Richard Ridgely

Biography

Richard Ridgely (1755-1824) lived through the American Revolutionary era and the formative years of the new nation. His sixty-nine years of life positioned him as a participant in and witness to the dramatic transformation of the thirteen colonies into the United States of America.

Ridgely's memory is preserved in the historical record, representing the many individuals whose lives were shaped by and contributed to the revolutionary changes that defined late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century America.