Hugh Alexander and Jemima Patterson

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Husband Hugh Alexander ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 6 Aug 1765 - Madison Twp, Perry Co, PA 4
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           Died: 5 Jan 1835 4
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         Father: Hugh Alexander (1724-1777) 1 5 6 7 8
         Mother: Martha Edmiston (1734-      ) 2 9 10

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       Marriage: Abt 1787

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Wife Jemima Patterson ^{1 4 11 12}

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           Born: 2 Feb 1765 - Sherman's Valley, Cumberland (later Perry) Co, PA 4
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           Died: 9 Apr 1843 - Tuscarora, Juniata Co, PA 4
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         Father: Alexander Patterson (1724-      ) 11 12 13
         Mother: Phebe Carrol (      -      ) 11

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Children

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1 M David Alexander ⁴

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           Born: 6 May 1789 4
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           Died: 7 May 1874 4
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         Spouse: Sarah Patterson (1789-      ) 4

         Spouse: Mrs. Catharine Wright (      -      ) 14

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2 F Mary Alexander ¹⁵

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         Spouse: James Anderson (      -      ) 15

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3 F Martha Alexander ¹⁶

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           Born: 
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           Died: while young
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4 F Phoebe Alexander ¹⁵

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            AKA: Ellen Alexander 17
           Born: 20 Sep 1792 15
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         Spouse: William Gilson (1789-      ) 15 17
           Marr: 1 Mar 1810 15

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5 M Patterson Alexander ¹⁸

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         Spouse: Margaret Montgomery (      -      ) 18

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General Notes: Husband - Hugh Alexander

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There appears to be a great deal of confusion in various sources between this man and his father.

About 1787 or 1788, he removed and established himself as a prosperous farmer in Tuscarora Valley, now in Juniata County, Pennsylvania. There he became one of the founders of those religious and educational institutions which yielded incalculable blessings to that fertile valley and to other regions. He labored faithfully for about forty years with the Rev. John Coulter in the Tuscarora Presbyterian church, which became one of the largest country congregations of that denomination in America, both attending to the home duties of the church with fidelity and often representing her in the higher ecclesiastical courts.
Hugh Alexander, of Tuscarora, was one of the founders of Tuscarora Academy, one of the most useful educational institutions in the earlier periods, and for many years in a flourishing condition. It had its origin in a Latin class taught by the Rev. James ---, in a room of Mr. Alexander's house, until a very primitive building was erected for its accommodation.

1 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1884), Pg 22.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 30.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 590, 825.

4 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 102.

5 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 15.

6 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 174.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 590.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1014.

9 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 18.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1015.

11 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 825.

12 Addams S. McAllister, The Descendants of John Thomson, Pioneer Scotch Covenanter (Easton, PA: The Chemical Publishing Company, 1917), Pg 179.

13 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 392.

14 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 104.

15 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 105.

16 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 103.

17 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 193.

18 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 106.