John* was born in Derry Co., Ireland About 1682.(994) John* was the son of Gavin
Dudgeon* and Christina Osborough*. John* died About 1763 in Cub Creek, Lunenberg,
Virginia.(995) Conflicting evidence states that John* was born in Ballybogan, Donegal, Ire,
About 1688. John* immigrated, December 10, 1727. Destination: Lancaster,
Pennsylvania.(996) He* migrated Circa 1738-40.(997) "The story of Cub Creek may be said to
commence 11 April 1738 when the Donegal Presbytery (Lancaster, Penna.) approved the
supplication of John Caldwell "in behalf of himself and many families of our persuasion
who are about to settle in the back parts of Virginia desiring that some members of the
Synod may be appointed to wait upon that government to solicit their favour in behalf of
our interest in that place". (1) John Caldwell, an elder in the Chestnut Level Presbyterian
Church in Lancaster County, Penna., is the recognized founder of the Cub Creek
Congregation, in which movement he was ably assisted by Andrew and Thomas
Cunningham, along with 14 others who purchased land, then in Brunswick County from
Richard and William Kennon."

Footnotes: (1) Records of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America,
embracing the Minutes of the General Presbytery and General Synod, 1706-1788, pg
138-139. (2) The 17 founders were David John and William Caldwell and William son of
John Caldwell; Andrew and Thomas Cunningham; Thomas Daugherty; Richard Dudgeon,
James Franklin, William Fuqua, William Hardwick; David and James Logan; Alexander
McConnel, Israel Pickens, John Stewar, and Thomas Vernon as noted in Elizabeth
Venable Gaines: "Cub Creek and Congregation, 1738-1838, p. 93."

Page 568 "The Cunninghams of Cub Creek (998) (See John Dudgeon* for the continuation
of this line.) The History of the Caldwell Family:

The Reverend James Caldwell, Virginia Huguenot, Compiled by cora Johnson Ramey and
printed in "The Huguenot", Publication 11, 1941-1943.

"We learn from records of Essex County, New Jersey, that the Caldwell family was of
French origin. Driven from their country by the persecutions against the Huguenots, they
went over to Scotland. In the reign of James I a branch of the family emigrated to Ireland
and settled in the county of Antrim.

From this branch was descended John Caldwell [Catherine's brother], who came to this
country, bringing with him, besides his wife and children, four single sisters, and settled at
a place called Cub Creek, in Charlotte County, Virginia.

There James Caldwell [Catherine's nephew] was born in April, 1734, the youngest of
seven children."

[Okay, we know that this is crap]

From "The Huguenot", Publication 19, 1959-1961:

"Caldwell: After the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, three Caldwell Brothers, John,
Oliver, and Alexander went first to England and then to Scotland, from France. They
purchased an old Bishopric Estate and called it Caldwell. Some went to England with
Oliver Cromwell (whose grandmother was a Caldwell.)"