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- DAVIDSON, ALEXANDER
Ancestor #: A030045
Service:
NORTH CAROLINA Rank: CAPTAIN
Birth:
Abt 1755 ROWAN CO NORTH CAROLINA
Death:
16 Nov 1810 WILLIAMSON CO TENNESSEE
Service Description:
1) COL.FRANCIS LOCK
Alexander DAVIDSON Capt. was born 1745/1755 in Rowan County, North Carolina and was Christened in Bedford County, Tennessee abt 1805. He died 1818 in Belfast, now Marshall County, Tennessee and was buried in Round Hill Cemetery, Belfast, now Marshall County, Tennessee.
Alexander married Henrietta (Jane Henrietta) CLAYTON, daughter of George CLAYTON and Sarah LAMBERT, on 1769 in Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina. Henrietta was born 1745/1755 in Rowan County, North Carolina. She died after 1798 in Bedford County, (now Marshall County) Tennessee and was buried in Round Hill Cemetery, Belfast, Bedford County, (now Marshall County) Tennessee.
North Carolina Census, 1790-1890
Name: Alexander Davidson
State: NC
County: Caswell County
Year: 1777
Database: NC Early Census Index
Name: Alexander Davidson
Home in 1790 (City, County, State): Iredell, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 16: 3
Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females: 5
Number of Household Members: 9
1800 United States Federal Census
Name: Alexander Davidson
Home in 1800 (City, County, State): Salisbury, Iredell, North Carolina
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 4
Free White Persons - Males -10 thru 15: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over: 2
Number of Slaves: 2
Number of Household Members Under 16: 7
Number of Household Members Over 25: 3
Number of Household Members: 15
U.S. House of Representative Private Claims, Vol. 1
Name: Capt. Alexander Davidson, Representatives of
Nature of Claim: Compensation for services of ancestor in revolutionary war
Congress: 31
Session: 2
Manner Brought: Petition
Journal Page: 157
Referred to Committee: Rev. Pensions
House Disposed: Leave to withdraw
Information received from Bill Allen, West Bend, WI allen@nconnect.net(Dec 1997) His ancestor is Thomas son of Alexander. Another researchers is Mike Davidson, Oregon (2000) mikenpat@harborside.com
They came to Middle TN first to Williamson Co., later to Bedford/Marshall about 1805. Court records as of 2 Aug 1805, then again in 1808.
The dates were obtained from a book in the Marshall Co., TN Library and were submitted by Mrs. Thomas A. McAdams Rt 1 Petersburg, TN 37144. I understand that she is now deceased. The line of this Alexander DAVIDSON is also in the Marshall Co. History Quarterly. Other sources listed are: Mrs. J. B. Shapard, 500 N. Washington St., Tullahoma, TN 37388, Dr. C. R. King, 6811 Joyce, Austin, TX 78757, Mrs. Helen M. Whitson, 1604 Greenberry Rd., Jefferson City, M0 65101, R. T. Davidson, 515 Agee Ave NW, Camden, AR 71701, and Mrs. LaRue F. Davidson, 1679 Speedway Apt D., Witchita Falls, TX 76301
My Elizabeth & John McADAMS are also on the list of entries submitted by the same above document submitted by Mrs. McAdams.
Alexander & family came to middle TN (first to Williamson Co., later to Bedford/Marshall County) about 1805. (Court records in Williamson Co., TN 2 Aug 1805, and again in 1808.)
Captain Davidson was living in Rowan Co., when the war began and records show he enlisted April 16, 1776. He was in Colonel Thomas Clark's Company, First NC Battalion. "Sketches of Western NC" by Hunter, gives a good account of his participation in the war.
This is the account that was printed in the "Marshall County Revolutionary War Patriots", by Jane Alford;
Captain Alexander Davidson
Captain Alexander Davidson was born before 1755 in Rowan County, North Carolina, and died in Bedford County (now Marshall County), Tennessee in 1818. He was the son of Revolutionary soldier, Joseph Davidson who was born ca. 1725 and died after September 15, 1795 in Statesville, North Carolina. Captain Davidson married Henrietta Clayton in Rowan County, in 1769. She was the daughter of George Clayton b. 1723, d. in 1786, and Sarah Lambert. Henrietta was born in 1745.
Captain Davidson was living in Rowan County, when the was began and records show he enlisted April 26, 1776. He was in Colonel Thomas Clar's Company, First North Carolina Battalion. Sketches of Western North Carolina by Hunter, gives a good account of his participation in the war.
"Captain Alexander Davidson was one of the earliest settlers on the Western part of Rowan County (now Iredell). He took an active part in the Revolutionary struggle for independence. When Cornwallis was moving from Charleston toward North Carolina and General Gates was orderded to meet him, Governor Caswell, of North Carolina ordered a draft of men to strengthen Gate's Army. In response to this order the people in that part of Iredall County bordering on the Catawaba River below the Island Ford, assembled at a central point, afterwards known as Brown's Muster Ground, when a company wsa formed under the draft, and Alexander Davidson was elected Captain.
Soon afterward Captain Davidson marched his company to Gates' rendezvous when that officer moved his army to the unfortunate and sanguinary field of Camden, South Carolina. In that disastrous engagement Captain Davidson's compant took an active part, and the greater portion of them was cut to pieces."
Captain Davidson and his wife came early to Tennessee for he appears in Williamson County, Tennessee, court records as of August 2, 1805 and again in 1808.
He and his wife are buried in Round Hill Cemetery at Belfast, Tennessee in unmarked graves.
Their children were as follows:
(1) Joseph Davidson, b. Aug. 15, 1779 in Iredell Co., NC, d. June 3, 1859, Married (1) Sarah Nesbit, d. 1825, married (2) Salina Hart, b. 1800, d. 1863
(2) Thomas Davidson, b. May 21, 1783, in NC, d. March 3, 1864, married 1815 Sarah Leeper Miller, b. Dec. 29, 1798 in SC, d. Feb. 12, 1874, the daughter of James Miller. (Buried in Round Hill Cemetery)
(3) Sarah Davidson, d. Aug. 3, 1839, married Silas Sharp, b. 1779, d. 1851
(4) James Davidson
(5) Obdediah Davidson
Probably others. Legend has it that another daughter is Elizabeth Henretta Davidson, b. June 13, 1789, d. Aug. 17, 1855, (Buried in McAdams Cemetery near Richmond, TN) married John McAdams.
References:
Hunter, Sketches of Western North Carolina in the Revolutionary War
Miss Susie Gentry's papers in the State of Tennessee Achives, Nashville, TN
Research by Joseph W. Watson, Rocky Mount, NC
Davidson family Research by Mildred F. Roberts
DAR Patriot Index, 1966 p. 177
DAR National No. 27801
SAR National No. 1025 Pa
Colonial and State Records of NC, Rev. War, Voucher #5962 Salisbury Dist, 178 for militay service
He supposedly served under his father in the Revolutionary War.
U.S. House of Representative Private Claims, Vol. 1
Name: Capt. Alexander Davidson, Representatives of
Nature of Claim: Compensation for services of ancestor in revolutionary war
Congress: 31
Session: 2
Manner Brought: Petition
Journal Page: 157
Referred to Committee: Rev. Pensions
House Disposed: Leave to withdraw
Capt Alexander Davidson
Birth 1745
Statesville, Iredell County, North Carolina, USA
Death 1818 (aged 72–73)
Lewisburg, Marshall County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Round Hill Cemetery
Belfast, Marshall County, Tennessee, USA
Memorial ID 94942548
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Abt 1745 - 1818 (73 years)
