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Vintage Artistry. In doing my genealogy, I found out that some of my ancestors came on the Mayflower and some shortly after. I found this family story fascinating. The journaling is so small that I have included it. TFL! ShannonThe Spooner family was among the first settlers to come to America. The Spooners, Pecks, Pratts and perhaps others in this line of the family were part of the Separatist movement in England. The Separatists are now known as the Pilgrims but didn’t go by that name at the time. This congregation moved to the Netherlands in 1608 to avoid persecution in England–first in Amsterdam and then Leiden. John Spooner was born in 1594 in England and moved to Leiden in 1609 where he worked as a ribbon maker. John Spooner and Ann Peck married in Leiden and had a son, William, in 1621. The Spooner family stayed behind in Leiden when the first group of Pilgrims came to America in 1620. Richard Warren, another Spooner ancestor, did come on the Mayflower but may not have been a Separatist. Another group came to Plymouth in 1623 including Richard Warren’s family and Joshua Pratt. Ann, William and Thomas Spooner came to this country in 1637 and went to Salem, Massachussetts. William became an indentured servant and went to Plymouth on a seven year contract. The Spooner family had lived in various locations in New England for over 200 years. More than 200 years after William Spooner came to Massachusetts as an indentured servant, a branch of the Spooner family moved to Wisconsin. In April 1858, Nathan Spooner and his son, Daniel, came to the town of LaGrange near Tomah, Wisconsin in search of better farmland. Daniel worked through the summer as a carpenter and then returned to Massachusetts to settle business there. He married Laura Thorp on November 15, 1858 and soon after returned to Wisconsin with his wife; his mother, Charlotte Ferguson Spooner; and his two brothers, Edmond and Charles. All three brothers fought in the Civil War. Daniel was the only one to survive. Edmond died defending Washington, D.C. and Charles died shortly after being released from Andersonville prison.
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