Robert Alexander of Dunvanaddy

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There are five main branches of the Alexander family based in Ireland. They all trace their descent from John Alexander (?1587-1662), who came over from Scotland c.1613 to rent lands at Eridy (Donegal) from Sir James Cunninghame of Glengarnock (Ayrshire), who acquired them in 1610 as part of the settlement of Ulster. It is generally assumed that John Alexander was distantly related to the Alexanders of Menstrie, Earls of Stirling, although no connection has been shown.

John Alexander had five sons, the eldest of whom, Capt. John Alexander (d. c.1690), bought the lands of Enagh and Caw on the east bank of the River Foyle, just north of Londonderry, in 1686, and they remained in his family until the 20th century. The youngest son, the Rev. Dr. Andrew Alexander, inherited Eridy, and was the ancestor of the Alexanders of Ahilly and Milford, the Cable-Alexander baronets, and the Earls of Caledon. ...

Alexander, John (?1587-1662), of Eridy (Donegal). Born in Scotland and relocated to Donegal c.1613. He married and had issue:

(1) Capt. John Alexander (d. c.1690) (q.v.);

(2) Archibald Alexander (b. c.1611; fl. 1665), of Ballybiglimore;

(3) William Alexander;

(4) Robert Alexander (fl. 1663-90), of Dunvanaddy; took part in the Siege of Derry and for his services there was granted lands at Drumquin, Ardstraw (Tyrone); married and had issue two sons;

(5) Rev. Dr. Andrew Alexander (d. 1641); ancestor of the Alexanders of Ahilly, Milford, Caledon and Dublin [see subsequent posts].

He rented the lands of Eridy (Donegal) from Sir James Cunninghame of Glengarnock (Ayrshire), who had acquired them in 1610 on condition that he did not 'alienate the premises to no mere Irishman or any other person unless he or they first take the Oath of Supremacy'. At his death the lands of Eridy passed to his youngest son.

He is said to have died in 1662.

Memorials of the Earl of Sterling and the House of Alexander by Charles Rogers, LL.D., (Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1877), Vol. II, Ch. XV, pp. 59ff.

John Alexander of Eredy appears to have had several sons. In the Hearth Tax Roll of Clonmany parish for 1665, is named, as a householder, "John Alexander, jun." In Taghboyne parish Archibald Alexander is, in the Subsidy Roll for 1662, assessed for 13, 15s.; he is, in 1663, in the Hearth Tax Roll of Taghboyne parish, entered as "Archibald Alexander of Ballybiglimore."

In the parish of Clonleigh, in 1663, John Alexander is associated with a "William Alexander," and in the roll of that parish for 1665 he is named along with William Alexander of the parish of Raphoe. In the Hearth Tax Roll of the parish of Errigal, county Londonderry, in 1663, is named Robert Alexander at Dunvanaddy and Mevoy.

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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 Co. Maryland before going on to Cecil Co. 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.

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Home and related families from Scotland, England back to ancient times. Entries: 25671 Updated: 2006-06-05 01:53:12 UTC (Mon) Contact: Richard Alan Nelson ________________________________________ This is a work in progress. Corrections, suggestions, additions, etc. always welcome. Thanks to Ron Custer, email: ronaldgcus@earthlink.net, for sharing his GEDCOM links back to Adam. ________________________________________ Index Descendancy Register Pedigree Ahnentafel Download GEDCOM Add Post-em ________________________________________ • ID: I00613 • Name: James Alexander • Sex: M • Title: Rev • Name: James I Alexander • Birth: 1634 in Bughall, Stirling, Scotland • Birth: ABT 1630 in Bughall, Stirlingshire, Scotland • Death: 17 NOV 1704 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland • Death: 17 NOV 1704 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ireland • Note:

Name: James ALEXANDER Given Name: James Surname: Alexander Sex: M Birth: 1634 in Bughall, Stirling, Scotland 1 1 2 1 1 3 4 3 Death: 17 Nov 1704 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland 5 1 6 1 3 4 3 Birth: Wft Est 1604-1647 7 Birth: Abt 1634 in Bughall, Scotland 5 Birth: 1634 4 8 Death: 1704 7 4 8 ORDN: 12 Dec 1677 Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland 9 10 1 3 4 3 Change Date: 27 Feb 2001 3 4 3

