SAMUEL SPENCER was born about 1638 in Newton, Middlesex, MA. SARAH MEAKINS was born Apr. 24, 1641, in Braintree, Norfolk, MA. She died in Hartford, Hartford, CT, Apr. 24, 1706. He died there in 1716.

They had eight children, all born in Hartford. Their g-g-g-g-grandson, William Augustus Spencer, perished in the sinking of the Titanic.