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Alston Family Record

This typed record can be found at the NC Archives on the Mezzanine
in the "Warren County History" vertical file - Dr. George Williams
is hand written on the back of the page - no other record accompanies
this page

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This land is part of Edward Moseley's Grant of 4 November 1728 which
he called "Clun Seat" after the Clun River in Shropshire. His domain
started at the fork where Shocco Creek enters Fishing Creek, and
encompased 17,878 acres between these two streams. 

Philip Alston bought 8,560 acres in 1763 and 1768; Solomon Alston
bought 1,200 acres in 1767; Joseph John Alston bought 6,000 acres 
on this side of Maple Branch in 1768.

The three brothers' nephews, Solomon and Joseph John Williams and
Philip Kearny, purchased 8,450 acres next to their Alston uncles,
1769-1778.

The founder of the intermarried families of Alston, Williams, and
Kearny was John Alston who settled in Virginia before 1695. He came
in 1713 to Chowan Precinct where he died in 1758.

Since 1763, this parcel, known from 1778 as "The Maple Tract," has 
belonged solely to lineal descendants of seven of John and Mary
Alston's ten children: Joseph John, Solomon, Philip, William, Elizabeth, 
Sarah, and Charity. Those who owned this tract, or portions of it -

Joseph John Alston                    Dr. Robert Edgar Williams
Philip Alston                         Whitmell Kearny Williams
Solomon Alston, Jr.                   Lucy Hodge Davis Williams
Philip Guston Alston                  Oscar Davis Williams
Philip Guston Alston, Jr.             George Burns Williams
Samuel Williams, Jr.                  Christopher Scott Reid
Henry Alston
William Alston
Whitmell Hardy Alston
Whitmell Hardy Alston Kearny
Sarah Alston Dawson
Ann Maria Alston Alston
Elizabeth Emily Alston

"O come hither, and behold the works of God;
How wonderful He is in His doing toward the
Children of Men."  Psalm 66

"Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it;
Then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
Before the Lord."  Psalm 96


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