Record of the descendants of John Alexander

Introduction. 1 3
makes it almost certain that the same had been the
residence of his father also. His removals from place
to place, taken in connection with the newness and the
distractions of the settlements, must account for our
knowing so little of an ancestor whose memory thou-
sands of living descendants would love to cherish.
Mr. Scott, a Postmaster in Mercersburg, who was
eighty-eight years of age in 1830, and had been a near
neighbor to John Alexander, both when he lived near
Carlisle and afterwards near Chambersburg, testified to
the incorruptible integrity and general excellence of
his character. " Few men," said he, " could be found
like that John Alexander."
Having made these introductory remarks respecting
the Founder of our Family, we will give some account
of his posterity on the plan of devoting a separate Part
of the Record to the descendants of each one of his
children, Hugh, James, Rachel, and John. His other
daughter, Margaret, died without issue.