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 In spite of all the speculation, James Alexander of Rapahoe and his wife Marian (Shaw) Alexander are NOT the parents of any Alexanders who migrated to the Virginia or Maryland Colonies of North America. They both died without children.[5]
References
- Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source)
Ancestry Family Trees.
http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=7389603&pid=-1090811453
Private Tree by copperhead50
James Alexander
Born: 1634 in Raphoe, Ulster, Donegal, Ireland
2 attached records, 3 sources
(as of 28 Nov 2019)
- Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania)
Vol. 16, Page 85, 86, article by Preyer.
“Seven Alexander brothers, Presbyterians from Scotland came from Northern Ireland to Somerset County, Maryland, later to Cecil County. Circumstantial evidence shows they came with two sisters. One was Elisabeth, wife of Matthew Wallace and the other named Jane was the wife of John McKnitt.”
“William, Andrew, Samuel, John, James, Francis, and Joseph Alexander all lived in Somerset and Cecil Counties.” Believed to be sons of the Rev. James Alexander, of Laggan Presbytery in Rapoe.
- Ingram, Mrs. Benjamin W. , in Daughters of the American Revolution. American monthly magazine. (Washington, D.C.: The National Society)
Vol. 86 (1952), Page 311 to 315.
“The Six Alexanders who Signed the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence”
“The DAR accepts that the Rev. James Alexander (1620-1704) was the father of the Seven sons and two Daughters.
See also Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
- Alexander Genealogy, in Website: McCreight Family and Related Families.
Alexander, John,b. 1603 in Tarbert, Kintyre, Scotland, d. 1666 in Stafford County, Virginia
father of
Alexander, Rev. James, b. 1620, Bughall, Stirlingshire, Scotland, d. 1704, Rapahoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland; lm. Mary Maxwell, b. 1630, Rapahoe
father of Alexander, W, b. 1670, Rapahoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland, d. 1715, Cecil, Maryland; m. Anne Liston
NOTE: no documentation
- ↑ Rogers, Charles. Memorials of the Earl of Stirling and of the house of Alexander. (Edinburgh: W. Paterson, 1877)
Vol. II.
pp. 94-95
William Alexander, probable father of James Alexander of Rapahoe Parish, was on the 1662 Hearth Tax in the parish of Clonleigh, County Donegal; in roll of 1665 he is in Rapahoe Parish;
James Alexander was minister in Rapahoe Parish from 1671 to 1704. In 1681, he, with William Trail, Robert Cambell, John Hart, were subjected to persecution . . . . in August 1681 they were found guilty of injury to the Episcopal Church and imprisoned at Lifford for 8 month.
James Alexander died 17 Nov 1704. He died without issue. Will dated 13 Mar 1702 name Marion Shaw, his wife, executor and sole legatee. She died 1711 in Rapahoe, name Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of her brother, as her legatee.
- Parran, Alice Norris. Register of Maryland's heraldic families: period from 1634, March 25th to March 25th, l935, tercentenary of the founding of Maryland. (Baltimore, Md.: Printed by H.G. Roebuck & Son, cl935-c1938).
This data begins at Connecticut Chead Chath of the Hundred Battles, and continues on down chronologically through t he line as it is well known and established--joins the line of Bruce, on down... Margaret m. John
Does not include either James Alexander of Donegal or James Alexander of Stirlingshire
- Stafford, Alvah M. and Evelyn Alexander Stafford. Alexander Papers. 400 pages of material is found only in the Carolina room of the.
pg. 3. The Alexander Pioneers who settled in Somerset County, Maryland were Andrew, William Sr. Samuel, James, Francis andJohn.--others of the name who may also be considered as of the firstgeneration. These were among the original grantees of land i
- Butterworth, Frances Alexander. Records of a family of the House of Alexander : from 1640 to 1909. (United States: s.n., 19--).
Descendents of William Alexander, Somerset & Cecil Co.MD
- [hjackwells34.FTW].
REV. James Alexander, a member of the Laggan Presbytery in Raphoe was imprisoned there in 1680, which may have induced the brothers to flee to America. James Alexander, the Reverend and wife Mary Maxwell. He died about1704?, brother or cousin to William Alexander who was the father of the seven brothers and two sisters who came to America.
There is a well established tradition that seven Alexander brothers, Presbyterians from Scotland who had sojourned a while in the north of Ireland, probably at Raphoe, County Donegal, and Sligo, Co., came to Somerset County, Maryland before going on to Cecil County, Maryland. If we may judge from the circumstantial evidence remaining, then along with the brothers came two sisters:
one, the wife of Matthew Wallace;
the other Jane,who married John McKnitt.
