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- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: James Alexander
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Bu
Birth Year: 1634
Spouse Name: Mary Maxwell
Spouse
Birth Place: Ul
Spouse Birth Year: 1634
Marriage
Year: 1650
Marriage State: Ul
Millennium File
Name: James Alexander
Spouse:
Birth Date: 1625
Birth City: Raphoe
Birth County: Ulster
Birth Country: Ireland
Death Date: 17 Nov 1704
Death City: Raphoe
Death County: Ulster
Death State: Ire
Death Country: Ireland
Children: Joseph Alexander
??Rev. James ALEXANDER was born about 1620 in Bughall, Stirling,
Scotland. He was ordained on 12 Dec 1677 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster,
Ireland. He died on 17 Nov 1704 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland.
He was married to Mary MAXWELL abt 1645 ?? in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster,
Ireland. Mary MAXWELL was born about 1628 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster,
Ireland. She died in Cecil Co., Md. Rev. James ALEXANDER and Mary
MAXWELL had the following children:
+9i.William ALEXANDER Sr. (Org 7).
+10ii.Andrew ALEXANDER (Org 7) farmer.
+11iii.Elizabeth ALEXANDER org 7.
+12iv.James B. ALEXANDER (Org 7) weaver.
+13v.Frances ALEXANDER (Org 7).
+14vi.Samuel ALEXANDER Sr. (Org 7).
+15vii.Joseph ALEXANDER (Org 7) tanner.
+16viii.Jane ALEXANDER org 7.
+17ix.John ALEXANDER (Org 7).
There are two schools of thought as to who the father of the seven
brothers and two sisters, who migrated to America in the late 1600’s,
were. Most believe that Reverend James Alexander, of the Laggan
Presbytery, and who was imprisoned in Raphoe in 1681 for calling a
fast to protest the policies of the Church of England, was the father.
His wife was Mary Maxwell.
The Abridged Virkus Vol V p 42 under Arnold: " William Alexander came
from Scotland before 1675 and settled in Somerset Co., MD where he
was an extensive trader in lands. Wife unproven. Issue as known,
William, Jr. m. to Catherine. (William known to have been in Co.
Donegal, Ireland. He named his farm Raphoe.
Ray Worth, of Mecklenburg Signers, says the Alexanders first came to
North Hampton Co., Va and then moved to Somerset Co.
James Taylor, "The Great Historic Families of Scotland", London: J.S
Virtue & Co., 1889.
"William Alexander, Earl of Stirling to John Alexander, b.c 1590,
Tarbert, Kintyre, Scotland whose children were William and seven
other sons (I have also Phillip, Robert, and John born about 1624-53).
William, son of John, had the 7 boys and 2 girls who came to Somerset.
and Cecil Co.
John Alexander b. 1603 Stirling, Scotland, son of William Alexander,
Earl o f Stirling, and Janet Erskine of Mar, married Elizabeth Graham
in 1623; son, William b. 1624 d. 1715 CecilCo., MD, emigrated to
America in 1659 to VA d. 1677 Stafford Co., VA
Norris Preyer in his book "Hezekiah and the Revolution in the
Backcountry" says that the great grandparents of the 7 brothers came
to Ireland about 1610 and one son, William, came to America about
1688. The two, James and William, are brothers and are both said to be
the ancestors of our Alexanders.
Noris W.Preyer, pg 5: " The Alexander forebears came to Raphoe,
Ireland, as tenants of Sir James Conningham, as Scottish nobelman from
Ayrshire, and settled on lands granted him in Donegal County in Laggan
district. In 1640's. William Alexander, their son, left Scotland to
seek a better life for himself in America. He first settled in on new
lands opened up in Eastersn Shore of VA, Northamptons County. In
1670 William and his children left VA and moved to Somerset Co., MD.
Norris Preyer, pg 11: " William Alexander who came to America was a
first cousin or brother to a John Jr., William, Archibald, Robert, and
Rev. Francis Alexander who remained in Donegal County.
Susie Ames states in her document that Rev. James had no heirs. The
reference is: " The Reunion of Two Virginia Counties", Journal of
Southern History, 8 Nov 1942: 536-48.
Alexander Memories: "Rev. James is said to be a probable son of
William Alexander 'of Raphoe' who is on a Hearth Roll Tax of 1662,
named in parish of Clonleigh, County Donegal.
