Re: Looking for info. on Jacob Reddick from NC
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Looking for info. on Jacob Reddick from NC
Christie Ferris 1/25/05
Hi Christie,
I am sorry to say that you have some of your information mixed up.
Nicholas Reddick was my gggg-grandfather.His son John Reddick (born circa 1790 and died circa 1830) was my ggg-grandfather.The fact that John was the son of Nicholas is quite clear from a set of 1811 Screven County deed documents, in which Nicholas' estate was divided between John and his brother-in-law Eli Parker (husband of Lydia Reddick Parker).
The Jacob Reddick you mention -appears- to have been the -brother- of Nicholas, Francis, and Peter (-not- the father).He is not the same individual as the Jacob Reddick found in the 1790 census of Perquimans County, N.C.That particular Jacob of Perquimans Co. may actually have been a Riddick family descendant.Jacob Reddick in Burke & later Screven Counties was already in Georgia prior to 1790 - this is known from court documents.Screven County was formed in 1793 out of portions of Burke and Effingham Counties.A neighbor's land plat shows that Jacob Reddick's land was split between Burke and Screven Counties next to where the county line crossed Brier Creek, shortly after Screven County had been created.
Please read the following text which I wrote back in October of 2003.It explains the origins of the Reddick (Radick, Readick, Readdick, Redick) family lines of Southeast and Coastal Georgia (as best as several of us can reconstruct it) with the emigration of a RADICK family in to Savannah in 1737.
Recent DNA analyses have grouped six male Reddick (one Readdick, included - actually) descendants together as a single large lineage descended from a common male ancestor.I am the single representative of Nicholas Reddick's descendants.There are three descendants of Jacob Reddick included in this sample (descended from Jacob John, Peter Nichols, and Nicholas Moses - three of the sons of Jacob and Nancy Wiggins Reddick).These results demonstrate that Jacob and Nicholas were actually related.They also -probably- point back to Johann Radick, who arrived in the Colony of Georgia as a Trustees' indentured servant in 1737.
I hope that what I've shared here is helpful.
Sincerely,
Dale E. Reddick
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Burke-Screven-Bulloch County GaArchives History .....Reddick Surname Research
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Dale E.Reddick [email protected] October 26, 2003, 10:09 am
Earliest 1785 records and various Reddick surname spelling variations in Burke
and Screven Counties, Georgia.
In the early Revolutionary War period of Burke County and post-war Burke
and Screven Counties of Georgia there was a quarterly "Court of
Conscience" held in the vicinity of Burton's Ferry / Wade Plantation /
Millhaven Plantation.Some records of the court proceedings and the
participants are preserved in a ledger book that once belonged to a
Wilder family.A copy of that ledger book is held at the Georgia State
Archives.
Some of what follows was collected by and described in older papers
prepared by the late Dr. James Reddick.Mrs. Shirley Reddick has also
placed some of this information in a series of books concerning
Southeast Reddicks which she has been working on for decades.
Recently, Dr. Niles Reddick was able to view and record material relating to
the Reddicks of early Burke and Screven Counties, Georgia that make up a
part of those court records.Four 'presumed' Reddick brothers have been
identified in the records of this "Court of Conscience"; from deeds and
other recorded papers of the two counties; from newspaper announcements
regarding taxes owed; and from other papers and announcements.
These four 'presumed' brothers were Francis, Jacob, Nicholas, and Peter
Reddick.Three of them (Jacob, Nicholas, and Peter) were granted and
purchased lands along Brier Creek, near the millpond of Francis Paris
(now the site of the village of Millhaven).
Some of us investigating this set of family lineages now suspect that
the surname 'Reddick' may simply be a standardized version of an earlier
pronunciation and spelling, for we have seen the same individuals having
their surname recorded as Readick, Redick, Rettig, and Rettige (plus,
perhaps - some other spellings).
