William ALDRIDGE II was the ninth child of ten children born to Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV and his wife Martha BEESON who had settled in the South River tidal basin of All Hollows Episcopal Parish of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The South River enters the Chesapeake Bay south of the historic port city of Annapolis where the first ALDRIDGE arrived from England.
The father of William ALDRIDGE II was Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV born 25 December 1653 in England who was among the first emigrants from East Wellow Parish, Wiltshire, Hampshire, England very near the port of South Hampton to arrive in America at Annapolis, Maryland in 1667 on a sailing ship as a young man.
Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV age 26 married Martha BEESON age 17 in 1679 in All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel, Maryland. Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV died on 21 Nov 1708 age 54 and his wife Martha BEESON died 19 Oct 1719 age 57 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is suggested that at least one adult child of the Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV family migrated between 1735 -1740 after the death of their parents from All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel County, Maryland into western Frederick County, Maryland. This was William ALDRIDGE II and perhaps his brother James who located near the great wagon road that crossed the Potomac River at a ford into colonial Frederick County, Virginia (now Jefferson County, West Virginia). Two daughters of William married two York brother neighbors across the Potomac River before 1750 from Terrapin Neck, Colonial Frederick County, Virginia.
The children of Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV and his wife Martha BEESON included:
1. Thomas ALDRIDGE, b.1680 who m. Elizabeth Purdy d/o John and Mary,
2. Nicholas ALDRIDGE, b. 1698 who married Ursula,
3. Ann ALDRIDGE, b. 1684,
4. John ALDRIDGE, b. 1688 (may have married Susannah),
5. Joane ALDRIDGE, b. 1689,
6. Sidney ALDRIDGE, b. 1693,
7. Jane ALDRIDGE, b. 1696,
8. William ALDRIDGE I, b. 1700, d. 1702,
9. William ALDRIDGE II, b. 1702, d. 1786
10. James ALDRIDGE, b. 1706
William ALDRIDGE II married Elizabeth Ursula SYMMONS in Anne Arundel County, Maryland on about 1727, when he was 25 years old and she was 24 years old. This often is confused with the "William Akeridge & Eliza Symmons who were married July 3, 1726". This is the marriage of a different couple.
Their first five children were born in All Hallows Parish, Ann Arundel County, Maryland. Then they migrated west to Frederick County, Maryland by 1735 where their next three children were born. William and Elizabeth Aldridge with all of their children most likely joined the wagon train with several other family groups in 1755 to migrate into central colonial North Carolina into the Sandy Creek Settlement. This migration to flee the dangers and fears in Virginia was following the great unrest that was caused by Indians after the French and Indian War in July 1755.
[Note: There is on going research regarding William Aldridge vs William Akeridge, FAG Memorial#149058230. William Ezekiel Akeridge married Elizabeth "Eliza" Symmons, FAG Memorial #139170012, on 3 July 1726 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Apparently a William Ezekiel Akeridge migrated into Georgia around the mid 1750's. Some descendants of the Georgia Akeridge families believe Akeridge/Akridge is an unrelated separate surname family while others believe it is is most likely a nephew that choose to use or adopted an alternate spelling of Aldridge which was very common. (YDNA testing of living male Akridge members would resolve this issue.)]
The children of William ALDRIDGE II and Elizabeth Ursula SYMMONS most likely included:
1. Joseph ALDRIDGE (1728 -1808)I*
2. William ALDRIDGE III (1729-1789)
3. Elinor ALDRIDGE (1730-1795)*
4. Sylvania ALDRIDGE (1731-1791)
5. Samuel ALDRIDGE (1735-?)
6. Nicholas ALDRIDGE (1737-1807)
7. Nathaniel "Nathan" Benjamin ALDRIDGE (1740-1826)
8. James ALDRIDGE (1742 - 1807)
Note: There has been much confusion between William ALDRIDGE II the father with eight children, and William ALDRIDGE III the son with fifteen children. The death date of 13 Nov. 1789 or more correctly 13 Oct 1789 age 60 per the inscription on his tombstone belongs to William ALDRIDGE III, the son who is buried at the McMasters Cemetery a few miles south east of the Sandy Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. There has also been considerable confusion with a nephew William Ezekiel Akeridge who married Elizabeth Symons on 3 July 1726. William Ezekiel Akeridge and Elizabeth Symons migrated from Anne Arundel, Maryland into Montgomery County, Georgia where their descendants flourished for generations....Genealogist Dennis York.
