Spencer Records (December 11, 1762 – February 17, 1850) was born in Sussex County, Delaware. He was an early pioneer of the

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, 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

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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

. He served in the Pennsylvania militia during the American Revolutionary War. He died in

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at the age of 87.

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1762 births 1850 deaths Pennsylvania militiamen in the American Revolution People from Sussex County, Delaware People of Delaware in the American Revolution {{OldWest-bio-stub