Name: Joshua Ricketts
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Union
State Served: Iowa
Unit Numbers: 180
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private
Rejected Company C, 8th Cavalry Regiment Iowa on 15 August 1863

Perhaps a twin.

Administration on her estate was granted to her sisters Susan and Joan at the same time as for her brother Richard (Suffolk Rec. Office, A5/3/102).

No children.

No further record.

Boxford parish registers survive only from 1557, and there is no record of his marriage, but from the baptismal records of his last three children we know that his wife's name was Joan and that she survived him.

Boxford Churchwarden's Accounts show that in 1555, Henry Riddlesdale was paid 6d. by the churchwardens for carriage of a load of wood. He helped to organize a church ale in 1560, was a churchwarden himself in 1562, and was assessed at £10 in 1568.

Perhaps a twin to Amy, since their mother's will specified that they were both to receive their legacies at the same time.

His activities are traced in Boxford Churchwardens' Accounts 1530-1561 (Peter Northeast, ed., Suffolk Records Society, 23[1982]) and are summarized on page 90 of that work. Jasper Riddlesdale, husbandman, was a churchwarden of Boxford in 1542-3 and 1547-8 (p.90). During the period 1540 to 1550, he was paid various sums for loads of straw, clay, gravel, and for carriage of lead to the church -- 2d. in 1547 (p.51). These must have been for repair of church property, the lead certainly for the church roof. In 1541 he helped to organize a church ale [a money-making social gathering involving the provision of food, drink, and entertainment] (p.35). In 1548 he bought a blue linen cloth from the church for 2s. (p.52). He also received rent money from the church for the church house -- one penny in 1544 (p.44). He rented a "town howse" at Hagmer from the church, at one time owing 12s. rent (p.54). According to his will, he had sisters Agnes, Christine Egle and Margery Scott.

On 3 January 1613/4, John and Dorcas Riddlesdale sold a ten acre close, two others of five acres and one of two acres to John Gryme the elder of Assington and his wife Faith for £120. All were pasture and lying in Assington. On the same day, Dorcas Riddlesdale released her interest in land leased in June 1555 by John and Robert Gurdon for 500 years to John Vigorus the younger, clothier of Langham, Essex (Gurdon Papers, at Essex Record Office, Ipswich, HD22/1/4).

John Riddlesdale's burial record at Assington states that he was "of Bures." He was probably living with one of his children when he died, but was buried next to his wife at Assington. Bures Saint Mary and Assington are adjacent parishes and Boxford adjoins Assington on the northeast.

He paid "farme," i.e. rent of 6s. in 1547 to the Boxford church.

No further record.

Apparently unmarried.

Administration of his estate was granted 28 Feb 1610/11 to his sisters Susan and Joan, both of whose husbands were named (Suffolk Rec. Office, A5/3/107).

While he may be the "son's son" Richard, with brother Thomas, named in the will of his grandfather in 1591, the author believes that this reference was to children of John, in which case Richard, son of Thomas, must have died in infancy.

Named in father's will.

Named in the will of his grandfather in 1591.

His mother in her 1552 will left to him £6 and a calf to be delivered to him within 9 years after her death.

From York Deeds: Vol. 8, Vol. 208: Abraham Rideout, John Hutchins, Samuel Palmer and Ben Thruston bought land from Joseph Shaw, 17 Feb 1716. Abraham Rideout of Haverhill was scrivener ("scribe" or "writer") for the County of Essex, province of ye Mass Bay Co., in New England. He bought a tract of land north of Mill Pool in Sagadohoe (Scittuate) Province of Mass. Signed Essex County, Haverhill, 8 April 1777.

From the family records of Silas Rideout: "The first ancestor was Abraham Rideout, who came from England to America at a date uncertained, and was the father of Nicholas. Some say he was a brother, but I am sure he was the father. "Rideouts In America" by Golda Rideout Soffee, page 12.

Never married.

Probably never married.

This is the first mention of the Rideout family residing in Aroostook County area. It may be assumed they came earlier as only the first five children of Edward Wislow and Ellen Nora (O'Leary) Rideout are listed as being born at New Castle, N.B., Canada.

Joseph's twin

Burned to death age three years.

Buried next to Hiram II and Clara Merritt.

Same great-grandfather (Nicholas Rideout, Jr.) as Clara Merritt's great-great grandfather.

Hiram and Caroline resided in Portland, Caribou and Woodland, Maine.

Died young.

Infant baby of Hiram II and Caroline named for Edward. The baby died in infancy 2 June 1874 and is buried beside his mother and father in the Pike lot, Evergreen Cemetery, Caribou, Maine.

Father of Caroline Rideout, first wife of Hiram Pike II.

Served with the 1st Wisconsin Volunteers.

Never married.

He attended the schools of his native place, and assisted his father during his boyhood. He remained on the homestead until he was twenty-two years old. During the next three years he cultivated a farm that he bought in Grand Falls. He then bought a farm in New Brunswick just over the line from Limestone, Maine, cleared and cultivated it until February, 1908, when he removed to Washburn, Maine. Since that time he has conducted the farm owned by Mrs. Rideout in Washburn. He owns a farm of eighty acres and another of seventy-five acres in Wade, Maine. The farm in Washburn consists of sixty acres, nearly all under cultivation. He attends the Free Will Baptist church, and is a member of the Washburn Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias, of Limestone.

Died age 5 years.

He settled in Grand Falls when a young man and followed farming there all his active life. He attended the Free Will Baptist church.

Shortly after his wife died, his house was burned and two of his children lost their lives in the fire.

George and his family lived for a number of years in the Miramichi River area, and was a resident of Blackville Parish, Northumberland Co.

Never married.

First pastor of Christ Church (Episcopal) in Sausalito.

Lieutenant in 15th Maine during Civil War.

Grandfather of Clara Merritt. Ann (Dixon) Rideout and Jephtha Ridout did not speak to each other for years. They would say "ask your father (or mother) if (s)he is going to do ... " even though Jeptha (or Ann as the case might have been) was obviously sitting right there in the room.

Benjamin's twin

Hiram II and Caroline's fifth baby, who is buried with them, named after this Lucinda. Hiram II visited her in Canada. Believed to be the Lucinda who Blanche Pike (Morgan) remembered her father Hiram II talk about. She thought Lucinda may have been Hiram's third wife! This Lucinda was, in fact, their half-aunt. A sister-in-law to her father by his first marriage to Caroline Mary Rideout.

Mother of Clara Merritt

Burned to death age four years.

Had a large family. Lived in Miramichi, then in Wakefield, and finally in Bridgewater, Maine.

Great-great-grandfather of Caroline Rideout, first wife of Hiram Pike II.

Came on the ship "Chandler" with his father from Kent, England.

Built ships at Small Point, sold land there and was a member of the Committee of Safety in the Revolution.

Brief Description and History of Phippsburg:
Phippsburg constitutes the southern point of Sagadahoc County and lies between the Kennebec River on the east and New Meadows Harbor and West Bath on the west. On the opposite side of this harbor is Great Island, a part of Harpswell; on the eastern side are the island towns of Arrowsic and Georgetown; Bath lies at the northwest. Phippsburg is very nearly 12-1/2 miles in extreme length and has an average width of about 3 miles, with bays and inlets marking its entire circumference. Following the shore northeastward from Cape Small Point, is the inlet known as Sprague's and Morse's Rivers, succeeded by Hunniwell's Beach; north which Hunniwell's Point and Sabino peninsula form the eastern shore of Atkins' Bay. On its northern side rises the lofty bluff of Coxe's Head, upon which, in 1814, an earthwork was erected; beyond which is Wyman's Bay. At the north looms Parker's Head, and at its southwestern side is the inlet basin forming the tide-power known as Parker's Head Mill Pond. Next is the harbor at Phippsburg Center, with Drummore Bay two miles above with inlet and tide-power. Through Fiddler's Reach, a curve of the Kennebec around the northern end of Phippsburg, is Winnegance Creek, nearly three miles in length and a basin at its extremity, forming two unsurpassed tide-powers, and separating Phippsburg from Bath and from West Bath, except for a neck 200 rods in width, the Winnegance Carrying Place. South of this is the Western Basin, Horse Island Harbor, Small Point Harbor, and several others.

There is some sale meadow in the northern part and the insulated ponds are Cornelius, Water Cove, Parker's Head, Rooks, and Popham. The surface of the town is rough and ledgy, but without high hills, except the long ridge of Morse's Mountain, which rises some 50 feet above the plain. The depth of water is sufficient for vessels of considerable size to come quite up to the mills on several of the tide-powers. On the Winnegance Tide-Power, three miles from the Bath post office and four miles from Phippsburg Center Village, have been sixteen mills, nine on the Bath side and seven on the Phippsburg side of the line. Some of these, however, were burned several years since.

Phippsburg contains the site of the earliest English colony in New England. The peninsula on the eastern side of the southern part, that bears on its northeastern point the lofty granite walls of Fort Popham, still bears the marks of its occupancy by Popham's colony in 1607. West of the fort rises a long hill running southward and marking on the shore the western extremity of Hunniwell's Beach. At Small Point Harbor, on the southwest side of the town, is the site of a fishing settlement established by the Pejepscot proprietors in 1716, with the name of Augusta. Dr. Oliver Noyes, one of the proprietors, was the principal director and patron, and in 1717, Captain John Penhallow, author of a noted history of the Indian Wars, resided here. In 1716, Dr. Noyes erected a stone fort 100 feet square for the purpose of protecting the settlers who were coming in rapidly. A sloop named Pejepscot was employed as a packet between this Augusta and Boston, carrying out lumber and fish, and bringing back merchandise nad settlers. The settlement continued until Lovewell's War, when the houses were burnt and the fort destroyed by the Indians. In 1737, an attempt at resettlement was made. Among those who came at this time were three families of Halls, Clark, Wallace, Wyman, James Doughty, David Gustin, Jeremiah Springer, ***Nicholas Rideout *** and John Owens.

