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Subject: [RHEA] Summary of Notes and References and Article of Bath Co. Va. on Rhea's
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 01:42:55 -0500

Summary of Article of Bath Co. Va. on Rhea's

This article was written on the premise that Robert, Archibald, and William were brothers. There is little reason to believe otherwise. As mentioned in the text, William's son, Archibald Jr., named his "Uncle Archibald" an executor in his will. All three men had son named Robert, Archibald, and John, and daughters Ann. William and Archibald had sons named William, while Archibald and Robert had daughters named Isabella. William and Robert had children who married into the Thomas Turk family, and both had grandchildren who lived near each other in Preble County, Ohio. Also lands that each purchased in Augusta County were contiguous.

There is no doubt about the names of their children who lived to maturity. William and Elizabeth (Clark) had James, named after her father, Archibald, William, Alexander, Robert, John and Ann. Robert and Sarah (Bingham) were the parents of Archibald, John, Robert, Isabella, Ann, and Elizabeth. Archibald was the father of Archibald, William, Andrew, John, Robert, Ann, Isabella, Jean, Martha, Rebecca and Mary. Of these, we know that Jean (McCausland) was the mother of Andrew, John and Robert.

What is known about their parents? Considering that an Archibald Roaugh was a member of the Augusta County Militia in 1746 [Ref 7], and that a deed written in 1758 named Archibald Junior as grantee, it is safe to asume that their father was named Archibald. That another Archibald lived in Augusta County is further evidenced by statements made by a Revolutionary War veteran, Edward Mason, who, in 1832, testified for a pension application that at age fifteen he began paying for his passage from England by being "sold out" 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. " See [Ref.3] If his testimony was correct, and he was between eighty and ninety years of age as alleged, then Archibald had died by 1767, and perhaps as early as 1757.
Wythe County was established in 1789. Its parent county, Montgomery, was derived from Botetourt in 1776, and Botetourt separated from its parent, Augusta, in 1769. The widow's move to the part of Virginia that later became Montgomery and Wythe Counties may explain why the Robert Reah/Reagh/Reaugh family went there from South Carolina rather than to their former home farther to the north.

Pat Hall

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