Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
Mills-Martin Family Records - Person Sheet
NamePeter SPICER 
Birth1644, England4260
Removal1666, New England1830, p 1 Age: 22
Probate18 Sep 16943299, p 21 Age: 50
Memodate of inventory
Deathbef 18 Sep 1694, New London, New London, Connecticut4240, p 156,4260, place only Age: 50
FlagsEarliest Immigrant
FatherEdward SPICER (1623-)
MotherMary
Individual Notes
• We have a record of Peter moving to New England in 1666.1830, p 1
• Peter Spicer is found in New London, Connecticut, in 1666.3299, p 18
• Where Peter Spicer came from to New London has not been ascertained, but tradition tells us that he came from Virginia to New England and was of English parentage.3299, p 20
• Peter Spicer crossed from England in the company of Thomas Bushy, arriving in Virginia in 1656. Conjecture is that he was a very young person, possibly still in his teens. Nothing seems to be known about his movements until 1666, when his name appears as a landowner in Pequot/New London. He married four years later in 1670 Mary Busecot of Warwick, Rhode Island, which suggests another speculative dimension about his movements in the intervening years.
Peter had probably built a house on his land grant from New London th which he would have brought his bride. Land records locate his acreage roughly east of the present Avery Hill Road, southwest of Geer (Geare) land and about two miles south of the Preston line, which places it approximately between Avery Hill Road and the present Colonel Ledyard Highway.2476, p 188
• Peter Spicer is found in New London, Connecticut, in 1666.3299, p 18
• Where Peter Spicer came from to New London has not been ascertained, but tradition tells us that he came from Virginia to New England and was of English parentage.3299, p 20
• Peter Spicer crossed from England in the company of Thomas Bushy, arriving in Virginia in 1656. Conjecture is that he was a very young person, possibly still in his teens. Nothing seems to be known about his movements until 1666, when his name appears as a landowner in Pequot/New London. He married four years later in 1670 Mary Busecot of Warwick, Rhode Island, which suggests another speculative dimension about his movements in the intervening years.
Peter had probably built a house on his land grant from New London th which he would have brought his bride. Land records locate his acreage roughly east of the present Avery Hill Road, southwest of Geer (Geare) land and about two miles south of the Preston line, which places it approximately between Avery Hill Road and the present Colonel Ledyard Highway.2476, p 188
General Notes
• In 1836 the town of Groton was divided and the larger portion, including all of the North Parish, was called the town of Ledyard.3299, p 19
Spouses
Birth1648, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island4260
Deathaft 13 Sep 1715, New London, New London, Connecticut3299, p 22,4260, place only Age: 67
FatherPeter BUSECOT (~1620-~1692)
MotherMary MAY
Marriage15 Dec 1670, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island3299, p 22,4260,2476, p 209; date only
Family Notes
• Eleven children were born to them, whose names are recorded in a Bible formerly owned by Abel(5) Spicer. The birth dates were not given and can only be conjectured from the dates of the marriages known.3299, p 22