Jacob Speer, Sr[1, 2]

Male 1725 - 1802  (77 years)


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  • Name Jacob Speer  [3, 4, 5, 6
    Suffix Sr 
    Born 3 Mar 1725  Stepney Parish, Nanticoke Hundred, Somerset, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    • His birth is noted in the records of Stepney Parish.
    Gender Male 
    Land Survey 23 Apr 1756  Somerset County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Jacob Spear had 66 acres surveyed. He called it "Mount Charles." By 1759, the debt on the annual land rent was 6 shillings, 5 1/4 pence, with an annual land rent of 2 shillings, 8 pence. The debt may have been 2 years, 5 months in arrears. 
    Annual Land Rent 1759  Nanticoke Hundred, Somerset, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Jacob Spear paid an annual land rent to the Lord Baltimores. He paid 5 shillings, 2 1/2 pence on "part of Dunegall" (130 acres). Even owners in fee simple had to pay the annual land rent. This was true for all of the Province of Maryland. 
    Residence Surry, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Residence 1790  Surry County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Died 10 May 1802  Turners Green, Surry, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID P1158  Woelfel Test
    Last Modified 19 Jun 2020 

    Father Henry Speer, Sr,   b. Aug 1686, Donegal, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Jul 1769, Nanticoke Hundred, Somerset, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 82 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Jane Calloway (Speer),   b. 4 Nov 1692, Somerset County, Colonial Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aug 1769, Somerset County, Colonial Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Married 1711  Stepney Parish, Somerset, Colonial Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Family ID F1132  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Steelman (Speer),   b. 3 Mar 1727, Stepney Parish, Somerset, Colonial Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. May 1802, Surry County, Colonial North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years) 
    Married 1746  Stepney Parish, Somerset, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Leven ? Speer,   b. 1745, Somerset County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1801, Surry County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years)  [natural]
    +2. John Speer, Sr,   b. 1747, Somerset County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1852, Dallas County, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 105 years)  [natural]
     3. James ? Speer,   b. 1750, Somerset County, Colonial Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1751, Surry County, Colonial North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 1 years)  [natural]
    +4. Capt Henry Thomas Speer,   b. 1750, Somerset County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1830, Henry County, Kentucky, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)  [natural]
    +5. Elizabeth Speer (Rutledge),   b. 1750, Stepney Parish, Somerset County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1830, Cumberland County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)  [natural]
    +6. Benjamin Speer, Sr,   b. 1750, Somerset County, Maryland, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1832, Overton County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years)  [natural]
     7. Jacob (?) Speer, Jr,   b. 1752, Somerset County, Maryland, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aug 1796, Surry County, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 44 years)  [natural]
    +8. William Enoch Speer, Sr,   b. Jun 1758, Somerset County, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Dec 1859, Gardendale, Jefferson, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 101 years)  [natural]
    Last Modified 19 Jun 2020 
    Family ID F1131  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
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    5. [S1268993997] 1790 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Year: 1790; Census Place: Surry, North Carolina; Series: M637; Roll: 7; Page: 514; Image: 299; Family History Library Film: 0568147.

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