. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. MRS. RACHEL HOLTON. First Newspaper Woman in North Carolina; Editor of the Charlotte Journal in THOMAS J. HOLTON, EDITOR OF THE CHARLOTTE JOURNAL, 1829. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 65 secretary of the Convention, was born in Pennsylvania in1733, and came to North Carolina in 1754. He was electedto the Provincial Assembly in 1772; was a delegate to theAssembly at HillsborO in August 1775, and to the HalifaxAssembly in April, 1776; and was the first member of theState Senate from Mecklenburg, elected under the Const
. History of Mecklenburg County and the city of Charlotte : from 1740 to 1903. MRS. RACHEL HOLTON. First Newspaper Woman in North Carolina; Editor of the Charlotte Journal in THOMAS J. HOLTON, EDITOR OF THE CHARLOTTE JOURNAL, 1829. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 65 secretary of the Convention, was born in Pennsylvania in1733, and came to North Carolina in 1754. He was electedto the Provincial Assembly in 1772; was a delegate to theAssembly at HillsborO in August 1775, and to the HalifaxAssembly in April, 1776; and was the first member of theState Senate from Mecklenburg, elected under the Constitution, in 1777. He died July 10, 1817, and is buried atHopewell. He left two sons—Joseph McKnitt Alexanderand William Baine Alexander. The former was born in1774, and died October i8> 1841; and the latter was bornMay 3, 1798, and died February 27, 1S45. Alexander, Governor Nathaniel, born in Mecklenburg in1756; married Margaret Polk Brevard (a daughter of Brevard and grand-daughter of Thomas Polk) ;was graduated from Princeton University in 1776; studiedmedicine, and entered the army; member of the General As-sembly in 1797, 1801 and 1802, elected to Congre
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