Hezekiah Alexander and Mary Sample

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Husband Hezekiah Alexander ^{1 2}

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           Born: 13 Jan 1722 - New Munster, Cecil Co, MD 3
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           Died: 16 Jun 1801 3
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         Father: James Alexander (Abt 1695-1779) 1 4
         Mother: Margaret McKnitt (      -      ) 5 6

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Mary Sample ³

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Hezekiah Alexander

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He was born in New Munster, Cecil County, Maryland. He accompanied other members of his family to North Carolina about 1754. He became a magistrate and member of the Mecklenburg County Court at the organization of the county in 1762. He was a member of the District Committee of Safety in 1775; member of the convention that promulgated the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, May 20, 1775; member of the state council in 1776 and of the Provincial Constitutional Convention in 1777. He lived four miles east of Charlotte where he erected a stone dwelling that still stood well into the twentieth century.

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Notes: Marriage

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Of their children:
William married Elizabeth, daughter of Abraham Alexander (1717-1786), president of the Mecklenburg Convention.
Joseph (1776-1851) married Elizabeth McReynolds.
Esther married [Unk] Garrison.
Mary married Captain Charles Polk.

1 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 208.

2 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 54.

3 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 60.

4 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 6, 53.

5 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 205.

6 Carl Ross McKenrick, My Family and Antecedents (Baltimore, MD: Self-published, 1949), Pg 53.