Peter Abram Spears

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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]

1. George Fredrick Spears was born Abt 1731; died 1793, Shenandoah, Virginia, USA.
2. Joseph Andrew Spears was born Abt 1721, Germany.
3. Michael Christopher Spears was born 8 Jul 1709, Germany; died 1772, Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland, USA.
4. 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.

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• Reference Number: 13226

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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.