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RAGSDALE, John (c1719-1787) VA Bell, Landon C. Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1816: Vestry Book, 1746-1816. Richmond, VA: William Byrd Press, 1930; Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974. P. 273-281. many reprintings. (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com) Evans, June Banks. Lunenburg County Virginia. Will Book.. New Orleans, LA: Bryn Ffyliaid Publications, 1991-. Will Book 3 (1778-1791) p. 277-280. Palmer, William Pitt. Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts...Preserved in the Capitol at Richmond. Richmond: R.F. Walker, 1875-1893; New York: Kraus Reprint Corp., 1968. Vol. 1, p. 265. (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com) Van Leer, Blake Ragsdale. " The Ragsdale Family in America". Elijah Ragsdale, by June Hart Wester. Canton, GA: Wester, 1975. Part 1, p. 22, 37. (http://ragsdalefamily.org/elijah,index2.html) Return to index.
RANDOLPH, Thomas (1683-1730) VA Daniels, Jonathan. The Randolphs of Virginia. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972. Dowdey, Clifford. The Virginia Dynasties; the Emergence of "King" Carter and the Golden Age. [1^st ed.] Boston: Little, Brown, 1969. Echenrode, H. J. The Randolphs; the Story of a Virginia Family. Indianopolis, New York: Bobbs-Merrill [1946] Genealogies of Virginia Families: from the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1982. Vol. 4, p.34+. Kennedy, Mary Selden. Seldens of Virginia and Allied Families. NewYork: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, 1911. 2v. Leonard, Cynthia Miller. The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619-January 11, 1978: a Bicentennial Register of Members. Richmond, VA: Published for the General Assembly of Virginia by the Virginia State Library, c1978. P. 70. Randolph, Robert Isham. The Randolphs of Virginia, a Compilation of the Descendants of William Randolph of Turkey Island. Chicago: n.p., 1937. Return to index.
RANDOLPH, William (1650-1711) VA Anderson, Jefferson Randolph. "Tuckahoe and the Tuckahoe Randolphs". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 45, no. 1 (Jan. 1937), p.55-86. Burton, L.W., J. Stanton Moore, and R.A. Brock. Annals of Henrico Parish. [Richmond: Williams Print. Co., 1904]. P. 167, 168, 192. Byrd, William. The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712. Ed. by Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling. Richmond: Dietz Press, 1941. P. 333. Cowden, Gerald Steffens. The Randolphs of Turkey Island: a Prosopography of the First Three Generations, 1650-1806. Thesis-College of William and Mary, 1977. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1980. P.47-91, 885-893. Daniels, Jonathan. The Randolphs of Virginia. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972. Dowdey, Clifford. The Virginia Dynasties; the Emergence of "King" Carter and the Golden Age. [1^st ed.] Boston: Little, Brown, 1969. Echenrode, H. J. The Randolphs; the Story of a Virginia Family. Indianopolis, New York: Bobbs-Merrill [1946] Fischer, David Hackett. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989. Chart facing p. 221: "The Northampton Connection: the Isham-Washington-Spencer-Randolph-Jefferson-Bland-Beverley-Bolling-Eppes-Hackett Cousinage". Genealogies of Virginia Families: from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1981. Vol. 5, p. 3-13. Genealogies of Virginia Families: from the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1982. Vol. 5, p.3, 12, 13, 29, 33-36. Goode, G. Brown. Virginia Cousins: a Study of John Goode of Whitby, a Virginia Colonist of the Seventeenth Century, with Notes Upon Related Families. Richmond: J.W. Randolph & English, 1887; Bridgewater, VA: C.J. Carrier Co., 1963. Other reprintings. P. 113. Jester, Annie Lash, Martha Woodroof Hiden, Virginia M. Meyer, John Frederick Dorman. Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1625. 3^rd ed. [Virginia]: Published by Order of First Families of Virginia, 1987.P. 513. Kennedy, Mary Selden. Seldens of Virginia and Allied Families. New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, 1911. 2v. Leonard, Cynthia Miller. The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619-January 11, 1978: a Bicentennial Register of Members. Richmond, VA: Published for the General Assembly of Virginia by the Virginia State Library, c1978. P. 47-50, 52-54, 56, 58-60, 62, 64-66. "Letters of the Byrd Family". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 35, no. 3 (July 1927), p. 238-239. McIlwaine, H. R. et al. Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia. Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1925-1956, 1966-1978. Vol. 1, p. 308, 443. McIlwaine, H. R. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1659/60-1693. Richmond, VA : [Colonial Press, E Waddey] 1914. P. xi-xv. (http://books.google.com) ______________. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1695-1696, 1696-1697, 1698, 1699, 1700-1702. Richmond, VA : [Colonial Press, E Waddey] 1913. P. vii, viii, ix, 120, 134. (http://books.google.com) O'Dell, Jeffrey Marshall. Inventory of Early Architecture and Historic and Archeological Sites, County of Henrico, Virginia. [Richmond, VA]: County of Henrico, 1976.P. 198-199. Pittman, H.D. Americans of Gentle Birth and Their Ancestors. St. Louis, MO: Buxton & Skinner, 1903-1907; Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1970. Vol.1, p. 40. (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com) Randolph, Robert Isham. The Randolphs of Virginia, a compilation of the descendants of William Randolph of Turkey Island. Chicago: n.p. 1937. Randolph, Roberta Lee. The First Randolphs of Virginia. Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1961. P. 35. Randolph, Wassell. William Randolph I of Turkey Island, Henrico County, Virginia, and His Immediate Descendants. Memphis: Seebode Mimeo Service, Dist. by Cossitt Library, 1949. P. 9-16. Stanard, William Glover , and Mary Newton Stanard. The Colonial Virginia Register. Albany, NY : Munsell, 1902; Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1965. P. 83, 92, 98. Tyler, Lyon G. "Notes by the Editor". The William and Mary Quarterly. Vol. 5, no. 3 (Jan. 1897), p. 157-159. Weisiger, Benjamin B. Colonial Wills of Henrico County, Virginia. [Richmond]: Weisiger, 1976-1977. Part 1 (1654-1737), p. 3, 16, 90. __________________. Henrico County, Virginia, Deeds. Richmond, VA: B.B.Weisiger, 1985-6. Vol. 1 (1706-1737, p. 58; vol. 3 (1677-1705), p. 1, 152, 153. Return to index.
RANDOLPH, Jr., Colonel William (1681-1742) VA Cowden, Gerald Steffens. The Randolphs of Turkey Island: a Prosopography of the First Three Generations, 1650-1806. Thesis-College of William and Mary, 1977. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1980. P.141-157, 885-892. Daniels, Jonathan. The Randolphs of Virginia. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972. Dowdey, Clifford. The Virginia Dynasties; the Emergence of "King" Carter and the Golden Age. [1^st ed.] Boston: Little, Brown, 1969. Echenrode, H. J. The Randolphs; the Story of a Virginia Family. Indianopolis, New York: Bobbs-Merrill [1946] Genealogies of Virginia Families: from the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1982. Vol. 5, p.3, 12, 13, 29, 33-36. Leonard, Cynthia Miller. The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619-January 11, 1978: a Bicentennial Register of Members. Richmond, VA: Published for the General Assembly of Virginia by the Virginia State Library, c1978. P. 68-70, 72. McGill, John. The Beverley Family of Virginia: descendants of Major Robert Beverley (1641-1687) and allied families. Columbia, SC: R.L. Bryan Co., 1956. Randolph, Robert Isham. The Randolphs of Virginia, a Compilation of the Descendants of William Randolph of Turkey Island. Chicago: n.p., 1937. Randolph, Wassell. William Randolph I of Turkey Island, Henrico County, Virginia, and His Immediate Descendants. Memphis: Seebode Mimeo Service, Dist. by Cossitt Library, 1949. P. 35. Stanard, William G. and Mary Newton Stanard. The Colonial Virginia Register: a list of governors, councilors and other higher officials... Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965, 1902. Return to index.
RANDOLPH, William III (1710-1761) VA Cowden, Gerald Steffens. The Randolphs of Turkey Island: a Prosopography of the First Three Generations, 1650-1806. Thesis-College of William and Mary, 1977. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1980. P.167-173, 885-890. Leonard, Cynthia Miller. The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619-January 11, 1978: a Bicentennial Register of Members. Richmond: Published for the General Assembly of Virginia by the Virginia State Library, c1978. P.84, 86, 92. Return to index.
RATHBONE, John (c.1634-1702) RI Rathbun, Frank. Rathbun, Rathbone, Rathburne Family Historian. Fairfax, VA: Rathbun Family Association, Vol 1, no 1 (Jan 1981) - . 8v. Return to index.