Note: [alexander8.FTW] [alexander7.FTW] REV. James Alexander , a member of the Lagan 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 about 1704?, brother or cousin to William Alexander who was the father of the seven brothers and two sisters who came to America. (Preyer)Pennsylvania Genol Mag Pg 85 to 86 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. Co., Donegal, and Sligo, Co., came to Somerset Co. Maryland before going on to Cecil Co. 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 fore-mentioned Samuel Alexander. I hazard a guess that they were sons of the Reverend James Alexander, of Raphoe, a member of Lagan Presbytery in 168 0, whose ministerial brethren then in northern Ireland included David Brown, of Urney, William Traile, of Lifford, Thomas Wilson, of Killybegs, and William Liston, of Letter Kenny, tormentor n a few. 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 overset: 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 i s in the library of the Presbyterian Historical Society, Witherspoon Bldg., Philadelphia.] James Alexander and William Liston, of Raphoe, are noted as absent from the meting sin 1691,1692,an d 1694, after which Liston's name appears no more; but James were accepted, and finally his death on 17 November 1704 was minute [Opus cit,vol I,96] How early he became a member of Lagan Presbytery I do not know.

For convenience in identification let us assume that they were born in the following order an d about the year named William,1646, Andrew,1648, Elizabeth,1650, James,1652, Francis,1654,Samuel,1657, Joseph,16 60, 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 Raphaoe. He was active in the Lagan Presbytery there. His seven sons and two daughters left Ireland for America in the ship Welcome, landing 21 Sep1670. 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 present Maryland – Pennsylvania boundary) and others settling to the south, still in Cecil County, near the westerner minus of the present Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.

Alexander Pioneers

Reverend James Alexander He was a minister of the CONVOY Congregation, County Donegal Ire land, from 1678 to his death in 1704.Itis 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 was 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 seventh century several Alexander’s migrated to America and settled in Cecil and Somerset Co. Maryland

Father: James ALEXANDER b: Abt 1610 in Menstrie, Parish of Logie Clakmannshire, Sterling, Scotland

Marriage 1 Mary Shaw MAXWELL b: Abt 1628 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Married: Abt 1645 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland 1 11 12 13 2 14 3 4 3
Married: Abt 1650 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Sealing Spouse: 13 Jun 1998 in ARIZO 15 3 4 3

Note: [alexander8.FTW] [alexander7.FTW] William Henry Foote says that James, not William was probably the father of the seven brothers and 2 sisters who came to America. James was probably the Reverend James Alexander of Ulster, Ireland. Mr. Norris Prayer in his book, Hezekiah Alexander, and the Revolution in the Backcountry says that William was the ancestor, and that he came to America, Northampton County, Virginia and there married and had the9children. He mentions that Rev. James Alexander, probably a brother of William, father of the William who ca me to America was put in jail for staging a fast in protest to English oppression there in Ulster. Foote, Sketches of North Carolina, says that the seven brothers and two sisters came to America from Ulster, but not their parents, and first came to Somerset, Country, Maryland or Pennsylvania Rev. James Alexander who was born abt. 1630 and d. 1704. James, a member of the Lagan Presbytery in Raphoe was imprisoned there in1680, which may have induced the brothers to flee to America. In the year 1688 a group of seven brothers Alexander fled the cruelties inflicted by James I I upon his Scottish subjects in Ireland, carrying aboard their preacher who had come to the dock to administer services. This company landed in Manhattan Island (New York). Their descendants of these families went into Pennsylvania and North Carolina (Foote's Sketches of NC) Originally from Scotland this family of Alexander’s was supposedly in Ireland about 1610. But their grievances increasing a few years preceding the Revolution of 1688, their ministers imprisoned for holding fasts, Fellow ministers, David Brown, Thomas Wilson and William Traile also came to America.

Brevard Family C

James family settled 1707 in "The Woods" between the branches of the Elk River. His 90 Acre plantation Glascow adjoined Bullen's Range; a tract laid out for Samuel Alexander (son of Rev James Alexander and Mary Maxwell)called "Sligo:" "High Spaniola"( Hispanolia) covering 900 acres in which both John McKnitt Sr. and John McKnitt Jr. had an interest." All were adjoining and all were located within a mile of the western tear minus of the present Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, where Back Creek flowed into what is now the canal, and all within a mile of Maryland/Delaware boundary. None of these "Plantations" were in the New Munster tract at the extreme northern end of Cecil County, where Herdon erroneously places therm. Welch Research "It appears that the good ship Welcome that an chord in the Delaware River in 1679 had brought to the new world the family (children) of the Reverand James Alexander of Raphoe, Ireland, and the Lagan Presbytery. He was born about 1625 and died 17 Nov1704.Children William b 1646, Andrew b 1648, Elizabeth b 1650, Jamesb1652, Francis b 1654, Samuel b 1657, Joseph b 1660, John b 1662, Janeb1665.James Alexander was ordained Dec 12 677; imprisened 8 months for publicy holding " a day o f prayer and fasting" Minister of Raphoe;3rd minister at Convey (on Montgomery estate) Salary in 1691 24 Lbs and24barrels of corn. Died Nov 17,1704 (Convoy united with Carnone Congregation in 1957)(this data in book at S.R.H.S)

