William?s father and mother were married about 1774 in North Carolina.
John Loftin?s will was proved in Newberry Dist. NC on March 11, 1800, and recorded on
January 8, 1801. William?s paternal grandfather was Thomas Loftin (b. ca. 1737 at Dobbs
Co. NC and the grandmother was Frances lnu. They were married in 1757. Thomas was a
Revolutionary soldier and served as a Captain. See page 30 of ?Sketches of Western North
Carolina? by C.C. Hunter. Also, see ?Loftin and Allied Families? by Creasy. (D.A.R.
Patriot Index).

William and Mary lived for sometime in the area of Caldwell and Lyons Counties, Kentucky.

William Lofton relocated to Caldwell, Co.,Ky about 1800. He made a return trip to SC in 1804 for the settlement of the estate of his father. On 6 March 1810, he and his brother, John Loftin sold to Daniel Loftin, "...a tract situated in Newberry District on Indian Creek, Being a part of a tract laid off or surveyed for John Loftin, Sr. certified 13 July 1768 and willed to John Lofton, Jr..."

On 13 November 1814, he and his wife Mary, sold to Hillary Herbert "...all that plantation or tract of land lying and being on the north side of Indian Creek in the District of Newberry, containing one hundred acres being the same , more or less, it being one half of a tract originally granted to John Lofton adjoining lands of John Bonds, Gideon Cannon, Daniel Lofton and Dudley Bond