We can now say with certainty that at least -one- of the four Reddick
fellows was present in Burke County by the Spring of 1785.Nicholas
Reddick (also recorded as Readick, Redick, & Rettige) was there prior to
May 5 of 1785, for a suit against him was brought before the court by
Abram Heath on that date.This appears to be our earliest evidence of
the presence of any of these four Reddick brothers in that area.
The Reddick surname appears in three forms within these court records.
Here are all of the Readick / Redick / Reddick entries that we've been
able to find in the court records of the Wilder family Ledger, so far.
The numerous entries for William and George Redding are not included
among the following.
The surname spelling of "Readick" appears SEVEN times.
The surname spelling of "Redick" appears EIGHT times.
The surname spelling of "Reddick" appears only ONE time.
I sincerely hope that these discoveries (and re-discoveries) prove to be
helpful to some of you who read this information.
Dale E. Reddick
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PAGE 23
1785
May 5
Abram Heath
vsLaid over to the next court
Nicholas Redick
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PAGE 24
1786
february 9
2 thursday
John Seburn
vsJudgement in favour the plaintiff for 5/p cost
Jacob Redick
(I placed an 'p' above in the phrase "5/p" as I believe the character
used was meant to represent a pence.)
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PAGE 24
1786
may 11
2 Thursday
Jacob Readick
vsJudgement conferd for L3-13-6p cost
William Christie
(I placed an 'L' above in the phrase "L3-13-6p" as I cannot find the
Pound Sign for display within my e-mail composer.)
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PAGE 26
1787 March 8
Benjamin Warren
vsnonsuited as the -SQUIGGLE- Court
Nicholas Reddick
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PAGE 27
1787
May 25
Jurors --- William Ashley, Michael Burkhalter, Nicholas Readick, John
Olliver
(This is the third line of the listed jurors - who numbered twelve in all.)
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PAGE 28
1788
february 14
JurorsJohn Roberts, Nicholas Readick, Willis Murphey
(This is the fourth line of the listed jurors - who numbered fourteen in
all.)
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PAGE 28
1788
february 14
Major Hurst
vsnonsuited
Francis Readick
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PAGE 28
1788
may 17
John Adam Nesler
vsJudged for Plaintiff L9~"~" paper medium
Jacob Readick
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PAGE 28
1788
may 17
________________________________________________________
Jacob Readick Enters an Appeal against Adam Nesler & gave Security this
26 May 1788
__________
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PAGE 29
11 September 1788
Major Hurst
vsLaid over
Francis Redick
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PAGE 29
1789
Major Hurst
vsSettled
francis Readick
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PAGE 30
1789
9th may
Jacob Redick
vs
Dennis Glifson
These two Accts tried the Balance
in favour Jacob Redick 5/2 p cost
Dennis Glifson
vs
Jacob Redick
Dennis Glifson
vsJudgmt Conferd
Peter Redick
Dennis Glifson
vsJudgmt Conferd
Francis Redick
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Likely origins of Burke and Screven Co., GA. REDDICK family lines.
Recently, I posted a list of the appearance for the Reddick surname in
the post-Revolutionary War Court of Conscience that had been an
institution in Burke and Screven Counties, Georgia.The four Reddick
(Readick, Redick) brothers lived in what is now the Millhaven Plantation
area.This area had been a part of Burke Co. until 1793, when Screven
Co. was formed (Screven was formed from portions of adjoining Burke and
Effingham Counties).The Court of Conscience, which was a community
court held on a quarterly basis - started in Revolutionary War Burke Co.
and seems to have continued with the appearance of Screven County.
The four Reddick brothers (Francis, Jacob, Nicholas, and Peter) appear
to have been living along Brier Creek and adjacent to the millpond and
mill constructed there by Francis Paris.Francis Paris had acquired
land on Brier Creek and built his mill prior to the Revolutionary War
(his property played a part in the British campaign that led to the
Battle of Brier Creek).The first evidence of any of the Reddick
brothers comes in the form of a 1785 court case held in the
above-mentioned Court of Conscience.
Dr. Niles Reddick, Dr. Ed Mulligan, and I have wondered and considered
whether there was some sort of relationship between the four Reddick
brothers and their neighbor Francis Paris.We have thought that they
may have worked for Francis Paris at his mill.We have no proof of
this, but we wondered why they settled immediately adjacent to the Paris
mill.
Another neighbor of the Reddick brothers and Francis Paris was John
Michael Burkhalter.One reader of my recent posting regarding the
Reddick appearances in the Court of Conscience is librarian and geneologist
Dorothy Hope.Dot responded to my posting with a list of her Burkhalter
ancestors and their neighbors in what are modern-day Chatham, Effingham,
Bryan, Bulloch, Screven, and Burke Counties.Included in her list were
five entries for Francis Paris taken from the "Georgia Land Owners' Memorials."
And in two of those entries Francis Paris signed (witnessed, perhaps) for an
individual whose name is recorded as John Raddick / Radwick.One such signing
occured for 100 acres of land in Christ Church Parish (Chatham Co.) in 1764.
The second such signing dealt with 300 acres in upper St. Philip's Parish
(later Bulloch Co.) in 1767.John Raddick had another 100 acre land
acquisition recorded in 1775, with this land lying adjacent to Rudolph
Burghalter / Burchalter / Burkhalter.
The neighbors of this John Raddick / Radwick included Sylvanus Bird.
The locale of the lands along Black Creek of Sylvanus and his brother
Israel Bird are known from the Bird cemetery near Macedonia Church,
just East of Ellabelle (in Bryan County).Adjacent Mill Creek was
named such due to the mill that the Birds built there (it was at one
time called "Bird's Mill Creek").But, the Birds also owned lands
further upstream on the Ogeechee River.It turns out that it was the
more northwesterly settlement of the Birds and their neighbors that
included the lands of John Raddick / Radwick.These lands were on
the western bank of the Ogeechee, above and across the river from
the mouth of Ogeechee Creek (then, also known as Little Ogeechee
River [two other tributaries of the "Great Ogeechee River" are also
so named - this has caused some confusion]).So, it seems that
John Raddick / Radwick lived on the western bank of the Ogeechee
River in what is now Bulloch County.
Two of the four Reddick brothers named sons 'John.'Jacob Reddick named
a son John Wesley Reddick, along with naming four other sons for himself
and his three brothers - Jacob John Reddick, Peter Nichols Reddick,
Nicholas Moses Reddick, and Frank Reddick.Nicholas Reddick named his
only son 'John.'
Niles, Ed, and I have wondered if there was a connection between these
four Reddick brothers and the John Raddick / Radwick known to us
-separately- from our research of Reddick-like R320 surnames appearing
in Colonial Georgia.We strongly suspect that John Raddick / Radwick is
John II, son of John (Johann) and Barbara Radick - a German-speaking
family that arrived in Georgia circa 1737.John II was the brother of
Peter 'Readick' (whose 1778 will is known), Michael 'Readdick,' and
Anna Apollonia Radick.This family lived in the Acton and Vernonburg
areas of Chatham County and they also owned a portion of nearby Dutch
Island.Note that the surname spellinggiven for Peter and his family
in his 1778 will is "Readick."This is the same version of the surname
spelling recorded-seven- times for the four Reddick brothers in the Burke &
Screven Co.
Court of Conscience during the latter half of the 1780s.
We have records indicating that Peter Readick had a family.One of his
sons was Jacob Readick, who later farmed sea island cotton on Wilmington
Island of Chatham County.Michael 'Readdick' is recorded as having not had
any children.There is no available record of the family or children of
John II Readick (Raddick / Radwick / Redwick / Redick).Niles, Ed, and
I have suspected that the four brothers -might- be the children of this
John II.Now, we have two records that demonstrate an association
between this John II Readick and Francis Paris.Only twenty years later
we have our four Reddick brothers living as neighbors of Francis Paris.
We strongly suspect that these four Reddick brothers moved from upper St.
