Le Despencer : quarterly journal of the Spencer Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc.

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Editor: Richard T. Spencer, Jr.; John F. Kelly; Richard T. Spencer, Jr.

Published: Del Mar, California; Huntsville, Alabama; Franklin, Tennessee; Houston, Texas; Michigan City, Indiana; Ft. Wayne, Indiana; Franklin, Tennessee.

Not yet available in PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) at this time. (21 Dec. 2005).

Journal for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Spencer (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England, France, Ireland, Wales, and possibly the Netherlands. Some immigrated to Barbados and Jamaica (West Indies), and to Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin in the 1600s. In the 1700s, some settled in Nova Scotia and Quebec (Canada), Bermuda (West Indies), and in Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Tennessee. During the 1800s, some moved to New Brunswick and Ontario (Canada), and to Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington D.C., West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Later descendants also lived in Alberta (Canada), Australia, England, New Zealand, Wales, and in Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nevada, Oklahoma, Washington, and elsewhere. Some have Chickasaw, Seminole, and other American Indian bloodlines. Information was extracted from cemetery inscriptions, census records, church records, court records, depositions, diaries, DNA projects, immigration records, local histories, obituaries, shared family histories, wills, and other published works. Years covered are from the 1600s to the present.

Includes queries.

Includes Despencer, DeSpencer, and Spenser as variant spellings.

Also includes Alderman, Ball, Boatner, Brainard, Case, Churchill, Flournoy, Fox, Giles, Harrison, Jones, Kitson, Mottrom, Neville, Simms, Smart, Tate, Washington, and other related families.

Also includes information about Philip Spencer, the son of John C. Spencer, U.S. President Tyler's Secretary of War. Philip was once a student at Hobart College of Geneva, New York who shifted to the Union College of Schenectady, New York. There Philip became the co-founder of Chi Psi, considered to be the Mother of Fraternities. He joined the Navy, and in 1842, at the young age of 19, Philip was martyred onboard the naval brig, "Somers.".

Also available on microfiche.

Includes bibliographic references.

Some volumes are indexed.

Possibly bi-monthly (1979); quarterly thereafter, published in February, May, August, and November.

Quarterly

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