Name: Alexander McIlvaine
Birth Place: Scotland
Death Date: 1807
Death Place: Crum Creek, Delaware
SAR Membership: 53349
Role: Ancestor
Application Date: 9 Mar 1934
Children: Devid M McIlvaine
[Extracted from record] - Three brothers came to America 1740: William settled in Philadelphia, John on Crum Creek in Ridley, Delaware County west of Philadelphia, and Alexander near Lewes Delaware. Alexander McILvain's name appears on an Independanet company of foot soldiers muster roll in service of the U.S. REVOLUTIONARY WAR raised for the safeguard of pilots and the property of citizens and protection of the city of Lewes on the Delaware Bay; promoted to corporal in Captain Peery's Company; enlisted on this date