Notes for Westhall Ridgely

Notes for Westhall Ridgely

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!Republican Advocate (newspaper) at Frederick, Maryland 28 Nov 1806; Notices: "Westhall Ridgely
cautions that his wife Sarah, has left his bed and board." He m. Sarah Templin at Frederick in 07-91.

!Chancery Court of MD, Liber 63, Folio 672; 15 May 1802: As son and heir he filed a bill of complaint against his uncle, Jacob Ridgely, alleging that through false pretext Jacob took advantage of him when he was aged 20 and secured the sale of "Ridely's Rest" of 922 acres which his grandfather patented 6 April 1768. The land accordingly descended to his father as the eldest son and as the eldest of his father he fell heir to the estate. Westall (III) lost this suit, since Jacob answered that Westhall was nearly 21 and knew what he was doing.
Westhall disappears from Frederick County records after 1806; a Wesley Ridgley [sic] appears in 1820 in St. Clair Twp. Bedford Co., PA, in Hopewell Twp. (same co.) in 1830, and in Union Twp., Huntingdon Co., PA in 1830. A "Westel Ridgely" was among settlers along the Blackfork near Jeromesville, OH early in the 19th century. [Note: part of Wayne Co., OH became part of Ashland Co., OH when the latter was formed -- births of children in Wayne Co. therefore could actually be in what is today Ashland Co., i.e. the Jeromesville area.]

!Joyce Rarick of Bucyrus, OH [JARarick@@aol.com], 3 Jul 1998: "Westall Ridgely, a whiskey distiller, came to Crawford Co., Ohio, in 1816, 1818, or 1819 from Wayne Co., Ohio, and settled in Section 14 of Sandusky Township (now Jefferson Township). In 1844 he moved to Cass Co., Michigan, where he died in 1845. He and his wife were the parents of four sons and four daughters. He was commisssioned a justice of the peace for Sandusky Township on April 15, 1821, and served in that office until May 15, 1824, when he lost the election. "I have the names of his children; my husband is a descendant of Westall's son, Andrew Ridgely and his wife, Rebecca Heaton. According to the Holmes Township, Crawford Co., Ohio, Census in 1850, Andrew was born in Pennsylvania, and Rebecca was born in Maryland. They married in Marion Co., Ohio. "Westall's daughter, Isabella, was born in Wayne Co., Ohio, in 1818; Westall's brother Richard Ridgely's daughter, Anna, was born August 26, 1803, in Frederick Co., Maryland. She married George W. Basford there on July 16, 1822; she died
in Jeromesville, Ashland Co., Ohio, on May 9, 1837. It is entirely plausible, then, that Westall Ridgely was also in Jeromesville, Ashland Co., Ohio, before going on to Crawford Co., Ohio, and then on to Cass Co., Michigan. "Westall's granddaughter, Hannah Ridgely, married Simon Flint Sawyer in Crawford Co., Ohio. My husband's grandmother, Cora Edna Sawyer Rarick, was descended from Simon and Hannah Ridgely Sawyer."