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Facts and Events
| Name |
Spencer Lacey |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth? |
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Delaware, United States |
| Property[3] |
1785 |
Sussex, Delaware, United StatesIndian River Hundred |
| Census[6] |
1800 |
Sussex, Delaware, United StatesIndian River Hundred |
| Will[2] |
1810 |
Sussex, Delaware, United States |
| Religion[5] |
1810 |
Sussex, Delaware, United StatesZoar Methodist Church |
| Census[7] |
1820 |
Sussex, Delaware, United StatesIndian River Hundred |
| Property[4] |
1822 |
Sussex, Delaware, United StatesIndian River Hundred |
| Marriage |
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Delaware, United Statesto Mary Ennis (add) |
| Death[1] |
1823 |
Sussex, Delaware, United States |
References
- ↑ Delaware Public Archives, Sussex County Probate Files
RG 4545.009, 1823-1830.
Administrator's Bond and Appointment of Appraisers both dated July, 1823. The Inventory/Appraisal was dated August 7, 1823, at Indian River Hundred.
- ↑ Will of Spencer Lacey (holographic), in Delaware Public Archives, Sussex County Probate Files
RG 4545.009, Will Book 7, p. 293, Archive Volume A83 p. 26, March 10, 1810.
"In the name of God amen I Spencer Lacey in the County of Sussex
and state of Delaware being of sound mind doth make & ordain this
my Last will & testament in manner & form followin that is to say
first I commend my soul into the hands of almighty god & my body
to the earth to be decently buryed at the descreson of my executors
hereinafter named & touching the disposion of all my temporil
estate I give & dispose thereof as followthe I will my debts &
funeral charges shall be paid & discharged.
I give & bequeath unto well beloving wife Mary Lacey all my
moveble estate deoin hire wedhode I all so give all my lands to
my well belovid wife during her wedhode and after hir chang of
life by marriage or deth
I give my moveable estate what is left to my three children which
is to say Wm B. Lacey & Delafaty F. Lacey & Sallay E. Lacey to be
equiled divided and after my well belovid wife Mary Lacey
chang of life by marrun or deth I giv to my son Wm B. Lacey
my lands as foloing wich I give the plantation that I now
live in to be ingoyed by him for evir wich he is to pay fifteen
pound to Leme Smeth Lacey in one year after he recvis the land
I also give to my loven son John M. Lacey one bed & furniture
and no mor. I give to my well beloved son Delafaty F. Lacey
the plantation ware John Chipe now livs to be his fore evir
I giv to my loven deater Sallay E. Lacey the plantation where
old Derray now livs to be hirs for evir.
I do hereby bequeath and & assign my loving wife Mary Lacey my
Exectrix and William B. Lacey Executor for to be the sole executors
of this my last will & testament & sit my hand & seal this
tenth day of March one thousand eight hundred & ten.
Spencer Lacey [seal]
Wm. Ennes
William Meagee
Recrd 10th July"
- ↑ History of Delaware, 1609-1888, by J. Thomas Scharf, L. J. Richards & Company, Philadelphia
Vol II, Page 1271, 1888.
Spencer Lacey appears in the List of Taxables for Indian River Hundred, Sussex County, for 1785.
- ↑ History of Delaware, 1609-1888, by J. Thomas Scharf, L. J. Richards & Company, Philadelphia
Vol II, Page 1272, 1888.
Spencer Lacey appears in the List of Taxables for Indian River Hundred, Sussex County, for 1822.
- ↑ History of Delaware, 1609-1888, by J. Thomas Scharf, L. J. Richards & Company, Philadelphia
Vol II, Page 1275, 1888.
Listed as the head of one of the fifteen founding families of Zoar Methodist Church, when the church was incorporated November 5, 1810. Delaware Public Archives Historical Marker No. SC-99 confirms the date of incorporation and early history of the church.
- ↑ 1800 Census, Sussex County, Delaware - Indian River Hundred
Page 432.
Spencer Lacey, head of household, consisting of one male under 10, one male 16-26, one male over 45, one female under 10, one female 16-26 and one female 26-45.
- ↑ 1820 Census, Sussex, Delaware - Indian River Hundred
Page 214.
Spencer Lacey, head of household, consisting on one male under 10, one male over 45, one female 16-25, and one female 26-44.
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