Colin Reddoch or Collin Riddick
Hello all,
Does anyone on this list have any additional and further enlightening evidence to add to provide a solution to the following problem?
There has come to the attention of several researchers (interested in the origins of the Reddicks of Georgia) two potentially conflicting sets of information regarding one (or, perhaps two) individual(s) with the name of Colin or Collin Riddick / Riddoch / Riddock / Reddoch.There are two separate sets of dates and places for individuals with this name.The first appears to represent an individual residing in Virginia before, during, and after the Revolutionary War.He appears to be the physician Colin / Collin Riddick / Riddoch, who eventually settled in Hanover Co., Virginia.His life stands in contrast to the accounts relating to the life of a Colin Reddoch serving in the Colonial General Assembly of Georgia.This Georgia resident represented the Halifax District of St. George's Parish (parts of present-day Burke and Screven Counties, GA) during pre-Revolutionary War times.It does not seem -especially- possible for this Georgia resident to be the same individual as the physician from Virginia.However, their names are so similar as to raise questions regarding their identities - separate, or the same?
- Virginia Physician -
1)Riddoch, Colin.
Colin Riddoch, surgeon in Port Royal, Virginia, V. Gilbert Laurie, chemist & druggist in Edinburgh, 7 July 1756.
2)Riddoch, Colin
Colin Riddoch, physician in Port Royal, Carolina County, Virginia, V. The Virginia Company of Aberdeen, 13 Jan 1762
3)Riddoch, Colin, physician, pre 1768, sett. Port Royal, Caroline Co., Va.
4)Riddoch, Colin, physician, res. Perthshire, sh. pre 1774, sett. Newcastle, Hanover Co. Va., m. Jean...
5)?...Dr. Colin Riddoch, possibly from Perth, in Hanover County, Virginia, around 1774.? He probably trained at ?Edinburgh?s medical school?.
6)Riddick, Collin, Surgeon in 1776-7, E.
7)Riddick, Collins, Doctor, 2nd Battalion of Minute Men, serving in Sept. 1776.
Items #6 & #7 were taken from page 663 of "Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution:Soldiers - Sailors - Marines:1775 - 1783"By John H. Gwathmey.1987.Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
- Georgia General Assembly Representative -
1)1770- newspaper account of Colin Reddoch serving on committee
2)1769--Colin Redoch, Administrator for estate of Hames Hamilton from the Georgia Gazette
3)1769--Article from Savannah paper, announcing Colin Reddock as rep for Halifax in the parish of St. George
4)1761--Colin Reddock, Esq. for Halifax & St. Geo Parish..."Proved themselves duly Qualified to serve as representatives to the Terms prescribed in and by an Act of the General Assembly of this Province passed the 29th day of June 1761....
5)August 1770:"Read a petition of Collin Raddock setting forth that he was settled in the province had had no Land granted him and was desirous to Obtain Land for Cultivation having a Wife and fourteen Negroes Therefore praying for six hundred acres on the South side of the Alatamaha to adjoin the upper line of Land there laid out for Thomas Carter...
6)On December 4, 1770 Colin Riddoch received a Royal Grant of land in the amount of 400 acres in St. Andrew Parish of Georgia.
7)And, on that same day he also received another Royal Grant of land containing 600 acres in St. David Parish of Georgia.
Looking at a map of the coastal parishes of colonial Georgia shows that St. Andrew Parish lay along the Northeastern shore of the Altamaha River.St. David Parish was situated on the opposite, Southwestern shore of the Altamaha.It would seem that this Colin received a block of 1000 acres lying on both sides of the Altamaha.
Any help in clarifying this confusing quandry would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Dale E. Reddick
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Re: Colin Reddoch or Collin Riddick
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