Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameEnsign Gerard Spencer - Direct Ancestor (Family North American Pioneer) 
Birth25 Apr 1614, Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England,
Death29 Jun 1685, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, BNA
FatherJared Spencer - Direct Ancestor (1576-1646)
MotherAlice Whitbred - Direct Ancestor (1571-1628)
Spouses
Birth1618, Great Burstead, Essex, England
Death22 Oct 1692, Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, BNA
Marriage17 Dec 1636, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, BNA
Birth10 Sep 1630, Felsted, Essex, England
Death9 Jan 1683, Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut
FatherJohn Porter
MotherAnn White
Notes for Ensign Gerard Spencer - Direct Ancestor (Family North American Pioneer)
-Ensign Gerard Spencer was born in Stotford, Bedfordshire, England. He married Hannah Joannis Hills, who was born in 1618 at Great Burstead, Essex, England, on 17 December 1636 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, BNA. Gerard migrated, with his brothers, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1633. He settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts by 1634 moved to Lynn Massachusetts by 1638 and to Hartford, Connecticut by 1660 and finally to Haddam, Connecticut. At Lynn on 17 December 1636 he married Hannah Joannis Hills. At Haddam he was one of the purchasers of 100,000 acres from the Indians on 20 March 1662. He was Sergeant at Lynn in 1655, Ensign in 1656, Ensign of the Haddam Train Band in 1675, and Deputy for Haddam to the Connecticut Legislature from 1674 to 1683.
Their daughter Hannah Spencer married Daniel Brainerd, son of John Daniel Brainerd and Hannah Ventres.
Their daughter Hannah Spencer married Daniel Brainerd, son of John Daniel Brainerd and Hannah Ventres.