COLONIAL FAMILIES. 171 George's Church, Hetnpstead, Queen County, N.V.; second, Rev. Irving Spencer, B. D., of the Episcopal Theological School, Cam- bridge, Mass., and assistant at St. Andrew's Church, Stanford, Conn ; third, Frederic Mounsey Spencer, of Tarrytown, who married Helen, only daughter of Frederick Martin Lawrence, Esq., of New York,and has one son, Lawrence Girard Spencer, born August 18, 1894 ;fourth, Harold Elridge Spencer, of Tarry- town, I/L.B. of Columbia College and member of the New York Bar ; fifth, Ernest Knowlton Spencer, of Tarrytown ; sixth, Katharine Kingsland Spencer, died October 18, iSSr ; Kings- land Noil Spencer, student at St. Paul's School, Garden City, N. Y. Rev. Creighton Spencer, eldest son of Rev. James Seldon Spencer, married, April 26, 189S, Joanna Livingstone Mesier, daughter ofHenry Mesier, Esq ,ofNew York. The descendants and connexions of the New Jersey and Con- necticut Spencers, to quote one of the family, are s^ numerous that the mention of them all would filltwo sides of a large room. There are the Spencers, the Wrights, the Sergeants, the Collins, the Wise family, the Biddies, the Millers, the Fullertons. the Merchants, the Moutgomerys. the Duncans, the McCandless family, the McClures, the McCalmonts, the Breckenridges, the Penroses, "the Baches," and a host of others. There was of course a Smith among them, but no "Browns" or "Jones" that Iever knew of. Ihope that Ihave furnished a satisfactory genealogy of the Connecticut and New Jersey Spencers, and that their descendants will be able to trace the names they bear to their distinguished antecedents. Joanna Eaton, Elizabeth Ser- geant, Margaret- Lowrey, John Duncan, Stephen Collins, John Spencer, Stephen Lowrey, Richard Alexander, etc., etc., etc., are names very familiar to the Wright family now living. By reviewing this sketch of their ancestors, they -will know exactly whence they derive their christened names. Another Spencer family, no doubt relatives of the NewJersey branch, consisting of two brothers, Robert and Nicholas, came from Bedfordshire, England, in the year 1657, and settled in Vir- ginia. They, were accompanied by the two brothers, John and Lawrence Washington, John being an ancestor of General Wash- ington. Nicholas Spencer came into possession of large tracts of land in Maryland, and owned these lands as late as 1667. He finally settled permanently in Westmoreland County, Virginia,.