On Mon, 08 Feb 1999 19:47:57 -0500, you wrote: >Hello to all, > >Having started looking into the Spencers in more depth, I am wondering >why brother John was left out of the group. SOTGM talks about the FOUR >brothers and their sister coming to Massachusetts Bay. There was a John >in Ipswich in 1634 and he was there until 1636. Who was that John and >was he the left out brother? It is generally "accepted" that the John Spencer in America was not the John Spencer, sibling to the Spencer immigrant siblings. He is covered in p 115 of the SOTGM. Jacobus addressed him as well. Jacobus concluded John, the sibling, died young. He was not named in the Spencer's uncle's will (1646), as the other siblings were. One source (C. E. Banks) says that John, the American immigrant, was from Kingston-on-the-Thames. There has apparently been no documents found that link this John together with the other Spencers. Although they were contemporaries. I don't want to discourage you from looking any further, but this fella has been pursued for over 150 years by others, including the dean of New England genealogists, Jacobus, with no results to date. Did this John have descendants? If he didn't, the motivation for linking him up with the Spencer siblings isn't very high. Norris -- Silver Bullet <nmt1@ix.netcom.com> Home Page: http://members.aol.com/ntgen/index.html ---------------------------------------