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Thomas Spicer |
| Gender |
Male |
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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.
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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.
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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:
An unverified timeline
| Date | Event/comment | Place | Source
| | 03 FEB 1591 | Father: CHRISTOPHER SPICER | Exeter, Devon, England | IGI Christening record.
| | 22 OCT 1591 | parents: NICHOLAS SPICER & MARTHA GRANT. | Barfreeston, Kent | IGI Christening record; Parish Registry for Barfreston, Kent.
| | 4 Feb 1626 | marriage to ANN GRANT | St Marys, Sandwich, Kent, England. | IGI
| | | two children by Ann | |
| | c1629-1634 | estimated death of Ann based on marriage in 1626, two children, 2 years apart, first born one year after marriage gives 1629 as earliest DOD, but more likely she died in 1634, and Thomas remarried soon thereafter | |
| | 5 Feb 1635 | re-Marriage to Michall widow of John Jenkins; will dated 9/30/1658 identifies wife as ? | Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts | IGI;
| | 1636 | Had home | Newport Rhode Island | McMillan 1956
| | April 13, 1639 | We whose names are underwritten doe acknowledge ourselves the legal subjects of his majestie King Charles, and in his name doe herebye bind ourselves into a civill body politicke, unto his laws according to matters of justice."; Thomas Spicer, Signatory
| | first of ye 5th month, 1639 | At a quarter meeting Thomas Spicer and Robert Potter are chosen surveyors for ye highways | |
| | 1642 | "chosen by election Treas'r of Portsmouth for one whole year." | Portsmouth | McMillan 1956; Rhode Island Colonial Records, Vol. I, 1636-
| | "1st of ye 8th month 1638, | included in list of "persons admitted to be inhabitants of the Island now called Aquidneck, having submitted themselves to the government that is or shall be established | Aquidneck |
| | July 16, 1638, | signed contract with Nicholas Eaton of Newport. | Newport |
| | 1639 | admitted an inhabitant of Newport | Newport | ("Narragansett Hist. and Gen. Register.")
| | 16th day of March, 1641 | listed in the Court Roll of Freemen elected , Mr. Wm. Coddington Gov. | |
| | c1642 | Settled in Schraggs Neck with John Throckmorton | |
| | 1643 | relocated to New Amsterdam due to Indian Attack on Throg's Neck | New Amsterdam |
| | 1643 | patentee | Gravesend | McMillan 1956
| | July 8th, 1644, | Mr Moor vs. Mr. Spycer in a case of attachment on a boat belonging to Peter Lourenson and Mr. Grockrnorten, Lourenson is condemned to deliver the bark to Mr Spycer agreably to the power of attorney on condition that the latter give security for the value of the vessel, in case Mr. Moor hereafter prove that "the owner is indebted to him, when the money must be returned. | Court Proceedings at Manhattan on file at. Albany, New York, Office Sect'y of State, Vol. II, pp. 119, "Narragansett Hist. Register," Vol. VIII, page 250.)
| | 1645. | patentees | Gravesend |
| | Feb. 20, 1646 | allotted a plantation in second division of Gravesend | Gravesend | Source:Bergen, 1881
| | c. Dec 17, 1646, | Living in Flatlands when driven from Gravesend by the Indians; | Flatlands | Source:Bergen, 1881
| | Aug. 6, 1654, | buys lot 20 from BEET, WILLIAM, | Gravesend | Source:Bergen, 1881
| | i1656 | among the free-holders of the town may be found the names of Samuel Spicer, Jacob Spicer, and Thomas Spicer, who were probably sonsof Thomas Spicer of Gravesend, having then grown to manhood and there settled. | New Jersey? | John Clement's "First Settlers in Newton Township, New Jersey," pp. 293-300.)
| | Aug. 6, 1654, | He bought of William Best, plantation lot No. 20. | Gravesend |
| | 1657 | listed as having 9 morgens of land in tillage | Gravesend | .
| | 1658 | Magistrate | Gravesend | Source:Bergen, 1881
| | September 30, 1658, | will written | Gravesend | Source:Bergen, 1881
| | November 4, 1658. | will proved; devises his real estate to his wife and sons, subject to legacies to his daughters | Gravesend | Source:Bergen, 1881
| | 1663 | Michal, wife of Thomas Spicer died she was supposedly of Brooklyn, Kings, New York
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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).
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