Other Events:

• Occupation: Planter, lumberman, and tavernkeeper
• Immigrant?: Y
• Migration: Jul 1630, “Warwick”

Notes:

Thomas arrived at Piscataqua, Maine in July 1630 on the barque Warwick, returned to England in 1633, then returned to the colonies on the Pied Cow in 1634.
Thomas was a planter, lumberman, and tavernkeeper. Thomas and Patience lived first at Strawbery Bank (Portsmouth), then on 6 Mar 1636/7 were called residents of 'Piscataqua' (Kittery Point), and finally of Newichawannock (South Berwick).
They were of Saco in 1654.
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".

Thomas married Patience CHADBOURNE before 1630. Patience (daughter of William CHADBOURNE and Elizabeth SPARRY) was born about 1612 in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England; died on 7 Nov 1683 in S Berwick, York, Maine; was buried in 1683 in Old Fields Cemetery, S Berwick, York, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]