Hugh Waddell (1734 - 1773)

Born 1734 in Lisburn, County Down, Ireland

Husband of Mary (Haynes) Waddell — married 1762 in Province of North Carolina

Descendants

Died 9 Apr 1773 at about age 39 in Castle Hayne, New Hanover, North Carolina

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Biography

Hugh Waddell is Notable.

Hugh Waddell was the son of Hugh and Isabella (Brown) Waddell. He spent several years of his boyhood in Boston, Mass., where his father fled after a fatal duel.

After the death of his father, who had returned to Ireland and found himself propertyless there, young Waddell emigrated to North Carolina. In 1754, soon after his arrival, he went as a lieutenant with the regiment of James Innes to help Virginian to drive the French from Ohio and was promoted to a Captain, although mismanagement caused the troops to be disbanded in the summer without active service. In the winter of 1754-55, he was the clerck of the council of the new governor, Arthur Dobbs, who had been a friend of his father in Ireland. In 1755 Dobbs ordered him to protect the frontier from the Cherokee and Catawba in 1756. "Finding him in his person and character every way qualified...as he was young, active and resolute,"

Waddell served at various times in the North Carolina Legislature representing Rowan County, although his primary residences were in Bladen County and Brunswick County.

General Waddell was an ancestor of James Iredell Waddell, a Confederate captain during the Civil War, as well as Alfred Moore Waddell, a United States Congressman from North Carolina who wrote and published a biography of the General in 1890.^[1] See Find a grave for his son and connections.

Sources

1. ↑ Hugh Waddell general

• General Hugh Waddell
• Some Neglected History of North Carolina
• Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume X:289.
• Hugh Waddell
• "A Colonial Officer and His Times: A Biographical Sketch of Gen. Hugh Waddell of North Carolina" by Alfred Moore Waddell (1890)
• NCPedia Hugh Waddell
• A Colonial Officer and his Times 1754-1773
• Find A Grave: Memorial #178306408 Castle Haynes Plantation Graveyard Castle Hayne, New Hanover County, North Carolina, USA