Robert Traill Spence, Captain

1785 - 1827  (42 years)

• Name	Robert Traill Spence
  Suffix	Captain
  Birth	1785	Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Sep 1827	near, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland
  Person ID	I25009	Whipple Descendants
  Last Modified	18 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	Keith Spence,   b. of, Kirkwall, Orkney Islands
  Mother	Mary Whipple Traill,   b. Abt 1755, , , New Hampshire d. 10 Jan 1824 (Age ~ 69 years)
  Marriage	Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
  Family ID	F12895	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Clarke Carroll,   b. of, Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland
  Children	+ 1. Mary Clarke Carroll Spence   2. Carroll Spence   3. Charles Lowell Stuart Spence   4. Robert Traill Spence, M.D.   5. Stephen Decatur Spence
  Family ID	F12910	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1785 - Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire Death - 26 Sep 1827 - near, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  !SOURCE: Dwane V. Norris, The Whipple Family Tree (Jackson, Mich., 1996), p. 48. !SOURCE: Gary Boyd Roberts, Notable Kin, vol. 2 (Santa Clarita, Calif.: Carl Boyer, 1999), p. 18. !SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 28 Jul 2004. Cites The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume IX SPENCE, Robert Traill {25009}, naval officer, was born in Portsmouth, N.H., in 1785; son of Keith Spence {24987} of Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, who settled in Portsmouth as a merchant, and afterward became purser of the U.S. frigate Philadelphia, and married Mary{24986}, only daughter of Robert and Mary (Whipple) Traill. Robert T. Spence was warranted a midshipman in 1800, and served under Decatur in the Tripolitan war, being on gun-boat Number 8 when she was destroyed Aug. 7, 1804. He was commissioned lieutenant in 1807, and served under Commodore Rogers in the war of 1812, being promoted master-commandant in 1813, and past-captain, 1815. When stationed in the West Indies in 1892, he vigorously defended the jeopardized rights of Americans, and in 1826 was given command of the West India fleet, but died before leaving port. He was married to Mary Clare {38603}, daughter of Nicholas MacCubben and Anne (Jennings) Carroll, of Annapolis, Md., and had several children, including: Carroll Spence; Charles Lowell Stuart Spence; Robert Traill Spence, M.D., and Stephen Decatur Spence. His sister, Harriet Brackett Spence, married the Rev. Charles Lowell, D.D., and became the mother of James Russell Lowell. Capt. Robert T. Spence died near Baltmore, Md., Sept. 26, 1827. !SOURCE: Blaine Whipple, History and Genealogy of "Elder" John Whipple of Ipswich, Massachusetts (Victoria, B.C.: Trafford, 2004), p. G70.