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From: "Patricia Hall" <>
Subject: [RHEA-L] Notable Southern Families
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:36:15 -0500
Notable Southern Families, Volumes I & II
IX Joseph Rhea, (1715-1777), son of Matthew Rhea II and his second wife,
Elizabeth (McClain) Rhea, was born in Parish Laughlin, Ireland, died in
Piney Creek, Maryland. He married (1752) Elizabeth McIlwaine (1732-1793)
(daughter of John McIlwaine and Margaret (Scott) McIlwaine, of Tifannan,
near Londonderry, Ireland. A will executed in 1773 by her father, John
McIlwaine, shows that he possessed a large property in money, lands and
leases). They had children:
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V JOSEPH RHEA,
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Joseph Rhea graduated at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, with honor
and distinction, in 1742; was a minister of the Presbyterian Church and had
charge of a church at Fahan, Ireland, at the time he resigned to go to
America.
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Rev. Joseph Rhea with his wife and children, John, Matthew, Margaret,
William, Joseph, Elizabeth, (Samuel and James were born later in America),
sailed from Ireland and landed in America, at Philadelphia, in 1769.
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Rev. Joseph Rhea died in Piney Creek, Maryland, in 1777.
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Rev. Joseph Rhea became the founder of a large family which resides,
principally, in Tennessee and Virginia. His descendants are more numerous
than those of the other emigres of the Rhea family.
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