Alpheus  Alford

• Record ID #: 9
• Ancestry tree: Alfred or Alford Family Tree
• Confidence Level: Not Confident
• gender: Male
• Race/ethnicity: Black
• Master / Mistress: Elisha Butler (d. 1783)
• Ancestry tree - Master/Mistress: Butler Family Tree (Slaveholder)
• Manumission date: About 1782
• Occupation: Former Servant
• Spouse: Wife
• Child: Jeremiah
• Child (2nd): John
• Child (3rd): Child
• Child (4th): Child
• Additional Relationships: Probably the father of Jeremiah and John, and possibly the grandfather of James (SPC no. 23) and Shaunch (SPC no. 25) who both registered in New Haven on 12/17/1839; Important Note: there is a family in New Haven of Alpheus Alford who also had sons go to sea. This family comes from Woodbridge and is not the same as the Hartford family.
• Most recent residence: Hartford, CT
• Longest place of residence: Hartford, CT. for 48 years
• Notes: Former owner, Elisha Butler, quitclaimed Alford land and buildings in Hartford; Butler died insolvent in 1783.
• Bibliographic sources: BJB, 20; 1800 Federal Census; Connecticut Courant, 10-21-1783