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| Source Citation for Joseph Doddridge, Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Westenr Virginia and Pennsylcania Notes on the settlement and indian wars of the western parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania from 1763 to 1783, inclusive, together with a review of the state of society a Citation Information Detail page 272. Source Information Title Joseph Doddridge, Early Settlement and Indian Wars of Westenr Virginia and Pennsylcania Notes on the settlement and indian wars of the western parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania from 1763 to 1783, inclusive, together with a review of the state of society a Note THE DODDRIDGE FAMILY John Doddridge emigrated from England and settled in the colony of New Jersey. He was a descendant of Sir John Doddridge, of Shepperton, England. This Sir John was father of the celebrated English divine, Philip Doddridge, author of a number of books and of many beautiful poems and hymns, one of the most notable of the latter being, "Oh, God of Bethel, By Whose Hand!" etc. John Doddridge, the emigrant, had two children, Anne and Joseph, The latter married Mary Biggs. He died in Bedford county, Pa., February 14, 1779, leaving six daughters and two son, viz: Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth, Susan, Mary, Anne, Philip and John. The last named John Doddridge was born in Maryland, March 30, 1745. He married Mary Wells, daughter of Col. Richard Wells, of Baltimore, September 19, 1748. About the year 1768 they removed to Friends Cove, a few miles south of Bedford, Bedford county, Pa,. and left there for Washington county, Pa., in 1773. Their children were Joseph, horn Oct. 14, 1769; Anne, born Nov. 3, 1770; Philip, born May 17, 1773, became very prominent in legal and political; Susannah, born May 6, 1775, died in infancy; Ruth, born Aug. 30, 1776. Mary Wells Doddridge, wife of John, died Nov. 30, 1776. John Doddridge die April 20, 1791. He had married a second time on Jan. 23, 1778. With Elizabeth Schrimplin, born Oct. 26, 1761. Their children were Josias, born Oct. 28, 1778; Eleanor, born Oct. 26, 1780; Abner, born Feb. 4, 1783, died in infancy; Benjamin, born March 31, 1784; John, born May 6, 1789. The interment of John Doddridge took place on his own farm, hut in 1824 the was disinterred and taken to Wellsburg. John Doddridge was the first settler in Independence township. Washington county, Pa., in 1773, coming from Bedford county, and taking up on a Virginia certificate 437 acres of land on Cross Creek which was surveyed to him on April 6, 1786, under the title of "Extravagance." James Simpson's notes say that the first farm upon which the Doddridge family settled was where William Leggett resides, on Cross Creek, and that afterwards they removed to the farm where Milton Murdoch now lives, in the same township, where they built Doddridge's fort of which Capt. Samuel Teter, a relative of the Doddridge family, had command when the Indians were troublesome. Pages 286 & 287 THE TETER AND MANCHESTER FAMILIES Capt. Samuel Teter, who was one of the conspicuous figures in the early history of Washington county, Pa., where he owned large tracts of land, settled there with the Doddridge's and Wells's in 1773, in what is now Independence township, on the farm of 1,000 acres which he sold in the spring of 1797 to Isaac Manchester. It was named in the warrant "plantation Plenty," and lies near the present village of West Middletown. Captain Teter was born in 1737. He took part when a very young man in the ill-fated Braddock expedition in 1755, and in the Forbes expedition in 1758, in which he bore a gallant part, leading one of the assaulting parties at Fort Pitt, in which his little company was almost annihilated. He was a resident of Bedford county, Pennsylvania, in 1769, and married Mary Doddridge, daughter of Joseph Doddridge and his wife, Mary Biggs. She was an aunt of the Rev. Joseph Doddridge, and also of the famous Indian fighters, the Biggs brothers, of whom Gen. William Biggs of West Liberty, Ohio County, West Virginia, and Surveyor-General Zaccheus Biggs of Ohio, were the most prominent. Captain Teter left a large family. His descendants have become prominent in professional and business life. All his sons but Samuel served in the was of 1812. George Teter was an ensign in Capt. Samuel Davis' company, Trimble's Mounted regiment, Ohio volunteers and militia. John Teter served as first lieutenant in Capt. Jacob Gilbert's company of infantry, Second (Hindman's) Regiment, Ohio militia, afterwards First (Andrew's) Regeiment, and Daniel as a private. Several of Capt. Teter's decendants also served with credit in the Union armyduring the civil war. .... During the years in which Capt. Teter was a resident of Washigton county he became the commandant of Fort Doddridge, as related by his nephew, the Rev. Joseph Doddridge. After the sale of his farm to Mr. Manchester he went to Ross county, Ohio, settling on Lower Twin Creek, removing in his old age to the home of one of his sons-in-law, a McDonald, near Marysville, Union county, Ohio, where he died October 8, 1823. His wife survived him until May 3, 1838, attaining the great age of ninety years. Their remains lie buried in the McDonald burial ground near Marysville, where a graite monument has been erected to their memory by some of their descendants. | ||||||||||||||||||
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