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Persoonlijke gegevens Capt. John Alexander 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1603 in Scotland.
• Geïmmigreerd in het jaar 1659.
• (Vestryman) in het jaar 1666 in Potomac Church.Bron 4
• (Will proved) op 14 november 1677 in Stafford Co., Virginia.Bron 5
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1677 in Caledon, Stafford Co., Virginia, hij was toen 74 jaar oud.
• Een kind van William Alexander en Janet Erskine
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 4 december 2022.

Gezin van Capt. John Alexander

Hij is getrouwd met Catherine Graham.

Zij zijn getrouwd.

Kind(eren):

1. John Alexander  1635-1675
2. Robert Alexander  1633-< 1704 
3. Phillip Alexander  ± 1650-1706 

Notities over Capt. John Alexander

From: A History of Chapman and Alexander Families by BY SIGISMUNDA MARY FRANCES CHAPMAN
VIRGINIA BOOK COMPANY P. O. BOX 431 BERRYVILLE, VIRGINIA 22611
Col. Edmund Scarborough purchased a tract of land in the Northern Neck (later a part of Stafford Co.) He sold one-half of it to John Alexander in 1659. This tract, containing 1,950 acres, became the permanent home of the Alexanders. John Alexander, settled there in 1663-64, establishing a family which grew to be numerous and influential, with important branches in Virginia and elsewhere. John Alexander was a surveyor by profession and selected a choice spot for his home in Stafford County (later King George County), which he called "Salisbury." It overlooked the Potomac and was near the main highway, the "Ridge road," which was not more than an Indian trail at that time. Here five generations of Alexanders lived.
John Alexander immediately became prominent upon his arrival in the colony, and was accorded many positions of responsibility and trust. His two sons, Robert and Philip, did likewise and were also men of importance. They were the founders of the noted Alexander family of Virginia for whom the town of Alexandria was named.
In Accomac Co., John patented there in 1659, with Littleton Scarborough and Tabitha Smart (sister of Scarborough), 1,500 acres of land, for transporting thirty persons into the colony. In 1663 he witnessed a deed. In 1664 served on a coroner's jury. In the same year, was awarded a judgement by the court of Accomac in a law suit in which Col. Edmund Scarborough was his attorney.
Governor Berkeley, on March 10, 1659, gave John Alexander title to the 1,950 acres then in Westmoreland County. Half of the tract was previously owned by John Bagnall and Col. Edmund Scarborough, successively. The latter assigned to John Alexander, who, five years later, built "Salisbury." When he came to the new county of Stafford (erected from Westmoreland in 1664) he took a leading part in its organization. In that year he was appointed Justice and High Sheriff, as well as presiding at the first court for the county, May 27, 1664. This office was of great importance in the colonies, both in Maryland and Virginia, as it was the highest gift of the Council, and a post of honor without remuneration and carried with it the title of Captain.
John's name headed the list when he was made vestryman, on November 8, 1666, of Potomac Parish, first in the county, and was again elected, in 1667, with Robert Townshend, George Mason and others. There were no church buildings then, so the "reading of Divine Service" was ordered to be held "at such houses as were appointed by the Court." Parishes were early formed in the colonies as in England. This office of vestryman had many civic duties of importance and responsibility for which he was accountable to the State. It was necessary to be a resident freeholder of the parish to hold the office.
The Potomac Parish was divided in 1700: the lower part was St. Paul's and the upper Overwharton Parish. The old register of St. Paul's Parish, now in King George County, dating 1716 to 1793, has the names of generations of Alexanders who worshipped there and the family has been represented in that parish ever since as a number of the attendants now trace a direct descent from the first John Alexander.

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