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Rawlings of Berkeley County, (west) Virginia

Stephen Rawlings, Sr., Stephen Rawlings Jr., Aaron Rawlings- 1773: Back Creek: 16 Oct 1773: Patrick Reed of "Newcastle County on Delaware in Pennsylvania, " 16 Oct 1773-20 May 1774; 118 acres (land John Miller got warrant for 24 Jul 1772 &did not execute); on Back Crk; adj. Stephen Rawlings Edw'd Beeson, John Harr, Rob't Snodgrass' 334 acre patent.Chain Carriers: Stephen & Aaron Rawlings. Surveyor: Richard Rigg [Richard Bigg]. (undated) Caveated by Stephen Rawlings, Sen'r of Berkeley County.-- Northern Neck Warrants & Surveys

1787- Benjamin Rawlings-Opeckon Creek found in the 1787 Census, Berkeley County along with two white men over 16 and under 21.Benjamin Rawlings delinquent tax record, located on the N side of Opeckon Creek in Berkeley Co., VA - 1788 (Note: “Gone to Allegheny Co.”) Frederick Co., VA Marriages, Benjamin Rawlings md Elizabeth Garrett Gittings, Nov. 21, 1792.

Michael Rawlings on Elk Ridge at the drains of Back Creek: 1789; Michael Rawlings etc. on Rawlings Mill Branch, a branch of Back Creek: 1789

Nathan Rawlings, adjoining John Gray and John Plotner, 1789

Ruth Rawlings, Grantee: 401 Acres near Short Hill Mountain on Waters of Back Creek: 1789; 78 Acres adjoining Roger Snodgrass and others on both sides of Back Creek

An AARON ROLLINGS of Berkley Co., VA, is listed in the book “West Virginia Revolutionary Ancestors”: whose services were non-military. The book was compiled by Anne Waller Reddy (1930).

Land Office Patents & Grants/Northern Neck Grants & Surveys :
Rawlings, Michael. (2)
1. Jones, Robert 3 July 1789.
2. Myles, George 21 September 1789.

Land Office Patents & Grants/Northern Neck Grants & Surveys : CATALOG CARD:
Grant Survey
GRANTEE Jones, Robert. grantee.
DATE 3 July 1789.
NOTE Location: Berkeley County.
NOTE Description: 101 acres adjoining David Faris, Michael Rawlings and others on Elk Ridge on the drains of Back Creek.
NOTE Source: Northern Neck Grants T, 1788-1789, p. 515-516 (Reel 299).

Grant Survey
GRANTEE Myles, George. grantee.
DATE 21 September 1789.
NOTE Location: Frederick County.
NOTE Description: 153 acres adjoining Michael Rawlings &c on Rawlings Mill Branch a branch of Back Creek.
NOTE Source: Northern Neck Grants U, 1789-1790, p. 329-330 (Reel 300).
Nathan Rawlings, adjoining John Gray and John Plotner, 1789

Land Office Patents & Grants/Northern Neck Grants & Surveys : CATALOG CARD Grant Survey
GRANTEE Plotner, John. grantee.
DATE 7 September 1789.
NOTE Location: Berkeley County.
NOTE Description: 145 acres adjoining John Gray and Nathan Rawlings.
NOTE Source: Northern Neck Grants U, 1789-1790, p. 127-128 (Reel 300).
NOTE Recorded survey available. Northern Neck Surveys No. 1, 1786-1789, p. 433 (Reel 312).
NOTE Original survey exists.

Ruth Rawlings, Grantee: 401 Acres near Short Hill Mountain on Waters of Back Creek: 1789; 78 Acres adjoining Roger Snodgrass and others on both sides of Back Creek

Land Office Patents & Grants/Northern Neck Grants & Surveys
Rawlings, Ruth. (2)

1. Rawlings, Ruth 20 July 1789.

2. Rawlings, Ruth 20 July 1789.

Land Office Patents & Grants/Northern Neck Grants & Surveys
MULTIMEDIA
Grant Survey
GRANTEE Rawlings, Ruth. grantee.
DATE 20 July 1789.
NOTE Location: Berkeley County.
NOTE Description: 401 acres near Short Hill Mountain on the waters of Back Creek.
NOTE Source: Northern Neck Grants T, 1788-1789, p. 628 (Reel 299).
NOTE Recorded survey available. Northern Neck Surveys No. 1, 1786-1789, p. 611-612 (Reel 312).
NOTE Original survey exists.
NOTE Part of the index to recorded copies of land grants issued by the agents of the Fairfax Proprietary between 1690 and 1781 and by the Commonwealth between 1786 and 1874. Original and recorded surveys are also indexed when available. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.
OTHER FORMAT Available on microfilm. Northern Neck Grants, reels 288-311.
OTHER FORMAT Available on microfilm. Northern Neck Surveys, 1-6, A-E, reels 312-320.

