Hello all, I have made great progress in finding info. on the above named RAWLS men and their families, but, I need more info. as the records I have received over the last year cleared up many mysteries yet uncovered a few new ones. first: JEREMIAH RAWLS died between 1822-1827 per a few court records that survived in HERTFORD county, NC. For a long time it was thought he was the SAME JEREMIAH RAWLS of NANSEMOND CO., VIRGINIA. It was also thought the JEREMIAH of HERTFORD was married with married daughters. This was wrong on both counts! first I found court records for MORIAH RAWLS dated 1825 dividing up his land, one heir was a son JEREMIAH RAWLS, bingo, JEREMIAH of HERTFORD was MORIAH's son, WRONG, MORIAH's son JEREMIAH was selling land after the other JEREMIAH died, and in fact is the JEREMIAH RAWLS who with several sisters went to EARLY County, GEORGIA and died there. Well back to JEREMIAH that died about 1827. a court case sent to me by a researcher I have hired revealed from a 1818+ court case in HERTFORD County, that the JEREMIAH RAWLS that died in 1827 along with his two sisters MARY & CATHERINE RAWLS were the INFANTS and ORPHANS of DAVID RAWLS. Altho the JEREMIAH RAWLS of NANSEMOND Co., Virginia was the son of DAVID & ELIZABETH RAWLS he could not be the one from NANSEMOND as his father, DAVID RAWLS died before 1782. I knew they had to be of MORIAH RAWLS family, yet NOT his children. Today I received yet another court case, this one from BERTIE County, NORTH CAROLINA. It was tha actual land division of MORIAH RAWLS which listed his eight children, yet NOT DAVID in the papers. BUT, It did list DAVID RAWLS in them. BINGO, DAVID RAWLS is indeed from MORIAH RAWLS's family. now my problem! first: MORIAH RAWLS purchased a marriage license in 1788 in BERTIE County. If DAVID RAWLS was from this marriage of MORIAH's he would only be 28 or so when he died, old enough for the three minor children, but not for the married RAWLS women listed in JEREMIAH's estate records from 1827, yet no doubt DAVID's married daughters. SO, Either DAVID was an older son of MORIAH's from a preveous marriage or was a BROTHER to MORIAH. MORIAH RAWLS was no doubt a son of ABSALOM and ANN RAWLS as was WILLIAM, SILAS and an older NOAH RAWLS. The three sons listed in the land division for MORIAH RAWLS were JEREMIAH, NOAH and WILLIAM RAWLS, Yet he had FOUR males in his household in 1810 Census. any help is truly appreciated. BOBBY RAWLS 100 N. COTTONWOOD BIG SPRING, TEXAS 79720-1769