 1748 - 1789 (41 years)
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| Name |
William Alston [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] |
| Birth |
1748 |
Chowan County, North Carolina, USA  [2, 4, 5, 7] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth |
1748 |
Halifax, North Carolina [1] |
| Death |
1789 |
Chatham County, North Carolina, USA [1, 2, 5, 6, 7] |
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| Will |
2 Aug 1789 |
Chatham County, North Carolina, USA |
| Person ID |
I38039 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Family |
Sarah Ann Yeargain, b. 1752, Chesterfield, Virginia, USA d. 1786, Pittsboro, Chatham, North Carolina, USA (Age 34 years) |
| Marriage |
1769 [5, 8] |
| Children |
| | 1. John Joseph Alston, b. Abt 1775, Chatham, North Carolina\ d. 1 Apr 1831, North Carolina, USA (Age 56 years) [natural] |
| | 2. William Chancy Alston, b. Abt 1777, Halifax County, NC d. 1789, Chatham, North Carolina, USA (Age 12 years) [natural] |
| | 3. Samuel Yeargan Alston, b. Abt 1779, North Carolina, USA d. Bef 1789 (Age < 9 years) [natural] |
| | 4. Oroondates Davis Alston, b. Abt 1781, Chatham, North Carolina, USA d. 15 May 1851, Chatham, North Carolina, USA (Age 70 years) [natural] |
| | 5. Nancy Ann Alston, b. Abt 1783, Chatham County, NC d. 1860 (Age 77 years) [natural] |
| | 6. Mary Ann Alston, b. 9 Jun 1785, Halifax County, North Carolina, USA d. 8 Sep 1867, Chatham County, NC (Age 82 years) [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F14012 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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| Notes |
- Served as Chatham County., North Carolina Clerk of Court from 1773-spring of 1776. Omitted "Reign of the King" in dating Court Minutes 6 month prior to Declaration. In April, 1776, at Halifax, North Carolina, was appointed as Lt. Col. under Col. Jethro Sumner, 1st Reg., Rev. War)
have also proven that William Alston, son of Joseph John, was the William (of three possibilities) who served as Lt. Col. Third North Carolina Regiment, Continental Lines under Col. Jethro Sumner, appointed at Halifax.
My William Alston was son of Joseph John and Elizabeth (Chancey) Alston of Halifax County , North Carolina. J. J. named him in his will as well as Wm's sons, thus J. J.'s grandsons. So we are talking about the very same and only early Joseph John (son of old Col. John of Chowan, first born, I believe, as named first in father's will, as I recall) but two different wives, mine Elizabeth "Betsy", yours Euphan. No, William Alston was not born in Chatham County as Chatham was not erected until 1771 and Wm died in 1781, testate, in Chatham. He could not have been born in Chatham, even if Chatham were erected much earlier, which it wasn't, as J. J., although he owned quite a bit of land there, never lived in Chatham. My Wm, as per his will, had three living sons, John Joseph, William Chancey and Orendatus Davis, one of whom was already living on his own land in 1781, as well as two young daughters, Ann and Mary Ann, who were left to the "care of Ann Hunt (Macon) Alston wife of my desceased brother John Alston", in will. Full brother to your Willis, and 1/2 brother to my Wm, Joseph John Alston, Jr., was nicknamed "Chatham Jack" Alston. He owned ca 40,000 acres stretching from near Pittsboro all the way to Siler City. He built beautiful homes for his daughters when they married, still standing and occupied though no longer by Alstons. Last Alston in Chatham, given name of Lacy, died in the 50's. J. J., Jr. had very fine cemetery which the Chatham Historical Society is working toward bring it back into it's original glory.
My William had lived in and owned land in Halifax (deeds there) until toward the end of the Rev. War when he moved to Chatham. He named above 1/2 brother Joseph John, Jr. as an executor of his will, as well as his nephew Willis (Congress Willis), son of his brother Capt. John. William Alston's wf., Ann Yeargain, already desceased, had d. between her father's late 1785 death and her husband's 1781 death (as well as her son Samuel Yeargain Alston) had received her father's (Samuel Yeargain) plantation on Little Stone House Creek on south side of the Roanoke, slaves and all, to the care of Ann Hunt (Macon) Alston with income from it to feed, clothe and educate his two little daughters, Ann and Mary Ann. Yeargain's "home plantation", where the first Methodist chapel in America was located on opposite side of the river (north side) went to his baby daughter Sarah Yancey Yeargain.
Another 1/2 brother to your Col. Willis but full brother to my Lt. Col. William was Col. Philip Alston of The House in the Horseshoe (now state park) where skirmish bet. Alston and notorious Tory Col. Davis Fanning is reenacted every Aug. This land was in Chatham but now in Moore County which was erected from Chatham.
Bebe and John Fox , Winston-Salem
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