SpencerMy Spencer ancestors left England in the 1630s during the Great Migration. The lived in present-day Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, and finally Pennsylvania. OriginsEnglish: 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 VariationsI have found no spelling variations in records relating to this family. Immigrant GenerationFive children of Gerard SPENCER [A] and Alice WHITBREAD [A] emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the great migration with or about the time of Winthrop's Fleet. There are hints that William, and possibly Thomsa, Spencer sailed with the earlier ships and that the others followed later but there I have not found any firm proof.
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