Early Life and Education
Alexander Macomb was born in Ballynure, a tiny rural village in County Antrim, Ireland, in 1748. His merchant father John Macomb had immigrated from Ireland to New York about 1742, and removed to Albany, New York, in 1745. Macomb and his mother joined his father there. Macomb and his brother William also became merchants and fur traders, operating around the Great Lakes as far west as Detroit.
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