Spencer

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Summary

My Spencer ancestors left England in the 1630s during the Great Migration. The lived in present-day Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, and finally Pennsylvania.

Origins

English: occupational name for someone employed in the pantry of a great house or monastery, from Middle English spense ‘larder’ + the agent suffix -er. [Source: Ancestry.com]

Spelling Variations

I have found no spelling variations in records relating to this family.

Immigrant Generation

Five children of Gerard SPENCER [A] and Alice WHITBREAD [A] emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Great

with or about the time of Winthrop's Fleet.

• William
• Elizabeth
• Thomas
• Michael
• Jared