Name:                     Nicholas IV ALDRIDGE

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Birth:                      28 Dec 1653             E. Wellow Parish, England

Death:                     21 Nov 1708            Anne Arundel, MD

Father:                     Nicholas III ALDRIDGE (1628-1668)

Mother:                   Margaret (~1632-1668)

 

Misc. Notes

Nicholas DE ALRESWICH (abt 1390 - )

    William ALDRYCHE (abt 1420 - bef 1461) & Ellena DE BALDYT (abt 1420 - )

        John ALDRICHE

            Nicholas ALDRIDGE (abt 1519 - 19 Jul 1577) & Joan? (abt 1523 - 1602)

                Robert ALDRIDGE (abt 1545 - 8 Dec 1590) & Anne? (abt 1550 - 1597)

                    Nicholas Sr. ALDRIDGE (abt 1572 - ) & Mary Alice WISE (1576 - )

                        Nicholas Jr. ALDRIDGE (9 Apr 1598 - 4 Jul 1661) & Cicily? (1598 - 8 Jan 1658/59)

                            Nicholas III ALDRIDGE (May 1628 - 2 Mar 1668/69) & Margaret (abt 1632 - 2 mar 1668/69)

                              Nicholas IV ALDRIDGE (28 Dec 1653 - 21 Nov 1708) & Martha BESSON (1662 - Oct 1719)

                                    William ALDRIDGE (1701 (or 1702) - 1770) & Elizabeth SYMONS (1704 - 24 Oct 1793)

                                        William Ezekial ALDRIDGE (1729 - 13 Nov 1789) & Elizabeth ( - 29 Oct 1793)

                                            Sarah ALDRIDGE (abt 1763 - 1817) & Henry KIVET (abt 1760 - 5 Aug 1806)

                                                Jacob KIVET (1782 - 1819) & Mary (Polly) BROWER (abt 1794 - bef 14 Feb 1824)

                                                    Mary ÒPollyÓ KIVET (1815 - 1867) & Moody ROBINSON (1811 - 1881)

                                                        Moody ROBINSON (1850 - 1938) & Ellen Arminda ATEN (1849 - 1919)

                                                            Adelia Gertrude ROBINSON (1878 - 1973) & Newton COFFEY (1875 -1969)

                                                                Leo Newton COFFEY (1901-1998) & Elsie M. WALKER (1903-1983)

 

There are many Ancestry.com sites that give the ancestry of this Nicholas Aldridge:

 

The birth date used is actually the christening date. In the book Aldridge Records (by Franklin Rudolph Aldridge, 1966) the following is said: Nicholas Aldridge was living in Anne Arundel County as early as 1678 and perhaps before, when payment of 50 lbs. tobacco was made to him.

 

He was in the rent roll August 1680 for land on the south side Magothy River. In 1707 his rent was twelve shillings for the three hundred acres that was granted to him 1681. Lord Cecilius Calvert of Baltimore the second, took up when his father died in establishing a colony in Maryland about 1634. The grant included all the land between the fortieth parallel and the southern bank of the Potomac River. Thomas and Nicholas Aldridge, who may have been brothers, lived in the county of Anne Arundel. Thomas was granted by Cecilius Calvert one hundred acres of land called "Aldridge Lott" in Baltimore county, on Chesapeake Bay, and on the eastern side of the bay, and on the west side of Chara Creek. Rent 4 Shillings, 9th June 1675. Nicholas Aldridge was granted by Chas. Calvert (Charles George Calvert the third Lord of Baltimore), three hundred acres land Called "Aldridge His Beginning" in Anne Arundel County. Rent 12 Shillings, signed 11th July 1681. A shilling is worth about $0.07 1/2 so Nicholas payed about $0.90 for his land. Thomas Aldridge payed about $0.30 for his land. We do not know if this rent was collected Monthly or Yearly. He was 28 years old when he recieved this land and only lived on this land for 27 years, since he died in 1708, at age 55 years.

 

Thomas and Nicholas land grants were very near one another, both being near the county line of Anne Arundel and Baltimore Counties, so near they both attended the same Parish in Anne Arundel, where both their children's birth and Marriages were registered. Their parish was All Hollow Parish. After an extensive search of East Wellow, England church records, I found no records of a Thomas Aldridge with a father Nicholas Aldridge. I feel that the Thomas mentioned in the land records is probably a cousin, not a brother, since there was a Thomas with a different father (John Aldridge) mentioned.

 

See you encyclopeidia for more information on Cecilius Calvert the second lord of Baltimore and Charles George Calvert the third lord of Baltimore. A Baptism record was found from the church records of East Wellow, Hampshire, England. It reads as follows: Nicholas the son of Nicholas Aldridge the younger December 28th, 1653. A survey record was found and sent to me by Ann Arundel county Archives. This record is written in the Old English hand and is very hard to read. I have translated as mush of it as possible. I will duplicate it here. I will write (can not read) in the areas that I can't translate:

 

ÒAug 20, 1680 By virtue of (can not read) granted unto Henry Hanslop of Ann Arundell County for six hundred acres of land Nicholas Aldridge being dated the 20th day of Aug One Thousand Six Hundred and eighty, three hundred acres was thereof Rent 12 all Assigned by the said (can not read) unto Nicholas Aldridge of the said county as Apprs. These are Aldridge his beginning therefor in humble manner to certificated by Geo: Yates dep: (can not read) for the said Aldridge parcel of land called Aldridge his beginning Lying in the said county on the south side of Magothy River beginning at about (can not read) Oak standing opposite to Eussaral Island and bounding on the said river lying down south south east one hundred acres abound by chestnut tree (can not read) then north north west one hundred acres then east to the (can not read): And now laid out for three hundred acres of land more or less to be held of the manner of Ann Arundell. Geo: Yates surveyerÓ

 

Marriage:                 abt 1680                  Anne Arundel, MD

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Spouse:                   Martha BESSON

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Birth:                      1662                       All Hallows Parish, Anne Arundel, MD

Death:                     19 Oct 1719             Anne Arundel, MD

Father:                     Thomas Jr. BESSON (1617-1677)

Mother:                   Hester CAPLIN (1618-)

 

Misc. Notes

Martha is named in her fatherÕs will as a minor. See notes with Thomas BESSON Jr.

 

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Children

Nicholas IV ALDRIDGE (28 Dec 1653 - 21 Nov 1708) & Martha BESSON (1662 - 19 Oct 1719)

    Thomas ALDRIDGE (5 Nov 1680 - )

    Ann ALDRIDGE (6 Nov 1684 - )

    John ALDRIDGE (1688 - abt 1750)

    Joane ALDRIDGE (10 Sep 1689 - )

    Sydney ALDRIDGE (9 Aug 1693 - )

    Jane ALDRIDGE (3 Apr 1696 - )

    Nicholas ALDRIDGE (11 May 1698 - bef 20 Dec 1758)

    William (infant) ALDRIDGE (30 Oct 1700 - )

    William ALDRIDGE (13 Mar 1701 (or 1702) - 1770) & Elizabeth SYMONS (1704 - 24 Oct 1793)

    James A ALDRIDGE (1 Jul 1706 - 1775)

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