In 1748 John Carteret, the 2nd Earl of Granville, began to parcel out acreage to settlers in colonial North Carolina which he had purchased from King George II of England. These were the first privately owned properties in North Carolina, known as land grants. Residence within a year was a requirement of ownership. In 1752 Orange County, North Carolina was designated. William ALDRIDGE'S name appears on the first colonial Orange County tax list in 1755.
The REGULATORS ADVERTISEMENT No. 9 of 1768 documented in the North Carolina Colonial Records Volume VII, pages 735-737 identifies three Aldridge men as "REGULATORS" from colonial Orange County, North Carolina area. These were most likely three of the oldest sons of William Aldridge II, listed as Nicholas, Nathan and James Aldridge. No doubt these three brothers Nicholas, Nathan and James Aldridge were involved in the 16 May 1771 Battle of Alamance Creek. It appears their older brother William Aldridge III served on the opposite side as a British red coat guard that guarded the sick and wounded from that 16 May 1771 Battle of Alamance. William Aldridge II received 5 pounds 14 shillings for 58 days of service per the North Carolina Colonial Records Volume XXII, pages 418-419.
These three Aldridge men signed this petition to colonial British Governor William Tryon for redress of grievances such as over taxation and extortion along with many other backwoodsmen from this area. The names Nicholas, Nathan and James Aldridge appear on the Regulators Advertisement, but without listing a particular farm, property, or family relationship. It is noted that many of the names in the list are those of neighbors known to have lived in the Sandy Creek and Mount Pleasant Creek communities of colonial Orange (now Randolph) County.
The Aldridge family members were also known to have militia service in Revolutionary War activities. The North Carolina Colonial Records, Volume XXVII, pages 189-190 lists the abstract of Army accounts of the North Carolina Line for services from 1 September 1784 to 1 February 1785, paid at Halifax in 1786. William Aldridge (III), Joseph Aldridge, Thomas Aldridge, and Jesse Aldridge are listed with the amounts of their army pay. In Nov 1786 the Commissioners of the Army Accounts in the North Carolina General Assembly awarded a certificate from the Comptroller
to officers including William Aldridge (III). Documented in The North Carolina Colonial Records, Volume XXVIII, pages 253-254.
A William ALDRIDGE II had a land grant (or deed) for 256 acres along a branch of Sandy Creek, (in that part of Orange County that in 1779 became Randolph County, North Carolina), issued in 1756. Source: "Aldridge Records" by F. R. Alldredge, pg. 52. Book 14 P328 File 312.
Other sources:
1. Randolph County, North Carolina, Book 66 P 373 File 486, "Alldredge Records" by F.R. Alldredge, pg. 52.
2. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Family Data Collection - births, deaths, and individual.
3. Family Data Collections - Deaths. Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Deaths [database on-line]. Provo, UT.
4. Family Data Collections - Individual Records. Edmund West, comp. Source Citations.
5. Alldredge-Aldridge-Bracken-Nesmith families and their kin", by Memory Aldridge Lester, private printing in 1957.
6. Maryland, Marriages, 1634-1777
7. Sons of the Revolution (SAR) application for Grady Aldridge in 1966.
8. All Hallow's Protestant Episcopal Church Collection) Parish Register 1669-1721, p. 43 [MSA SC 2458 M 221] A Index
SPELLING VARIATIONS:
There are many variations found in spelling the surname ALDRIDGE that researchers acknowledge as the same family. One can find even in the same family records, on tombstones inscriptions, U S Census records, transcribed records in court houses, SAR or DAR Applications and printed books these variations; such as, ALLRIDGE, ALKRIDGE, ALLREDGE, AKERIDGE, etc.. Some descendants of the AKERIDGE family maybe correct by maintaining they are not genetically related to the ALDRIDGE since 1701. However; only YDNA Y-Chromosome testing of living AKERIDGE males can establish their genetic profile.
In conclusion, I believe there is much more to be learned by studying the ALDRIDGE families of southern Maryland, Georgia and central North Carolina. Perhaps even more will be discovered by those that pursue the ALDRIDGE research further, especially among living descendants of this William ALDRIDGE II (1703 MD-1786 NC) family and those of the William AKERIDGE (1701 MD-1770 GA) family.