READ, George (1733-1798) DE Bakeless, John Edwin. Signers of the Declaration. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. Barthelmas, Della Gray. Signers of the Declaration of Independence: a Biographical and Genealogical Reference. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, c1997. Pyne, Frederick Wallace. Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1997-. 7 vols. Vol. 5: Delaware and Maryland. Read, Harmon Pumpelly. Rossiana; Papers and Documents Relating to the History and Genealogy of the Ancient and Noble House of Ross, of Ross-shire, Scotland, and its Descent from the ancient earls of Ross, Together with the Descent of the Ancient and Historic Family of Read, from Rede of Troughend, Reade of Barton Court, Berks. And Read of Delaware. Also Some Account of the Related Families. Albany, NY: [Press of the Argus Co.] 1908. Read, William Thompson. Life and Correspondence of George Read, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence with Notices of Some of His Contemporaries. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, c1870. Return to index.
READE, Colonel George (1608-1671) VA Anderson, Edward Lowell. Soldier and Pioneer: A Biographical Sketch of Lieutenant Colonel Richard C. Anderson of the Continental Army. New York: C. P. Putnam's Sons, 1879. Anderson, Richard Clough. Richard Clough Anderson Diary. Duke University Press, 1969. Anderson, William Pope. Anderson Family Records. Cincinnati: Press of W. F. Schaefer & Co., 1936. Anderson, William Pope. Anderson-Overton: A Continuation of Anderson Family Records. Published 1936, and the Early Descendants of William Overton & Elizabeth Waters and Allied Families Published 1938 by W. P. Anderson. Cincinnati: Gibson and Perin, 1945. Boddie, John Bennett. Historical Southern Families, Vol II. Redwood City, CA: Pacific Coast Publishers, 1960. Davidson, Grace Gillam. Early Records of Georgia, Wilkes County. Macon, GA: J. W. Burke, 1932--. Vol. 2, p. 57. Gregg, Jr., Eugene Stuart. A Crane's Foot (or Pedigree) of Branches of the Gregg, Stuart, Robertson, Dobbs and Allied Families. Hilton Head Island, SC: Gregg, 1975. Hening, William Waller. Statutes at Large; Being a collection of all the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature, in the year 1619, Vol I. Printed by and for Samuel Pleasants, junior, printer to the Commonwealth, 1809-23. 13v. History of Pulaski County, Georgia, 1808-1835: Official History. Comp. by the Hawkinsville Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Atlanta: W. W. Brown [c.1935]; Bicentennial Edition: Macon, GA: OmniPress, c. 1975. pp. 287, 289, 392-394, 542. Leonard, Cynthia Miller (comp). The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619-January 11, 1978: a Bicentennial Register of Members. Richmond, VA: Published for the General Assembly of Virginia by the Virginia State Library, 1978. P. 27, 33. Meyer, Virginia M. and John Frederick Dorman, (eds). Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia (1607-1624/5). Third Edition. Alexandria: Order of First Families of Virginia, 1987. Pate, John Ben. The American Genealogy of the Pate Family: From Their Landing in Virginia, 1650 to the Present Time, in our Line of Descent, Including a Sketch of Their Origin and History in England, Back to the Fifteenth Century, with a Description of the Pate Coat of Arms. Amboy, GA: [s.n. 1915?] p. 8, 17. Pecquet du Bellet, Louise. Some Prominent Virginia Families. [Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Col., 1907]; Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1976. Vol. 4, p. 4-5, 8-10. Read, Alice (Mrs. Shelley Rouse). The Reads and their Relatives: Being an Account of Colonel Clement and Madam Read of Bushy Forest, Lunenburg County, Virginia, their Eight Children, their Descendants, and Allied Families. Cincinnati: Johnson & Hardin Press, 1930. Sainsbury, W. Noel (ed). Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, 1574-1660, Vol X. London: Preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, 1860-1969. 44v. Sorley, Merrow Egerton. Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family, Including the Genealogy of Descendants in Both the Male and Female Lines, Biographical Sketches of Its Members, and Their Descent from Other Early Virginia Families. Columbia, MO: Sorley, 1937; Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1979. P. 32, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 44. Stanard, William G. and Mary Newton Stanard. The Colonial Virginia Register: a list of governors, councilors and other higher officials... Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965, 1902. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Richmond, VA: Vol. 4 (1897). p. 205-206. Watson, Annah Robinson. A Royal Lineage: Alfred the Great, 901-1901. Richmond, VA: AR Watson, 1901. ____________________. Some Notable Families of America. New York: 1898. William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. Richmond, VA: [1st Series]. Vol. 5 (1897) p. 279; vol. 12 (1904), p. 119; vol. 14 (1905), p. 117-120, 123. Vol. 22 (1914) p. 75-76, 84-85, 242, 244. Wilson, York Lowry. A California-Virginia Genealogy. Aldershot, England: Gale & Polden Ltd., 1962. Young, Ida, Gholson, Julius & Hargrove, Clara Nell. History of Macon, Georgia. Macon, GA: Lyon, Marshall & Brooks. p. 632-635. Return to index.
READING, Governor John II (1686-1767) NJ Fitzgerald, Thomas F., ed. Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey. Trenton, 1926. P. 140-144. General Catalogue of Princeton University 1746-1906. Princeton, NJ: The University, 1908. P. 14. Leach, Josiah. Genealogical and Biographical Memorials of the Reading, Howell, Veckers, Watts, Latham and Elkins Families. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1898. (There is also information on his wife, Mary Ryerson.) Nelson, William. New Jersey Civil List, 1664-1800; Compiled from Volumes of Commissions, Leaming & Spicer, New Jersey Archives and Journals of the Joint Meetings. [S.l.: s.n., 1800]. Liber AAA of Commissions, p. 198, 235. Return to index.
REDFORD, John (? - c1752) VA Lindsay, Joyce H. Marriages of Henrico County, Virginia, 1680-1808. [Richmond]: J. H. Lindsay, 1960; Easley, SC: Southern Historical, 1983. P. 71. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society. Vol. 32 (1924), p. 58. Weisiger, Benjamin B. Colonial Wills of Henrico County, Virginia. [Richmond]:Weisiger, 1976-77. Vol. 2 (1737-1781). Return to index.
REED, Joseph (1741-1785) PA Reed, William B. Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed: military secretary Washington, at Cambridge, adjutant-general of the Continental Army, member of the Congress of the United States, and President of the Executive Council of the State of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1847. Vol. I, II Return to index.
REED (REID), Samuel (1728-1810) NC DAR Patriot Index. Washington: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1966. (Centennial ed., 1994.) p. 560-61. Knight, Lucian L. Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials and Legends. Atlanta: Byrd Printing Co., 1913-14. Vol. 1, p. 868. --------. Georgia's Roster of the Revolution. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1967. p. 464. Maddox, Joseph T. Information on Some Georgia Pioneers. [Irwinton, GA]: J.T. Maddox, [1982] Maddox, Joseph T., and Mary Carter. North Carolina Revolutionary Soldiers, Sailors, Patriots and Descendants. Albany, GA: Georgia Pioneers Publications, 1976. Vol. 2. Smith, Clifford Lewis. History of Troup County. Atlanta, GA: Foote and Davis, 1933, 1935. Wheeler, John H. Historical Sketches of North Carolina: from 1584 to 1851. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1851; New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1925; Baltimore: Regional Pub. Co., 1964, 1970. P. 77. Return to index.
RHETT, Colonel William (1666-1723) SC Smith, Arthur M. Some Account of the Smiths of Exeter and Their Descendants. Exeter, England: William Pollard & Co., 1896. (Arthur Morton. Printed for private circulation. Available from Library of Congress: editions of 1896, 1900 and 1983; master microfilm, two copies each printing. Also available from University of Michigan Libraries, Ann Arbor, Michigan; photocopy, 1896 edition. Also available from Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown, Connecticut; 1900 edition.) Return to index.
RICE, David (c.1737-c.1804) NC Saunders, William L. and Walter Clark (eds.). The Colonial Records of North Carolina, Vol X, pp. 847, 355. Raleigh: P. M. Hale (and others), Printer to the State, 1886-1890 [10v]. Published under the supervision of the trustees of the public libraries by order of the General Assembly. Reprinted, New York, AMS Press, 1968-78. 30v. Wheeler, John Hill. Historical Sketches of North Carolina, 1584-1851. compiled from original records, official documents and traditional statements with biographical sketches of her distinguished statesmen, jurists, lawyers, soldiers, divines, etc...., p.160. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1851. Reprinted, New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1925. 2v. Return to index.
