James Speer and Margaret Braden

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Husband James Speer ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Scotland
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           Died:  - Robinson Twp, Allegheny Co, PA
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Wife Margaret Braden ³

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Children

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1 M Robert Speer ³

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2 M Andrew Speer ³

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           Born: 1758 - Maryland 3
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         Spouse: Elizabeth Boyd (      -      ) 4

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3 M Alexander Speer ³

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4 M James Speer ^{1 5}

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           Born: 1754 or 1765 - Maryland 1 6
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           Died: 25 Jul 1847 - Robinson Twp, Allegheny Co, PA 1 6
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         Spouse: Mary Boyd (Abt 1775-1859) 1 6

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5 F Ann Speer ³

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6 F Jane Speer ³

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7 F Elizabeth Speer ³

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         Spouse: William McCoy (      -Abt 1835) 4

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8 F Jean Speer ³

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9 F Ginny Speer ³

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General Notes: Husband - James Speer

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The Speer family of Coraopolis, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, descends from an ancient Highland Clan who, in their own land, Scotland, were powerful and influential, bearing arms and controlling large estates.

He founded the American branch of the Scotch Speer family. He came from Scotland in 1750 and settled in Maryland, where he lived until 1764, when he came to Pennsylvania and purchased a farm in Stowe (later Kennedy) township, Allegheny County. He died leaving four sons and three daughters, all lived in Allegheny County except one son, who settled in Kentucky.

He came to America in 1750, with his wife and a family of children, all born in Scotland. They sailed up the Chesapeake Bay, landed in Maryland, where they remained for about fifteen years, then removed to where McKeesport, Pennsylvania, now stands, traveling by way of the Ohio and Monongahela rivers. At the expiration of eleven years Mr. Speer removed to a place six miles from Pittsburgh, on the Coraopolis road, Robinson township. There, in a log house, he and his wife lived to a good old age, Mrs. Speer dying at the house of her son Andrew, at the advanced age of one hundred and one years. They were both buried on the hillside below the log house and above the spring house. At the time of the death of Mr. Speer only two of his sons were living, and his property in Robinson township was divided between them.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 399.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 808, 1065.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1065.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1066.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 392, 809, 1067.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 809, 1067.