1. CLEMENT2 ALDRIDGE (JOHN ALDRICH1) was born 1601 in Worstead, Norfolk, England, anddied Abt. 1668 in Northumberland Co, VA. He married SUSAN CROMPTON (who was previously married to Edmund Boswell in 1612 and then widowed)July 02, 1626 in Worstead, Norfolk, England (could be July 12, 1626).

Notes for CLEMENT ALDRIDGE:

Clement Aldrich/Aldridge and Susan Crompton Boswell were apparently immigrants to Northumberland Co, Virginia. However, I have not yet found any record of their immigration in the form of ship lists or of patents given for their transport.

The Northumberland County Record Book 1666-1670 (p 100) includes a grant from Sir WILLIAM BERKELEY unto ABRAHAM JOYCE and RICH: THOMPSON of 200 acres of land in ye county of Northumberland, bounding upon the land of THOM. ADAMS and PHIL: CARPENTER & upon ye land of HEN: ROACH and upon ye land of GEO: COURTNEY & WALTER WEEKES, beginning at a marked corner red Oake and running southerly 320 pole and westerly 100 pole, Northerly 320 pole and Easterly to ye place where it firtst began; ye sd land being due to sd JOYCE & THOMPSON by & for ye transportacon of fower (4) persons into this colony whose names are on ye records menconed underneath this patent...the 7th day of March 1666. WILLIAM BERKELEY

Know all men by these presents yt I ABRAHAM JOYCE doe assigne all my right & interest of ye withing mentioned patent to CLEMENT ALDERIDGE his heirs and assignes for ever. Wit: JOHN ROBERTS, RICH: ROBERTS, sign ABRAHAM JOYCE. Recognized and recorded 20th 9ber 1666.

This raises many questions--who were the 4 persons Joyce transported--did they include Clement and Susan? And why did he deed his patent over to Clement?

There is also confusion in the Northumberland Co, VA records about *which* Clement was involved in certain transactions, since there were several generations of Clement Aldridge/Arledges.

The following is excerpted from an email to Clay Fulcher from Carolyn Jett, on January 13, 1997: "Clement Aldridge/Arledge was in Northumberland by 2 Apr. 1667, which was when he witnessed the will of the Reverend David Lyndsay. He was a neighbor of Lyndsay, whose gravestone (or half of it) is still there. That gives us the general location of Aldridge/Arledge's land, in the area known as Cherry Point Neck. On 20 9ber [November] of probably 1666 or 1667, Clement purchased 100 acres of land. Nearby was another tract of 100 acres belonging to Cloud [Claudius] Tullos. It is possible that this Clement Aldridge was the same man who married Elizabeth Tilles at Worstead, Norfolk, England in 1668. If so, he must have returned to England to marry her, for he was here before that date."

The will in question is that of DAVID LYNDSAY, Minister of God, who bequeathed his estate to his daughter HELEN LYNDSAY, who he also named his Executrix. Will written 2 April 1667, Signed in presence of JAMES CLAYTON, ye mrke of CLE:MT ARLIDGE and GEORGE DEACON. Proved 8 April 1667 by ye oathes of JAMES CLAUGHTIN & CLEM: ARLIDGE. Northumberland County Court Records.

It is most likely that these early records were for the elder Clement.

See Franklin Rudolph Aldridge, Aldridge Records, Vol. 2. 1975; esp pp. 176 ff, "The Arledge Family Records" (Ch. 11). See also Alice Sekanick, "The Hutchinson Family" (privately published, 1994: 624 Kirby Lane, Richardson, TX 75080) and Dr. Rulon C. Allred, "The Allred Family in America, Vol. 1" (Salt Lake City: William R. Bischoff, 1965), and John Bennett Boddie, "The Allred (Aldridge) Family in England and North Carolina" in Historical Southern Families, vol. X (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1966). See also Mary Louise Marshall Hutton, ed., "Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors of Members of the national Society Colonial Dames XVII Century 1915-1975" (Baltimore: Genealogical Publsihing Company, 1984).

Notes for SUSAN CROMPTON BOSWELL:

Teri Allred [in her Winter 1994 "Aldridge and Allred of the South" newsletter] cites a letter written by Sylvia M. Allred of W. Jordan, Utah, to John Lisk in 1976:

"In her second letter, she is discussing Susan BOSWELL who married Clement ALDRED/ALDRIDGE 2 Jul 1626. She states that after Susan Boswell's name in the marriage record to Clement, it definitely states "widow." On 24 june 1612, an Edmond BOSWELL married Susan CROMPTON. If that is the case and this is confirmed, the maiden name of Clement ALDRIDGE's wife would be CROMPTON instead of Boswell."

