Person:Robert Speight (2)

In his diary (included in the Samuel Spates Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society) Samuel Spates (1815-1887) says that his paternal grandfather is Robert Spates who came from Yorkshire and lived in Maryland. The 1776 Census, Sugar Land Hundred, Maryland lists Robert Speights (37) and his household: wife - Elizabeth (38); daughters - Ann (4) and Mary (2); and sons - William (12), Robert Jr (6) . and “a son” (6), (Kathleen and Susan Aud assert that “a son refers to Rezin Spates”) Robert Spates is also listed as one of the 9000 men who signed the oath of allegiance and fidelity to Maryland during the Revolution. (Unpublished Revolutionary Records of Maryland - List of Patriots Who Took the Oath of Fidelity and Support to the Goernment. NGS Quarterly. V 6 #1) ----------------------------- Maryland Colonial Census, Sugar Land Hundred, Frederic county, Sept 2, 1776

Speight, Robert 37 William12 "son"8 Robert6 Elisabeth38 Ann4 Mary2 ---------------------------

Asessment of 1783 Robert Spates. MO Sugarland and Upper Potomac Hundred, p. 7. MSA S 1161-8-4 1/4/5/51 ----------------------

Robert Spates is listed in the Upper Battalion of Montgomery Co MD, 6th Co (Maryland Militia in the Revolutionary War" by Clements and Wright page 194 ------------------------------ Census: 1790 Maryland, Montgomery county Robert Spates

Males 16 + (Two)

Males under 16(Two)

Females(Four) ---------------

1. ↑ Brumbaugh, G.M. Census 1776 Sugar Land Hundred, Frederick County, Maryland, Sept 2, 1776.. (Maryland Records: Colonial, Revolutionary, County, and Church. Vol I).
2. ↑ Unpublished Revolutionary Records of Maryland - List of Patriots Who Took the Oath of Fidelity and Support to the Goernment.. (NGS Quarterly. V 6 #1).
3. ↑ S. Eugene Clements & F. Edward Wright. Maryland Militia in the Revolutionary War.. (Heritage Books Inc. (January 1, 2001))
   p. 194.
4. ↑ Samuel Spates Papers.. (Minnesota Historical Society.).
5. ↑ Census 1787. Southampton County, VA..