Charles County Circuit Court, Birth, Deaths & Marriage Records, Liber Q Regon, Mary, d/o James and Joan Regon of Nanjemy, bricklayer, b. 28 Aug 1683 Regon, Margarett, d/o James and Joan Regon of Nanjemy, bricklayer, b. 12 Feb 1684 Regon, John, s/o James Regon and Joan Regon of Nanjemy, bricklayer, b. 24 Mar 1685 Regon, Matthew, s/o James Regon and Joan Regon of Nanjemy, bricklayer, b. 24 Apr 1687 Regon, William s/o James Regon and Joan Regon of Nanjemy, bricklayer, b. 31 Jan 1690 Regon, Charles, s/o James Regon and Joan Regon of Nanjemy, bricklayer, b. 20 May 1692 Charles County Court Records, Liber M, page 122 28 Sep 1686; cattle mark; james Rigon === James Regon 15.119 I £3.6.0 Dec 10 1696 Appraisers: Patrick Anderson, Evan Jones, === James Regon 16.247 A CH £3.6.0 Apr 1 1698 Administratrix: Joan Regon, wife of John Wood, Please note that Joan marries John Wood. She is his second of three wives. I have issue as to how many of his later children are Joan's. Most, I think. She was only barely 30 when James Regan died. I care because these kids go on to Stafford and get involved with Rgn folk, and wills etc. If they were all half siblings it would shore up the idea that all Rgns with Woods in Stafford are probably James' instead of some Rgn kookoo bird laying a new Rgn egg in the Woods of Stafford nest. I do cluster... The John Wood is key. He is the first of three I care about. He keeps repeating how he owns 2900 ++ acres of land in Stafford VA...he sits in Charles Co MD, just a paddle away... Wood's will, his son's and his grandson's are key to the Rgns. He gifts land to his 3 oldest kids 400 acres each, then: Know ye therefore that I JOHN WOOD or Charles County in Province of Maryland being seized of 2960 acres of land as of fee lying in Stafford County in Colony of Virga. & between ye branches of Pooles Run & Neighapasco which land I formerly purchased of HENRY WALKER & afterwards renewed the said Walkers pattent in the Honble Proprietors office as will and may more largely appear by a pattent hearing date 13th day March anno 1695 for divers good causes but more especially in consideration that SAMUEL DURRAM (also written as DURHAM) married MARY RIGING {mm note: Regon} who was my daughter in law & for the natural affection I bear unto my daughter in law have given 200 acres of land it being part of the tract abovesd & in the county aforesd & bounded .. beginning at a corner tree of JOHN KILLINGSWORTH Standing in the lower line of the grand pattent & extending thence NNE=10O poles to a corner tree then WNW= 320 poles then SSW=100 poles then ESE=320 poles .. this 14th day Decr. 1705. Presence Nicho. Brent John Wood At a Court held ye 10th April 1706 This Deed of Gift was acknowledged in said county court by John Wood Senr. in person unto Samuel Durram & is ordered to be recorded & is recorded. (She was actually his step daughter). Rest of kids pick up remainder of land at time of will. Wood, Jno., Sr., Chas. County, 5th Jan., 1709; 6th Apr., 1716, To wife Margaret, extx., and hrs., 50 A., between Goose and Nanjemy Creeks, on N. side Rotterdam. To son John, daus. Mary Williams and Eliza: Killingsworth, I shilling each,, they having received their portions. To child. Eliah, Jane, Ann, Sarah and Hannah Wood and their hrs., residue of land in Stafford County, Virginia., also personal estate. Test: Mark Attkins, Jno. Ragon, Edward Chapman. 14.106, Bear with me. John Wood married a woman named Elizabeth XXX and has one child named John. This is the third John Wood. John Wood Junior, father of John III dies young. === John Wood, Jr. 34.236 I CH £52.6.6 Aug 19 1713 Creditors: John Allard, Evan Jones. Next of kin: John Wood. === John Wood, Jr. 36A.244 A CH £52.6.6 #4430 Oct 12 1714 The amount of the inventory is equivalent to #12558. This entry is torn. Payments to: Capt. Thomas Dent, Rev. Mr. William Machonchie, Rev. Scott, George -----, Mathew ----, Charles ----, Edward ----, William Jenkins. Administratrix: Elisabeth Wood. This