Mike Marshall
[email protected]
Dennis York, Editor
[email protected]
The father of William ALDRIDGE II was Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV born 25 December 1653 in England who was among the first emigrants from East Wellow Parish, Wiltshire, Hampshire, England very near the port of South Hampton to arrive in America at Annapolis, Maryland in 1667 on a sailing ship as a young man.
Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV age 26 married Martha BEESON age 17 in 1679 in All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel, Maryland. Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV died on 21 Nov 1708 age 54 and his wife Martha BEESON died 19 Oct 1719 age 57 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is suggested that at least one adult child of the Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV family migrated between 1735 -1740 after the death of their parents from All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel County, Maryland into western Frederick County, Maryland. This was William ALDRIDGE II and perhaps his brother James who located near the great wagon road that crossed the Potomac River at a ford into colonial Frederick County, Virginia (now Jefferson County, West Virginia). Two daughters of William married two York brother neighbors across the Potomac River before 1750 from Terrapin Neck, Colonial Frederick County, Virginia.
The children of Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV and his wife Martha BEESON included:
1. Thomas ALDRIDGE, b.1680 who m. Elizabeth Purdy d/o John and Mary,
2. Nicholas ALDRIDGE, b. 1698 who married Ursula,
3. Ann ALDRIDGE, b. 1684,
4. John ALDRIDGE, b. 1688 (may have married Susannah),
5. Joane ALDRIDGE, b. 1689,
6. Sidney ALDRIDGE, b. 1693,
7. Jane ALDRIDGE, b. 1696,
8. William ALDRIDGE I, b. 1700, d. 1702,
9. William ALDRIDGE II, b. 1702, d. 1786
10. James ALDRIDGE, b. 1706
William ALDRIDGE II married Elizabeth Ursula SYMMONS in Anne Arundel County, Maryland on about 1727, when he was 25 years old and she was 24 years old. This often is confused with the "William Akeridge & Eliza Symmons who were married July 3, 1726". This is the marriage of a different couple.
Their first five children were born in All Hallows Parish, Ann Arundel County, Maryland. Then they migrated west to Frederick County, Maryland by 1735 where their next three children were born. William and Elizabeth Aldridge with all of their children most likely joined the wagon train with several other family groups in 1755 to migrate into central colonial North Carolina into the Sandy Creek Settlement. This migration to flee the dangers and fears in Virginia was following the great unrest that was caused by Indians after the French and Indian War in July 1755.
[Note: There is on going research regarding William Aldridge vs William Akeridge, FAG Memorial#149058230. William Ezekiel Akeridge married Elizabeth "Eliza" Symmons, FAG Memorial #139170012, on 3 July 1726 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Apparently a William Ezekiel Akeridge migrated into Georgia around the mid 1750's. Some descendants of the Georgia Akeridge families believe Akeridge/Akridge is an unrelated separate surname family while others believe it is is most likely a nephew that choose to use or adopted an alternate spelling of Aldridge which was very common. (YDNA testing of living male Akridge members would resolve this issue.)]
The children of William ALDRIDGE II and Elizabeth Ursula SYMMONS most likely included:
1. Joseph ALDRIDGE (1728 -1808)I*
2. William ALDRIDGE III (1729-1789)
3. Elinor ALDRIDGE (1730-1795)*
4. Sylvania ALDRIDGE (1731-1791)
5. Samuel ALDRIDGE (1735-?)
6. Nicholas ALDRIDGE (1737-1807)
7. Nathaniel "Nathan" Benjamin ALDRIDGE (1740-1826)
8. James ALDRIDGE (1742 - 1807)
Note: There has been much confusion between William ALDRIDGE II the father with eight children, and William ALDRIDGE III the son with fifteen children. The death date of 13 Nov. 1789 or more correctly 13 Oct 1789 age 60 per the inscription on his tombstone belongs to William ALDRIDGE III, the son who is buried at the McMasters Cemetery a few miles south east of the Sandy Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. There has also been considerable confusion with a nephew William Ezekiel Akeridge who married Elizabeth Symons on 3 July 1726. William Ezekiel Akeridge and Elizabeth Symons migrated from Anne Arundel, Maryland into Montgomery County, Georgia where their descendants flourished for generations....Genealogist Dennis York.
