FOURTEENTH GENERATION

14176. Alexander Magruder (114) (201) was born in 1610. He died in 1677. Alexander Magruder came from Glenartney, Perthshire, Scotland. At the age of twelve he was fined with others for illegally carrying arms and shooting deer and wildfowl near Cargill in 1622.

He probably acted as factor for Lord Maderty in Dunblane Parish, Strathallen. Likewise he was probably also the "Allaster Mcgruder" who served in Col. Sir Thomas Ruthven's regiment of the Army of the League and Covenant in England in 1645-46. He is believed to have been captured, perhaps at the Battle of Worcester, in 1651, and transported to America as a prisoner.

He was settled by 1653 and lived at Turkey Buzzard Island in Calvert County, Maryland, and "Anchovie Hills" then in Calvert County but now in Prince George's County, near the present Baden, Maryland. He held about 3,700 acres in Prince George's County.

Among his vast descendency are Generals James Longstreet, John Bankhead Magruder, Stephen Drane, and William Beall of the Confederate States Army; Asa Griggs Candler, the founder of Coca-Cola and Emory University; and Jeb Magruder, aide to President Richard Nixon and a figure in the Watergate scandal.

Children were:

child3540 i. Captain Samuel Magruder.

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