| 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. On 20 August 1680, he received a land grant in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, from Charles Calvert, Lord Baltimore for 300 acres on the south side of the Magothy River, a tract called "Aldridge's Beginning."[1]
- ↑ 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]). 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.