--WebTV-Mail-5554-3574 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Bill Rexroad Hutchinson, Kansas --WebTV-Mail-5554-3574 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtplocal-2001-1.public.lawson.webtv.net (172.16.212.85) by storefull-2357.public.lawson.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Tue, 13 May 2003 14:26:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by smtplocal-2001-1.public.lawson.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix) id 5E6F0BE06; Tue, 13 May 2003 14:26:26 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: [email protected] Received: from storefull-2355.public.lawson.webtv.net (storefull-2355.public.lawson.webtv.net [209.240.213.155]) by smtplocal-2001-1.public.lawson.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D378BE07 for <[email protected]>; Tue, 13 May 2003 14:26:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from [email protected]) by storefull-2355.public.lawson.webtv.net (8.8.8-wtv-f/mt.gso.26Feb98) id OAA26777; Tue, 13 May 2003 14:26:26 -0700 (PDT) X-WebTV-Signature: 1 ETAtAhUAhNXbJUoBzLjhr/GxrSXXY5H/yD8CFE35NQ8YiXKC1sayTbevClKBNpkv From: [email protected] (Bill Rexroad) Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 16:26:25 -0500 (CDT) To: [email protected] Subject: Rexroth to Virginia Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit MIME-Version: 1.0 (WebTV) Johannes Zacharias Rexroth was the first Rexroad to come to America, arriving at Philadelphia on the ship Albany in September 1749. Zach took up residence in Tulpehocken, Berks County, Pennsylvania, where he married in 1751 and began raising a family. The last known record implying his presence in Pennsylvania is the birth of a child there in April 1761. He next appeared in Virginia where his name is seen on Augusta County court records as a purchaser at an estate sale in November 1767. But his whereabouts between 1761 and 1767 have been a mystery. Now a record has been found that closes the six-year gap to something less than three years. The Augusta County Court Minute Book 1764-1766 at the courthouse in Staunton, Virginia lists on pages 60, 63, 87, and 109 a proceeding registered as Null v. Rexroad. The multiple listings show the case being taken up, discontinued, and then continued again after some formalities were cleared up. The first listing was recorded on 22 June 1764 and the last on 23 November 1764 when the case was again discontinued. Was this Zach? A first name is not given in the Minute Book, so we cannot say with absolute certainty. But it likely was him because he is the only known adult male Rexroad in America at the time. Furthermore, we have the fact that Zach is the only adult male Rexroad mentioned in records of that same area a few years later. So we know he ended up there. It is just a question of when. And for him to be in Virginia in 1764 fits with his disappearance from records in Pennsylvania. That his name is on a court record in 1764 implies that he may have been there even earlier. It takes time to become involved in affairs that end up in court. The nature of the court case is not known, but the name Null appears often in other court records of the time and some of them involved disputes over land. But why haven't other serious Rexroad researchers seen this record that places Zach in Virginia in 1764? One such researcher stated in her papers that she relied not on original records for information of this kind, but instead on a work by Lyman Chalkley called "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, Virginia 1745-1800." This three-volume set includes the Court Order Book, not the Minute Book. Pages 113-116 of Chalkley's volume one contain Order Book entries from 24 March 1764 to 22 November 1764, but there is no mention of a filing of Null v. Rexroad. That the case was eventually discontinued may have kept it out of the Order Book , and thus undiscovered to anyone who relied only on Chalkley for such information. Bill Rexroad Hutchinson, Kansas --WebTV-Mail-5554-3574--