[metesky]

After a thorough search all I could find of Lee’s court martial is that Lord Stirling presided, with both prosecuting officers and defendants lawyers listed as unknown.

[muawiyah]

It's such an obscure item it does take a lot of searching to discover who the members were.

What you have to do is search for the MEMBER, then for Lee. If you do it the other way around it's just awful.

I've even found the situation referenced in a book on George Rogers Clark, and also in various documents submitted by Revolutionary War soldiers pursuing a government pension in their old age.

[muawiyah]

If you find a reference that says "Lord Stirling" and not "William Alexander", you are into the wrong reference ~ William's baby daddy was still alive as best I could tell, and he'd already lost a law case in the UK courts about who was the Lord.

There are also THREE major Alexander clan settlements ~ and early writers talked about the settlement areas as if the others didn't exist. Fur Shur they swapped cousins for marriage purposes.

We have a line of Benjamin and William Alexanders running back centuries, and doggone if that's not one devil of a genealogical trail ~ and sometimes a man would have two Williams, and three Benjamins (just in case somebody died there'd be a spare).