Can anyone document the Robert Alexander who was the son of Benjamin and Mary?

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Can anyone document the Robert Alexander who was the son of Benjamin and Mary?

Regarding your question on James Alexander and father as William

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Alexander-5754

James Alexander

in the Virginia, Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850

Name:	James Alexander
Location:	Augusta Co., VA
Property:	Corner John Alexander, Sr.
Notes:	This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.
Remarks:	Property part of 200 acres patented to Hugh Campbell, 25 Sep 1746, and by him conveyed to William Alexander and descended to James Alexander as heir-at-law. Delivered to Mrs. Gibson, 9 Aug 1784.
Description:	Landowner
Book:	23-339

Source Information

Ancestry.com. Virginia, Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2004.

Original data:

Chalkley, Lyman. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965. Originally published in 1912.

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Augusta County VA Deed Book 15
John Alexander to brother James Alexander
20 Mar 1769/1770
135 acres [part of 400 acres granted to Wm Alexander on Naked Creek]

[page 331]
This Indenture made the twentieth Day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty nine Between John Alexander of the County of Augusta of the one part and James Alexander his Brother of the County aforesaid of the other part Witnesseth that the said John Alexander for and in consideration of the sum of five shillings Current Money of Virginia to him in Hand paid by the same James Alexander at or before the sealing and delivery of these the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth grant bargain and sell unto

[page 332]
the said James Alexander and to his Heirs one certain piece or Tract of Land containing one hundred and thirty five acres being part of a larger Tract of four hundred Acres granted to William Alexander decd lying and being in the County of Augusts on the Head Branches of Naked Creek and bounded as followeth to wit Beginning at a White Oak and small black oak on the Patent Line and thence north forty degrees East fourteen poles to a Black Oak and Hiccory on a Ridge and thence South fifty five degrees East fifty poles to a Black Oak by a Road and thence South three Degrees West one hundred and twelve poles to a large White Oak and thence South thirty Degrees West eighty poles to the Patent Line and thence with the same North forty three Degrees West ninety six poles to three White Oaks on a Ridge and North forty seven Degrees East seventy six poles to a Black Oak North forty three Degrees West ninety six poles and North forty seven East one hundred and twelve poles to the Beginning and all Houses Buildings Orchards Ways Waters Water courses profits commodities Hereditaments and Appurtenances whatsoever to the said premises hereby granted or any part thereof belonging or in anywise Appurtaining and the Reversion and Reversions Remainder and Remainder rents Issues [?] and profits thereof To have and to hold the Lands hereby conveyed and all and singular this the premises hereby granted with the Appurtenances unto the said James Alexander his Executors Administrators and Assigns from the Day before the Date hereof for and during the full term and time of one whole year from thence rent [?] ensuing fully to be complete and ended yielding and paying therefore the Rent of one pepper corn on Lady Day next if the same shall be lawfully demanded to the intent and purpose that by Virtue of these Presents and of the Statute for transferring uses unto Possession the said James Alexander may be in actual possession of the premises and be thereby enabled to accept and take a grant and release of the Reversion and Inheritance thereof to him and his Heirs In Witness whereof the said John Alexander hath hereunto set his Hand and Seal the Day and year first above written.
[signed] John Alexander

Sealed and delivered
In the presence of
William Thompson
Matthew Thomson
John Thomson

At a Court continued and held for Augusta County
March 22, 1769 John Alexander acknowledged
this his release for land to James Alexander
Which is ordered to be Recorded.

Test [signed] J Madison
Clk of Court

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believe that the grandparents of James and John Alexander were William and Martha (maiden name unknown) Alexander who settled in Augusta County VA in 1746, buying their land from Hugh Campbell. This Hugh Campbell may be an ancestor of the Hugh Campbell who married Mary/Polly Alexander, a daughter of William and Agnes (Brewster) Alexander and possibly the father of Charles Campbell who married a Mary Alexander, possibly our William's sister or aunt

Augusta County VA Deed Book 25
John Alexander, James and Rachel Alexander to John Long
19 September 1786

[page 309]
This Indenture made the 19th of September in the year of our Lord God One Thousand Seven hundred eighty six between John Alexander and James Alexander and his wife Rachel of the County of Augusta of the one part and John Long of the County aforesaid of the other part Witnesseth that the said John Alexander & James & Rachel Alexander for & in consideration of the sum of two hundred & eighty six pounds [correct amount?] lawful money of Virginia in hand paid b the said John Long at or before the Sealing and delivery of these presents granted bargained and -..the said John Long his heirs and assigns forever - certain tracts or parcels of land containing two hundred acres being part of a tract of four hundred acres granted to William Alexander deceased -..the said John & James Alexander bounded as followeth, viz Beginning at a white oak corner -said William Alexander on the North

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Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted ..., Volume 3

By Augusta County (Va.), Lyman Chalkley

p 345.—17th May, 1768. James ( ) Alexander, eldest son and heirat-law of William Alexander, deceased, to John Alexander. 20 shillings, part of 400 acres patented by William Alexander, deceased, containing 200 acres, being tract conveyed by William Alexander, deceased, to Martha Alexander, 27th August, 1751, and after decease of Martha, who died intestate, descended to said William as heir-at-law to Martha, and after decease of William, who died intestate, descended to James Alexander as eldest son and heir, lying near the Long Glade; corner said William; corner Michael Dickey. Delivered: John Alexander. 23d June, 1786 ( i').

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Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted ..., Volume 3

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