| John Spencer | |
| Honorific Suffix: | JP |
| Office: | Speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives |
| Term Start: | February 1712 |
| Term End: | May 1712 |
| Predecessor: | James Greene |
| Successor: | Ebenezer Slocum |
| Birth Date: | 20 April 1666 |
| Birth Place: | Newport, Colony of Rhode Island, British America |
| Death Place: | East Greenwich, Colony of Rhode Island, British America |
| Parents: | Dr. John Spencer Susannah Griffin |
| Children: | John Spencer William Spencer |
John Spencer JP (20 April 1666 – 1743) was a colonial Rhode Island politician.
Spencer was born on 20 April 1666 in Newport in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was the eldest son of nine children born to Dr. John Spencer (1638–1684), who was made freeman of Newport in 1668, and Susannah (Griffin) Spencer (1644–1719).
His paternal grandfather, Michael Spencer, was born in Stotfold, Bedford, England before emigrating to the Massachusetts Bay Colony aboard the ship Mary and John in 1634, first settling at Cambridge before moving to Lynn.[1] After his grandfather's death, his grandmother Isabel remarried to Thomas Robbins before her death in Salem in 1674. His maternal grandparents were Robert and Hannah Griffin.[2]
Spencer was a prominent landowner and Justice of the Peace and a cordwainer by trade.[3] He served as Deputy (precursor to Representative) to the General Assembly between 1699 and 1729, as well as Speaker of the House of Deputies from February 1712 to May 1712.
Spencer was married to Audrey Greene (1667–1733), a daughter of Deputy Governor John Greene Jr. and granddaughter of John Greene, an early settler of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations who was one of the 12 original proprietors of Providence and a co-founder of the town of Warwick. Together, they were the parents of:[4]
Spencer died in East Greenwich in 1743.