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Colonel Solomon Alston, Jr.

Male 1701 - 1784  (83 years)


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  • Name Solomon Alston  [1, 2, 3
    Prefix Colonel 
    Suffix Jr. 
    Born 1701  Albermarle, Chowan, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Gender Male 
    Died 18 Apr 1784  Warren, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2002  Strange Genealogy
    Last Modified 11 Aug 2014 

    Father John Alston, III,   b. 5 Dec 1673, Felmersham, Bedford, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Sep 1755  (Age 81 years) 
    Mother Mary Clarke,   b. 1674 
    Married 1694  [5
    Family ID F1915  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Nancy Ann Hinton,   b. 1714, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 1729  [6
    Children 
     1. [Christian] Charity [Elizabeth] Alston,   b. 19 Jan 1743, Granville, Chowan, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Mar 1774, Hickman, TN Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 31 years)
     2. James Alston
     3. William Alston
    Last Modified 7 Mar 2012 
    Family ID F1436  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • One of the US Sons of AMREV says his mother is Ann Wallis, not grandmother...
      Banks of Elbert County...
      Several Sources.
      Several Sources.
      Soldier & Member of Provisional Congress.


      Thomas Browne was Treasurer of the Household of King George VI. His grandson, Sir Anthony Browne (d. 1548), was Knight of the Garter, Lord High Admiral, Master of the Horse, and Standard Bearer to King Henry VIII. Future generations also served the crown in similar fashion.
      The roots of this Hardy line extend from Chowan and New Bern Counties, North Carolina, back through Virginia to the Old Country. Anthony Hardy I of Pembroke, Wales, had a son who moved to Dorchestershire, England after his birth. Four of Anthony Hardy's grandsons came to America before 1695.
      Col. John Hinton & his brother, William Hinton, came to North Carolina from Barbados in the early 17th century.
      In "Burke's Peerage" it is stated that the ancient Temple family of Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England, derives the surname from the manor of Temple Co., Leicester, and has its pedigree record in the
      "Visitation of Leicestershire" AD 1619. This lineage goes back to a time before 1053. Below are listed
      6 generations of the line beginning with Thomas Temple of Whitney, whose wife Alice, was daughter andheiress of John Heritage of Burton Dorset, in Coventry, Warwick. The Temples and Alstons connect.
      Col. Solomon Alston was the son of Col. John Alston and Mary Clark, while John was the son of Sir John Alston and Dorothy Temple of England. Solomon married Ann Hinton, daughter of Col. John Hinton and Mary Hardy. [7, 8, 9, 10]

  • Sources 
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