Name: Alexander McCook Craighead
SAR Membership: 50692
Birth Date: 30 Oct 1893
Birth Place: Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio
Father: Charles Anderson Craighead
Mother: Kathleen McCook
Patriot from whom he was descended: Jonathan Phillips of New Jersey
Line of descendancy:
Philip Phillips
Patriot Jonathan Phillips m. Mary Foreman
Horatio Gates Phillips m. Eliza Smith Houston
Jonathan Dickenson Phillips m. Lucianna Ziegler Greene
Kate Phillips m. Alexander McDowell McCook
Kathleen McCook m. Charles Anderson Craighead
Alexander McCook Craighead was the member
from the application:
about Jonathan Phillips:
Commissioned Lieutenant November 20, 1775, Captain December 1 1777. Served until April 1783. He was with Schuyler's expedition in Canada with General Gates in campaign around Lake Champlaine. He was in the battle of Monmouth and Trenton and at the capture of Princeton and was with General Washington at the Surrender of Cornwallis.
History of New Jersey
Heitman's Register of the Continental Army page 327, 1914 edition page 440
Stryker's Officers and Men in the Revolution, page 404.
He was also an original member of the "Society of the Cincinnatius" from New Jersey.
