History, NC, Mecklenburg, Augustus & Susan Alexander




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                                 THE LIBRARY

                    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

                            PERIODICAL COLLECTION




                                     THE
                             AMERICAN HISTORICAL
                                  MAGAZINE

                      REPRESENTING THE CHAIR OF AMERICAN
                            HISTORY IN THE PEABODY
                                NORMAL COLLEGE


                      American Historical Magazine 1896
                             Christopher Columbus


                     DEVOTED ESPECIALLY TO THE HISTORY OF
                        TENNESSEE AND ADJOINING STATES

                  PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE PEABODY NORMAL
                         COLLEGE, AT NASHVILLE, TENN

W. R. GARRETT, Editor.
W. R. PAYNE, Business Manager.

$3.00 PER ANNUM.
SINGLE NUMBER, 85 CENTS.

                     University Press, Nashville, Tenn.




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PEDIGREE OF THE POLLOK OR POLK FAMILY.                                    177

…

Statement of Augustus Alexander.
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, August 1, 1844.

I was acquainted with Col. Ezekiel Polk from my boyhood until he removed from
North Carolina. I am now seventy-two years of age. I lived about one mile and
a half of him during the whole time. Ezekiel Polk and my father were always
intimate. My father was a signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration of
Independence. I never heard this charge of Toryism until I saw it in the
Charlotte Journal. I was indignant when I saw it, and pronounced it then, and
do now, a slander. He lived in Mecklenburg for many years after the
Revolution, and stood high as a man of talents and stern integrity.

AUGUSTUS ALEXANDER.

Statement of Susan Alexander.
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, August 1, 1844.

I have a good memory, and was an active person in the time of the
Revolutionary War. I heard that Ezekiel Polk did take protection in order to
protect his family and property from the ravages of the Tories. I have never
heard the least suspicion of his bearing arms against his country or his
intention to do so, and I certainly would have heard it, if it had been so. I
have heard that he was one of the signers of the Declaration of In dependence
in Mecklenburg, and believe him to have been a man of stern integrity and
talents.

SUSAN ALEXANDER.

[Mrs Susan Alexander is the lady with whom Gen. Jackson and his mother stayed
for several weeks, when driven by the British from the Waxaws.]




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