John REDDICK Sr.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Biography: The Reddick Family & Allied Lines. Among the early English immigrants who came from the Warrington Monthly Meeting of York County, Penn., into the Piedmont section of North Carolina were the Reddick (Rudduck) family who were of English and German descent. Joseph and Benjamin Ruddock were received on 1751 Certificates at Cane Creek Friends Meeting in present Alamance County, but then Orange County. in early 1752. Alice and John Sr. were received on request in 1754. William was received on certificate in 1759. (Hinshaw, p. 418).
Pennsylvania records show that a John Ruddock got a grant from the Proprietors for 100 acres on Opossum Creek in Lancaster County. Pa in 1741. The Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore,m PA., reports that a William Ruddock was received into membership at Warrington Monthly Meeting on his own request in 1749. Joseph and Benjamin were received on request 1-16-1750/51. Margaret, daughter of William, married Thomas Kendall 7-25-1751. Joseph and Benjamin were granted Certificates to North Carolina on 7-21-1751. There is no further mention of Joseph, but Benjamin is shown making several trips back and forth between North Carolina and Pennsylvania between 1751and 1768. William, wife Ann and children were granted a certificate to New Garden Meeting 8-19-1758.
John Reddick, Sr. bought 624 acres on the south side of Richland Creek from Mordicai and Charity Mendenhall in present Guilford and Randolph Counties (Then Rowan.) in 1761. (Rowan Deeds, 4:466). Three hundred acres of the Randolph land were sold to his son John JR, in 1786. Randolph Deeds, 3:213), twenty nine acres were sold to Wm. Tomlinson (Randolph deeds, 3:204), and the remainder of his land was left by will to his son William in1787.John Sr. is listed as "of Guilford Co.) in both the land sales, and his will is in Guilford. John Jr. and his family moved to Highland Co/Ohio about 1814.
John Reddick, Sr. was one of the leaders of the Springfield Friends meet (end page 203).
(Page 204 begins here) . In 1786 Henry Thornberry sold to Moses Mendenhall, Mathew Coffin, John Rudduck and William Tomlinson, five acres for the particular use of a meeting house for the people called Quakers of Springfield "whereon their meeting House now stands..." And in 1793, Mendenhall, Coffin, and Ruddock sold the same tract to Wm. Tomlinson and Isaac Mendenhall, "overseers of the Society of the People Called Quakers." (Guilford Deeds, 4:231).
John Reddick Sr. Guilford Co. will, written 7 October 1787 and entered for probate Feb. term 1790, named wife Jane, and these children: Dinah Mendenhall, Phoebe Mendenhall, John Reddick, Jr., Jemima Pendry , Jane Reddick, Ruth Reddick, William Reddick, and Sarah Sanders. Executors were sons John and William, and William Tomlinson. Witnesses were Jno. Talbert, Samuel Pidgeon, and Thos. Thornburgh. Under the term of the will, his son William was to have the plantation.
Joseph and Benjamin Redduck were 1759 witnesses to a sale of land from Wm. Matthews of Lancaster County Pa., to Oliver Matthews, on Horsepen Creek in present Guilford Co. (Rowan Deed 6:29-30). Joseph Riddock proved the sale of the same land in 1763 in Rowan Court.
Joseph Reddick received a 300 acre State Grant on the upper part of the Uwharrie River in 1787 in Randolph County. (Randolph deed 3:153). His daughter Alice received a 25 acre grant in the northwest corner of Randolph in 1800.
Joseph Rudduck's Randolph Co. will was written in 1794 and recorded May term 1800. It named wife Phoebe, wife's daughter Martha Ellis and her daughter Rebecca Frazier; "my two daughters Alice and Sarah Rudduck. Ralph Wright and William Tomlinson were Executors.
Benjamin and William were in Guilford and Randolph, but exactly where isn't known. Benjamin traveled several times to York Co. PA., and owned land there. His Estate record indicates he died before 1787 and John Reddick Sr. was his administrator. No Children are known.
John's son William is shown in Guilford Co. in the 1790 and 1800censuses. His Guilford County will, written 17 July 1797, entered for probate Feb term 1804, names wife Mary and daughter Jane. Executors were wife Mary and Isaac Mendenhall.Mary was to have half the plantation, and the movable property, and Jane was to have half of the estate and all if her mother remarried.
The elder William, believed to be a brother of John, and his sons William Jr., Solomon and John in 1772 settled on land in Carroll County VA>, (then Montgomery County.)
Solomon bought land on what was later called Reddicks Mill Creek and married Ann Bedsaul but obtained a divorce in 1796, because Ann had abandoned him for William Spurgeon. Solomon retained custody of his 5 children. He moved from the area in 1799. John owned land on Gordon's Creek, but moved away between 1782 and 1787; he married Catherine Cox, daughter of William Cox of Chestnut Creek. William Jr. settled on Wads Mill creek, and apparently died in 1798, leaving widow Lydia and children. (Alderman, John P. "Carroll 1765-1815: The Settlements" pages 284-5.).
The 1779 Randolph Co NC Tax list, William Millikan's District, shows John Reddick, Jr. and Joseph Reddick.
Minutes of New Garden and Deep River show that John Reddick, Sr. was a son of the elder William and Alice Reddick (Ruddock). It has not been proven that Joseph, Benjamin and William were also sons of the elder William and Alice Reddick. However, it seems likely that they were (BOTTOM PAGE 204)
(TOP PAGE 205) brothers of John, being associated in land records, as executors in wills, and other documents.
Phoebe Mendenhall (daughter of John Reddick, Sr.) left a Guilford Co. will written 21 July 1816 and entered for probate Feb term 1826, naming daughter Ruth, to whom she gave 45 acres inherited from her brother William Rudduck, dec'd. daughter Beulah, to have land to Isaac Mendenhall line, and daughters Phoebe Beck (or Ricks), Mary Kister and Irene Ricks; and sons Mordicai, Seth and Enos. Zebulon Hunt was executor.

[source: North Carolina genealogical Society Volumes
Title "The Reddick Family & Allied Lines"
Page 203 Date unknown.
Author is a Mrs. Sue Riley Jones]

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John married Jane. (Jane was born on 12 Dec 1729 and died on 10 May 1811.)