Display Patriot - P-102401 - Robert ALEXANDER

Robert ALEXANDER

SAR Patriot #: P-102401

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
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State of Service: NC Qualifying Service: Captain

DAR #: A001237

Birth: 1743 / Bladen / NC
Death: 1813 / Lincoln / NC

Qualifying Service Description:

Colonel WM GRAHAM, TYRON REGT, MILITIA,

Additional References:

DAR cite NC REV. ARMY ACC.SEC.OF STATE TREASURERS & COMPT PAPERS JOURNAL "A" 1775-1776 PP. 9,10
Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, by C. L. Hunter
Patriot Grave and Biography Report 27 Jan 2025, Compatriot Guy T Wallace (NC) member 211592

Spouse: Mary Jack; Margaret Reily
Children: Mary; Robert; J Alexander; Margaret; Eliza; Evaline; Charity

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Burial:

Goshen (aka Goshen Presbyterian Church) Cemetery_(C-0371159)

Location:

Belmont / Gaston / NC / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

1192379

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

35.275190 / -81.053270

Find A Grave Memorial #:

173282901

Marker Type:

SAR Granite

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

20 Apr 2024

Comments:

Image taken and provided with permission from compatriot Guy T Wallace (NC) member 211592.

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

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(gps: 35.275163888889,-81.053319444444)

Author: Doyle E. Campbell
"Mary Jack, third daughter of Patrick Jack, of Charlotte, married Captain Robert Alexander, of Lincoln county, who emigrated from Pennsylvania to North Carolina about 1760. He commanded a company during the Revolution, in the Cherokee expedition, under General Rutherford; acted for several years as Commissary, and performed other minor, but important trusts for the county. He was one of the early band of patriots who met at Newbern on the 25th of August, 1774, and again attended the Convention at Hillsboro, on the 21st of August, 1775. After the war, he settled on his farm, one mile northwest of Tuckasege Ford, on the Catawba Rive. His residence was long a general stopping-place for travelers, and painted red--hence, it was widely known as the "Red House Place."

He was elected to the State Legislature consecutively from 1781 to 1787; and acted, for many years, as one of the magistrates of the county, showing the general acceptance with which his services were held. He died in 1813, aged about seventy years, and is buried in Goshen graveyard, Gaston county, N.C."

Source: http://person.ancestry.com/tree/56882596/person/42040322952/facts

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