Philip's Parish (later Bulloch Co.) to St. George Parish (Burke Co.) along with
Francis Paris.One grant for Sylvanus Bird shows him being granted land
adjacent to that of John 'Redwick' in St. George Parish.It may be
-possible- that John II Readick acquired land alongside that of Francis
Paris in St. George Parish.We simply don't know whether this is the
case or not.
We further suspect that there may have been a familial relationship
between the Reddicks and Francis Paris.We have no evidence of such a
familial association, but it seems possible.The fate of John II's
sister Anna Apollonia is unkown to us - perhaps she married Francis
Paris.The wife of John II Readick is unknown to us - perhaps she was a
relative of Francis Paris.Again, this is -merely- a suspicion on our part.
Well, anyhow - we have developed this line of evidence associating the
miller Francis Paris with John II Readick (Raddick / Radwick) during the
mid-1760s and later placing four Reddick brothers living adjacent to him
by 1785.We would like to believe that we have now established a
-tentative- linkage between the later Reddick brothers and the earlier
John II Readick.This is certainly not proven.But, it seems strongly
suggestive of a relationship.
I would like to thank Dorothy Hope for providing us with the evidence
that provides this -tentative- bridge between John II Readick and his
-possible- sons Francis, Jacob, Nicholas, and Peter Reddick.
Immediately below is a short list embodying confirmation of what Dot
provided us.Dr. Ed Mulligan gathered this information from the
University of Georgia Library - duplicating Dot's findings.The
original list was more extensive in its coverage of the Burkhalters and
other families.
If you have any information that you can add to that which has been
presented here, then please feel free to contribute to the development
of this line of investigation.
Sincerely,
Dale E. Reddick
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Weeks, Eve B. and Lowery, Robert S. Georgia Land Owners' Memorials,
1758-1776, ed. Mary Bondurant Warren. Danielsville, GA: Heritage Papers,
1988.
{p. 35}
146 FRANCIS PARIS, 100 acres, 2/100, 1-?-1760. Christ Church Parish:
Bounded on W by EDMUND TANNATT, E by WILLIAM BRADLEY, N vacant, S by
Little Ogeechee River marshes; granted to self 5-1-1759.
{p. 85}
386 JOHN RADDICK, 100 acres, 2/100, 12-31-1764. Christ Church Parish:
Bounded on N by JOHN HANER, W by --FOX, other sides vacant; granted to
self 11-6-1764. Signed FRANCIS PARIS for JOHN RADWICK.
{p. 104}
454 FRANS. PARRY, 300 acres, 2/100, 2-14-1767. St. Philip's Parish:
Bounded by vacant land; granted to self 1-6-1767. Signed FRANCIS PARIS.
{p. 109}
472 SYLVANUS BIRD, 100 acres, 2/100, 5-4-1767. St. George's Parish:
Bounded on NW by ISRAEL BIRD, SE by JOHN REDWICK, other sides vacant;
granted to self 3-3-1767. Signed SYLVNUS BIRD.
{p. 120}
507 JOHN RADWICK, 300 acres, St. Philip's Parish, 2/100, 12-12-1767.
Bounded on W by SYLVANUS BIRD, other sides vacant. Granted to self
9-1-1767. Signed FRANK PARIS for JOHN RADWICK.
{p. 125}
527 RODOLPH BURGHALTER, 400 acres, St. Philip's Parish, 2/100, 4-4-1768.
Bounded on E by JOSEPH JOHNSON and vacant land, W by JOHN RADDOCK and
vacant land, N by Great Ogechee River, other sides vacant. Granted to
self 2-2-1768. Signed RUDOLFF BURCHALTER (in German).
{p. 191} Book Two
1. ALEXANDER THOMSON, 300 acres, St. Andrew's Parish, 2/100. Bounded
northeasterly by ANTHONY STOKES, southeasterly by JOHN RIDDOCK,
southwesterly by the Altamaha River, northeasterly by vacant land.
Granted 7-7-1772. Signed 10-20-1772 by ALEXANDER THOMSON.
