Person:John Alexander (59)

1. Event: Alt. Birth Alt. Birth 1603 Berwickshire, Scotland (?) 9 8 10
2. Event: Alt. Death Alt. Death Abt 1641 Eridy, Donegal County, Ireland

"John Alexander was an original settler of County Donegal, Ireland. He was born circa 1590 and believed to have descended from The House of MacAlexander in Tarbert, Kintyre, W. Scotland. He settled at Eredy, near Raphoe, Ireland. He had four sons, Robert, Andrew, Archibald and William and several more unknown.

[alexander8.FTW] [alexander7.FTW] Jim and Sylvia Gidley--gidleyjs@erols.com (This goes back to Aug. 1997) sent me a line of descent of John Alexander b. 1590 in Scotland.
Robert Alex b.1610 in Stirling Scotland; d. in Drumquin, Tyrone, Ireland
Rev. James b. c. 1635 in Scotland or Ireland, d. Nov 17 1704 in Donegal, Ireland
then on down with the 7 brothers starting with
William, b. 1646 in Raphoe, Ireland d. 1715 in New Munster, Cecil Co., Maryland.
She has Mary Maxwell as second wife of Rev. James. She was born about 1635 in England (county unknown); m. in England (county unknown) with sons Andrew Alexander b. c. 1612 and Archibald b. 1614, d. 31 March 1689 in Belleghan, Donegal, Ireland; married to Elizabeth McKay, b. 1637 in Ireland or Scotland d. 30 Jan 1714/15.

Records of Descendants of John Alexander of Lanarkshire, Scotland
(Appendix pg 202 to 206)
The Alexanders of Munster and Mecklenburg
In the year 1714 James Stephenson, gent., of Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, appointed John McKnitt of Back Creed, Cecil Co., Maryland, his attorney to sell a tract of land in the N.E. corner of Cecil Co., called "New Munster". This tract of 8000 acres commenced where the Sure Creek enters the Big Elk, and with a breadth of two miles ran North six miles up the Elk river until it entered some distance within the present Pennsylvania line, in Chester county.
Edward Odine had first patented these lands from King Charles and Odine sold them to David Taos; David 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.
Finally Roberts in 1714, sold these 4500 acres to Stephenson, and he, in the same year, through John McKnitt sold about 2000 acres to a company consisting of James Alexander,farmer; Arthur Alexander, farmer; David and James Alexander, weavers; Joseph Alexander, tanner, and his son James; Elias and Arthur Alexander and William Wallace.
The reason assigned by Stephenson for selling to these persons was that they had already settled and improved thereon *(the information here given is collected from the Records of Cecil Co., MD.; Foots's Sketches of North Carolina; Wheeler's History of N.C., &c.) Their settlement must therefore have been sometime prior to 1714. Four years after the purchase Stephenson gave them individually deeds, to each one for that part on which he had settled and improved. These lands lay on the East side of the Elk and between that river and Cristiana Creek and were close to the borders of Pennsylvania and Delaware. The relative positions of their settlements were these:
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 his son Moses were north of David;
Elias east of James 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.
Also Samuel Alexander, with his sons Andrew and Francis, bought lands in1723 in southrn 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 (1723) Robert Alexander, from the city of Glasgow, Scotland, then a merchant of Annapolis, had lands in the same part of Cecil county, which in 1737 he left to his cousin, William Alexander, of "North Britain" (Scotland). This William became a large land-holder in the vicinity of Elkton, Maryland. 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 to England at the Revolutionary war and never returned. His lands wereconfiscated, but after the war one-third of them, together with one-half of his negroes, were restored to his wife Isab[ella].

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1. Abbrev: 1753738.FTW

Title: 1753738.FTW

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Text: Date of Import: May 16, 2003

2. Abbrev: Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families 1634 to Mar 25th 1935 Series II

Title: Register of Maryland's Heraldic Families 1634 to Mar 25th 1935 Series II

Author: Alice Norris Parran

Publication: H.G. Roebuck and Sons Baltimore, MD 1935

Page: Page 58

Quality: 3

3. Abbrev: Scotts Peerage

Title: Scotts Peerage

Publication: Scotts Peerage

Note: TEXT Scotts Peerage

SUMMARY OF ROYAL LINE OF ALEXANDER

John, Lord of the Isles m. to Margaret

Alexander, Lord of Lochaser

Mac Alexander--real founder of House of Alexander

Thomas Alexander mentioned as Baron of Menstrie in Mar. 6 1505

Andrew Alexand

4. Abbrev: based on "The Complete Peerage from Lee Parker

Title: based on "The Complete Peerage from Lee Parker

Note: TITL based on "The Complete Peerage from Lee Parker

Lee Parker lparker@cacaphony.net

3796 Emm TEXT Alexander Alexander and the title of Earl of Stirling. (L Parker)

William Alexander of Menstrie, in Logie, county Clackmannan

5. Abbrev: Helen Smith, 908 Wooded Crest,

Title: Helen Smith, 908 Wooded Crest,

Note: TITL Helen Smith, 908 Wooded Crest, Waco, Texas,0A76712 < HelenSm@aol.com>TEXT FROM MARYLAND TO MECKLENBURG AND WEST TO TEXAS

The story of my Alexander family

See William Alexander b 1625 d 1715 Cecili Co Maryland

6. Abbrev: Memorials of the Earl of Stirling and the House of Alexande

Title: Memorials of the Earl of Stirling and the House of Alexande

Author: Rev. Charles Rogers, L.L.D, 1877, Edinburgh

Note: TEXT "Memorials of the Earl of Stirling and the House of Alexander" by Rev.Charles Rogers, L.L.D, 1877, Edinburgh, referring to Raphoe, Donnegal, Ulster, Ireland, looking for him.

I found a Rev. James Alexander "at Raphoe", who was a Presbyterian minister the ....

7. Abbrev: alexander7.FTW

Title: alexander7.FTW

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8. Abbrev: alexander8.FTW

Title: alexander8.FTW

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9. Abbrev: Alexander to Godfrey.FTW

Title: Alexander to Godfrey.FTW

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10. Abbrev: 739490.FTW

Title: 739490.FTW

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11. Abbrev: Dorothy Lee Annestedt Busby { Nhtngale@aol.com }

Title: Dorothy Lee Annestedt Busby { Nhtngale@aol.com }

Note: TITL Dorothy Lee Annestedt Busby { Nhtngale@aol.com }

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 From: Nhtngale@aol.com

To: ALEXANDER-L@rootswe

12. Abbrev: J. P. Helton; ALEXANDER OF MENSTRY From "Burke's Irish Family Records" 1976 Edition

Title: J. P. Helton; ALEXANDER OF MENSTRY From "Burke's Irish Family Records" 1976 Edition

Author: Excerpt provided by J. P. Helton of Chattanooga

Note: TITL J. P. Helton; ALEXANDER OF MENSTRY From "Burke's Irish Family Records" 1976 Edition

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Note: TITL Robert Duggan jr. --rduggan@ieee.or g--http//pages.prodigy.com/dugganTEXT He sent me the line from William Alexander, Earl of Stirling to JohnAlexander, b. c 1590, Tarbert, Kintyre, Scotland, whose children were W....

14. Abbrev: CCmiller Charles C Miller

Title: CCmiller Charles C Miller

Note: TITL CCmiller Charles C Miller

Date Wed, 19 Aug 1998

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