Solomon ALLRED^[1]

1680 - 1754  (75 years)

• Name	Solomon ALLRED
  Birth	1680	Eccles Parish, Lancashire, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft. 1754	Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Person ID	I340040513641	Welch Webb Haigler Mershon
  Last Modified	26 Jul 2023

  
  

  Father	John ALLRED,   b. 26 Mar 1637, Eccles Parish, Lancashire, England d. 7 Apr 1701, Lancashire, England (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Ellen PEMBERTON,   b. 26 Mar 1638, Eccles Parish, Lancashire, England d. 21 Dec 1684, Pendleton, Lancashire, England (Age 46 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1660	England
  Family ID	F230	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ann YORK,   b. 1689, Olney Parish, Buckinghamshire, England d. 1750 (Age 61 years)
  Children	1. Unknown ALLRED,   b. 1713   d. 1737 (Age 24 years)   2. William ALLRED, Sr.,   b. 1718   d. Aft 1768 (Age 51 years)   3. Thomas ALLRED,   b. Abt. 1724, Northumberland County, Virginia, USA d. 1810, North Carolina, USA (Age 86 years)   4. Solomon ALLRED
  Last Modified	26 Jul 2023
  Family ID	F419	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Information on the Allred line in the United States comes from Dawnell Hatton Griffin's 2015 book "From England to America, Our Allred Family." She cites incorrect information in the Rulon C. Allred book "Allred Family in America" based on Bennet's book written in the 1940's that said the original Allreds were descended from Henry Aldridge who later changed their names. DNA testing has proven that Solomon's descendants are related to the Allreds of Lancashire England and that the Aldridges are not. People named Aldridge and Diffee married into the Allred line and were later confused as having been direct descendants, errors which persist in many family trees on the internet. The Allred English ancestors lived through the religious turmoil of the 16th and 17th century England when Catholics and Protestants were battling for control, and first one group was persecuted, then the other, leading in part to the Civil War and the short rule of Oliver Cromwell along with persecution of the Quakers at the same time the Huguenots were persecuted in France. Many Englishmen and Frenchmen were desperate to escape the dangerous times by emigrating to America, a path Solomon followed in the early part of the 18th century. (His father was born only 30 years after the original pilgrims settled the shores of Virginia.) It is unknown how he secured passage, which was quite expensive, but presumed that he indentured himself in some way. He applied to his cousin Israel in Philadelphia for help at one point. He arrived in Eventually he acquired land and moved south along the Great Wagon Road that stretched from New Jersey through Pennsylvania and Maryland to Virginia and the Carolinas. There is no marriage record for Solomon and Ann York, but it is presumed that she immigrated with her brother, Jeremiah, about 1712 and that they were married about 1713. There is record of them living in the Nottingham Lots (a disputed area between Pennsylvania and Maryland) where it is believed that their four children were born. A 1719 letter from Solomon to Israel Pemberton Solomon mentions his wife and says he is living in West Nottingham. (Letter is part of the "Collection of Family Daata" in the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. They later moved to Fredericks County Maryland, but by 1754 were living on Mount Pleasant Run of Sandy Creek in Orange County, North Carolina (now Randolph County) where he was a chain carrier marking property lines as well as, probably, a farmer. There is no extant record of their movement or activities between 1730 and 1750.

  
  

• Sources

  [S_834655672] Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree.