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- CAME TO AMERICA IN 1791 WITH THEIR TWO FIRST BORN CHILDREN.
UNCERTAIN OF DEATH DATE (7 OR 10 OCT 1843)
Alexander Douglass was born in New Galloway, Scotland. He left Scotland for County Antrim, Ireland. There he met and married his bride, Grace, who was born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland. In the year 1790, the young couple from County Antrim, Ireland (Alexander Douglass, Sr., age 32, and his wife, Grisell (Grace) Brown Douglass, age 27) set sail for America with their two small children. Mary (Mollie) was two years old and John was one. Because of stormy weather, it is said, they were near the port but unable to land for a month. They landed in December of 1790, and settled in the Jackson Creek Community. In 1793, their third child, James, was born in Fairfield County (their first child to be born in America). In 1797, William was born, and in 1799 another son, Alexander Douglass, JR was born. In the year 1801, [our antecedent], Charles Brown Douglass, the father of Thomas Goulding Douglass, was born. The last child to be born to Alexander and Grace was Samuel. William became a physician. Alexander, Sr. died Sept. 21, 1822 at 64 years of age. His wife, Grace, died Oct. 7, 1843 at the age of 80 years. They are both buried in Jackson Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery (sometimes referred to as Stone Manse
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