Born in Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut
Ancestors 
Daughter of Samuel Spencer
and Martha (Eells) Spencer
Sister of
Martha Spencer, Hannah Spencer, Lucy Spencer, Lucy (Spencer) Kirby, Mary Spencer and Sally (Spencer) Morgan
Wife of
Elisha Kirby
— married
2 Nov 1800 [location unknown]
Mother of
Caroline Kirby, John Kirby, William Kirby, Giles Kirby, Olive Kirby, John Burgis Kirby, Eliab Burgis Kirby, Thomas Spencer Kirby and Thomas Burgis Kirby
Died
at age 80
in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
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Contents |
Biography
Name
- Betsy Spencer
Birth
- 07 SEP 1779 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, USA
Death
- 20 DEC 1859 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Residence
- 1850 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
Marriage
- 02 NOV 1800
- Husband: Elisha Kirby
- Child: John Burgis Kirby
- Child: Thomas Burgis Kirby
- Child: Eliab Burgis Kirby
- Child: Thomas Spencer Kirby
- Child: Olive Kirby
- Child: Giles Kirby
- Child: Rev. William Kirby
- Child: John Kirby
- Child: Caroline Kirby
- 02 NOV 1800
Sources
- Thomas Burgis Letters (Connecticut State Library) Page 3
- Jacobus, Donald Lines, "The Four Spencer Brothers", The American Genealogist. 27 (April 1951): pp. 79-87.
- Dwight, Melatiah Everett. The Kirbys of New England (Trow Print, New York, 1898) Page 342
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Betsy by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Betsy:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Betsy by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Betsy:
-
~0.78%
~3.12%
Martha (Farrow) Sarrack 
:
23andMe
-
~0.78%
Matthew Morgan :
23andMe
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