Maryland's Heraldic Families, from: Series II of "Register of
Maryland's Heraldic Families", by Alice Norris Parran, 1938. Page 66:
"Elias Alexander, son of Andrew, (and grandson of William Sr. of
Somerset); wife, dau--of Joseph Alexander, of New Munster, and
O'Dwiretract. Issue--six sons and daughters--William 1715, m. Agnes,
his cousin. Abraham,1717-1786, m. Dorcas. Zebulon, 1720-1784, m.(first
two unnamed) 3rd. Jane McClung. Ezra, 172?-1800, m. (wife not listed.)
Arthur, d. 1763, m. Margaret McKamy. Daughter of Elias unnamed."
Maryland's Heraldic Families, pg 64 " Andrew Alexander, b.1650 was
brother of William Jr. and son of William Sr., of Somerset Co., who
bought land in Somerset Co. and had first deed of that county made to
him".
"William is a son of John Alexander of Eredy. The name Eredy closely
resembles Eradall, one of the merk lands in South Kintyre, granted by
James III in 1484 to Tarlach MacAlexander, of Tarbert. (Reg. Sig.,
lib. X., 9 ,reference). It says "Sir William Alexander of Menstry,
afterwards Earl of Stirling, maintained a correspondence with his
relatives in Kintyre....... in 1629, the original settlers included
John Alexander of Eredy; he received new titles to the land which was
chiefly appropriated to Scottish settlers. (Hill's Montgomery MSS,
p183).
Norris Preyer: "According to family tradition a group of Scotch-Irish
including a number of Alexanders came to America in the 1688 and
brought with them their minister who had come to the dock to
administer services. This company landed in Manhattan Island, New
York. Their descendants went into Pennsylvania and North Carolina
(Foote’s, Sketches of NorthCarolina. ) This was about the time that
our Alexanders did come to America. Originally from Scotland, this
family migrated to Ulster, Northern Ireland. In 1609, after the
accession of James VI of Scotland, there was a move to populate the
north of Ireland with Scot and English Protestants. The Alexanders
came to Raphoe, Ireland as tenants of Sir James Cunningham, a Scottish
nobleman from Aryshire and settled on lands in Donegal Co in the
Laggan District.
In about 1620, King James I decreed that all tenant rights were
henceforth "utterly extinguished and abolished". The large landowners
proceeded to raise their rents exorbitantly. If unable to pay they
were evicted. In 1625 James I’s son, Charles, was hostile to
Protestantism and instituted a campaign of harassment against
nonconformists. Irish ministers, who refused to conform to the Church
of England, were deposed leaving most Presbyterian congregations
without ministers in1636-1641. The terrible winter of 1639-40
destroyed Ireland’s potato crop and brought famine and death to tens
of thousands. The following year an Irish uprising started a civil
war. Thousands of Scottish Protestants died during the 1640’s and
thousands more were forced to flee Ireland."
Norris Preyer who has written a scholarly work on Hezekiah and
The Revolution in the Backcountry, quotes Susie Ames in that Rev.
James had no heirs. Preyer states that William Alexander,a cousin or
brother of Rev. James was their father and that he came to America and
was found in Northampton County, Virginia, married here and was the
father of seven sons and two daughters. Northampton is at the southern
tip of the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay. However here the
nonconformists, including William Alexander who was a Calvinist, were
prohibited from preaching either 'publicly or privately' and
Northhampton County was denied representation in the House of Burgess.
Also very heavy taxes were imposed on the Northamptoners. They
responded with a protest against these 'arbitrary and illegal' taxes.
Then in 1652 an English fleet sailed into Chesapeake Bay, deposed
Governor Berkeley and placed the colony under the control of the
Commonwealth. However, in 1660 Charles II was restored to the English
throne and Parliament began prohibiting the direct shipment of tobacco
to the continent. Sir William Berkeley returned as governor of
Virginia and nonconformist ministers were once again prohibited from
preaching and they faced banishment from the colony. But in the
neighboring colony of Maryland, Lord Baltimore had granted religious
toleration. So during the 1670’s the Alexander family moved from
Virginia and established homes in Somerset County on Maryland’s
eastern shore. Also moving from Northampton to Somerset County were
the Brevard, Davidson, Harris, McKnitt, Polk, Steele and Wallace
families. They had been in Northampton when the pledge was made to
support the Commonwealth (1652).