In 1748 John Carteret, the 2nd Earl of Granville, began to parcel out acreage to settlers in colonial North Carolina which he had purchased from King George II of England. These were the first privately owned properties in North Carolina, known as land grants. Residence within a year was a requirement of ownership. In 1752 Orange County, North Carolina was designated. William ALDRIDGE'S name appears on the first colonial Orange County tax list in 1755.
The REGULATORS ADVERTISEMENT No. 9 of 1768 documented in the North Carolina Colonial Records Volume VII, pages 735-737 identifies three Aldridge men as "REGULATORS" from colonial Orange County, North Carolina area. These were most likely three of the oldest sons of William Aldridge II, listed as Nicholas, Nathan and James Aldridge. No doubt these three brothers Nicholas, Nathan and James Aldridge were involved in the 16 May 1771 Battle of Alamance Creek. It appears their older brother William Aldridge III served on the opposite side as a British red coat guard that guarded the sick and wounded from that 16 May 1771 Battle of Alamance. William Aldridge II received 5 pounds 14 shillings for 58 days of service per the North Carolina Colonial Records Volume XXII, pages 418-419.
These three Aldridge men signed this petition to colonial British Governor William Tryon for redress of grievances such as over taxation and extortion along with many other backwoodsmen from this area. The names Nicholas, Nathan and James Aldridge appear on the Regulators Advertisement, but without listing a particular farm, property, or family relationship. It is noted that many of the names in the list are those of neighbors known to have lived in the Sandy Creek and Mount Pleasant Creek communities of colonial Orange (now Randolph) County.
The Aldridge family members were also known to have militia service in Revolutionary War activities. The North Carolina Colonial Records, Volume XXVII, pages 189-190 lists the abstract of Army accounts of the North Carolina Line for services from 1 September 1784 to 1 February 1785, paid at Halifax in 1786. William Aldridge (III), Joseph Aldridge, Thomas Aldridge, and Jesse Aldridge are listed with the amounts of their army pay. In Nov 1786 the Commissioners of the Army Accounts in the North Carolina General Assembly awarded a certificate from the Comptroller
to officers including William Aldridge (III). Documented in The North Carolina Colonial Records, Volume XXVIII, pages 253-254.
A William ALDRIDGE II had a land grant (or deed) for 256 acres along a branch of Sandy Creek, (in that part of Orange County that in 1779 became Randolph County, North Carolina), issued in 1756. Source: "Aldridge Records" by F. R. Alldredge, pg. 52. Book 14 P328 File 312.
Other sources:
1. Randolph County, North Carolina, Book 66 P 373 File 486, "Alldredge Records" by F.R. Alldredge, pg. 52.
2. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Family Data Collection - births, deaths, and individual.
3. Family Data Collections - Deaths. Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Deaths [database on-line]. Provo, UT.
4. Family Data Collections - Individual Records. Edmund West, comp. Source Citations.
5. Alldredge-Aldridge-Bracken-Nesmith families and their kin", by Memory Aldridge Lester, private printing in 1957.
6. Maryland, Marriages, 1634-1777
7. Sons of the Revolution (SAR) application for Grady Aldridge in 1966.
8. All Hallow's Protestant Episcopal Church Collection) Parish Register 1669-1721, p. 43 [MSA SC 2458 M 221] A Index
SPELLING VARIATIONS:
There are many variations found in spelling the surname ALDRIDGE that researchers acknowledge as the same family. One can find even in the same family records, on tombstones inscriptions, U S Census records, transcribed records in court houses, SAR or DAR Applications and printed books these variations; such as, ALLRIDGE, ALKRIDGE, ALLREDGE, AKERIDGE, etc.. Some descendants of the AKERIDGE family maybe correct by maintaining they are not genetically related to the ALDRIDGE since 1701. However; only YDNA Y-Chromosome testing of living AKERIDGE males can establish their genetic profile.
In conclusion, I believe there is much more to be learned by studying the ALDRIDGE families of southern Maryland, Georgia and central North Carolina. Perhaps even more will be discovered by those that pursue the ALDRIDGE research further, especially among living descendants of this William ALDRIDGE II (1703 MD-1786 NC) family and those of the William AKERIDGE (1701 MD-1770 GA) family.
Mike Marshall
[email protected]
Dennis York, Editor
[email protected]
William ALDRIDGE II was the ninth child of ten children born to Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV and his wife Martha BEESON who had settled in the South River tidal basin of All Hollows Episcopal Parish of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The South River enters the Chesapeake Bay south of the historic port city of Annapolis where the first ALDRIDGE arrived from England.
The father of William ALDRIDGE II was Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV born 25 December 1653 in England who was among the first emigrants from East Wellow Parish, Wiltshire, Hampshire, England very near the port of South Hampton to arrive in America at Annapolis, Maryland in 1667 on a sailing ship as a young man.
Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV age 26 married Martha BEESON age 17 in 1679 in All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel, Maryland. Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV died on 21 Nov 1708 age 54 and his wife Martha BEESON died 19 Oct 1719 age 57 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is suggested that at least one adult child of the Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV family migrated between 1735 -1740 after the death of their parents from All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel County, Maryland into western Frederick County, Maryland. This was William ALDRIDGE II and perhaps his brother James who located near the great wagon road that crossed the Potomac River at a ford into colonial Frederick County, Virginia (now Jefferson County, West Virginia). Two daughters of William married two York brother neighbors across the Potomac River before 1750 from Terrapin Neck, Colonial Frederick County, Virginia.
The children of Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV and his wife Martha BEESON included:
1. Thomas ALDRIDGE, b.1680 who m. Elizabeth Purdy d/o John and Mary,
2. Nicholas ALDRIDGE, b. 1698 who married Ursula,
3. Ann ALDRIDGE, b. 1684,
4. John ALDRIDGE, b. 1688 (may have married Susannah),
5. Joane ALDRIDGE, b. 1689,
6. Sidney ALDRIDGE, b. 1693,
7. Jane ALDRIDGE, b. 1696,
8. William ALDRIDGE I, b. 1700, d. 1702,
9. William ALDRIDGE II, b. 1702, d. 1786
10. James ALDRIDGE, b. 1706
William ALDRIDGE II married Elizabeth Ursula SYMMONS in Anne Arundel County, Maryland on about 1727, when he was 25 years old and she was 24 years old. This often is confused with the "William Akeridge & Eliza Symmons who were married July 3, 1726". This is the marriage of a different couple.
Their first five children were born in All Hallows Parish, Ann Arundel County, Maryland. Then they migrated west to Frederick County, Maryland by 1735 where their next three children were born. William and Elizabeth Aldridge with all of their children most likely joined the wagon train with several other family groups in 1755 to migrate into central colonial North Carolina into the Sandy Creek Settlement. This migration to flee the dangers and fears in Virginia was following the great unrest that was caused by Indians after the French and Indian War in July 1755.
[Note: There is on going research regarding William Aldridge vs William Akeridge, FAG Memorial#149058230. William Ezekiel Akeridge married Elizabeth "Eliza" Symmons, FAG Memorial #139170012, on 3 July 1726 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Apparently a William Ezekiel Akeridge migrated into Georgia around the mid 1750's. Some descendants of the Georgia Akeridge families believe Akeridge/Akridge is an unrelated separate surname family while others believe it is is most likely a nephew that choose to use or adopted an alternate spelling of Aldridge which was very common. (YDNA testing of living male Akridge members would resolve this issue.)]
The children of William ALDRIDGE II and Elizabeth Ursula SYMMONS most likely included:
1. Joseph ALDRIDGE (1728 -1808)I*
2. William ALDRIDGE III (1729-1789)
3. Elinor ALDRIDGE (1730-1795)*
4. Sylvania ALDRIDGE (1731-1791)
5. Samuel ALDRIDGE (1735-?)
6. Nicholas ALDRIDGE (1737-1807)
7. Nathaniel "Nathan" Benjamin ALDRIDGE (1740-1826)
8. James ALDRIDGE (1742 - 1807)
Note: There has been much confusion between William ALDRIDGE II the father with eight children, and William ALDRIDGE III the son with fifteen children. The death date of 13 Nov. 1789 or more correctly 13 Oct 1789 age 60 per the inscription on his tombstone belongs to William ALDRIDGE III, the son who is buried at the McMasters Cemetery a few miles south east of the Sandy Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. There has also been considerable confusion with a nephew William Ezekiel Akeridge who married Elizabeth Symons on 3 July 1726. William Ezekiel Akeridge and Elizabeth Symons migrated from Anne Arundel, Maryland into Montgomery County, Georgia where their descendants flourished for generations....Genealogist Dennis York.
