Person:Theophilus Alexander (1)

Theophilus Alexander

• Cecil County MD Deed Bk 9 p. 477

March 1767 Theophilus Alexander of Cecil County in Maryland and Moses Scott of Chester County Pennsylvania, Executor of William Fergusen, deceased of the one part to William Gillespie of Cecil County, Cooper of the other part. Witnesseth that Thomas Weir by his indenture bearing date 1 December 1752 did sell and convey unto the afs’d William Ferguson one part of a Tract of Land lying and being in Cecil County and a part of a Tract of Land called New Munster being part of nine hundred and three Acres formerly purchased of Arthur Alexander from Thomas Stevenson as may appear by Deed bearing date 15 Aug 1718 and whereas the said William Ferguson did by his last will and Testament bearing date 19 Oct 1750 authorize and impower the said Theophlius Alexander and Moses Scott to convey his Lands and Tenements… therefore they do grant bargain and sell for the sum of Sixty four Pounds fifteen shillings and six Pence Current Money of Pennsylvania in hand paid by William Gillespie the above mentioned tract bounded as follows

Beginning at a Corner marked Pisimin Tree and is a Corner of Robert Curry’s Land ... to a Stake near John Alexander’s Barn thence West sixty eight Perches to a Stake thence by a Streight Line to the aforesaid Beginning containing by estimation fifty acres and one half be the same more or less.

(signed) Theophilas Alexander and Moses Scott.

Wits: James Fryer and Geo. Lawson.

Recorded 26 June 1762

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 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