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Patience (Chadbourne) Spencer (bef. 1612 - 1683)

Patience Spencer formerly Chadbourne
Born before in Tamworth, Staffordshire, Englandmap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married about 1630 in Berwick, York, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Maine)map [uncertain]
Descendants descendants
Died after age 70 in Berwick, York, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Patience (Chadbourne) Spencer migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
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Biography

Patience is the daughter of William Chadbourne and Elizabeth Sparry. She was baptized on 8 November 1612 St Editha, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England. She married Thomas Spencer by about 1630 in Berwick, York, Maine.

Christening

Name: Patience Chadb(o)urne Christening Date: 8 Nov 1612
Place: St Editha, Tamworth, Staffordshire, England.
Father's Name: William Chadburne. [1]

Marriage

Husband: Thomas Spencer
Wife: Patience Chadbourne
Marriage Date: 1630
Place: Berwick, York, Maine

Torrey in "New England Marriages to 1700" says this:

SPENCER, Thomas (?1591, 1596-1681) & Patience CHADBURNE (1612-1683); by 1610; Kittery, ME/Piscataqua[2] but "by 1610" is obviously a typo since he knew she was born in about 1612.

Estate settlement

Will:

I Patience Spencer of Barwicke… Widdow for & in Consideration of yt natural love & affection that I have for & do beare unto my Youngest sonn Moses Spencer… do give… unto him the sd Moses Spencer… all the Residue & remainder of yt Two hundred Acres given unto my late husband Thoms Spencer by the sd Town of Kittery of which two hundred Acres Danniell Goodine, Thomas Etherinton, John Gattensby, & my second sonn Humphrey Spencer & others,have had each of them a part layd out to them which part… of sd Too hundred Acers… bounded… by Danell Goodings Land, Called & Comanly known by the name of Slutts Corner… by the Lands of Richd Nason… Also I do further give him ye sd Moses… all yt Thyrty Acres of upland & halfe the Meddow ground Adjoyneing to it… neare ye Land of George Gray & Adjoyneing to Richd Nasons Meddow & also all yt my third part of them too log swamps ye one Called by the name of Tom Tinkers Swampe & the other Called by the name of ye Great Swampe… by the little Rivers side yt Cometh down to ye great Mill works or Mr Hutchinsons Mill or Saw Mill… reserveing unto mee… to Cutt fell load & Carry away Wood & fewell for my uss… dureing my life tyme… the last day of June… 1682…
Patience Spencer
In ye Presence of us
William Playstead
Abra: Lawde
Samll Lorde [3]

Inventory: Patience died in Nov. 1683 and the inventory of her estate was made:

"Imprs weareing Cloaths & a greene Coate &
wastecoate................................................... 1£ 10s 00d
It a Coate & waste Coate 20s her head lining
10s....................................................................... 1 10 00
It 2 working steers 8£, one cow and third part of corne
& hay in ye barne 3 : 10 : 00........................... 11 10 00
It one bed at 50s one Mare 1 sow & pigs
2 : 15 : 00........................................................... 05 05 00
It one Cow & one 1/2 part of her hay & Corne in ye
barne................................................................. 03 10 00
It one Calfe a too sows at three pounds five
shillings............................................................. 03 05 00
It one Tapistrey Covering one pound five.... 01 05 00
It one Cow & 1/2 part of her hay & Corne in the
barne................................................................. 03 10 00
It one bowlster, one Hamacher [hammock], & a small
blankett............................................................. 02 02 00
It 2 barrows & one small pigg 2 : 05 : 0......... 02 05 00
It Two steeres 6 : 05 : 0, one fowling Mault & a Chest
27s..................................................................... 07 12 00
It 1 Table Cloath & Napkines 20s 1 pillowbeare & sheet
7s 6d................................................................... 1 07 6
It 1 peyr gloves & 1000 M of pinns 2s 6d, 2 pewter
platters & one spoune 7s 9d one porringer & salt
seller 2s 9d......................................................... 0 13 0
It lysborne [Lisbon] dishes & a Cann silke &
thred.................................................................. 00 03 6
It one sheete 10s, one Chest foure shillings 1/2
small things 3s................................................... 0 17 00
to one peyre of stileyards [steelyard], an iron pott &
pot hookes one spitt one Tramill & thread.... 01 10 0
It Too pewter dishes 7s 6d, a porringer 15d.. 00 8 9
..................................................................[total] 40 03 9

It Two drinking Cupps, 18d, 2 lysborne [Lisbon] dishes 1 spoone & one butter pott 3s 9d,
one blankett 10s one Chest 4s....................... 00 19 03
It to several 3s, 2 chaines 1 peyr of Hookes and staple
It one Neb ring & staple an ould axe & 2 pillows &
tramell 1 : 16 : 0............................................... 01 19 00
It one whitt aprone, one blew aprone, one whitte
wastcoat & one blacke Haneitt Chayre, 18s. 00 18 00
It 2 pewter dishes, 1 small bason & a drame
Cupp.................................................................. 00 07 06
It one porringer, one Cadale Cupp 2s 9d, lysborne
[Lisbon] dishes 1 spoone, 2s 3d....................... 0 05 00
It 2 Earthe Juggs, & silke & thread 18d, one Rugg
10s..................................................................... 00 11 06
It 1 Chayre Table 4s, pewter dishes & one porringer
8s 9d.................................................................. 00 12 09
It 1 pewter Cupp one brass skellett 18d, to lysborne
[Lisbon] dishes It one spoone, one earthen Jugg
2 basketts & 1 earthen pann 3s 9d............... 00 05 03
It 1 peece of Cayrsey [Kersey] fflanill & 5 lb of Cotton
Woll.................................................................... 00 10 00
It one Chest 4s, 3s in small things, 2 pewter dishes
& 1 porringer 8s 9d......................................... 00 15 09
It 2 small porringers 2 earthen Cupps 18d, to Lysborne
[Lisbon] dishes one spoone, one [ ], one earthen
pann 3s 9d.......................................................... 00 05 3
It 1 blankett one Chest, one barrell & in small
3s all.................................................................. 00 17 00
..........................................................................£08 06 03

