| Name: | Nicholas Aldridge (or Alldredge) |
| Born: | before 1660 probably England |
| Died: | about 21 November 1708 (buried 21 Nov) |
| Buried: | All Hallows' Chapel Churchyard, Anne Arundel County, Maryland (grave now unmarked) |
| Married: | Martha (possibly Besson) before 1680, probably in Anne Arundel County, Maryland |
| Children: | Thomas Aldridge, William Alldredge (b. 1703) |
Overview
Nicholas Aldridge is the immigrant ancestor of our Aldridge family. He entered a land grant in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, of 300 acres on the south side of the Magothy River, surveyed for him on 20 August 1680. The grant was issued by Charles Calvert, Lord Baltimore on 11 July 1681, a tract called "Aldridge's Beginning."[1] Like the other elements in my Aldridge-Alldredge tree, Nicholas Aldridge is the subject of a lot of extravagant and poorly supported claims. On this page, I will document what we know for certain, and do my best to distinguish fact from speculation.
- ↑ Memory Aldridge Lester, Alldredge-Aldridge-Bracken-Nesmith Families and Their Kin (Chapel Hill, N.C.: privately printed, 1957), available on Ancestry, Internet Archive, and FamilySearch, 5 (Ancestry, Internet Archive, [www.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/541095/16 FamilySearch]); Franklin Rudolph Aldridge, Aldridge Records, vol. 2 (Nashville: self-published, 1975), 22 (Ancestry, [hwww.familysearch.org/library/books/idviewer/34303/26 FamilySearch]); Maryland Historical Magazine, vol. 26 (1931), page 273 (Internet Archive).