 1782, Madeira Island), later Anglicised as John Leander Spinola, a merchant from Madeira Island, and Elizabeth Phelan (1790, Long Island – 1873), daughter of Captain John Phelan (1747, Waterford, Ireland – September 14, 1827, Baltimore, Maryland), who served in the American Revolutionary War, and his wife Susanna Davis (b.Long Island, d. 1857).João Leandro Spinola married Eliza Phelan on June 18, 1808, at Trinity Church parish, New York.