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Alexander GASTON

Alexander GASTON

Male 1727 - 1781  (54 years)

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  • Name Alexander GASTON 
    Born 1727  Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Occupation physician  [2, 3
    Died 20 Aug 1781  New Bern, Craven Co, NC Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Notes 
    • Received his medical degree from the University of Edinburgh, then joined the Royal British Navy as a surgeon. He was with the fleet in 1762 when Havana was taken by the British in the Seven Years' War between England and France. He was stricken with dysentery and left the navy for the American colonies to regain his health. He settled in New Bern, NC, sometime before May 1764. He was shot to death by Tory Captain John Cox in full view of his wife. He was a Captain in the North Carolina Militia. [6]
    Person ID I3321  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 21 May 2006 

    Father William GASTON,   b. 1680, Cloughwater, County Antrim, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. CA 1770, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years) 
    Mother Olivet LEMON,   b. 1688, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1752  (Age 64 years) 
    Family ID F1172  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Margaret SHARPE,   b. 1755, Cumberland County, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1811  (Age 56 years) 
    Married May 1775  [6, 7
    Children 
     1. (Male) GASTON,   b. Bef 1778,   d. IN INFANCY
    +2. William Joseph GASTON,   b. 19 Sep 1778, New Bern, Craven Co, NC Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Jan 1844, Raleigh, Wake Co, NC Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years)
    +3. Jane GASTON,   b. CA 1780
    Family ID F1190  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1727 - Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 20 Aug 1781 - New Bern, Craven Co, NC Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S557] William Gaston: Carolinian, J. Herman Schauinger, (Bruce Publishing Company, 1949).

    2. [S2134] Gaston of Chester, Chalmers Gaston Davidson, (Davidson Printing Co, Davidson NC (1956)), p. xi.

    3. [S504] Ohio Valley Genealogies, Charles A. Hanna, (Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900)), p. 41.

    4. [S504] Ohio Valley Genealogies, Charles A. Hanna, (Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore MD, 1989 (orig. pub. 1900)), p. 42.

    5. [S1868] The Ancestry and Descendants of Amzi Williford Gaston II (1841-1911) of Spartanburg County, South Carolina, Mary Gaston Gee (1899-1987), (Charlottesville, VA, 1944), p. 10.

    6. [S557] William Gaston: Carolinian, J. Herman Schauinger, (Bruce Publishing Company, 1949), p. 3.

    7. [S1867] The Bolling-Gay-Gaston-Brawley Paper Trail with Allied Families and Friends, Dorothy Perry Brawley, (1995), p. 109.