Family[edit]
On 24 April 1764 Robert married Jean Yeaman of Blacklaw, daughter of a Patrick Yeaman of Blacklaw, a merchant and twice Provost of Dundee.[8] His children were, Isabel, Lillias, James, Catherine and Agnes.
His son, James, is described (in Fasti Ecclesiae) as "a manufacturer in Dundee, whose failure in business ruined his father".
Demonstrations of some of Dr Matthew Stewart's General Theorems, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol 2, 1785, read by the author 7 February 1785
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The Importance of the Poor illustrated in a sermon preached, 15 December 1793, on the occasion of making a charitable contribution, for the support of the Sunday-schools, lately opened in ... Dundee 1793 sold by Edward Lesslie
Defence delivered by Dr. Small, at the bar of the General Assembly, Edinburgh, 1800.
Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol 8, Number XI, page 192 et seq Town and Parish of Dundee by Rev Robert Small DD one of the Ministers of that City, Edinburgh 1792
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The history of Dundee, from its origin to the present time : with a copious appendix containing a translation of the charter given by Charles I (Separately published version of his Statistical Report) Edinburgh 1842
List of Moderators of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
Fasti ecclesiæ scoticanæ; the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation Vol V Synods of Fife and of Angus and Mearns, page 317, Edinburgh 1925
Scott, Hew
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 1638–1842, Church Law Society, Edinburgh 1843.
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The Life of James Watt: with selections from his correspondence, J. Murray, London, 1858 [10]
James Patrick Muirhead
Descendants of James and Lillias Scott Small, Genealogy of David L. Craig
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The Dundee book: an anthology of living in the city, Billy Kay, Mainstream, 1990
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Dundee in 1793 and 1833: the first and second statistical accounts
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The gazetteer of Scotland, Volume 1 By Robert Chambers, William Chambers, Jack 1844