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The actual 15 March 1756 grant to John Alred was for 520 acres of land
“on both sides Mount Pleasant Creek, Beginning at a Black Oak;
then runing North crossing the Creek, 65 ch: to a Black Oak, then
East crossing the Creek, 80 ch: to a White Oak; then South 65 ch:
to a White Oak; then West 80 ch: to the first Station;
Containing, in the Whole, Five Hundred & Twenty Acres.”
“Surveyed the 2nd day of May 1755 – Cha: Carriers Thomas Allred
and Harmon Husbands”
(Posted at http://www.allredfamily.com/johnslandrecords.htm and
http://www.allredfamily.com/wpe14.gif)
The original land entry to John Allrid, dated 15 March 1755, included both
“his and Thomas Alldrid’s improvements.” John and Thomas are generally
believed to have been brothers. Hence the family tradition that their
respective children, Joseph Allred and Rachael Allred, were first cousins.
Thomas Allred purchased the northeastern portion of this land from John
Allred and owned it until 1788, when Thomas Aldred and his wife Elizabeth
conveyed 116 acres to James Aldred, their eldest son (Book 4, Page 15),
and 144 acres to Jerimiah York, their son-in-law, husband of Sarah Alred,
son of Seymore York and Sylvania Aldridge (Book 4, Page 13). The land
was on both sides of Mount Pleasant Creek and was described as follows:
“Begining at the East Corner White Oak, Thence West along The
Original Line 40 Chs. to a White Oak, Then South 36 Chs. To white
Oak, Then East 40 Chs. to a black oak the Original Line, Then North
along the Original line 36 Chs. To The first Station, it being part
of a tract of Land said Thomas purchased of John Aldred”
The 24 January 1784 Warranty Deed (Book 2, Page 76) from John Aldred and
Lillie Ann Aldred was for 330 acres of land
“on the waters of Polecat, Beginning at a Black Oak & Runing South
Sixty Seven Chains crossing a branch and Trading Road to a black
Jack, then East Crossing a branch forty one & a fourth Chains to
a black Jack, then North fifty two Chains to a Red oak, then West
Seventeen & a fourth to a Spanish Oak, then North fifteen Chains
to a White oak, then West Crossing the Trading Road twenty four
Chains to the beginning, Containing two hundred acres & fifty,
together With Eighty acres lying to the West Side of the Above
Described Land, in the Whole Make three hundred & thirty acres”
There is no recorded land grant or Warranty Deed to John Aldred or Lillie Ann
Aldred for this or any other land. The only recorded land grant on Polecat
Creek was to Isaac Julian, dated 29 December 1762, for 280 acres “on a Branch
of Polecat Creek on Deep River.” Isaac Julian was the brother of Rene
(Renny) Julian, who married Catherine Allred, daughter of the John Allred who
married Margaret Chaney (see above). Isaac Julian and Rene Julian were the
executors of John Allred’s Last Will and Testament.
These two parcels are about 6.5 miles apart, in two different watersheds.
The land granted to John and Thomas Alred (Allrid, Alldrid) in 1756 was at
the confluence of Mount Pleasant Creek and Sandy Creek, north of Ramseur.
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