1708 - 1795 (86 years)
1719 - 1810 (91 years)
Birth |
1719 |
Died |
1810 |
Buried |
Hitchin, Hertfordshire |
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Father |
John Gray, b. 16 Sep 1680, Southwark, London, England |
Mother |
Mary Varnham, b. 1679 |
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Family 1 |
William Lucas, b. 1710 |
Married |
4 Jul 1740 |
Peel MM, Clerkenwell, London, England |
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Family 2 |
Samuel Spavold, b. 15 Jul 1708, Bawtry, South Yorkshire [1] |
Married |
Yes, date unknown |
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Name |
Samuel Spavold |
Birth |
15 Jul 1708 |
Bawtry, South Yorkshire [2] |
Gender |
Male |
Death |
9 Jan 1795 |
Hitchin Herts |
Person ID |
I68547 |
master |
Last Modified |
10 Sep 2021 |
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Event Map |
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| Birth - 15 Jul 1708 - Bawtry, South Yorkshire |
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| Death - 9 Jan 1795 - Hitchin Herts |
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Notes |
- A minister about 65 years - Testimony Volume 4 page 86, died aged about 87.
From http://www.bob-sinton.com/ballyhagan/chapter-5.htm
" Among one of the most interesting visits paid to Ballyhagan Meeting was the one paid jointly by Samuel Spavold from Hitchin, Herts, and Thomas Carrington from Pennsylavinia. They arrived at the end of January 1779, and spent over two weeks in visitation of families and attending both the mid week and first day meetings for worship. In the course of their visitation they rode over sixty miles on horse back, as the families were so scattered. [sketch of Samuel Spavold by Samuel Lucas]
Samuel Spavold (1708 - 1759*) was a well-known Friend Minister. In earlier life he had been apprenticed as ship's carpenter and joiner and worked at Deptford and Chatham. He was reputed to have been a skilled cabinet maker and some of his work is still in existence in the Hitchin district. As a young man he had a spiritual experience after which he was called to the Ministry. He was a well travelled Friend and on Truth's account and had journeyed to America in 1757, where he met John Woolman, who refers to him as `my beloved Friend". He had already visited among Friends in Ireland on three previous occasions, where he is reported as having visited extensively amongst the Southern Meetings and where he had exercised his prophetic ministry, warning Friends that difficult days lay ahead. In appearance he is described as "Tall in person, of a thin habit, and latterly of a genteel appearance, the figure of this fine prophetic Soul was familiar in Meetings far and wide." James Jenkins in his records presents a contemporary picture of this Friend as "A man of great sweetness of disposition. I have often been in his company." Such was the Friend who visited the scattered membership of the country meeting of Ballyhagan early in February, 1779."
* this date is wrong and is probably a transposition of 1795.
From the Journal of John Woolman in
http://www.bartleby.com/1/2/6.html
"ELEVENTH of Eleventh Month, 1758. -- This day I set out for Concord; the Quarterly Meeting heretofore held there was now, by reason of a great increase of members, divided into two by the agreement of Friends at our last Yearly Meeting. Here I met with our beloved friends Samuel Spavold and Mary Kirby from England, and with Joseph White from Bucks County; the latter had taken leave of his family in order to go on a religious visit to Friends in England, and, through divine goodness, we were favoured with a strengthening opportunity together."
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Sources |
- [S1373] Eira Makepeace, Elizabeth Brook ancestors.ged.
- [S1394] RG6 in The National Archives.
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