Jane ALEXANDER

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Arnold, Frances Austin, compiled by. The Alexander Family of Scotland, Ireland and America.. (Carrollton, Missouri - 1896), pg. 2.

Jane Alexander, born in 1773; she married Rev. John Doak; he lived and died in Tennessee.

Jane married Rev John Doak. John died , Tennessee. [Group Sheet]

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He was one of the early settlers of Augusta Co. VA.

A History of Rockbridge County, Virginia by Oren F. Morton, published in 1920 source for the following information:

Archibald, son of William Alexander, Sr., came from near Londonderry, in 1737, and lived about ten years near Philadelphia. He was well-to-do for those days, and was a man of character, education, and influence. Archibald removed in 1747 from the bank of the Schulykill and settled on South River nearly opposite the mouth of Irish Creek.

Archibald Alexander, the Captain of the Sandy Creek expedition and the first sheriff of Rockbridge County. He married his cousin, Margaret Parks.

Chalkley's:

Page 463 18th February, 1747. £29. Benj. Borden, &c., to Archibald Alexander (sold in testator's lifetime), 980 acres, part of 92,100; corner Thomas McSpaden; corner Alexander McCleary, near a sink hole called the Punch Bowl. Teste: None. Acknowledged as above.

Page 139 20th August, 1765. Archibald Alexander sold to Joseph Alexander, £30, 256 acres, crossing the South River. Teste: John Lowrey, John Peoples, Nathaniel McClure.


DAR ID Number 149364 has the following information:
Archibald Alexander was appointed sheriff and justice of Augusta and Rockingham Counties, Va.

BIOGRAPHY

From Find A Grave

Like nearly all the early settlers of Rockbridge Co, Archibald Alexander was a farmer, but living on the dangerous American frontier. He was commissioned into the military service and fought in the French and Indian Wars between 1750-1760. He captained a company of Rangers at the Sandy Creek expedition and for this service he received several thousand acres of land in Kentucky. Archibald who was an elder in Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church was married twice. In 1734 to his cousin Margaret Parks. She died in 1753, and four years later he married Jane McClure who was also Irish born. He had seven children by the first marriage and eight by the second. (JB orig site creator)

Joseph Waddells' Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, supplement has the data above, adding he was born in County Down instead of County Donegal, per the site I took over.

Archibald Alexander was born on 4 Feb 1708 in Ulster. His will was probated on 1 Feb 1780 in Rockbridge, Co., VA, so he died prior to this date.

He married twice. First to his cousin Margaret Parks (1708-1753, the daughter of Joseph Parks) on 31 Dec 1734 in Ireland and second, to Jane McClure in 1757 in Augusta Co., Virginia.

With Margaret (1708 - 1753), he had 5 known children: Elizabeth, William, Phoebe, Jane and jean.

With Jane (dates unknown), he had 5 known children: Joseph, John, James, Samuel and Archibald, Jr.

Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish settlement in Virginia: extracted ..., Volume 3, page 429 in Deed Book 12:
"Page 139.--20th August, 1765. Archibald Alexander to Joseph Alexander,£30, 256 acres, crossing the South River. Teste: John Lowrey, John Peoples, Nathaniel McClure."

The Westminster Presbyterian site has the "Archibald Alexander Travelogue" by Sherman Isbell:
"The older Archibald Alexander died about 1780 and is apparently buried two miles north, at Muse Cemetery, the older burying ground for Timber Ridge Church, though his grave stone is now gone."1-11.

The site has a LOT OF DATA: http://www.westminsterconfession.org/the-doctrines-of-grace/archibald-alexander-travelogue.php

Buried:
Grave location and biography:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=40433616

Died:
Now in Rockbridge Co. VA

Archibald married Jane McClure 1757, Augusta Co. VA. Jane was born ca 1727, Ballynashanagh, Raphoe, County Donegal, Northern Ireland; died Aft. Feb 1780, Timber Ridge, Rockbridge Co. VA; was buried , Unknown. [Group Sheet]

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Biographical information:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=103136897

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"The Alexander Family of Scotland, Ireland and America", compiled by Frances Austin Arnold of Carrollton, Missouri, 1896

Thomas married and left a daughter and a son. The daughter married Joseph Parks and had a daughter named Margaret. The son, William, was "a very fat man". He left four sons:

Archibald, William, who married a widow in Philadelphia, Robert and Peter.

Died:
Some researchers have his place of death as Augusta Co. VA, but there are no records to confirm this. Secondary sources about his children make no mention of his immigrating with them to the colonies. So it is more likely he died in Northern Ireland.

William married Jean McNutt Between 1700 and 1706, Raphoe, County Donegal, Ulster, Ireland. Jean was born 1680, Cunningham Manor, Co. Down Ulster Ireland. [Group Sheet]

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Unconfirmed, but the following from Chalkley indicates a relationship between the Alexanders and the McNutts:
Page 515.--23d May, 1751. James McNutt's orphans. Settlement by Thos. Beard, administrator. [Robert Alexander married Esther Beard] Paid to Robt. Alexander, for schooling James and Robert McNutt. Paid to James Dobbins, for schooling Alex. McNutt. Paid one new Bible, for Alex. McNutt. Paid one new Testament, for James McNutt. Paid one new spelling book, for the children.

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alternate spelling McNaught

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Thomas was a devout presbyterian who came to Ulster or Northern Ireland in 1652 and settled in County Donegal.

Alexander, Austin and Arnold Families, by Frances Austin Arnold, pp 1-7, states that Thomas Alexander (son of Archibald Alexander, b 1610) was born in Scotland in 1630 and with his two brothers, Strong and William, went to Ireland in 1652 for "distates of the Rump pariliament of Cromwell. They were intensely Prsbyterian, but loyal to the Catholic Stuarts, being blood kinsmen."

MARYLAND HERALDIC FAMILIES pg 60-61 extracts from "The McClure Family by Rev James Alexander McClure, published 1914, Petersburg Va. and Genealogy as given in Rogers "Memorial of The Earl of Sterling" and by Francis T. A. Junkin's "Genealogical Chart' , Junkin's "Virginia .Family "1908 Thomas Alexander b in Scotland 1630 but removed to Ireland, 1652 for distaste of The Parliament of Cromwell. An intense Presbyterian, but loyal to The Catholic Stuarts of whom he was a blood kinsman.

The FIRST NOVA SCOTIAN "Thomas Alexander (son of Archibald Alexander b. in 1610) was b. in Scotland in 1630.He went, with his 2 brothers, Strong and William, to Ireland in 1652 for distaste of The Rump Parliament of Cromwell. They were intensely Presbyterian but loyal to The Catholic Stuarts, being blood kinsmen. Thomas had a son William, and "a daughter who married Joseph Parks."

He may descend from the House of MacALEXANDER of Tarbet, Kintyre, Scotland. Unconfirmed and needs more research.

Thomas married Marion PEADIE 31 Mar 1676, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Marion was born 1648, Scotland; died 1703, Cunningham Manor, Co. Down Ulster Ireland. [Group Sheet]

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Birth:
Possibly born in Ayrshire.