Genealogy of Patty Rose
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Notes for Humphrey SPENCER | ||||||||||||
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [note: Noyes lists Humphrey as a son of his own brother William] Humphrey, 2d son, carpenter, tav. keeper, Kittery, Great Island, b. �1646 (ag. 43 in Apr. 1689), m. 1st Elizabeth Sheares, m. 2d one Grace by 25 July 1676 when his parents gave him a ho. and 30 a. in Kit. (Berwick). Of Gt. Isl. they bot land from the Mussell est. in Mar. 1677-8. sold liq. there in 1678. Me. lic. 1680, also in 1681 with ferry lic. to Gt. Isl. and Str. Bank. Pub. ho. lic. and taxed Gt. Isl. 1682-90. Jury 1684, 1688; gr.j. (Me.) 1604. He d. 19 Dec. 1700. Wife Grace wit. in contest over est. of T. Harris in 1684; alive 2 Apr. 1686. In Sept. 1687 Wm. Haines told that H.S. and his mo. poisoned his w. who died. As Grace outliv. his mo., Haines must have referred to the 1st w. Elizabeth Emery depos. in 1738, ag. �82, that his 1st w. left two sons: Humphrey, Thomas. Stackpole adds Mary. One Mary of Berw. d. 19 or 20 Apr. 1704, 'aft. some months' sickness with a disease called Strangury.' [ref 22] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - HUMPHREY m. Elizabeth Shears of York in 1673, (2) Grace ___ in 1676. Removed to Portsmouth, N. H. Died 19 Dec. 1700. Ch., Humphrey (2) and Mary, unm. [ref 33:738] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - HUMPHREY SPENCER (Patience 2 William 1), born Berwick ME circa 1638; died 19 Dec 1700; married first circa 1673 (LND, 650) ELIZABETH SHEARS of Cape Neddick, York Co, ME, daughter of Jeremy and Elizabeth Shears (LND, 626); married second before 25 July 1676 (LND, 650) GRACE _____, who was living 2 Apr 1686, when she joined Humphrey in a deed at Portsmouth. This family removed to Portsmouth from York in 1676, and lived on Great Island, where they operated a public house and ferry (LND, 650). One Sunday afternoon instead of going to the second sermon, Humphrey Spencer and some relatives and neighbors met and began drinking. A fight ensued in which Daniel Goodwin struck Humphrey over the head with a stool. Both men were fined at the County Court 25 Apr 1670 (MPC II:185). In Sep 1687 William Haines was found guilty of slander for saying that "Humphrey Spencer and his Mother [Patience] Spencer were the Cause of the Said Humphrey [first] wifes Death by Poysoning her." Haines was fined 10s and court costs (MPC III:262). Humphrey made his mark to a deposition taken by Robert Elliot in Apr 1689 about the laying out of land in the western cove of Spruce Creek (MPC IV:27). Considerable controversy came to bear over the S Berwick land that had originally been immigrant Thomas Spencer's in 1704 when Humphrey Spencer's title to it was questioned. From these court papers we learn a great deal about Thomas Spencer's arrival (MPC IV:172-4). Humphrey Spencer of Berwick, vintner, sold for �9.0 to Mr John Wade, minister, upland bordering Wade's land with the caveat that he could not provide clear title regarding the claim of Robert Tufton Mason and his heirs (YD 4:69-70 dated 16 Sep 1700). Samuel Allen of Newbury MA and London, England, merchant, successfully sued Humphrey Spencer for trespass and ejectment on one hundred acres of upland and meadow with the houses and buildings gs, the garden, orchard and all appurtenances in Kittery, stating that the land was that of Capt John Mason, who had purchased it from Sir Ferdinando Gorges of London, both deceased, and that Allen had received it from Mason (York Co Court of Common Pleas, July Term 1704, File 4-6). Children (LND, 650) with first wife Humphrey, Thomas, Mary. [ref 74:21] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||||
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