Children of CLEMENT ALDRIDGE and SUSAN CROMPTON BOSWELL are:

Notes for CLEMENT ALDRIDGE:

Clement and Elizabeth were immigrants to Virginia. His parents, Clement and Susan, may have preceded them. Sekanick speculates that, since Clement (Sr) died in 1668, Clement (Jr) may have come to America to claim an inheritance. A Clement Aldridge first appears in records of Northumberland Co, VA in 1666. However, Clement and Elizabeth's two children were christened in Worstead, Norfolk, England, in 1669 and 1670.

Lived in Bowtracy and Fairfield Parishes north of the Wicomico River (in 1698 these parishes merged to form St. Stephen's Parish, the records of which are in the State Library of VA).

children: see remnants of Northumb. Co Births and Deaths, 1650-1810, p.3 [Names are illegible; clarified in Franklin Aldridge and Alice Sekanick books, but don't know their source].

Many, many references to Clement and Elizabeth in Northumberland Co. Order Book. Many lawsuits over tobacco. Occasionally the spelling Arledge or Aldredge appears instead of Aldridge. See F.R. Aldridge's "Aldridge Records, Vol. II" for a thorough listing.

Northumberland County Court 21 Aug 1672 (Book of Orders p. 156): "Whereas an attachment was awarded to Mr. THO" MATHEW agt ye Estate of STEPHEN BYLAND for five hundred & fowreteene (514) pounds of tobacco and caske, wch Attahcment is returned executed on soe much in ye hands of CLEMT: ALRIDGE: Judgement is granted ye sd MATHEW agt ye sd ALRIDGE for ye sd summme with costs. [Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Order Book Abstracts]

Death dates in some sources given as 19 Jan 1698/9. This conflicts with Franklin Aldridge's claim that he remarried in 1701 to Mary Donaldson, for whom documentation exists. Further evidence leads to conclude that it was his SON Clement who married Mary Donaldson. Others say it is unclear whether Clement died in Northumberland County VA where he lived or died in England where he was born. However, there are references to Clement's will being proved in Nortumberland County on 19 Jan 1699; one of the witnesses was Mary Tullos [reference: NEED TO FIND: O.D. Lindsay, Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol. 1, p. 52; cited in article on Rodham family in Northumberland Historical Society Bulletin, XII, 1975.]

21 Aug 1678: Graves Garrett son of Thomas Garrett, dec'd, bound to Clement Aldridge [Northumberland County Court Orders p.1].

17 Aug 1681: William Leach, orphan and noe Estate, bound to Clement Aldridge [Northumberland County Court Orders, p.99].

Clement was a joiner by trade and, in 1678, took Graves Garratt as an apprentice. In November, 1674, Clement and Thomas Flynt were requested by the court to inspect a building for its worthiness, and on November 19, 1679, he was paid for mending the parish church.

On June 7, 1679 the Court of Northumberland ordered the list of tithables divided into forties; each group of forty was ordered to deliver an able man along with a horse, arms and other provisions to the house of Thomas Mathew. Clement was one of the men charged with the responsibility of insuring that this order was carried out (Co. Court Note Bk. IX:16, 26).

15 Nov 1693: CLEMENT ALDRIDGE and ELIZABETH his wife vs. WILLIAM BEANE, nonsuit, and C. and ELiz. to pay damages [Northumberland County Court Orders, p.632]

On May 16, 1694, Clement was appointed constable for Cherry Point Neck, one of six constables appointed for the county [Northumberland County Court Orders, p. 652].

16 Oct 1695: CLEMENT ALDRIDGE was one of witnesses (along with CAPT. RODHAM KENNER and Mr. THOMAS BUSHROD) to probate the will of Mr. CHRISTOPHER NEALE, as petitioned by HANNAH NEALE, Executrix. [Northumberland County Court Orders, p. 711]

17 Mar 1797: ELIZABETH ALDRIDGE wife of CLEMENT ALDRIDGE, JUNR, relinquishes her rights of dower to 64 acres of land sold to THO.MILLER. SHe also relinquishes dower in the sale of 60 acres to JOHN CRALLE. [Northumberland County Court Orders, p. 759]

19 Jan 1698/9: Motion of ELIZABETH ALDRIDGE, Exx. a Probate to her of the Last Will of CLEM'T ALDRIDGE, proved by DAVID STRAUGHAN and MARY TULLOS. [Northumberland County Court Orders, p. 759] Clement's will was presented to court on January 19, 1698-99. Unfortunately, this will was destroyed in a courthouse fire.

