Samuel Spencer II (1668 - 1748)

Born 1668 in Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Son of Samuel Spencer I and Sarah (Unknown) Spencer

Husband of Hephzibah (Church) Spencer — married 16 Sep 1696 in Hadley or Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 28 Mar 1748 at about age 80 in Bolton, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

"Samuel, only son of the above, was born in 1668. He was first of Hartford, then of Colchester, Conn., afterward of Bolton, Conn. He married Hepzibah Church, at Hatfield, Sept. 16, 1696. She was a daughter of Deacon Edward Church of Hatfield, Mass., son of Richard Church, one of the first settlers of Hartford. Mrs. Hepzibah Spencer died at Bolton, Sept. 13, 1745, in the 66th year of her age.—(Gravestone, Bolton burying-ground). Mr. Samuel Spencer died at Bolton, March 26, 1748, in the 80th year of his age.—(Gravestone, Bolton burying-ground)." - Hollister Family of America

Sources

• Find A Grave: Memorial #58903026: Bolton Center Cemetery, Bolton, Tolland, Connecticut
• Donald Lines Jacobus, The Four Spencer Brothers, The American Genealogist, V27 pp165-166
• No. 845, pg 260-261 - Hollister Family of America compiled by Lafayette Wallace Case, MD 1886 - https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=5eNUAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA1

DNA

• Paternal relationship is confirmed through Y-chromosome DNA testing. Frank Spencer (descendant of Thomas Spencer²) and Chet Spencer (descendant of Samuel³, William Spencer²), tenth cousins, match on 64 out of 67 markers (see YSearch IDs BVDU9 and 23V7R) thereby confirming their direct paternal lines back to their MRCA Gerard Spencer¹