1673 - 1758

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• Suffix	II
  Birth	1673	New London, New London County, Connecticut   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	Aft 1757	Norwich East Society, New London County, Connecticut   [1]
  Buried	New London County, Connecticut
  Person ID	I57575	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Peter SPICER, , 8 & 10, b. 1644, Virginia 'Cittie', near Jamestown Virginia
  Mother	Mary M. BUSECOT, , 8 & 10, b. 1648, Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island
  Family ID	F24981	Group Sheet
  Children	1. Daniel SPICER   2. Zurviah SPICER > 3. Peter SPICER, III > 4. Zephaniah SPICER, b. Abt 1722, Norwich, New London County, Connecticut
  Family ID	F24953	Group Sheet

• Notes

  [Spicer Family File.FTW] Peter Spicer was an inhabitant of Norwich, CT, in 1702. Nov 11, 1702, Peter bought of Josiah Rockwell for fifty shillings three acres of land lying on the east side of "Showtuckit River on the road that leadeth from Norwich to Stonington within the bounds of Norwich abutting Easterly on the highway otherwise abutting wholly upon the rock"; witnesses, Benajah Bushnell and Thomas Lathrop. Dec 31, 1706, Peter bought five acres more of Josiah Rockwell for four pounds and ten shillings lying same side of the river "abutted Southerly on land formerly belonging to Owen Williams, twenty rods, abutting Westerly on the highway, eighty rods, Northerly to a point Easterly on the Commons eighty rods;" witnesses, Benjamin Peck and Thomas Waterman. Jan 30, 1706-7, Peter sold to Samuel Bliss for twenty shillings the twenty acre grant of land granted him by the town of Norwich; said Bliss, to take up said land and to attend the order of the town therein and to pay the charges thereof; witnesses, John Downs and Joseph Elderkin. June 4, 1717, Peter was granted a license by the town of Norwich "to set up and use the art and mystery of tanning leather." Jan 24, 1721-2 he bought of John Clark in consideration of one cow valued at three pounds, "paid to brother James Clark in his lifetime," eight acres of land, "part of the thirty acre grant made to the heirs of honored father John Clark deceased to be taken up by the proprietor inhabitants of Norwich of the common undivided land". Aug 18, 1737, he bought of John Cook, Jr., for four hundred and twenty pounds, twenty acres and a dwelling house on the east side of the Shetucket River; witnesses, William Hide and Anne Hide. April 3, 1739, he sold to Jonathan Brewster for twenty-two pounds, five and one-half acres on the easterly side of Great River, in said Norwich boundaries mentioned, land belonging to Josiah Rockwell and own land; witnesses, Isaac Huntington and Isaac Huntington, Jr. March 30, 1744, and June, 1744, he deeded to son Daniel part of his homestead. March 13, 1754, he sold to Joseph Brewster for four hundred pounds, twenty acres of land in Norwich, "beginning at an ancient land mark of Owen Williams's land adjoining Northerly partly on land of Paul Pelton to the heighth of a high ledge of rocks or hill;" he redeemed this land Feb 20, 1755, and sold it same day to John Baldwin for nine hundred pounds; witnesses, Ebenezer Baldwin and Elisha Fitch. March 20, 1754, he sold to his son Daniel his four and one-half acres of land next Brewster's land; witnesses, Elisha Wilcocks and Elisha Fitch. Sept 4, 1754, he purchased of Paul Pelton for one hundred pounds, three acres in Norwich East Society, part of the land laid out to Paul Winthrop abutting southerly and easterly on his own land, westerly on Joseph Williams' and Daniel Roth's, northerly on Paul Pelton's own land; witnesses, Uriah Holmes and Ebenezer Brewster. May 20, 1757, he sold to Joseph Brewster three and one-quarter acres in the East Society for twenty-seven pounds, four shillings, ten pence; the deed mentions land of Elisha Wilcocks and of heirs of Jonathan Brewster. April 8, 1757, he deeded land to his son Daniel.

• Sources

  [S65] Spicer Family File.FTW. Date of Import: Jul 30, 2001