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Appear to be 2 contemporary Gideon Ri(t)chey's; 1 was a lawyer in Bedford Co, PA and the other a farmer in Washington Co, NC/TN-> Greene Co, NC/TN.

The PA Gideon:
In Colerain Township, Bedford Co, PA 1772:
http://www.motherbedford.com/Discovery7.htm

Aug. 26, 1774. Deed. Edward Sharp of Colerain two., Bedford Co., to Gideon Ritchey of the same place. An improvement made by Sharp in Friends Cove.
(Source: Bedford County Deed Book B, Register and Recorders Office, Bedford Co. Courthouse, p. 28.)

Esquire, appointed Justice of the Peace in Bedford Co, 1776:
http://www.stanklos.net/?act=para&pid=13901&psname=

"Mr. Gideon RICHEY informed me he had obtained judgement of Court for 39 pounds Pennsylvania money & paid me $31 in part at that time, & I allow the said debt of Richey & the sum of money which James MONTGOMERY borrowed of me, which was lodged in the hands of William Hutton, equally divided amongst all my children"
http://www.tngs.org/ansearchin/pdf/1988-2.pdf

agent in Bedford Co, PA 1782-1788. sold estate Harry Gordon to James Wood of Cumberland Co, PA.
also a lawyer for Orphans Court there.
(note some German Ritchie's settled in Bedford Co, PA. Henry Ritchie had a son Gideon)

Capt. Gideon Ritchey of 2nd Company, 1st Battalion, Revolutionary War Militia from Bedford Co, PA
http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/revolutionary_war_militia_overview/4125/bedford_co__revolutionary_war_militia/435863

The TN Gideon: (much more likely)
"Gideon Ritchey who deeded land to her husband Robert Blackburn in the mid-1700's in Frederick Co. VA. before the Blackburns moved down to what is now Washington Co. TN"
http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.riching/2/mb.ashx

LAND DEEDS OF JEFFERSON COUNTY, TN:
Conveyance JOHN GARRETT to Daniel Hill 15 April 1794' 1 Feb 1794, 80 acres 40.00, adj. to GIDEON RICHEY
from the State of NC and conveyed from Richey to ANDREW BLACKBURN and from Blackburn to Garrett.
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/BLACKBURN/1998-09/0904675124

Originally in Washington Co, NC became Greene Co in 1783. Gideon Richie was an assessor for the 2nd district:
http://www.carolana.com/NC/Counties/greene1_county_nc.html

on the 1783 Greene Co, TN Tax List with Thomas Richey (nephew)
http://www.genealogyforyou.com/usa/tennessee/greene/tax001.htm
http://www.tngenweb.org/revwar/counties/greene/1783.html

Gideon Ritchey in Greene Co, TN 1786:
http://www.tngenweb.org/records/greene/land/nc_grants_greene.html
(note includes Abednego Inman and Robert Blackburn)

"[Gideon Blackburn] had a maternal uncle called Gideon Richie, who, seeing the poverty of his parents and the aptitude of their son, determined to educate him, though he himself lived by manual labor."
http://books.google.com/books?id=7VpT4OY81_IC&pg=PA87

Moved to Dandridge with Gideon Blackburn in 1790:
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/w/i/l/Jeff-Willhelm-Spring-Hill/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0865.html
where "he secured a military grant on the Nolichucky River"
from "The Benjamin Blackburn Family" by W.A. Challacombe on ancestry.com