Michael Christopher Spears
1709 - 1772 (62 years)
Generation: 1
Generation: 3
1. Michael Christopher Spears was born 8 Jul 1709, Germany (son of Peter Abram Spears and Margaret Graefenreid Henlopen); died 1772, Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 13249
- Birth: 8 Jul 1709, Arnsburg, Westfalen, Germany
Michael married Marie Louise Delano 5 Oct 1729, Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. [Group Sheet]
2. Peter Abram Spears was born 12 Sep 1690, Brandenburg, Germany (son of Christian Spears); died 1772, Pennsylvania, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 13255
Peter married Margaret Graefenreid Henlopen Abt 1708, Germany. Margaret (daughter of Peter Henlopen) was born Abt 1688, Brandenburg, Germany; died Aft 1731, Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet]
3. Margaret Graefenreid Henlopen was born Abt 1688, Brandenburg, Germany (daughter of Peter Henlopen); died Aft 1731, Pennsylvania, USA. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 5407
Children:
- George Fredrick Spears was born Abt 1731; died 1793, Shenandoah, Virginia, USA.
- Joseph Andrew Spears was born Abt 1721, Germany.
- 1. Michael Christopher Spears was born 8 Jul 1709, Germany; died 1772, Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, USA.
- Peter Henry Spears was born 1713, Arnsburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; died 25 Nov 1782, Rostraver, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried , Belle Vernon, Fayette, Pennsylvania, USA.
Generation: 3
4. Christian Spears was born Abt 1665, Ireland; died , Germany. Other Events:
- Reference Number: 13226
Notes:
As a young man, Christian Speers went to London to take ship to America where some of his cousins had migrated. While waiting for passage at the dock, he was caught by the "Press Gang" and forced into the British Army. His first opportunity to desert came when the army went into France. Being a Protestant, he was able to lose himself among the persecuted Huguenots who befriended him. Christian joined the French Huguenots and became associated with the Reasoner and Froman families in France and Germany. Later in America, descendants of the three families intermarried. Christian married a French Protestant girl in France. They had one son.
Children:
- 2. Peter Abram Spears was born 12 Sep 1690, Brandenburg, Germany; died 1772, Pennsylvania, USA.
6. Peter Henlopen was born Abt 1658, Brandenburg, Germany. Other Events:
- Name: Peter Henlopin Graefenreid
- Occupation: Burgersmeister of Potsdam
- Reference Number: 6512
- Birth: 1665, Germany
Notes:
Peter Henlopen was a German Burgameister of Potsdam, a residential city on the Haven River 17 miles west southwest from Berlin. Both Grossburen and Potsdam are in the State of Brandenburg where many Huguenots settled following the Potsdam Edit of 1685.
Children:
- 3. Margaret Graefenreid Henlopen was born Abt 1688, Brandenburg, Germany; died Aft 1731, Pennsylvania, USA.
