Family:Thomas Spencer and Elizabeth Bates (4)

Parents: Gerard Spencer and Unknown Thomas Spencer b. Est 1648 Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (probably) d. 3 Feb 1699/00 Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States	Parents: James Bate and Anne Withington Elizabeth Bates b. Abt 1654 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States (probably)

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Marriage^[1]^[2]

Bef 1673

Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States (probably)Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (Jared).

Children

		Birth	Death
1.	Jared Spencer	8 Oct 1673 Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States	6 Jan 1753 Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
2.	Thomas Spencer	1 Apr 1679 Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States	Aft 4 Dec 1757 Groton, New London, Connecticut, United States

References

↑ Jared Spencer, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
6:424.

"Thomas Spencer … m. (1) by 1673 Elizabeth Bate (eldest known child b. Haddam 8 October 1673 [Haddam LR 1:124]), daughter of James Bate (on 16 February 1691/2, the 'Articles of agreement between the children of James and Hanah Bate late of Haddam deceased' included a portion of the estate granted to 'Mary and Margritt,' they 'paying forty shillings to their sister Elizabeth,' and the document was signed by Thomas Spencer and William Spencer [Haddam LR 1:21; NEHGR 75:144, 76:26]); …"
↑ Whittemore, Henry. Our New England Ancestors and Their Descendants, 1629-1900: Historical, Genealogical, Biographical. (New York: New England Ancestral Publishing Co., 1900)
58-59.

"Thomas Spencer [son of Gerrard and Hannah (_____) Spencer] … married Elizabeth Bates, daughter of James Bates (2) of Dorchester, Mass, and Anne, daughter of Henry Withington of Dorchester … Children of Thomas & Elizabeth (Bates) Spencer: Jarrard, 1673 at Haddam; Thomas 1679 at Saybrook~~; and Caleb 1695/6~~ [probably child of second wife] at Saybrook."