Re: WILLIAM WEIR-REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER
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Re: WILLIAM WEIR-REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER
Cynthia Gregorio 5/13/99
my line is william weir md susannah miller and son william weir. with a lot of help and research i have found out a lot on this weir line.
To start with William Sr came as a grown man to S.C and settled in S.C and was presbyteriin and part of the Coventeers. but did not come on the ships with the other Weirs. he was not a direct relative of David Weir or the other Weir brothers who settled in Chester county.
He did marry Susannah Miller but did die in S.C. and never made it to Ky. His will is available on the S.C.archives index. And was probated in S.C. His son David also die in S.C. of war wounds as a young man. After he died Samuel Weir brought his mother Susannah with him to Greenville area in Mulenburg county.
The Wilkins and the Poag's and the Weirs all came to Ky from S.C. intermarried with cousins marrying cousins. The news paper articles about the settlement of the Wilkins estate was true in the part of the weir wilkins poag family mixture.
but the family history of William Sr and his reations to David Weir was inaccurate. Unknown for sure but he was probably the son of James Weir of Ireland. William Weir Jr.
and his brother James did come to Ky later also but not with with the other familys. William lived in Todd County and Mulenburg county and finally in Hopkins county where he died. James his brother went from S.C. to Tenn. then Christian county and then on to Mulenburg county. Willim weir jr.s son James Harrison moved to Mulenburg county as a teen and worked for the Wilkins family in Greenville till he moved on to Hopkins county where he went into business on his own.