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Alias:<ALIA> Isabella /Wallis/
REFN: P1023 ~1646 - ~1692 Elizabeth Alexander 46 46 REFN: 5641AN
Joseph Alexander as well as Brevard, Knox, McKnitt, Polk,Wallace and
Wilson f amilies settled at the headwaters of the Manokin River now
Princess Anne. Als o on the Manokin were the two sisters, Elizabeth the
wife of Matthew Wallace a surveyor who had helped layout the boundaries
of Somerset, and Jane married to John McKnitt afarmer whose land was
named Glasgow after his ancestral Sco ttish home.Joseph Alexander married
Abigail McKnitt. DAR Evans "Elizabeth Ale xander appears to have married
Matthew Wallace who is on of thoes listed as " Iriish men" who took land
in the New Munster Strip in Northern Cecil Co.,Md."
Elkton, Cecil Co. Md. Land records Vol 2 Folio 280
This indenture made this 18 day of May 1715 between Thomas Stevenson of
Bucks
Co. Province of Penn. a nd Nathan (meant to be Matthias or Matthew)
Wallace, Yeoman, James Alexander, farmer, Arthur Alexander, farmer,David
Alexander, weaver, James Alexander, w eaver and Joseph Alexander,etc.This
tract of land contained 1150 acres being on the east siDe ofthe main
branch of the Elk river in Cecil County in the Pr ovince of Maryland; part
of said tract to James Alexander, weaver and his son Moses Alexander,
joint purchasers etc. In the presence of John Wallace, Elia s Alexander,
Thos. Stevenson and Sarah Stevenson
Rent Rolls "William Alexand er's Brother-in Law Matthew Wallace was
Neighbor"
Matthew Wallace m Elizabet h Alexander)
DAR Evans "Wiilliam Alexander . Settled in Somerset Md.abt 1665.A quired
"Hunting Qurter" (100 Acres) in Nov 12,1687 (Somerset Co. Deed Liber
06,p.879) and " Hogg Quarter" (100 acres) at the headwaters of Wicomoco
Cree k (at that time called river) and Monilin River,Was surveyed for him
25 April 1689.(Rent Rolls) In 1692 he was assistant to the court in
laying out the bo undaries for the original parishes in Somerset, as was
also a neighbor of his sister Elizabeth and brother in law William
Wallace (Old Somerset, 153) It i s believed that his wife was Ann Liston
of Letterkenny,Ireland, the dau. ofWi lliam Liston,minister of the Laggan
Presbytery in Northern Ireland.
Lee Park err " Elizabeth Alexander b. 1663 Raphoe, Donegal,Ulster,Ireland
d 1692 Scotl and m. Matthew Wallace, 1675, Raphoe,Donegal,Ulster Ireland.
Alex Kin pg 305 " Elizabeth Alexander m. Matthew Wallace from Scotland and
Ireland in Somerset Co Md,. "
Pa Genol mag " Elizabeth Alexander b 1650 Scotland moved to Ulster
Ireland d. Cecil Co Md
Lee Parkerr " Elizabeth Alexander b. 1663 Raphoe, Done gal,Ulster,Ireland
d 1692 m. Matthew Wallace, 1675, Raphoe,Donegal, Ulster Ir eland.
There is conflicting information as to the father of Elizabeth either t he
Rev James Alexander or William Alexander, I believe James is correct as
William is listed as the brother-in-law of Mathew Wallace. ~1641 - 1714 Mathew Wallace 73 73 REFN: 5654AN ~1670 James Wallace REFN: 5656AN ~1668 John Wallace REFN: 5657AN ~1667 Samuel Wallace REFN: 5658AN ~1682 Richard Wallace REFN: 5659AN ~1681 Thomas Wallace REFN: 5660AN ~1684 William Wallace REFN: 5661AN ~1672 Matthew Wallace REFN: 5662AN ~1678 Catherine Wallace REFN: 5663AN ~1662 Jane Wallace REFN: 5664AN ~1683 Mary Wallace REFN: 5665AN ~1691 Oliver Wallace REFN: 5666AN 1680 David Wallace REFN: 5667AN 1606 John Wallace REFN: 5668AN 1610 - >1641 Margaret Thompson 31 31 REFN: 5669AN ~1630 - 1704 James I Alexander 74 74 REFN: 5670AN
REV. James Alexander , a member of the Laggan Presbytery in Raphoe was imp
risoned there in 1680, which may have induced the brothers to flee to Amer
ica.
