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Subject: [RHEA] Cont. of Ref and Notes #203
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:33:52 -0500


#203 Amherst Co., VA Will Book 4, 161-162.* Will of Archibald Rhea Jr., brother of William and Robert. Dated September 25, 1803, proved October 15, 1804. An abstract of the will was the source of information found in the text, but a copy of the will received after the text was sent to the publisher revealed several errors in the abstract. Jean, his wife, was also an executrix and a guardian of their children under age. Jean and Archibald were not witnesses.
On December 27, 1805, Archibald Rhea of Rockbridge County, Virginia, and Richard Litteral signed a marriage bond for Archibald and Susannah Litteral (Augusta Co., VA Marriage Reocords, Vo 10, also, a copy of the original bond).* They settled in Wilson County, Tennessee. Eleven children were born to the union. His will was recorded in Wilson County on May 18, 1835, and Susannah's son October 31, 1838. Transcripts of the wills and a copy of the bond were sent to the author by Mrs. Mary L. Johnson, Lakewood, Colorado, a descendant. Some researchers believe that this Archibald was the son of Archibald Jr. who die din 1804. however, a more likely relationship is that of grandson. In 1784, when Archibald Rhea sold the 191 acres he purchased from Borden in 1753 [Ref 3], Archibald Rhea, presumably his son, witnessee the deed. The land was free of dower right and title of dower, indicating that the seller was not married. But when he died in 1804, he had children under age, suggesting a second marriage. Jean's father, John McCausland Sr., named in his will grandson, John, Andrew, and Robert Rhea, but not Archibald, who, presumably, was a son by a previous marriage, and old enough in 1784 to witness a deed. The 1810 U. S. Census for Rockbridge County Listed an Archibald as between 26 and 45 years of age. If 45, he was born in 1765, and was nineteen in 1784, which may or may not have sufficed for witnessing deeds. It is doubtful that this Archibald married Susannah Litteral in 1805, for the census listed one female between 26 and 45, two between 16 and 26, two under ten, two males between 26 and 45, and one under ten. The author suspects that he was the son of Archibald Jr. who died in 1804, and the father of Archibald of Rockbridge County who married Susannah Litteral in 1805.


Pat Hall


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