↑ Alexander-5989 was created by Al Alexander through the import of Alexander Jr Family Tree.ged on Jan 11, 2015. This comment and citation can be deleted after the biography has been edited and primary sources are included.
Scots and Scotch Irish Frontier Life in North Caolina, Virginia, and Kentucky by Larry J Hoefling pg 69 shows John McKnitt Alexander, Abraham Alexander, Hezekiah Alexander, Thomas Polk, Dr. Ephraim Brevard, John Phifer were in a meeting in Mecklenburg NC when someone brought the news that the British were attacking in Lexington and Concord so they decided to develop a committee to write a response to the attacks. The outcome of the Committee was the Mecklenburg Resolves that was said to be debated by Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, The debate was over whether the document known as the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence really existed a year before the official American Declaration of Independence of 1776 that had many of the same phrases and wording.
Source: S-468370550 Repository: #R-996643787 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note:
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