In 1748 John Carteret, the 2nd Earl of Granville, began to parcel out acreage to settlers in colonial North Carolina which he had purchased from King George II of England. These were the first privately owned properties in North Carolina, known as land grants. Residence within a year was a requirement of ownership. In 1752 Orange County, North Carolina was designated. William ALDRIDGE'S name appears on the first colonial Orange County tax list in 1755.
The REGULATORS ADVERTISEMENT No. 9 of 1768 documented in the North Carolina Colonial Records Volume VII, pages 735-737 identifies three Aldridge men as "REGULATORS" from colonial Orange County, North Carolina area. These were most likely three of the oldest sons of William Aldridge II, listed as Nicholas, Nathan and James Aldridge. No doubt these three brothers Nicholas, Nathan and James Aldridge were involved in the 16 May 1771 Battle of Alamance Creek. It appears their older brother William Aldridge III served on the opposite side as a British red coat guard that guarded the sick and wounded from that 16 May 1771 Battle of Alamance. William Aldridge II received 5 pounds 14 shillings for 58 days of service per the North Carolina Colonial Records Volume XXII, pages 418-419.
These three Aldridge men signed this petition to colonial British Governor William Tryon for redress of grievances such as over taxation and extortion along with many other backwoodsmen from this area. The names Nicholas, Nathan and James Aldridge appear on the Regulators Advertisement, but without listing a particular farm, property, or family relationship. It is noted that many of the names in the list are those of neighbors known to have lived in the Sandy Creek and Mount Pleasant Creek communities of colonial Orange (now Randolph) County.
The Aldridge family members were also known to have militia service in Revolutionary War activities. The North Carolina Colonial Records, Volume XXVII, pages 189-190 lists the abstract of Army accounts of the North Carolina Line for services from 1 September 1784 to 1 February 1785, paid at Halifax in 1786. William Aldridge (III), Joseph Aldridge, Thomas Aldridge, and Jesse Aldridge are listed with the amounts of their army pay. In Nov 1786 the Commissioners of the Army Accounts in the North Carolina General Assembly awarded a certificate from the Comptroller
to officers including William Aldridge (III). Documented in The North Carolina Colonial Records, Volume XXVIII, pages 253-254.
A William ALDRIDGE II had a land grant (or deed) for 256 acres along a branch of Sandy Creek, (in that part of Orange County that in 1779 became Randolph County, North Carolina), issued in 1756. Source: "Aldridge Records" by F. R. Alldredge, pg. 52. Book 14 P328 File 312.
Other sources:
1. Randolph County, North Carolina, Book 66 P 373 File 486, "Alldredge Records" by F.R. Alldredge, pg. 52.
2. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Family Data Collection - births, deaths, and individual.
3. Family Data Collections - Deaths. Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Deaths [database on-line]. Provo, UT.
4. Family Data Collections - Individual Records. Edmund West, comp. Source Citations.
5. Alldredge-Aldridge-Bracken-Nesmith families and their kin", by Memory Aldridge Lester, private printing in 1957.
6. Maryland, Marriages, 1634-1777
7. Sons of the Revolution (SAR) application for Grady Aldridge in 1966.
8. All Hallow's Protestant Episcopal Church Collection) Parish Register 1669-1721, p. 43 [MSA SC 2458 M 221] A Index
SPELLING VARIATIONS:
There are many variations found in spelling the surname ALDRIDGE that researchers acknowledge as the same family. One can find even in the same family records, on tombstones inscriptions, U S Census records, transcribed records in court houses, SAR or DAR Applications and printed books these variations; such as, ALLRIDGE, ALKRIDGE, ALLREDGE, AKERIDGE, etc.. Some descendants of the AKERIDGE family maybe correct by maintaining they are not genetically related to the ALDRIDGE since 1701. However; only YDNA Y-Chromosome testing of living AKERIDGE males can establish their genetic profile.
In conclusion, I believe there is much more to be learned by studying the ALDRIDGE families of southern Maryland, Georgia and central North Carolina. Perhaps even more will be discovered by those that pursue the ALDRIDGE research further, especially among living descendants of this William ALDRIDGE II (1703 MD-1786 NC) family and those of the William AKERIDGE (1701 MD-1770 GA) family.
