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From: "Patricia Hall" <>
Subject: [RHEA] More on pg 2 Ref. and Notes
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 09:55:33 -0500


4. Augusta Co., VA. Deed Book 6, 264-266.* Dated --, 1754, recorded May
16, 1754. Contained 118 acres on the N.W. side of hays Creek, contiguous to
Archibald's 200 acres to the S.W., and sharing a common line with "Widow
Smiley" on the N.E. The N.W. line of this and Archibald's land to the S.W.
was on the patent line of the Borden Grant. It ran "south forty-seven & a
half degrees west."

5. Augusta Co., VA Deed Book8, 10-11.* Dated May 2, 1758, recorded May
17, 1758. Signed by robert and Sarah Reah, and William "Reaoh" was a
witness. The deed was delivered to Archibald Reah on March 23, 1760. In
1790, "Archibald Rhea and Jean his Wife" sold this property as two
reconfigured parcels of 74 and 101 acres, the additional acreage lying to
the N.W. of the patent line (see Ref.202).

6. This is a clear case where "Junior" was used to differentiate between
a nephew and his uncle. See Ref. 66 for Archibald's will.

7. Draper Manuscript Collection, (State Historical Society of Wisconsin),
IQQ32-34.*

8. Ibid.,IQQ36.* An infirm person was not necessarily old. Any
incapacitating condition sufficed. At a court martial in Montgomery County,
Virginia, in 1783, reasons for exempting persons from duty included:
"Lameness in his left knee...lameness in his left arm...running sore in his
left leg...(until he) get the use of his right leg...account of the loss of
an eye...he having no teeth." (See Ref. 18, Kegley, Mary B., Vol.. 2:218.*)

9. Waddell,Joseph A.,Annals of Augusta County,Virginia, From 1726 to
1871, 2nd Ed., (Bridgewater, VA: C.J.Carrier Co., 1958),62.*

10. Augusta Co., VA Deed Book 6, 331-334. Dated August 21, 1754.

11. Augusta Co.,VA Court Records, Order Book No. 11, 20, May 20, 1748.

12. McCullough, William J., of Davenport, Iowa. Letter and manuscripts
sent to Frank H. Rhea, Esq., Springfield, Illinois, January 6, 1913.* The
granddaughter of Elizabeth (Rhea) Coyner was Lydia M. Coyner, born May 4,
1836 to Addison H. and Elizabeth (Brown) Coyner. She married Dr. John E.
Lockridge [Ref. 22]

13. Foote, Sketches of North Carolina,quoted in Saunders, William L., Ed.,
The Colonial Records of North Carolina, 10 Vols..., (Raleigh,NC: Joseph
Daniels, 1887), 5:1202.*

14. Ibid., 1206.*

15. Ibid., 1221.*

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