This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3dB.2ACI/1867.2 Message Board Post: Can you tell please, in what place did your SPENCERS and BITTENBENDERs etc live? Also can we at least have some approximate dates? I am looking for a marriage of a woman who must have had surname SPENCER, in or near the PA/DE/MD border, maybe around or a little before 1800. The woman must be the mother of one of our HOLTEN/HOLTONs. 'Spencer' was used as a first or middle name in a family which traditionally used surnames of ancestors, as given-names. If these places sound familiar to you --or even if your great-grandparents lived in southern NJ, then we might be ble to find a connection. Thanks Liz J of NJ