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Raymond -
Thank You for reminding me - the names of those waterways changed over the years.
It has been sometime, since I accessed the North Carolina State Mars Catalog, which has changed it's format,since I was last there. So it has taken me awhile to figure how to work in their files again.
NOTE:
Since Haywood Co., NC., was formed from Buncombe Co.,NC., in 1808, one needs to look in Buncombe County, for a 1790's North Carolina Land Grant for a John RAY, living on "Panther's Creek" in the last of the 18th Century.
Source: The History of Fines Creek by Lucy Ferguson, pg 2
finescreek.org/past.html
And - There Is One!
ITEM:
From The North Carolina Archives:
File #424: John RHEA or RAY
1795 & 1798: S.108.51
Location: 839-845
Mars Id: 12.14.35.553
Personal Name: RHEA, John
Geographical Names: Laurel Branch
Acres: 50
Grant No.402
Issued: April 12, 1798
Entry No: 4644
Entered: July 24, 1795
Book No. 95: Page No. 335
Location: On The Laurel Branch
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ITEM: The East Carolina University's Joyner Library
http://media.lib.ecu.edu/govdoc/gis/county_display.cfm?id=45
Shows Haywood Co., North Carolina Locations:
Fines Creek: 353956N 0825634W
Laurel Branch Stream: 354025N 0830050W
Cove Creek Gap
Panther Creek: 353836N, etc.,
FOR THE RECORD:
These records put a John RHEA or RAY on the land in 1795 and 1798 in Buncombe Co., NC., {Haywood Co., NC., formed from the Western Part of Buncombe County in 1808}.
John RAY, of the 1850 Haywood Co., NC., Federal Census was b ca 1772, in Virginia, and would have been of age - 23 years old - at the time of this North Carolina Land Grant for a John RHEA or RAY.
Respectfully Submitted,
Lois Jennings Johnson
A Ray/Rea Descendant
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