Person:Walter Ker (5)

Walter Ker was persecuted in his native Scotland for his strict Presbyterian religious faith under James II, and for this Walter was banished for life from Scotland. He was a Covenanter[1] and a prisoner in Canongate Tolbooth[2].

Walter Ker sailed with 200 co-religionists led by the Laird of Pitlochie, George Scot, on the death ship Henry and Francis, from Leith, Scotland in September 1685. 70 died during the voyage, including George Scot. Walter landed in the harbor of Perth Amboy in December, 1685.

The Ker clan in America followed a strict Presbyterianism for generations. Walter was an elder in the Tennent Church[[3]] in Freehold, NJ, and was buried with his wife Margaret nearby.

1.   Frank Rosebrook Symmes. History of the Old Tennent church: with biographical sketches of its pastors. (Freehold, NJ

   James S. Yard & Sons 1897

   http://books.google.com/books?id=Yo5JAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5&dq=History+of+Tennent+Church&hl=en&ei=3xGhTZ-dMtGUtwek5r2gAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=Kerr&f=false)
   p. 116.
2.   David Dobson. Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations 1670-1775. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, MD 1983)
   p. 87.
3.   Site admin. Pauly, Rockwell, Cleveland, Boncquet and allied families. (https://paulyfamily.org)
   https://paulyfamily.org:443/individual.php?pid=I1260.

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4.   Armstrong, William Clinton. The Kerr Clan of New Jersey: Beginning with Walter Ker of Freehold and Including Other Related Lines. (Morrison, Illinois: Shawver Publishing Company, 1931)
   p. 5.
5.   Hornor, William Stockton. This old Monmouth of ours: history, tradition, biography, genealogy, and other anecdotes related to Monmouth County, New Jersey. (Cottonport, Louisiana: Polyanthos, Inc., 1974)
   p. 302.