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Spencer Brown

first name: Spencer
last name: Brown
gender: male
birth, death year: 1786 , --
first, last year in records: 1866, 1866
confidence level: indeterminate
freed status (year freed): enslaved, then free
enslaver(s)
location(s): Hatfield, MA
place of origin

Bio

Lived in Hatfield, MA, his parents were John Brown and Nabby Wheaton Brown, Spencer married Cecilia Wilson on June 30, 1818, and then Melita Paine on Sept. 23, 1866, "Spence" lived with a Mr. Allis while attending school in Hatfield

Primary Source Entries for Spencer Brown

Entry	Source	Vol Name	Date	entry id
• 25.... Spencer Brown was listed as a laborer at Amherst in 1866. He married, second, on 23 September 1866 at Amherst, MELITA PAINE, [108] who was born about 1788 in Whately. Melita was the widow of AMOS NEWPORT [108] when she remarried in 1866. She died	Smith, James Avery. History of the Black Population of Amherst 1728-1870	1728-1870	1866	1589

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