Alexander Scott Withers (12 October 1792 – 23 January 1865, was the author of “Chronicles of Border Warfare” (1831), a history of (and important primary source on) the early white settlement of western Virginia and consequent conflicts with American Indians. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)
Alexander Scott Withers (12 October 1792, near Warrenton, Virginia – 23 January 1865, near Parkersburg, West Virginia) was a Virginia lawyer, planter, magistrate, teacher and delegate to the First Wheeling Convention (1861) establishing the state of West Virginia. He is celebrated as the author of Chronicles of Border Warfare (1831), a history of (and important primary source on) the early white settlement of western Virginia and consequent conflicts with American Indians. (Wikipedia)