[21 Sept 1699: Motion of CLEM'T ARLEGE, probate to him of the last will of ELIZ. ARLEGE his wife, proved by Edw'd Barnes and Hugh Staten. [Northumberland County, VA, Court Orders, p. 66] . This is most likely a reference to the next-generation CLEMENT, who also had a wife Elizabeth.]

There are many references to land bought FROM Clement Aldridge/Arledge. For example, the 1726 will of JOHN CRALLE, SR. of St. Stephen's Parish (written 1 Oct 1726, proven 16 Apr 1728) , aside from stating his desire "not to have any funeral sermon, and that there be no superfluity of drink disposed of at my funeral", left his son John Cralle sixty acres of land in "Cherry Point" WHICH I BOUGHT OF CLEMENT ABRIDGE, JUNR. [Northumberland Co. Record Book, 1726-1729, p. 97]

The following is excerpted from an email to Clay Fulcher from Carolyn Jett, on January 13, 1997, with my notes in brackets: "Clement Aldridge/Arledge was in Northumberland by 2 Apr. 1667, which was when he witnessed the will of the Reverend David Lyndsay. He was a neighbor of Lyndsay, whose gravestone (or half of it) is still there. That gives us the general location of Aldridge/Arledge's land, in the area known as Cherry Point Neck. On 20 9ber [November] of probably 1666 or 1667, Clement purchased 100 acres of land. Nearby was another tract of 100 acres belonging to Cloud [Claudius] Tullos. It is possible that this Clement Aldridge was the same man who married Elizabeth Tilles at Worstead, Norfolk, England in 1668. If so, he must have returned to England to marry her, for he was here before that date. At any rate, the wife of Clement of Northumberland was Elizabeth. Many researchers think that he was the Clement Aldridge who was christened on 25 Sep. 1636 in Worstead, son of Clement and Susan Boswell Aldridge. Clement Aldridge/Arledge was a master joiner [carpenter]. There are several records proving this in Northumberland records [WHERE?? WHICH ONES??]. Clement Aldridge died in 1698/9 in Northumberland. He left six children [WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF THIS INFORMATION?], who were

1. Clement Aldridge, Jr., d. 1705/6, m. (1) Elizabeth and (2) Mary. He left a daughter, Elizabeth, who was 12 years old by 1710. [SOURCE??]

2. daughter - no further info.

3. daughter - no further info.

4. William Arledge - d. 1724/5, m. (1) Alice and (2) Sarah. See below.

5. Isaac Aldridge

6. John Aldridge."

Northumberland County Record Books 1743-1749 (p.166) show a will of Richard CRUTE dated 11 August 1746 (proved 8 Dec 1746) who said he desired that his son Richard "might be bound to SAMUEL ALDREDGE to learn the joyners trade." Who is this SAMUEL ALDREDGE??

See Franklin Rudolph Aldridge, Aldridge Records, Vol. 2. 1975 (139 Ewing Dr, Nashville, TN; avail from Gen Soc of CJCLDS); esp pp. 176 ff, "The Arledge Family Records" (Ch. 11). See also Alice Sekanick, "The Hutchinson Family" (privately published, 1994: 624 Kirby Lane, Richardson, TX 75080) and Dr. Rulon C. Allred, "The Allred Family in America, Vol. 1" (Salt Lake City: William R. Bischoff, 1965), and John Bennett Boddie, "The Allred (Aldridge) Family in England and North Carolina" in Historical Southern Families, vol. X (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1966).

Notes for ELIZABETH TILLES/ TILLS:

Elizabeth Tills/Tilles was descended from a family which had long resided in Norfolk, England. The earliest record of someone by this name in Norwich is the 1374 will of William Tillis. Other members of this family also immigrated to America and are mentioned in Northumberland County records in conjunction with the Aldridge/Arledge family. (Sekanick, 1994, p. 60)

Some sources have her date of death as 6 Dec 1684.

The following is a Northumberland County VA court record sent to Clay Fulcher from Patricia Daniels, Jan 26, 1997:

Court 21 Sept 1699, page 66. Motion of Clem't Arledge, probate to him of the last will of Eliz. Arledge his wife, proved by Edw'd Barnes and Hugh Staten.

Children of CLEMENT ALDRIDGE and ELIZABETH TILLS are:

3. GEORGE³ ALDRIDGE (CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born 1639 in Worstead, Norfolk, England [source of date??]; migrated to Northumberland Co, VA, and died Bef. February 1676/77 in Talbot Co, MD [will dated 1 Oct 1673, proved December 16, 1679]. He married ANNE ???.