RICE, Edmund (c.1594-1663) MA Bennett, Archibald F. "Ancestry of the Wife of Edmund Rice". The American Genealogist. Vol. 26 (1949), p. 10. Holman, Mary Lovering., et al. Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller. Concord, NH: Privately Printed by the Rumford Press, 1948-1953. Vol. 2, p. 109-129. ____________________. "English Notes on Edmund Rice" The American Genealogist. Vol. 10 (1933), p. 133-137. ____________________. "The Wife of Edmund Rice". The American Genealogist. Vol. 15 (1938), p. 227. Hudson, Charles. History of the town of Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, from its first settlement in 1657 to 1861; with a brief sketch of the town of Northborough, a genealogy of the families in Marlborough to 1800, and an account of the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town. Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin & Son, 1862. P. 431. Rice, Franklin P. Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts: to the End of the Year 1849. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996, 1908. P. 384. (http://catalog.hathitrust.org) Savage, James, Dexter, O.P. and John Farmer. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of the Farmer's Register. Boston: Little Brown, and Co., 1860; Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1965. Vol.3, p. 528. (www.archive.org; http://name.umdl.umich.edu/ABE2564; http://persi.heritagequestonline.com) Smith, Elsie Hawes. Edmund Rice and His Family. [Boston: The Meador Press} 1938. P. 12, 13. Torrey, Clarence Almon, and Elizabeth Petty Bentley. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1972-9; 2001, 2011; Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1992. P. 620. Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. Worcester, MA: Franklin. P. Rice, trustee of the fund, 1908. [Systematic history fund (publications).] Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903. P. 258, 323. (www.archive.org; http://catalog.hathitrust.org) Ward, Andrew Henshaw. A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Who Came from Berkhamstead, England, and Settled at Sudbury, Massachusetts I 1638 or 9. Boston: C.B. Richardson, 1858; [New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1993]. P.1-5. (http://catalog.hathitrust.org) (Continuations of this title were published in 1967 and 1970 by the Edmund Rice (1638) Assoc. Return to index
RICHARDSON, Richard (1704-1780) SC Clark, Chovine R. Lineage of Chovine Richardson Clark. Sumter, SC: Wilder and Ward Offset Printing. Hill, Lowick Johnson. The Hills of Wilkes County Georgia and Allied Families. Atlanta, GA: Johnson- Dallas Company. Transactions of the Hugenot Society of South Carolina. No. 81, pg. 47. 1976. Return to index
RICHMOND, Captain Edward (1632-1696) RI and MA The Genealogical Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America. Compiled by the American College of Genealogy. Boston: American College of Genealogy, 1914. Richmond, Joshua Bailey. The Richmond Family 1594-1896. Boston: JB Richmond, 1897. Denver: Colorado State Archives, 1972, microfilm. Return to index.
RIDGELY, Nicholas (1694-1755) DE Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex upon Delaware. Assembly. Minutes of the House of Assembly of the Three Counties Upon Delaware at Sessions Held at New Castle in the Years 1740-1742. [Dover, DE: Printed for the Public Archives Commission of Delaware, 1929] P. 33. J.M. Runk & Co. Biographical and Genealogical History of the State of Delaware: Containing Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and Many of the Early Settlers. Chambersburg, PA: J.M. Runk, 1899. P. 787. Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Delaware, 1609-1888. Philadelphia: L.J. Richards, 1888. Various reprintings. Vol. 1, p. 562. Return to index.
RINGO, Philip (1682-1757) NJ Ringo, David Leer and William K. Barnard. The Ringo Family History Series, Book 2. Utica, KY: McDowell Publications for the Freeborn Family Organization, -2001. Ringo, David Leer. The First Five Generations of the Ringo Family in America. [Including as a supplement, "Early Collateral Families" by May Ringo King.] Alhambra, CA: Freeborn Family Organization, 1982. Return to index.
RIVES, Timothy ( ? - 1773) VA Childs, James Rives. Reliques of the Rives. Lynchburg, VA: J.P. Bell Co., Inc., 1929. Return to index.

