General Notes

Gerard Spencer was born abt. May 20, 1576, St. Mary's Parish, Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England. He married Alice Whitbread on Nov 10, 1600 at Upper Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, England. Gerard was the oldest son of Michael Spencer of Stotfold, Bedfordshire. He was baptized there May 20th, 1576. He married Alice Whitbred. He died prior to 1646. William, Thomas, Michael and Gerard (not John), migrated to New England about 1632.
Source:  Frank R. Holmes, Dictionary of the Heads of New England Families, 1923, Jared (Gerard) son of Michael, baptized Stratford, Eng., 1576, came  to Cambridge, Mass. 1632, with five sons, of whom John returned to England. Thomas, known as Sgt Thomas, and William removed to Hartford, CT, 1636. Michael located Haddam, where his father joined him, 1662.
Source: The American Genealogist, Whole Nr. 105, Vol. 27, Nr. 1, Jan 1951. Source: Aspinwall Notorial Records 1903, 182, 190 The New England line of the  Spencers made efforts to obtain payment of the 50 pounds apiece bequeathed to them by their uncle, Richard Spencer of London, whose chief heir and executor was their cousin, Daniel Spencer of London. On 8 Jan 1648/9, Garrard (Gerard) Spencer appointed Thomas Broughton of Watertown, Mass., and Samuel King of London, England, his attorneys to collect his legacy under the last will of Richard Spencer, late of London, linen draper, deceased; and the same date, "Michaell Spencer of Linne" did likewise. On 19 Jan 1648, i.e. 1648/9, Michaell Spense  signed in Boston a bill of exchange to Mr. Thomas Ruck, "haberdasher att the Seauen starres on London bridge," for 30 pounds, "part of the Legacy gyuen mee  by my Unckle Richard Spencer," and directed to my "my Louinge Cousen, Mr Danyell Spencer Grocer in Friday Streete in London." This bill of exchange was protested, 5 Apr 1650, by a London notary, who swore that upon presentation "the said Danyell Spencer answered, that hee will pay noe monneyes nor haue to doe wit the sayd bill of exchange." Source: Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 4:385; quoted also in Waterres, op cit., 515. The cousin Daniel Spencer was at death of Cony Hatch, co. Middlesex, citizen and grocer of London, and left a will dated 26 July 1665, proved 6 Nov 1668 Source: Waters.  He evidently died a wealthy man, mentioning messuages or lands in Lothbury, near Greene's Court, London; in Hitchin, Hippoletts and Preston, co. Hertsford, including the Red Lion Inn in Hitching; in Gravesend and Rochester, Kent, and in Tilbery, Essex. He named wife Sarah; eldest son Samuel; son Daniel; daughters Rebecca and Hannah Spencer, daughters Mary
wife of Thomas Thatch and Anne wife of William tilsley; and kinsman William Carter. The son Samuel died by 1674, leaving a widow Rebecca and daughter Mary Spencer.