Notes for GEORGE ALDRIDGE:

20 Feb 1650: According to sufficient proofe made to this Court there is due to Richard Span one hundred acres of land due to him for the transportation of these persons into this Collony. Viz. Himselfe, George Alderidge. [Northumberland County, VA Deeds, Orders 1650-1652, 49]

Northumberland County Record Book 1658-1662, p. 6: MATHEW WILLCOCKS Assignment of Land to GEORGE ALDRIDGE. Wit: PETER ASHTON. Recorded 20th 9ber 1658.

p. 60: GEORGE ALDERIDGE is named as one of 18 appraisers in the Inventory and Appraisement of the Estate of THOMAS BROUGHTON deceased, taken in 166, recorded 22 July 1661.

Northumberland County Record Book, 1666-1670: "Know all men by these presents yt I GEORGE ALRIDGE of ye Parish of FAIREFIELD and County of Northumberland have for ye value of Six Thousand Pounds of Tobo: and caske by mee in hand reced., wherewth: I doe hereby declare myself amply satisfied nad contented, assigne and transferre unto FRANCIS BRICKLEY of ye Psh and County a Deed of Sale for one hundred acres of land scituate and being on LITTLE WICOCOMICO CREEKE, wch is part of a patent of Six Hundred acres of land granted into JNO MOSLEY and by ye sd MOSLEY, wth consent of MARY, his wife, graunted unto MATHEW WILCOX as by a Deed of Guift bearing dat ye 19th of July 1658 wherein thereto more at large appeare, and by ye sd MATHEW WILCOX sold unto me ye sd ALRIDGE, as by Deed of Sale bearing date ye 20 of Novembr 1658, as may at large appear: To have and to hold ye sd One hundred acres of land with edifices together with all its rights into ye sd FRANCIS BRICKLEY his heires and assigned forever, && ye sd GEORGE ALRIDGE for my selfe my heires do acknowledge ye sale of sd land at the COurt held for this County, as Witnesse my hand & seale.

Witness Mr. Tho. HOBSON

JOHN EDWARDS

GEO. ALRIDGE

Know all men by these presents yt I ANNE ALRIDGE doe positiveously of my owne free will consent to ye Sale above menconed unto FRAN. BRICKLEY & oblige my selfe in ye next Cort held for this County to discharge my right of Dower, as witnesse my hand & seale ye 8th of Janry 1666.

Signed sealed & delivd in ye prsence of THO. HOBSON, sig: JNO. GRAHAM. Sign ANNE ALRIDGE

20 Janry 1666 Recognitur: Cur: ANNA ALRIDGE & recordat

Know all men by these prsents yt I FRAN. BRICKLEY doe assigne this Bill of Sale with ye Land therein menconed unto JNO GRAHAM, his heyres & assignes forever, as witnesses my hand this 20th Janry 1666. The mrke of ROBT WILSON, WM GRIFFIN

FRAN BRICKLEY

[Ruth and Sam Sparacio, Deed and Will Abstracts of Northumberland County, VA 1666-1670, The Antient Press [nd]. p. 3]

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DENNIS & JEANIE KNIGHT wrote:

This came out of a book Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Volume 3, Robert W. Barnes & F. Edward Wright:

This is in Talbot Co. MD: THE ALDRIDGE FAMILY

1. (N) Aldridge, left at least two sons: William and George

2. George Aldridge, son of (N) (1), bro. of William, d. by Feb 1676/7. He m. Anne (N), who m. 2nd, John Mitchell. At some time, she seems to have had a son whose surname was Bullpit.

George Aldrigg of TA Co. d. leaving a will dated 1 Oct 1673 and proved 16 Dec 1679 (after his wife had already remarried). Named were wife Anne, extx., to whom he devised 350 a.; two sons, Benjamin and George were to have the plant, when wife died. Other children named were George, Thomas, Mary and John. Son John was to remain with his mother until 21 yrs. of age. Dau. Grace was devised 250 a., Old Mill. The will was witnessed by Philip Stevenson, Edward Stevens, and Jonas Davis. {MWB 10:73}

On the last day of Feb 1676/7 Ann Mitchell, wife of John Mitchell of St. Michael's River, gave to her son John Aldridge, 150 a. in Wye River where she lately lived called Ould Mill; to son Benjamin Aldridge, 100 a. called Indian Neck; to son George Aldridge, 100 a. part of Indian Neck; to dau. Mary Aldridge, a cow; to son Thomas Aldridge, a cow; to son John Bullpitt, a cow. The sons were age 18 and the daus. were under age 15. (TALR 3:46}

George was the father of : George; Benjamin; Thomas; John; Grace, m. William Gary; and Mary.

3. George Aldridge, son of George (2) was living in March 1687. On 22 March 1687 George Aldridge, carpenter, conv. to Richard Sweatman 1/2 of the land laid out for George Aldridge, late of TA Co., father and grantor, 350 a. called Indian Neck near Back Wye River adj. land laid our for Jonathan Hopkinson, since dec., and land of Atwell Bodell called Bodell. {Talr 5: 147}

Children of GEORGE ALDRIDGE and ANNE ??? are:

Notes for MARY / JANE ALDRIDGE:

Listed as Mary in most records; however, descendants of Jane Arledge, child of Clement, give her date of birth as 1670, and presumably this is the same person. She may have been Mary Jane.

Email correspondence from Sue Harris on 18 Jan 1998:

"My Arledge line ended way back, with Jane Arledge who m Henry Harding in Northumberland Co., VA. I know she was a daughter of Clement Arledge & Elizabeth Tills, but they had four daughters christened in Worstead, Norfolk, England: Eliz., 1669; Mary, 1670; Winifred(?), ca 1674; and Alice or Grace (?), ca 1676. Others favor Mary, and as that name goes well with Jane, and she was born about the right time to be the wife of Henry Harding, I entered her in my files as Mary Jane Arledge. (All I have on the early Arledge family came from Boddie's Historical Southern Families, V. 10. Sometimes there are errors in Boddie, but I've not looked elsewhere for more information since finding this article. Do you know of other early family histories, or is your information also based on Boddie? If you disagree about Mary Arledge being Jane, would love to know more. This isn't my research and I have no strong feelings about the matter.)

Moving along, here's my direct line from Jane Arledge & Henry Harding down:

Mary Jane Arledge b 1670 Eng., m/1 Henry Harding (b 1666 Northumberland, d 1698 Northumberland); m/2 Charles Ashton, 1698. Henry Harding b ca 1690 Northumberland, d 1737 Stafford, m ca 1714 Stafford, Anne (----) Beltcher (widow), who d 1754 Stafford. Charles Harding m ca 1736 Stafford, Rachel Lunsford. William Harding 1738 Stafford - 1826 Stafford, m c 1764 Stafford, Clarissa "Clarkey" Million, b 1745 VA - d 1826 Stafford. Cuthbert Harding b ca 1766 Stafford, d 1842 Barren Co., KY, m ca 1785 Stafford(?), Winifred McInteer, b ca 1766 Stafford, d aft 1842 Bourbon Co., KY. Ann Harding, b 1790 Stafford, d 1863 Sumner Co., TN, m 1808 Sumner Co., TN, James Whitworth, b 1779 Amelia, VA, d 1829 Sumner Co., TN. Eliza Whitworth, b 1809 Sumner Co., TN, d 1888 Dallas Co., TX, m 1829 Sumner Co., TN, Weeden E. Byram, b 1804 Stafford Co., VA, d 1850 Sumner Co., TN. (Weeden changed name to BYRUM.) Simon Byrum b 1835 Sumner, TN, d ca 1864 LA or OK (Indian Territory), Civil War, m 1856 Wilson Co., TN, Caroline Duncan, b 1832 Wilson Co., TN, d 1922 Dallas Co., TX. Thomas Edwin Byrum, b 1857 Sumner Co., TN, d 1938 Dallas Co., TX, m 1890 Trousdale Co., TN, Lenora Susan Belcher, b 1866 Trousdale Co., TN, d 1930 Dallas Co., TX. Andrew Griffin Byrum, b 1892 Troudale Co., TN, d 1968 Dallas Co., TX, m 1925 Dallas Co., TX, Annie Mary White, b 1895 Dallas Co., TX, d 1985 Dallas Co., TX. Elizabeth Sue Byrum, (myself) b 1930 Dallas Co., TX, m 1953 Dallas Co., TX, Nathaniel Harris III, b 1930 Travis Co., TX, d 1995 Travis Co., TX.

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Another Harding descendant:

From: Bbaughn Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 00:04:14 EDT Subject: Arledge Connection

Pam,

I have enjoyed your web page on the Arledge family. My possible connection is thru Clement Ardridge and Mary Tilles' daughter, Mary Jane. My line is:

1. Henry Harding (1666-1698 VA) md. Jane Arledge. 2) William Harding (1690 VA- 1752) wife Unknown. 3) Thomas Harden (1716 VA - bef 25 May 1809 NC) md. Unknown 1st wife. If this Thomas Harden is the father of Jane Harden has not been proven. 4) Jane Harden (c1750 NC - 1 Jun 1832 MO) md. William Hornbuckle. 5) Sarah Jane Hornbuckle (c1772 NC - prob. before 1810 KY) md. Henry Overstreet. 6) Martha Overstreet ( 2 Oct 1797 KY - 7 Jul 1864 KY) md. Joseph Baughn. 7) James Henry Baughn ( 22 Feb 1834 KY - 2 Feb 1898 KY) md. Elizabeth Ann Walker. 8) Otis James Baughn (23 Apr 1877 KY - 11 Feb 1948 AZ) md. Mary Holman Fairhurst. 9) Alfred Fairhurst Baughn (1 May 1912 AZ - ) md. Barbara Doris Hobbs. 10) Brent Fairhurst Baughn ( 27 Jun 1941 CA - ) --- ME ---

Brent Baughn < Bbaughn@aol.com >

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The latest on the subject casts doubt that any of these were children of Jane Arledge.