Grant Survey
GRANTEE Rawlings, Ruth. grantee.
DATE 20 July 1789.
NOTE Location: Berkeley County.
NOTE Description: 78 acres adjoining Robert Snodgrass and others on both sides of Back Creek.
NOTE Source: Northern Neck Grants T, 1788-1789, p. 626-627 (Reel 299).
NOTE Recorded survey available. Northern Neck Surveys No. 1, 1786-1789, p. 612-613 (Reel 312).
NOTE Original survey exists.
NOTE Part of the index to recorded copies of land grants issued by the agents of the Fairfax Proprietary between 1690 and 1781 and by the Commonwealth between 1786 and 1874. Original and recorded surveys are also indexed when available. The collection is housed in the Archives at the Library of Virginia.

1820: Susannah Rawlings Snodgrass, dau. of Stephen Rawlings (of Aaron I) dies, and is buried in Hedgesville:
21 Nov 1820 -- Susannah (Rawlings) Snodgrass, (b. 26 Dec 1742 in Maryland), d. 21 Nov 1820, buried Mt. Zion Episcopal Church Cemetery, also called Hedgesville Cemetery.

Berkeley County, West Virginia http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wv/berkeley/bios/s5300002.txt
our front door is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/wv/wvfiles.htm
Biography of Harry Fenton SMITH

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume II,
pg. 180

“Jacob Wever, was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, son of Sergeant Casper Wever, who came from the vicinity of Hamburg, Germany, to America in Colonial times and married Catherine LeFevre, a French Huguenot. Jacob Wever was a pioneer settler in Berkeley County, purchasing a large amount of land0, which he later operated with slaves. His residence was known as Maple Home and was located on Warm Springs Road. Jacob Wever married Hannah Cromwell Orrick, daughter of Charles and Catherine (Davenport) Orrick and granddaughter of Capt. Nicholas and Hannah (Cromwell) Orrick. Nicholas Orrick was a son of John and Susannah (Hammond) Orrick and a grandson of James and Mary Ourrouch, who came to America in 1665 and patented land in Ann Arundel County, Maryland. Susannah Hammond was the daughter of Col. Thomas and Rebecca
(Larkin) Hammond and granddaughter of Maj.-Gen. John and Mary (Howard) Hammond.

Charles J. Wever, father of Mrs. Smith, entered the Confederate army at the beginning of the war in Company B, of the First Virginia Cavalry, and was in service until captured by the enemy and
spent the last months of the war in a prison in New Jersey. While in the service he was accidentally wounded. After the war he farmed the old homestead in Berkeley County until his death on March 14, 1878. He married Frances Arabella Snodgrass, who was born in Berkeley, daughter of Col. Robert Verdin and Sarah Ann Snodgrass, a granddaughter of Robert and Susannah (Rawlings) Snodgrass and a lineal decendant of William and Catherine (Patterson) Snodgrass, natives of Scotland and
founders of the Snodgrass family in America. Susanna Rawlings was a daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Tyler) Rawlings, Elizabeth Tyler being of the same family as President John Tyler. “

Levi Henshaw, Jr.... inherited part of the old estate, and continued the operation of the mill and farm until 1868, when he removed to Hedgesville. He bought the Tomahawk Mill and also a farm, and managed both properties, though keeping his residence in Hedgesville, where he died at the age of eighty-two. He married Sarah Ann Snodgrass, who was born at Tomahawk in Berkeley County, daughter of Robert and Sarah Ann Snodgrass. Robert Snodgrass was a son of William and Catherine (Patterson) Snodgrass and grandson of William Snodgrass, who came from Scotland to America about 1700. William Snodgrass was a pioneer of Berkeley County, locating on Back Creek. Robert Snodgrass, who was born October 14, 1744, married, March 23, 1762, Susanne Rawlings, who was born December 26, 1742, and died November 2, 1820. Her son Robert was born September 21, 1792, and on March 29, 1821, married his cousin, Sarah Ann Snodgrass. This Robert Snodgrass commanded the sixty-seventh regiment of Virginia Militia and was a representative in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1832-34-36-39.
Source:

