Person:Alexander Mebane (7)

Name	Alexander Mebane
Gender	Male
Birth`^?`	26 Nov 1716	County Down, Ireland`^{Citation needed}`
Marriage	Abt 1738	Pennsylvaniato Jane Tinnin
Alt Marriage	Abt 1740	York Co, PAto Jane Tinnin
Occupation`^?`	1751	Bladen County, North CarolinaJustice Of The Peace
Occupation`^?`	1752	Orange County, North CarolinaFirst Sheriff Of Orange County, But Quit After One Year.
Occupation`^?`	1755	Colonel In The Militia
Occupation`^?`	1757	Orange County, North CarolinaFrom 1757 and later, Justice of the Peace and Court Judge
Death^[1]	Bet 30 Apr 1789 and Feb 1793	Orange, North Carolina(will date/proved)
Alt Death`^?`	5 Nov 1792	Orange Co., NC`^{Citation needed}`

From Bill Anderson: Alexander Mebane I, moved his family from Pennsylvania to North Carolina about 1746-1748. His brother William Mebane II moved his family further west to Buffalo Creek in present-day Guilford County. In 1751, Alexander Mebane I was an Anson County justice of the peace. On 31 March 1752, when Orange County was established, he was appointed sheriff. The name Orange is a reference to William of Orange, liberator of Ulster in 1689

Hawfields Presbyterian began in 1755 in Orange, later Alamance, County. Mebane family attended. The original site is a few miles east of current site. It is near and on the south side of highway I-85. Its cemetery is the burial site of Alexander Mebane I family and James Anderson, a 4th great-grandfather. Sometime during the 1800s, farmer A. Wilson removed all tombstones and plowed over the graveyard. He was prosecuted.

In 1754 Granville granted Alexander Mebane a tract of six hundred and forty acres of land on the upper branches of the Great Alamance. A yearly rent of twenty-five shillings was agreed upon.

From "Reminiscences and memoirs of North Carolina and eminent North Carolinians Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Print. Works, 1884, 573 pgs.

Page 330 The Mebane family have been very well known and esteemed in Orange County, and its descendants have not only been distinguished in North Carolina but have pervaded Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Indiana, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas.

Colonel Alexander Mebane, the founder of the family in North Carolina, came from the North of Ireland, emigrated to America and settled in Pennsylvania, where he remained for several years. He removed to Hawfields, in Orange County, before the revolution. He was an industrious, upright man, thrifty in worldly matters, and soon acquired considerable wealth.

Under the Royal Government he received a commission as Colonel and was made a Justice of the Peace. When the revolution began he and all of his sons were decided and became active defenders of the oppressions of the Crown. On this account the British and Tories devastated his property. He was too old to be an active soldier himself, but his sons were brave and zealous defenders of the cause of independence. He had six sons: 1st William 2nd Robert, 3rd Alexander, 4th John, 5th James, 6th David.

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