This is beyond my budget:https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/395414898775?_skw=genealogy+douglas&itmmeta=01JMJ0MPXKGK52FRGRBPS7N3BW&hash=item5c10908857:g:elgAAOSwJGBmSf~W&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA8FkggFvd1GGDu0w3…

[William Douglas]

This is beyond my budget:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/395414898775?_skw=genealogy+douglas&...

[William Douglas]

I agree, and would be pleased if you were to collate all this and provide a page on him.

William

[Ronald Drysdale]

Hi William,

I think that it's just as well you didn't purchase that expensive publication from Ebay.

Familysearch has a copy of it in their vaults on microfilm and these are the notes that accompany it:

Notes
Includes index.
Family history of Alexander Douglass (1757-1832) of Edenton, Chowan Co., North Carolina. He was a Revolutionary War soldier. He married Elizabeth Webb (1759-1834), daughter of Zecharian Webb and Mary Willis, in 1777 in Chowan County, N.C. She died in Screven Co., Ga. They were parents of three children born between 1790 and 1794 in Georgia. Family members live in Florida and elsewhere.

Includes Douglas/Douglass and allied families of Alderman, Goode, Surrency, etc.

This book seems to be a complete fairy story.

See also the very same person - Alexander Douglas (1) on this page:

https://georgiadouglases.wixsite.com/genealogy/copy-of-douglasopedia

In a Comment to Charles Arturburne regarding his 'Alexander Douglas' family line on 29th September 2025, I seem to have stumbled across this very same Alexander Douglas from Chowan:

https://douglashistory.ning.com/profiles/comment/list?attachedToTyp...

I became interested in the story of this Douglas family from Chowan and have been researching him for the past week or so.

Just a couple of the many snippets of information that I've discovered so far.

He was not born in 1757, he was born much earlier in Ireland circa 1725. He was a sea Captain, not a revolutionary war soldier and, while he did marry Elizabeth Webb in 1777, they only had 2 children, John born in 1780 and Elizabeth in born 1782 (after his death). His provisional family line is given here:

I think that this is him in 1752 in the Virginia Gazette of Williamsburg.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QHV-M7Q5-MD99?view=ful...

His Marriage to Elizabeth Webb in 1777:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSHH-S9VH-Z?view=i...

He is also mentioned as a debtor on the winding up accounts of the partnership of Bennett, Boyd & Cunningham - Chowan, North Carolina, United States records

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RV8-F11?view=full...

And here is a fair copy of his will dating from 1781 (Alexander Douglas of Chowan last will & Testament, Wife Elizabeth, Son John - 1781 John Blackburn appointed executor):

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9GW-BDPN?view=ful...

I think this gentleman deserves his own page and when I finish my research I will post one.

Best regards

[Russell Lynn Drysdale]

 $125.oo USD Yeah too rich for my blood as well.

[Ronald Drysdale]

Seems a bit thin for the price

They have a hard copy in the Familysearch library

"Notes

Includes index.

Family history of Alexander Douglass (1757-1832) of Edenton, Chowan Co., North Carolina. He was a Revolutionary War soldier. He married Elizabeth Webb (1759-1834), daughter of Zecharian Webb and Mary Willis, in 1777 in Chowan County, N.C. She died in Screven Co., Ga. They were parents of three children born between 1790 and 1794 in Georgia. Family members live in Florida and elsewhere.

Includes Douglas/Douglass and allied families of Alderman, Goode, Surrency, etc."

Best regards