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    William Henry Alexander

    Birth: 3-11-1780

    Death: 3-13-1857

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Master of Rossetta Alexander, freed woman who claimed WHS as her father. William Alexander told Rossetta that her father was WHS. He owned a plantation in Popcastle, Macon, Putnam County, Georgia. WHS had left Union College in 1821 and briefly lived on the Alexander plantation as a schoolmaster for the plantation. The 1820 census lists that 59 total people lived on the plantation with 46 slaves and 13 free whites. The 1850 census lists 3 free white persons and 35 slaves.

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Biography: 
Master of Rossetta Alexander, freed woman who claimed WHS as her father. William Alexander told Rossetta that her father was WHS. He owned a plantation in Popcastle, Macon, Putnam County, Georgia. WHS had left Union College in 1821 and briefly lived on the Alexander plantation as a schoolmaster for the plantation. The 1820 census lists that 59 total people lived on the plantation with 46 slaves and 13 free whites. The 1850 census lists 3 free white persons and 35 slaves.
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