Mike Marshall
[email protected]
Dennis York, Editor
[email protected]
The father of William ALDRIDGE II was Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV born 25 December 1653 in England who was among the first emigrants from East Wellow Parish, Wiltshire, Hampshire, England very near the port of South Hampton to arrive in America at Annapolis, Maryland in 1667 on a sailing ship as a young man.
Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV age 26 married Martha BEESON age 17 in 1679 in All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel, Maryland. Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV died on 21 Nov 1708 age 54 and his wife Martha BEESON died 19 Oct 1719 age 57 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. It is suggested that at least one adult child of the Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV family migrated between 1735 -1740 after the death of their parents from All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel County, Maryland into western Frederick County, Maryland. This was William ALDRIDGE II and perhaps his brother James who located near the great wagon road that crossed the Potomac River at a ford into colonial Frederick County, Virginia (now Jefferson County, West Virginia). Two daughters of William married two York brother neighbors across the Potomac River before 1750 from Terrapin Neck, Colonial Frederick County, Virginia.
The children of Nicholas ALDRIDGE IV and his wife Martha BEESON included:
1. Thomas ALDRIDGE, b.1680 who m. Elizabeth Purdy d/o John and Mary,
2. Nicholas ALDRIDGE, b. 1698 who married Ursula,
3. Ann ALDRIDGE, b. 1684,
4. John ALDRIDGE, b. 1688 (may have married Susannah),
5. Joane ALDRIDGE, b. 1689,
6. Sidney ALDRIDGE, b. 1693,
7. Jane ALDRIDGE, b. 1696,
8. William ALDRIDGE I, b. 1700, d. 1702,
9. William ALDRIDGE II, b. 1702, d. 1786
10. James ALDRIDGE, b. 1706
William ALDRIDGE II married Elizabeth Ursula SYMMONS in Anne Arundel County, Maryland on about 1727, when he was 25 years old and she was 24 years old. This often is confused with the "William Akeridge & Eliza Symmons who were married July 3, 1726". This is the marriage of a different couple.
Their first five children were born in All Hallows Parish, Ann Arundel County, Maryland. Then they migrated west to Frederick County, Maryland by 1735 where their next three children were born. William and Elizabeth Aldridge with all of their children most likely joined the wagon train with several other family groups in 1755 to migrate into central colonial North Carolina into the Sandy Creek Settlement. This migration to flee the dangers and fears in Virginia was following the great unrest that was caused by Indians after the French and Indian War in July 1755.
[Note: There is on going research regarding William Aldridge vs William Akeridge, FAG Memorial#149058230. William Ezekiel Akeridge married Elizabeth "Eliza" Symmons, FAG Memorial #139170012, on 3 July 1726 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Apparently a William Ezekiel Akeridge migrated into Georgia around the mid 1750's. Some descendants of the Georgia Akeridge families believe Akeridge/Akridge is an unrelated separate surname family while others believe it is is most likely a nephew that choose to use or adopted an alternate spelling of Aldridge which was very common. (YDNA testing of living male Akridge members would resolve this issue.)]
The children of William ALDRIDGE II and Elizabeth Ursula SYMMONS most likely included:
1. Joseph ALDRIDGE (1728 -1808)I*
2. William ALDRIDGE III (1729-1789)
3. Elinor ALDRIDGE (1730-1795)*
4. Sylvania ALDRIDGE (1731-1791)
5. Samuel ALDRIDGE (1735-?)
6. Nicholas ALDRIDGE (1737-1807)
7. Nathaniel "Nathan" Benjamin ALDRIDGE (1740-1826)
8. James ALDRIDGE (1742 - 1807)
Note: There has been much confusion between William ALDRIDGE II the father with eight children, and William ALDRIDGE III the son with fifteen children. The death date of 13 Nov. 1789 or more correctly 13 Oct 1789 age 60 per the inscription on his tombstone belongs to William ALDRIDGE III, the son who is buried at the McMasters Cemetery a few miles south east of the Sandy Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. There has also been considerable confusion with a nephew William Ezekiel Akeridge who married Elizabeth Symons on 3 July 1726. William Ezekiel Akeridge and Elizabeth Symons migrated from Anne Arundel, Maryland into Montgomery County, Georgia where their descendants flourished for generations....Genealogist Dennis York.