Phippsburg was included in the Pejepscot grant to Purchase and Way, and after Wharton's purchase their lands were confirmed anew to some of the purchasers. The south part of the town was bought from the Indians by Thomas Atkins, the remainder by John Parker, Jr. in 1659, and the northern part was assigned to his brother-in-law, Thomas Webber, who also obtained an Indian title. Silvanus Davis, widely known in his day, owned and improved a farm south of Webber's . In 1734, Colonel Arthur Noble built a strong garrison on the north side of the peninsula near Fiddler's Reach. The first house of worship known in this settlement was erected near this garrison in 1736. Some 35 years later an Episcopal church was erected on the site of this first house. The present Congregational church at the Center was built about 1802.

The extension of the North Yarmouth Line direct to the ocean brought the southern part of Phippsburg into that town; but the whole, for the convenience of the inhabitants, was, in 1741, annexed to Georgetown. In 1814 Phippsburg was separated from that town and incorporated under its present name, which was adopted in honor of Sir William Phips. Eminent names among the citizens of the town in days past are Mark L. Hill, Andrew Reed, Parker McCobb, James Bowker, William M. and Thomas M. Reed.

Great-grandfather of Caroline Rideout, first wife of Hiram Pike II.
Great-great-grandfather of Clara Merritt, second wife of Hiram Pike II.

Joined the Perley Colony and migrated to Maugerville, N.B. Canada in 1762. He was the ancestor of most of the Rideouts of New Brunswick. In 1765, the government of Nova Scotia granted Nicholas some 500 acres of land in Maugerville. In 1757, he was a member of the Georgetown Militia. It is said he was a ship builder and worked with his father. He went to New Brunswick with the "Perley Colony" which was composed of a large number of Massachusetts and Connecticut families. One account says these people went to New Brunswick in one of Rideout's ships. They were nearly all farmers and most of them sympathized with the American Colonies.

Among these Maugerville colonists, Nicholas seems to have had great weight and influence. He had quite a little wealth and owned several vessels.

In Kidder's valuable book called 'Eastern Maine and Nova Scotia During the Revolution', is an extract of a letter from Colonel John Allen to the Massachusetts Council, Boston, 25 February 1777.

"I must beg leave at this time to acquaint your Honours,
that the inhabitants of the county of Sudbury in Nova
Scotia, now a county in N.B. had authorized me to appear
in their behalf and agreeable to instructions would make
known their warm and zealous attachment for the United
States. Esteeming themselves the subjects of the States
and are determined to defend the cause to their utmost."

The American Colonies then sent troops to Sudbury Co. to protect these people, and John Allen was made "First Colonel for the expedition to the St John River". Forts were built near Fredericton and the committees of both houses resolved to send ammunition to the inhabitants of Sudbury Co. to use in helping the American Colonies.

In the histories of this time, we read in several places that "Colonel Allen is stopping with the Rideouts in Maugerville." Kidder says, "Col. Allen sent a very particular letter to Mr. Rideout of commendation for his attachment to the cause desiring him to procure something that was needed, and sent in Rideout boats. After the Revolution many descendants of Nicholas Rideout returned to Maine and didn't go back to New Brunswick. Rideout was always a good friend to the American Colonies. He was very upright."

Reference: page 15ff, 'Rideouts in America' by Golda Rideout Soffee.

Great-grandfather of Clara Merritt.

Oliver moved to Wakefield Parish, Carleton Co. about the same time as his older brothers.

Unmarried.

Died young

Died young.

Cousin of wife Hannah

Unmarried.

Grandfather of Caroline Rideout, first wife of Hiram Pike II.

Soldier in the War of 1812. They lived in Ludlow Area.

In 1790, James was enumerated in Falmouth with 1-0-4-0-0, living next door to his father and brother Stephen (USC, p.15b).

He was a mariner of Portland who was lost at sea.

Resided in Falmouth in the region today called Nason's Corner about two miles from his brothers Joseph and Jeremiah at Stroudwater. Stephen was a taxpayer in Falmouth in 1777. He was licensed as an innholder Oct 1779 and was renewed regularly through 1784. On 2 Jun 1786, Stephen and Margaret Riggs gave all their homestead to their sons Stephen Jr. and James in return for the promise that the sons would provide for them during their natural lives; Stephen and Margaret covenanted with their sons that they would pay one peppercorn annually to the sons for their promise (Cum Co deed 19:306).

Rev. War soldier (MS&S 3:330-31). In 1790, he was enumerated adjacent to his father in Falmouth with a household composition of 1-1-2-0-0, suggesting he had either another wife and children before his marriage to Susanna or the marriage date found in the Jordan mss is incorrect.

Taught school in West Newton for many years.