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About Alexander Frazier, II
Alexander Frazier and Catherine Glenndunning, of Scotland, their son Alexander Frazier, born about 1685 in Scotland, migrated to America. He married Sarah Coppock 1715-16 in West Kennett, PA at the "Quaker Monthly Meeting". She was
also born in Scotland. Some of their children migrated to Randolph, Rowan and Guilford Counties,NC, then on to Virginia.
Notes for Alexander FRAZIER II Note: Alexander Jr. was an Ulster Scot, and the first to emigrate to America sometime before 1706. The earliest record found for him was a land deed in Kennett Township dated 12 Nov 1706. Deeds were also found for land he owned in New Castle Co, DE, and for land on Dogwood Run on Yellow Britches Creek on the west side of the Susquehanna River in Lancaster Co, PA. He was on the Kennett tax rolls in 1715, and served as the township Constable that same year.
Alexander was a Quaker, but was often in trouble with the church. He was reprimanded several times for fighting with neighbors, and in 1719 was dismissed from the Kennett Meeting for abusing his wife. He was not readmitted until 28 years later, in Feb 1747.
By will, he left 200 acres each to sons Moses and John in Chester County, 200 acres each to sons Aaron and Alexander and 100 acres to son James in Lancaster county on Yellow Britches Creek. He left his daughter Mary 15 pounds and a brass kettle. His children Sarah, Miriam, Moses and John to share equally in money from the sale of land in Delaware. He gave his daughter Miriam a horse and a feather bed on the condition she "behave well and marry a Quaker". The will noted his sons Moses and John were then under 21. [http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lrichwirtz&id=I204]
Abstract of Will of Alexander Fraizer [sic] of Kennett To son Moses 1/2 plantation where I live (200 acres), the west end. To son John, £30 and 1/2 of plantation. To son Aaron 100 acres, part of a tract of 200 acres west of Susquehanna River. To son James the other 100 acres of said tract and 12 acres of another tract. To son Alexander the remainder of last tract, he paying to daughter Mary Garrettson £15. To daughter Miriam Frazer, a mare and other articles provided "she behave well and marry among the people called Quakers." Remainder including lotts in Newport and Wilmington to be sold and divided among children, Sarah Rich, Miriam Frazer, Moses and John. Executors: Friend Samuel Levis and sons Moses and John. Wit: James Hollingsworth, Joshua Harlan, Thomas Carleton. Comments Comment: The first three children of Alexander were born at New Castle County, Delaware. the rest were born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The distance between the two is minimum and it may have been the boundary, not the family, that moved.
Comment: The Chester County Historical Society has a copy of a 1697 document relating to the indenturing of a young boy, Alexander Freezell. This is apparently an old form of Frazier... [http://genforum.a.com/frazier/messages/298.html]
Alexander (II) was 19 when his father obtained a land grant in the Kennett Township in 1706. Although there is no Will recorded following his father’s death, it’s likely that he inherited his land since he was the only known son. At the age of 29, he met and married Sarah Coppock, a 26 year-old English women, 3 March 1716, in the Kennett Township. He had been there about ten years, but Sarah, the daughter of Aaron and Mary Orrell Coppock, had immigrated in 1690, with her family when she was just an infant. She was born in Mobberley, Cheshire, England 12 July 1690.
This couple had eight children: the 1st child, a son Alexander 1717; the 2nd child Aaron 1719; the 3rd child, a son James 1720; the 4th child, a daughter Mary Ann 1721; the 5th child, a daughter Sarah Marion 1725; the 6th child, a daughter Mirium 1727; the 7th child, a son Moses 1729; and the 8th child, a son John 1735. Alexander’s family were devout Quakers in Pennsylvania as evidenced by records found in the US Quaker meeting minutes in the Kennett Township. The Quakers in Chester County were the first to establish the “New Garden Friends Meeting,” which became the cornerstone of all the other Quaker churches in the south. The Frazier family was among the first settlers who helped with the early establishment of this church. Alexander died 18 December 1750, (Prove Date of Will) and Sarah died sometime in 1750, likely earlier in the year because she was not mentioned in his Will. At the time of his death, per his Will, he was living on a 400 acre Plantation in Chester County. Both Sarah and Alexander were buried in the Brick Meeting House Cemetery in Kennett Township.
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Alexander Frazier, II's Timeline
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February 18, 1687
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Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (United Kingdom)
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February 25, 1687
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Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
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1712
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Fraserfield, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
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Augusta, Virginia, United States
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1715
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Chester County, Pennsylvania Colony
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March 6, 1717
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Kennett, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America
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1719
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Kennet Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
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1720
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Scotland
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