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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 . . his at at 2od death 4s 1705 : VIZ. £ . 00 . . 00 . . 00 . . 00 . . 00 . • 03 ■ . 01 . . 00 . . 00 • & 03 00 00 12 10 00 . 06 00 . 03 s d 16 . 00 05 . 00 08 . 00 04 . 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00 00 00 06 00 10 00 08 03 . 00 . 00 . 00 . 01 . 00 . 10 . 00 . 10 . 00 . 12 . 00 . 06 . 00 . 01 . 00 . 00 . 00 . 10 . 00 . 05 . 08 . 00 . 03 . 00 . 00 . 12 . 00 . 00 . 03 . 00 . 00 . 02 . 06 . 07 . 10 . 00 part . 05 . 10 . 06 . 00 . 05 . 00 . 04 . 06 . 00 . 02 . 14 . 08 . 02 . 10 . 08 ■ 02 . 10 . 00 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. 3 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.] 40 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 41 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." THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 43 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. 44 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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 THE SPENCER GENEALOGy 45 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 THE SPENCER GENEALOGY A7 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 : 48 THE SPENCER FAMILY ' ' 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. 4 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. 54 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 57 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 : 5 8 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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, THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 59 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. 6o THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 6 1 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." 62 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 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 64 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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 THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 65 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. 66 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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 : THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 6/ "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.] 68 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 69 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 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 THE SPENCER GENEALOGY »I 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. 82 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 83 124. 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 84 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. THE, SPENCER GENEALOGY 85 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 86 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 8/ 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. 88 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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 THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 89 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." 90 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 THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 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 92 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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, THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 93 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. 94 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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." THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 95 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. 96 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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 THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 97 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. 7 98 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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 THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 99 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 lOO 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 - \x9' THE SPENCER GENEALOGY lOI 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. I02 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. ^ THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 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. I04 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. ^ THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 105 232. 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 Io6 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 107 251. 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. Io8 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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, THE SPENCER GENEALOGY IO9 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. no THE SPENCER FAMlLY 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY II I 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. "2 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY "3 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. 114 THE SPENCER FAMILY (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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY "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. Ii6 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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, THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 11/ 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.) Il8 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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 THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 1 19 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 I20 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 121 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 123 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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, THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 1 23 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. 124 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 12$ 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 126 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 12/ 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 THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 129 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.) 132 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 141 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.) 142 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 145 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY 147 537. 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, . 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, 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY. 1 85 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY. I9I 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY. 1 93 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, THE SPENCER GENEALOGY. 1 95 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY. 199 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY. 201 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. THE SPENCER GENEALOGY. 20/ 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. THE SPENCER FAMIL Y 209 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 ; 2IO THE SPENCER FAMILY (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. THE SPENCER FAMIL Y 211 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 212 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. THE SPENCER FAMIL Y 2 1 3 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 214 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. THE SPENCER FAMIL Y 2 1 5 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. 2l6 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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 THE SPENCER FAMILY 21/ 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. 2l8 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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. THE SPENCER FAMILY 219 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 220 THE SPENCER FAMILY 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, THE SPENCER FAMILY 221 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, 222 THE SPENCER FAMIL Y 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 ^