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About Spencer Records
- Spencer Records (December 11, 1762 – February 17, 1850) was born in Sussex County, Delaware; he was an early pioneer of the American Midwest, who moved with his large family as a boy, in 1766, from the East Coast over the Appalachians into the area of Fort Pitt in Western Pennsylvania (now Pittsburgh).
- After staying there a few years, the family moved down the Ohio River into Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois.
- His narrative of these travels, which he wrote in 1842 at the age of 80, is a first-hand account of the early settlement of the Midwest.
- He served in the Pennsylvania militia during the American Revolutionary War.
- He died in Mount Auburn, Indiana at the age of 87.
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