FROM HISTORY OF MONROE COUNTY, MICHIGAN BY JOHN McCLELLAND BULKLEY:"GEORGE
ALFORD, REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER WAS ONE OF THE EARLY NEW ENGLAND SETTLERS IN
MONROE AND LIVED ON SECOND STREET, BETWEEN HARRISON AND CASS STREETS. HE WAS
A BROTHER OF MRS. JAMES E. SKINNER, WHOSE HUSBAND WAS FOR SOME YEARS A
REGISTER OF DEEDS IN MONROE COUNTY, AND HELD OTHER PUBLIC OFFICES. GEORGE
ALFORD WAS A SOLDIER IN THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, AND SERVED UNDER GENERAL
PUTNAM, AND AS SUCH IS ENTITLED TO HONORABLE MENTION, THOUGH UNFORTUNATELY,
THERE ARE NO RECORDS AT HAND TO IDENTIFY HIM MORE PARTICULARLY IN THE
PATRIOTIC SERVICE WHICH HE RENDERED TO HIS COUNTRY. THERE ARE NO RELATIVES
NOW LIVING IN THIS COUNTY, NOR ANY OF HIS CO-TEMPORARIES FROM WHOM ANY
FURTHER DETAILS CAN BE OBTAINED, BUT IT IS AN INTERESTING FACT THAT MONROE
ONCE HAD FOR ONE OF ITS CITIZENS A SOLDIER WHO SERVED IN GENERAL WASHINGTON'S
ARMY AND UNDER THAT INTREPID COMMANDER, GENERAL PUTNAM."
1830 CENSUS SHOWS GEORGE ALFORD AS HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD, AGE 50-60; ONE FEMALE
AGE 50-60 AND TWO FEMALES AGE 5-10. IT ALSO SHOWS A JOHN ALFORD WITH A MALE
AGE 30-40, ONE MALE UNDER 5, ONE 5-10 AND ONE 10-15 PLUS A FEMALE AGE 20-30
AND ONE UNDER 5 AND ONE AGE 5-10.
THE 1820 CENSUS INDEX SHOWS GEORGE AND JOHN A. ALFORD IN MONROE CO., MICH.
A BIO OF HIS SON, GEORGE G. ALFORD, IN THE NEW MADRID PAPERS STATE THAT
GEORGE G. WAS REARED ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN AND CAYUGA, N.Y. IT STATES HIS FAMILY
RECORDED DATES BACK MANY YEARS, TO A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE MALLORYS
AND GENERAL ETHAN ALLEN OF REOLUTIONARY FAME, THE HERO OF TICONDEROGA. THE
FAMILY MOVED TO "DETROIT, MICHIGAN" IN 1815, THEN AN OBSCURE FRENCH AND
INDIAN VILLAGE. SON, GEORGE G. WENT TO NEW MADRID, MO. IN 1819 AND MARRIED
CHRISTINE, THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF FRANCOIS LE SIEUR IV. IN 1821.
GEORGE WAS THE FIRST MAYOR OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.
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