The lands warranted and patented by John, James and Daniel are clearly identified on the Warrantee Township Map for Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, PA. Peter's land was just across the line in present day Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County and is shown on a patent map for that township.
There are no records indicating that son George ever warranted or patented any land. The only record of any land for son George is on an 1783 tax list for Peters Township, Washington County where he is listed as owning 290 acres. In 1783, Peters Township, Washington County included all the land south of the Ohio and Monongahela Rivers between Chartiers Creek and Peters Creek, much of which became part of Allegheny County in 1788. Also appearing on the Peters Township tax list is his father-in-law, Richard Evans, and his brother-in-law, Mayberry Evans. There are patent records for them for land which was surveyed on Virginia certificates that is in present day Mifflin Township, Allegheny County, along Thompsons Run just north of where the Youghiogheny flows into the Monongahela. The land George owned may have been nearby.
John had 431 acres called "Second Batton", including part of his father's location, surveyed on March 29, 1789, and took out a warrant on June 26, 1789 apparently as part of a sale to Joseph Bedsworth, to whom the patent was issued June 29, 1789 and recorded in book P-17-43. John also had another farm, Newberry", of 254 acres about a mile further west that was surveyed on June 26, 1789, the warrant taken out on August 1793, but disposed of to Hugh Brady before the patent was issued on March 15, 1794 and recorded in book P-21-26. In these warrants John's name was spelled "Weddall"."
Daniel applied for a warrant for 123 ½ acres, called 'Mount Pleasant', on December 17, 1784; it was surveyed on April 2, 1787 , a patent was issued on February 18, 1792 and recorded in book P-18-349.
James' farm contained 124 acres and was called 'Loss and Gain'. He took out a warrant January 6, 1810 and it was surveyed on February 28, 1810. But, James died before the patent was issued on February 8, 1816, and recorded in book H-12-396 in the names of Susanna and Joseph Waddle as Administrators in Trust. It is interesting to note that in the patent papers the name of James is spelled 'Weddel' and the names of his wife Susanna and son Joseph are spelled 'Waddle'."
Virginia State Land Office records (1) contain three claims in southwestern Pennsylvania: "Weddle, George", settlement 400 acres; "Weddall, John", settlement 400 acres and preemption 1000 acres; followed by "ditto" (meaning Weddall, John) settlement 400 acres. It appears that George and John filed land claims with Virginia. The Pennsylvania Archives (2)list of Virginia claims to lands in western Pennsylvania contains John Waddel/Weddell, indicatings that Pennsylvania recognized his Virginia claims.
A very interesting record (3) is the patent granted to George "Wheddle"for 80 acres known as "Huckle Berry Levills", dated April 30, 1750 on a Warrant granted April 9 1750. The land was sold and a deed (4) made on 24 Feb 1774. In that deed, George "Wheddle" of Frederick County, Maryland sold for 72 pounds 6 schillings to Dr. Henry Shnebly a piece of land , called "Huckelberry Levels" containing about 80 acres near Isaac Baker. It was witnessed by Michael Cresap (5) and attested to on 24 Feb 1774 by George "Wedel", with no reference of a wife. The Carroll County Maryland Historical Society researched the location of the property and placed it near the Conococheague River about ½ mile south of the Pennsylvania line in what is now Washington County, Maryland and northwest of Hagerstown. This could be the "near Hagerstown" location that family tradition says George and his family came from. The name Michael Cresap as a witness to the sale adds to this possibility because in 1774 Cresap was living along the Monongahela River near present day Brownsville and was active among the Virginia settlers.
1. LDS Film# 0,007,811 item 2, , List of Land Claimed by the Settlers and Preemptioners in the Districts of Kentucky, Monogalia, Yohogania and Ohio, Augusta, Botetourt and Greenbrier Also a Schedule for Washington and Montgomery Counties in September 1781
2. Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, Volume 3, 530-531
3. Maryland State Archives Land Office Patent Records, Volume BY & GS #5, page 602
4. Land Records of Frederick County, Maryland, indexed for period 1748-1778 at Liber V, page 213-214, recorded on 22 Mar 1774 at request of Dr. Henry Shnebly.
5. A person of some notoriety in American history. He is accused in Logan's Lament of the 1774 killing the family of Chief Logan, a friendly and Christian Indian. In July 1775 at Fort Teegarden on the Monongahela River, Captain Cresap recruited a Virginia company of riflemen based on their ability to shoot a dead center shot at three hundred yards. They marched to Hagerstown where another sixty more riflemen were added, bringing his Company to one hundred and forty men; then straight through to Boston arriving on the Commons at Cambridge only five days after General Washington arrived there to take full command of the Continental Army. In October 1775, General Washington commissioned him to go to New York to transact some special business. He left the Company and set out for New York, and fulfilled his mission, but took violently ill, and died there in October 1775 and was buried in the Trinity Church graveyard.