Anything From CALDWELL OF FREDERICK CO., VA could unlock my brick walls. Part of
FREDERICK CO became HARDY CO. where my CALDWELL'S settled. Thanks, Joanne HALTERMAN
Tabbycat wrote:
Although I don't believe there is any tie in with my upstate New
York (Fulton and Montgomery County) Caldwells, I found them in an old family trunk and
thought they might be helpful to someone else. (I have no idea where they came from.)
RE COLLECTIONS OF JOSEPH CALDWELL OF FREDERICK CO., VA
OLIVER, my father, married ANN, daughter of JOHN CALDWELL, his cousin, in the
county of Derry, Ireland. OLIVER, with his brothers, DAVID and ALEXANDER, emigrated and
settled in Pennsylvania.
JAMES CALDWELL, a delegate from near Harrisburg, was fathers cousin.
Mother had two brothers, JOHN and ALEXANDER CALDWELL, who emigrated from
Ireland and settled near Wilmington, Delaware.
JOHN CALDWELL, of Prince Edward, was a cousin of my father, and had six sons;
two of them, ANTHONY
and WILLIAM, went with me to the seize of Yorktown. JOSEPH CALDWELL, near Fort Pitt, PA.,
was my cousin, as was also JOSEPH, near Wheeling VA., who married a daughter of MORDICAI
JAMES at Zanesville. ALEXANDER CLADWELL, now Judge of the Federal Court for the Western
District of Virginia, is a brother of the latter JOSEPH. GEORGE CALDWELL, a relative,
went to Kentucky, and there had three sons, one of them ALEXANDER, was killed by the
Indians.
JOHN CALDWELL left Pennsylvania and married in South Carolina. He was first
cousin to my father, and brother to my mother. ELIAS CALDWELL, a cousin of my father,
settled near Newberryport, Massachusetts. Father used to correspons with several
relations of name in Philadelphia. One was named JACOB and the other WILLIAM.
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The above quote is included to show how many CALDWELLS were in America prior to the
revolution and to show that many if not most of the families in different sections of the
country are inter-related.
We see that a least three were among the militia that went to the siege of Lord
Cornwallis at Yorktown. Our JAMES CALDWELL, born in 1756 was just the right age to serve
during the revolution but I have not been able to prove that he did. However, I have
wondered why he named a son ST CLAIR F. CALDWELL unless he had served under General ARNOLD
ST. CLAIR.
(ALL OF THE ABOVE WAS "WRITTEN" BY JOSEPH CALDWELL AND TRANSCRIBED VERBATIM.)
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THE CALDWELL FAMILY
EXTRACT FROM MEMORANDA OF HUGH CALDWELL
OF BOUTECOURT COUNTY, VIRGINIA
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"The first mention or account of any person bearing the name of CALDWELL I
found in an ancient record in possession of OLIVER CALDWELL, whom I accidently met in
Carlisle, PA.
He had just emigrated from Ireland, and was then (1854) in search of a place, in
the neighborhood where I met him, to settle. He was accompanied by a young man named
DANIEL CAWLDELL, of Scotland. On my alluding to the difference in the spelling of their
names OLIVER handed me a record of the CALDWELL family wherein the family spelled and
pronounced their names differently, some spelling it COLWELL, CALDWELL, CAWLDWELL,
CALLWELL, CALWELL, COLDWELL, etc."
EXTRACT FROM THE RECORD OF OLIVER CALDWELL
Three brothers named JOHN, ALEXANDER and OLIVER, were connected with and commanded
vessels under two brothers, notorious pirates, by the name of BARBAROSSA, who had the
complete mastery of all the Mediterranean the latter end of the Fourteenth and beginning
of the Fifteenth Century.
All the nations of the sea paid them tribute, and at the same time courted their
friendship, yet dreaded their power and influence, for they were in alliance with some of
the most daring spirits of Spain, France and Scotland. These pirates flourished for
twenty years, when they were surprised and completely defeated and broken up by the
Governor of Oran, a capital of a nation of Africa. After this defeat those of the parties
who escaped, dispersed and settled in different parts of the world. John(,) Alexander and
Oliver, above mentioned, settled in Toulon, in France, (in which city they were born), at
a place called Mount Arid. Here they were much dreaded, for the commanded a powerful
banditti, who were notorious as the "Robbers of Arid".
Francis I, then King of France, was in battle made prisoner by the victorious
Charles V, of Germany, who was also King of Spain. After his release he was by these
brothers robbed on his journey home. This circumstance turned the attention of that
monarch to their conduct as robbers, and by his orders they were so closely pressed, that
they though proper to provide for their safety by leaving the country. They then settled
in Scotland, near Solway Frith, where they purchased an estate of a Bishop named Douglass,
with the consent of James I, on condition that said brothers, JOHN, ALEXANDER and OLIVER,
late of Mount Arid, and which estate should thereafter be known as "CAULDWELL".
And when the King should require they should each send a son with twenty men of sound
limbs to aid in the wars of the King."
This gentleman, OLIVER CALDWELL, had in his possession a cup, from which I saw
that the estate took its name from a watering place. The cup represented a chieftan and
twent men on horses, all armed, a man drawing water from a well, and underneath the words
"ALEXANDER OF CAULDWELL" a fire burning on a hill, underneath the words
"Mount Arid", and a vessell surrounded by high waves.
JOSEPH, JOHN, ALEXANDER, DANIEL, DAVID and ANDREW OF CAULDWELL, went with OLIVER
CROMWELL (whose grandmother was ANN of CAULDWELL) to Ireland, of which he was then Lord
Governor. After his promotion to the protectorate of England, they remained in his
interest in Ireland, until the restoration of Charles II, when JOHN, DAVID and ANDREW fled
to America. JOSEPH died in Ireland and DANIEL continued there, but several of his
children emigrated to Virginia, and settled near the James River. Others went to Rhode
Island, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North and South Caroling, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky,
New York, New Jersey and Ohio.
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Hope the above will be of some importance to someone out there. If anyone has any, and I
mean any, tidbit of information on the upstate New York line of Caldwells - please send
them to me. My line - grandmother Statira Eliza Caldwell Van Buren. Her father Dr.
Joseph Cogswell Caldwell m. Eliza Harden. His father was Paul Caldwell
m. Catherine Thumm (Thumb). In turn, Paul's father was William Caldwell.
William's parents? Brickwall! I have a Caldwell Family Bible (approximately 200
years old) which documents the above. I have every reason to believe the original owner
of the bible was an Amelia Caldwell who married Stephen Cogswell approximately 1820. I
don't know how Amelia ties into the family. She may have been a daughter of William
although she was not mentioned in his will. Help! Dee Van Buren Quinn
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