See Section 9 of the Alford Family History.
"Rev. Oliver Alford entered and bought land and property and first settled in Virginius, Addison
County, Vermont and afterwards settled at Ferrisburg, Addison County, Vermont about the year
1805. Oliver was one of the Vermont Patriots in the Second Revolution War or War 1812 to 1815
or close ofthe·war as a Minute Man and was unequaled as a fine marksman or sharp-shooter and with
strength and might they pulled and pushed the raft out into the lake in darkness of night and captured
a British Frigate - near Ferrisburg, May 19, 1814. A cannonball was shot through the house and
home of Rev. Oliver Alford on the night that his youngest child was born, Rev. Loyal Adolphus
Alford, MD, DD, LLD and the effect ofthat night appeared to affect him through life, during a
thunder storm and he cold not overcome the strange effect."
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