Upon the sites of the abandoned Indian villages, which had been
ravaged by smallpox, the Scotch-Irish settled. They and the English
Congregationalists established themselves along Manokin, Pocomoke and
Wiccomico Rivers, and English Congregationalists at the mouth of the
Annemessex. In 1680 four pastors from the Laggan Presbytery of
Donegal, Ireland were sent to them—Francis McKamie, William Traile,
Samuel Davis and Thomas Wilson. In 1689, when James II had fled to
the continent and Parliament had offered the crown to William of
Orange and his wife, Mary Stuart, who were Protestants, James and his
troups of French and Irish Catholics landed in Ireland and soon
overran Ulster. At this point, William Alexander Sr., and Jr., signed
the pledge to stand by William and Mary. (Sharf’s History of Maryland)
William Sr. was thought to have died by about 1690.(Preyer)
One Stephen Horsey lead a group of settlers from the Eastern Shore of
Virginia then called Accomac (now Accomac and Northampton Counties)
and settled between the Little and the Big Annemessex Rivers in what
is now Somerset County, Maryland between 1665 and 1670. Maryland had
made overtures to dissenters and Quakers, so they moved across the
line into Maryland. As early as 1665, some settlers named Alexander,
began to purchase land in the most southern county of the eastern
shore of Maryland, on the Annemessex and Pocomoke Rivers of
SomersetCo. Maryland. Stephen Horsey died there in 1722.
About 1675, William Alexander Sr., and Jr., were engaged in buying
and selling land there. The Reverend Francis McKemie was sent from
Barbados and established the first Presbyterian Church on American
soil. McKemie lived over the line in Accomac, Va., but his labors
included these people. Dr. Stafford states that this Alexander family
was the first group of Alexanders to settle in the United States. The
brothers, Andrew, William, Samuel, James, Francis and John Alexander
were early found in Somerset County. There is documentary proof that
all had settled in Maryland between the years 1677 and 1714. Probably
some of them were there before. (Stafford). Joseph Alexander,as well
as Brevard, Knox,, McKnitt, Polk, Wallace and Wilson families settled
at the headwaters of the Manokin River (now Princess Anne). Also on
the Manokin were the two sisters, Elizabeth, the wife of Matthew
Wallace asurveyor who had helped lay out the boundaries of Somerset,
and Jane, married to John McKnitt, a farmer whose land was named
Glasgow after his ancestral Scottish home. Joseph Alexander married
Abigail McKnitt.. William Alexander Jr. married Catherine Wallace.
James married Mary Steele.
Tobacco, the chief cash crop quickly exhausted the sandy soil
ofthe Eastern Shore and Somerset was isolated from major market
routes. In 1683, Joseph Alexander took out a warrant in his and son,
James’, name for a tract in Cecil County known as New Munster. His
brother-in-law, Matthew Wallace and brother, James Alexander, also
purchased land warrants in New Munster at about this same
time.(Preyer)
In 1680, George Talbot, cousin of the third Lord Baltimore, was
granted a large tract of land which lay between the Delaware and
Susquehanna Rivers, and known as Susquehanna Manor. He later
christened this land 'New Connaught', which is now Cecil County. In
1683, George Talbot issued the following certificate 'Surveyed for
Edwin O’Dwire and 15 other Irishmen'. We are not sure exactly when
the Alexanders departed but probably around 1700. John McKnitt whose
wife, Jane, had died, John Brevard, Andrew and Samuel left Somerset
around1701. Somerset records state that in March of 1707, Matthew
Wallace departed to 'the woods at the head of the Bay'. This land lay
in the northeastern corner of Maryland next to the Pennsylvania border
and a mile west of the Delaware line. Corn, barley, oats and flax
were grown for the family’s own needs and tobacco and wheat were the
money crops.The sons also learned 'trades'. Joseph and son, James,
were tanners. James and son, David, were weavers. John McKnitt was a
shoe-maker. Others were known as farmers, carpenters, etc. Joseph’s
son, James, married Margaret McKnitt, daughter of John and second
wife, Jane Wallace.
