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From: "Anne Bruce" <>
Subject: Re: [RHEA] Re: RHEA-D Digest V01 #62
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 13:24:39 -0700
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17 May
Norma and List:
James Patton, mentioned in your message, was written of extensively by
Patricia Givens Johnson, the book entitled JAMES PATTON AND THE APPALACHIAN
COLONISTS. He did, indeed, have several brothers, but they were not of
prominence in the colonies as James Patton was. He had no sons, but had two
daughters. His executors included his nephew, Colonel William Preston, who
was most prominent in the land business and in the Revolutionary War, and
whose papers and correspondence is preserved in the PRESTON AND VIRGINIA
PAPERS, by Lyman C. Draper.
Much of the early land deals are still in existence in Virginia and
elsewhere.
Anne Bruce
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From: "Norma Lewis" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:59 PM
Subject: [RHEA] Re: RHEA-D Digest V01 #62


> Thank you, Pat, for typing all this. I know what a chore it is, but it has
> great value to all Rhea/Ray researchers as all by this name appear to be
> related . Remember when we first corresponded on this Rhea line on the
> Augusta County list back in 1997 I believe. This researcher has erred by
> beginning his study in VA as my research in PA recently turns up all kinds
> of Rheas and Reas and Rays earlier than they appear in Augusta County,
> along with the allied names of Campbell, Turk and others. I didn't pursue
> them because I'm only interested in a skeletal history on the Rheas as an
> allied family of my Coiners (Keinadt, Keinath, Koiner, Coiner, Coyner,
> Kyner, Kiner, Kinard, Keinerd, maybe Keener and Kuhner, etc. ). Most of
> these Scotch-Irish in early Augusta County arrived from Europe to PA and
> lived in Chester County by 1730, spreading to Cumberland County (which
> later became Franklin) and then into Augusta County by 1737 when Augusta
> became a county. The courthouse was built in 1745, and as Augusta came
from
> Orange County, some of these early records are found in Orange County.
> There are a few ship lists in that county which I think may mention Rheas.
> I will look for them again.
>
> James Patton and his brothers and sons are important to this family, also,
> as James Patton brought over hundreds (nobody knows how many, no lists
seem
> to exist) of Scotch-Irish in his own ships by permission of the King after
> the battle in England which made exiles of so many Scots in Ireland. I
> can't address it off the top of my head but I recently typed it for my
list
> so will look it up. James Patton and several brothers were in Cumberland
> County PA and later in Augusta County where James and all his friends held
> county offices and kind of "ran things' as they wished for awhile. They
> built the Presbyterian Churches, Old Stone Church above Staunton, and
> Tinkling Springs at Fishersville in Augusta County. Some (or one) of his
> brothers stayed in Cumberland, some may have stayed in Chester
> (Philadelphia), as so often happens when families migrate. These names are
> still found in those areas.
>
> James Patton received huge grants in VA for bringing over all these
> colonists. They would serve an indenture for their passage (4-7 years) and
> may have received 50 acres of land at end of their indenture. He was
> involved in selling all this land when he was killed at the Draper Meadows
> Massacre July 30, 1755 along with several other settlers, among them
Casper
> Barger whose grandaughter married Casper Coiner and the Coiners left in
> Augusta County today (and Bargers) come from this alliance. There is a
huge
> list of creditors to James Patton listed in Chalkley's that I believe
> include Campbells. I have Campbells in some of my other Southern families,
> I'm sure they all link to those early PA and Augusta County Campbells. You
> can imagine with the large families they all had how all could be related.
>
> Furthermore, if you look at the migration patterns in SW VA they all went
> the same way, as the Indians were "tamed", as different areas were opened
> up for settlement. They may be found in the Washington County Land Surveys
> which are online. Washington was the whole triangular SW tip of VA before
> it was broken up into counties, among them Wythe. The lay of the land lent
> itself to this kind of migration ~ The New River to the Holstein made
> natural gaps in the "mountains" there. The Dan River in Pittsylvania
County
> meanders back and forth from VA to NC, it all lends itself to a natural
> migration pattern from Augusta and Albemarle counties, to Bath and
> Botetourt, etc. James Patton's land was beyond Beverly, Bordon and Fairfax
> in Augusta County, speaking generally.
>
> This is on the digest, so if anyone answers this, please delete the long
> message above before sending on to the digest. I'll type more later
> tonight. I want to share what Elizabeth Rhea Coyner's history says in the
> old Koiner History.
> Norma
>
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