Fred Tanner Remembers (from Ancestry.com family stories)
"My earliest known great grandfather on my mother's side of the family was William Ledford. William was born in 1685 in Lancaster, Northern England. He was born into a family that farmed land lying next to the Irish Sea near the Scottish Border. The land was poor so his three sons and one being my great grandfather (William B. Ledford Sr.) decided to go to America. Henry was the eldest at age 18, William 16 and John 14. They would sail with Sea Captain James Patton on the Ship Walpoole to Virginia in 1738.[3] To pay for their voyage to America, the three brothers would become indentured servants to Captain Patton for a period of seven years. They landed in America at a place called Belhaven located on the Potomac River. They set out with Captain Patton westward overland to what was then Augusta County, Virginia. Augusta County has since been divided into counties in Virginia and West Virginia. By the time the three brothers had worked off their indentured servitude, all three were married. They continued westward and southwestward down the Shenandoah Valley with Captain Patton. They bought land along the West Fork of the Roanoke River near Bradshaw's Creek. Their land was located about ten miles east of the present-day town of Blacksburg in Montgomery County, Virginia.
The Ledford families left Virginia because of Indian uprisings. Great Uncle Henry along with Captain Patton had been killed at the Massacre of Draper's Meadows. The remaining two brothers and their families migrated south on the Carolina Road to Rowan County, North Carolina. They settled on land near each other. Henry's sons Obadiah, Henry and Fredrick settled on Abbott's Creek. As Rowan County was divided into smaller counties, my great grandfather John's land would first be in Guilford and then Randolph County."
Fred Tanner - Hayesville, North Carolina
From the book 'Generations' by John Egerton
Published by: The University Press of Kentucky 1983
As told by William Alexander (Aley) Ledford, son of John Ledford and Elizabeth Bryant and grandson of John Ledford and Lucy Thompson - From page 40:
"Henry had a wife and seven children. Him and my grandfather and Uncle William had some of the best bottomland on the West Fork of the Roanoke. They were one for all and all for one, and they were getting ahead - but after Henry got killed, the rest of them never was able to feel safe. The Indian raids kept up, and more people died, and every week or two another family of settlers would pull up stakes and go back east or down into the Carolinas. Finally, John and William and their families and the widow and children of Uncle Henry decided they couldn't protect their valley no longer, so they packed up and headed south. They crossed back to the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains and went on down to Rowan County, North Carolina. And there on a stream called Caraway Creek they started over".
Generations
P_J_Allen originally shared this on 12 Nov 2014:
Came to America in 1738 on ship Walpoole, James Patton, Capt. Indentured to Patton for 7 years. Killed by Shawnee Indians at Draper's Meadow, near New River, Augusta Co, VA.[4]
Known Children (from Descendants of William Ledford - Genealogy.com)
Children of HENRY LEDFORD, SR. are:
i. NICHOLAS3 LEDFORD, b. Bet. 1739 - 1741.
ii. FREDERICK LEDFORD, SR., b. 1743, Augusta County, Virginia.
↑ Legacy NFS Source: Henry Ledford - Generations: An American Family, John Egerton, The University Press of Kentucky, 1983, Page number: p 38 Notes: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2033102581
Generations by John Egerton Published by: The University Press of Kentucy1983, From the book Generations by John Egerton, Published by: The University Press of Kentucy1983, As told by William Alexander (Aley) Ledford, son of John Ledford and Elizabeth Bryant and grandson of John Ledford and Lucy Thompson, From page 40
Virginia, Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2004. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=7832&h=71641&ssrc=pt&tid=65820243&pid=36378978076&usePUB=true, Chalkley, Lyman. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965. Originally published in 1912. Name: Henry Ledford, Date: 4 Jan 1754, Location: Augusta Co., VA, Property: 75 acres on West fork of Roanoke; corner John Brinnegar. Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley. Remarks: Part of a tract patented to Patton 3 Nov 1750. Description: Grantee, Book: 6-141
Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Chalkley, Lyman. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County. Name: Henry Ledford, Date: 17 Feb 1758, Location: Augusta Co., VA, Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley. Description: Debtor, Book: WB3-202, Attached 2 February 2016 by 0ldcrone, Reason This Source Is Attached Virginia Land Records. Explanation for this record: When Capt James Patton was killed in the Draper's Meadow massacre, the three Ledford brothers still owed him money for their land purchases.
Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Citation: Chalkley, Lyman. Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County. Notes Name: Henry Lidford, Date: 4 Jan 1754 Location: Augusta Co., VA Property: 80 acres; corner Thomas Luttenton, crossing West Fork of Roanoke, crossing Roanoke River; corner Henry Lidford. Notes: This land record was originally published in "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley. Remarks: Part of a tract patented to Patton 3 Nov 1750. Description: Neighbor, Book: 6-139
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