Elizabeth Spencer

biography

From https://geesnmore.wordpress.com/charles-gee-iii/hancock/

Captain Robert Spencer lived at the head of Crouches Creek His first wife may have been a sister of Thomas Taberer who wrote to Robert in 1672 calling him brother Spencer Robert and his first wife had two daughters, Anne and Elizabeth.

Captain Robert Spencer married Elazabeth White between 1673 and 1675 She was the daughter of Captain John White of Surry County  Captain John White had three children, Elizabeth, Mary and John  His widow remarried to Captain William Corker Corker gave Elizabeth White Spencer 100 acres and Mary White 100 acres in 1673 In 1675 Robert Spencer, as husband to Elizabeth White, sued William Corker for his brother-in-law John White. Corker was ordered to deliver one feather bed and furniture to John White as requested in the will of Captain White.

Elizabeth White Spencer died and Robert remarried to Jane Browne, the daughter of Colonel William Browne and Mary Browne of Surry County Roberts will, written in 1678 and filed in 1679 leaves his property to his daughters Elizabeth and Ann, his granddaughter Martha Whitson and his wife Jane.

Capt John White, burgess for James City in 1641, (died before 1658) married Elizabeth.

Their three children

• 1. John White in his 1679 will leaves property to Mary White, sister, and Lucy Corker, half sister
• 2. Mary White made her will in 1720, apparently unmarried In 1675
• 3. Elizabeth White married Capt. Robert Spencer, his 2nd wife

Source: page 169 of Southside Virginia Families, Volume 1 By John Bennett Boddie, Boddie

From http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lgmathis&...

In 1675 Capt. Spencer married Elizabeth White, dau. of Capt. John White (Gen. Court Records). Then he married Jane, who survived him. He names (in will pr. 1679) children Elizabeth and Ann, which last child was by last wife.