Samuel Laird\leard Sr.

• General Notes
  • LAIRD
    
    Mike Bonner - "The following information on the Laird line was copied
    from some notes Joyce Jones of Oak Hill, AL had in the 1970's. I know
    that some of the family always spelled the name Leard and never
    changed it to Laird."
    
    Samuel Leard (Laird) from Scotland. Margaret Gibson Laird, his wife,
    from Northern Ireland
    
    Children:
    1. John Laird
    2. Mary Laird
    3. Samuel Laird, Jr.
    4. James Laird
    5. Andrew Laird born in South Carolina
    6. Daughter born in South Carolina
    
    1. John Laird & wife Mary ? had 5 children: John Laird, Jr.; James
    Laird; Samuel P. Laird, Ellen (Nelly) Laird, Mary Anne Laird
    
    2. Mary Laird married James Bonner & had 9 children: Margaret Bonner
    m. Robert Jones; Mary Bonner m. Joseph Jones; William Bonner m. Ann
    Lee Joel; Samuel Bonner, M. D. m. Sarah C. Hearst; Elizabeth Bonner m.
    Samuel Young; James Bonner, Jr. m. Mary Porter Foster; Andrew Bonner,
    M.D. m. Martha Calhoun; John Bonner, M.D. m. Eliza Feribry Williams;
    Sarah Bonner
    
    3. Samuel Laird, Jr. m. Elizabeth Cowie & had 5 children: John Leard;
    Samuel; Andrew; Alexander; Margaret
    
    4. James Laird---no record
    
    5. Andrew Laird m. Jane Marsh Leard. 3 children: Rev. Samuel Laird;
    Nancy Laird m. William Holt; another son who died young
    
    The above information is from Mrs. Alline Leard Hymums' records.
    
    
    Much of the data on the descendants of Samuel LEARD, Sr. comes from
    the
    research of Wallace Edwin LEARD, 8753 Del Vista Dr., St. Louis, MO
    63126,
    provided by e-mail contact:
    
    Bonner Book -
    Was in colonies before his family came on the ship "The Earl of
    Hillsborough".
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    2 possible immigrations for him:
    
    Samuel Laird found in:
    
    Passenger and Immigration Index, 1500s-1900s
    Place:  Charleston, SC     Year:  1767
    Primary immigrant:  Laird, Samuel
    Permanent entry number:  845916
    Accession number:  8668551
    Source publication code:  3627.37
    Source publication page number:  215
    Source publication:  JONES, JACK MORELAND, and MARY BONDURANT WARREN.
    South Carolina Immigrants, 1760 to 1770. Danielsville, GA: Heritage
    Papers, 1988. 430p.
    Source annotation:  Place and date of immigrants' or discharged
    military person's petition requesting reimbursements of passage,
    additional land, headrights, bounty, etc. from the South Carolina
    government or of letter expressing satisfaction with the voyage to
    America. Extracted from The South-Carolina Gazette, "The Governor and
    Council Journal" (located at the South Carolina Archives), and
    "Records of the Public Treasurers of South Carolina" (also at the SC
    Archives in Columbia).
    Source:  Passenger and Immigration Lists Index
    
    Samuel Laird found in:
    
    Passenger and Immigration Index, 1500s-1900s
    Place:  Carolina     Year:  1755
    Primary immigrant:  Laird, Samuel
    Permanent entry number:  1975435
    Accession number:  8668552
    Source publication code:  2144
    Source publication page number:  40
    Source publication:  FOTHERGILL, GERALD. A List of Emigrant Ministers
    to America, 1690-1811. London: Elliot Stock, 1904. 65p. Reprinted by
    Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1965.
    Source annotation:  Ministers and schoolmasters of the Church of
    England who went to western colonies in return for a bounty from the
    King. From the Rawlinson MSS. Receipt Book of Secret Service Money,
    April 20, 1689, to June 1691, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford,
    England, and from other papers in the Public Record Office, London.
    For additions, see no. 2120, Fothergill.
    Source:  Passenger and Immigration Lists Index
    
    32 days militia duty
    
    Paid for horse lost.
    
    96th District.  2 free white males over 16 yrs old and 2 free white
    females.
    
    http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/sc/sccolony.txt
    
    Page Num.  42
    Colony of South Carolina                           Compiled by: Paul
    R. Sarrett, Jr.
    Records of 1716 to 1783                               Internet:
    prsjr@aol.com
    
      L Name         F Name         Date County   St    Type
    Township
    ---------------  -------------- ---- -------- -- ----------------
    ------------------
    LAIRD          , Lodwick         1779 Colony, SC Resident
    Old 96th DISTRICT
    LAIRD          , Samuel          1779 Colony, SC Resident
    Old 96th DISTRICT