Contributed by: Mary Jane Phillips in New York City ------------------------------------------------------ From 1838 until their deaths, my SPENCER gr-gr-grandparents lived in the hamlet of Bransby near Sturton-by-Stow in Lincolnshire. They were Quakers. However, some of their children had been born in Massachusetts, and they crossed the Atlantic several times, back and forth. As a result, Franklin SPENCER, (born 1827 in Massachusetts; raised in England and America; died 1888 in Lincolnshire), married in Philadelphia and fought in the American Civil War. Being a Quaker, he would not take up arms, but he founded a company of soldiers to serve in hospitals and military camps of the Union Army, the North. The company was called SPENCER'S QUAKER GREYS. ------------------------------------------------------ 3-March-2007