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Pieter married probably (2) 4 July 1703 in NYC Belitje Attings or Belitie Joris, daughter of Joris Stephenszen and Geesje Hermans. In his will dated 10 Jan 1717/18, he describes himself as "boatman"; names wife, Belitje, and no children so it is not known if he had any children who survived him.
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Note: "ABSTRACTS OF THE MINUTES OF THE COURT OF PLEAS AND QUARTER SESSIONS OF ORANGE COUNTY IN THE PROVINCE OF NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT 1752 THRU AUG 1766", COMPILED BY RUTH HERNDON SHIELDS("RAINEY TIMES", VOL.3, 1983, PAGE 140).
Court of June 1757: John RAINEY was witness to letter of atty for John Campbell and Alex McCulloch,.
Court of Dec 1758: James Cary, Jr. vs. JOHN RANEY and Mordecai Gwinn.(surname Gwin comes up later in family)
Court of Mar 1759: ordered that Jane Sawyer, a child of five years, be bound to JOHN RANEY until she is eighteen years old.
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ORANGE COUNTY RECORDS, VOL 1, GRANVILLE PROPRIETARY LAND OFFICE ABSTRACTS FROM LOOSE PAPERS, PGS 25,26,35,40,54, 503. 7 June 1761, John Rainey, planter, ten shillings for land on Dan River and Cain Creek
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ORANGE COUNTY DEED BOOK 2:
p. 548 May 17, 1762, John Grice to JOHN RAINEY, JR.-225 acres on South Hico.
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ORANGE COUNTY DEED BOOK 3
P.216 21 April 1770, John 'RANEY' to John L. Byrd, 120 acres, on the Country Line. Dower relinquished by Elizabeth Rainey. [this may be John,
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Orange Co. Wills 1760-1798
p.18. 24 Nov 1773, Wm Rainey to John Rainey, wit to will of Isaac Allen.
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ORANGE COUNTY DEED BOOK 3
P.117, 6 February 1780, John Rainey of Orange granted to Henry Pickard, land on N. side of Haw River in the Hawfields and part of Cain Creek. Witnesses: John Steell(sp?), Henry Steel, proved Feb 1780 by John Steel.
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John Standiford to John RAINEY, Aug 19, 1796, Deed book 5, page 515
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1790 NC Census:
John's sons David, William, and John all appear in Orange or Anson County. John, Sr. not listed.
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John RAINEY, planter, was b ca 1710 in Princess Anne or Northumberland Co., VA. He mar prob 1730-1740 in Northumberland Co. VA. Son, John purchased land in Haw Fields, Caswell Co., NC (Orange County) 1762, and son William purchased land in 1782. The family lived near Cain Creek. He d 26 Jan 1782, Caswell Co., NC
All children prob born Orange County:
David b. ca 1735; wife Jiney(Jane); d 7 June 1800
William b ca 1737 wife Mary who d 24 July 1797; he d 1802; will mentions brother David; will proved Aug 1813 and named son David
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John came to amerca on the ship Pennsylvania Farmer on Feb 19,1763 and immediately applied for land. he was granted 100 acres. On August 22,1771 he was granted 250 more acres by the king because he was a protestant.
Naturalization: February 19, 1763, Port of Charleston, South Carolina.
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Pennsylvania Gazette says they had 17 children.
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The following is from researcher Mike Foster 2002-1-7. This article is believed to have been taken from "The Chronicles of the Scotch Irish Settlement of Virginia", by Lyman Chalkley. Volume and page is uncertain.
Thomas Hart, the second son of John Hart (1651-1714) and Susannah Rush, was born in 1686 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His date and place of death are unknown. He married Ester Myles and they were know to have four children. These were; Thomas, James, Peter, & Samuel. All four sons were early settlers, before 1770, of Wrightsborough, Georgia.
We are uncertain about where Thomas Hart lived after his youth in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His father died in Byberry Township, Pennsylvania, when Thomas was twenty-eight years old. His older brother probably interited the bulk of the family estate and perhaps Thomas decided it was time to move on. There is a possibility that he moved to North Carolina from Philadelphia. The early immigrants to Wrightsborough came from the Hillsboro area of North Carolina. The Great Wagon Road went from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, down the Shenandoah Valley to North Carolina and was the immigrants main route to Western North Carolina and the Cumberland Gap. The North Carolina government in the 1760s was very oppressive. Imported goods, property and legal papers were exorbitantly taxed. The governor's deputies seized cattle and horses and grossly undervalued them for unpaid taxes.
In 1767 Joseph Maddock and other Quakers applied for grants of land in the frontier territory of Georgia. They received them February 7, 1769. Among them were two hundred fifty acre grants made to James Hart and Thomas Hart. Samuel Hart and Peter Hart, single men, were granted one hundred acres. Joseph Maddock and Jonathan Sell led forty families by oxcart and horse on the three hundred mile trip from North Carolina to Wrightsborough in late 1769. An additional one hundred acres were granted to Samuel in 1772 and to Peter in 1774. This indicates they were married after the original grants.
