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[Identification of item], in the McAllister Family Papers, #3774-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Cumberland County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Families--Scotland--Social life and customs--18th century.
• Families--Scotland--Social life and customs.
• Legislators--North Carolina--History--18th century.
• McAllister family.
• North Carolina--Militia--History--18th century.

Alexander McAllister (also McAlester) came to Wilmington, N.C., from Scotland in 1736, returned to Scotland in 1739, and came back to North Carolina in 1740, settling near Fayetteville. He served in the Cumberland County militia, in the provincial congresses of 1775 and 1776, and in the state senate, 1787-1789. He had three wives: Mary McNeil (died 1740); Flora McNeil; and Jean Colvin, whom he married in 1763. McAllister's siblings were Hector, who lived in Scotland; Mary, who married Hector McNeil; Isabella, who married Farquard Campbell in North Carolina; and Grisella. McAllister's son Alexander (1766-1923, married Rachel Smith in 1799.

The collection is chiefly family correspondence of members of the McAllister family in North Carolina and Scotland.