Hugh Waddell (general)

Hugh Waddell
Hugh Waddell
	Portrait of Hugh Waddell, from Alfred Waddell's A Colonial Officer and His Times
Born	c. 1734; Lisburn, County Down, Ireland
Died	9 April 1773 (aged 38–39); Castle Hayne, North Carolina
Buried	Castle Hayne, North Carolina
Allegiance	Province of North Carolina, Kingdom of Great Britain
Service/branch	Provincial Troops
Years of service	1754–1773
Rank	General
Battles/wars	French and Indian War Forbes Expedition; Fort Duquesne; ; Anglo-Cherokee War: Fort Dobbs; ; War of the Regulation;
Relations	James Iredell Waddell, great-grandson; Alfred Moore Waddell, third-great-grandson

General Hugh Waddell (c. 1734 – 9 April 1773) was an Irish-born American military officer in the Province of North Carolina prior to the American Revolutionary War. Waddell formed and led a provincial militia unit in Rowan County, North Carolina and the Ohio River Valley during the French and Indian War and the Anglo-Cherokee War, and supervised the construction of Fort Dobbs near the settlement of the Fourth Creek Congregation. His career was well-served by close connections to several provincial governors of North Carolina.

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