House Alexander Chapter II pg 6 Record James E. Alexander

"The Alexander’s of Somerset Co., MD. As early as the year 1665 some settlers by name Alexander began to purchase land in the most southern county of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. They seem to have formed a considerable port ion of that Scoth-Irish element which constituted the first three Presbyterian churches of America which were organized by the Rev Francis McKemmie towards the close of that century. There cords of the Land Office at Princess Anne show that the Alexander’s increased in that county and became quite numerous for about one hundred years, after which they began to disperse and continued to migrate until at the present time (1878) there are probably none of the name residing

Children
William ALEXANDER b: 1646 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Andrew ALEXANDER b: 1648 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Elizabeth ALEXANDER b: 1650 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland James, Jr ALEXANDER b: 1652 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Francis ALEXANDER b: 1654 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Samuel ALEXANDER b: 1657 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Joseph ALEXANDER b: 1660 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland John ALEXANDER b: 1662 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Jane ALEXANDER b: 1665 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland

Sources: Author: Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D, 1877, Edinburgh Title: Memorials of the Earl of Stirling and the House of Alexander

Note: TEXT "Memorials of the Earl of Stirling and the House of Alexander" by Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D, 1877, Edinburgh, referring to Raphoe, Donnegal, Ulster, Ireland, looking for him. I found a Rev. James Alexander "at Raphoe", who was a Presbyterian minister the Author: Alice Norris Parran 1935

Title: Alice Norris Parran; REGISTER OF MARYLAND'S HERALDIC FAMILIES 1634toMarch 25th 1935 Series II; Pub H.G. Roebuck and Sons Publication: Pub H.G. Roebuck and Sons Baltimore MD.1935"The Tercentenary Edition is Sponsored by The SOUTHERN MARYLANDSOCIETYCOLONIA

Note: TEXT REGISTER OF MARYLAND HERALDIC FAMILIES This data begins at Connecticut Chead Chath of the Hundred Battles, and continues on down chronologically through the line as it is well known and established--joins the line of Bruce, on down....Margaret. John Title: Alexander7.FTW Repository: Title: Alexander8.FTW Repository: Title: Alexander to Godfrey.FTW Repository: Title: based on "The Complete Peerage from Lee Parker Note: TITL based on "The Complete Peerage from Lee Parker Lee Parker lparker@cacaphony.net 3796 Emm TEXT Alexander Alexander and the title of Earl of Stirling. (L Parker) William Alexander of Menstrie, in Logie, county Clackmann Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc. Title: World Family Tree Vol. 2, Ed. 1 Publication: Release date: November 29, 1995

Note: Customer pedigree. Repository:

Page: Tree #0071 Title: 739490.FTW Repository: Title: Gail Kilgore E-Mail GKilgore@primenet.com Note: TITL Gail Kilgore E-Mail GKilgore@primenet.com Gail Kilgore 10075 Chinooh. Dr. Casa Grande Arz 85222 Title: Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 From: "Alexander Family"

Note: TITL Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 From: "Alexander Family" Albert L. Alexander 50 East North Temple Author: Dr Alvah M. Stafford and Mrs Evelyn Alexander Stafford Title: Dr Alvah M .Stafford and Mrs Evelyn Alexander Stafford; **ALEXANDERNOTEBOOKS complied and researched by Dr. Alvah Staffor Publication: Dr Alvah and Mrs. Stafford's "Alexander Papers" which some 400 pages of material is found only in the Carolina room of the

Note: TEXT pg. 3. The Alexander Pioneers who settled in Somerset County, Maryland were Andrew, William Sr. Samuel, James, Francis and John.--others of the name who may also be considered as of the first generate ion. These were among the original grantees of land i Author: Kerry Welch Evans Alexander Title: Alexander Research by Kerry Welch Evans Alexander Log -167 Publication: Charolett NC DAR

Note: TEXT Three typewritten stories on Hezekiah, James and Joseph from the Hezekiah Homesite Museum in Charlotte, NC. Author: Francis Alexander Butterworth Title: Butterworth, Frances Alexander; Records of a Family of the House of Alexander 1640 to 1909 Publication: FHL photo copy of original published Chicago 1909 F.A. Butterwlrtn 190987pg. ill. Coat arms portFHC IGI 1209423

Note: TEXT Descendents of William Alexander, Somerset & Cecil Co.MD Author: James Alexander McCluer Title: James Alexander McCluer The McCluer Family pg 184 - 188 Publication: pub. 1914,Petersburg, Va.

