Ancestry of
Alexander Spotswood

Lieutenant Governor of Virginia

Robert Spottiswoode

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• • Father of Alexander Spotswood — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Robert Spottiswoode 
  • Mother:
  • Bethia Morrison   
  • Birth Date:
  • 17 Sep 1637 
  • Birth Location:
  • Edinburgh, Scotland 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1688 
  • Death Location:
  • Tangier, Morocco 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Catherine Mercer
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1676 
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  • Child:

  Alexander Spotswood (Ahnentafel No:1 )

  • Notes: 
  • Lord President of the College of Justice and Secretary for Scotland

• Sources for Robert Spottiswoode

  • ¹ Browning, Charles H., ed., Americans Of Royal Descent, Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1883), 247.
  • ² Campbell, Charles, Genealogy of the Spotswood Family in Scotland and Virginia, Albany: Joel Munsell (1868), 12.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 411.
  • ⁴ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 60-61.
  • ⁵ Wikipedia, "Alexander Spotswood", (accessed 03/04/2010).