| | |  I leave to my son John what land appears fit for meadow, above the old meadow, up to a marked white oak ; he is not to stop the old water course from watering the old meadow. | ALEXANDER ALEXANDER was born in County Down, Ireland, in the year 1731, and married
to Miss Agnes Kelly, of Dromore, in the same County, in 1767. Soon after his marriage he decided to cast his lot among the inhabitants of the New World, but his father-in-law looked upon America as a wilderness, inhabited only by the untutored savages, so he interposed and would not give his consent for his daughter to leave her comfortable home to seek another she knew not of. Feeling that in the course of time his father-in-law would relent, Alexander concealed his cherished hopes and plans and concluded to remain in his native land until a more favorable opportunity would present itself. Years rolled on, but without any encouragement to him whose heart was fixed on an imaginary home in another land, so in the year 1770 he bade his wife and two children (Joseph and John) farewell, expecting to see them soon again, and came to America alone. |