{p. 254}
172 JAMES WILLIAMS, 100 acres, St. George's Parish, 2/100. Bounded
northwesterly by Briar Creek, easterly by FRANCIS PARISH, other sides
vacant. Granted 11-1-1774. Signed 4-17-1775 by JAMES WILLIAMS "his mark."
{p. 266}
200 JOHN RADDICK, 100 acres, St. Philip's Parish; con-purchase, 2/100.
Bounded southeasterly by his own land, easterly by RODOLPH BURGHALTER,
other sides vacant. Granted to self 2-7-1775. Signed 10-14-1775.
"Carried to the Secretary's Office by W.H."
(WILLIAM HANDLEY).
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Burke & Screven County, Southeast Georgia Reddick lines from 'Radick', German-
speaking Palatine immigrants to Savannah in 1737.
Hello All,
Not all of what follows is proven, but what is presented seems to come together
and helps to explain the likely origins of some Reddick lines.
I am a gggg-grandson of Nicholas Reddick, one of the four
Reddick 'brothers' who lived on either side of the line separating Burke and
Screven Counties of Southeast Georgia during the period between 1785 and 1815.
Regarding the origins of these four Reddick 'brothers', I and several others
are now concentrating our investigations into their origins on the 'Radick'
family, who were German-speaking 'Palatine' immigrants to the colony of Georgia
in 1737. That family was made up of Johann, his wife Maria Barbara, and their
four children. Of four 'Radick' children who entered Georgia, we have no
knowledge of the single daughter - Anna Apolonia, but for her name. Of the
three brothers, Peter 'Readick' had a 1778 will which named his several
children - including his sons Jacob and Caspar / Gasper / Jasper. A second
brother named Michael 'Readdick' had no children named in his will of 1792.
Both of these brothers lived and apparently died in Christ Church Parish, which
mostly became modern Chatham County. Michael had owned part of an island that
was first known as Providence, then Liberty, and finally Dutch Island. Members
of the Readick / Readdick / Reddick family (descendants of the Radicks, and
particularly the children of Peter Readick and those of his son Gasper Readick)
continued to live on what is now known as Dutch Island well into the 19th
century. Jacob Readick farmed on nearby Wilmington Island during the early
1800s.
A third son of Johann and Maria Barbara 'Radick' was named for his
father - Johann. This Johann II or John had his surname spelled in many
different ways on numerous grant applications, records, and plats. We mostly
know him as John Radick / Raddick / Readick / Reddick - along with the other,
various spellings being noted as they have been found. Either John Radick or
his son John Reddick first acquired land grants in Christ Church Parish in the
mid-1750s. Then, in 1767 and 1775, John Reddick was awarded adjoining land
grants of 300 acres and then 100 acres on the western side of the Ogeechee
River, in the upper portion of St. Phillip Parish (mostly now Bryan County, but
also a portion of Bulloch, and at one time a part of Effingham County). The
precise location that we believe John Reddick settled is now in Bulloch County,
across the Ogeechee River from the Screven County town of Oliver and below the
old railroad stop at Halcyondale, at a site once known as EATTON'S, EATON'S, or
EDEN'S GARDENS.
The four known Reddick brothers of Burke & Screven Counties (Francis,
Jacob, Nicholas, and Peter - who we first know of from their appearance in 16
court records starting in 1785) all seem to have had children. Both Jacob and
Nicholas named sons John Reddick. Further, the earlier John Reddick was
represented in the Georgia Land Memorials by Francis Parris, who signed &
acknowledged that John Reddick was living on the riverside land he was granted
in 1767 (on the West bank of the Ogeechee River in what is now Bulloch County).
