Harriet Brackett Spence

Abt 1784 - 1850  (~ 66 years)

• Name	Harriet Brackett Spence
  Birth	Abt 1784	of, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire
  Gender	Female
  Death	30 Mar 1850	Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I25010	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	Charles Lowell, Reverend,   b. 15 Aug 1782, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 20 Jan 1861, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	18 Sep 1806	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  Children	1. Mary Traill Spence Lowell,   b. 3 Dec 1810, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 1 Jun 1898, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 87 years)   2. Charles Russell Lowell,   b. Abt 1814 + 3. Robert Traill Spence Lowell,   b. 18 Oct 1816, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 12 Sep 1891, Schenectady, Schenectady, New York (Age 74 years) + 4. James Russell Lowell,   b. 22 Feb 1819, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 12 Aug 1891, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 72 years)
  Family ID	F12911	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1784 - of, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire Marriage - 18 Sep 1806 - Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Death - 30 Mar 1850 - Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  !SOURCE: Dwane V. Norris, The Whipple Family Tree (Jackson, Mich., 1996), p. 48. !SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 28 Jul 2004. Cites entry for Harriet's brother in 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, G92. !SOURCE: International Genealogical Index (Internet). Adds marriage date and place, approximate birth year and place, death date and place.