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From: "Maryellen" <>
Subject: Re: [LDR] Littleton Riggin
Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 09:26:07 -0400
References: <200405012100.i41L0MhM017005@lists5.rootsweb.com> <p05111a05bcb9f83edabe@[69.72.56.1]>


Thanks Craig. Chasing down a division is exactly what I'm trying to do.
Maryellen
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From: "craig o'donnell" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, May 01, 2004 8:59 PM
Subject: [LDR] Littleton Riggin


> >Actually, Littleton Riggin was assessed for a 22 ac tract, "FOREST LAND",
per
> >the on-line MSA lists, in **Worcester's** Pocomoke Hundred, not Somerset.
> >
> >Most of the Riggin land was just east of Dividing Creek in Perryhawkin,
and a
> >cluster up along the Wicomico-Worcester border north of there.
> >
> >Note that there's a flood of transcriptional problems with the on-line
lists,
> >so if you have a copy of the original in hand you may well be right about
the
> >tract name. In any case, I don't find any tract named anything like
either
> >one in my database, which means it most likely was a partition calved out
of
> >something else. I don't find Littleton Riggin in my patent database at
all,
> >either, so I don't even have a guess. Local names of partitions often
weren't
> >ever seen at the Provincial or State level.
> >
> >Nor do I have Dryden's Worcester volume handy now, which is how I'd start
to
> >chase this down. Maybe someone else on the list with a copy can look up
> >Littleton Riggin for you, and look for 22 acres under any tract name for
> >him that
> >he might have been taxed on in 1783.
> >
> >John Lyon
>
> There were Riggins in the general vicinity of Rehobeth MD - starting when
> I'm not sure - and I could swear I've seen Littleton Riggin on a tombstone
> at St Paul Episcopal near Marion/Crisfield.
> --
> Craig O'Donnell
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