Found in Marion & Horry Counties in SC. Glenda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve E." <datanato@bellsouth.net> To: <ncrobeso@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 5:28 PM Subject: Re: [NCROBESO] Jacob Alford > Alford is also a South Carolina name, I believe found in Marion County, > SC. Can anyone confirm? > > Fran wrote: > >>Found among Bladen deeds is the below abstract. I am looking for >>parentage of Jacob ALFORD. >> >>Thanks for any info. >>______________________ >> >>AUG 1, 1770 Richard SMITH to Abraham STRICKLAND 15 lbs. 100 A E of >>Drowning >>Cr sd to be Betters lower inside corner..Wit: Jacob ALFORD, John JONES >>P.101-2 >> >> >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>NCROBESO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCROBESO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I am a descendant of Jacob Alford, born Dec 12, 1738 in New Kent Co., VA to Lodwick Alford and his wife, Susannah Cade. Jacob and his father migrated to N.C. and Jacob eventually ended up in that part of Bladen that was later Robeson Co., NC where he received a Land Grant April 4, 1764. For those that can lay claim to this couple.. Jacob's wife, Mary Pace's family can be traced back to the early Jamestown Colony where her ancestors were on the third ship that landed there in ca. 1618/19 and settled opposite Jamestown on the southern shore of the James River... which is now Surry Co., VA. Jacob Alford was one of the first members of the county commissioners to arrange for a courthouse for the newly created Robeson County along with John Cade and five others, on 6 Jan 1787. Jacob Alford was a Justice of the Peace in Robeson Co. The House Journal of the General Assembly, 1790 at Fayetteville shows that his resignation was read and sent to the Senate in Dec. 1790. Records of land patents show that Jacob Alford began to enter land in Bladen (part now Robeson) Co. in 1764 which indicate that he removed there about that time, when he was 26 yrs. old. He settled first at Harper's Ferry, later the Lowery Bridge, on Lumber River, (then called Drowning Creek) near the old Lebanon Presbyterian Church and about 2 mi. west of the present R.R. station at Pembroke . According to "AWAY DOWN HOME" by M. Thomas, page 74, " By the act of 1787, Section VI, which created the county, Jacob Alford was among the men appointed to choose a site for the county courthouse and to contract for the erection of that building, a prison, and stocks. Page 67, " In 1788 ...early sources list the members of the county court, which was the governing body of the county, as Jacob Alford, Abraham Barnes, Elias Barnes, and John Willis. Alfordsville, a community in southern Robeson was the site of the Alford family lands. It boasts the second oldest post office in the county where Warren Alford received $2.20 as post master in 1817 and $3.00 in 1818. He remained in charge of the office until 1844 when Sion Alford became postmaster. ("Away Down Home," by Maud Thomas, page 58) ******************************************************************************************************* During the Revolutionary War , Jacob Alford was active in the cause of the Revolution. It is not known whether he was enrolled in a body of troops in the pay of the state, but it is known that he was an active combatant as were many others of that area. He was once captured and held prisoner in an old school house near the present town of Little Rock, SC. Jacob Alford was a member of the House of Commons of the NC General Assembly from Robeson Co., 1791-2 and 1793-5. His grandson, Jacob Alford and his son Warren also served in this capacity at a later time. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sellers' "HISTORY OF MARION COUNTY, SC", pp 282-4, contains an excellent Alford sketch. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bruce Howard's book, "OUR COLONIAL ANCESTORS", page 274, infers that Jacob Alford died about 1796. He says he and Mary had six boys and five girls. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (Note that his will was not recorded until 1826) Source of Alford info in Vol II of "KINFOLKS" by Wiliam Curry Harllee, Page 1449- page 1456+ Page 1452 is the Will of Jacob Alford. It is recorded in Robeson Co., Lumberton, NC, Book of Wills 1, p. 36. In the name of God Amen I Jacob Alford, Planter, in Robeson County being very well in health and parfit sound in judgment and perfect memory thanks be to Good for his merses knowing the mortality of my body do make and ordain this my last will and testament that is to say: Principally and first of all I order my just debts to be paid and for the love and affect I have to my beloved wife Mary Alford I order to be given her four negroes named Hardy, Marget, Mint, and Tom, and at her death Tom to my young son Wiley, and Mint to Lod my son, except the first incres of her body to Wiley. I order my son Warren have Scot my negroe wench. I order that my daughter Charrity have my negroe gall Safron except the first child to my son Lias. I order that my son Lias have my negroe boy Nat. I order that my son Warren Alford to have my negroe fellow Hardy after my wife's death and Marget to my son James Alford after her death . I order that all my lands on Ashpole be given to y son James Alford except one hundred acres to my son Sion Alford provided that he pays Sion Alford for the part of said land that he bout of him agreeable to bargain. I order that all the land that is in the new sevay that is in Trawick name that I have his bond for titel be given to my son Sion Alford direct from the run of the swamp agreeable with his Long Line to the outside line of said sevay and that none of these lands be sold to pay any of my debt that I give to son Sion and James. I order the land that I bout of Solloman Nolton of South Carolina the titels to be made to my wife. I order the land that belongs to the plantation whereon I now live with all the improvements and the tracts of land on the Great Mach be sold to pay my debts and the young bay horse and the black horse. I order that all my estate be divided betwext my sons Lod, Elias, and Wiley at my wife's death except one bed and furniture to my daughter Charity. I order that all my debts be put to the use of paying of my debts. I order that my Exetours sell all the property that I have ordered to be sold at private sale or public sale as they see fit to pout it to the best advantage of settling my debts and that their deed be a good and lawful right for the land and if the property that I have left to be sold and my debts will not pay my debs I order that equal proportion be taken from Warrens, Lod, Lias, and Wiles part til the sum be made up or they pay the ewqual part. I order that Sion Alford, Warren Alford, my sons, and Elias Barnes be Exetours to my will signed and sealed this 4th day of July 1794/JACOB ALFORD/ MARY(her X mark) ALFORD (Note that his wife signs his will, WCH Test: Duncan McEachern/Sara Ann McTyer/Sion Alford This will is endorsed: Jacob Alford's Will Recorded in Book A, page 36, July 1826, Neill Buie, Clerk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joanne B. Harley New Bern, NC jharley2@suddenlink.net (note that my email address has changed.. and is in effect now. )

jharley2@suddenlink.net wrote: I am a descendant of Jacob Alford, born Dec 12, 1738 in New Kent Co., VA to Lodwick Alford and his wife, Susannah Cade. Jacob and his father migrated to N.C. and Jacob eventually ended up in that part of Bladen that was later Robeson Co., NC where he received a Land Grant April 4, 1764. In gathering your information on Jacob ALFORD, did you come across Thomas ALFORD who was owner of 300A in Bladen County 1779? Was he related to Jacob ALFORD? Thank you for the information on Jacob and for any additional info on Thomas ALFORD who married Ann WEST. Fran