Note: TITL James Alexander McCluer The McCluer Family pg 184 – 188 Extracts from The McClure Family by Rev. James Alexander McClTEXT (BOQ) We are indebted to James Alexander McClure, author of" The McClure Family,"pp. 184-188 for the following:

Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Title: Ordinance Index (TM) Publication: 25 Jan 2000 Edition REV. James Alexander , a member of the Lagan Presbytery in Raphoe was imprisoned there in 1680, which may have induced the brothers to flee 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 Co. Maryland before going on to Cecil Co. 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 Lagan Presbytery in 1680, whose ministerial brethren then in northern Ireland included David Brown, of Urney, William Traile, of Lifford, Thomas Wilson, of Killybegs, and William Liston, of Letter Kenny, to mention a few. 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.

Rev. James was born in Bughall Scotland. He went to County Donegal in (what is now) Northern Ireland, and settled (probably) in Raphaoe. He was active in the Lagan Presbytery there. His seven sons and two daughters left Ireland for America in the ship Welcome, landed in 21 Sep1670. 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 present Maryland - Pennsylvania boundary) and others settling to the south, still in Cecil County, near the western terminus of the present Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.

Reverend 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 seventh century several Alexander’s migrated to America and settled in Cecil and Somerset Co. Maryland. The children of Reverend James Alexander of Raphoe, Ireland and of the Lagan Presbytery who's children came to America on the good Ship Welcome that anchored in the Delaware River in 1679. There was and Alexander family in Somerset Co. as early as 1666. Also John Mcknitt settled there about the same period (see Old Somerset, by Clayton Torrence). Joseph Alexander of New Munster married Abigail Mcknitt and one of his sons was John Mcknitt Alexander. (ref: Brevard Family by Robert Stephans Hand ) John McKnitt Alexander and family settled 1707 in "The Wood" between the branches of the Elk River. His 90 acre plantation" Glascow" adjoined" Bullen's Range"; on a tract laid out for Samuel Alexander (son of Rev. James Alexander and Mary Maxwell) ,called "Sligo;"High Spaniola (Hisponolia)"covering 900 acres in which both John McKnitt Sr. and John Mcknitt Jr., had an interest;. All were adjoining and all were located within a mile of the western terminus of the present Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, where Back creek flowed into what is now the canal, and all within a mile of the Maryland/Dl boundary. None of these "plantations" were in the New Munster tract at the extreme northern end of Cecil County. Rev. James was born in Bughall Scotland. He went to County Donegal in (what is now) Northern Ireland, and settled (probably) in Raphaoe. He was active in the Lagan Presbytery there. His seven sons and two daughters. Left Ireland for America in the ship Welcome, landing 21 Sep 1670. Rev James and his wife are presuming to have remained in Ireland. Their children settled in Somerset and later in Cecil Co.MD. Some of them going to the New Munster Tract in the extreme northern part of Cecil Co. (in fact part of New Munster was north of the present MD.- PN. boundary) and others settling to the south, still in Cecil Co., near the western terminus of the present Chesapeake and DL. Canal. The Reverend James Alexander was born in Bughall Scotland.

One source gives his birth date as 1634; but if subsequent dates for the births of his children are correct, he must have been born earlier, perhaps around 1625. He died in 1704, probably in Ireland (Northern Ireland).

James Alexander married Mary Maxwell of southern Scotland. They went to Raphoe, County Donegal, in the Ulster Province of Ireland (Northern Ireland), where James Alexander was a minister in the Lagan Presbytery. Little is known of his life other than that he must have been an educated man. Presbyterian ordination demanded a university degree and the only universities granting a theological degree at that time were in Scotland. Leyburn in his The Scotch-Irish. A Social History, Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Press, 1962 said "Presbyterian ministers were... always respected, however tyrannous or ungracious their lives...The ministry were the highest calling that could come to a youth." Mary Maxwell and James Alexander were the parents of nine children, all of whom, with the possible exception of Jane, came to America on the ship Welcome, landing 21 September 1670 and settling first in Somerset County, MD and later in Cecil Co. MD. Mary Maxwell is thought to have died in Ireland and the Rev Alexander may have come with his family when they immigrated. If so, he apparently returned to Ireland sometime before 1691. In The Records of the General Synod of Ulster, James Alexander is noted as absent from the meetings in 1691, 1692, and 1694 but sent excuses which were accepted, and his death on 17 November 1704 was noted.

Father: Robert Alexander b: 1610 in Stirlingshire, Scotland Mother: Mary Hamilton b: ABT 1607 in Stirlingshire, Scotland

Marriage 1 Mary Maxwell b: ABT 1630 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ireland Children 1. William Alexander b: ABT 1647 2. Andrew Alexander b: ABT 1648 3. James Alexander b: 1652 4. Francis Alexander b: 1654 5. John Alexander b: ABT 1662 6. Jane Alexander b: 1665 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland 7. Elizabeth Alexander b: 1650 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland 8. Joseph Alexander b: 1660 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland 9. Samuel Alexander b: 1657 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland

Marriage 2 Mary Shaw Maxwell b: 1634 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland • Married: ABT 1645 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Children 1. Jane Alexander b: 1665 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland

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Home and related families from Scotland, England back to ancient times. Entries: 25671 Updated: 2006-06-05 01:53:12 UTC (Mon) Contact: Richard Alan Nelson ________________________________________ This is a work in progress. Corrections, suggestions, additions, etc. always welcome. Thanks to Ron Custer, email: ronaldgcus@earthlink.net, for sharing his GEDCOM links back to Adam. ________________________________________ Index Descendancy Register Pedigree Ahnentafel Download GEDCOM Add Post-em ________________________________________ • ID: I00613 • Name: James Alexander • Sex: M • Title: Rev • Name: James I Alexander • Birth: 1634 in Bughall, Stirling, Scotland • Birth: ABT 1630 in Bughall, Stirlingshire, Scotland • Death: 17 NOV 1704 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland • Death: 17 NOV 1704 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ireland • Note:

Name: James ALEXANDER Given Name: James Surname: Alexander Sex: M Birth: 1634 in Bughall, Stirling, Scotland 1 1 2 1 1 3 4 3 Death: 17 Nov 1704 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland 5 1 6 1 3 4 3 Birth: Wft Est 1604-1647 7 Birth: Abt 1634 in Bughall, Scotland 5 Birth: 1634 4 8 Death: 1704 7 4 8 ORDN: 12 Dec 1677 Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland 9 10 1 3 4 3 Change Date: 27 Feb 2001 3 4 3

Note: [alexander8.FTW] [alexander7.FTW] REV. James Alexander , a member of the Lagan 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 about 1704?, brother or cousin to William Alexander who was the father of the seven brothers and two sisters who came to America. (Preyer)Pennsylvania Genol Mag Pg 85 to 86 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. Co., Donegal, and Sligo, Co., came to Somerset Co. Maryland before going on to Cecil Co. 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 fore-mentioned Samuel Alexander. I hazard a guess that they were sons of the Reverend James Alexander, of Raphoe, a member of Lagan Presbytery in 168 0, whose ministerial brethren then in northern Ireland included David Brown, of Urney, William Traile, of Lifford, Thomas Wilson, of Killybegs, and William Liston, of Letter Kenny, tormentor n a few. 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 overset: 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 i s in the library of the Presbyterian Historical Society, Witherspoon Bldg., Philadelphia.] James Alexander and William Liston, of Raphoe, are noted as absent from the meting sin 1691,1692,an d 1694, after which Liston's name appears no more; but James were accepted, and finally his death on 17 November 1704 was minute [Opus cit,vol I,96] How early he became a member of Lagan Presbytery I do not know.

For convenience in identification let us assume that they were born in the following order an d about the year named William,1646, Andrew,1648, Elizabeth,1650, James,1652, Francis,1654,Samuel,1657, Joseph,16 60, 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 Raphaoe. He was active in the Lagan Presbytery there. His seven sons and two daughters left Ireland for America in the ship Welcome, landing 21 Sep1670. 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 present Maryland – Pennsylvania boundary) and others settling to the south, still in Cecil County, near the westerner minus of the present Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.

Alexander Pioneers

Reverend James Alexander He was a minister of the CONVOY Congregation, County Donegal Ire land, from 1678 to his death in 1704.Itis 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 was 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 seventh century several Alexander’s migrated to America and settled in Cecil and Somerset Co. Maryland

Father: James ALEXANDER b: Abt 1610 in Menstrie, Parish of Logie Clakmannshire, Sterling, Scotland

Marriage 1 Mary Shaw MAXWELL b: Abt 1628 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Married: Abt 1645 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland 1 11 12 13 2 14 3 4 3
Married: Abt 1650 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Sealing Spouse: 13 Jun 1998 in ARIZO 15 3 4 3

Note: [alexander8.FTW] [alexander7.FTW] William Henry Foote says that James, not William was probably the father of the seven brothers and 2 sisters who came to America. James was probably the Reverend James Alexander of Ulster, Ireland. Mr. Norris Prayer in his book, Hezekiah Alexander, and the Revolution in the Backcountry says that William was the ancestor, and that he came to America, Northampton County, Virginia and there married and had the9children. He mentions that Rev. James Alexander, probably a brother of William, father of the William who ca me to America was put in jail for staging a fast in protest to English oppression there in Ulster. Foote, Sketches of North Carolina, says that the seven brothers and two sisters came to America from Ulster, but not their parents, and first came to Somerset, Country, Maryland or Pennsylvania Rev. James Alexander who was born abt. 1630 and d. 1704. James, a member of the Lagan Presbytery in Raphoe was imprisoned there in1680, which may have induced the brothers to flee to America. In the year 1688 a group of seven brothers Alexander fled the cruelties inflicted by James I I upon his Scottish subjects in Ireland, carrying aboard their preacher who had come to the dock to administer services. This company landed in Manhattan Island (New York). Their descendants of these families went into Pennsylvania and North Carolina (Foote's Sketches of NC) Originally from Scotland this family of Alexander’s was supposedly in Ireland about 1610. But their grievances increasing a few years preceding the Revolution of 1688, their ministers imprisoned for holding fasts, Fellow ministers, David Brown, Thomas Wilson and William Traile also came to America.

Brevard Family C

James family settled 1707 in "The Woods" between the branches of the Elk River. His 90 Acre plantation Glascow adjoined Bullen's Range; a tract laid out for Samuel Alexander (son of Rev James Alexander and Mary Maxwell)called "Sligo:" "High Spaniola"( Hispanolia) covering 900 acres in which both John McKnitt Sr. and John McKnitt Jr. had an interest." All were adjoining and all were located within a mile of the western tear minus of the present Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, where Back Creek flowed into what is now the canal, and all within a mile of Maryland/Delaware boundary. None of these "Plantations" were in the New Munster tract at the extreme northern end of Cecil County, where Herdon erroneously places therm. Welch Research "It appears that the good ship Welcome that an chord in the Delaware River in 1679 had brought to the new world the family (children) of the Reverand James Alexander of Raphoe, Ireland, and the Lagan Presbytery. He was born about 1625 and died 17 Nov1704.Children William b 1646, Andrew b 1648, Elizabeth b 1650, Jamesb1652, Francis b 1654, Samuel b 1657, Joseph b 1660, John b 1662, Janeb1665.James Alexander was ordained Dec 12 677; imprisened 8 months for publicy holding " a day o f prayer and fasting" Minister of Raphoe;3rd minister at Convey (on Montgomery estate) Salary in 1691 24 Lbs and24barrels of corn. Died Nov 17,1704 (Convoy united with Carnone Congregation in 1957)(this data in book at S.R.H.S)

House Alexander Chapter II pg 6 Record James E. Alexander

"The Alexander’s of Somerset Co., MD. As early as the year 1665 some settlers by name Alexander began to purchase land in the most southern county of the Eastern Shore of Maryland. They seem to have formed a considerable port ion of that Scoth-Irish element which constituted the first three Presbyterian churches of America which were organized by the Rev Francis McKemmie towards the close of that century. There cords of the Land Office at Princess Anne show that the Alexander’s increased in that county and became quite numerous for about one hundred years, after which they began to disperse and continued to migrate until at the present time (1878) there are probably none of the name residing

Children
William ALEXANDER b: 1646 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Andrew ALEXANDER b: 1648 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Elizabeth ALEXANDER b: 1650 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland James, Jr ALEXANDER b: 1652 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Francis ALEXANDER b: 1654 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Samuel ALEXANDER b: 1657 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Joseph ALEXANDER b: 1660 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland John ALEXANDER b: 1662 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Jane ALEXANDER b: 1665 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland

