Robert Weir was the son of Thomas Wier and Mary Withrow who emigrated from Ireland to South Carolina in 1795 aboard the ship The Irish Volunteer.
Robert Wier remained in Ireland with his grandfather Withrow until August 21, 1804, when he sailed from Belfast with his uncle James Wier and Mary Hamilton Wier aboard the Lady Washington, landing at Charleston on Oct. 31, 1804. Also onboard were Mary Hamilton Wier's uncle and aunt, William and Margaret Lyons Boyd, and their family. Their eldest daughter was Jane Boyd, referred to as Nancy Jean in some family letters and in Ten Tribes of Wier by William Withrow Wier. She and Robert Weir married in South Carolina.
The Wiers and Boyds joined their relations who had arrived in South Carolina nine years earlier: Thomas and Mary Withrow Wier, James Boyd and Nancy Agnes Wier Boyd, in Laurens District, S.C., and later Abbeville District. Some of the latter arrivals were said to have found the insitution of slavery distasteful, and the fact that their kinsmen were prospering immensely by it. Being almost a stranger to his own family anyway, Robert Wier went with the William Boyd family when they joined a caravan heading to Sparta, Illinois. Unlike most of the Wiers in the South, Robert and his family spelled their name Weir.
Robert Wier remained in Ireland with his grandfather Withrow until August 21, 1804, when he sailed from Belfast with his uncle James Wier and Mary Hamilton Wier aboard the Lady Washington, landing at Charleston on Oct. 31, 1804. Also onboard were Mary Hamilton Wier's uncle and aunt, William and Margaret Lyons Boyd, and their family. Their eldest daughter was Jane Boyd, referred to as Nancy Jean in some family letters and in Ten Tribes of Wier by William Withrow Wier. She and Robert Weir married in South Carolina.
The Wiers and Boyds joined their relations who had arrived in South Carolina nine years earlier: Thomas and Mary Withrow Wier, James Boyd and Nancy Agnes Wier Boyd, in Laurens District, S.C., and later Abbeville District. Some of the latter arrivals were said to have found the insitution of slavery distasteful, and the fact that their kinsmen were prospering immensely by it. Being almost a stranger to his own family anyway, Robert Wier went with the William Boyd family when they joined a caravan heading to Sparta, Illinois. Unlike most of the Wiers in the South, Robert and his family spelled their name Weir.
Robert Weir was the son of Thomas Wier and Mary Withrow who emigrated from Ireland to South Carolina in 1795 aboard the ship The Irish Volunteer.
Robert Wier remained in Ireland with his grandfather Withrow until August 21, 1804, when he sailed from Belfast with his uncle James Wier and Mary Hamilton Wier aboard the Lady Washington, landing at Charleston on Oct. 31, 1804. Also onboard were Mary Hamilton Wier's uncle and aunt, William and Margaret Lyons Boyd, and their family. Their eldest daughter was Jane Boyd, referred to as Nancy Jean in some family letters and in Ten Tribes of Wier by William Withrow Wier. She and Robert Weir married in South Carolina.
The Wiers and Boyds joined their relations who had arrived in South Carolina nine years earlier: Thomas and Mary Withrow Wier, James Boyd and Nancy Agnes Wier Boyd, in Laurens District, S.C., and later Abbeville District. Some of the latter arrivals were said to have found the insitution of slavery distasteful, and the fact that their kinsmen were prospering immensely by it. Being almost a stranger to his own family anyway, Robert Wier went with the William Boyd family when they joined a caravan heading to Sparta, Illinois. Unlike most of the Wiers in the South, Robert and his family spelled their name Weir.
Robert Wier remained in Ireland with his grandfather Withrow until August 21, 1804, when he sailed from Belfast with his uncle James Wier and Mary Hamilton Wier aboard the Lady Washington, landing at Charleston on Oct. 31, 1804. Also onboard were Mary Hamilton Wier's uncle and aunt, William and Margaret Lyons Boyd, and their family. Their eldest daughter was Jane Boyd, referred to as Nancy Jean in some family letters and in Ten Tribes of Wier by William Withrow Wier. She and Robert Weir married in South Carolina.
The Wiers and Boyds joined their relations who had arrived in South Carolina nine years earlier: Thomas and Mary Withrow Wier, James Boyd and Nancy Agnes Wier Boyd, in Laurens District, S.C., and later Abbeville District. Some of the latter arrivals were said to have found the insitution of slavery distasteful, and the fact that their kinsmen were prospering immensely by it. Being almost a stranger to his own family anyway, Robert Wier went with the William Boyd family when they joined a caravan heading to Sparta, Illinois. Unlike most of the Wiers in the South, Robert and his family spelled their name Weir.
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