Person:John Alexander (133)

Notes

• some say he was born in PA, near the MD line
• he was a tailor
• John McKnitt Alexander was one of the signers of The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, which some have claimed pre-dated the United States Declaration of Independence by over a year, but this claim has been disputed by several historians.

1. ↑ 8579651 , in Find A Grave
   includes photos, last accessed Dec 2022.
2. ↑ Hezekiah and Mary Alexander at Home in Handsome House, in Charlotte, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, United States. The Charlotte Observer. (Charlotte, North Carolina)
   page 4, pretends to be 20 May 1775.

   Scans of this pretend interview with Hezekiah Alexander can be found on the Find a Grave site of Hezekiah Alexander, with a close-up of the names and dates of the children on the Find A Grave site of James Robert “The Yeoman” Alexander.
   
   "Hezekiah" doesn't give his own birth date, but he provides the following for his siblings:
   
   Children of Margaret (McKnitt) Alexander:
   Theophilus, born March, 1714, died in 1768
   Jemima, born November 10, 1716, died early
   Edith, born Jan. 10, 1718
   Kezia, born May 9, 1720
   Ezekiel, born June 17, 1725, died young
   Jemima (second by that name) born Jan. 9, 1727, still living
   Amos, born Jan. 13, 1728 and still living
   John Knitt [sic], born June 6, 1733, still living
   Margaret, born June 6, 1736, died young
   
   Children of Abigail Alexander (claimed in this article to be the younger sister of Margaret McKnitt):
   Elizabeth, born Nov. 17, 1746
   Abigail, born May 24, 1748
   Margaret, born April 30, 1750 and named in memory of Margaret (McKnitt) Alexander
   Josiah, born Aug. 3, 1752
   Ezekiel, born Oct. 21, 1754