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 R/RFHA Newsletter September 1990                                P.2

From Ed Wiessing:, Spec. 4 373 Spear, Ft. Bragg, NC 28307

From "The National Intelligencer"

Maryland Newspaper 3-29-1826

DR. ISAAC RALINGS died at his residence in Calvert Co., MD 16 January 1826. He was formerly an officer with the U.S. Army.

DR. DANIEL RAWLINGS died 8 March 1823 at his residence in Adams Co. Mississippi. He was a native of Calvert County,MD, and left a large family. (5-21-1823)

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1816 Census, Adams County, Mississippi

DANIEL RAWLINGS - 1 white male over 21

3 white males under 21

1 white female over 21

2 wh. females under 21 15 slaves

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From Collins "History of Kentucky"

"Paint Creek Expedition" - about the 1st of August (1779), Col. (Daniel) Boone, tired of the suspense and determined to ascertain their movements, made an incursion into the Indian country to surprise a small town on a branch of the Scioto River called Paint Creek. His party of 19 men was composed of Simon Kenton, John Holder, John Kennedy, Col. John Logan, John Callaway, PEMBERTON ROLLINS, Edmund Fear, Alex Montgomery, John Stapleton, Jesse Hodges, Alex Barnett, Stephen Hancock and seven others."

(From deposition by Kenton, Hodges & Hancock

 

From Henning's "Statutes at large"

PEMBERTON RAWLINGS was a trustee appointed by the Virginia legislature along with several other men of Boonesborough, given the authority to sell lots within the newly established town of Boonesborough. Vol. 10, P.135

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From the Herald, Norfolk & Portsmouth Advertiser, Oct. 4. 1794

"The following is a list of the killed and wounded of the Kentucky volunteers, as received today:

Killed: John Jackson, Alexander Innes, William Mitchell, Thomas Moore, William Steel, Benjamin Bell, James Wiley.

Wounded: Captain RAWLINGS (Nathan) Lt. McKinney, Ens. Duncan Privates George McCullock, John Howard, Robert Scott, John Hickston, Isaac Rankin, James Cost, James Stewart, Pvt. Benjamin, Pvt. Battle.

(This NATHAN RAWLINGS was the one wounded at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in NW Ohio, under the command of Mad Anthony 'Wayne. The battle took place on Aug. 20, 1794. NATHAN was so badly wounded he was carried back to Cynthiana, Kentucky, where he was nursed back to health by his wife Mary (Rankin).

 

"Time Present and Time Past are both perhaps present in Time Future, and Time Future contained in Time Past."

T.S. Eliot

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