Mixon

Descendants of Alexander Bisset Munro of Bristol, Maine

Munro Family

Alexander Bisset Munro was born 25 Dec. 1793 at Inverness, Scotland to Donald and Janet (Bisset) Munro. Alexander left Scotland at the age of 14, and lived in Dimecrana in the West Indies for 18 years. He owned a plantation, raising cotton, coffee and other produce. He brought produce to Boston Massachusetts on the ship of Solomon Dockendorff. To be sure he got his money, Solomon asked his to come home with him, where he met Solomon’s sister, Jane Dockendorff. Alexander went back to the West Indies, sold out, and moved to Round Pond, Maine, and married Jane. They had 14 children: Janet, Alexander, Margaret, Nancy, Jane, Mary, Solomon, Donald, John, William, Bettie, Edmund, Joseph and Lydia.

Slave Narrative of Eliza Evans

Eliza Evans, an 87-year-old former slave from Alabama, recalls her life under Master John Mixon, who owned about 400 slaves. Her grandmother, captured as a child in Africa, was bought by Mixon and treated well, with promises not to separate families. Eliza describes the slaves’ living conditions, their limited freedoms, and the community’s gatherings for church and celebrations. She mentions the hardships, including encounters with Union soldiers during the Civil War, and reveals her reluctance to embrace freedom, holding fond memories of her life as a slave.