FROM "GENEALOGICAL SKETCH OF THE DESCENDANTS OF SAMUEL SPENCER OFPENNSYLVANIA by Howard M Jenkins 1904.
Samuel Spencer, son of Samuel and Elizabeth, born eighth month(October, O.S.) 22, 1699, probably in Upper Dublin, left an orphan at a tender age, reared by the family of his mother, the Whittons, married fourth month (June) 18, 1723, Mary, daughter of Abraham and Edith Dawes, of Whitemarsh, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county, the ceremony being according to the order of the Society of Friends, in their meeting-house at Plymouth. Mary was born Eleventh month (January) 22, 1701. Samuel bought property in Upper Dublin; inherited some in 1743 under the will of ;his mother's brother, Richard Whitton; and also bought land in Moreland. He lived, it appears, on the property now (1897) the estate of Joshua V. Paxson, in Upper Dublin, adjoining the live of Horsham. On the tax list of 1734 he is assessed for 100 acres of land, in Upper Dublin. In the list of 1776 he is marked "aged," and is assessed for 150 acres. He died Sixth month 30, 1777. His wife, Mary, died fourth month 16, 1776.
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