Tinkling Spring Headwater of Freedom
1732-1952
A Study of the Church and Her People
Only Lindsay listed:
Rev James Waddell, D.D. and Mary Gordon
Louisa Co. VA born in the north of Ireland in July 1739,
married about the year 1768 to Mary Gordon, the daughter of
Colonel James Gordon, and died the 17 Sep 1805.
Children:
Nathaniel Waddell, md 1st cousin Mildred Gordon, d. childless
James Gordon Wadell, (P), teacher, Waynesboro, VA, b 1770, md 1st Mildred
Lindsay,
2nd Lucy Gordon. d. 6 Nov 1857
Elizabeth Wadell, (P), Augusta Co. VA, b 15 Nov 1777
md Rev. Wm. Calhoun; d. 26 May 1851
Janetta Waddell, (P) Princeton, NJ, b August 1782, md Rev Arch'd Alexander,
D.D. 8 Apr 1802
d. 8 Sep 1852
Ann Harrison Waddell, (P) Staunton, VA; b 1789, d 22 Apr 1865
Lyttelton Waddell, (P) Teacher, Staunton, VA; b 10th Oct 1790
md Elizabeth Edmondson. d. 11 Mar 1869
Harrington Waddell; Louisa Co. VA d in childhood.
The Waddell Family Register Showing Those Who Returned to Augusta Co.
Following the war of the Revolution, soldiers were granted land warrants in
KY for their war service
Among a multitude of these is one of special interest to Tinkling Spring
about the close
of Rev Waddel's pastorate. James TRIMBLE in 1783 or 1784 set out with
a group; by the time the party reached Abindon, VA, they had increased to
three hundred persons
and when they arrived at BEAN's Station, a frontier post
they were joined by two hundred more from Carolina. Three-fourths of these
were women and children.
General James KNOX fell in with them at
some point, which is not stated, and at Bean's Station the entire command of
their movements was conceded to him.
There was no road, and the trail being wide enough for
only one horse, the emigrants went in single file, forming a line a mile long.
At the eastern base of the Clinch Mountain there was indians prowling, and
the river was swollen, and in the crossing a Mrs. ERWIN
carried two negro children in a wallet thrown across her horse, and these
were washed off by the current, but rescued by a Mr. WILSON.
A party of eight horsemen overtook the emigrants at Clinch
River, and preceded them on the route.
Between Clinch river and Cumberland Gap, the emigrants came
upon the remains of the eight horsemen who had passed on before them. They
had been tomahawked, scalped and stripped by Indians,
and some of the bodies had been partly devoured by wolves.
The emigrants arrived at Crab Orchard, KY, 1 Nov.
This was the frontier post on the Northeast Border, from which emigrants
branched off to their respective destinations. Here
General Knox took leave of the party.
Mrs. Trimble removed to Ohio with her children after her husband's
death, and afterwards made several trips on horseback to Virginia.
One trip, made in 1811, was accomplished in two weeks.
The child who rode behind her on her journey to Kentucky
as Allen, who for four years was Governor of Ohio.
It was in 1784 that these emigrants - Trimbles, Allens, Andersons
Gays and others - established the Pisgah Presbyterian Meeting House
on Samuel STEVENSON's two-acre plot given earlier for that purpose.
This is said to have been the first church established
in Kentucky. It is certain that most of its charter members had
their earlier spiritual training under the ministry of
Rev. John Craig at Tinkling Spring and Stone Meeting Houses.
No doubt some of our E. TN ancestors from the Watagua, and
Nolichucky River settlements were with Knox on this trip.
Wonder if any of mine were in the party of eight.
The Draper Manuscripts may have some details on this.
Does anybody have access to them? I saw some index books of the Draper
Manuscripts while I was at the Nashville Conference. They
were too expensive for me. UCF in Orlando as the micro film, and
a lot of other Universities.
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