Sources: Author: Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D, 1877, Edinburgh Title: Memorials of the Earl of Stirling and the House of Alexander

Note: TEXT "Memorials of the Earl of Stirling and the House of Alexander" by Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D, 1877, Edinburgh, referring to Raphoe, Donnegal, Ulster, Ireland, looking for him. I found a Rev. James Alexander "at Raphoe", who was a Presbyterian minister the Author: Alice Norris Parran 1935

Title: Alice Norris Parran; REGISTER OF MARYLAND'S HERALDIC FAMILIES 1634toMarch 25th 1935 Series II; Pub H.G. Roebuck and Sons Publication: Pub H.G. Roebuck and Sons Baltimore MD.1935"The Tercentenary Edition is Sponsored by The SOUTHERN MARYLANDSOCIETYCOLONIA

Note: TEXT REGISTER OF MARYLAND HERALDIC FAMILIES This data begins at Connecticut Chead Chath of the Hundred Battles, and continues on down chronologically through the line as it is well known and established--joins the line of Bruce, on down....Margaret. John Title: Alexander7.FTW Repository: Title: Alexander8.FTW Repository: Title: Alexander to Godfrey.FTW Repository: Title: based on "The Complete Peerage from Lee Parker Note: TITL based on "The Complete Peerage from Lee Parker Lee Parker lparker@cacaphony.net 3796 Emm TEXT Alexander Alexander and the title of Earl of Stirling. (L Parker) William Alexander of Menstrie, in Logie, county Clackmann Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc. Title: World Family Tree Vol. 2, Ed. 1 Publication: Release date: November 29, 1995

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Page: Tree #0071 Title: 739490.FTW Repository: Title: Gail Kilgore E-Mail GKilgore@primenet.com Note: TITL Gail Kilgore E-Mail GKilgore@primenet.com Gail Kilgore 10075 Chinooh. Dr. Casa Grande Arz 85222 Title: Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 From: "Alexander Family"

Note: TITL Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 From: "Alexander Family" Albert L. Alexander 50 East North Temple Author: Dr Alvah M. Stafford and Mrs Evelyn Alexander Stafford Title: Dr Alvah M .Stafford and Mrs Evelyn Alexander Stafford; **ALEXANDERNOTEBOOKS complied and researched by Dr. Alvah Staffor Publication: Dr Alvah and Mrs. Stafford's "Alexander Papers" which some 400 pages of material is found only in the Carolina room of the

Note: TEXT pg. 3. The Alexander Pioneers who settled in Somerset County, Maryland were Andrew, William Sr. Samuel, James, Francis and John.--others of the name who may also be considered as of the first generate ion. These were among the original grantees of land i Author: Kerry Welch Evans Alexander Title: Alexander Research by Kerry Welch Evans Alexander Log -167 Publication: Charolett NC DAR

Note: TEXT Three typewritten stories on Hezekiah, James and Joseph from the Hezekiah Homesite Museum in Charlotte, NC. Author: Francis Alexander Butterworth Title: Butterworth, Frances Alexander; Records of a Family of the House of Alexander 1640 to 1909 Publication: FHL photo copy of original published Chicago 1909 F.A. Butterwlrtn 190987pg. ill. Coat arms portFHC IGI 1209423

Note: TEXT Descendents of William Alexander, Somerset & Cecil Co.MD Author: James Alexander McCluer Title: James Alexander McCluer The McCluer Family pg 184 - 188 Publication: pub. 1914,Petersburg, Va.

Note: TITL James Alexander McCluer The McCluer Family pg 184 – 188 Extracts from The McClure Family by Rev. James Alexander McClTEXT (BOQ) We are indebted to James Alexander McClure, author of" The McClure Family,"pp. 184-188 for the following:

Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Title: Ordinance Index (TM) Publication: 25 Jan 2000 Edition REV. James Alexander , a member of the Lagan Presbytery in Raphoe was imprisoned there in 1680, which may have induced the brothers to flee 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 Co. Maryland before going on to Cecil Co. 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 Lagan Presbytery in 1680, whose ministerial brethren then in northern Ireland included David Brown, of Urney, William Traile, of Lifford, Thomas Wilson, of Killybegs, and William Liston, of Letter Kenny, to mention a few. 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.