MICHAEL SEIBERT BUTLER

The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.,
Chicago and New York, Volume III,
pg. 512-513
Berkeley

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Rawlings of Berkeley County (West) Virginia

SIMS INDEX TO LAND GRANTS IN WEST VIRGINIA
Berkeley County Virginia
1762 - 1863
Paul - Rush

411

Name of Grantee	Acres	Local Description	Year	Book	Page
Paul, Andrew	50	Back Creek	1798	1	206
Paul, Andrew	10	Lick Run	1798	1	207
Paul, Andrew	24 1/2	North Mountain	1798	1	211
Paul, William	58	North Mountain	1788	1	34
Pendleton, Philip	327	Formerly John Cook Prop.	1787	1	3
Pendleton, Philip	800	Adj. M. Shrively	1790	1	90
Pendleton, Philip	65	Lick Run	1795	1	171
Pendleton, Philip	99	Back Creek	1795	1	172
Pendleton, Philip	115	Back Creek	1796	1	187
Pendleton, Philip	336	Sleepy Creek	1798	1	213
Pendleton, Philip	129	Warm Springs Run	1800	1	262
Pendleton, Philip C.	144a2r38p	Third Hill Mt.	1836	1	444
Pendleton, Philip C. et al	3,980	Sleepy Creek Mt.	1803	1	470
Pendleton, Philip C. et al	1,891	Sleepy Creek	1835	1	481
Plotner, John	145	Adj. John Gray (Back Creek-also adj. Nathan & Michael Rawlings)	1789	1	66
Plotner, John	73	Back Breek	1791	1	101
Plotner, Morris	29	Sleepy Creek	1789	1	67
Powell, John	3 1/2	Adj. N. Ross	1820	1	410
Powell, John	8 1/2	Adj. Obed Noland	1820	1
Powell, John	73	North Mountain	1820	1	412
Powell, John	598	Brush Creek	1821	1	420
Powell, John	90	Back Creek	1821	1	421
Price, Jacob	191	Back Creek	1788	1	23
Price, Jacob	67<0/b>	North Mountain	1801	1	267
Price, Jacob et al	221	North Mountain	1791	1	106
Pugh, Job	423	Warm Spring	1790	1	89
Pugh, Thomas	193	Wts. Potomac	1780	2	530
Rankin, Samuel	60	Sleepy Creek	1820	1	408
Rankin, Samuel	48	Sleepy Creek	1820	1	409
Rankins, William	67	Sleepy Creek	<0b>1799	1	239
Rankins, William	44 1/2	Sleepy Creek	1799	1	240
Rankins, William	66	Sleepy Creek	1802	1	282
Rankins, William	85 1/2	Sleepy Creek Mt.	1803	1	299
Rawlings, Edward	266	Back Creek	1779	2	496
Rawlings, Ruth	78	Back Creek	1789	1	57
Rawlings, Ruth	401	Back Creek	1789	1	58
Reed, Patrick	118	Back Creek	1780	2	563
Rees, Morris	310	Adj. H. Mills	1810	1	361
Rees, Thomas Sr.	14a2r	Adj. M. Riffey	1796	1	186
Reese, David	12	Adj. Widow Ridgeway	1794	01	142
Reid, Wallace	9 1/4	Wagon Branch	1804	1	321
Roberts, John	100	Back Creek	1809	1	349
Roberts, John et al	300	Meadow Branch	1803	1	318
Robertson, See Robinson
Robertson, Israel	10	Back Creek	1804	1	320
Robertson, James	19 3/4	North Mountain	1804	1	335
Robertson, James	234	Tilhance's Branch	1802	1	465
Robertson, James	392	Cherry Branch	1804	1	472
Robertson, James et al	94	Tilhance's Branch	1802	1	275
Robinson, James	47	Tomahawk Run	1774	1	517
Robinson, James	36	Back Creek	1777	1	573
Robinson, John	452	Sleepy Creek	1809	1	352
Robinson, John	302	Adj. Robt. Gustin	1809	1	353
Robinson, Thomas	26	Adj. R. Stephenson	1798	1	219
Roinefelt, John (Roinefeld)	37a14p	Back Creek	1800	1	231
Ross, David & Company	98	Wts. Potomac	1773	1	499
Ross, Gabriel et al	659	Back Creek	1803	1	306
Rummens, Thomas	392	Back Creek	1790	1	84

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Morgan Co

NOTE: I deleted those families who did not have lands on Back Creek, or some other known relevance.

Stephen Rawlings Family Tree