In Somerset, at early dates, we find William, Andrew, Samuel, and John Alexander, and
In Cecil County James, Francis, Joseph, and the afore-mentioned Samuel Alexander.
I hazard a guess that they were sons of the Reverend James Alexander, of Raphoe, a member of Laggan Presbytery in 1680, who's ministerial brethern then in northern Ireland included:
David Brown, of Urney,
William Traile, of Lifford,
Thomas Wilson, of Killybegs, and
William Liston, of Letterkenny,
I name these because one David Brown became an important civic-minded Presbyterian leader in Somerset: because William Traile and Thomas Wilson soon joined Francis Makemie, "father of organized Presbyterianism in America", in his labor in Somerset, and because William Alexander, Sr., of Somerset, had a grandson named for William Liston. At first in Somerset and later in Cecil, we find Matthew Wallace and John McKnitt.
In the records of "The General Synod of Ulster" (a copy of these records in three volumes is in the library of the Presbyterian Historical Society, Witherspoon Bldg., Philadelphia.] James Alexander and William Liston, of Raphoe, are noted as absent from the meetings in 1691,1692, and 1694, after which Liston's name appears no more; but James were accepted , and finally his death on 17 November 1704 was minuted [Opus cit,vol I,96].
How early he became a member of Laggan Presbytery I do not know.
For convenience in identification of his sons and daughters, let us assume that they were born in the following order and about the year named:
William, 1646,
Andrew, 1648,
Elizabeth, 1650,
James, 1652,
Francis, 1654,
Samuel, 1657,
Joseph, 1660,
John, 1662,
Jane, 1665.
Brevard Family D
Rev.James Alexander (1634 - 1704 Possibly Immigrant from Ireland m. Mary Maxwell. Rev. James was born in Bughall Scotland. He went to County Donegal, in (what is now) Northern Ireland, and settled (probably) in Raphoe. He was active in the Laggan Presbytery there. His seven sons and two daughters left Ireland for America in the ship "Welcome", landed in 21 Sep 1670. Rev. James and his wife are presumed to have remained in Ireland. Their children settled in Somerset and later in Cecil County Maryland, some of them going to the New Munster Tract in the extreme northern part of Cecil County (in fact part of New Munster was north of the persent Maryland - Pennsylvania boundary) and others settling to the south, still in Cecil County, near the western terminus of the present Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.
Alexander Pioneers
Reverand James Alexander. He was a minister of the CONVOY Congregation, County Donegal Ireland, from 1678 to his death in 1704. It is believed he was first a minister of Raphoe congregation County Donegal, for a time between 1640 and 1678. Both congregations are in the Raphoe Presbytery. Laggan Presbytery. The Alexander family of New Munster were originally settled in Scotland. About the time of James I they, together with a large number of Presbyterians, migrated to Ireland and settled in Ulster. During the latter part of the seventeenth century, several Alexanders migrated to America and settled in Cecil and Somreset Co., Maryland.
- MacAlister of The Clan MacAlister "MACALEXANDERS IN ULSTER IRELAND AROUND 1613".
John Alexander born about 1585-90 (is thought to be a son of Archibald, (Laird of Tarbert in 1631) is found in 1613 as a tenant on land of James Cunningham, His portion of land is called "Eredy". It has been suggested that he changed his name to Alexander so as to receive land in Ulster which was only apportioned to Lowland Scots as well as English subjects. Most material states that this John of Eredy came from The Kintyre Peninsula rather than from Menstrie, Stirling, Scotland. His second son was named Archibald.
Probable Sons of John of Eredy
Robert(1),
ARCHIBALD(2) ,
John(3),
WILLIAM(4), AND
ANDREW DD(5), are named as sons of John of Eredy.
In The 1630 Muster Rolls of Donegal, Raphoe Parish are found: Robert, and two Arch's as well as a Ranald MacAlexander on lands of their own, and two John's still on James Cunningham's land. We assume one John is The son of The other. The lines of Archibald and John (Junior) have been traced. Andrew DD's line is known as The Alexanders of Antrim. Rev. James Alexander who died 1704 leaving only to wife Mariam Shaw. She left only to a niece) is said to have been The son of John Junior, son of John(3). Archibald(2) an elder in Taghboyne, married Elizabeth MacKay. Their son William fathered Archibald who went to America in 1736 and married Margaret Parkes and 2nd Marg. McClure in 1757. Son William(4) is thought to be father of seven sons.
William Alexander of Eredy was born between AD 1614 and AD 1620 in Kildare, Ire. ( The Ulster Plantation ). He was married about 1643 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ire Ulster
AUTH Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland
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