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     Abbott Kittredge Spencer was born on 12 November 1902 in East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey.² He married Elizabeth Camp, daughter of George Van Santvoord Camp and Elizabeth Frances Knowlton.¹ Abbott Kittredge Spencer died on 22 March 1966 in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts, at the age of 63² and is buried in Quaker Meeting House Cemetery, South Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.²

     Caleb Spencer was the son of Robert Spencer.² Caleb Spencer. A soldier of the Revolution. He married Jerusha Covell.² Caleb Spencer died in 1806² and is buried in Windham, New York.³

     Elizabeth Spencer married Sir James Dashwood.

     Ellen Spencer was born on 13 May 1850 in Geneva, Ashtabula, Ohio.² She was the daughter of Platt Rogers Spencer and Persis Duty.¹ Ellen Spencer married Brigadier Gen. Reuben Delavan Mussey, son of Dr. Reuben Dimond Mussey and Mehitabel (Hetty) Osgood, on 14 June 1871 in Washington, District of Columbia.² She was educated at the Geneva (Ohio) High School, Lake Erie College, Ohio, and Rockford College, Illinois. She then studied law in the office of General Mussey and practised with him until his death in 1892. In 1893 she was admitted to the bar, and was a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the thirteenth woman to be so admitted, and of the Court of Claims. Of her many cases before the Supreme Court she has never lost one. In 1896 she founded the Washington College of Law, which, in 1899, awarded her the honorary degree of LL.M., and was for seven years its Dean, the only woman dean of a law college. For twenty-five years she was attorney for the legations of Sweden and Norway and she has been counsel for several national patriotic and labor organizations. She has been the author of bills giving married women in the District of Columbia the right to their own earnings and giving mothers the same right as fathers in the guardianship of their children. She has also been instrumental in gaining legislation for the establishment of free kindergartens, free schools for sub-normal children, juvenile courts, compulsory education, and the Federal Child Bureau. As a member of the Woman Suffrage Association she spoke before the United States Senate Committee in 1910. She is the author of articles on Marriage and Divorce, Legal Relations of Parent and Child (Good Housekeeping Magazine, November, 1910), Laws Relating to Women in the Forty-Six States of the Union (1912), Laws of Nations Relating to Women (1912), and Historic Washington (American Monthly Magazine, April, 1912). For the first six months of 1912 she was the editor of the American Monthly Magazine.
Mrs. Mussey was one of the founders of the American National Red Cross, was chairman of the women's citizens' committee for the 36th National Encampment, G. A. R., in Washington in 1902, and was formerly Vice-President of the Board of Education, Washington. In September, 1911, she was a delegate to the International Council of Women at Stockholm and she is Chairman of the Committee on the Legal Status of Women of the National Council of Women. She was at one time Vice-President-General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, State Regent of the District of Columbia, D. A. R., and President of the Legion of Loyal Women. She was President of the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia, and a member of the National Geographic Society, an honorary member of the College Women's Club of the District of Columbia, and a member of the Dames of the Loyal Legion and of the Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots.³

     James Spencer was born circa 1858 in Maine.¹ He was the son of Samuel Spencer and Olive Sewall.¹ James Spencer and Oscar Fickett appear on the census of 1880 listed as laborers.¹

     John Spencer was born circa 1822 in Rotherhithe, Surrey.¹ He married Elizabeth Dean, daughter of Joseph Dean and Elizabeth Sarah Reynolds.¹

     John Spencer was born circa 1849 in Deptford, Kent.¹ He was the son of John Spencer and Elizabeth Dean.¹

     Louis M. Spencer was born in 1894.¹ He married Winifred Elizabeth Emerson, daughter of Charles Hart Emerson and Melinda Elizabeth Stearns, in 1912 in Lebanon, Grafton County, New Hampshire.²

     Platt Rogers Spencer was born on 7 November 1800 in East Fishkill, New York, (also found as 7 September.)² He was the son of Caleb Spencer and Jerusha Covell.^1,2 A descendant of John Spencer of Rhode Island who sailed from England, March 26, 1633, and died in 1684.
He removed with his family to Jefferson, Ohio, in 1810; taught writing, and until 1832 was variously engaged as a student, teacher and bookkeeper. He was an earnest advocate of total abstinence, to which principle he had become convert in 1832; was county treasurer for twelve years; a zealous promoter of the antislavery movement; influential in organizing several business colleges in the United States, and was an instructor in business colleges throughout the country. He was the originator of the Spencerian system of penmanship, and in 1848 published Spencer and Rice's System of Business and Ladies' Penmanship, which appeared in a second edition as Spencerian or Semi-Angular Penmanship. He was married, April, 1828, to Persis, daughter of Duty Ebenezer and Sallie Warren of Ashtabula, Ohio, and of his children, Ellen (Spencer) Mussey (q.v.), became prominent in Washington in the legal profession. He is the author of several books on penmanship and the Key to Spencerian Penmanship completed in 1864.² Platt Rogers Spencer married Persis Duty, daughter of Mark Duty and Sallie Warren, in April 1828.¹ Platt Rogers Spencer died on 16 May 1864 in Geneva, Ohio, at the age of 63.²

