Reynold Alexander

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Husband Reynold Alexander ^{1 2}

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Children

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1 M Robert Alexander ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Randall Alexander 3
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           Died: 1815 4
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         Spouse: Margaret [Unk] (      -      ) 4

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2 M James Alexander ^{1 4}

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         Spouse: [Unk] Harper (      -      ) 4

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3 M Col. William Alexander ^{1 4}

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           Born: 1767 - near Dry Run, Path Valley, Franklin Co, PA 1 4
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           Died: 4 Mar 1838 4
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         Spouse: Anna Moore (      -      ) 1 5
           Marr: Abt 1786

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4 F Mary "Polly" Alexander ^{1 4}

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         Spouse: David Campbell (      -      ) 1 4

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General Notes: Husband - Reynold Alexander

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A Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, he is found with a few others, a settler in Path Valley, one mile south of the later village of Dry Run, as early as 1750. He was a man of good education, of strong religious convictions and much personal courage. He was active in founding the Presbyterian Church at Spring Run and was one of the original trustees to whom Gov. John Penn made a grant of land "for a Presbyterian meeting-house and burial ground" in 1764. He took up and acquired considerable landed estates, which were mainly occupied by his descendants for the next century or more. [HFC 1887, 737]

He came into Path Valley in Pennsylvania before the purchase of the Indian title, and was one of the settlers evicted by the magistrates of Cumberland County, May 30, 1750. He submitted with as much cheerfulness as was possible under the circumstances to the order of the Proprietaries, and as soon after the purchase of 1754 as peace with the Indians made it safe for him, he returned with his family, and some of his descendants lived on the lands that he acquired more than a century and a half later. His home was south of the village of Dry Run, in a lovely and romantic situation, well suited to a family descended from the "Clan Colla." He was one of the founders of the Presbyterian Church at Spring Run, and one of the trustees to whom the grant of the church was made by John Penn, in 1764. [BAFC, 675]

1 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 737.

2 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 520, 675.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 57.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 675.

5 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 676.