Archibald Ker, laird of Graden

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Archibald Kerr was born 1667 in Liton Parish, Roxburghshire, Scotland. He married Helen Sinclair on 21 FEB 1691 in Linton Parish, Roxburghshire, Scotland, daughter of Jean Spottiswood /Hay/ and James /Sinclair/. She was born 15 MAR 1670 in Rosslyn Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.

Children of Archibald Kerr and Helen Sinclair are:

1. Henry Kerr was born 1692 in Liton Parish, Roxburghshire, Scotland, and died 22 DEC 1751.
2. Jean Kerr was born 1693 in near Selkirk, Scotland.
3. Alexander Kerr was born 1694 in Selkirk, Linton Parish, Roxborghshire, Scotland, and died 15 OCT 1738 in Williamsburg, James City Co., VA

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Ker or Kerr Archibald in the UK, Extracted Probate Records, 1269-1975. < AncestrySharing > Name: Ker or Kerr Archibald
Dates: 4 Jul 1699
Place: Gradon, Sutherland, Scotland
Book: Marriages. (Marriage)
Collection: Argyle, Caithness, Sutherland, Argyll, Invarness, and Hebrides: xxx - The commissariot records, Register of Testaments of Argyle, 1674-1800; Caithness, 1661-1664
Volume: Che Commissarint Record of Peehles.
Chapter: Register of Testaments, 1681-1699
Text: Ker or Kerr Archibald, of Gradon 04 Jul 1699

From The Kerrs of Roxburghe. Posted on February 6, 2021 by Brad Scott. < link >

The immigrant ancestor, and the first one to live in Virginia, was a man by name of Alexander Kerr, son of Archibald Kerr, who was Laird of Graden at the time of Alexander’s birth. Come to find out Alexander was involved in a plot to assist in the restoration of the Stuart Pretender to the throne of England in 1715. His punishment, which was substituted for hanging, was to leave Scotland for Virginia. He came on the ship “Elizabeth and Ann” with 111 other Jacobite prisoners, and landed on my birthday (January 14) in 1716. Here he was treated with a little deference because his grandmother was a relative to Governor Alexander Spotswood (who enslaved my German ancestor Conrad Amburgey). He was able to set up a Jewelry and Silversmith shop in old Colonial Williamsburg, and bought a house right across from the Capitol building (now known as the Palmer House, and restored in the 1950s to how it might have looked originally). He is said to have partnered with a Randolph in opening up the Carolinas for settlement. What is so wild is that Alexander’s daddy was considered a leader of his people in Roxburghe.

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Burial seen as 08/04/1692

References

• “Descendants of Henry Ker” < PDF >
• The Apperson Family in America. Vera Apperson English (1977). < GoogleBooks - snippet view >
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Archibald_Kerr_%283%29
• “Descendants of Henry Ker” < PDF >
• Leishman, J. F. “Henry Ker of Graden.” The Scottish Historical Review, vol. 5, no. 18, 1908, pp. 181–90. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25517942. Accessed 7 Nov. 2022.
• The Scottish historical review. “ Henry Ker of Graden.” Page 181- < Archive.Org >
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/G7GJ-ZCC
• https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/136493/I793/archibald-kerr/individual notes:
  • Note: N399 Laird of Graden, Teviotdale, Linton Parish, Scotland Today Teviothead is in Roxbourghshire (didn't find a dale), Selkirk in Selkirkshire
  •   Linton - "A parish in the county of Roxburgh, about 9 miles long by 3 broad. The surface is finely diversified, and the climate is milder than many of the adjacent districts ... Population in 1801, 403." from Gazetteer of Scotland published 1806, Edinburgh.
  •   History of Morebattle and District published in 1966 by the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes covers Linton Parish.
  •   The Scots Origins site (http://www.origins.net/) has Linton Parish records only from 1732-1947