This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_915231128_boundary Content-ID: <0_915231128@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I wanted to post this to the Bluford group in case someone may not be subscribed to Barbara's SPENCE list. I think she has something big for us, and Barbara is the Spence expert ! Let's cross our fingers ! Carolyn --part0_915231128_boundary Content-ID: <0_915231128@inet_out.mail.email.msn.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <bibeall@email.msn.com> Received: from rly-yc03.mx.aol.com (rly-yc03.mail.aol.com [172.18.149.35]) by air-yc02.mail.aol.com (v55.5) with SMTP; Fri, 01 Jan 1999 11:24:15 -0500 Received: from smtp.email.msn.com (smtp.email.msn.com [207.68.143.159] (may be forged)) by rly-yc03.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id LAA02211 for <SPENCETOP@aol.com>; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 11:24:13 -0500 (EST) Received: from oemcomputer - 208.254.192.107 by email.msn.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 08:24:09 -0800 Message-ID: <004801be359a$93d38060$4ebffed0@oemcomputer> From: "Barbara Beall" <bibeall@email.msn.com> To: <SPENCETOP@aol.com>, <Spence-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: Southampton Co. VA Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 08:15:39 -0700 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Thank you for your response. I am just becoming familiar with my new computer and had this response completed when I pressed a strange button. Now I have to remember what I said. There is a Robert Spence who was transported to New Kent, VA in 1651. I don't know for certain, but I think that he may well have been the uncle of David Spence (1640-1679), who settled in Somerset, MD. I also think that this Robert is the ancestor of the Southampton Spences. If this turns out to be true--then that will show the connection between the Southampton Spences and the Pasquotank Spences. Another piece of evidence also points to this connection, and that lies with the Hunter family of the Isle of Wight. William Hunter settled there quite early. His son, Isaac, had a daughter named Elizabeth who married Phillip Perry. Phillip and Elizabeth were the parents of Jude Perry, wife of William Spence of Pasquotank. I have been researching the Hunter line and have found a number of Hunter/Spence marriages on the VA side. So, I think that I have something going. Now that I am home for a while, I intend to put my notes together. I should make some interesting connections. Barbara -----Original Message----- From: SPENCETOP@aol.com <SPENCETOP@aol.com> To: bibeall@email.msn.com <bibeall@email.msn.com>; Spence-L@rootsweb.com <Spence-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, December 26, 1998 3:03 PM Subject: Southampton Co. VA >Hi Barbara, > As to the Southampton Co. VA , William Spence. From my notes, he left a >Will in Southampton Co. VA in 1758, and he was formerly of Isle of Wight Co. >He married Mary Thorpe, daughter of Jeremiah Thorpe. Children named in the >Will are: >John Spence, Mary, Lucy and Elizabeth. Another presumed son was Thomas Spence >who is said to have been married to one Mary Greene and resided in the >counties of Greenville or Mecklenburg VA for a period of time. The lack of >evidence seems to indicate that Thomas may have moved away or was deceased at >the time of William's Will in 1758, as he isn't mentioned. He is said to have >been a Colonial Soldier in service before the Revolution. > Thomas and Mary Spence had at least one known son, James Spence, born 1748 >who served in Valley Forge, PA, and who married Jane Bluford and resided in >Augusta Co. VA. > Back to William, it is presumed that William's father was a Robert Spence >from Scotland, although I haven't seen the documentation to this relationship. > On behalf of the Spence-Bluford group, thank you for your help. > >Carolyn Spence --part0_915231128_boundary--