In a message dated 04/04/2001 5:43:43 PM Central Daylight Time, MKingG@webtv.net writes: > I've never seen anyone with ten generations of Rains Lines. Or > anywhere near it. I'm in Alabama and I've talked with four or five > fellow Alabama Rains. They're all STUCK at anywhere from 1770-1800 in > Not this Alabama Rains. I'm stuck with Dabney Rains, as far as determining who his father was and where Dabney originated from. He first shows up in Virginia as being born in 1788 and then coming through Georgia. He ended up settling and dying in Marshall Co. AL in 1860. Jill Watters Rains Gadsden, AL

I have an Olivia Rains dau of Nancy who married in 1786 Henry Gatewood in Amherst Co Va. They names oneof their sons Ignatius Raines Gatewood. Looking in Amherst Co records: the only Raines in 1787 tax/census list in Amherst Co is Ignatius Raines. 1783. Ignatius Rains, tax list, 10 whites, 3 blacks 1786-91 Amherst Co tax lists 1776 Ignatius Rains buys 150 acres from Joseph Dillard in Amherst Co. 1784 Ignatious Rains 7 wife Nanny sell 150 ac to Jacob Kinnedy 1785 Ignatius Rains buys 260 acres from Wm Duval in Amherst Co. 1790. Ignatius Rains & wife Ann sell 2 tracts to Jacob Kinney no more after that 1795. Ignatius Rains, grant of 200 ac in Wilkes Co, Georgia. I have not had time to check out more Georgia records for land & probate. Since Dabney Rains named a son Ignatius, I bet that he is the son of Ignatius. Mabry Benson