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From: "Patricia Hall" <>
Subject: [RHEA] June 16,2001 Continuation of Reference and Notes -Rhea
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 20:46:08 -0500

#157 Augusta Co., VA Will Book9,8-9.* Will of John Lockridge, husband of
Ann Rhea, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Clark) Rhea of Augusta and Bath
Counties, Virginia. Dated Dec. 4, 1798, proved June 24, 1799. Signed
"Lockridge" but spelled "Louchridge" throughout the text. He named his wife,
Anna; sons, Andrew, William, John, and James; daughters, Betsy, Sarah, and
Anna. After Anna's death, his land to be divided among his eldest sons,
Andrew, William, and John. The tract went to Andrew was purchased in 1821 by
Robert Rhea, then living in Hopkins, County, Kentucky, and presumed to be
the son of Ann's brother, Robert. After Robert's marriage, he sold the land
to John Lockridge in 1830 [ref.171]. John Lockridge Sr. was the son of
Andrew Lockridge who died in 1791(Augusta Co., VA Will Book 7, 353).
#158 Kirkpatrick, Rockbridge County, Virginia Marriages, 1778-1850, 178.*
#159 Robertson, James R., Petitions of the Early Inhabitants of Kentucky
To the General Assembly of Virginia, 1769-1792, (1914).
#160 Heinemann, Charles B., First Census Of Kentucky, 1790, (Baltimore,
MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965). Tax list dated March, 1791.
#161 Grants South Of The Green River, Book 12, 474.* Certificate No.
3844, granted October 22, 1798, surveyed July 5, 1800 (Henderson Co., Ky
Land Grants, 19).*
A second parcel of 200 acres also straddling Sugar Creek was granted
Alexander Rhea by the Henderson County, Kentucky April Court, 1801, "...on
account of settling the same in conformity to an act of Assembly entitled an
act for settling & improving the vacant lands of the Commonwealth..."
(Henderson Co., KY Land Grants, 63)* Grants South Of The Green River are on
microfilm at the Kentucky Library & Archives, Frankfort.
#162 Gordon, Maj. Maurice K., History of Hopkins County, Kentucky,
(Hopkins Co., KY Genealogical Society), 78.*
#163 Ibid.,364
#164 Hopkins County Kentucky REcords, Vol. 4, Minute Book 1816-1818,
(Madisonville, KY: Hopkins Co.,KY Genealogical Society, 1971), 106. From the
Minute Book of 1818.
#165 Ibid., 108.*
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