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- Possibly the son of William and Fanny Stafford. This James was described as a native of North Carolina in a biographical note by Danial Scott in the "History of the Early Settlement of Highland Co., Ohio". He and his father William and 3 brothers; Jonas, Robert and John Stafford left North Carolina to settle in Ross Co., Ohio in about 1804.
Robert Stafford b. 1780 in Guilford County, NC. (the son of William Stafford and Fannie(?) Stafford)
Grant b. 18 Feb. 1803 in Highland Co. OH. He was married 3 Sept 1827 in Morgan County, IN. Grant served as a State Senator from 1836-1841. He died 29 March in Morgan Co. and is buried in Williams Cemetery there.
This compiler's comment: Highland County was founded in 1804, so Grant was probably born in Ross County.
There are two quotations of interest in HISTORY OF ROSS AND HIGHLAND COUNTIES, OHIO (1880) - Page 398: In the spring of 1813, James, Robert and Jonah Stafford, emigrants from North Carolina, who had located a short time before on Buckskin Creek within the present limits of Ross County, cut their way through the heavy timber, making a road as they went, to Hardin's creek. They settled on land afterwards owned by Benjamin F. Barrett, John Morrow, and Jacob Tompkins. (Note: Buckskin Creek runs through the current (1997) town of South Salem in Ross County).
Page 294: In 1804, William Stafford and his four sons, Jonas, James, Robert and John, made a settlement between Fall and Hardin's creek, and in the immediate neighborhood of Abner Robinson. Two of the sons bought farms and at once built houses for themselves. Their farms embraced much of the land now owned by the members of the Leaverton, Tompkins, Ladd, and McNeil families.
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