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http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tn/bledsoe/taxlists/1815/1815tax.txt
On 5 May 1989 Miss Elizabeth Parham Robnett the Bledsoe County Historian sent the 1815 petition of Bledsoe County which was created out of Roane County on 30 November 1807. Bledsoe County is primarily in the Sequatchie Valley but includes part of the Cumberland Plateau. It is bounded on the North by Cumberland County, with White County at the NW corner. Rhea & Hamilton Counties adjoining it on the East and Sequatchie County on the South. Van Buren County is on the West. In former times Bledsoe was bounded by Morgan, White, WARREN and Marion Counties. In 1815 White County was attached to Bledsoe.
BLEDSOE COUNTY, TN 1815 TAX LIST ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED to delay enactment of the land law during the War between Great Britain
Riddle, Thomas
Riddle, William
Rodgers, Ruben
Rodgers, William
Rogers, Amanuel
Rogers, Dauswell
Rogers, Jeremiah
Rogers, Jesse
Rogers, John
Rogers, Joseph
Gibson, Jacob [2]
Blevins, Stephen
Boling, Lewis
Self, Hezekiah
Self, Jesse
Self, Levy
Self, Spencer
http://www.saponitown.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=18454#post18454
This is mentioned in this other post as well.
I am trying to find out why the Riddles moved down to Bledsoe County, TN instead of sticking around Hancock/Hawkins County?
Bump…
Anyone have any information on the people of Bledsoe County, TN and who may have lived there between 1790 and 1830?
I have a few.
From “Tennessee Genealogical Records” by Edythe Whitley, p.187, about Bledsoe County:
“The mountain lands attracted many prospectors in the early years of the county. For the first twenty years of history, large tracts of land were purchased by eastern fortune seekers, who speculated in various ways with their purchases. It was a thinly settled section with many of the settlers gaining title to their lands as “Occupant titles” . They were often termed squatters, gaining title to lands by the length of their residence thereon.”
(so maybe they moved there for free land)
“Many of the older records of Bledsoe County were lost, burned, and for this reason much of the early history is lacking in detail. The following extractions are from the oldest record books prevailing at this date and are on file in the court house at Pikeville. Except for the deed books, the oldest record book available in this county is the Minute Docket, 1841-1846.”
Some notes extracted from Deed Book A & B are listed, which go back to the county’s establishment.
In this same Whitley book are Rev. War Land Grants and Transfers in Tennessee, which include a William, George and Moses Ridley and a George Riddle, but is not specific as to where the land was located.
Bill
Thanks Bill.
This must be the George Ridley who later moved on to Nashville.
I’d like to find more details on George Ridley and his family. This deed book is for all of TN, not just Bledsoe County, right? Where can I find more details on the Deed Book?
I have seen where George Ridley’s son was born in Hawkins County, TN in 1762. This seems to be earlier than the Collins, Gibsons, and other Riddles showed up there, doesn’t it?
I am thinking more and more that this area of TN & KY was the hunting grounds for these people who may have been long hunters.
I seriously doubt that George Ridley’s son was born in that area in 1762. There was no Tennessee nor counties there at that time. You should be looking much farther east at that date. ‘Follow the history’ .
I thought the same thing, but I have found it listed as such. I will find it and post it.
I have seen Beverly’s place of birth listed as Hawkins County, TN in several different places. My guess is that he was born in Hawkins County, TN, before it was called that. I will keep looking.
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~kenb/html/fam01442.htm
Husband: Beverly RIDLEY
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Married: at:
Died: SEP 1787 at:
Father:George RIDLEY
Mother:Maria Elizabeth WEATHERFORD
Other Spouses: Ann WILLIAMS
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Died: at:
Father:
Mother:
Other Spouses:
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http://hammer.prohosting.com/kenb/html/fam01441.htm
Husband: Beverly RIDLEY
——————————————————————————– Born: 3 JUL 1762 at: Hawkins County, TN
Married: at:
Died: SEP 1787 at:
Father:George RIDLEY
Mother:Maria Elizabeth WEATHERFORD
Other Spouses: Elizabeth GOOCH
——————————————————————————– Wife: Ann WILLIAMS
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Died: at:
Father:
Mother:
Other Spouses:
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ANN T. ELLISTON born east Tenn. Mar. 13, 1789; died Nashville, Tenn. May 3, 1876 in residence of granddau. Mrs. Anna G. Hunter; the second of nine children, she had been the sole survivor; dau Capt. Beverly Ridley “a noted Indian fighter”; md John Elliston 1815; had a dau. and 2 sons; first cousin of Thomas Jefferson.
History of Hawkins County
Taken from Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886
Among others who had located in the county prior to 1783 may be mentioned John cox, Col. John Smith, William McGehee, Peter Harris, James McCarty, Hutson Johnston, John Evans, George Ridley, James Blair, Thomas Brooks, Elisha Walling, William W. Brown, capt. Thomas Hutchings, James Short, Abraham Rice, William Ingram, William lauson, Reese Jones, Capt. Thomas English, James Berry, Benjamin Murrell, George and Littleton Brooks, Thomas Henderson, Thomas Caldwell, Robert King and Martin Shaner. Among those who came in during the next two or three years were Robert Gray, Richard Mitchell, Samuel Wilson, William Bell, John Horton, Robert Stephenson and John Gordon.
A couple of times Rockhound has mentioned a “George Riddle (Ruddle),” in connection with the Point Pleasant unpleasantness, or other happenings in present West Virginia. I don’t know if the one George has any bearing upon the other (in Hawkins Co. TN); but anyway, if it’s of any interest, there was an early Ruddle’s Mill (and Station, and Covered Bridge) in Bourbon Co. KY, on the Licking River, seven miles from Paris. It would have been as old as the 1782 settlement in Hawkins Co. TN — maybe a little older. I think that Ruddle family later lived in Cynthiana (Harrison Co.) KY, downstream a few miles, but also on the Big Licking. This is a dim recollection from the 1960s when my parents lived in Cynthiana.
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