Hello, I'm new to the list. I'm working on a history of the ARLEDGE or ALDRIDGE family, and they seem to have been a significant presence in Fairfield County from around 1750's until the late 19th century, and then disappeared from view there (they did take up elsewhere in great numbers, though!). I'm trying to find out any information from ANYONE having Arledges or Aldridge/Arledges in their tree, to add them (and hopefully connect them) in my database of all Arledge descendents. I'll be glad to provide more information, and would love to receive more. I have records of several ALDRIDGE men who were presumably brothers--WILLIAM, JOHN and ISAAC--who came from VA through NC and bought or were granted and in the Fairfield District in the mid-to-late 1700s. ELIZABETH ALDRIDGE, a widow of one of them (probably John), remarried MATTHIAS FELLOWS. Many of them were involved with the Broad River (Baptist?) Church. Some spread to surrounding counties, and there seems to have been a strong Arledge presence in Edgefield Co as well, though the connections between the two families are not yet clear. ISAAC (d. 1790, Fairfield Will) seems to have had the most lasting impact in the county. An Isaac ALDRIDGE received a royal grant in 1768 for 200 acres in Craven Co, SC, to which he added land purchases to build a large plantation on the Wateree River in Fairfield Co, SC. His children were CALEB, CLEMENT, AMOS, JOSEPH, SARAH (m. BISHOP), HULDAH, ISAAC, RACHEL, ANNE and WILLIAM. One of the daughters married a WRIGHT, and one a GINN or GUINN. [For more information, see my web page at http://www.geocities.com/heartland/prairie/8208.] If you have information on any of these families, please contact me. If anyone has any documents on this family, I would be quite interested in finding out what is out there. I'm too far away (PA) to spend as much time as I'd like in the SC Archives and county libraries. Thanks in advance for your interest and help! If you know of any other SC lists that would be relevant (Spartanburg, Kershaw, Edgefield Counties, for example), please feel free to forward this. Pam Wilson <pwgs@sgi.net> or <wilson_pam@hotmail.com>