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ALEXANDER SERVED IN LORD DUNMORS'S WAR AND PARTICIPATED IN
PERHAPS THE FIEREST AND MOST IMPORTANT INDIAN BATTLE IN HISTORY.
THE BATTLE OF POINT PLEASANT. OBERLIN CARTER ADVISES (THE
WRITER,[JACK E. NIDA] OF THIS INFORMATION) THAT HE {OBERLIN} HAS
CORRESPONDED WITH THE STATE HISTORIAN OF WEST VIRGINIA
REGARDING THE RECORD OF ALEXANDER'S PARTICIPATION IN THIS BATTLE.
OBERLIN WAS INFORMED THAT THE RECORDS OF TWO OF THE COMPANIES
COMMING FROM THE SECTION WHERIN ALEXANDER LIVED HAD BEEN LOST,
BUT, KNOWING WHERE ALEXANDER LIVED AT THAT TIME, HE UNDOUBTEDLY
DID SERVE IN THE BATTLE OR WAS EXCUSED FOR SOME CAUSE. THIS
BATTLE OCCURED IN OCTOBER 1774. THERE NOW IS IN EXISTENCE THE
POWDER HORN WHICH ALEXANDER CARRIED IN THIS BATTLE. IT IS NOW
OWNED BY JOHN HAY OF MARION, OHIO. ALEXANDER'S SERVICE IN THIS
BATTLE IS SPOKEN OF IN HARDESTEY'S HISTORY OF GALLIA COUNTY. LATER
RESEARCH CONVINCES US THAT HE WAS A MEMBER OF CAPT. ARBUCKLE'S
COMPANY OF SCOUTS, THE RECORD OF WHICH IS INCOMPLETE. THE
REVOLOTIONERY WAR THAN OCCUPIED HIS ATTENTION. THE WRITER
KNOWNS OF NO OFFICIAL RECORD OF HIS SERVICES IN THE REVOLUTION
ALTHOUGH THERE IS THE STRONGEST OF FAMILY TRADITIONS THAT HE
SERVED. HARDESTY'S HISTORY OF GALLIA COUNTY SPEAKS OF HIS SERVICE
UNDER GEORGE WASHINGTON. DAR Patriot Index Centennial Edition. Obit
in Gallipolis Journal says "Native of Scotland" Alexander Waddell is
listed in the "First Families of Gallia county, OHIO listed as Pioneer #
50, found earliest as 1817. Other Waddells listed were Sarah Ross
Waddell # 388, Jane Waddell # 429, #449 Martha Waddell, #460James
Waddell , #461 Maragret Waddell, #473 John Waddell, #474 James
Waddell, # 493 Catherine Waddell.
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