There is a well established tradition that seven Alexander brothers,Presby
terians from Scotland who had sojourned a while in the north of Ireland, p
robably at Raphoe.Co., Donegal, and Sligo,Co.,came to Somerset Co. Maryla
nd before going on to Cecil Co. If we may judge from the circumstantial ev
idence remaining,
then along with the brothers came two sisters: one, the wife of Matthew Wa
llace; the other Jane,who married John McKnitt. In Somerset,at early date
s, we find Wlliam, Andrew, Samuel, and John Alexander, and in Cecil Coun
ty James , Francis, Joseph , and the afore-mentioned Samuel Alexander. I h
azard a guess that they were sons of the Reverend James Alexander,of Rapho
e, a member of Laggan Presbytery in 1680, whoes ministerial brethern th
en in northern Ireland included David Brown, of Urney, William Trail
e, of Lifford,Thomas Wilson, of Killybegs, and William Liston, of Letterke
nny,to mention a few. I name these because one David Brown became an impor
tant civic-minded Presbyterian leader in Somerset: because William Trai
le and Thomas Wilson
soon joined Francis Makemie, "fatherof organized Presbyterianism in Americ
a", in his labor in Somerset: and because William Alexander, Sr., of Somer
set, had a grandson named for William Liston. At first in Somerset and lat
er in Cecil, we find Matthew Wallace and John McKnitt. Rev.James was bo
rn in Bughall Scotland. He went to County Donegal in(what is now) Northe
rn Ireland, and settled (probably) in Raphaoe. He was active in the Lagg
an Presbytery there. His seven sons and two da ughters left Ireland for Am
erica in the ship Welcom, landed in 21 Sep1670. Rev.James and his wife a
re presumed to have remained in Ireland.Thier children settled in Somers
et and later in Cecil County Maryland,some of them going to the New Munst
er Tract in the extreme northern part of
Cecil County (in fact part of New Munster was north of the present Maryla
nd - Pennsylvania boundary) and others settling to the south,still in Cec
il County, near the western terminus of the present Chesapeak and Delawa
re Canal. Reverand James Alexander He was a minister of the CONVOY Congreg
ation,County Donegal Ireland,from 167 8 to his death in 1704.It is believ
ed he was first a minister of Raphoe congregation County Donegal,
for a time between 1640 and 1678. Both congregations are in the Raphoe Pre
sbytery. Laggan Presbytery.
Alexander family of New Munster were orginally from Scotland. About the ti
me of James 1, they together with a large number of Presbyterians migrat
ed to Ireland and settled in Ulster. During the late 7th century several A
lexanders migrated to America and settled in Somerset Co., Md. later in Ce
cil Co., Md. They came to America on the good ship "Welcome" that anchor
ed in the Delaware River in 1679. There was an Alexander family in Somers
et Co. as early as 1666. Also John McKnitt settled there about the same ti
me.
Alexander settled in 1707 in "The Woods" between the brances of the Elk Ri
ver. Their 90 acre plantation " Glasgow" adjoined "Bullen"s Range" a tra
ct laid out for Samuel Alexander called "Sligo." "High Spaiola"(Hispaniol
a) covering 900 acres in which John McKnitt Sr. & Jr. had an interest in J
ean (John) Brevard's "Charles Camp." All were adjoining and all located wi
thin a mile of the western end of the present Chesapeake and Delaware Cana
l, where Back Creek flowed into what is now the canal.
Pa Genol Mag "John McKnitt maternal grandfather of John McKnitt Alexande
r, who was secretary of the Mecklenburg Convention of 1775, settled in Som
erset Co. Md probably in 1684. He was accompanied by his first wife Jan
e, whom he had married in Northern Ireland a short time before sailing f
or America. It is uncertain whether the McKnitts landed at Phil ~1630 - >1680 Mary Maxwell 50 50 REFN: 5671AN 1632 William Wallace REFN: 5672AN ~1660 Joseph Alexander REFN: 5673AN ~1662 John Alexander REFN: 5674AN ~1647 William Alexander REFN: 5675AN ~1648 Andrew Alexander REFN: 5676AN 1657 Samuel Alexander REFN: 5677AN 1654 Francis Alexander REFN: 5678AN 1652 James Alexander REFN: 5679AN ~1665 Jane Alexander REFN: 5680AN ~1581 John Wallace REFN: 5681AN ~1579 Margaret Maxwell REFN: 5682AN 1610 - >1634 Robert Alexander 24 24 REFN: 5683AN ~1607 - >1634 Mary Hamilton 27 27 REFN: 5684AN ~1598 Hugh Wallace REFN: 5685AN ~1599 Isabel Wallace REFN: 5686AN ~1603 Thomas Wallace REFN: 5687AN ~1604 James Wallace REFN: 5688AN ~1605 Robert Wallace REFN: 5689AN ~1608 Margaret Wallace REFN: 5690AN 1553 - >1592 John Maxwell 39 39 REFN: 5691AN ~1555 - >1582 Elizabeth Douglas 27 27 REFN: 5692AN ~1515 - 1552 Robert Maxwell 37 37 REFN: 5699AN ~1514 - >1583 Beatrice Douglas 69 69 REFN: 5700AN ~1598 - ~1689 Robert Maxwell 91 91 REFN: 5790AN ~1602 - ~1699 Lucy Douglas 97 97 REFN: 5791AN 1590 - 1677 John Alexander 87 87 REFN: 5802AN
Alexander Lineage Lines Early Immigrant to America coming before 1750 "Wil
liam Alexander, prob came from Scotland before 1675, settled in Somerset C
o., Md., where he was an extensive land trader in land; He m. and had iss
ue of record: (1) William Alexander, engaged in land deals with his fathe
r. A William, perhaps his son,, is listed as a corporal in Talbot's Co. M
d. Militia in 1748. There was a large colony of Alexander's in this Easte
rn Shore country as early as 1665; they resided there for about a centu
ry and finally dispersed to other sections, some to Cecil County, Md.
