The Hughes map of early Guilford County landowners shows a location for George Alexander (1763) on the south/east side of Little Branch of Brushy Fork, which joined with Alamance Creek and became the Great Alamance River, South Fork. Streams may be under other names now. Neighbors included John McGee (1767), Andrew McGee (1780), and members of the Doak, Lewis, Smith, Wiley, & Hatrick families. Nearby, to the west, are John Alexander (1764) and James Alexander (1769). George is just to the west of the New Garden Road that ran from New Garden down into Randolph County, a few miles north of the intersection with Needhams Route/Trading Path. That intersection was at the Guilford/Randolph line.
This map goes by today's county boundaries, and does not include Old Guilford, which included present-day Guilford, Rockingham, and Randolph. Guilford was created out of part of Old Rowan County (western 2/3 of Guilford) and part of Old Orange County (eastern 1/3 of Guilford), so records prior to April 1, 1771, will be found in those counties. Actually, according to the Hughes map, the Alexander properties were on land that once belonged to Rowan, but they are just west of the Rowan/Orange line, and many people owned land in both counties. George could have shot a bird in Orange County trees from his property.
I would guess that New Garden Road into Randolph County followed the approximate line of what is now Highway 421, but someone else may know that area of the county better than I do.
The Hughes map is probably still available from the Guilford County Genealogical Society. And I saw some copies at the Guilford Battleground shop several years ago.
There is also a copy of a petition by George Alexander in Stewart Dunaway's "Guilford County N.C. Road and Bridge Records, Volume 1." The original for that and many other records are in the NC State Archives in Raleigh. If you're traveling to the area, you should always include a day or two at the Archives, if you want to see the original records. I believe that Stewart also has a book on Guilford mills, but I don't know that I have a copy of that. If I do, it's buried somewhere in a stack. Stewart is a nice guy, and I feel sure he'd be willing to tell you whether there is an Alexander Mill in the book before selling it to you.
See the list of publications I have here, to get the link for Stewart:
http://www.ncgenweb.us/guilford/books.htmThere are also maps, a gazetteer, and other things on the website that might interest or help you.
Katherine Dick Benbow
County Coordinator for Guilford NCGenWeb