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Clarence-0. Riddle (1), eldest son of Adoniram³ (1), was born in
Keene, N. H., Sept. 18, 1854, and is now (1879) a locomotive engineer,
on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad.
Delazon-A. Riddle (1), second son of Adoniram (1), was born in
Aurora, Ill., March 6, 1858, and is a book-keeper in the office of the super-
intendent of the locomotive and car department of the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy Railroads.
Hiram-Arthur Riddle (2), eldest son of Richards (1), was born at
Farmington, Minn., Feb. 4, 1864.
Charles-Richard Riddle (2), second son of Richard (1), was born
at Sciota, Minn., Feb. 17, 1866.
Myrta-Betsey Riddle (1), eldest daughter of Richard5 (1), was born
at Farmington, Minn., May 20, 1867.
RIDDELLS OF COLERAINE, MASSACHUSETTS, NO. 1.
[HUGH BRANCH.]
Dea. Hugh Riddell¹ (1), supposed to be a son of John Riddell and
Janet Gordon, of Ballymeath, Ireland, was born Sept. 20, 1692. (See
"Riddells of Ballymeath, Ireland," in this book.) The subject of this
notice came to America in the year 1718, in company with his brothers,
and first sat down at Londonderry, N. H. He married Mrs. Ann Aiken,
a lady of Scottish descent, of Concord, Mass. He continued his residence
in Londonderry until 1738, when he removed to Bedford, in the same
County, where he lived for many years.* He was a pew-owner in Lon-
donderry meeting-house in 1739, and signed an agreement for a division
of land there the third day of June the same year. His name appears on
a petition to the Colonial Assembly of New Hampshire about fishing at
Amoskeag. In 1750 he resigned a committeeship organized to secure
preaching there, and signed the resignation in presence of the town
clerk. In 1752, he was a committee to build a wall around the meet-
ing-house; in 1754, a committee to build a frame for a meeting-house;
in 1756, a committee to give the Rev. John Houston a call to preach; in
1757, he had forty pounds sterling for underpinning the meeting-house;
in 1759, a committee to build a bridge across the Piscataquog River; and
in 1762, "Deacon Hugh Riddel" was a committee to get the pulpit built.
In 1763 he removed to Coleraine, Mass., a place settled by Scotch-Irish
emigrants, and named for their old home in the north of Ireland. He
died at Coleraine, Feb. 25, 1775, aged, according to the record of his
birth, eighty-three years. His widow died May 22, 1790; they were
buried in an ancient cemetery in Coleraine, and in 1852 their double head-
stone stood near the centre of the yard; his inscription was on one side
of the stone, and that of the wife on the other. Children, of whom here-
* He owned the farm since known as the "MacAllister Place," esteemed one of
the best in town, and situated about one and a half miles north of Bedford Centre.
The site on which the house of Hugh stood was some forty rods northeast of the
modern buildings (1852) on this farm, and the location only distinguishable by an
indention in the ground where the cellar had been.
