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Susannah Spencer (Griffin)

Birthdate:
Birthplace: of, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island
Death: April 12, 1719
East Greenwich, Kent County , Rhode Island
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Robert Griffin and Mary Griffin
Wife of John Spencer, of Lynn & East Greenwich
Mother of John Spencer; Benjamin Spencer; William Spencer; Capt. Robert Spencer; Abner Spencer and 5 others
Sister of 1st Wife Andrews; Hannah Nichols; Mary Fry; Mary Nichols; Isabel Mann and 1 other

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About Susannah Spencer

Susannah Griffin

  • Birth: 1642 of Newport RI
  • Marriage: 1664 Of E. Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island
  • Death: Apr 12 1719 East Greenwich, Rhode Island

Family

From https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112179338

Parents: Robert & Hannah Griffin [uncertain mother]

9 children:

  • 1. John Spencer 1666-1743 m Audrey Greene
  • 2. Michael Spencer 1668-1748 m Elizabeth Unknown
  • 3. Benjamin Spencer 1670-1723 m (1) Martha Savage (2) Patience Hawkins
  • 4. William Spencer 1672-1748 m (1) Elizabeth Jenkins (2) Elizabeth (Burlingame) Arnold
  • 5. Capt. Robert Spencer 1674-1748 m Theodosia Whaley (2) Ann (Babcock) Barber
  • 6. Abner Spencer 1676-1759 m Susannah Wells
  • 7. Thomas Spencer 1679-1752 m Elizabeth Pearce
  • 8. Susannah Spencer 1681-1681
  • 9. Peleg Spencer 1683-1763 m Elizabeth Coggeshall

Comments

She may have been the daughter of Robert Griffin, b: 1613 and Ann Almy, b/chr: 26 FEB 1627 in South Kilworth, County Leicester, ENGLAND. [NO: Anne Greene was “not” a wife of Robert Griffin]


The citations have her as (parents unknown).

From Re: Griffin of Rhode Island 2001

"The only early published genealogy that I am aware of that refers to Robert Griffin is Edith Austin Moore's "A Genealogy of the Descendants of Robert Austin", in which she states that Robert's wife name was Mary -- not Hannah. If one can believe online sources, the immigrant Robert Griffin had by whichever wife the following children:

4. Susannah baptized 13 May 1644, married John Spencer

"My line is through Susannah Griffin & John Spencer per Moore's book on the Austin family of RI.

Citations

  1. Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island
  2. Great Migration profile of Michael Spencer: Son John went Rhode Island. In 1666 he married Susanna ? and their eldest son was born April 29, 1666 East Greenwich. They had nine children: John II, Michael, Benjamin, William, Robert, Robert, Adner, Thomas, Susanna, Peleg. All born East Grennwich, R.I. John died in East Greenwich 1695.
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Susannah Spencer's Timeline

1644
May 13, 1644
of, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island
1666
April 20, 1666
East Greenwich, Kent County, RI, United States
1668
May 28, 1668
East Greenwich, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
1670
June 22, 1670
East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, USA
1672
July 1, 1672
East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island
1674
November 6, 1674
East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island
1676
December 4, 1676
East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island, USA
1679
July 22, 1679
East Greenwich, Kent County, RI, United States
1681
December 1, 1681
East Greenwich, Kent County, RI, British Colonial America