In the year 1714, James Stephenson, gentleman of Buck’s Co.,
Pennsylvania appointed John McKnitt of Back Creek, Cecil Co. MD, his
attorney to sell a tract of land in the northeast corner of Cecil Co.,
called 'New Munster'. This tract of some 6000 acres began where the
Shure Creek enters the Big Elk and with a breadth of two miles and
North six miles up the Elk river until it entered some distance
withint he present Pennsylvania line in Chester Co., PA. Edward
Odine had first patented these lands from King Charles and Odine sold
them to Daniel Taos. Daniel Taos willed them to his son, John, and he,
having run into debt to Robert Roberts, the colonial Legislature
granted 4500 acres to Roberts to satisfy his claim against Taos who
had absconded. Robert Roberts then sold 407 acres to Daniel Pearce of
Kent Co for 6000 pounds of tobacco, deed for which is dated the 4th of
Sept. 1713. This 407 acres was located in the southwest corner of New
Munster and contained the site of the mill near the mouth of the Shure
now owned by Howard Scott. Roberts also sold to Thomas Stephenson, of
Bucks County, PA, nearly three thousand acres of the same tract, a
large part of which was east of the Big Elk for the sum of ¹300
current money of Maryland. The deed from Roberts to Stephenson is
dated 1 April 1714.
On the 8th day of May, following, Stephenson sold the tract on the
east side of the Big Elk containing upwards of 1100 acres, through
John McKnitt, to a company consisting of James Alexander, farmer,
Arthur Alexander, farmer, David and James Alexander, weavers, Joseph
Alexander, tanner and son, James, and Mathias (Matthew) Wallace. It
was noted that they had already worked the land for some years so
their settlement was prior to 1714. Johnston states that there is no
doubt that these were part of the '15 other Irishmen' mentioned in the
certificate of survey and that they located upon New Munster many
years prior to the time at which they obtained the deed to their
farms.
In accordance with a covenant that the grantor Stephenson would make
them another and and better deed if they demanded it any time during
the next seven years after the date of the first deed.
By eight deeds, each of which is dated August 15th 1718 (recorded in
Cecil co. Deedbook 3), Stephenson re-conveyed his interest in nine
hundred and three acres of the New Munster tract to Joseph, James,
David, Arthur, Elijah( Elias?) and Mary Alexander, widow of James the
farmer/carpenter, who had died in 1717 and was son of Samuel. Also,
John Gillespie and Mathias Wallace Jr. received deeds. This land
conveyed to the Alexanders embraced the northeast part of the New
Munster tract and extended from a short distance north of Cowantown to
the extreme northern boundary of New Munster, which was about a mile
north of the State line and was located by Mason and Dixon fifty years
afterward. It was bounded on the west by the Big Elk and the west
branch of Christiana flowed through it for about a mile near the NE
corner of that part of it that is now in Maryland.
James, the farmer, was located south toward the Elk; Arthur was east
of James toward the Christiana; David was north of both James and
Arthur; James, the weaver, and son, Moses, were north of David; Elias
east ofJames and Moses. Near these, John Alexander bought land in
1718. Afterwards others of the same name came and settled along the
borders of Pennsylvania and Maryland from Munster to Nottingham.
(Arthur may be another son of James the weaver). In 1718 Stephenson
gave them individually deeds to each one for that part on which they
had settled and improved. These lands lay on the east side of the Elk
and between that river and Christiana Creek and were close to the
borders of Pennsylvania and Delaware. James with son, Moses, and
James’s son, David, lived in an area, which became known as Milford
Hundred.
Samuel Alexander with sons, Andrew and Francis, bought lands in 1723
in the southern part of Cecil County called 'Sligo' and 'Alexandria'
tracts. In the same year Samuel and others bought a lot of land for a
Presbyterian Church in Bohemia in the same county. In the same year,
Robert Alexander, from the city of Glasgow, Scotland, then a merchant
of Annapolis, had lands in the same part of Cecil Co., which in 1723
he left to his cousin, William Alexander of North Britain, (Scotland).
This William became a large landholder in the vicinity of Elkton, MD.
In 1741 he and Araminta, his wife, deeded a lot in Elkton for the
erection of the first Presbyterian Church in that town. His lands
descended to a second Robert who went off to England at the
Revolutionary war and never returned. His lands were confiscated, but
after the war one-third and one-half his Negroes were restored to his
wife, Isabel, and his six children, William, Lawson, Araminta, Henry,
Andrew and Robert."
From "The History of Cecil County", by George Johnston, we learn that
in 1723 many of the inhabitants of Milford Hundred which then embraced
the northeastern part of the county, petitioned the court for a road
from the New Munster road at David Alexander’s, across the main fresh
of Elk River at Stephen Hollingsworth’s mill (which was the mill on
Big Elk west of Cowantown.) to the church at North East. A few months
afterwards, they presented another petition stating that the road was
difficult, dangerous and troublesome to maintain by reason of crossing
the east branch of North East twice and that it was only intended for
a bridle path and that a cart road was much needed and might be made
by a much nearer route, etc.
