 1714 - 1789 (74 years)
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| Name |
Joseph Spencer |
| Title |
Major-General |
| Born |
3 Oct 1714 |
East Haddam, Middlesex County, CT  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
13 Jan 1789 |
East Haddam, Middlesex County, CT [1] |
| Buried |
Nathan Hale Park [1] |
| Person ID |
I173421 |
Day Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
19 Aug 2014 |
| Father |
Deacon Isaac Spencer, b. 8 Jan 1678, East Haddam, Middlesex County, CT , d. 10 Feb 1751, East Haddam, Middlesex County, CT (Age 73 years) |
| Mother |
Mary (Mercy) Selden, b. 5 Mar 1689, Hadley, Hampshire County, MA |
| Married |
2 Oct 1707 |
East Haddam, Middlesex County, CT [1, 2] |
| Family ID |
F17843 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Martha Brainerd, b. 1 Sep 1716, East Haddam, Middlesex County, CT , d. 11 Oct 1754, East Haddam, Middlesex County, CT (Age 38 years) |
| Married |
2 Aug 1738 |
East Haddam, Middlesex County, CT [3] |
| Children |
| | 1. Martha Spencer, b. 8 May 1739, d. 24 Feb 1739/1740 (Age 0 years) |
| | 2. Hobart Spencer, b. 1742, East Haddam, Middlesex County, CT , d. 1806, Vermont (Age 64 years) |
| | 3. Anna Spencer, b. 30 Mar 1746 |
| | 4. Israel Brainerd Spencer, b. 10 Jul 1748 |
| + | 5. Dr. Joseph Spencer, b. 22 Jul 1750, East Haddam, Middlesex County, CT , d. 11 May 1824, Vienna, Wood, VA (Age 73 years) |
| | 6. Nehemiah Spencer, b. 24 Dec 1752 |
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| Family ID |
F104814 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Hannah Brown |
| Married |
1756 |
Kinderhook, Columbia County, NY [3, 4] |
| Children |
| | 1. Millicent Spencer, b. 20 Mar 1757 |
| + | 2. Honorable Isaac Spencer, b. 12 Oct 1759, Kinderhook, Columbia County, NY , d. 19 Oct 1840, Hartford, Hartford County, CT (Age 81 years) |
| | 3. Jarrard (Jared) Spencer, Esq., b. 5 Jun 1762, d. 11 Nov 1820, in a snowstorm (Age 58 years) |
| | 4. Mary Spencer, b. 5 Jun 1762 |
| | 5. Seth Spencer, b. 20 Jan 1765 |
| | 6. Hannah Spencer, b. 15 Nov 1767 |
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| Last Modified |
16 Feb 2016 |
| Family ID |
F104837 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Joseph, for 35 years, was Judge of Probate for the district of East-Haddam and Colchester. In 1758 he went into the northern army in the capacity of Major under Colonel Nathan Whiting, and the two following years as a Lieutenant-Colonel, in the last French war, and acquired the character of a brave and good officer. In 1775 in the War of the Revolution, he was appointed a Brigadier, and in 1776 a Major-General, in the army of the United States. He resigned his commission two years after. In 1779 he was a member of Congress. In 1766 he was elected into the Council, and held a seat in it, excepting when a member of Congress, till his death. He early made a public profession of religion, and served many years as a Deacon in the church in Millington. [5]
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