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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alexander, William, 1726-1783 (search)
he founders of the New York Society Library, and also of King's College (now Columbia University). Alexander Humphreys, born in Birmingham, England, in 1783, claimed the earldom of Stirling. In 1824 he obtained the royal license to assume the name of Alexander, because he had a maternal grandfather of that name, and his deceased mother was a great-great-granddaughter of John Alexander, fourth son of William Alexander, the last earl of Stirling, and all intermediate heirs had become extinct. For a short time he exercised the privileges of an earl, and he even claimed vast possessions in Nova Scotia; but after a legal investigation he was stripped of his titles and pretensions, and in 1839 he sank into oblivion. Many of the original surveys in New Jersey made by William Alexander and his father are now in the possession of the New Jersey Historical Society, and are frequently consulted by lawyers to quiet titles to real estate. William Alexander died in Albany, N. Y., Jan. 15, 1783.
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onvict Andre as a spy......Sept. 29, 1780 General Washington approves the finding of the board......Sept. 30, 1780 Major Andre hanged at Tappan at twelve o'clock, noon, and buried there......Oct. 2, 1780 Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, coming from England, settles with a body of that sect near Albany, 1774, and establishes a community of them at New Lebanon......1780 William Alexander (Lord Stirling), major-general in the American army, dies at Albany, aged fifty-seven......Jan. 15, 1783 Order of the Cincinnati founded by the officers of the army encamped on the Hudson......May 13, 1783 Treaty of peace with Great Britain signed at Paris......Sept. 3, 1783 British evacuate New York City......Nov. 25, 1783 Long Island and Staten Island evacuated by the British, who embark......Dec. 4, 1783 General Washington bids farewell to his officers at Fraunce's Tavern, New York......Dec. 4, 1783 University of the State of New York is established by an act of the leg