Col. Adam Alexander

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Col. Adam Alexander was a large landowner, a churchman, a patriot and a soldier. He was justice of the peace and a member of the county court, being known as "Justice Alexander". He was captain of a company of militia and took several conferences concerning Indian raids. He was a signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration of independence and a colonel of the Minute Men during the Revolutionary War. He and his wife, Mary Shelby, were parents of six children. (An Alexander Family, Our Alexander Heritage (1978) by Clarence D. Alexander.

Col. Adam Alexander settled in what is known as Clear Creek neighborhood, North Carolina where his family worshiped at Rock Springs Church. He was a patriot and soldier. His family worshiped at Rock Springs Church.

Both Col. Adam Alexander and his wife, Mary Shelby, are buried in the old Rock Springs graveyard near the First Philadelphia Presbyterian Church where Adam was one of the first elders.