Hi Dave, My line of descent is from: John (John, John, Robert, Henry, Thomas) Spencer, b. 1505, m. Anne Merrill, d 1560, he d. 1550. Michael Spencer, b. 1531 in Edworth, Bedfordshire, Eng., m.22 Jan 1555/6 Agnes Lymer(Lorimer), bur. 23 Feb 1562, he died after 1599, prob buried at Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. Gerard Spencer, of Stotfold, Bedfordshire, bapt. 20 May 1576, m. 10 Nov 1600, Alice Whitbread, of Upper Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire, b. ca 1580 at Meppershall, Bedfordshire, d. May 1646, he died before 1646. Gerard Spencer, bpt 25 Apr 1614 at Stotfold, Bedfordshhire m.(1) Hannah Hills("The Spencers of the Great Migration"), d. before 1683 (Gerard's will), m.(2) in 1677 at Saybrook,CT, Rebecca(Porter)Clark, daughter of John and Anne(White) Porter, he d. ca 1685. ( It is possible he was marries to two different Hannahs first. One in 1635, and then Hannah Hills) Hannah Spencer, b. ca 1640, m. ca 1664, Daniel Brainard, b. 1641, d. 1 Apr 1715. Sources: Family records, "The Spencers of the Great Migration" Vol 1,by Jack Taif Spencer and Edith Woolley Spencer, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1997 Thank you for making me do this out. I am handicapped by a computer crash lately and have to do these from hard copy right now. I needed someone to spur me on. Glad to meet a cousin, Gail