Journal 9f His Majesty's Council of South Carolina Sent to England Oct 13 1771, in Pedens of South Carolina.
microfilm copy at the South Carolina Dept of Archives and history, Columbia SC. James Alexander's plat is noted "on the Bounty" and the subsequent land grants bears the notation "Bounty" both indication that he arrived directly directly from Ireland. This group of applicants include David Chesnut, father in law of Thomas McDill.