David and Robert Wier had 10 years between them, but there are many hints that they were close. They had the common ground of both being captains, but they also had the interest of Rev. Eleazar Wheelock promoting the good will between the Colonists and England. They also were very much for the continuing education of Dartmouth College, and the good reverend had asked England of their monitory support in 1775. Both David and Robert were subscribers to the board in Boston. It is unknown which society in Scotland they were involved with, but Reverend Wheeler had also been asking for their charitable contributions on behalf of the local native Indians for their care and education. Because of this information I do wonder if both were in the Revolutionary War.

Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records (Ancestry.com):
Name: Robert Wier
Event Type: Death
Death Age: 76
Birth Date: abt 1731
Death Date: 16 Oct 1807
Death Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Burial: Common Cemetery

Note: Date of birth taken from age at time of death noted on cemetery record. I wish I had put where I had found the info listed above, unfortunately I was too new. But given this info, historically, there was 10 years between Robert and David, so I don't know where that date of 28 Sep 1735 for his Christening comes from because there is nothing attached to it. According to his death rec, he was b. 1732, so maybe he was born in another part of Scotland and baptized at the family's new church three years later.

This family was not buried in Tomb 121 at Central, the tombs did not exist yet; David was interred at Common Cemetery and re-interred at a later date to this tomb. Construction at Common started late 1834 and many of the field stones were lost, the bodies relocated. Unfortunately, the field stones did not make it over to Mount Auburn with this family.

31 Jul 2013: "I've located the Section on Poplar Ave. And the only thing remaining there is the #marker..." ~ Photographer