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Descendants of Joseph Spencer

Generation No. 2

2. OLIVER² SPENCER (JOSEPH¹) was born Abt. 1611 in England. He married (1) UNKNOWN Abt. 1633 in England. She was born in England, and died Bef. 1640 in England. He married (2) ELIZABETH HEDGER September 27, 1640 in Enfield, St. Andrew, London, England.

Notes for OLIVER SPENCER:
Information on Oliver and descendants are from Dr. Barbara Beale's research

The restoration left many English Puritans in a quandry concerning their fate, and Oliver may have decided to join his Spencer relatives in Massachusetts. However by the late 1660's John Winthrop, Thomas Hooker and other early Puritan leaders and ministers were dead. The new generation of Puritans tended to focus on secular rather than on spiritual matters. As a result dissenting groups, such as the Quakers, appeared on the scene. Oliver Spencer may well have joined that persuasion.

(Personal observation: were they called Quakers because they quaked or shook, such as our pentecostals do, when the spirit is upon them?)

In 1663, a group of dissenters who were disgusted with Massachusetts politics in general, left the colony in order to develop a new colony in the Cape Fear area of Carolina (today North Carolina). The colony broke up and some returned to Boston, some to England, and the rest of them went to the West Indies. Since Oliver Spencer is presumed to have come from the Carribean to South Carolina, he was probably a member of the latter group.

William Sayle, a native of the Isle of Man, Independent Congregationalist and future governor of South Carolina had settled in Bermuda in the late 1630's.

More About OLIVER SPENCER:
Religion: Puritan

Child of OLIVER SPENCER and UNKNOWN is:

OLIVER³ SPENCER, b. Abt. 1634.

Children of OLIVER SPENCER and ELIZABETH HEDGER are:

4.	ii.		JOSEPH³ SPENCER, b. Abt. 1641.
	iii.		WILLIAM SPENCER, b. 1644; m. JANE WOULFE, September 01, 1669, Exeter, Devonshire, England.

Notes for WILLIAM SPENCER:
Information from Dr. Barbara Beale's research

More About WILLIAM SPENCER:
Religion: Puritan

iv.

ALEXANDER SPENCER, b. Abt. 1646, England; d. Aft. 1710.

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