Thomas Spencer (settler)
Thomas Spencer was a notable early settler of Hartford, Connecticut.
He was born in Stotfold, Bedfordshire, England to Gerard Spencer and Alice Whitbread. He was a freeman in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1634, and moved to Hartford in 1637.
He served in the Pequot War and was a 'sergeant of the trainband' in 1650.
His name appears on the Founders Monument as a Founder of Hartford.
He eventually accumulated a substantial amount of property in Hartford.
He married Anne Dorryfall in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1634, but after her death, Thomas remarried in Hartford, to Sarah Bearding on September 11, 1645.