RAGSDALE, John (c1719-1787) VA

Bell, Landon C. Cumberland Parish, Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1816: Vestry Book, 1746-1816. Richmond, VA: William Byrd Press, 1930; Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974. P. 273-281. many reprintings. (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com)

Evans, June Banks. Lunenburg County Virginia. Will Book.. New Orleans, LA: Bryn Ffyliaid Publications, 1991-. Will Book 3 (1778-1791) p. 277-280.

Palmer, William Pitt. Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts...Preserved in the Capitol at Richmond. Richmond: R.F. Walker, 1875-1893; New York: Kraus Reprint Corp., 1968. Vol. 1, p. 265. (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com)

Van Leer, Blake Ragsdale. " The Ragsdale Family in America". Elijah Ragsdale, by June Hart Wester. Canton, GA: Wester, 1975. Part 1, p. 22, 37. (http://ragsdalefamily.org/elijah,index2.html) Return to index.

RANDOLPH, Thomas (1683-1730) VA

Daniels, Jonathan. The Randolphs of Virginia. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972.

Dowdey, Clifford. The Virginia Dynasties; the Emergence of "King" Carter and the Golden Age. [1^st ed.] Boston: Little, Brown, 1969.

Echenrode, H. J. The Randolphs; the Story of a Virginia Family. Indianopolis, New York: Bobbs-Merrill [1946]

Genealogies of Virginia Families: from the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1982. Vol. 4, p.34+.

Kennedy, Mary Selden. Seldens of Virginia and Allied Families. NewYork: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, 1911. 2v.

Leonard, Cynthia Miller. The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619-January 11, 1978: a Bicentennial Register of Members. Richmond, VA: Published for the General Assembly of Virginia by the Virginia State Library, c1978. P. 70.

Randolph, Robert Isham. The Randolphs of Virginia, a Compilation of the Descendants of William Randolph of Turkey Island. Chicago: n.p., 1937.
Return to index.

RANDOLPH, William (1650-1711) VA

Anderson, Jefferson Randolph. "Tuckahoe and the Tuckahoe Randolphs". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 45, no. 1 (Jan. 1937), p.55-86.

Burton, L.W., J. Stanton Moore, and R.A. Brock. Annals of Henrico Parish. [Richmond: Williams Print. Co., 1904]. P. 167, 168, 192.

Byrd, William. The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712. Ed. by Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling. Richmond: Dietz Press, 1941. P. 333.

Cowden, Gerald Steffens. The Randolphs of Turkey Island: a Prosopography of the First Three Generations, 1650-1806. Thesis-College of William and Mary, 1977. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1980. P.47-91, 885-893.

