1.     CAPTAIN William1 Alexander was born December 25, 1746 in CECIL CO., MARYLAND, and died August 14, 1830 in SUMNER Co., TN. He married Mary Brandon January 01, 1769 in ROWAN CO., NORTH CAROLINA, daughter of Richard Brandon and Margaret Locke. She was born November 11, 1749 in ANSON CO., NORTH CAROLINA, and died September 26, 1834 in SUMNER CO., TN.

Notes for CAPTAIN William Alexander:
REVOLUTIONARY WAR VETERAN
Buried on original grant « mile southeast of Hartsville, Trousdale (formerly Smith) County known as the Gleaves place. Graves marked with upright slabs now falling through, moderately well preserved. Wall which surrounded graves is scattered and removed Bible Records-Tomb Inscriptions.

In the year 1775 he enlisted as a private in the company of Capt. William Brandon, whose sister Mary Brandon he had married, "against the common enemy".
In 1776 he was appointed by General Griffith Rutherford, Capt. of a company of spies and in an engagement with the Cherokee Indians at Seven Mile Mountain in Sept. of that year he received a gunshot wound in the right foot which kept him out of the military service until 1781, when he entered the army again as Capt. in Colonel Wade Hampton's regiment of South Carolina troops and participated in the battles of Cowpens, Fort Motte, Granby, Bigger's Church and the Siege of Ninety-Six.

In the year 1796, William Alexander came to Tennessee and settled something like half-a-mile southeast of Hartsville then in Sumner Co., at the place known as the Monroe Graves place, where he resided until his death in 1830. He erected, or had erected, the brick residence which still stands there (as of Sept. 18, 1921). He died suddenly of apolexy while sitting on his front porch. His wife survived him four years, and both of them are buried just back of the garden, the inscriptions on their tombstones being yet legible and their names appearing as William Alexander and Mary Alexander.

William Alexander was a gallant soldier and a patriot. He is frequently referred to in Wheeler's History of North Carolina and always as William Alexander or Capt. William Alexander. He was a member of the first County Court of Smith Co. (TN) which met at the house of Tilman Dixon, Dec. 16, 1799 and his name appears on the records of the court as William Alexander. He lived and died as William Alexander

Children of William Alexander and Mary Brandon are:
+2      i. Richard2 Alexander, born November 11, 1769 in ROWAN CO., NORTH CAROLINA; died October 15, 1855.
+3      ii. William Locke Alexander, born August 13, 1775 in ROWAN CO., NORTH CAROLINA; died December 12, 1851 in FULTON CO., KY.
4      iii. Margaret Jane Alexander, born October 19, 1780 in Rowan CO., NORTH CAROLINA; died March 20, 1841. She married Dr. Redmond Barry December 23, 1803.

Notes for Margaret Jane Alexander:
known as "the Cumberland Beauty"

Notes for Dr. Redmond Barry:
Settled 4 miles below Gallatin, TN where Nashville Pike crosses Station Camp Creek-became practicing attorney owned 428 acres on Salt Lick Creek, 640 acres on Martin's Creek, 640 acres on Indian Creek, 1000 acres on the south side of Cumberland River. Said to have brought the first thoroughbred stallion and first bluegrass to the country west of the Cumberland Mountain

5      iv. Mary Brandon Alexander, born in ROWAN CO., NORTH CAROLINA. She married Gov. William Hall.

Notes for Gov. William Hall:
Governor of Tennessee