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.
Spencer Records was born on December 11, 1762, in Sussex County, Delaware. He was an early pioneer of the American Midwest who, as a boy in 1766, moved his large family from the East Coast over the Appalachians to Fort Pitt in Western Pennsylvania (now Pittsburgh). After spending some time there, they relocated down the Ohio River into Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois.