| Name: | Nathan Alldredge |
| Born: | about 1739 probably Anne Arundel County, Maryland |
| Died: | 31 Dec 1826 Knox County, Tennessee |
| Parents: | Believed to be son of William Aldridge (b. 1702) |
| Children: | Andrew Alldredge |
Overview
Nathan Alldredge was born about 1739, probably in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He is believed to be the son of William Aldridge (b. 1702), who settled in about 1755 on Sandy Creek in what was then Orange County, North Carolina, now Randolph County. Nathan received his own land grant in Randolph County in 1786. Migrating westward, Nathan died in Knox County, Tennessee on 31 Dec 1826.
A great deal of genealogical confusion has resulted from the fact that there was also a man named Nathaniel Aldridge, a contemporary of Nathan Alldredge, who also settled in Orange County, North Carolina, at around the same time. Genealogists over the years have ascribed records to Nathan that actually related to Nathaniel, and vice versa, even sometimes conflating the two men as one. They also have assumed that both men were related to William Aldridge (b. 1702), placing both Nathan and Nathaniel as William's sons.
Recent DNA research at the Aldridge Surname Group DNA Project at FamilY Tree DNA has proved conclusively that Nathan Alldredge and Nathaniel Aldridge were different men with different, unrelated paternal lineages. But untangling the confused and conflated records of the two men is an ongoing task. In this page, I will seek to present exactly what is known and can be proven about Nathan Alldredge.