------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: "BETTY L. CAPPS" <bkellick@mountvernon.net> To: "'Bob and Marty'" <schimmel@northlink.com> Subject: Rainwater Info. Date sent: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:32:00 -0600 Dear Bob: At the library, yesterday, I happened to pick up a book "Abstracts of The Early Deeds of Franklin County, North Carolina 1779-1797" by Joseph W. Watson published by the same in 1984. Of interest I send the following: FRANKLIN COUNTY DEED BOOK -1 A Register for the County of Franklin for the Year 1779. Rerecorded in the Year 1802 by Green Hill, P. R. #147 p. 147 JAMES MILLES of Warren Co., N. C. to BENJA. HILL of Franklin Co., Aug. 2, 1780, for 1,200 pds. current money a tract of 96 acres in Franklin Co. adjoining GEORGE BLEDSOE and is the land on which JOHN RAINWATER, Junr., formerly lived. Wit: WM. WILHITE, THOS. E. MILLES. FRANKLIN COUNTY DEED BOOK - 6 A Register for the County of Franklin Containing Deeds, etc. Anno Domine 1785, 1786 & 1787, Green Hill, P. R. #891 p. 200 BENJAMIN HILL of Franklin Co. to JOHN WILLIAMS of same, March 2, 1789, for five pds. specie a parcel of ten acres lying on the waters of flat rock Creek adjoining BROWNING WILLIAMS' old corner, JOHN RAINWATERS' old field, BENJA. WILLIAMS, JERRY WOOTEN, and BLEDSOE. Wit: WM FAWN, J. WOOTEN. Question? John Rainwater, JUNIOR, who departed the adjacent land in North Carolina before August 2, 1780 ....... Who is he? John who married Mary, or John who some list as #2 and the fathger of John #3 who married Susannah? The first child known of John who married Susannah is given as Rebecca. She married Thomas G. Haynes. Does anyone know in which State and date Rebecca was born (approximately 1780) ?