John Alexander and Margaret Clark
Husband John Alexander 1 2 3 4
Born: Abt 1756 - Pennsylvania Christened: Died: 22 Nov 1816 - Little Valley, Mifflin Co, PA 2 Buried: - Presbyterian Cemetery, East Kishacoquillas, Mifflin Co, PA
Father: Hugh Alexander (1724-1777) 2 4 5 6 7 Mother: Martha Edmiston (1734- ) 1 8 9
Marriage: 1780 2
Wife Margaret Clark 2 4 10
Born: Christened: Died: Nov 1834 - Little Valley, Mifflin Co, PA 11 Buried: - Presbyterian Cemetery, East Kishacoquillas, Mifflin Co, PA
Father: Thomas Clark ( - ) 12 Mother:
Children
1 F Frances Alexander 11
AKA: Francis Alexander 2 Born: Abt 1781 - Sherman's Valley, Cumberland (later Perry) Co, PA Christened: Died: 1806 13 Buried: - Presbyterian Cemetery, East Kishacoquillas, Mifflin Co, PASpouse: Samuel Milroy (1780-1845) 13
2 M Hugh Alexander 2 14
Born: 1781 - Sherman's Valley, Cumberland (later Perry) Co, PA 2 14 Christened: Died: 16 Oct 1868 2 15 Buried: - Presbyterian Cemetery, East Kishacoquillas, Mifflin Co, PASpouse: Elizabeth Brown (1787-1871) 2 15 Marr: 1806 15
3 M Samuel Edmiston Alexander 2 16
Born: 17 Jan 1785 - Sherman's Valley, Cumberland (later Perry) Co, PA 17 Christened: Died: 17 Jan 1862 18 Buried: - Little Valley Presbyterian ChurchSpouse: Mary Alexander (Abt 1793-1869) 19 Marr: 28 Dec 1809 17
4 F Martha Alexander 2 20
Born: Christened: Died: while young Buried:Spouse: Did Not Marry
5 F Margaret Alexander 21 22
AKA: Martha Alexander Born: 7 May 1793 - Little Valley, Mifflin Co, PA 22 Christened: Died: 19 Jul 1848 22 Buried:Spouse: Henry Haller ( -1822) 22 Marr: 23 May 1820 22
6 M John Alexander 2 23
Born: 7 Mar 1795 - Little Valley, Mifflin Co, PA 23 Christened: Died: 15 May 1865 24 Buried: - Little Valley Presbyterian ChurchSpouse: Jane Beatty ( -Aft 1878) 23 Marr: 1824 25
7 F Mary Alexander 2 26
Born: 1796 - Little Valley, Mifflin Co, PA 26 Christened: Died: 1874 - Iowa 26 Buried:Spouse: James Beatty ( - ) 26 Marr: 1822 26
8 M Thomas Clark Alexander 2 11
Born: 1799 - Little Valley, Mifflin Co, PA 20 Christened: Died: 3 Jan 1858 - Adams Co, OH 20 Buried:Spouse: Mary Glass ( - ) 27Spouse: Nancy Beatty ( -1862) 27
General Notes: Husband - John Alexander
He served in General Washington's command in the Continental army. He participated in the capture of the Hessians at Trenton on Christmas, 1776, and was express rider for the commander-in-chief, bearing dispatches to the Assembly.
It is uncertain whether he was born in Nottingham, Chester County, Penn, or in Sherman's Valley, then in Cumberland, but later a part of Perry County. His birth was about the year 1756, when Indian incursions caused his parents to change their residence several times, before being permanently established in the latter place about 1758.
Little is known of his childhood and youth, which were spent on his father's farm in Sherman's Valley, near Landisburg, on the waters of Sherman's Creek. From this place he came to the aid of his country in the darkest hour of her distress, in December, 1776, and was in the army at the capture of the Hessians at Trenton, on the 25th of that month. He was still in camp on the 5th of February, 1777. On March 22nd, he received pay for express riding for the Assembly.
His father died suddenly in Philadelphia, in March of 1777, and on him and on his widowed stepmother, as executors, devolved the settlement of the estate and the care of the younger children.
In 1787 he removed, with his wife and three children, Frances, Hugh, and Samuel, to a tract of about one thousand acres in Little Valley, Pennsylvania, which he had purchased from Christopher Martin. Among his papers was an article of agreement allowing John Wood, a tenant of Martin, to take from the land certain growing crops of that year; also a certificate of the membership of himself and his wife in the Presbyterian church in Sherman's Valley, dated in 1787, and signed by the pastor, the Rev. James Linn.
This tract lay four miles north-east from Lewistown, the county-seat of Mifflin county, and one mile east of Freedom Iron Works. It extended from the top of a ridge on the south to Jacks Mountain.
At his death the large tract, which he had divided into three farms, was occupied by his sons, Samuel, Thomas, and John.
General Notes: Wife - Margaret Clark
from Sherman's Valley, PA
After the death of her husband, she lived a widow for eighteen years, on the homestead with her youngest son, John.
1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 30.
2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 590.
3 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 41.
4 Wm. H. Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Lane S. Hart, Publisher, 1884), Pg 22.
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 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1014.
8 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 18.
9 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1015.
10 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 42.
11 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 43.
12 —, History of the Susquehanna and Juniata Valleys (Philadelphia, PA: Everts, Peck & Richards, 1886), Pg 1016.
13 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 48.
14 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 49.
15 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 50.
16 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 43, 53.
17 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 53.
18 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 54.
19 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 53, 159.
20 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 66.
21 Raymond M. Bell, Founders of the Bell Family (Carlisle, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 18.
22 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 72.
23 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 75.
24 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 77.
25 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 76.
26 John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 73.
27
John E. Alexander, A Record of the Descendants of John Alexander (Philadelphia, PA: Alfred Martien, 1878), Pg 67.
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