Bio: Biography of Stroud Family, Ransom Stroud and sons Hardy and Byrd.
Natchitoches Parish La
Submitted by:  Leatha Ann Betts

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 Seeking descendants of these families and any oral histories.
Leatha Ann Betts


There was a Thomas Stroude (English-may have come out of  Devonshire or
Essex Co. -See Strodes) who served as a Halberdier (Battleax weilder) in
a  seige of Londonderry, Antrim, N. Ireland, which routed Irish people,
under command of King of England, 20 Sep. 1622.   Received the Irish
land in town of Coleraine, Antrim, N. Ireland, Serj. Joseph
Strawde/Stroude served in the Seige of Londonderry 15 Apr. 1657, listed
in Antrim, N. Ireland Census, Down, Antrim Ireland, 1689.  Could be
ancestors of William Stroud, father of William Stroud who migrated to
America.

1st Gen. in America

William Stroud b. 1730-31, Ireland, served in French Indian Wars in S.
Car. Rangers, July 1762, Charlestown, South Carolina.  He returned to
Ireland to collect his family, returning on ship "Snow Betty Gregg"
which left Larne,  Antrim, N. Ireland 4 Oct 1767, arrived before 2 Feb.
1768, Charlestown, S. Car.  William Stroud received a Royal land grant
from Lord Govenor Granville, for 450 acres of land on Rockey Creek,
Craven Co. S. Car. (Which later became Camden District and after
Revolution, Chester Co. S. Car.) 100 acres was given to head of
household, 50 acres  for wife and children over age 12.   William
Stroud's was surveyed in 1768, but he did not take it over until 1771,
probably working off indenture for passage ( 2-4 pounds stirling each).
He had also been sued in 1767 for a debt of 26 pounds stirling in
Berkeley Co. S. Car. (he was not in S. Car. to appear in court) probably
incurred during his Ranger services, signing for supplies for the
Rangers, from a Peter Rober
William Stroud is listed as a Jr. with wife Sarah on land records in
Craven Co. S. Car..  He sold his first land aquisition to the Rev.
William Martin, who helped bring 5 boatloads of Scotch-Irish Pesbyterian
Covenantors from Ballymoney and Vow, Antrim, N. Ireland.  Catholic
Presbyterian Church was built on this land.  William Stroud then
purchased two plots of land from the Grimm Brothers (immigrated with
Rev. tson, land owner.
Martin), 450 acres, and was Irish Certified to do so.

The Rev. William Martin recorded the names of William Stroud's sons.
They were:
Will (William III), Jack (John),  Tom (Thomas)  Hamp(Hampton), Hardy
(who was born on the boat coming over), Irby (Yerby, Erby), Ransom, and
Anzil (James Ancil).
Two sisters are also noted but not named.
Rev. Martin stated the Strouds, Wilsons and Kitchens were heathens,
meaning they did not attend church regularly but were the bravest of his
congregation, signing up to revolt against the British rule.  He stated
that William Stroud had found some Tories in their midst and had
punished them into exile.

William Stroud Sr. served in the Revolution as a wagoneer, bringing
munitions to rebel troops.  He was wounded in the left shoulder with a
musket ball, which migrated to his hip and he had surgery to remove it.

His eldest son William Stroud Jr. (III) entered the War in June 1780,
and singlehandedly killed more of the enemy than any other soldier in S.
Car.  He was captured and hung by the British, August of 1780.  His body
was left to hang for 6 weeks, as travelers rode by, left as a warning.
His mother Sarah, one sister, and Captain Lacey cut him down and buried
him beneath the tree he was hung on, on a dark, moonless night. (A
plaque on Hwy. 95 in Chester Co. S. Car, just outside of
Richburg...honors his sacrifice, erected in 1934.)

Next son John Stroud served honorably and was paid for services.
Next son Thomas Stroud served honorably and was paid for services.
Next son Hampton Stroud, was wounded by a sword cut to the wrist, and a
musket ball to his left shoulder, was captured and imprisoned by
British, in a ship off the coast of S. Car. where he was kept until the
end of the Revolutionary War.

The other sons were too young to serve.

Marriages:

Thomas Stroud married Sarah Wilson
John Stroud married Unknown
Hampton Stroud married Mary Wilson
Erby/Irby/Yerby Stroud married Jane Kitchen
Hardy Stroud married Christiana Long
Nancy Stroud married _____Wall and John Morris
Ransom Stroud married Sarah Wall
James Ancil/Anzel Stroud married Salley Heath.

William Stroud Sr. applied for a S. Car. Rev. War pension, which he
tells of service under Gen. Sumter, who signed he could receive the
pension.  The application was signed 1811, but William Stroud died Dec.
1812, before he could receive it.  Son Hardy Stroud, asked for it to pay
of illness and burial expenses, the pension was granted for that year.
 2nd Gen.

Migration:
The other Stroud brothers remained in Chester Co. S. Car. where
descendants still live today.
Erby/Yerby/Irby Stroud and wife Jane Kitchen migrated to Henry Co. Ga.
where they stayed.
James Ancil Stroud and wife Salley Heath migrated to Pulaski Co. Ky.
where he died of nose cancer.
Hampton Stroud and Mary Wilson migrated to Wilkenson Co. Miss., Caldwell
Par. and Catahoula Par. La. where he applied and received Rev. War
Pensions.  Descendants still live in above Parishes also, Bossier and
Winn Parish, La.

Ransom Stroud and wife Sarah Wall along with his widowed sister Nancy
Wall, migrated to Wilson Co. Tennessee, where she married 2nd husband,
John Morris in 1807.  Then they all migrated to Feliciana Parish, La.
where they appear on 1820 Census.  John Morris died there before 1830.

Ransom Stroud and Sarah, and Nancy Morris and their families migrated to
Natchitoches Parish, La. and appear in land and census records
1830-1840.

Ransom Stroud and Sarah Wall had children:

Parthenia Bird Stroud married Jesse Perry
Hardy Pickett Stroud married Lavinia Perry, Mary Morris, Elizabeth Hodge

Sarah Lea Stroud married Benjamin Clinton Arthur
Byrd/Bird W.(all) Stroud married Mary (Polly) Cook

Sister Nancy Stroud and _____Wall Children:

Christopher Wall married Nancy Davis
Levinia Wall married Joseph Turner Mongomery

Widowed Nancy Stroud Wall and John Morris Children:
Mary Morris married Hardy Pickett Stroud (1st cousins)
Cary Morris

3rd Gen.

Hardy Pickett Stroud had conveyance records in Natchitoches Parish 1843
and lived there until it divided into Sabine Parish. Listed on BLM
Glorecords as receiving land from Natchitoches land office, 1 June 1860.

Children by Lavinia Perry:
Bird W. (Wall) Stroud married Carolyn Wade
William Henry Stroud married Jane Damewood, Elizabeth Blanchard from
Boston, Mass. and Mary Ronald, migrated to Texas.

Children by Mary Morris:
Hardy Pickett Stroud Jr. married Elizabeth Grissett migrated to Texas.
Juliann Stroud
Luberry Stroud died before 1860 Census.

Children by Elizabeth Hodge:
Eveline Stroud
America Stroud
Phillip F. Stroud

Brother Byrd Wall Stroud and Mary (Polly) Cook Children:
Hester Stroud
W. H. Stroud married Louisa_____
James C. Stroud married Matilda Salter
Pleasant Stroud
Ransom Taylor Stroud
Mary M. Stroud married Amos Miller
Nathan Richard Stroud married Sally Carter
Bird Albert Stroud married Drucilla R. _____
Matilda E. Stroud married J.H. Byrd
Elizabeth (Nancy) Stroud married Larkin F. Corley
Angeline Stroud (found living in B.C. Arthur's home 1860 Census)

Benjamin Clinton Arthur (son of Thomas and Elizabeth Arthur) and  sister
Sarah Lea Stroud Children:
Cely Arthur
Elisabeth Arthur
Sara Arthur
William H. Arthur
Benjamin F. Arthur
Martha Arthur
Isabella Promethia Arthur
Mary Evelyn Arthur married John Washington Hanchey
Thomas Arthur
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