Daniels, Jonathan. The Randolphs of Virginia. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972.

Dowdey, Clifford. The Virginia Dynasties; the Emergence of "King" Carter and the Golden Age. [1^st ed.] Boston: Little, Brown, 1969.

Echenrode, H. J. The Randolphs; the Story of a Virginia Family. Indianopolis, New York: Bobbs-Merrill [1946]

Fischer, David Hackett. Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989. Chart facing p. 221: "The Northampton Connection: the Isham-Washington-Spencer-Randolph-Jefferson-Bland-Beverley-Bolling-Eppes-Hackett Cousinage".

Genealogies of Virginia Families: from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1981. Vol. 5, p. 3-13.

Genealogies of Virginia Families: from the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1982. Vol. 5, p.3, 12, 13, 29, 33-36.

Goode, G. Brown. Virginia Cousins: a Study of John Goode of Whitby, a Virginia Colonist of the Seventeenth Century, with Notes Upon Related Families. Richmond: J.W. Randolph & English, 1887; Bridgewater, VA: C.J. Carrier Co., 1963. Other reprintings. P. 113.

Jester, Annie Lash, Martha Woodroof Hiden, Virginia M. Meyer, John Frederick Dorman. Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1625. 3^rd ed. [Virginia]: Published by Order of First Families of Virginia, 1987.P. 513.

Kennedy, Mary Selden. Seldens of Virginia and Allied Families. New York:
Frank Allaben Genealogical Company, 1911. 2v.

"Letters of the Byrd Family". The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 35, no. 3 (July 1927), p. 238-239.

McIlwaine, H. R. et al. Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia. Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1925-1956, 1966-1978. Vol. 1, p. 308, 443.

McIlwaine, H. R. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1659/60-1693. Richmond, VA : [Colonial Press, E Waddey] 1914. P. xi-xv. (http://books.google.com)

______________. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1695-1696, 1696-1697, 1698, 1699, 1700-1702. Richmond, VA : [Colonial Press, E Waddey] 1913. P. vii, viii, ix, 120, 134. (http://books.google.com)

O'Dell, Jeffrey Marshall. Inventory of Early Architecture and Historic and Archeological Sites, County of Henrico, Virginia. [Richmond, VA]: County of Henrico, 1976.P. 198-199.

Pittman, H.D. Americans of Gentle Birth and Their Ancestors. St. Louis, MO: Buxton & Skinner, 1903-1907; Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1970. Vol.1, p. 40. (http://persi.heritagequestonline.com)

            Randolph, Robert Isham. The Randolphs of Virginia, a compilation of the
                    descendants of William Randolph of Turkey Island. Chicago: n.p.
                    1937.

Randolph, Roberta Lee. The First Randolphs of Virginia. Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1961. P. 35.

Randolph, Wassell. William Randolph I of Turkey Island, Henrico County, Virginia, and His Immediate Descendants. Memphis: Seebode Mimeo Service, Dist. by Cossitt Library, 1949. P. 9-16.

Stanard, William Glover , and Mary Newton Stanard. The Colonial Virginia Register. Albany, NY : Munsell, 1902; Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1965. P. 83, 92, 98.

Tyler, Lyon G. "Notes by the Editor". The William and Mary Quarterly. Vol. 5, no. 3 (Jan. 1897), p. 157-159.

Weisiger, Benjamin B. Colonial Wills of Henrico County, Virginia. [Richmond]: Weisiger, 1976-1977. Part 1 (1654-1737), p. 3, 16, 90.

__________________. Henrico County, Virginia, Deeds. Richmond, VA: B.B.Weisiger, 1985-6. Vol. 1 (1706-1737, p. 58; vol. 3 (1677-1705), p. 1, 152, 153. Return to index.

RANDOLPH, Jr., Colonel William (1681-1742) VA

Daniels, Jonathan. The Randolphs of Virginia. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972.

Dowdey, Clifford. The Virginia Dynasties; the Emergence of "King" Carter and the Golden Age. [1^st ed.] Boston: Little, Brown, 1969.