In 1748 John Carteret, the 2nd Earl of Granville, began to parcel out acreage to settlers in colonial North Carolina which he had purchased from King George II of England. These were the first privately owned properties in North Carolina, known as land grants. Residence within a year was a requirement of ownership. In 1752 Orange County, North Carolina was designated. William ALDRIDGE'S name appears on the first colonial Orange County tax list in 1755.
The REGULATORS ADVERTISEMENT No. 9 of 1768 documented in the North Carolina Colonial Records Volume VII, pages 735-737 identifies three Aldridge men as "REGULATORS" from colonial Orange County, North Carolina area. These were most likely three of the oldest sons of William Aldridge II, listed as Nicholas, Nathan and James Aldridge. No doubt these three brothers Nicholas, Nathan and James Aldridge were involved in the 16 May 1771 Battle of Alamance Creek. It appears their older brother William Aldridge III served on the opposite side as a British red coat guard that guarded the sick and wounded from that 16 May 1771 Battle of Alamance. William Aldridge II received 5 pounds 14 shillings for 58 days of service per the North Carolina Colonial Records Volume XXII, pages 418-419.
These three Aldridge men signed this petition to colonial British Governor William Tryon for redress of grievances such as over taxation and extortion along with many other backwoodsmen from this area. The names Nicholas, Nathan and James Aldridge appear on the Regulators Advertisement, but without listing a particular farm, property, or family relationship. It is noted that many of the names in the list are those of neighbors known to have lived in the Sandy Creek and Mount Pleasant Creek communities of colonial Orange (now Randolph) County.
The Aldridge family members were also known to have militia service in Revolutionary War activities. The North Carolina Colonial Records, Volume XXVII, pages 189-190 lists the abstract of Army accounts of the North Carolina Line for services from 1 September 1784 to 1 February 1785, paid at Halifax in 1786. William Aldridge (III), Joseph Aldridge, Thomas Aldridge, and Jesse Aldridge are listed with the amounts of their army pay. In Nov 1786 the Commissioners of the Army Accounts in the North Carolina General Assembly awarded a certificate from the Comptroller
to officers including William Aldridge (III). Documented in The North Carolina Colonial Records, Volume XXVIII, pages 253-254.
A William ALDRIDGE II had a land grant (or deed) for 256 acres along a branch of Sandy Creek, (in that part of Orange County that in 1779 became Randolph County, North Carolina), issued in 1756. Source: "Aldridge Records" by F. R. Alldredge, pg. 52. Book 14 P328 File 312.
Other sources:
1. Randolph County, North Carolina, Book 66 P 373 File 486, "Alldredge Records" by F.R. Alldredge, pg. 52.
2. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900. Family Data Collection - births, deaths, and individual.
3. Family Data Collections - Deaths. Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Deaths [database on-line]. Provo, UT.
4. Family Data Collections - Individual Records. Edmund West, comp. Source Citations.
5. Alldredge-Aldridge-Bracken-Nesmith families and their kin", by Memory Aldridge Lester, private printing in 1957.
6. Maryland, Marriages, 1634-1777
7. Sons of the Revolution (SAR) application for Grady Aldridge in 1966.
8. All Hallow's Protestant Episcopal Church Collection) Parish Register 1669-1721, p. 43 [MSA SC 2458 M 221] A Index
SPELLING VARIATIONS:
There are many variations found in spelling the surname ALDRIDGE that researchers acknowledge as the same family. One can find even in the same family records, on tombstones inscriptions, U S Census records, transcribed records in court houses, SAR or DAR Applications and printed books these variations; such as, ALLRIDGE, ALKRIDGE, ALLREDGE, AKERIDGE, etc.. Some descendants of the AKERIDGE family maybe correct by maintaining they are not genetically related to the ALDRIDGE since 1701. However; only YDNA Y-Chromosome testing of living AKERIDGE males can establish their genetic profile.
In conclusion, I believe there is much more to be learned by studying the ALDRIDGE families of southern Maryland, Georgia and central North Carolina. Perhaps even more will be discovered by those that pursue the ALDRIDGE research further, especially among living descendants of this William ALDRIDGE II (1703 MD-1786 NC) family and those of the William AKERIDGE (1701 MD-1770 GA) family.
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