Subject: Re: Hardin-Arledge Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 22:59:45 EDT From: LEPound@aol.com

Hi Pam,

I won't try to get into a lot of detail, however, I now believe that the Henry Harding lines that have been thrown around for so many years are incorrect, including much of what you have in your chart. In late June I decided that there were so many contradictions in the Harding lines that I needed to see just what could be proven and what could not be proven and was I surprised. It's taken about two months to copy out all the Harding references in Northumberland County, VA and in other Northern Neck counties up to Loudoun, resulting in hundreds of entries and about 75 pages of material.

That said, here are my new comments on your chart:

1. Henry Harding and Jane Arledge have no provable children. All sources list four children, Henry, John, Thomas, and William. This is from a speculative comment in an article written by Mrs. Keach in the 1920's in Tylers Quarter, which is the basis for the structure of the family as currently accepted.

2. Henry Harding who married Jane Arledge was still under 21 in August 1691 per court records. He most likely married within the next year or two. He died in August 1697 when his wife filed for probate, not May 1698. Jane is the only name Jane Arledge is known under in the records.

3. Henry Harding II, supposed son of Henry Harding and Jane Arledge, was married by early 1708 in Northumberland Co., VA, proven by a court record where Henry and Anne, widow of William Beltcher Jr, probate his estate, not 1714-15. If Henry II was the son of Henry and Jane, he would have been 14-15 years old at marriage. Not likely.

4. Henry and Jane's other listed sons are figments of the imagination. Thomas does not exist and was never assigned a family by any researcher. John is most likly the son of William Harding, Henry's bro ther, proven by a Westmoreland Co. court order. William was invented and the dates of his children were changed by 10 years from parish registers to make him fit the family.

5. The only proven child of Henry Harding II is Henry III. All others are speculation. Charles belongs in neither position that you have him in. If you look carefully you will note you have him twice, under Henry and under William, both times married to Rachel Lunsford. William may belong in this family but there is nothing to connect him. George may belong here too but there is no proof.

I need to e-mail Sue Harris and Brent Baughn with the results of my research since it is such a radical change. Ironically, I keep coming back to my original idea of Brent's ancestry, which also mine, the more I research, and not the line he sent you, which is now clearly incorrect.

NOTE from PW: As a result, I've removed these descendants from my chart, trusting Lee Pound's expertise.

Subject: Arledge Family Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 16:23:09 EDT From: LEPound@aol.com

Hi Pam,

I just looked through your Arledge page and found one of my letters on the subject of the descendants of Henry Harding and Jane Arledge. First, I appreciate you including the material since it does make quite a difference for Harding descendants.

I did end up publishing my Harding findings last September, including all of the Northumberland references. Interestingly enough, I found no proof that Jane, the wife of Henry Harding was an Arledge or had any connection with Clement Arledge.

Anyway the book is available should you wish to have a copy. To order, send $20 to me at 4 Ash Tree Lane, Irvine, CA 92612.

Again, I appreciate your getting the word out about the Harding problems.

Lee Pound

5. CLEMENT4 ALDRIDGE (CLEMENT 3, CLEMENT2, JOHN ALDRICH/1) was born September 1672 in Wicomico, Northumberland County, Virginia, and died Bef. March 20, 1705/06 in (Will) Wicomico, Northumberland County, Virginia. He married (1) ELIZABETH BEAN, daughter of WILLIAM BEAN and ELIZABETH SYMMONS. He married (2) MARY ??? Abt. 1703 in Northumberland Co VA.

Notes for CLEMENT ALDRIDGE:

21 Sept 1699: Motion of CLEM'T ARLEGE, probate to him of the last will of ELIZ. ARLEGE his wife, proved by Edw'd Barnes and Hugh Staten. [Northumberland County, VA, Court Orders, p. 66] .

