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at which time the family moved to North Carolina. On 27 October 1755 the
name of Seymore York appears as a chain carrier for a survey of 256 acres of
land on Mount Pleasant Creek entered by William Aldridge. Appearing on the
1755 tax list for Randolph County are Henry York (next to Thomas Allred),
Simore York (next to William Aldrige), and John York & Son.
The name of Solomon Alred appears on the tax lists for West Nottingham
Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, in 1724, at which time he and
Jeremiah York were neighbors, and again in 1730 (the township was established
in 1718). Also appearing on the West Nottingham Township tax lists, between
the years of 1718 and 1726, is the name of Samuel Finley, who in 1737 willed
his entire estate to a minor named “Johnny Aldridge.” The beneficiary
appeared in Orphan’s Court in Chester County on 30 May 1738 under the name
of John Aldred. His court-appointed guardian, and the administrator of the
Finley estate, was Joseph Chapline of Prince Georges County, Maryland, the
brother of the man who later purchased Jeremiah York’s “Terrapin Neck” tract.
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The name of William Alred appears in 1752 as the seller of three tracts of
land to Charles Higginbotham in Frederick County, Maryland, one of them
located on the Potomac River opposite Jeremiah York’s “Terrapin Neck” tract
in Frederick County, Virginia. Being illiterate, he left his mark on this
deed of sale, and it clearly matches the mark he left on a land grant in
North Carolina on 11 December 1762 (see above). However, this could be the
mark of William Elrod Jr., who was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
married in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, and died in Yadkin County,
North Carolina. He, too, would have followed the same migration route.
The memoirs of the Reverend Brazilla Allred, written in 1922, contain the
following passage: “My great-grandfather, William Allred, was born and reared
to manhood in Pennsylvania. In early life he came to North Carolina and
entered a large tract of land ... where he lived to a good old age and reared
his family.” Brazilla Allred, born c. 1841, was the youngest child and third
son of Clarborne Allred (born c. 1814), whose parentage is unknown. For
William Elrod Jr. (born c. 1738, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania) to have been
the grandfather of Clarborne Allred, and the great-grandfather of Brazilla
Allred, is certainly possible in terms of chronology. But this William Elrod
Jr., whose father was born c. 1708, Palatinate, Hesse, Germany, was an Allred
by name change only, and was probably unrelated to the “original” Allreds.
If Solomon Alred of Chester County, Pennsylvania appeared on the tax list
in 1724, he was born no later than 1706. If Johnnie Aldridge or Aldred of
Chester County, Pennsylvania was still a minor when he petitioned the court
in 1738, he was born no earlier than 1721, would have been a generation
younger than Solomon Alred, and might not have even been related.
The Allred family has gone to great lengths to establish a tie between the
Solomon Alred of Chester County, and John Allred and Ellen Pemberton of
Eccles Parish, Lancashire, England. They were married c. 1659 and had at
least ten children, the youngest being a son named Solomon who was baptized
on 12 November 1680. A letter from Phineas Pemberton to his father Ralph
Pemberton, dated 2 November 1678, describes “Uncle J. Alred” as quite
impoverished, “him suffer very begerly.” On 29 September 1686 a petition for
financial relief was filed in Manchester, England on behalf of John Allred.
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