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    1. Re: [ALEXANDER-L] Dr. Isaac Alexander of Camden, SC
    2. Susan McIntyre
    3. Hello Alice, My Alexander interest is in the families found in Frederick Co. Md, could you please be kind enough to share your documentation for Isaac s/o Abraham & Dorcas Alexander. Do you have any records to prove who the father of this Abraham Alexander was? From what I can tell there were several Abraham Alexanders in Frederick Co. Md during the 1750s - one is possibly a son of Elias (wife Ann) who died 1751 in Frederick Co. Md and another older Abraham who appears to be the son of Moses Alexander of Cecil Co. Md. . Thank you, Susan McIntyre Alice Campbell wrote: > Dr. Isaac Alexander, son of Lt. Col. Abraham Alexander (the Signer) > and Dorcas (Wilson) Alexander, was born 5 Dec 1757 in Frederick Co., > MD. He came with his parents to Mecklenburg Co., NC a few years > later. He is said to have married 4 times. > 1st to a woman named [Unk.] Reese, no children. Then on 18 May 1775 > he married Catherine Orr. They had two children, Albert B. Alexander, > b. 1 Oct 1776 (died young), and Amelia Alexander, b. 5 Apr 1781. She > married William Adamson. After Catherine's death, Isaac next married > on 14 Dec 1788 Margaret Brisbane Smith, dau of William Brisbane and > Margaret Stewart, widow of John Smith (and mother of Maria 'Elizabeth > Smith who married Henry Dana Ward). Isaac & Margaret had no children. > After her death Isaac married once again on 15 Jul 1807 to Sarah > Thornton and they had 2 children, Henry Dana Ward Alexander, b. 19 Jun > 1810 (who married Mary White Alexander), and Isaac Brownfield > Alexander, b. 28 Jan 1812, (who married Elizabeth Margaret Gilman). > Dr. Isaac Alexander died in Camden, SC on 13 Jan 1812, he last child > being born a couple of weeks after his death. > > Isaac Alexander was a physician. In 1777 he was president of Queen's > College/Queen's Museum (also called Liberty Hill) in Charlotte, > Mecklenburg co., NC. Some of the trustees at that time were Abraham > Alexander(his father), John McKnitt Alexander (his father's first > cousin), Dr. Ephraim Brevard (his 3rd cousin), Thomas Polk, Thomas > Reese (possibly his father-in-law or brother-in-law), and Waightstill > Avery. > > During the war he moved to Camden and was present in his position as a > physician at the Battle of Camden and rendered great service to the > fallen commander Baron Von Kalb. > > He died 13 Jan 1812 in Camden and was buried in the Old Presbyterian > Church Cemetery. > If you'd like more on him on his line, just let me know. > If anyone has any more information on him, please also let me know. > The good doctor was my ggg granduncle. > Alice Campbell > >

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