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• Title	Ensign
  Birth	16 Apr 1614	Bedfordshire,Eng   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	29 Jun 1683	Haddam,Ct   [1, 2]
  Buried	3 Sep 1685	Haddam,Middlesex,Connecticut
  Person ID	I57053	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	12 Jun 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Gerard SPENCER, b. 20 May 1576, Edworth,Bedfordshire,England
  Mother	Alice WHITEBREAD, b. 7 Oct 1571, Ion,Upper Gravenhurst,Bedfordshire,England
  Family ID	F1265	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Rebecca PORTER, b. 16 Sep 1630, Felstead,Essex,England
  Married	16 Sep 1630	Felstead,Essex,England   [1]
  Family ID	F24757	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Hannah HILLS, b. 1618, England
  Married	17 Dec 1636	Lynn,Essex,Ma   [1]
  Notes	3 SOUR Automated Archives, Automated Family Pedigrees - #1 CD No.100 (Orem, Utah: Automated Archives, 1992). 3 SOUR Supposition.
  Children	1. John SPENCER, b. 17 Aug 1636, ,Stotfold,Bedford,England > 2. Mehitable SPENCER, b. 1638, Lynn,Essex Co.,Mass.   3. Hannah SPENCER, b. 1640, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut   4. Alice (Marah) SPENCER, b. 1642, Lynn,Essex,Mass.   5. Samuel SPENCER, b. 27 Sep 1644, ,Stotfold,Bedfordshire,England   6. Sarah SPENCER, b. 1645, East Haddam,Middlesex Co,Ct   7. Elizabeth SPENCER, b. 1646, Lynn,Essex,Ma   8. Thomas SPENCER, b. 1650, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut   9. Timothy SPENCER, b. 1652, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut   10. Grace SPENCER, b. Abt 1654   11. Ruth SPENCER, b. 1654, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut   12. William SPENCER, b. 1656, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut > 13. Nathaniel SPENCER, b. 21 Dec 1658, East Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut   14. Rebecca SPENCER, b. 1660, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
  Family ID	F535	Group Sheet

• Notes

  1 _MILT 2 DATE 1656 2 PLAC Ensign Gerard was at Cambridge, MA, in 1631, where he owned land on the southside of the river. Soon after 1631, he moved to Lynn, MA, where in 1635he was a journey man. He was granted the ferry in 1638-40, by a GeneralCourt in Boston. He was appointed Administrator of his brother Michael'sestate in 1653, was chosen Ensign in the Train Band 1656, and in 1659,was on the Grand Jury. Gerard and his son John were among the 28purchasers of land on the Connecticut Rive which eentually became Haddam.Gerard moved the Hartford and then to Haddam. From "A Spencer Genealogy." BIOGRAPHY: Founder of Haddam,CT EMIGRATED: Arrived with first Winthrop fleet in 1630. Moved to Lynn, MAin 1634 MISCELLANEOUS: 3 SOUR Automated Archives, Automated Family Pedigrees- #1 CD No. 100 (Orem, Utah: Automated Archives, 1992). 3 SOUR Automated Archives, Automated Family Pedigrees - #1 CD No.100 (Orem, Utah: Automated Archives, 1992). MISCELLANEOUS: Name Suffix: Ensign Gerard, his brother, William,and Rev. Thomas Hooker, came from England to"The New Town", Mass. in1633, Cambridge, Mass., then Lynn, Mass.,then to Conn. where he helpfound Hartford, CT. in 1636; he was one of the first settlers at Haddam,CT. 1675. He was Rep. Gen. in CT., 1674 and served in King Phillips War.The townspeople of Haddam, CT presented him for an Ensigne for theirTrayn Band and commended themselves to him according to law. MISCELLANEOUS: !BOOK:"Genealogical Notes First Settlers of CT and MA." Heis listed in "Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors", Lawrence Public Library. MISCELLANEOUS: His will was written Sep. 17, 1683, and proved Sep. 3,1685. Gerard arrived at Cambridge, MA about 1631 with brothers Williamand Thomas, and settled at Lynn, MA. He removed to Hartford, CT, and,about 1660, to Haddam, CT. Freeman at Cambridge 1634; Juryman in 1638,Ensign of train band in 1656, and Grand Juror in 1659 at Lynn; Ensign in1672, serving in the militia in King Philip's War, Representative in1674-5, and Deputy to General Court in 1678-80 and 1683 in Haddam, CT. Info on Gerard and his children derived from http://www.pacifier.com/~gregdm/HTML/d0005/f0000024.html Missing spouses of those can be obtained from that site.

• Sources

  [S61] World Family Tree Vol. 4, Ed. 1, Brøderbund Software, Inc., (Release date: August 23, 1996), Tree #3551. Date of Import: Apr 1, 2000 [S75] Automated Archives, Automated Family Pedigrees - #1 CD No. 100(Orem, Utah: Automated Archives, 1992).. [S77] Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998 Repository: Family History Library 35 N West Temple Street Sal).