An interesting find in Chapter XIII of Francis Cooch’s, "Little Known
History of Newark, Delaware and it’s Environs" (pub. 1936) is mention
of 'The Seven Stars' Tavern and Inn, found in the community of
Appleton, called 'Dysart’s' as far back as 1792 and later 'Fox Chase'.
The section of the county in which it is located was not then known as
the Fourth or Fair Hill District, but as North Milford Hundred by
1770. This area, which was part of New Munster, is located in the
northeast corner of Cecil Co, about three miles west of Newark and two
miles south of the Mason and Dixon line and at the intersection of the
Old Nottingham road, later the Telegraph road and the road leading
from Elk Landing to New London and points north. This old building,
which when Cooch wrote the book, was still standing and thought to be
over 200 years old. This inn was at the intersection of two important
routes of travel where farmers could haul their excess grain and other
crops south to tidewater Elkton for shipment to Baltimore. Cooch
traced the title of the property from Edwin O’Dwire down to Catherine
Dysart. He states that one of the New Munster claimants was David
Alexander, weaver, who obtained a deed for about 152 acres, 95perches.
David Alexander, dying left the property to his children ,Aaron and
Ann Alexander, who, on March 18 1750/51, conveyed the same to William
Langwill whose daughter, Margaret Dysart, inherited. In 1820 she
conveyed the property to her children, Catherine and Levi Dysart..The
farm today includes the original acreage.
At the present time (1936) it is said the farm with the Inn contains
about 150 acres or just about the same acreage conveyed by Thomas
Stephenson to David Alexander in 1714, but I am told that at one time,
through various other purchases, the tract included 300 acres and
stretched west on both sides of the Nottingham road all the way to the
Big Elk Creek.”
Of the original Alexanders of the New Munster purchase, David sold to
John Alexander of Chester Co., PA. David himself removed to Chester
Co. and died there about 1740, after which his widow (thought to by an
Anne or Susannah) married a Mr. Dobins and removed with her husband to
the Cape Fear River., NC, where her daughter, Anne Alexander, married
Gilbert Clark, the first elder of the Frst Presbyterian Church which
was gathered in that region under the ministry of the Rev. Mr.
Campbell in 1765. Several other Alexander families removed from
Chester County to North Carolina with Dobins and his wife and settled
in Mecklenburg County. This was in 1749. David Alexander’s son, Aaron,
removed from the Munster settlement and settled in Sherman’s Valley,
PA in 1748. (Stafford and History of John Alexander and Margaret
Glassen) This Aaron later died in Mecklenburg, NC in 1771.
The families of James Alexander, son of Joseph, James and his sons
including David Alexander
attended the services at the Head of Christiana Presbyterian Church,
located just over the Delaware line. Their pastor, The Reverend George
Gillespie, had come to Christiana in 1712 and would serve there and
the White Clay Creek Church until 1760.
The opening statement in the record of the Christina Church Presbytery
of New Castle in 1717, among those present are named (Mr.)George
Gillespie, minister of, and John Steel elder from ChristianaCreek.
David and his father, James, must have both attended Head of
Christiana, although the James Alexander named as elder there in 1715
is thought to be son of Joseph. From a booklet on Head of Christiana
Church, we learn that early elders in the church were:John
Garner—1707, John Steel—1711, Andrew Wallace—1726 and David
Alexander—1726. Other names of interest, connected with the
Alexanders, are Whites, Samples, Kerrs, and Montgomerys. The meeting
house was built on land that belonged to John Steel, an Irishman
(Scotch-Irish?) who was in Philadelphia in 1711. George Gillespie was
ordained in May 28 1713. In March of 1713 James Steel, son of John
Steel (who apparently died atthis time), leased to the elders of this
church two acres and four perches of land. The elders then were Samuel
Johnson and John Cross of New Castle Co., Del, Alexander White and
William Semple (Sample) of Chester Co., PA, and David Alexander and
Andrew Wallace of Cecil Co.MD. The consideration was an annual payment
of six pence if demanded. David Alexander signed the petitition,
which 88 inhabitants of Cecil Co. signed, and which was sent to the
Assembly and by them referred to the 'Committee of Aggrievances' on 11
Oct 1725 (Meck. Hist. Soc. ,Baltimore). This elder John Steel, who
died by 1713, may have been a brother to Mary Steel, wife of James the
weaver. Mary may have died in Somerset as there is no mention of her
in the 1714 or 1718 deeds.