The following is from researcher John Hart Miller, 2002-1-10.
Thomas Hart received 200 acres of the Warminster Township farm and had a son James who married Rebecca Finney. In 1734-1735, Thomas bought about 1000 acres of land in the Shenendoah Valley of Virginia, close to the present towns of Harper's Ferry and Charleston, neither of which were there when he went there. He purchased this land from Jost Hite, and it was frontier when he moved there with at least one son, Miles. Later, his son, James Hart, also bought acreage in Augusta County, Virginia, which at that time was just south of Thomas's farm, but at present I don't know how far away. At that time Augusta County was much larger and extended farther north than today. In late 1753 or early 1754, Indians began raiding in Virginia in the area of Thomas Hart's farm, and this was during the French and Indian War. Thomas sold his remaining land, gave his son, Thomas Junior, power of attorney to act for him, then moved south along with many settlers in this part of Virginia. James and Rebecca Hart probably accompanied Thomas, since James had applied for a land patent in Orange County, North Carolina. We know that James was in the Hillsborough, North Carolina area on the tax rolls in 1759.
Our later John Hart of Hillsborough, North Carolina and Clay County, Missouri, said that his grandfather, James Hart, came from Chester Township, or County, on the waters of the Schyllkill River. When they described "on the waters of a river" I believe that meant that they lived in the area that drained into that river, but not necessarily right on the bank of the river. James and Rebecca lived further west of Bucks County, but I don't know just where. Initially there were only three counties in Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Bucks, and Chester.
The following information is from an article written by D. H. Deci, 2001-10-11.
The Harts of Georgia originated from Bucks County, PA., and traveled throught the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with the Quakers. It is not known whether the Harts were Quakers or merely journeyed with the Quakers to provide protection from the Indians. The Harts settled with the Quakers in the Wrightsborough Settlement (established 1769 in what is now McDuffie County, Georgia]. By the early 1800s the Wrightsborough Settlement had been abandoned. Many of the Quakers moved on to the other settlements, but a large number of the Harts, Carters and Ansleys moved to the Indian Lands of Georgia.
Thomas Hart was called "the Elder" in the records of Dennis Hart. Thomas lived in Virginia and South Carolina, according to "The descendants of John Rush and Susanna Lucas", written by Luther Olson.
According to David Millican, "Thomas moved into Berkeley-Augusta-Frederick Countys of Virginia in the late 1730s, thence on to Chatham/Orange County, N.C. in the 1750s, then on to Union County S. C. If available evidence is to be believed, Thomas was b. 1685 and d. 1790, at age 105.
The following information is from the Frederick County, Virginia deed books 1,2,3,& 4, dated 1743-1758. Filed at: 2001-2-24
Book 1, Page 202. Day___1744. Between Thomas Hart of County of Frederick, Farmer, to Lewis Neill of the same County....Consideration of One hundred & six pounds, ten shillings money of Pennsylvania....All that tract of land...containing one thousand acres on Elk Branch, being the land and Plantation on which the said Thomas Hart now lives, & by him the said Thomas Hart purchased from Jost Hite the 29th March 1735.... Signed, Thomas Hart
Witnesses: J. Wood, Sam Earle, & G. Johnstone. Recorded 2 April 1745.
Book 3, Page 311. 4 June 1754. (Lease) Between Thomas Hart of the County of Frederick to Malgar Ingle of the County of Lanchaster (Lancaster), in Provence of Pencelveny (Pennsylvania). Sadler...consideration of five Shillings....tract of land containing one hundred & five acres, being part of a larger parcel of land of two hundred and sixty eitht acres of land granted to said Thomas Hart by deed from the Proprietors Office the 2nd January, the twenty seventh year of our Soverign Lord the King, ...yielding and paying the rent of one peper corn on Lady Day next... Signed, Thomas Hart. Witnesses: None.
Recorded 5 June 1754
Book 3, Page 313. 5 June 1754. (Release). Between Thomas Hart and Ann his wife of County of Frederick, to Malgar Ingle of County of Lanchaster in Province of Pencelveny Sadler.....consideration of Fifty Pounds.....105 acres (same as above).
Signed: Thomas Hart, Ann (A) Hart. Witnesses: None.
Recorded: 5 June 1754.
Book 3, Page 343. 3 September 1754. Know all men by these present that I Thomas Hart of County of Frederick have assigned and ordained & made in my stead & place....my Trusty & well beloved son, Thomas Hart, Junior, to be my true and lawful Attorney for me & in my name...to issue for: Levy and receive all & every such debts, rents of money now due unto me. ....To bargain, sell & convey....two tracts of land lying in said County, Viz: one tract containing one hundred & sixty three acres joyning Lewis Neill, Gent, his land. The other containing one hundred and eighty five acres lying between my said Attorney's own land and Benjamin Mackall....Signed, Thomas Hart.
