sentences:  Daughter Frances Mottrom was married to Col. Nicholas Spencer, Secretary and President of the Council and later acting Governor of the Virginia Colony (1683–1684) and patentee of the land at Mount Vernon with John Washington.The Spencers named one of their children Mottrom Spencer after the child's grandfather John Mottrom.Another son of Frances Mottrom and Nicholas Spencer, William Spencer, returned to the Spencer family parish of Cople, Bedfordshire, where he served as a member of Parliament.