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Title: History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania / v.1
Authors: Boucher, John Newton, 1854-1933., Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921
Pg. 541
GENERAL ALEXANDER CRAIG was born Nov. 20, 1755. He was married to JANE CLARK, the second daughter of JAMES CLARK. The marriage ceremony was performed by the noted pioneer minister, REV. JAMES (pg. 542) POWER. The bride was arrayed in a home-grown and home-spun linen dress, bleached until it was perfectly white. GENERAL CRAIG was commissioned lieutenant-colonel of militia in 1793, and a brigadier-general in 1807 and again in 1811...The farm upon which he lived had been purchased in 1773 from SAMUEL WALLACE, a merchant of Philadelphia, who had purchased it in 1769 from LOVEDAY ALLEN...He was about six feet tall, and very muscular. His death occurred on the 29th of October, 1832, age 77 years, and he was buried at Congruity Cemetery.
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