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Edward Stroud was born about 1695. He married Eleanor Shepherd. She was the daughter of William Shepard and Sarah Cochran. Susannah Stroud (1721), Edward was on the 1718-1721 tax list in New Garden On January 29, 1733, Edward sold 150 acres in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Edward was part of a group who left Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1734-35, when they secured a 100,000 acre grant on Opequon Creek in Frederick County, Virginia (now Berkeley County, West Virginia). They built a stone fort. About 1740 Edward bought 360 acres on the Lick Branch of the Opequon River.
In 1751, Edward received a 400 acre Fairfax grant which included most of his 360 acre tract. He sold it to John the same year. In 1752, Strode purchased another 360 acres about 6 miles northeast of his first tract. He also owned a 409 acre tract, about four miles northwest of the first tract. In 1758, Edward supplied provisions for the army in the French and Indian War.
On November 19, 1761, Edward and Elinor, his wife, sold land on the Opequon. On June 10, 1773, for 100£ Edward Strode of Berkeley County sold his son, Jeremiah 360 acres which had been part of a greater tract of land granted to his sister, Martha's husband, Morgan Bryan. Elinor was still living in 1777 when she witnessed a deed. On July 26, 1786, Edward was still living when he was referred to in a letter as "the Old Gentleman.."
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