Rev. James was born in Bughall Scotland. He went to County Donegal in (what is now) Northern Ireland, and settled (probably) in Raphaoe. He was active in the Lagan Presbytery there. His seven sons and two daughters left Ireland for America in the ship Welcome, landed in 21 Sep1670. 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 present Maryland - Pennsylvania boundary) and others settling to the south, still in Cecil County, near the western terminus of the present Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.

Reverend 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 seventh century several Alexander’s migrated to America and settled in Cecil and Somerset Co. Maryland. The children of Reverend James Alexander of Raphoe, Ireland and of the Lagan Presbytery who's children came to America on the good Ship Welcome that anchored in the Delaware River in 1679. There was and Alexander family in Somerset Co. as early as 1666. Also John Mcknitt settled there about the same period (see Old Somerset, by Clayton Torrence). Joseph Alexander of New Munster married Abigail Mcknitt and one of his sons was John Mcknitt Alexander. (ref: Brevard Family by Robert Stephans Hand ) John McKnitt Alexander and family settled 1707 in "The Wood" between the branches of the Elk River. His 90 acre plantation" Glascow" adjoined" Bullen's Range"; on a tract laid out for Samuel Alexander (son of Rev. James Alexander and Mary Maxwell) ,called "Sligo;"High Spaniola (Hisponolia)"covering 900 acres in which both John McKnitt Sr. and John Mcknitt Jr., had an interest;. All were adjoining and all were located within a mile of the western terminus of the present Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, where Back creek flowed into what is now the canal, and all within a mile of the Maryland/Dl boundary. None of these "plantations" were in the New Munster tract at the extreme northern end of Cecil County. Rev. James was born in Bughall Scotland. He went to County Donegal in (what is now) Northern Ireland, and settled (probably) in Raphaoe. He was active in the Lagan Presbytery there. His seven sons and two daughters. Left Ireland for America in the ship Welcome, landing 21 Sep 1670. Rev James and his wife are presuming to have remained in Ireland. Their children settled in Somerset and later in Cecil Co.MD. Some of them going to the New Munster Tract in the extreme northern part of Cecil Co. (in fact part of New Munster was north of the present MD.- PN. boundary) and others settling to the south, still in Cecil Co., near the western terminus of the present Chesapeake and DL. Canal. The Reverend James Alexander was born in Bughall Scotland.

One source gives his birth date as 1634; but if subsequent dates for the births of his children are correct, he must have been born earlier, perhaps around 1625. He died in 1704, probably in Ireland (Northern Ireland).

James Alexander married Mary Maxwell of southern Scotland. They went to Raphoe, County Donegal, in the Ulster Province of Ireland (Northern Ireland), where James Alexander was a minister in the Lagan Presbytery. Little is known of his life other than that he must have been an educated man. Presbyterian ordination demanded a university degree and the only universities granting a theological degree at that time were in Scotland. Leyburn in his The Scotch-Irish. A Social History, Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina Press, 1962 said "Presbyterian ministers were... always respected, however tyrannous or ungracious their lives...The ministry were the highest calling that could come to a youth." Mary Maxwell and James Alexander were the parents of nine children, all of whom, with the possible exception of Jane, came to America on the ship Welcome, landing 21 September 1670 and settling first in Somerset County, MD and later in Cecil Co. MD. Mary Maxwell is thought to have died in Ireland and the Rev Alexander may have come with his family when they immigrated. If so, he apparently returned to Ireland sometime before 1691. In The Records of the General Synod of Ulster, James Alexander is noted as absent from the meetings in 1691, 1692, and 1694 but sent excuses which were accepted, and his death on 17 November 1704 was noted.

Father: Robert Alexander b: 1610 in Stirlingshire, Scotland Mother: Mary Hamilton b: ABT 1607 in Stirlingshire, Scotland

Marriage 1 Mary Maxwell b: ABT 1630 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ireland Children 1. William Alexander b: ABT 1647 2. Andrew Alexander b: ABT 1648 3. James Alexander b: 1652 4. Francis Alexander b: 1654 5. John Alexander b: ABT 1662 6. Jane Alexander b: 1665 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland 7. Elizabeth Alexander b: 1650 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland 8. Joseph Alexander b: 1660 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland 9. Samuel Alexander b: 1657 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland

Marriage 2 Mary Shaw Maxwell b: 1634 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland • Married: ABT 1645 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland Children 1. Jane Alexander b: 1665 in Raphoe, Donegal, Ulster, Ireland

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Not the son of William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, 7th Baron of Menstrie