Northumberland County Will proved on 20 Mar 1706 (not date of death). [NEED COPY OF WILL]

*15 Oct 1701--Mary Sivillivant, servant to Clement Aldridge, haveing had a bastard child in the time of her service, it's ordered she serve her said Master for her said default one yeare and a halfe according to Law, her said Master in court haveing engaged to pay the fine. [Northumberland Co. Order Book 1699-1713, Part 1, 176]

*entry before 18 Mar 1703: CLEMENT ARLEGE and MARY his wife vs. JOHN CONWAY. [Northumberland County Court Orders p. 243]

*Clement Arledge, deed to Patrick Maley, 7 Jul 1703. 17.127 [Beverly Fleet, Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol. XIX, Northumbria Collectanea, 1645-1720 (Balt: GPC, 1971]

There is some discrepancy as to whom Mary was married prior to her marriage to Clement. She was certainly a busy woman when it came to marrying:

*Mary Arledge, wife of Clement, widow of John Donaldson, 7 Jul 1703. 17.127 [Beverly Fleet, Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol. XIX, Northumbria Collectanea, 1645-1720 (Balt: GPC, 1971] *HOWEVER*, another abstract says: CLEMENT ARLEDGE and MARY his wife Relict of DENNIS EYES who bequeathed in his last will a planatation to JOHN CONWAY and MARY entitle to her thirds of Dower and Conway to be summoned to the next Court [Northumberland County Court Orders, p. 257]

*Court [20 Mar? Entry before 21 Mar] 1705/6, page 372. Pet. of Mary Arledge, a Com. of Adm. to her on the Est. of her de'cd husband Clement Arledge, with will annexed.

*Court 23 Nov 1706, page 419. Capt. John Cralle vs. Jonathan Palfrey and Mary his wife late Mary Arledge Admx. of Clement Arledge dec'd, dismissed.

*Court 15 Aug 1711, page 747. Clement and Mary Arledge deed of sale to Patrick Malery. (**Question: Why is this sale dated 1711 AFTER Clement had died?)

See Beverly Fleet, Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol. I (Baltimore: Genealogical Publsihing Co, 1988). See Franklin Rudolph Aldridge, Aldridge Records, Vol. 2. 1975 (139 Ewing Dr, Nashville, TN; avail from Gen Soc of CJCLDS); esp pp. 176 ff, "The Arledge Family Records" (Ch. 11). See also Alice Sekanick, "The Hutchinson Family" (privately published, 1994: 624 Kirby Lane, Richardson, TX 75080) and Dr. Rulon C. Allred, "The Allred Family in America, Vol. 1" (Salt Lake City: William R. Bischoff, 1965), and John Bennett Boddie, "The Allred (Aldridge) Family in England and North Carolina" in Historical Southern Families, vol. X (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1966).

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Teri Allred wrote on 17 Jan 1998:

Source: Microfilm Collection, Reel 1, Jones Papers, Northumberland County, Virginia Historical Society, Heathsville, Virginia. "To all Christian people to whom these presents shall come Clement Arlidge Junior of th Parish of Bowtracy of the County of Northumberland and Elizabeth his wife ... know yee that Colonel John Symmons dyed seized of sixty acres of land in Cherry Point Neck in the County aforesaid Butting and bounding Southerly on the Creek and Swamp that parts of this said land from a tract of land formerly sould by John Symmons unto Henry Bogges Westerly on ye land of the said Bogges Northerly on the Land Sould by the sd John Symmonds unto Francis Little now in the possession of William Parker and Easterly on the Land of Thomas Matthews wch Said tract or parcel of Land after the decease of the said John Symmons descended unto Elizabeth Sister and heir of the Said John the Said Elizabeth intermarryed wth William Bean by whom she had issue - Elizabeth wife of the Said Clement Arlidge and party to this deed and sole heir to said Elizabeth Bean and whereas the Said William Bean hath by virtue of his intermarriage wth the Said Elizabeth sister of the Said John Symmons by whom she had issue Elizabeth one of the parteys to this Deed hath an Estate for life in twenty acres of the sd Land as tennant by the curtesye of England and Susannah the now wife of John Lawrence had title and Estate for her life as tennant in Dower in Twenty acres of the sd Land as Relict and widdow of the Said John Symmons ... 15th day of February Anno Dominy 1694/95.."

I checked Allred Family in America by Dr. Rulon C. Allred and found [page I-74, in the section written by Archibald F. Bennett] the following information about this Clement:

Clement's wife, Elizabeth [now we know it was Elizabeth Bean], died about 1699. Clement then married Mary [who had previously married John Donaldson and then Dennis Eyes prior to her marriage to Clement Aldridge, Jr. Then after her 3rd husband, Clement, died, she married Jonathan Palfrey, as her 4th husband].