It one brass Candlesticke, and Iron Candlesticke,
1 brass scimar [skimmer]............................... 00 08 00
It one Iron Morter 3s, one warmeinpan 2 pillows
17s 6d................................................................ 01 00 06
It In Cash 2 : 8 : 9.............................................. 02 08 09
It To 100 C Acres of upland Neare Willcoxs his
bond.................................................................. 25 00 00
It halfe ye further Meddow 3£ one dripinpann
18d....................................................................... 03 01 6
It one hide at Daniel Stoons ye shoemakers.. 00 08 0
Cloath at ye weavers the quantity unknown.......... ( )
....................................................................... [total] 32 06 9

Agreement: Wee whose names are hereunder written being made Choyce of by William, Humphrey & Moses Spencer, Ephraim Joy, & Thomas Chicke to tak a list of all their Mothers Patience Spencers Estate deceased the 7th of November 1683: & also to divide ye same aequally amongst them… wrof Wee have aequally divided It moveables & unmoveables onely the Land & Meddow to ly responsible Six Moenths If any debts should appeare, wrunto wee sett or names this 15th of November 1683 [4][5]

Settlement agreement Her heirs, "the children and realations of Patience Spencer deceased," made an agreement dated 15 Nov 1683 to help peacefully divide and settle her estate. The agreement mentions their father Thomas Spencer having given them portions previously; Thomas Chicke and his daughter Elizabeth Chicke; Daniel Goodin; Patience Earle, John Wincoll Junior; William Spencer & his other four brethren. The agreement was signed by William Spencer, Humphrey Spencer (by mark), Moses Spencer (mark), Ephraim Joy (mark) Thomas Check.[6]

Burial

According to historian John Frost, the Old Fields cemetery of South Berwick originated as Thomas and Patience Spencer's burial plot. Frost believes that two of the three old plots near the woods on the riverbank, in what now appears to be an unmarked grave, hold the remains of Thomas and Patience (Chadbourne) Spencer and other early settlers. [7]

Sources

  1. Affiliate Image Identifier: D3773/1/1, England Births and Christenings https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL35-7ZXP
  2. New England Marriages to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Vol. 2 p. 1421 $subscription
  3. York deeds Vol 4 by Maine Historical Society. cn; Maine Genealogical Society (1894- ) cn; York County (Me.). Register of Deeds. cn Publication date 1642 Vol. IV, fol. 7
  4. The Maine Spencers. A history and genealogy, with mention of many associated families by Spencer, Wilbur Daniel, 1872- cn Publication date 1898 pp. 62-8
  5. York Deeds Vol 5 by Maine Historical Society. cn; Maine Genealogical Society (1894- ) cn; York County (Me.). Register of Deeds. cn Publication date 1642 Vol. V, pt. 1, fol. 23
  6. Moody, Robert E., Maine Historical Society, Province and Court Records of Maine Vol. III, 1680-1692, pages 188-9, Court of Sessions, Wells, Nov 12 1683, Vol. 5:125-6. HathiTrust.org
  7. York Deeds Vol 5 by Maine Historical Society. cn; Maine Genealogical Society (1894- ) cn; York County (Me.). Register of Deeds. cn Publication date 1642 Vol. V, fol. 12
  • The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.) The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.) Volume 33, page 440 "Nicholas Turbet, m. before 1693, widow Elizabeth (Spencer) Check, dau. of Thomas and Patience (Chadbourne) Spencer of Kittery."
  • Great Migration 1634-1635, C-F. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001. Page 33-34 of 740 $subscription

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Not sure how useful this is, but her estate is mentioned in the Maine court records here: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32437122096445&seq=258
posted by Jamie Nelson
Added, thanks Jamie! There are names mentioned that might help someone.
posted by Bobbie (Madison) Hall
Anderson (The Great Migration Begins, page 2102 - Thomas Spencer, and The Great Migration, Volume II, page 33 - William Chadbourne) has Patience Chadbourne being married to Thomas Spencer about 1630. He also has Patience arriving with her father and brother in the vessel "Pied Cow" in 1634. This suggests that they were married in England, not in Maine.
posted by Hayward Houghton II
edited by Hayward Houghton II
From the entry on page 2102, Anderson says it is "likely that Thomas Spencer (Patience's spouse) accompanied Chadborne on the Pied Cow in 1634". Considering she and Thomas had married by 1630 pre Anderson, it does give rise to the question of where Patience's first three children were born if they were born before 1634. It rather sounds like they may have been born in England.
posted by S (Hill) Willson
Chadbourne-35 and Chadbourne-3 appear to represent the same person because: Believe intended as same person.

birth county is STAFFORDSHIRE NOT WARWICKSHIRE. Notes on Chadbourne-3 state Staffordshire but the "form" reads Warwickshire.

posted by Beryl Meehan
Arrived 1634 on the Pied Cow with her father and brother William
posted by Lissa (Rosa) Debrees

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