meant to say 1755...tired...tired... -------------------------------------------------- From: "Maryellen Horrigan" <mellenpatch5@cinci.rr.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:19 AM To: <ragan-roots@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [RAGAN-ROOTS] FW: stafford Co VA > I could see Rassan as Raggan...who knows... I think the Wm and Charles in > Stafford are from James... and I do feel that Charles is John's son, the > plot thickens... Labor Day weekend is the social hot spot of our year. I > am > pretty much useless until it is over... 150 people for an enormous > firework > display on the Ohio River.Bigger than NY, Los Angeles, or Boston... a > celebration of the River that still keeps this area flourishing. We are > 900 > feet above the River on the Ohio bank in a weird 1880 4 1/2 story > shotgun... > the front is historic, the back is glass... it's our pay back time for the > year... not to mention house guests from out of state... I'm a cookin and > a > cleanin like a mad woman. I have a bunch of solo 1855 John refs and maybe > 3 > Richardson's... I forget if I decided he was Wm Pow's or Tim's... last > night > I was too tired to refind the refs.... will try again later... M'ellen > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "james garrett" <jwgarrett@webtv.net> > Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 10:52 AM > To: <ragan-roots@rootsweb.com> > Subject: [RAGAN-ROOTS] FW: stafford Co VA > >> >> >> >> >> From: jwgarrett@webtv.net >> To: ragan-roots@rootsweb.com >> Subject: RE: [RAGAN-ROOTS] stafford Co VA >> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:57:10 -0500 >> >> >> >> >> Wm Rassan (Ragan?) & Pricsilla Manzey md 1743. >> Wm born 1722 was old enough to md by 1743 (age abt 22) and began having >> children oldest son Wm BY 1850! >> He sure looks like the Wm of Granville/Bute with wife Priscilla. >> >> JW Garrett >> ------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> >>> From: mellenpatch5@cinci.rr.com >>> To: ragan-roots@rootsweb.com >>> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:12:34 -0400 >>> Subject: [RAGAN-ROOTS] stafford Co VA >>> >>> The Stafford Co VA line was played with... a lot... really a lot... at >>> one >>> point VA ate a lot of NC and the western edge had no end except the >>> fierceness of the Indians... push, push... Stafford started in 1664 and >>> King >>> George in 1721. Stafford was created from Westmorland... which is why >>> it's >>> loaded with Washingtons and Powells. I am not star-struck... I think >>> George >>> was an idiot, but both these families cross ours. However, we >>> occasionally >>> have a reference to "Old Rappahannock" which became Richmond, which >>> devolved >>> into King George. I mention this, because many of this RGN cluster have >>> records that mention King George. Hold that thought and bear with me... >>> >>> One of the first REDIVISIONS of Stafford involved cutting both long >>> skinny >>> tracts of Stafford and Saint George across the middle and making two >>> short >>> fat sort of squarish counties wherein people had a prayer of getting to >>> the >>> court to record their whatevers. I'll look for the date... just let me >>> ramble here. Along with this division, Saint Paul's and Overwharton >>> parishes >>> reinvented themselves as the north and south parishes for Stafford. >>> Thus, >>> the Rgns records find themselves in the Saint Paul's Register... >>> except... 2 >>> items of interest.... Overwharton Parish Register of 1720-1760 ed by the >>> unfortunately named Wm F. Boogher has the following: Bridget Riggins >>> married >>> John Flitter March 16, 1755. That's a far remove from the 11 year old >>> that >>> gave birth to Winnifred in 1744, and I could speculate why, but there it >>> is. >>> There is also a William Rassan... a name I have never seen and as these >>> records are hands off, probably won't get to see, who on Oct 27, 1743 >>> married a Priscilla Manzey. would that marriage work for a man dead in >>> 1770 >>> ? M'ellen >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------- >>> From: "james garrett" <jwgarrett@webtv.net> >>> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2010 12:14 PM >>> To: <ragan-roots@rootsweb.com> >>> Subject: [RAGAN-ROOTS] 1755 Orange NC >>> >>> > >>> > M'ellen >>> > I found in 1755 Orange tax list the following on pg 2 & 3 >>> > >>> > Patrick Rogan >>> > Wm Reves (a Reaves was associtated somehow with my Peter Regan of >>> > Wilkes & >>> > Ashe NC) >>> > John Powel >>> > Joseph Powel >>> > Wm Rogan >>> > >>> > JW Garrett >>> > >>> > >>> > for Ragan-Roots archives go to >>> > >>> > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=ragan-roots >>> > ------------------------------- >>> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> > RAGAN-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>> > the >>> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> > >>> >>> for Ragan-Roots archives go to >>> >>> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=ragan-roots >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> RAGAN-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> for Ragan-Roots archives go to >> >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=ragan-roots >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> RAGAN-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > for Ragan-Roots archives go to > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=ragan-roots > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > RAGAN-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >