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- North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741-2004
Name: Polly Eldridge
Spouse: James Stafford
Marriage Date: 8 May 1799
Marriage County: Caswell
Marriage State: North Carolina
Source Vendor: County Court Records - FHL # 0478484-0478488
Source: County Court Records at Yanceyville, NC & Family H
1800 Person Co., NC census
JAMES and wife are listed in the 16-26 year old range. No children.
1810 Person Co., NC census
He and wife are listed in the 26 to 45 year old age group with 6 sons under age 10.
JAMES is named in his father Laban Stafford's 1811 Caswell Co., NC Will.
1820 Person Co., NC census
He is listed as JAMES Stafford, Sr.*
There are 4 sons under age 10, and there are 2 sons 10 to 16 age group.
There are 2 sons in the 16 to 18 category, and those 2 sons are counted again in the next category 16 to 26 age group.
(The 16 to 18 year olds get counted twice in the peculiar 1820 census.) There are 3 daughters under age 10.
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(So further investigation is always needed to confirm or not,
when we run into this.)
In 1820 JAMES & Polly had 8 sons and 3 daughters living with them, and one of those sons was named James. Their son James came with them when they moved from NC to Fayette Co., TN. Their son James never married.
JAMES' land in Fayette Co., TN was located next to his brother Eli.
Fayette Co. Land Records vol M-N 1845-1849, pages 231-234
dated 1 June 1846 regarding the dispositon of the estate of JAMES Stafford, deceased: Within those land records, the 11 children of JAMES Stafford & Polly are listed.
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Abt 1775 - 1844 (~ 69 years)
