Puffer Genealogy
SPENCER, Thomas
1596 - 1681 (85 years)-
Name SPENCER, Thomas Birth 1596 England Gender Male FindaGrave - FindAGrave Memorial 101956658 no stone
_COLOR 11 Death 15 Dec 1681 South Berwick, ME Burial South Berwick, ME Address:
Old Fields CemeteryPerson ID I9746 Puffer 062124 Last Modified 3 Apr 2017
Family CHADBOURNE, Patience, b. Bef 8 Nov 1612, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England d. 7 Nov 1683, Berwick, ME (Age > 71 years) Children 1. SPENCER, Margaret, b. 1633, South Berwick, ME d. 1670, Kittery, ME (Age 37 years) Family ID F802 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 30 Jun 2024
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Notes - Thomas was disenfranchised [lost his right to vote] for entertaining Quakers in 1659. Evidence that Thomas and Patience may have been Quakers is seen in the courts 7 July 1663 when they were presented for "neglecting to come to the publique meeteing on the Lords day to heare the word preached for about the space of 3 Moenths". They were presented again for the same offense on 6 July 1675. In a long list of "those persons yt entertayned the Quakers, with the answers given in by them respectively" we find: "That Thomas Spencer pay as a fine to ye country for his entertayning the Quakers the somme of five pounds, & be disfranchised".