Among the appraisers of the estate of Clement Aldridge/Arledge were John Laurence. Clement's will was destroyed in a fire. He has no known children. Had his will survived, we would have known one way or another, but it seems really strange that with two wives, he had no children. We may never know (with a miracle, of course). We now know that Clement Aldridge/Arledge's first wife was Elizabeth Bean, the daughter of William Bean and Elizabeth Symmons. Elizabeth Symmons was the sister of Colonel John Symmons whose widow, Susannah, married John Lawrence.

Now, if that isn't confusing enough....

John Allred left a will in 1792 in Randolph County, North Carolina. Among his heirs was a daughter, Elizabeth Horner, wife of William Horner. Three of their children married Russells. Among some documents discovered by the late Brenda Esslinger of Knoxville, TN, a descendant of Elizabeth Allred and William Horner are: DAR Membership application of Helen Young Bishop; Horner Legacy by Fredalene Horner; Russell Vertical File & Bean Vertical File, McClung Library, Knoxville, TN. The Allen Papers at the McClung Library has the following on the Bean line:

Matthew Bains married Margaret Hatton at Lancaster Monthly Meeting in England. They sailed for America in 1687 on the ship Chester. Matthew, Margaret and two of their children (Thomas and Timothy) died at sea. Their surviving children, William and Eleanor, wanted to stay in America. William's children were: Joseph, Matthew, James, Timothy, Thomas (infant who died), William, Jacob, Elizabeth and Eleanor. They were all born in the early 1700s.

The International Genealogical Index (IGI) shows William and Elizabeth Bean in Northumberland County, Virginia, the ancestor of the Beans who married into the Russell family and then three times into the family of Elizabeth Allred and William Horner. So far this is probably not too clear, but I'll try to clarify, but the this line migrates from Northumberland County, Virginia, to Pittsylvania and Halifax Counties, Virginia, and to North Carolina. This BEAN-RUSSELL group/family was involved in the Watauga Association. William Russell and Elizabeth Bean had three children who married children of William Horner and Elizabeth Allred: Elizabeth Russell who married to John Horner, Jr.; Jemima Russell who married George Horner (this family went to Hickman and later Perry County, TN); Lewis R. Russell who married Elizabeth Horner (migrated to Arkansas). The wife, Elizabeth Bean, of William Russell, was the sister of Captain William Bean (who married George Russell's sister, Lydia). This Elizabeth Bean and William Bean were the children of William Bean who was born 1720, Northumberland County, Virginia.

There is also a connection to the Cloud and Lane families. Briefly, William Cloud married Sarah James. Their children were: Robert, John, Joseph (to follow), Jeremiah and Willliam. Joseph Cloud married Sarah Green (widow Moore). Their children were: Isaac (to follow), Joseph, Mary and Ann. Isaac Cloud's wife is not known. Their daughter, Elizabeth, married John Fuller Lane. John Fuller Lane and Elizabeth Cloud had the following children: 1) Dorcas Lane, md. Thomas Gresham & then Nathaniel Davis. 2) Sarah Lane, md. Zachariah McCubbins 3) Jemima Lane, md. John Ellis, Sr. 4) Isaac Lane, md. Sarah Russell ***** 5) Tidence Lane, md. Ann Bean ***** 6) John Dutton Lane 7) Rhoda Lane, md. Mr. Curry 8) Elizabeth Lane, md. Benjamin Shipley 9) Samuel Lane, md. Elizabeth Hunt 10) a daughter who md. Thomas Cunningham. After John Fuller Lane, Elizabeth Cloud Lane married 2) John Crouch. The Cloud/Lane/Bean research was done by Brenda Esslinger prior to 1994.

The point: there is a connection between the daughter of John Allred (Elizabeth, wife of William Horner) and families from Northumberland County, Virginia. I am sure there is much more to be done. I am not trying to say that John Aldridge/Arledge was the ancestor of the Allreds of Orange and Randolph Counties, North Carolina, because I don't think this is the case; however, I still believe the Allreds of NC are related or descendants of the Northumberland family of Aldridge/Arledge, especially since a Henry Alred appeared there in 1694 as assignee of William Dickinson by his attorney, Richard Haynie [Thomas Hobson and Some of His Descendants, Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. VIII, Richmond Press, Inc. Printers, Richmond, VA, 1927, pp. 128-129].

Comments, futher information welcomed.

Notes for ELIZABETH BEAN:

21 Sept 1699: Motion of CLEM'T ARLEGE, probate to him of the last will of ELIZ. ARLEGE his wife, proved by Edw'd Barnes and Hugh Staten. [Northumberland County, VA, Court Orders, p. 66] .

Child of CLEMENT ALDRIDGE and ELIZABETH BEAN is:

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