Elizabeth then marries John Rgn, the son of James and Joan... then he dies. John Reagon 13.476 CH £82.10.6 Dec 11 1728 Feb 26 1728 Appraisers: Thomas Sanders, John Craxson. Creditors: William Griffith, Daniel McDaniel. Next of kin: James Rose, Peter Fernandie. Administratrix/Executrix: Elisabeth Reagon. === John Reagon 10.244 A CH £82.10.3 £91.16.4 Apr 6 1730 Sureties: Stephen Mankin, James Mankin. Payments to: John Howinson, John Smith, Dr. John Chalmers, William Griffen, Elisabeth Sennett, Barnaby Kelley, Samuel Ranson, Alee Mathews, John Suttly, James Mankin, Daniel McDaniel, Edward Brawner. Distribution to: accountant, children (unnamed, minors). Administratrix: Elisabeth Carroll, wife of James Carroll. === John Wood 18.129 A CH £35.10,0 £33.8.11 Feb 21 1740 Sureties: Richard Chapman, James Mankin. Payments to: Anne Ross, Dr. Brown, James Glascock, James Ross, Richard Chapman, Daniel Wright, George Flanakin, John Stephenson, Matthew Barnes, Daniel Dulany, Esq., Samuel Hanson, Walter Hanson. Representatives: mother, 2 half-sisters (unnamed), 2 half-brothers (unnamed). Administrators: James Carrol and his wife Elisabeth Carrol (mother of deceased) Elizabeth XXX Wood Regan Carroll has no children with Carroll. So when her only child with John Wood II dies and he has 4 half sibs present, they can only be Regans. James Rose/Ross married Ann, Dau of John Rgn and Elizabeth of the many names. So that is one of John Wood's half sibs.( If you care, the Fernandies have some connection to Durhams via Neales and the Brawners) Some MD Gen Bulletin of Feb 1985 is cited as having carried an article offering proof of 5 kids, not four...John, Mathew, Charles, Ann, Mary. That's my next task after all this company leaves. What does it offer as proof... Of the original 6 kids of James/Joan... I lose Margaret. There is an unidentified Margaret in Stafford that marries in 1748. James' Margaret would be long in the tooth for this, but.... who knows. Mary and Samuel Durham and their heirs I can take from Charles Co MD to Stafford VA to Bute/Warren Co NC dragging the Colcloughs, the Chapmans, Thompsons, Footes and others right to where they marry a bunch of Riggans named John, Francis, and Littleton. Trust me, I can paper town hall with these guys. Samuel died in Stafford in 1735 . Their son William married Margaret Colclough, who's grandmother is held by many to be a Chapman, and goes to NC. Mathew dies in 1716 Stafford Co VA. There is a later Mathew that in 1756 Charles Co, MD sells to John Chapman the land that John's father Richard left to Elizabeth Reggen dau of Mathew. ( granddaughter of this Richard Chapman) There is no sign this Eliz. dau of Mathew ever married. I suspect this Mathew is either a second marriage son of Mathew Sr., or the son of John who died in 1728, I don't know where he went. John II is still in MD in 1737 witnessing whatnot. I did not stay with him as I was headed out. ( there is a John and a William in nearby MD handling a Talliaferro will. Probably from this bunch as Talliaferro is mixed up with these Charles Co Rgns earlier. There is a William and a Charles in Stafford VA, in the Saint Paul's and the Overwharton Parish's Registers. The Overwharton, which I have not seen in original, seems to be a real piece of work to decipher... all the early records have question marks. This is where Wm Rassan is listed with a marriage to Priscilla Manzey... ( There are many Massey connections in this bunch, a possibility)( One of the first REDIVISIONS of Stafford involved cutting both long skinny tracts of Stafford and King 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. Along with this division, Saint Paul's and Overwharton parishes reinvented themselves as the north and south Parishes for Stafford.) There are a ton of kids listed for William and Elizabeth Bridget Riggin beginning in 1717 and for Charles and Elizabeth Riggin beginning in 1731 in Saint Paul's.. Charles begins his family more than a decade behind William. Either