"Samuel Spooner was a native or Providence, Rhode Island, and removed to Connecticut where he married Zerviah Hale of that state, about 1797 or 98. Mr. and Mrs. Spooner located in Somers, Conn. and all their children were born there, and Chloe, the youngest, died and was buried there. When Samuel Spooner came to make a new farm in Westhampton, he was some 46 years old. ... Zerviah Hale, wife of Samuel Spooner, Sr., died in Westhampton in 1817, aged about 45. In 1819 Mr. Spooner married for his second wife, Mrs. Tamer Dewey ["widow of Cephas Dewey" interlined in different ink] of Northampton. Samuel Spooner, Sr., died at his Westhampton hone Nov. 19, 1834, ["aged 68" added in different ink] and was burried [sic] under an apple tree in his home lot, but at quite a little distance from his house. ... Mrs. Tamer Spooner survived her second husband and died in the state of N.Y., it is believed in the town of Ellington, date unknown."