An interesting note concerning this family. John Garner, the first
elder of this church made a will on March 7th 1723/4, Probated 22 Oct
1725 leaving ¹40 to George Gillespie (the minister?) his entire estate
to Joseph Steel during his life-time, failing issue to pass as
follows: Margaret Steel, ¹40, children of George Gillespie, ¹40,
children of James Steel ¹40, children of James Alexander by Mary Steel
¹40. Exec: Joseph and James Steel Test: James Alexander, John Steel,
Moses Alexander. Perhaps Joseph Steel married a sister of John
Garner.. Apparently Joseph, Margaret, Mary, wife of James, and James
Steel were siblings. This James Alexander mentioned in the Will is
believed to be our James, the weaver, who had a son named Moses as
well as David and James Jr. Note that the witnesses were John Steel,
probably grandfather of the Steel heirs. Perhaps Mary, wife of James
Alexander, weaver, was a sister to the elder John Steel. Mary Steele
was said to have been born in Raphoe about 1650 and married about
1670. She is thought to have died by 1714 when James bought land with
son, Moses.
David Alexander’s estimated birth was about 1680, most likely in
Somerset Co., MD. He is said to have married an Anne or Susannah (One
source says she was born about 1685 and same source says in Lancaster
Co., PA —however, David was in Cecil Co. by 1720) David’s children
were: Anne born about 1721 in Cecil Co., MD , James who married an
Elizabeth, David, Ezekiel, William who married Rebecca Brown, andJohn.
(children David and John are speculative).
(From: Dr. Stafford’s “Alexander Notebooks”)
David is said to have died soon after 1740, as his son and heir,
Aaron, began disposing of his father’s property in 1749. About 1746,
the widow of David Alexander married John Dobbin in Pennsylvania. For
a time they resided near Winchester, VA, and then went to Carolina.
They settled on the Cape Fear River. Ann Alexander, daughter of
deceased, David, and stepdaughter of John Dobbin, married Gilbert, son
of Alexander Clark. (NC Colonial Records Vol. 5 pg. 1197).
In 1724 David Alexander patented a tract of land in Cecil Co. called
'David’s Purchase', the certificate of survey being numbered 75. (Land
office, Annapolis)
Besides children named Aaron, William and Anne, Ezekiel andJames it is
thought that there were sons named David, John and maybe Arthur. A
David Alexander was found in Pequea, Lancaster Co., PA, Will dated
1741, and a John Alexander in Martick Twp, Lancaster Co., PA, in1763.
Aaron the oldest son was probably born in Cecil Co., MD, his Will, of
15 Nov 1771 in Mecklenburg, mentions his brother William. He received
a warrant for 1100 acres of land in Lancaster Co., PA, on 26 April
1742 (Pa. Arc. Vol. 24 S 3).
On 15 Nov 1749, Aaron Alexander, farmer, of Lancaster Co., PA, deeded
John Alexander of Twp. of New Brittain, Chester Co., PA, part of a
tract called New Munster which did formerly belong to David Alexander
of Cecil Co., MD; Zebulon Alexander was witness. On the same date
Aaron gave his well beloved and trusted friend, James Alexander, of
Province of MD, farmer, a power of attorney to complete the above
sale 11 Dec 1751. (This is probably James, son of Joseph).
Aaron Alexander, of the township of Petersburgh, Cumberland Co.,
deeded William Longwill, merchant, of Cecil Co., a tract in New
Munster which came from his father David Alexander who bought it from
ThomasStevenson.—(this is the tract that the Seven Stars was
eventually built on). Signed by Aaron and Ann.
On the same date, Aaron constituted Moses Alexander of Milford
Hundred, Cecil Co., MD. his attorney for the completion of this sale.
(This must be his uncle or cousin, Moses).
(Cecil Co. a7-270), Aaron is doubtless selling his land preparatory to
removing to North Carolina. Aaron is found there in early 1750’s.
Aaron bought land in Coddle Creek and English BuffaloCreek from Gov.
and Justina Dobbs 22 Dec 1763. His will was proved April 1772. It
names his wife, Mary son David, son Aaron b. 1735 mother was Ann, d.
Nov 2 1803 wf was Eleanor Price. He was elder at Rocky River Church
and Poplar Tent; and son, John Brown Alexander, b1765, mother was Jean
B. Ross, a widow. He married Barbara King of Scotland. Aaron Sr.’s
second wife was named Jean.
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