[1] Alice first had three sons named Spencer, Robert and Richard who would in time inherit their father's title.

The memorial notes that her husband's "tables were ever open to the learned and his gates never fast to the poor".

[2] Her eldest son, Spencer, inherited his father's title,[2] but after 1640 Alice was the de facto head of the household.

She was a Puritan and each Christmas she would tour the area giving out meat and bread to those in nearby towns.

Her children would read from the bible during the day and there was a sermon, a psalm sung and a mother's blessing every night.