| "It is further believed that the father of Samuel was an ALEXANDER McCREA, who was born some time between 1720 and 1725, probably soon after his father immigrated to Massachusetts. Undoubtedly he had brothers and sisters who may have remained in New England. But when lands were made available for settlement in the area of Stillwater and Cambridge, New York in 1763, Alexander and his family settled near Stillwater Reference is made in New; York records to 'the Old Alexander McCrea place' when the roads were laid out in 1784, indicating that Alexander was probably dead by that time."27 |