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From: "Patricia Hall" <>
Subject: [RHEA] Edward Mason Statement- Ref. and Notes
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 09:37:14 -0500


If the testimony of one Edward Mason is accurate (see below), Archibald
"Senior" had died by the time Archibald Reagh sold the land originally
purchased in 1753. The most obvious evidence for a senior Archibald was the
use of the designation "Junior" in the deed of 1758 and the mortgage deed of
1783. Secondly, an Archibald "Roaugh" was in the Augusta County militia in
1746, and old enough to pay the wolf levy [Ref.7]. If this was Archibald
Junior, he would have been seventy-nine or older at his death in 1804
[Ref.203], an unlikely age to have children under age. Thirdly, the National
Archives has a Revolutionary War pension application by an Edward mason,
who, in 1832, claimed that he was between eighty and ninety years of age,
had come from England to America at the age of fifteen and was "...sold out
to pay his passage and was bought by the widow of Archibald Rhea of Augusta
County Va. at Stanton Va. with whom he lived four years part of which he
lived in Augusta County Va. and part in Wythe County Va..." After serving in
the he war, he subsequently moved to Knox County, Tennessee(Edward Mason,
Revolutionary War Pension Application, S.4.181, National Archives,
Washington, D.C.*). If eighty in 1832, he was born in 1752 and came to
America in 1767, by which time Archibald(Senior) had died. his death could
have occurred as early as 1757 if Edward mason was ninety years of age in
1832. In Chalkley, Vol.II,269,* a depositon by a William Patton in 1806
refers to a massacre forty-three years earlier (1763) wherein sixteen or
seventeen people were killed. He names ten persons, including Archibald
Rhea, but it is not clear if they were among those massacred or those who
helped bury them. Some of the names are recorded by Chalkley on documents
recorded after 1763. If the Edward Mason statement is accurate, we know only
that Archibald Senior was dead by 1767, and perhaps as early as 1755-57. The
widow mentioned by Edward Mason could not have been that of Archibald Jr.,
son of William, for he died in 1774[66].For the three volumes written by
Chalkley, see Ref.39.
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