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Facts and Events
Records in Frederick County, VA
- Alexander Stephen as collector of quitrents in Frederick County, dated 24 September 1767; Box: 1 Folder: 27
Information on Alexander Stephen
Lt. in the Royal Americans/ Cmdr. Sir Geoffrey Amhurst
From "The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography", Volume 7 By Historical Society of Pennsylvania, pg. 236:
- Alexander Stephen (vol. iii, pg. 237) was a brother of Adam Stephen. The following obituary notice of him appears in the "Pennsylvania Gazette", May 19, 1768: "On the eight instand died in Frederick County, Virginia, Captain Alexander Stephen, late an Officer of this Majesty's Royal American Regiment. He was a Gentleman of Integrity and Bravery. In General Braddock's Engagement he rescued the Colours of the 44th Regiment from the Enemy, after the fall of Mr. Halket, and received two wounds in the action. He distinguished himself at the Reduction of Louisbourg and Quebec; and under the command of General Murray, on the Heights of Abraham, the famous 28 of April, in which Engagement he received a dangerous Wound of which he never perfectly recovered."
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