he was younger, arrived later, or was socially challenged. That would mean, if I am correct and this is James' grandson, James1, John2, Charles3, that Charles of James is missing. Not my immediate problem. NC has lots of extra Charles'. I am working on William. I don't know where or when the Charles in Stafford, whomever he is, dies, not my immediate concern... I am working on William. In most databases, William, son of James/Joan married Elizabeth Bridget Powell, daughter of William Powell. Well she was a Powell okay, but she wasn't William Powell's daughter, I believe she was his brother Richard's daughter. In the Register, William Powell's daughter Elizabeth dies at 11. Richard Powell died intestate. His widow, Grace, left a will: STAFFORD COUNTY VA WILL BOOK M; 1729-1748; pp. 164-165 In the Name of God Amen This 1st day Of October 1734 I GRACE POWELL being viry sick but of perfect mind .. do make this my Lest Will and Testament. First I recommend my Soul to God and my Body to the Earth. Such worldly Estate .. I give in following manner .. Item I give to my Daughter MARY WILFORD my old negro than named comme - to her and heirs also nmy bed that I lie on with one old rug, 2 sheets and 2 blankets one bay horse called Grateers one cow and steer one pott 1 small chest. Item I give to my Daughter GRACE BERRY a young negro named Will as also one feather bed and rug and blanket a pair of new sheets one cow and steer 1 gray horse called Pumpy 1 chest one pot. Item I give unto my Daughter JEMIMA DERRICK 1 new feather bed 1 green rugg 1 blanket a pair of new sheets 1 cow and steer one trunk 1 black horse and 1 gun to her and her heirs for ever one putt. Item I give to WILLIAM RIGGIN {Regon} I cow and calf and 2 good hoggs to him and to his son POWELL a case of Pistols Sword Cain Item I give to JANE RIGGIN {Regon} 12 geese and 15 pounds of feathers and chest of Drors, 1 iron kettle. Item I give to CORNELIUS CHEESMAN my young unbroke hors to his son THOMAS I give a heffer but two years old. Item I give to MICKEL HALL heffer 2 years old. Item I give to RICHARD FOOT JUNIOR my Vialend. item I give 12 Barrels of Indian corn to ELIJAH WOOD'S children for thear years provs. Item 1 give to GRACE VINSON 1 old bed one blanket and one old quilt. Item I give my young negro named Ruff for the maintance of Elijah Woods children till the youngest comes to age of 14 then to return to my heirs again. item I give the remainder part of my Estate to be Equally divided between my three daughters with my corn and Tobacco Mary Wilford and Grace Berry and Jemlma Derrick, I appoint Capt. JOHN WASHINGTON', JAMES BERRY. my ExErs: Presence Edward Lawyer, Grace + Powel George Hucheson, Mary Delander At Court held for Stafford County 11th February 1734 Last Will .. presented by James: Berry who make oath .. and John Washington Gent the other Exr, therein also named came into Court and expressly refused to take upon him the burthen of the Execution of said Will .. being proved admitted to record Certificate granted James Berry for obttaining Probate .. === STAFFORD COUNTY VA WILL BOOK M; 1729-1748; THE ANTIENT PRESS pp. 166-168 In Obedience to Order of Worshipfull Court of Stafford County dated 18th ffehruary 1734 We the Subscribers being first sworn have inventoried and appraised all the Estate of GRACE POWEL decest which was offered to our view as folioweth Vizt. .. items listed and valued .. no total. ffeby. 