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Samuel Alligood

Born 1774 in Jones County, North Carolina

Ancestors

Son of Hillery Alligood and Dorcas Worsley

Brother of Henry Alligood and Hillery Alligood

Husband of Esther Unknown — married about 1794 in Jones County, North Carolina

Husband of Mary Antwine — married about 1816 [location unknown]

Descendants

Father of Lewis Alligood, Charles Alligood, Silas Elisha Alligood and Rebecca (Alligood) Smith

Died 1838 at about age 64 in Leon County, Florida

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Biography

Samuel Alligood was born in 1774, the youngest known son of Hillary and Dorcas Alligood. Samuel was born in Jones County, North Carolina. He grew up there and married a girl named Easter (Esther). There is no marriage record. The two were married by 1796 when they were both witnesses to a conveyance. In 1796, Samuel and Easter Alligood witnessed a deed from Elam Thornton of Georgia to Daniel Koonce of Jones County, NC for 63 acres of land on the west side of Pocoson Swamp in Jones County. The land began at what was formerly Gabriel Pickren’s corner. The clerk copy of the deed indicates that Samuel Alligood witnessed the deed in open court during the August term of court in 1796 in Jones County.

This was the only record found for Samuel Alligood in North Carolina and it proves that he was a resident of Jones County, NC in 1796. It also directly associates him with known neighbors of Dorcas Alligood. Jones County, NC deed abstracts for Daniel Koonce and Elam Thornton are included in this report starting on page 59. They place these 2 men in the same locations as the family of Hillery Alligood, Sr. Elam Thornton left Jones County, NC prior to 1789.^[1]

Samuel's daughter, Rebecca Alligood told her family that her mother was Mary Antwine. Whether this Easter/Esther represents a different person is not known. It is possible Easter died soon a few years after their marriage and Samuel married Mary Antwine.

There was a significant migration of Jones County families that moved into the Burke County, Georgia area; part of which became Screven and Laurens Counties. Samuel was among them. He was there by at least 1807.His daughter Rebecca was born in Laurens County, Georgia in 1821.

Frontier Danger

After the Florida Territory was acquired by the United States, Samuel took his family and settled in the wilds of Wakulla County in 1825. He is listed on the 1830 census in Magnolia.^[2]

In later years, Samuel's daughter Rebecca recalled to her family events that happened during the Second Seminole War. The Indians attacked and killed their neighbors. They then started for the Alligood cabin, and Samuel knew they had to escape. He so had the family grab what they could and leave. Rebecca remembered running out of the cabin with her father's money in a shot sack. The family hid in the woods and escaped detection and death.

It was too dangerous to stay there, so they went to Orange Hill, Florida, but finding the area disagreeable, they made their just across the state line into Decatur County, Georgia near the settlement of Gundee. ^[3]

Samuel kept his family there some months until it was safe to return to Wakulla County. They were back there by the middle of 1837.

Samuel died before the end of 1838. He still had land remaining in Laurens County which was sold to satisfy a lien:

Tuesday January 1, 1839 Georgia, Laurens County; Sheriff Sales--On the first Tuesday in February, next, will be sold at the courthouse in the town of Dublin, Laurens County, within the usual hours of sale, the following property, to wit: Lot No. 145/18 dist...etc...levied on as property of Samuel Alligood to satisfy executions or fi fas in favor of Malichi Goff. (Signed) Elzy Thompson, Sheriff ^[4]

There are three Alligoods registered to vote in the first statewide election in Florida in 1845: Samuel, Charles, and Silas. It is assumed this Samuel is his son.^[5]