Spencer, George

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    • SPENCER, George, LIEUTENANT,, August 25, 1780 to October 13, 1783.
    • Born in England in 1758. (In Ancestry.ca Lprofile, born in Ireland) Living in the area of New Haven, Conn. at the beginning of the war.
    • Had been a Quartermaster in the 16th Dragoons.
      PRO, WO 42 “List of Queens Ranger Officers”.
    • Served as a Cornet in Captain Alexander Wickham’s Hussar Troop from February 1779 to August 1780.
    • Participated in the cavalry raid on Hoppertown, N.J. on April 15, 1780.
    • Promoted to Lieutenant in Captain David Shank’s newly raised Cavalry troop, on August 25, 1780.
    • Surrendered at Yorktown on October 19, 1781.
    • Left Yorktown for New York on the Transport Ship “Andrew”.
      National Archives “Revolutionary War-Misc Numbered Records”, Record Group 93, Record No. 31601.
    • Rank made permanent in the Army on December 25, 1782.
      1783 Army List.
    • British Half Pay in 1784.
      1784 Army List.
    • At the end of the war, with a family of 4 and 2 servants, went to Shelburne, Nova Scotia. Died there in 1834.
      Guthorn “Maps”, p. 43.
    • The maps illustrated in Simcoe’s Journal “Operations of the Queens Rangers” were made mainly by Spencer, with some drafts being the work of Simcoe and Lieutenant Adam Allen of the Ranger infantry.
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