27; 1734 The within appraisers sworn before me Henri At Court held for Stafford County Wm Powell John Buckner 11th March 1734 Inventory admitted to record. I believe Grace is tokening sons in law with the cattle .As a matter of interest, Grace Powell's daughter Jane married Elias Wood, a son of the John Wood that married Joan XXX Regan, widow of James...that lived in the house that Jack built....no that's another tale... Grace had to admin Elias's estate as everyone else was dead. We believe the William Riggin is the son of James married to a dead dau of Grace and Richard Powell( Elizabeth Bridget?). Jane Riggan is possibly Wm and XXX's daughter. We believe the Powell is William Powell, who was born in 1722 Stafford, and dies in 1770 Warren NC with six sons...William, James, Powell, Charles, John, Richard. (There is no birth record for Jane. But we have a gap between the records of Charles Co MD and those of Saint Paul's VA. We really don't know where she fits. A weakness here...sorta... There is also an unclaimed Jemima, and a Margaret. But, I am doing William. Elizabeth Bridget Riggin and a host of others die in this 1732/33 time period.( She is possibly childbirth or a combination of that and whatever was going around.) William Riggan himself dies in 1744 Stafford, and bequests daughters and one son, William. For fill in, Grace Powell has some connection to John Washington, gtg'father of Geo. as do others here. They later either get redistricted, or move from Westmorland VA to Stafford VA. Samuel and William Thompson ( part of cluster) I trace for years. They are bequested in Lawrence Washington's will. ( son of John above and grandfather of Geo)Their own wills ( Thompsons)and land records ( in Surry Co VA) are witnessed by various John, Francis, Jane, and Mary Riggan's ( and a Joseph)... Then almost the whole bunch shows up in Granville Co NC and then Bute/Warren. There's a lot of palaver from Surry VA to Warren NC with land sales etc. Then William Powell Riggins dies in 1770 Warren, NC, with a wife Priscilla and six sons named William, James, Powell, John, Charles, and Richard. ( Up until now, Richard was not a Riggin of this line name, but both Chapman and Powell were Richards)( There was a marriage for the Jane in Stafford VA, so this Jane Riggin isn't her. ) (Just an aside, John Riggan of Granville/Bute/Warren Cos in NC, who married William Thompson's granddaughter Anne Bell, is presumed to have been born about 1725. John and Elizabeth XXX Wood Regan Carroll's son John had to be born between 1715 and 1728) ... just building a house here...everything that fits, even loosely, is fair game. Aren't you glad this was the short version? I am trying to find one continuous Rgn string...and they aren't even mine!... but we have to sort out NC where at LEAST 3 Rgn lines collide. My guy is rumored to have walked through and picked up a wife. If I can eliminate one bunch of scalawags, I can see who's left. There is an elephant in the room. If I build a case of cluster genealogy for James and Joan Rgn, and claim that where the cluster goes, so go the men and women of James and Joan, then I must also deal with the problem of Daniel Riggin in Surry Co VA. If the presence of cluster names of Charles MD, Westmorland/Stafford/Surry VA, and Guillford/Bute/Warren NC are not acceptable as coincidence, then the concurrent presence of Daniel Riggin/Elizabeth of the mouth of Surry must be dealt with. Yuck! I believe William Powell, dead in Warren Co NC in 1770 is the grandson of James and Joan via son William and Elizabeth Bridget Powell Riggan. I believe John of Warren Co NC who dies in 1803 Warren Co NC may well be the grandson of James/Joan via son John, but I'm not yet doing Johns, I 'm doing Williams. I believe Francis of Warren Co NC who dies in 1818 Warren Co NC is still a wildcard, but closely related ( Francis is a Powell Name.) ... But I am doing Williams...

Could Bridget Riggins, who md 1755 to John Flitter, be the wife of Wm Regan-2 b. 1690/d. 1744? JW Garrett

No, she is listed as dead after the birth of her daughter Bridget and then there are no more kids... -------------------------------------------------- From: "james garrett" <jwgarrett@webtv.net> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 8:24 AM To: <ragan-roots@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [RAGAN-ROOTS] William sum up to date > > Could Bridget Riggins, who md 1755 to John Flitter, be the wife of Wm > Regan-2 b. 1690/d. 1744? > > 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 >