Person:Gerard Spencer (1)

Jacobus: “It seems quite possible that Gerard and his family moved from Stotfold some years before the emigration of his sons to New England; perhaps to London, where his brother Richard had become a prosperous haberdasher.” His children were all baptized at Stotfold. (Jacobus, Donald Lines, “The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants,” The American Genealogist, Vol. 27-28, 1951).

6g grandfather of Harriett Beecher Stowe through son William. 8g grandfather of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and 5g grandfather of J.P. Morgan through son Thomas.

Source: Stotfold P.R. Upper Gravenhurst P.R. p B15.

1. ↑ Emmison, F. G. (Frederick George). Bedfordshire parish registers (Stotfold 1559-1812). (Shire Hall: Bedford County Record Office, 1948).
2. ↑ Lawson, Steven M., “Kinnexions,” http://kinnexions.com/smlawson/index.htm, Viewed often 2000-2001 (last updated 6/18/2004),.

   Most research from respected and primary New England sources.

3. ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   William Spencer.
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Gerard Spencer, in Jacobus, Donald Lines. The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Apr, Jul 1951; Jan, Apr, Oct 1952; Jan, Apr, Jul 1953; Jan, Oct 1954)
   27:84.

   Gerard Spencer, baptized at Stotfold, co. Bedford, 20 May 1576, died before 1646;