Pam Wilson's research notes:

Clement Aldrich/Aldridge and Susan Boswell were apparently immigrants to Northumberland Co, Virginia. However, I have not yet found any record of their immigration in the form of ship lists or of patents given for their transport.

The Northumberland County Record Book 1666-1670 (p 100) includes a grant from Sir WILLIAM BERKELEY unto ABRAHAM JOYCE and RICH: THOMPSON of 200 acres of land in ye county of Northumberland, bounding upon the land of THOM. ADAMS and PHIL: CARPENTER & upon ye land of HEN: ROACH and upon ye land of GEO: COURTNEY & WALTER WEEKES, beginning at a marked corner red Oake and running southerly 320 pole and westerly 100 pole, Northerly 320 pole and Easterly to ye place where it firtst began; ye sd land being due to sd JOYCE & THOMPSON by & for ye transportacon of fower (4) persons into this colony whose names are on ye records menconed underneath this patent...the 7th day of March 1666. WILLIAM BERKELEY

Know all men by these presents yt I ABRAHAM JOYCE doe assigne all my right & interest of ye withing mentioned patent to CLEMENT ALDERIDGE his heirs and assignes for ever. Wit: JOHN ROBERTS, RICH: ROBERTS, sign ABRAHAM JOYCE. Recognized and recorded 20th 9ber 1666.

This raises many questions--who were the 4 persons Joyce transported--did they include Clement and Susan? And why did he deed his patent over to Clement?

There is also confusion in the Northumberland Co, VA records about *which* Clement was involved in certain transactions, since there were several generations of Clement Aldridge/Arledges.

The following is excerpted from an email to Clay Fulcher from Carolyn Jett, on January 13, 1997: "Clement Aldridge/Arledge was in Northumberland by 2 Apr. 1667, which was when he witnessed the will of the Reverend David Lyndsay. He was a neighbor of Lyndsay, whose gravestone (or half of it) is still there. That gives us the general location of Aldridge/Arledge's land, in the area known as Cherry Point Neck. On 20 9ber [November] of probably 1666 or 1667, Clement purchased 100 acres of land. Nearby was another tract of 100 acres belonging to Cloud [Claudius] Tullos. It is possible that this Clement Aldridge was the same man who married Elizabeth Tilles at Worstead, Norfolk, England in 1668. If so, he must have returned to England to marry her, for he was here before that date."

Was the land purchase of 100 acres that Jett mentions separate from the land that Abraham Joyce deeded to him that same date (20th 9ber 1666), or is Jett referring to the same piece of land and transaction?

The will in questionin Jett's note is that of DAVID LYNDSAY, Minister of God, who bequeathed his estate to his daughter HELEN LYNDSAY, who he also named his Executrix. Will written 2 April 1667, Signed in presence of JAMES CLAYTON, ye mrke of CLE:MT ARLIDGE and GEORGE DEACON. Proved 8 April 1667 by ye oathes of JAMES CLAUGHTIN & CLEM: ARLIDGE. Northumberland County Court Records.

It is most likely that these early records were for the elder Clement.

See Franklin Rudolph Aldridge, Aldridge Records, Vol. 2. 1975; esp pp. 176 ff, "The Arledge Family Records" (Ch. 11). See also Alice Sekanick, "The Hutchinson Family" (privately published, 1994: 624 Kirby Lane, Richardson, TX 75080) and Dr. Rulon C. Allred, "The Allred Family in America, Vol. 1" (Salt Lake City: William R. Bischoff, 1965), and John Bennett Boddie, "The Allred (Aldridge) Family in England and North Carolina" in Historical Southern Families, vol. X (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1966). See also Mary Louise Marshall Hutton, ed., "Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors of Members of the national Society Colonial Dames XVII Century 1915-1975" (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1984).