Spicer (family)

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Spicer (family)

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        Jacob Spicer (1821-1896), descendant of Loyalist Lt. Robert Spicer and Priscilla (Chomondelay) Spicer, inherited the family land at Spencers Island, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia and married Mary Reid of Advocate Harbour in 1846. They had the following children: George D. (1846-1937, m. Emily Jane Morris and had five children: Minnie, Lawrence, Emily, George W., and Stanley W.), Almira (b.1849, m. Charles Hatfield 1866), Johnson (1850-1922), Antoinette (b.1853, m. Jacob Samuel Williams in 1871), Dewis (1857-1936, m. Emma Baker Parsons in 1879 and had six children: Wylie, Philip, May L., Wilena Jean, E. Carlyle and Gertrude), Maria, Edmund (1862-1926), Ellen (b.1864), Kempton (b.1866), and Blanche (1869-1956, m. Captain Levi Atkins of Greenborough in 1889 and had four children). Jacob and Mary Spicer's four sons, George, Johnson, Dewis and Edmund, were all master mariners and became known throughout the area as the "Big Four".

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        2019-05-14 Revised (additional family birth, death, marriage dates)

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            Karen White