Person:Thomas Spicer (2)

For the family of Nicholas and Martha (Grant) Spicer (parents of Thomas Spicer), please see Susan Billings Meech, A Supplement to the Descendants of Peter Spicer Containing Additions and Corrections (Boston: Stanhope Press, 1923), especially the following pages:

— Appendix: “Containing Some Account of Nicholas Spicer of Barfreston, Kent, Co. England and Additional Information of His Descendants in America, With Wills,” p. 222–235

— Records of Nicholas Spicer and his descendants, p. 25–37

Online at HathiTrust.org:

http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005761399

This page is a stub, being used to capture information about a particular subject, in preparation for development of a formal article. Please note that some of the data, perhaps much of, or even all of the data, presented here is derived from secondary and tertiary sources. The intent is to eventually tie everything to an "original" or primary source, or at least to something that can be accepted as a surrogate for such a source. See Category:Stub Warnings For Southwest Virginia Project for a list of articles with stub warnings.
___________________________________________________________

This page is being used to gather miscellaneous data concerning Thomas Spicer found on the web. Much of this is taken from "brian" aka "Flubber" on An Ancestry WFT titled "Welcome to the family". These materials are being reorganized to fit the need here. Brian seems to have gathered extensive material mostly based tertiary sources. Some of those sources conflict; some statements are clearly wrong. While useful as a stating point, these data need to be integrated into a coherent picture, founded on at least secondary sources.

___________________________________________________________

There are two christening records for a Thomas Spicer, both in the year 1591. One dated 3 Feb is from Exeter, Devon, Kent England, and identifies the father as Christopher Spicer. The other dated 22 October, is from Barfreeston, Kent, England, and identifies the parents as Nicholas Spicer and Martha Grant. These records seem to be used by different authors to identify the DOB and parents of Thomas Spicer of Gravesend, but there seems to be nothing that independently connects him to either christening record.

___________________________________________________________

It has been well known for a long time that Thomas Spicer's daughter, Ann Spicer, married John Lake of Gravesend. In 2005, research established that John and Ann (Spicer) Lake were the parents of Martha who married first Obadiah Wilkins and second John Griggs. Thus, Martha (Lake) (Wilkins) Griggs may have been named in honor of Martha (Grant) Spicer or an intermediate namesake. For more information, please see:

• Perry Streeter, “The Griggs Family of Gravesend and New Jersey,” The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 136(2005):243-252; 137(2006):47-57, 118-130, 309-310

An unverified timeline

Notes

The following is quoted from "History of the Descendants of Peter Spicer", p. 8-10. (Segments in quotes were apparently taken from various early records.)

" It is ordered that John Porter and Thomas Spicer shall receive from ye inhabitants of ye lastly purchased meddows, their monies for the year and bring it to ye Town.

"In 1640 Thomas Spicer one of those chosen to layout the lands for the town of Portsmouth."

Thomas had wife Michal and had son Samuel born in New England prior to 1640.

Father: **Nicholas Spicer b: ABT 1545 in Barfreston, Kent, England Mother: **Martha Grant b: 1560

Marriage 1 *Ann Grant b: OCT 1605 in England Married: 4 FEB 1625 in Sandwich, Kent, England Children

*Anne Spicer b: 1632 in Brooklyn, Kings, New York, USA

Marriage 2 Michael Ann Jenkins b: ABT 1607 in Brooklyn, Kings, NY Married: 5 FEB 1635 in Canterbury, England

Sources to check

Some Sources that might be checked:

1. BIOGRAPHY: Don R. Cook, Grandma was A Tilton,Prudent PelicanPublishing, FT Collins, Co, 1996 pg 118

2. BIRTH: MARRIAGE:DEATH:Tilton, Francis Theodore, THE HISTORY OF THE TILTON FAMILY IN AMERICA. New Jersey,:1939-40.page 122

3.Historical and Genealogical Miscellany, early settlers of NewJersey and their decendants, John Stillwell, New York, 1932. VOL V, pg135 Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania, Volumes I-III Diehl Family

4. Teunis Bergen's 1881 compilation, the Register of the Early Settlers of Kings County, Long Island New York

5. Quaker Biographical Sketches; driven from Bay Colony for religiousreasons, and went to west end of Long Island around 1643.

6. "A History of the Jacks Family of Alabama, North Carolina, and Maryland...", by Thomas E. Jacks.

7. "The Spicer Family of Gravesend, Kings County, New York", an excerpt from "Gravesend Settlers: Ancestors and Descendants" by William H. Stillwell (1832-1895).