ETHERINGTON

1. THOMAS-

m. MARY SPENCER (drowned 16 Nov. 1664)

drowned 16 Nov. 1664

Let all men know by these presents that we Thomas Spencer of the Parish of Unitie in ye County of York
planter and Patience my now wife being now or of late possest of one lot of land containing by Estimation
two hundred Acres be it more or less given and granted unto mee ye said Thomas Spencer and to my heires
and Assigns for ever by the Town grant of Kittery, Which land lyeth and is within ye foresaid Parrish of
Unitie.

Thomas S Spencer
Patience Spencer

witnesses Andrew Searle, Humphrey Spencer, John Gattensby(2)

Thomas and Mary drowned in Nov. 1664 coming from Boston in John Cole's boat. The administration of
his estate was granted to his brother-in-law William Spencer. The inventory was submitted to the Suffolk
County Probate Court in Boston and amounted to &3163;94.

At a meeting of the Magistrates and Recorded, at Boston, the 8th September, 1665...Whereas Thomas
Ethrington of Newichewannok, perished with His wife in the sea, Coming for Boston. The County Court
being then Informed thereof, & that Zechariah Gillam had his Chest & severall goods in his Custody, the
Court, on his Motion, appointed Marshall Richard Wayte & Thomas Fitche, Late Constable, to take into
their Hands the said Chest & Goods & Bring a true Inventorye thereof into Court...And Wm. Spencer, the
sonne of Thomas Spencer, & Brother in Law to the said Thomas Ethrington, appearing Before the
Magistrates & Recorder, desiring administration to ye Estate of said Late Thomas Ethrington as it Lyeth
heere, & in Yorkshire [Maine]... The Magistrates Judge it meete to graunt him, the sd Wm. Spencer,
Administration to the Estate of Thomas Ethrington, both there & heer...in Behalfe of the children of the
Late Thomas Ethrington...Thomas Ethrington, Deceased, sometime Inhabitant of the Town of Kittrye, at
Newitchewanneck, whom with his Wife was Cast away in John Coles Lighter in November 1664... (1)

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Map of Berwick- from Stackpole's Old Kittery And Her Families

Issue-

 Mary- m.c.1675 Capt. John Wincoll

 2II. PATIENCE-m. WILLIAM HEARLE (m.2. c.1703 Sarah Thompson (m.1. James Goodwin), 3.
Before 1718 Elizabeth Grant, will 9 Aug. 1718- 16 June 1730)

Ref:

(1) Suffolk Wills- p. 293

(2) York County Deeds- Vol. IV, folio 84

Genealogical Dictionary of Maine & New Hampshire- p. 224

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