Person:Cornelius Riddle (3)

Records in Tennessee

• 1783, Davidson County, Tennessee, Land Grant: 86. Cornelius Riddle. Rootsweb.com

1. ↑ McRaven, William Henry. Life and times of Edward Swanson: one of the original pioneers who with General James Robertson founded Nashville, Tennessee, 1779; first recorded settler of Williamson county, Tennessee, March, 1780. (Nashville, Tennessee: [William Henry McRaven], c1937)
   pg. 49.

   Probably in the early fall of 1780, Edward Swanson was married to Ned Carvin's widow, Mrs. Mary Luny Carvin, for it is said that after Colonel Robertson married Capt. Leiper and his wife, "other Judges or Triers at various stations deemed it suitable, right and needful to unite other parties as man and wife."
   
   Mr. James Shaw, one of the trustees, and "Chairman of the Committee" of the Provisional Government, performed the pleasant ceremony, by which Edward Swanson was made "the lawful husband, and widow Carvin the truly wedded wife, and "enjoined to live together as such lovingly."
   
   Mr. Shaw is also said to have married James Freeland to Mrs. Maxwell, Cornelius Riddle to Jane Mulherrin and John Tucker to Jenny Herod, the same day he married Edward Swanson to Mrs. Carvin. These are generally agreed to be the next marriages succeeding that of Captain Leiper and his wife.

2.   Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

   https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/57152816/person/162132640010/facts?_phsrc=BJy925&_phstart=successSource

3.   Albright, Edward E. Early history of middle Tennessee. (Nashville, Tennessee: Brandon Print., c1908, 1909)
   pg. 112.

   By an act of the legislature of North Carolina in May of this year [1784] the name of the village which had grown up around the Bluff was changed from Nashborough to Nashville, and such it has since remained. Frequent excursions for purposes of murder and plunder continued to be made by the Indians. Cornelius Riddle was hunting between Buchanan's Station and Stones River. He killed two wild turkeys and hung them up in a tree while he went in pursuit of another. The Indians who were skulking in the neighborhood heard the report of his gun, and coming near lay in ambush awaiting his return. He was shot and mortally wounded. The enemy took his scalp, and then seizing the turkeys, fled hastily from a vengence which they knew they knew would otherwise be swift.