Born in Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut
Ancestors 
Daughter of Robert Hayward
and Lydia (Kilbourn) Hayward
Wife of
John Spencer
— married
about 1663 in Hartford, Connecticut [uncertain]
Descendants [uncertain] 
Mother of
Rebecca (Spencer) Ackley, Gerard Spencer, Benjamin Spencer, Lydia (Spencer) Ventres and Grace (Spencer) Day
Died before
before age 33
in Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut
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Biography
Rebecca Hayward was born August 17, 1646 at Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut; daughter of John Hayward and his wife Lydia (Kilbourn) Hayward. [1]
Probably at Hartford[2] by 1666, Rebecca had married John Spencer,[3] son of Gerrard Spencer and his wife Hannah (surname unknown).[2]
- Their children (all born in Haddam) were:
- Rebecca who was born in March 1666 and died before 1736. At Hartford she married John Ackley on May 23, 1699.[1]
- Gerrard was born January, 1669 and died November 24, 1744 at Haddam. He married Deborah Birge on November 12, 1691 or 1692.[1]
- Benjamin was born March of 1671.[1]He was living in 1682[4]
- Lydia was born in 1673. She married John Ventres[1]although they divorced after 1694. He married (2nd) Mercy _____ on April 22, 1709.[4]
- Grace was baptized September 24, 1676[1]and died May 12, 1714 at Colchester, Connecticut. She married John Day at Hartford on January 21, 1695/6.[4]
In 1668/9, they took into their home John's 4 year old nephew, Thomas Brooks - following the death of Thomas's father (also named Thomas Brooks.) Even after the remarriage of Thomas's mother to Thomas Shaylor, John and Rebecca continued to take care of him.[2]
Their homelot was on the north end of the town of Haddam.[2]
Rebecca (Kilbourn) Hayward died after September, 1676 and before 1682. Her husband, previous to his death in 1682 arranged for various relatives to care for their children[1]and nephew.[2]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Ferris, Mary Walton. "Dawes Gates Ancestral Lines" Privately Printed 1931. Vol 2, p. 419.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Ferris, Mary Walton. "Dawes Gates Ancestral Lines" Privately Printed 1931. Vol 2, pp 774, 775. (Spencer)
- ↑ Great Migration 1634-1635, R-S.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) "The Four Spencer Brothers" Vol. 27 (1951) p. 169.
- Great Migration 1634-1635, R-S. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VI, R-S, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009. Featured Sketch of Jared Spencer. Vol. VI, R-S, p. 423.for subscribers $
- Ferris, Mary Walton. "Dawes Gates Ancestral Lines" Privately Printed 1931. Vol 2, p. 419. (Hayward/Howard)see at hathitrust.org
- Ferris, Mary Walton. "Dawes Gates Ancestral Lines" Privately Printed 1931. Vol 2, pp 774, 775. (Spencer).see at Hathitrust.org
- The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) "The Four Spencer Brothers" Vol. 27 (1951) p. 169.subscribers$
- Welles, Edwin. Births, Marriages, and Deaths Returned from Hartford, Windsor, and Fairfield, and Entered in the Early Land Records of the Colony of Connecticut (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1898) Page 36
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Tim Bittner
Mary Susan Hall (1949-2023)
Tim Bittner
The United States did not exist in the 1600s. The locations should reflect the name of the location at the time of the event. Durring Rebecca's lifetime it was referred to as "Connecticut Colony". And probably just "Connecticut" among those living there.
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Patricia (Long) Kent
Why the same death date as her husband? Is this a typo? Please research. Thanks
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Mary Susan Hall (1949-2023)
"305 Mother too young or not born" is showing up in the error report. She would have been 6 when Grace was born. It is likely that she is not the correct wife?
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