This is the address of the Illinois State Archives Land Data Base. Federal
Lands, and School Lands and Military Tract.
http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/data - lan.html
Please remember that not all names are listed. Each county will tell you how
many are listed. You search by county. Go to the code for co. and then type
in the 3 no. code, and it will bring up the names,etc.
One I found is Charles Rhea- Pike Co.- Nov. 6, 1818 Military Tract. If this
one interests you then it also lists the acrea
Although I did not list any variant spellings of the name RHEA, here are a
few a friend came upon.
FRANKLIN co. VA. Marriages
RAY, James and CHAMBERS, Susannah, dau. CHAMBERS, John Jan. 13, 1803
WRAY, Elias and THURMAN, Polly. THURMAN, John, surety Mar. 25, 1806
WRAY, Isaac and CARLTON, Mary Own consent Apr. 5, 1805
WRAY, John and KINSEY, Susannah WRIGHT, John, sur. Feb. 4, 1805
WRAY, Stephen and HARTER, Susannah Marriage return by R.H. June 1, 1794
My RHEA name was only spelled Ray by census takers,
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Thanks Jack for the info, sorry for the delay in thanking you, not enough
hours in the day. :-)
Marcia
> Marcia Rothman wrote:
> >
> > My family tradition says..........
> >
> > William Hardy/ Hardey b. abt 1750, from County Down, Ireland married
> > Margaret Ray daughter of Lord RAY of Scotland or County Down Ireland,
they
> > had two sons William Hardy and my line, Joseph Hardy. William Sr died
> > about 1830 and Margaret died before that. They lived in Somerset
County,
> > Pennsylvania. William left