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It is said that numerous members of the Pemberton family sailed from
Liverpool on 6 September 1682, bound for Pennsylvania, on the ship
“Submission,” owned by William Penn, although only an uninformative fragment
of the ship’s log is reproduced on the Allred family website.
On 16 January 1687, William Penn himself wrote to James Harrison in regard to
bringing John Allred and his family to America as indentured servants: “I
have an eye to the man thou writt about with his family. But one John Aldred
of Pendleton related to P. Pemberton that cam to me at Manchester to be helpt
over on the terms I published for the poor. I may do what I can for him.”
One of the central documents provided is a letter dated 11 December 1695,
from John Allred to Phineas Pemberton, already in Pennsylvania, asking for
financial help so he can bring his family there. The transcription reads, in
part: “mee and my wife and my suns are all willing to cum ... my sun Owen is
going of around 20 yers of age and Theophiles is 19 and Sollomon 16 yers of
age” (The actual letter states that Theophilus is 91 and Solomon is 61).
According to birth records cited by the Allred family, Theophilus was
baptized 4 October 1677. The Allred family website states that Ellen
Pemberton Allred died on 21 December 1684. If so, John Allred must have
remarried before 11 December 1695, as he refers to his wife in the letter.
Most of this documentation comes from the Pemberton Collection at the
Pennsylvania Historical Society. It does make for fascinating reading,
especially the arrest and/or imprisonment of Ellen Pemberton Allred
(10 February 1660), John and Ellen Allred (1661), Alice Pemberton (1664),
James Harrison (1666), Phineas Pemberton and Roger Longworth (1669), and
Phineas Pemberton (1673) for attending Quaker meetings.
http://www.allredfamily.org/timeline.htm
If Solomon Allred, the son of John Allred and Ellen Pemberton of Lancashire,
England, who was baptized on 12 November 1680, was the same man as the
Solomon Alred of West Nottingham Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania,
he would have been 44 years old when he first appeared on the Chester County
tax lists, and 50 years old when he last appeared. And if he was the same
Solomon Alred or Allred who turned up in North Carolina, he would have been
72 when he received his first land grant, and 102 years old when he died.
Quite possibly they were three different men, of three different generations,
somehow related, but it is premature to be posting a claimed lineage on the
Mormon website, as someone (outside of the Allred family) has done.
None of this establishes the identity of the father of the “original” Allreds
of North Carolina (John, Thomas, William, Solomon). Nor does it preclude
John Alridge and Annie Hamilton as the parents if they were married in 1728.
The bride was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. The birthplace of the
groom is unknown, whether Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, or England. And,
it must be remembered, we are looking for two Allred lines, as there were two
early settlers named Solomon Allred (Alred, Aldred) in the North Carolina
piedmont, and both had sons named Solomon, born two years apart.
What is known is that Annie Hamilton, whose father (and his seven brothers)
all spelled the name “Hambleton,” was not the only Hambleton in Randolph
County, North Carolina. Between 1779 (when Randolph County was carved out
of Guilford County) and 1844, the name “Hambleton” appears twelve times in
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