Eleazer Spooner (abt. 1734 - abt. 1813)

Born about 15 Nov 1734 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Mehitable (Allen) Spooner — married 10 Dec 1764 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died about Mar 1813 at about age 78 in Oakham, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

According to Thomas Spooner, Eleazer was born on 15 Nov 1734 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.^[1] He was baptized, son of Benjamin Spooner, on 11 Jul 1742.^{[2] [3]}

He and Mehitable Allen married in Dartmouth. They announced their intention to marry 21 Nov 1764 and married on 30 Dec 1764. ^[4]

He removed to Oakham, MA in about 1776 or early 1777. On 14 Apr 1777, he purchased of Jesse Allan, for the sum of 383:06:08 pounds "a certain tract of land, with the buildings thereon, lying and being in Oakham, aforesaid, containing 155 acres, be the same more or less." On this land he afterwards lived. ^[1]

He served as a private in the Revolutionary War. ^[5] He was an industrious and thrifty man; mixed but little in public affairs; quiet and unobtrusive in habits; more disposed to suffer a wrong or injury than to coerce reparation. ^[1]

Eleazer died in Oakham in Mar 1813.^[5] He is buried in Oakham Center Cemetery^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} "Records of William Spooner of Plymouth, Mass., and his descendants,Vol. I." by Thomas Spooner, 1883, Cincinnati
2. ↑ Vital Records of Dartmouth Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. Volume I--Births. Boston, Mass., New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1929, p. 259. Accessed on 6 Feb 2024 at the Internet Archive. [ https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofdaunse/page/n263/mode/2up ]
3. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZVL-49R : 10 February 2018), Eleazer Spooner, ; citing , ; FHL microfilm 0823562 IT 1-3.
4. ↑ Vital Records of Dartmouth Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. Volume II--Marriages. Boston, Mass., New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1930, p. 27. Accessed on 5 Feb 2024 at the Internet Archive. [ https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofdaunse_2/page/26/mode/2up ]
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in December 1620. Volume Seventeen. Family of Isaac Allerton. Compiled by Robert S. Wakefield, FASG and Margaret Harris Stover, CG. Reprinted by General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2015. p. 171
6. ↑ Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88107946