The first white woman who came into Alexander was Mrs. Samuel Cottle in the year 1813, the same year four families came from Machias and settled on Breakneck Hill." "The first schools were taught in 1822. One in a log house built for the purpose near Mr. Scribner's. Mr. Barstow being teacher. The other in a log house on Burnt Barn Hill." There is a road going up to Burnt Barn Hill near where L. B. Carter lived at the time of this tape. The woman continued reading, "The first child born was Freeman T. Fenlason. And, the first death was Mrs. Mary Young in 1814." Another woman said, "Freeman Putnam Fenlason born on June 14, 1814. That's copied from Mrs. Fenlason's records." Pliney Frost said that Annaniah Bohanon was buried on his land which later became the McPheters place. Then he read from one of the clippings "The foregoing was communicated to the writer by Mr. Annaniah Bohanon now about 85 years old who commenced on the farm where he now lives in 1811." Jane Dudley said that the first settlers of Alexander settled up around the Four Corner area. Pliney Frost continued reading the newspaper clipping and said that the town was then called Township Number 16 and was settled in the summer of 1810 by William Conney and Solomon Perkins on the farm now occupied by John Gooch. Pliney Frost read a paragraph from "History of Early Baileyville," by Bailey. "In Calais after he came from St. Andrews, New Brunswick in 1786, Nathaniel Bailey apparently lived as a squatter about one mile south of town center in Calais. Nearby were the farms of Daniel Bohanon, William Hill, and the Nobles. Daniel Hill, a former member of Rogers Rangers, was the first white settler in Calais in 1779. He had come from Machias where he was among the first group of 15 settlers to arrive in Captain Buck's boat in 1763. John Bohanon, a brother of Daniel Bohanon, had settled in the center of Calais and he later was to become the first settler in nearby Alexander." Pliney thought that John Bohanon was Annaniah's father. Jane Dudley commented that perhaps Harold Bohanon was the last male with that name who lived in Alexander. Pliney Frost said that he had a brother, Asher Bohanon, who lived in woodland. There was another brother who was killed in Belgium during World War Two.