I have been plowing through the 1800 SC fed census looking for various names. As always, when going through hand written names, you see listings differently from the official transcript. Sometimes we imagine our names, sometimes we get it right. Anything is possible. On that note, I question 3 entries: In the 1800 SC census for Edgefield on page 162 I find a Jesse Ragin 3 x x 1 x 1 x x 1 x x.. So Jesse and his wife have 4 little ones under 10, 3 of whom are male and they are both 26-45. Who is this guy.anyone any proof? 1800 SC Abbeville p 40 has a Cristion Ragon 4 x x 1 x x 1 x 1 x x Anyone? The name actually looks like Razor, but so does my next question. 1800 Abbeville SC p. 19 Peter Ragon which looks like Peter Razor 2 1 x 1 x 1 1 x 1 x x. James, I suspect this is your Peter. I know that like me with Littleton, you stand looking back over the sea of the Rev seeking for a place to come from. What I did not appreciate is that you are sitting on my in-laws. The Lewis Gant on p. 19 and the 5 Gants on p. 15 are mine. They are nephews of Mary Gantt Riggins, wife of Littleton Riggins (Ragan in GA, TN, and sometimes SC) The Gants came down from NC ( Orange) And I smell Alamance. My guy had to be in NC in 1796 to marry. BUT, the only child of his who survives to inform the 1880 census ( AL) says he was born in SC. He was born in 1774. They are in GA( Greene) by 1799.maybe.he bought in 1799, but.they may not have actually moved in until her father died in Orange NC in1801. Her father , John Gant, has a young woman and a young child living with him in NC in the 1800 census. In MD's 1800 census is a young Littleton Riggin with 2 young kids and an old lady. It is possible these two are them. Mary may have taken the young girl and Littleton and his mom kept two others. I'm just throwing this speculation out there. We tend to frget other people's lines if they aren't ours. Please tell me about Peter, and I promise to listen closely. Maryellen