JAmes, I agree... I think the spelling kept us from finding him... her name is probably a mess also... I think, from what I have seen of the Overwharton Register reports, they must have had, for some years, a really difficult to read clerk... Anybody here have any connections to a good VA researcher that could eyeball the original for us... Sam? where are you ? M'ellen ----- Original Message ---- From: james garrett <jwgarrett@webtv.net> To: ragan-roots@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, August 18, 2010 10:52:55 AM 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