Alexander Kirkpatrick (abt. 1736 - aft. 1758)

Born about 1736 in Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret Anderson — married 1750 in Somerset, New Jersey

Died after Jun 1758 after about age 22 in Somerset, New Jersey [uncertain]

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Biography

He was the son of Alexander Kirkpatrick and Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, whose story of arrival in the Colonies is told as: "Two sons, Alexander and Andrew Kirkpatrick, came to the colonies together. Their story is recounted in an article titled "Kirkpatrick Family of Somerset Co" in the "Somerset County Historical Quarterly" vol III (1994). They came over with their wives and children in a particularly bad crossing where they ran out of food. The families landed in New Castle, DE starving and broke and ended up going to New Jersey on foot."^[1]

He married Margaret Anderson of Boundbrook in New York. They had one daughter, Martha, who married John Stevenson.^[2]

Research Notes

1. From original GedCom import: Found birth record of Alexander Kirkpatrick born 1704 in Scotland. (Birth Records CD # 17 - extracted from Lineage Linkage CD-100)
2. Judgment was entered against Oliver Delaney in favor of Alexander Kirkaptrick, et al on 15 Jun 1793 in the County of Somerset, New Jersey.^[3]
3. Alexander and wife Elizabeth, their children, Andrew, David and daughter Jennet settled in Mine Brook, 2 miles west of Basking Ridge, on the southern slope of Round Mountain.
4. Leased 137 acres granted 23 Nov 1747
5. Alexander Junior and Mary were not born yet when they settled.

Sources

1. ↑ Somerset County Historical Quarterly. (1914). United States: Somerset County Historical Society. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Somerset_County_Historical_Quarterly/W-c5AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1
2. ↑ Blackburn, W. M. (William Maxwell)., Hale, G., Kirkpatrick, J. (1867). The Kirkpatrick memorial: or, Biographical sketches of father and son and a selection from the sermons of the Rev. Jacob Kirkpatrick, jr.. Philadelphia: Westcott & Thomson. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101015317918
3. ↑ Somerset County (New Jersey) County Clerk, Deeds, 1779-1901, Deeds Volume A 1779-1796, Page 259, Salt Lake City, Utah, Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSGD-PS66-K?i=141&cat=219590

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of PittsPenn_2010-09-21.ged on 22 September 2010.