Archibald Alexander was a farmer, like nearly all the early settlers of Rockbridge Co, but living on the early dangerous American frontier. He was commissioned into the military service and fought in the French and Indian Wars between 1750-1760. He captained a company of Rangers at the Sandy Creek expedition and for this service he received several thousand acres of land in Kentucky. Archibald who was an elder in Timber Ridge Presbyterian Church was married twice. In 1734 to his cousin Margaret Parks. She died in 1753, and four years later he married Jane McClure who was also Irish born. He had seven children by the first marriage and eight by the second. (JB orig site creator)

Archibald Alexander was born on 4 Feb 1708 in Ulster. His will was probated on 1 Feb 1780 in Rockbridge, Co., VA, so he died prior to this date.

He married twice. First to his cousin Margaret Parks (1708-1753, the daughter of Joseph Parks) on 31 Dec 1734 in Ireland. Widowedin 1753, he married second, to Jane McClure in 1757 in Augusta Co., Virginia.

With Margaret (1708 - 1753), he had 5 known Alexander children: Elizabeth, William, Phoebe, Jane and jean.

With Jane ("1734-1780"), he had 5 known Alexander children: Joseph, John, James, Samuel and Archibald, Jr.

Archibald Alexander, "native to Scotland, settled in County Donegal," (Republic of) Ireland, just west of Ulster. He had a son William and grandson Archibald, II, born 4 Feb 1708. He came to our colony across the pond, in 1736, settling in Chester Co., PA and 11 years later, moved to Rockbridge Co., VA. The History of Virginia, V. 5, p 450. Gives details on son John.

Joseph Waddells' Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, supplement has data above, adding he was born in County Down instead of County Donegal.

"The sons of a certain Archibald Alexander removed from Scotland to Ireland, in the great immigration in the early part of the 17th century. Their names were, Strong, William, and Thomas. One of these had a son William, remarkable for his corpulency. This WILLIAM had four sons, ARCHIBALD, William, Robert and Peter. Peter died in Londonderry; the other three removed to America about the year 1736. Archibald, the eldest, born in the Manor of Cunningham, Ireland, Feb. 4th, 1708, married his cousin Margaret Parks, Dec. 31st, 1734, — "a pious woman, of a spare frame, light hair, and florid countenance." Their eldest child Eliza, was born in Ireland, Oct. 1735. They took their residence in America in 1737, near Nottingham. Here their children, William, Ann, Joseph, and Hannah were born. Mr. Alexander being persuaded by his wife to hear Mr. Whitefield, became a convert. In the division of the Presbyterian Church which followed the great revival, the family was numbered with the new side — or new lights. Their place of worship was called Providence." See (Presbyterian Minister) William Henry Foote's (1794-1869) Sketches of Virginia, Historical and Biographical. Note: The "Manor of Cunningham" or Manorcunningham is now referred to as simply Manor, a small village or townland in County Donegal on the north west coast of Ireland. Unsourced.

He is mentioned multiple time in The Pioneer Presbyterians of New Providence in the Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society, Jun 1922, Vol. XI, #6, by S Gordon Smyth, p 196-203, titled The Pioneer Presbyterians of New Providence, It describes the emigrant Archibald Alexander, who married his first wife, Margaret Parks in Ireland in 1734. They left County Armagh, N. Ireland in 1737 and settled in Pennsylvania. First in Nottingham, Chester Co., PA, then Norriton Twp, Philadelphia Co., PA and lastly about 12 miles east of Lexington, VA in Timber Ridge on the Borden land grant. He was one of the first church elders at the Timber Ridge. In 1756-57 he was "Captain of a company of volunteer frontier rangers, along with Col. Alex. McNutt on the Big Sandy Expedition against the Shawnees on the Ohio." (per Waddell, p 83). He and others organized the Augusta Academy. His first wife died and in 1757, he married Jane McClure. Archibald was one of Rockbridge Counties' first appointed justices after 1777 and simultaneously elected high sheriff of Rockbridge. Source includes data on his brother Robert, his son William and his grandson Archibald. Unsourced.

Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish settlement in Virginia: extracted ..., Volume 3, page 429 in Deed Book 12: "Page 139.--20th August, 1765. Archibald Alexander to Joseph Alexander, £30, 256 acres, crossing the South River. Teste: John Lowrey, John Peoples, Nathaniel McClure."

The Westminster Presbyterian site has the "Archibald Alexander Travelogue" by Sherman Isbell: "The older Archibald Alexander died about 1780 and is apparently buried two miles north, at Muse Cemetery, the older burying ground for Timber Ridge Church, though his grave stone is now gone."1-11. The site has a LOT OF DATA: http://www.westminsterconfession.org/the-doctrines-of-grace/archibald-alexander-travelogue.php