This Francis Parris moved to a spot on Brier Creek in St. George Parish (now
making up all of Burke and portions of Jefferson, Jenkins, and Screven
Counties) and built a large mill complex circa 1770. The 'Paris' mill had 400
horsepower available for the cutting of lumber and milling of grains. This spot
was called Milltown or 'Paris Mill' for the next three decades. Later, the site
and surrounding lands were consolidated into Millhaven Plantation by Augusta
attorney Seaborn Jones, and those lands retain that name to present times. It
is as neighbors of Francis Parris that we find the four Reddick brothers -
Francis, Jacob, Nicholas, and Peter - during the 1780s and '90s. Further, by
1767 John Reddick had additionally acquired land in St. George Parish, adjacent
to brothers Sylvanus and Israel Bird. This is interesting in that these two
Bird brothers were also neighbors of John Reddick on his Ogeechee River lands,
having been granted lands immediately adjacent to his. Another neighbor of John
Reddick was Rudolph Burkhalter, on whose land was located Burkhalter Crossing &
Ferry on the Ogeechee River. These four neighbors had settled on and adjacent
to what had been known as EATTON'S, EATON'S, or EDEN'S GARDENS - a landmark
along the Ogeechee River in the 1760s. In 1791 John Michael Burkhalter
(apparent son of Rudolph) sold land that was adjacent to the land of Nicholas
Reddick (which lay alongside Brier Creek and bordered the millpond of Francis
Parris). Francis Reddick witnessed the deed by which John Michael Burkhalter
sold his land. In 1792 two plats recorded in Plat Book A of Effingham County
(pages 463 & 479) show that land formerly owned by John Reddick (in what is now
Bulloch County) was adjacent to the lands of Israel Bird and John Michael
Burkhalter, with J.M.B. being the then present owner of those lands previously
owned by John Reddick. The plat of page 463 even refers to the locale as being
part of "EDEN'S GARDENS." It would seem that between his last land grant of
1775 and the recording of these 1792 plats those lands belonging to John
Reddick had been transferred to John Michael Burkhalter. Presumably, John
Reddick passed away sometime during this period and either Rudolph or John
Michael purchased the land of their neighbor from his heirs. During the period
of the Revolutionary War this area was overrun by warring bands of Patriots and
Tories, followed in the post-war period by banditry that had to be suppressed
by forces led by the Reverend (and Revolutioniary War soldier) William Cone. At
present we have no way of knowing how John Michael Burkhalter came to own the
land that had been granted to John Reddick. But, if the heirs of John Reddick
sold that land at Eatton's Gardens, then perhaps they moved to their father's
land in St. George Parish (and subsequent Burke County of 1777 through 1793) -
which may have been located near the mill of Francis Parris. Since Francis
Parris had acted as an agent for John Reddick in the Georgia Land Memorials,
then it is possible that the family of John Reddick was aided by Francis Parris
and this explains why we find the four Reddick brothers living near him -
starting with the first records we have of them, from 1785.
We now have established a likely scenario in which the previously known
four Reddick brothers appear to have had a father in this John Radick /
Raddick / Readick / Reddick. This is not proven, but it seems likely given the
association of Francis Paris with the earlier, likely father and the four,
later brothers; and with additional associations by both John and the brothers
with the Bird and Burkhalter families, location-wise.
This would seem to establish that the Reddicks who descend from the four
Reddick brothers (of Burke & Screven Counties, Georgia) are not of Scottish
descent, as has been thought. Further, some lines among the descendants of
brothers Caspar / Gasper and Jacob Readick also have used the 'standard'
Reddick surname spelling. Still others continued with Readick and Readdick,
apparently. These latter surname spellings have been associated with people
from coastal Chatham and Camden Counties of Georgia. People demonstrably
related to one another will have the surnames spelled as Reddick versus
Readdick. It is not at all clear that any or all of these coastal Georgia R320
Reddick-sounding folks are descended from the 'Radick' family that came into
Savannah in 1737. For, there was a William Reddock and family that came down
from North Carolina and settled in Camden County during the late 1700s. Some
descendants of that Reddock family may have had their surname later spelled as
Readdick or Reddick - muddying the waters and adding some un-related, confusing
family lines to those descended from the 'Radick' family (if any Radick
descendants did actually settle in Camden County).
I hope that this information and postulated origin for some of the
Southeast Georgia Reddick lines proves to be helpful.
Dale E. Reddick
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