William Powell Riddle sued his brothers James Riddle (James later took the Riddel last name) and Lewis Riddle. He claimed that the estate was not distributed properly after the death of Joyce Powell (William Riddel's wife):
Augusta Co., VA, Deed Book #24, p. 72:
6/17/1783 - "I James Shepherd of the state of South Carolina for sundry good causes & considerations appoint my well beloved friend Jacob Peck of Augusta Co. my true & lawful attorney .... and whereas I have commenced a suit in the Court of Chancery now defending against James Riddle and Lewis Riddle of Orange Co., VA, both executors of the last will and testament of William Riddle, deceased, for the several legacies left to my wife Janet as specified in said last will of the said William Riddle. I do allow my said attorney to prosecute the suits aforesaid or to settle & compromise the said several suits in any manner that he may think most expedient as if I was personally present myself ratifying confirming and allowing whatsoever my said attorney shall do in my name or cause to be done in the premises by virtue of these presents in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 29th day of March 1783 signed sealed & delivered in the presence of us. Alexander Gibson Harmon Lovingood James Coursey } At a court held for Augusta County June the 17th 1783 this power of Attorney from James Shepherd to Jacob Peck was proved by the oaths of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded."
6/22/1784. "William Powell Riddle to Jacob Peck, power of attorney to prosecute a suit in General Court against James and Lewis Riddle, of Orange County, executor of William Riddle, deceased. for his part of said estate; also a negro that I left with my father, and all estate left by me or my father to me in Orange County."
William Powell Riddle
Notes for William Powell Riddle
1. Augusta Co., VA, Deed Book #24, p. 269: Power of attorney granted to Jacob Peck by William Powell Riddle, to prosecute a suit in General Court against James and Lewis Riddle of Orange Co., VA, executors of the estate of William Riddle, deceased, for William Powell Riddle's share of the estate left to him by his father.
Orange Co. deed book #18, p. 339 lists the sale on 29 June 1784 by William Riddle of Orange Co. to Edmund Shackleford of Orange Co., for 63 pounds current Virginia money, of "one certain tract or parcel of land containing by estimation ninety acres more or less situated lying and being in Orange County in the south west side of the Swift Run." Witnesses are John Goodall Jr., Lewis Riddle, William Bell, Richard Lamb, and John Haney. The seller must be Wm Powell Riddle, because his father William Sr. had died in 1777. But there was no William Riddle listed in Orange Co. in the 1782 census of Virginia heads of families. He was apparently only "of Orange Co." in the sense of owning land there.
The household of Edmund Shackleford was listed in the said 1782 census as adjacent to that of Lewis Riddle, and two households later was that of James Riddle. (In between Shackleford and James Riddle was the household of Edward Ansill.) Since Lewis, James, and William P. Riddle all inherited a third each of the "250 acres more or less" that was their father's plantation, and 90 is roughly 1/3 of 250, it appears that Edmund Shackleford was already residing in 1782 on the land that William P. Riddle inherited in 1777, and sold in the deed cited above. (All four of the other witnesses to the deed are also listed in the same parish in 1782.)
There was a distribution of the lands in Newberry and Lexington Counties of South Carolina to Revolutionary War veterans. Reference shows Wm P Riddle of Virginia was granted land in Lexington Co. SC in 1793.
William Powell Riddle in Equity filed 7 Oct. 1833, Lexington Co., SC died in Lexington Co., SC in 1830. Wife - Jennet Riddle, children - Joyce Smith, late Mrs. Sheppard, dau.; Dicey C. Riddle, dau.; Mahaheel Riddle, child; Mary Matilda wife of Michael Witt, dau.; Drucilla wife of James Banks - dau.; Nancy Riddle, widow of Honorias Riddle, dau. in law; Honorias Riddle, deceased son and a share for his children; Napoleon Bonapart Riddle - son; Josiah Riddle - son; Simon Peter Riddle - son; Lewis C. Riddle - son.
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