GENEALOGICAL AND FAMILY NOTES II 
Rhode Island in 1660, married Jerusha Mayhew, widow 
of Joseph Wing, and their son John Eatton married the 
granddaughter, Joanna,‘ of Lydia and Eliakim Wardell. 
Gerard (or Jared) Spencer, born 1610, lived at Lynn, 
Massachusetts, in 1638, and was one of the first settlers 
of East Haddam, Connecticut, in 1660. His son Samuel 
was grandfather of Joseph and Elihu Spencer. Joseph 
rose to the rank of general in the Revolutionary army, 
and died in 1789. 
Elihu, born at East Haddam in 1721, graduated at 
Yale in 1746, and entered the ministry of the Presbyterian 
church, being ordained at the same time as Jonathan 
Mayhew. He was a second cousin and an intimate friend 
of Jonathan Edwards and cousin of David and John 
Brainerd, the missionaries to the Indians. He was settled 
over the churches of Elizabethtown and Shrewsbury, in 
1747, as the successor of President Dickinson. After 
serving at Jamaica, Long Island, and St. Georges, Dela- 
ware, he removed in 1770 to Trenton, New Jersey.® 
Upon the breaking out of the war of the Revolution he 
was an enthusiastic adherent to the American cause and 
entered the army as chaplain. It was felt by the Colonial 
4Joanna Eatton, mother of Lydia Spencer, was, through her 
grandmother, Jerusha Mayhew, a descendant of the Rev. Thomas 
Mayhew, missionary to the Indians and son of Thomas Mayhew, 
first governor and patentee of Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, and 
the Elizabeth Islands, Massachusetts. ‘The missionary is said to 
have been much beloved by his Indian flock. Called with his father 
by royal mandate to England, to give an account of the condition 
of the colony and their work among the aborigines, they were lost 
at sea, on their way in 1679. (Note by a member of the family.) 
5 Thompson’s History of Long Island, 2nd edition, vol. ii, p. 111. 
In other MS. I find the name Jared instead of Gerard for the first 
settler. 
