As a young man, Christian Speers went to London to take ship to
America where some of his cousins had migrated. While waiting for
passage at the dock, he was caught by the "Press Gang" and forced
into the British Army. His first opportunity to desert came when the
army went into France. Being a Protestant, he was able to lose
himself among the persecuted Huguenots who befriended him. Christian
joined the French Huguenots and became associated with the Reasoner
and Froman families in France and Germany. Later in America,
descendants of the three families intermarried. Christian married a
French Protestant girl in France. They had one son.