Samuel Douglas

[Solway]

Please.... is there anyone prepared to do a newspaper/record look-up for the age at death of the above who died 9 January, 1799, at Charleston, SC?

[SLStephens]

Samuel Douglas is a fairly common name.  Do you have a middle name or initial?  Wife's name?  Where did you find this exact death date?

[Solway]

Very many thanks, SL, for taking the time to respond.
He was unmarried and had no middle name, so he didn't intend to make it easy anyone trying to trace him!  I can find no record of his birth date here in Scotland, thus my enquiry for his age at death.               
I obtained his date of death from details attached to his will which was partly made in Jamaica, just prior to his death in Charleston.

[SLStephens]

I tried newspaperarchive.com and didn't find anything.  You might try it anyway.

[Solway]

Thanks anyway SL, will do.

[Solway]

Tried newspaperarchive.com myself SL, and didn't manage to find anything either.
Many thanks for taking the time to search and reply.
 

[SLStephens]

I know you have probably searched the Internet for this man, but I see he was a very interesting person.  Parents were Nathaniel Douglas and Margaret Heron.  Born in Kirkmabreck (though this has been disputed).  Founder of the Douglas Free School.  Apparently lived in Georgia before going to Jamaica.

Can you find a birthdate for any of siblings so you could at least have an idea of his bd?

[willsy]

Marriage

13 Jun 1727
Penninghame,Wigtown,Scotland

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XY7L-BQW

[Solway]

Yes, SL, Samuel was a very interesting character and a distant relation. I have a posting on the Douglas Archives under Windsor Castle (Jamaica). He was the eldest of 7, his nearest sibling being his sister, Mary, who died 1737. He was undoubtedly born in Kirkmabreck as he refers in his will as this being his 'place of nativity'. The frustration for me has always been finding his age at death.
Many thanks to you both for your interest and response.