Notes for: Alexander McMakin
This is an outline of Dean McMakin's version of the ancestry of Alexander McMakin (very probably a son of William Jr. and, more probably, at least a grandson of William Sr.). He was born about 1740 in White Clay Creek Hundred, Newcastle County, Delaware. Alexander is first found in the records in his marriage on June 7, 1761 to Mary Steel of Newcastle (Newcastle Co. Marriages, Vol. I, p. 55). At that time he was of White Clay Creek Hundred. It appears, however, that the mother of his children was Elizabeth Coursen, daughter of Benjamin Coursen and Catherine Perrine (see the names Coursin and Perrine in the line of his son Benjamin). His son, Benjamin Perrine McMakin, also settled in the Tyger River area in 1783. Benjamin named a daughter Elizabeth Coursin, which suggests that Elizabeth Coursen of Hunterdon County, New Jersey may have been his mother (i.e., second wife of Alexander). A Coursen marriage also would explain Alexander's naming a son Benjamin Perrine. (It is interesting to note that a John McMakin m. Rebeckah Perine on June 6, 1807 in the Cranbury First Presbyterian Church.)
He was a merchant and operated a store in Leesburg, Virginia. He appears in five deeds in Baltimore, Md. (1765-75), but was a taxpayer in Loudoun Co., Virginia in 1770 and was in numerous records there after that. His will, in Loudoun County Superior Court Will Book A, p. 35 (not the regular Will Book A), was written December 28, 1815 and proved April 3, 1817, naming son William, daughters Sarah Skinner, Catharine Duncan, Mary Lingham, Martha Cordell, Ann Tablor, and three children of his deceased daughter [Elizabeth]: Mary Henderson, Alexander and Lawson Duncan.
Many of Alexander's children and their families had Bodine connections in Nelson County, Kentucky.