     Samuel Spencer married Olive Sewall, daughter of John Sewall and Cynthia A. Fickett, on 18 June 1857 in Bangor, Maine.¹

     Sarah Spencer married Joseph Morgan.¹

     Mollie Ann Spillar married Tony Author Montague.

     Charlotte S. Spofford was born on 7 July 1812 in Bucksport, Hancock County, Maine.¹ She married Richard Pike Buck, son of Daniel Buck and Mary (Polly) Sewall.¹ Charlotte S. Spofford died on 21 March 1898 in Bucksport, Hancock County, Maine, at the age of 85.¹

     Augusta Sprague was born on 27 April 1836 in Lowell, Massachusetts.² She was the daughter of Levi Sprague.³ Augusta Sprague married Ammi Ruhamah Sewall, son of Samuel Sewall and Tryphosa Fuller, on 29 August 1861 in Lowell, Massachusetts.^4,3 Augusta Sprague appears on the census of 1920 at Madison Avenue, Albany, New York.⁵ She died on 20 October 1925 in Albany, New York, at the age of 89² and was buried on 23 October 1925 in Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, New York.²

     Dr. Lawrence Sprague was born on 3 May 1781 in Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts.¹ He married Sarah Titcomb, daughter of Gen. Jonathan Titcomb and Sarah Steadiman, on 13 December 1802.

     Lydia Sprague was born in 1832.¹ She married Haynes Jewett Jr., son of Haynes Jewett and Hannah Wood.¹

     Joseph Sprigg was born in 1736.¹ He married Hannah Lee, daughter of Philip Lee and Elizabeth Lawson, after 1758.¹ Joseph Sprigg died in 1800.¹

     Lois Addison Sprigg was born on 5 June 1896 in Washington, District of Columbia.² She was the daughter of William Mercer Sprigg MD and Lucy Derby Page.¹ Lois Addison Sprigg married Col. Joseph William Hazell on 28 November 1923 in District of Columbia.³ Lois Addison Sprigg died on 15 May 1988 in San Anselmo, Marin County, California, at the age of 91⁴ and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington County, Virginia.⁴

     William Mercer Sprigg was born on 9 May 1899.¹ He was the son of William Mercer Sprigg MD and Lucy Derby Page.¹ William Mercer Sprigg died on 26 June 1919 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, at the age of 20.²

     William Mercer Sprigg MD married Lucy Derby Page, daughter of Prof. Charles Grafton Page and Priscilla Sewall Webster, on 25 January 1894.¹

     Rev. Alpheus Spring was born on 10 May 1739.¹ He was the son of Henry Spring and Reziah Converse.¹ Rev. Alpheus Spring married Sarah Frost, daughter of Judge Simon Frost and Mercy Sewall, on 19 May 1769.¹ Rev. Alpheus Spring died on 14 June 1791 in Kittery, Maine, at the age of 52.¹

     Elizabeth Spring married John Mason.¹

     Henry Spring married Reziah Converse.

     James Wheelock Spring was born on 8 February 1911.² He married Mary Webster Butler, daughter of Senator William Morris Butler and Mary L. Webster.¹ James Wheelock Spring died on 19 October 2003 in Massachusetts at the age of 92.²

     Lydia Spring was baptised on 15 January 1775.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. Alpheus Spring and Sarah Frost.¹ Lydia Spring married Rev. Samuel Chandler circa 1793.¹

     Mary Spring was born in June 1773.¹ She was the daughter of Rev. Alpheus Spring and Sarah Frost.¹

     Mary Spring was born in 1698.¹ She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Spring bt and Merilina Jermyn.^2,3 Mary Spring was christened on 5 August 1698 at Pakenham, Suffolk.⁴ She married Rev. John Symonds in January 1725/26 in Hengrave Church, Suffolk.⁵ Mary Spring died in 1763 and is buried on 10 December 1763 in Pakenham Church, Suffolk.⁶

     Merilina Spring was baptised on 5 October 1695 at Pakenham, Suffolk.² She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Spring bt and Merilina Jermyn.¹ Merilina Spring married Thomas Discipline.¹ Merilina Spring died on 6 November 1761 in Pakenham at the age of 66.³