Capt. Thomas Spencer, of King & Queen

Thomas Spencer

• B: 04 Dec 1636 in James City County, Virginia (birth also seen as 1652)
• D 20 Jul 1708 in King William County, Virginia
• Father: Abraham Alexander SPENCER B: 1602 Yorkshire, England D 4 Dec 1657 Martins Hundred, James City, Virginia
• Mother: Judith SCRIVENER B: 1613 Suffolk, England D: UNKNOWN

Thomas SPENCER was born 04 DEC 1636 in James City, Virginia, USA, and died 1708 in King William, Virginia, USA

Family

Thomas Spencer of King & Queen had 3 marriages instead of two.

1. His first marriage was to Susannah Perry;
2. his second marriage was to Elizabeth Whelling or Wheeling, whom he married in 1693, per parish records.
3. She must not have lived very long because his third marriage (and the one for which he is known) was in 1694/5 to Anne Woodward, daughter of William Woodward.

Children of Susannah Perry and Thomas Spencer:

1. Elizabeth Spencer was born 1682 in and died after 1725 in St Marks Parish, Culpeper, Virginia, USA. She married 1) James White 2) Gabriel Bobo
2. Benjamin Spencer was born 1682 in St Peters, New Kent, Virginia, USA, and died 1751 in St Martins Parish, Louisa, Virginia, USA. married 1) 1729 in St. Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia, Mary Gooch 2) 1738, Ann Smith
3. Susannah Spencer was born 03 NOV 1686 in New Kent, New Kent, Virginia, USA, and died 04 NOV 1686 in Rec St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia, USA.
4. Thomas Spencer was born 05 SEP 1689 in Rec St Peters Parish, New Kent, Virginia, USA, and died DEC 1734 in Hanover, Virginia, USA.

Children of Anne Woodward and Thomas Spencer:

1. Abraham Spencer was born 1700 New Kent, Virginia, USA and died 1762 Hanover, Virginia, USA M: 1728 - Susannah Sharp (1710-1762) (also seen as Abraham Spencer was born ABT 1684 in New Kent, New Kent, Virginia, USA, and died 04 MAR 1749 in Louisa,, Virginia, USA. (???)

Notes

In "King William Co. Record Book 1, 1702-1707, p. 109; and in FleetII, "Virginia Colonial Abstracts," p. 291, is a Deed of Partition,naming Gideon Macon, late of New Kent Co., dec'd., and Capt. ThomasSpencer in the right of their wives, Martha and Anne, daughters andco-heirs of William Woodward. This was a division of WilliamWoodward's land between his two daughters and their husbands. Itmentioned that daughter- Martha, widow and relict of Gideon Macon, hadmarried (2nd) Capt. Nathaniel West, by that time.

William Spencer married Ann Woodward, a patentee in 1664 in New Kent County. (No doubt these people are in some way related to the Spencers and Woodwards who followed them). According to "Old New Kent County Some Accounts of the Planters, Plantations & Places in King william County St. John Parish Vols. I & II (compiled by Malcolm Hart Harris MD, 1977), Spencers Ferry crossing the Pamunkey River originally belonged to Thomas Spencer (p. 192). Spencer's Plantation on the SW corner of the road leading toward the York River was the site of the early Spencer home (p. 392). An Edward Spencer resided there in 1782; in 1800 a John Spencer resided there. (p. 273). Whem William Woodward died in September 1695, a surveyor by the name of James Minge (he was the surveyor for King & Queen), partitioned the property as follows: The upper part of Woodward divident lay along Duck creek (Montague Creek- 1,350 acres of land bet. Capt. Thos. Spencer and Ann Woodward his wife, who were alloted the upper part of the plantation on which the Spencers were living. the remainder was given to Martha Woodward and her second husband Capt. Nathaniel West (p. 741). Martha West deeded to Capt. Thomas Spencer 350 acres 30 July 1708 (p. 747)

References

• http://www.wittmeyerfamily.com/thomas-spencer-1636.html
• From https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tmbean&i... has errors
• http://myshgs.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2011-nov-ledespencer.pdf
• http://myshgs.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Pages-from-EARLY-SPENC...

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