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of the Westmoreland Clnl). Mis 1)usiness .iffiliations were with the I'.. I". Johnson Pul)lishing Company, of which he was Nice- president, and the Southern Taper Com- pany. At the time of his (k'ath his wife who was formerly Clara I'.ryne, of I5alti- more. and his son. Iludson!'., were with him, while his other son. Dr. Walter S. Iloen, is a surp^eon in the L'nited States navw Mr. Iloen was also survived by a brother. Albert 11.. and sisters, liermine L. Hoen and Agnes (Hoen) Gibier, widow of Dr. Paul (iibier. for many years head of the Pasteur Institute of New York City.

Herbert Worth Jackson. Antecedents of ihe Jackson family in Chatham, Randolph. .\nson and Guilford counties. North Caro- Ima. were there before the American revo- lution. Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, practiced law about two years at Johnsonville, Randolph county, beginning December 11. 1788. John Jack- son was a member of the house of com- mons from that county in 1782 and 1783, and Isaac Jackson in 1796 and 1797. They allied by marriage with old New England families, and they number among their ancestors such names as John Carver, governor of the I'lvmcntth colony; John Howland and John Tilley, signers of the Mayflower Compact; Stephen Patchelder. and Thomas Macy, all emigrant ancestors, who settled in New England. Through the Spencers, Mr. Jack- son is descended from one of the oldest and strongest New England families. The Spen- cers long resided in Stotfold, 1 Bedfordshire, England, near the seat of the noble house of Spencer, and the name is supposed to have been deri\ed from the fact that its members w^ere stewards or dispensers from the time of William the Conqueror.

Michael S])encer and his wife, P^lizabeth: residing in Stotfold. had four sons and two daughters, namely: Richard, Thomas. John, Gerard, Catherine and a daughter whose name has not been preserved, though she had descendants. 11 er daughter h'lizabeth married a Terry, a \intner. Gerard (or Jar- rard). fourth son of Michael and Elizabeth Spencer, was baptized May 20, 1576, at Stot- fold, and died before March 17, 1645. lie and his wife, Alice, were parents of four sons and a daughter — William. Gerard. Michael. Thomas and Iilizabeth. All of the sons except Michael came to this country about 163 1. Gerard (or Jarrard) Spencer

(2), second son of Gerard (or Jarrard) (i) Spencer, accompanied his brothers to this country and was at Newtown, then a part of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1632, later at Lynn, and was one of the original set- tlers of Iladdam. Connecticut, where he was ensign and lieutenant of the militia, and died ii: 1(^)85. lie had wife Hannah and eleven children. The third son. Samuel Spencer, resided in Millington Society, I'Last Iladdam, where he died .August 7, 1705. He married (hrst) Hannah, widow of Peter Blatchford. and daughter of Isaac Willey, who was the mother of his four children. The second son, Isaac, born January 9, 1678, resided in East Haddam, where he married, October 2, 1707. Mary Selden. and had eleven chil- dren. The eldest of these, Samuel Spencer, born September 16, 1708, was presumably the father of Judge Samuel Sj^encer of An- son county. North Carolina. It is pcjssible that the latter may have been the son of Samuel's cousin John, son of Samuel Spen- cer, who was born January 4. 1709. It is certain that he was the son of one of these.

Judge Samuel Spencer was born in 1738 in East Iladdam, and removed to North ( arolina in the year i7f>o, settling in Anson county, wdiere he was a conspicuous and useful citizen until his death in 1794. He was graduated from Princeton College, New Jersey, in the class of 1759. and in 1784 received from that institution the de- gree of LL. I). He was a member of the l)ro\incial Congress held at Hillsboro in August. 1775. and was appointed a colonel (.11 the ])ro\incial council of safety in that } ear, which was the real executive of the state during the period of transition from a colony and the adoption of a state constitu- tion in 177(^1. when Richard Caswell became governor. He was appointed colonel of the North Carolina militia in September. 1775: was a member of the state provincial Ct)n- gress at Halifax in April. 177^), and of the proxincial Congress in 1777. He was judge of the su])erir courts of North Carolina from November 15, 1777. until his death, one of the three hrst elected under the constitu- tion. He married Sibyl Pegues, of Anson county, and both are buried on Smith's Creek, Anson county. North Carolina.

Isaac Jacksc-n. a patriot of the revolution. married Mary Spencer, daughter of Judge Samuel Spencer, and resided in Wadesboro. Anson county. North Carolina. Their son. Samuel Spencer Jackson, was born March