A William Alexander is mentioned frequently in Clayton Torrence, Old Somer
set on the Eastern Shore of Maryland: A Study in Foundations and Founde
rs (Baltimore: Regional Publishing Co., 1973; reprint o f 1935 ed.). ~1605 John Maxwell REFN: 5874AN ~1608 UNKNOWN Elizabeth REFN: 5875AN ~1573 - 1631 John Maxwell 58 58 REFN: 5876AN ~1585 Elizabeth Maxwell REFN: 5877AN ~1607 James Maxwell REFN: 5879AN ~1609 Frederick Maxwell REFN: 5880AN ~1613 Edward Maxwell REFN: 5881AN ~1611 Elizabeth Maxwell REFN: 5882AN ~1555 William Maxwell REFN: 5883AN ~1555 Catherine Kerr REFN: 5884AN ~1582 William Maxwell REFN: 5889AN ~1584 Robert Maxwell REFN: 5890AN ~1500 James Erskine REFN: 6175AN ~1510 Christian Stirling REFN: 6176AN ~1592 - 1677 Agnes Elizabeth Graham 85 85 REFN: 10862AN 1624 - >1690 William Alexander 66 66 REFN: 10863AN 1557 - 1640 William Alexander 83 83 REFN: 10864AN ~1575 Janet Erskine REFN: 10865AN ~1560 William Erskine REFN: 10869AN ~1563 UNKNOWN Joane ~1530 ? Erskine ~1646 - ~1692 Elizabeth Alexander 46 46 REFN: 5641AN
Joseph Alexander as well as Brevard, Knox, McKnitt, Polk,Wallace and
Wilson f amilies settled at the headwaters of the Manokin River now
Princess Anne. Als o on the Manokin were the two sisters, Elizabeth the
wife of Matthew Wallace a surveyor who had helped layout the boundaries
of Somerset, and Jane married to John McKnitt afarmer whose land was
named Glasgow after his ancestral Sco ttish home.Joseph Alexander married
Abigail McKnitt. DAR Evans "Elizabeth Ale xander appears to have married
Matthew Wallace who is on of thoes listed as " Iriish men" who took land
in the New Munster Strip in Northern Cecil Co.,Md."
Elkton, Cecil Co. Md. Land records Vol 2 Folio 280
This indenture made this 18 day of May 1715 between Thomas Stevenson of
Bucks
Co. Province of Penn. a nd Nathan (meant to be Matthias or Matthew)
Wallace, Yeoman, James Alexander, farmer, Arthur Alexander, farmer,David
Alexander, weaver, James Alexander, w eaver and Joseph Alexander,etc.This
tract of land contained 1150 acres being on the east siDe ofthe main
branch of the Elk river in Cecil County in the Pr ovince of Maryland; part
of said tract to James Alexander, weaver and his son Moses Alexander,
joint purchasers etc. In the presence of John Wallace, Elia s Alexander,
Thos. Stevenson and Sarah Stevenson
Rent Rolls "William Alexand er's Brother-in Law Matthew Wallace was
Neighbor"
Matthew Wallace m Elizabet h Alexander)
DAR Evans "Wiilliam Alexander . Settled in Somerset Md.abt 1665.A quired
"Hunting Qurter" (100 Acres) in Nov 12,1687 (Somerset Co. Deed Liber
06,p.879) and " Hogg Quarter" (100 acres) at the headwaters of Wicomoco
Cree k (at that time called river) and Monilin River,Was surveyed for him
25 April 1689.(Rent Rolls) In 1692 he was assistant to the court in
laying out the bo undaries for the original parishes in Somerset, as was
also a neighbor of his sister Elizabeth and brother in law William
Wallace (Old Somerset, 153) It i s believed that his wife was Ann Liston
of Letterkenny,Ireland, the dau. ofWi lliam Liston,minister of the Laggan
Presbytery in Northern Ireland.
Lee Park err " Elizabeth Alexander b. 1663 Raphoe, Donegal,Ulster,Ireland
d 1692 Scotl and m. Matthew Wallace, 1675, Raphoe,Donegal,Ulster Ireland.
Alex Kin pg 305 " Elizabeth Alexander m. Matthew Wallace from Scotland and
Ireland in Somerset Co Md,. "
Pa Genol mag " Elizabeth Alexander b 1650 Scotland moved to Ulster
Ireland d. Cecil Co Md
Lee Parkerr " Elizabeth Alexander b. 1663 Raphoe, Done gal,Ulster,Ireland
d 1692 m. Matthew Wallace, 1675, Raphoe,Donegal, Ulster Ir eland.
There is conflicting information as to the father of Elizabeth either t he
Rev James Alexander or William Alexander, I believe James is correct as
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