Posted by Jeremy Spiers
on 12/4/2008, 11:31 am, in reply to "JOHN SPIERS 1799 - 1889 GA. & MS"
32.128.79.34
This is what I have... I also know that Archibald had a brother here (or Alexander did, I can't remember. I am trying to refind the info I lost last year)
I believe the brother left behind was the connection. The name John was already in the family, but Archibald was added in later, so I don't know how it would have ended up as John Spiers' (hancock co.)father's name, but stranger things have happened...
John SPEIRS
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Birth:1685, Perth or Edinburgh, Scotland
Birth:abt 1685, Perth County, Scotland
links to brother Robert from A.L. Speers
dates and descendents from Bill Curran UK via e-mail and Burkes Peerage 1951 p. 23
John Spiers, an Edinburgh merchant, who married Isabel Tweedie on 20 October 1708, had three sons, John, Alexander and James and six daughters. Alexander Speirs, born 1714, had sailed from Glasgow to Virginia where he owned a tobacco plantation. He married Sarah Carey in Jamestown on 15 November 1746. They had no children. He exported tobacco from Virginia to Glasgow,,,. … During the years 1767-75 Alexander Speirs & Co's ship, the Bowman, recorded 16 round voyages between Scotland and Virginia….. Alex returned from Virginia to Glasgow where he had a large house in Virginia Street, Glasgow, built by Buchanan. He secondly married Mary Buchanan of Auchentorlie, daughter of Archibald, on 3 March 1755, they had four sons John,1757 - 1773, Archibald, 1758 - 1832, Alexander, 1759 - 1772, and Peter, 1761 - 1828 and six daughters In 1794 Alexander's son, Archibald, born 10 Feb 1758, married the Hon. Margaret Dundas, daughter of Thomas, Lord Dundas. …. One of A!
lexander Speirs' sons, Peter, born 1761, married Martha Harriett daughter of Robert Cunningham Graham of Gartmore, Perth, and owned Culcreuch. ….
For further information see, The Tobacco Lords, by T.M.Devine, publ. 1975, reprinted 1990, Edinburgh.
Spouse:Isabella Tweedie
Marr:28 Oct 1708
Children:Alexander (1714-)
John
Alexander
1.2.1a Alexander SPEIRS*
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Birth:1714
Justice of Peace Renfrewshire
http://www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSA01052
Jones's Directory, 1789
Alexander Spiers, merchant, Glasgow, Scotland.
(When the American war broke out tobacco rose 1000 per cent, and he made a fortune from its import into Glasgow. His name is spelled a Speirs in some records).
Spouse:Sarah CAREY
Marr:1746, Jamestown, VA
Other spouses:Mary BUCHANAN
1.2.1b Alexander SPEIRS* (See above)
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Spouse:Mary BUCHANAN
Marr:3 Mar 1755
Children:John (1757-1773)
Archibald (1758-1832)
Alexander (1759-1772)
Peter (1761-1828)
Other spouses:Sarah CAREY
1.2.1b.1 John SPEIRS
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Birth:1757, Burnabrae, Renfrewshire, Scotland
Death:1773, Burnabrae, Renfrewshire, Scotland
1.2.1b.2 Archibald SPEIRS
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From the Tobacco Lords, by T.M.Devine, publ. 1975, reprinted 1990, Edinburgh
Found on http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SPEIRS/2006-05/1148586637
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