Record of the descendants of John Alexander

42 The (Descendants of
estate and the care of the younger children. Several
years furnish only business papers relating to such mat-
ters.
About the year 1780 he married Miss Margaret
Clark,* of Sherman's Valley.
In 1787 he removed, with his wife and three chil-
dren, Frances, Hugh, and Samuel, to a tract of about
one thousand acres in Little Valley, Pa., which he had
purchased from Christopher Martin. Among his papers
is an article of agreement allowing John Wood, a tenant
of Martin, to take from the land certain growing crops
of that year; also a certificate of the membership of
himself and his wife in the Presbyterian church in Sher-
man's Valley, dated in 1787, and signed by the pastor,
the Rev. James Linn.
This tract lies four miles north-east from Lewistown,
the county-seat of Mifflin county, and one mile east of
Freedom Iron Works. It extends from the top of a
ridge on the south to Jacks Mountain, including lands
now occupied and owned by Mrs. Jane B. Alexander,
Mr. Hoofnoggle, James Alexander, and Henry P. Alex-
ander.
John Alexander bore the reputation of an intelligent,
upright, and pious man. He was one of the founders
of the Little Valley church, and for many years, and
* The brothers and sisters of this Clark family were :
] 1. Robert Clark, who married Mary, the sister of John Alexander.
2. Thomas ; 3. John ; 4. Mary ; 5. Frances ; 6. Margaret.
Frances Clark married Mr. McClintock, and moved to Kentucky, 1798.
4. Mary Clark married James Dickson, and removed to Little Valley,
Mifflin county, Pa., and lived on a farm, afterwards owned by William
Wills. Issue :
1. Thomas Dixon, who married Nancy Wright.
2. Margaret Dixon, married McGill Burns, of Mifflin county, Pa.
3. Mary Dixon, married James Burns, the father of James Burns, Esq.,
a wealthy citizen of Lewistown.
4. Frances Dixon, married George Kelley, and moved to Erie, Pa.