Notes from Pam Wilson:

New note 4-22-2018. I've never found out who the children of this William might have been. He had three sons listed in the 1790 census who would have been born 1774-1790.

Based upon DNA evidence linking the descendants of Jonathan Eldridge of Anson County to the Arledge family DNA, I am suspecting that the father of Jonathan Jonathan Eldridge, of Anson Co NC and his brother James E. James E Eldridge, of Anson County NC was a son of William of Mecklenburg: I don't have a name for him, but his age would fit as one of these three sons. NN Eldridge, of Anson? Co NC [uncertain parentage]

James E's only son was named William.

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1790 CENSUS: NORTH CAROLINA

Free white males of 16 years and upward, including heads of families: 1

Free white males under 16 years: 2

Free white females, including heads of families: 2

Aldridge, Isham 01-00-02-00-00

Aldridge, William 01-03-02-00-00

Where did he go after this?

I suspect he went to Fairfield Co, SC: Listed in 1800 SC Fairfield Co, SC census is an ARLEDGE, #222 William 00100-22000-00. This would put his year of birth 1775-1784, and give him 2 daughters under 10 and two aged 10-15, with no wife listed.