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Daniel Brainerd

Male 1641 - 1715  (74 years)


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  • Name Daniel Brainerd 
    Born 1641  , , England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 1 Apr 1715  Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Thirty Mile Island Plantation Burial Yard, Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4425  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Hannah Spencer,   b. 15 Apr 1653, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1715  (Age > 63 years) 
    Married 29 Nov 1698  Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1349  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. The following partial excerpts about the wives and children of Thomas Spencer are from "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III (see notes of Thomas Spencer for full transcript):
      "...Hannah, b. Hartford 15 April 1653 [CTVR 31]; said to have married (1) George Sexton, (2) Daniel Brainerd and (3) Jonathan Chapman, but the secondary sources are vague and uncertain, and the evidence for these marriages has not been found..."

      2. The book "Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut," Lucius Barnes Barbour, 1982 ed.: "Sgt. Thomas Spencer, son of Gerald and Alice bp. Mch 29, 1607 (Eng.) died Sept. 11, 1687, mar/1 ( ). Mar/2 Sept 11, 1645 (HTR) Sarah Bearding dau. of Nathaniel Bearding. Early member 1st Church [of Hartford]. Name on Founders Monument [in Hartford]. Children by 1st marriage:
      Elizabeth, bp. Mch 26, 1648 (HTR) m. Samuel Andrews.
      Hannah, b. Apl 25, 1653 (HTR) m/1 Geroge Sexton, m/2 Daniel Brainerd (See Brainerd Gen., p. 32).
      Marah/Mary, b. May 18, 1655 (HTR).
      Martha, b. Mch 19, 1657-8 (HTR), m. Andrew Benton.
      Gerald, m. Hannah Pratt.
      Sarah, m. Thomas Huxley.
      Children by 2nd marriage:
      Obadiah, m. Mary Disbrough.
      Thomas of Enfield, m. Esther Andrews.
      Samuel.
      Cambridge; freeman May 14, 1634; removed in 1639 to Hartford, where he was an original proprietor; his home lot in 1639 was on the east side of Main St., near what is now the junction of Main and Windsor Sts.; served in the Pequot War; chimney viewer 1650; constable north side 1658; surveyor of highways 1672; was sergeant of the train band 1650, and received in 1671 a grant of 60 acres 'for his good service in the country'."

      3. "The American Genealogist," Vol. 27 "The Four Spencer Brothers: Their Ancestors and Descendants," compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus, M. A., pp. 162-63: "Hannah [Spencer], b. 15 Apr. 1653; m. (1) George Sexton, Jr.; m. (2) 29 Nov. 1698, Daniel Brainerd, Sr."