Record of the descendants of John Alexander

Hugh Alexander. 41
married Leigh Richmond Baugher, of Adams county,
December 28, I860. Residence, New York City.
Children: a. Mary Whiteside Baugher. b. Thomas
Brooks Baugher — died. c. Henry Lewis Baugher — died.
CHAPTER II.
THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHN ALEXDANER, THE SON OF
HUGH.
It is uncertain whether John Alexander, the second
child and oldest son of Hugh Alexander, was born in
Nottingham, Chester Co., or in Sherman's Valley, then
in Cumberland, but now in Perry Co., Pa. His birth
was about the year 1756, when Indian incursions caused
his parents to change their residence several times
before being permanently established in the latter place
about 1758.
Little is known of his childhood and youth, which
were spent on his father's farm in Sherman's Valley,
near Landisburg, on the waters of Sherman's Creek.
From this retirement he came to the aid of his country
in the darkest hour of her distress, in December, 1776,
and was in the army at the capture of the Hessians at
Trenton, on the 25th of that month. The letter to his
father, already quoted, shows that he was yet in camp
on the 5th of February, 1777. March 22, '77, he
received pay for express riding for the Assembly. His
father having died suddenly in Philadelphia, in March
of the same year, on him and on his widowed step-
mother, as executors, devolved the settlement of the
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