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From: Robert Perry Rhea <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA-L] Petition-Augusta Co. Va.- Chalkley's Cronicles
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 16:16:24 -0600


Pat,

It is difficult to ascertain whether the Archibald Reah in this list was
Archibald, the father of William, Archibald, and Robert, or the son,
Archibald. The sons purchased adjoining properties in that part of the
Borden Grant that is now in Rockbridge County, in 1750, 1753, and 1754,
respectively, so the younger Archibald was around when the petition was
presented to the court in 1753-1754. The petition on pages 441-442 of
Chalkley's CHRONICLES of THE SCOTCH IRISH SETTLEMENT IN VIRGINIA, Vol. I,
is under the general heading, "Original Petitions & Papers Filed in the
County Court." From the DRAPER MANUSCRIPTS, we know that the elder
Archibald was in Augusta County by 1746, and from the Rev. War pension
application of one Edward Mason, that the father was dead by 1767, and
possibly as early as 1757. So both father and son were living when the
petition was signed. The absence of the names of Archibald Jr.'s
brothers, William and Robert, would lead me to believe that Archibald Sr.
was the petitioner, but proof is lacking.

wrote:
>
> 1753-1754, Pt. 1.
>
> To the Worshipful Court of Augusta now sitting: We, the inhabitants of
> this County, have long felt the smart of the great indulgence the ordinary
> keepers of this County have met with in allowing them to sell such large
> quantities of rum and wine at an extravagant rate, by which our money is
>
> 441
>
> drained out of the County, for which we have no return but a fresh supply
> to pick our pockets. We, your petitioners, humbly pray your worship to
> put a stop to the said liquors, which would encourage us to pursue our
> laborious designs, which is to raise sufficient quantities of grain which
> would suffciently supply us with liquors and the money circulate in this
> County to the advantage of us, the same. We hope that your worships will
> discover to us that you have a real regard for the good of the County, and
> lay us under an obligation to pray for your prosperity. Robert Stevenson,
> James Hamilton, Alexander Walker, James Robertson, James Stevenson, John
> Christian, Alexander Blair, Thomas Shiels, Robert Christian, Thomas Stewart,
> James Allen, Joseph Hanna, Francis Beaty, Mathew Lyle, Archibald Reah, John
> Walker (?), Samuel Downey, Daniel McAnair (McEvear), Robert Spears
> (Syers), Daniel Danison, Robert Moffet, Alexander Henderson, Andrew
> Hamilton, John Finley, Thomas Beard, Archibald Armstrong, William Mackan,
> James Campbell, John Vance, John Archer, James Reburn, Alexander
> Gibson, William Lewis, George Scott, Joseph Bell, James Coyl, William
> Logen, Samuel McCune, John Caruth, Patrick Hays, Robert Sayers, Andrew
> McCombe, James Montgomery, James Scott, George Crawford, John Allen,
> Edward Spear, James Brown, John King, John Anderson, William Logan,
> Patrick Campbell, Jacob Lockhart, Sam Wallace, James Knox, John Carlile,
> Charles Campbell, Mathew Harper, John Jackson, James Miller, John
> Hutcheson, William Palmer, Samuel Love, James Miller, John Henderson,
> Zachariah Bell (Belche), Andrew Ewin, John Thompson, Loftus Pullin,
> James Gay, Alexander Craig, Thomas Teat, William Wallace, John Wilson,
> Alexander Ritchey, James McGee. John Thompson, Samuel Calhoon, John
> Trimble, Alexander Thompson, William Snodon, Newman McGonigle, John
> Trimble, Archibald Allison, John Brown, William Thomson.
>
> Patricia L. Hall
> Olathe, Ks.
>
>
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