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fine stock. He has been president of agricultural societies, and is con-
sidered an excellent judge of blooded sheep. He owns twenty-eight
acres of land. I have forwarded several communications to this gentle-
man, but have no reply to them. He is known to be connected with
other Border-families of Riddell, however.
JACOB RIDDELL, of White Hall Inn, Old Market Street, London, died
in 1820, aged 62 years. His death was occasioned by a severe fall, which
fractured his left limb in two or three places, and it was deemed advisable
to resort to amputation; a mortification soon ensued, however, which
deprived him of life. He bore his sufferings with great Christian resig-
nation. His loss was sincerely lamented by his relatives and a large circle
of friends, by whom he was beloved.
DAVID RIDDLE (Pennsylvania), second-lieutenant Fifteenth Infantry,
9th April, 1812; first-lieutenant, March, 1813; brevet-captain for distin-
guished service in battle of Niagara Falls, July 25, 1814; distinguished
in Gaines' victory at Fort Erie; brevet-major for gallant conduct in sortie
from Fort Erie, Sept. 17, 1814 (Jan. 15), in which he was wounded; re-
tained December, 1815, in Infantry; captain, December, 1816; died July
9, 1820.
WILLIAM RIDDEL was born in Westchester County, N. Y., in the year
1788. He was the son of a Riddel who held a commission in the English
army or navy, and came to this country during the Revolutionary war,
and was killed; he was born in the north of Ireland. William S. Řiddel,
before mentioned, left New York about 1820, and went South; his son,
Hiram H. Riddle, in 1873, was residing in New York city, aged 63 years.
HUGH RIDDELL, May 12, 1685, presented a petition in New York,
against the extortionate charges of the physicians who attended Mr.
Vaughton, the custom-house officer wounded by him at the seizure of his
goods. Mr. Riddell's goods were taken when coming from New Jersey
to New York, and he beat the officer nearly to death. The court ordered
that his goods should be restored, provided he pay the medical charges.
REV. ARTHUR-JOHN RIDDLE, Stratford, Bucks, Jesus College, Oxford,
Eng., B. A. 1872, M. A. 1877, deacon 1872, priest by Bishop of Oxford.
Former chaplain of Oxford diocese, Sch. Cowley, 1872-3; curate of Wy-
comb 1876-7; Crowmarsh-Gifford, near Wallingford, 1877-8. After re-
tiring from the latter place he took a curacy at Stoney Strafford, Bucks.
In the "Clergy List" of 1883 he was chaplain at Cronstadt, in Russia.
SAMUEL RIDDLE, sergeant Light Dragoons, May 20, 1813; exchanged
to Fifteenth Infantry in September, 1813; brevet second-lieutenant for
gallant conduct in sortie from Fort Erie, Sept. 17, 1814, and second-lieu-
tenant, September, 1814; retained December, 1815, in Eighth Infantry;
first-lieutenant, August, 1817; captain, April, 1819; company disbanded
in June, 1821; was sutler at Fort Barrancas in 1821; died in 1823.
WILLIAM RIDDLE, of Selkirk, Scotland, had a son, Walter Riddle, who
married Isabella Kellzie, who was from the State Hills, Roxburghshire,
and had four sons and two daughters. Walter died at Hawick, Scotland,
Feb. 11, 1849, aged between sixty and seventy years; his wife predeceased
him at the same place about 1839. The eldest son, William Riddle, was
at London, Ont., Can., in 1873, with Watterman, Englehart & Co.