Witnesses: John Campbell, Absalom Hammond, & Thomas Wood.
Recorded: 3 September 1754.
The following is quoted from the book, "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish settlement of Virginia", by Lyman Chalkley. Vol 2, pp 230-239.
" Paul vs. Hite-O.S. 310; N.S. 110, Bill, 81st January, 1794, by Margaret Paul of Pennsylvania. Many years ago Joist Hite sold to Thomas Hart land in now Berkeley County. Hart sold a part to John Miles of Pennsylvania. On 2d April, 1747, Miles made his will and devised the land "intail" to Oratrix, his only child, an infant. She married _________ Paul, now deceased. Oratrix and father always lived in Pennsylvania. Fairfax claimed the land, was sued by Hite and lands decreed to Hite, but the Hite heirs refuse to give it up. Jacob Miller, Abraham Neil, Robert Lowry, Phillip Ingle, Godwin Swift, William Dark, petition that they, with Giles Cook, are in possession of a tract of land on Elk Branch in Berkeley County, 1,300 acres, part was sold by Jost Hite to Thomas Hart and by him conveyed to petitioners. 17th June, 1803, Peter Martin, Senior, aged 73, 4 or 5 years ago, he was shown a tree that formerly stood in Cavalier Martin's yard by Thomas Hart. 17th June, 1803, Thomas Hart, Senior, aged nearly 80 years, deposes, he was with the surveyor and his father when they surveyed Jost Hite's 1,100 acres. 27th April, 1795, Ann Thomas, aged 78, deposes at Spread Eagle Tavern, kept by John Kunwoody in Philadelphia, (285 High Street), she was married to John Miles in 1739 or 1740, that by him she had a son, Griffin Miles, who died when an infant, and Margaret, the plaintiff. 27th April, 1795, John Cart, aged 69 years, deposes, same place. 5th September, 1795, Edward Lucas, son of Edward Lucas, deposes. 19th March, 1787, Thomas Rutherford deposes, in 1752 as surveyor for Fairfax he made survey for Thomas Hart and an adjoining one for Miles Hart, Son of Thomas. Joseph Darke owned adjoining land. In 1740 deponent saw a log house covered with clap board or shingle and nailed roof on north side of Elk Branch on land now in dispute. The house was said to be the property of John Miles, who had purchased from Thomas Harte, Senior, 5th September, 1795, John Wright, aged 70, deposes, he came to Virginia in 1748 or 1748 and was shown the land by James Glenn, Senior, who said John Miles claimed the land. A shingled house was uncommon. 17th February, 1795, William Darke deposes, he was ordered out with the militia against the insurgents (in September), which prevented him from attending thaking depositions in Philadelphia. Bond, 29th March, 1735, by Thomas Hart of Warminster, in County Bucks, Penna., husbandman to Jost Hite of Orange County, Virginia. Gentleman title bond for 2 tracts, 1,000 acres on Elk Branch on the Waggon Road from Potomack to Opeckon, 500 acres northward from above. 27th September, 1794, Thomas Hart, aged 71 years, about 60 years ago his father, Thomas Hart, purchased 1,500 acres. In 1754, Thomas, Senior, was about to remove to Carolina"
According to John Hart Miller, the following information is from a new book: "Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia", by Cecil O'Dell. It was published in 1995 by Walsworth Publishing Company of Marceline, Mo., Filed at: 2001-2-17
Thomas Hart was in Virginia by late March, 1735, and possibly was there earlier. He sold much of his land in 1754 and gave his son, Thomas, Jr., power of attorney in late October, 1754, to act in his behalf on his remaining land, apparently because he planned to leave for Orange County, N.C. The French and Indian War was raging at that time and there had been raids in the area where Thomas lived. George Washington was stationed at that time a few miles away in Winchester. Because of the changes in County boundaries and names, and the breakaway of West Virginia in the Civil War, County records are scattered in different places, but some are apparently in Winchester.
O'Dell's book, page 116, says that Thomas, Senior, left his home, or that of his son, Thomas, Jr., soon after 17 October 1754 for Orange County, N.C. His son, Thomas Jr., had to post bail so that he could leave for N.C. becasue when Jost or Joist Hite learned that Thomas Sr., was leaving the area, Hite filed a complaint in the Frederick County Superior Court claiming that Thomas Sr., still owed him 50 pounds of the purchase price of the land Thomas Sr., had bought from him in 1735. This had not been paid because Thomas Sr., did not receive the number of acres that he had bargained for. Also, Lord Fairfax had filed suit claiming that Jost Hite did not have title to the land because the Governor of Virginia did not have the right to grant land owned by Lord Fairfax to John Van Meter, the person Jost Hite had bought the land from. Miles Hart, one of Thomas Senior's sons, gave his brother Thomas Jr., his power of attorney also in late October 1757 (possibly 1754), and probably also left for Orange County, N.C.