Echenrode, H. J. The Randolphs; the Story of a Virginia Family. Indianopolis, New York: Bobbs-Merrill [1946]

Genealogies of Virginia Families: from the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1982. Vol. 5, p.3, 12, 13, 29, 33-36.

            McGill, John. The Beverley Family of Virginia: descendants of Major
                    Robert Beverley (1641-1687) and allied families. Columbia, SC:
                    R.L. Bryan Co., 1956.

Randolph, Robert Isham. The Randolphs of Virginia, a Compilation of the Descendants of William Randolph of Turkey Island. Chicago: n.p., 1937.

Randolph, Wassell. William Randolph I of Turkey Island, Henrico County, Virginia, and His Immediate Descendants. Memphis: Seebode Mimeo Service, Dist. by Cossitt Library, 1949. P. 35.

            Stanard, William G. and Mary Newton Stanard. The Colonial Virginia
                    Register: a list of governors, councilors and other higher officials...
                    Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1965, 1902. Return to index.

RANDOLPH, William III (1710-1761) VA

Leonard, Cynthia Miller. The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619-January 11, 1978: a Bicentennial Register of Members. Richmond: Published for the General Assembly of Virginia by the Virginia State Library, c1978. P.84, 86, 92. Return to index.

RATHBONE, John (c.1634-1702) RI

            Rathbun, Frank. Rathbun, Rathbone, Rathburne Family Historian. Fairfax,
                    VA: Rathbun Family Association, Vol 1, no 1 (Jan 1981) - . 8v.
                    Return to index.

READ, George (1733-1798) DE

Bakeless, John Edwin. Signers of the Declaration. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969.

Barthelmas, Della Gray. Signers of the Declaration of Independence: a Biographical and Genealogical Reference. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, c1997.

Pyne, Frederick Wallace. Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1997-. 7 vols. Vol. 5: Delaware and Maryland.

Read, Harmon Pumpelly. Rossiana; Papers and Documents Relating to the History and Genealogy of the Ancient and Noble House of Ross, of Ross-shire, Scotland, and its Descent from the ancient earls of Ross, Together with the Descent of the Ancient and Historic Family of Read, from Rede of Troughend, Reade of Barton Court, Berks. And Read of Delaware. Also Some Account of the Related Families. Albany, NY: [Press of the Argus Co.] 1908.

Read, William Thompson. Life and Correspondence of George Read, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence with Notices of Some of His Contemporaries. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, c1870. Return to index.

READE, Colonel George (1608-1671) VA

             Anderson, Edward Lowell. Soldier and Pioneer: A Biographical Sketch of
                    Lieutenant Colonel Richard C. Anderson of the Continental Army.
                    New York: C. P. Putnam's Sons, 1879.

Anderson, Richard Clough. Richard Clough Anderson Diary. Duke University
Press, 1969.

Anderson, William Pope. Anderson Family Records. Cincinnati: Press of W. F.
Schaefer & Co., 1936.

             Anderson, William Pope. Anderson-Overton: A Continuation of Anderson
                    Family Records. Published 1936, and the Early Descendants of William
                    Overton & Elizabeth Waters and Allied Families Published 1938 by W. P.
                    Anderson. Cincinnati: Gibson and Perin, 1945.

Boddie, John Bennett. Historical Southern Families, Vol II. Redwood
City, CA: Pacific Coast Publishers, 1960.

Davidson, Grace Gillam. Early Records of Georgia, Wilkes County. Macon,
GA: J. W. Burke, 1932--. Vol. 2, p. 57.

             Gregg, Jr., Eugene Stuart. A Crane's Foot (or Pedigree) of Branches of
                    the Gregg, Stuart, Robertson, Dobbs and Allied Families. Hilton
                    Head Island, SC: Gregg, 1975.

             Hening, William Waller. Statutes at Large; Being a collection of all the
                    Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature, in the
                    year 1619, Vol I. Printed by and for Samuel Pleasants, junior, printer
                    to the Commonwealth, 1809-23. 13v.

             History of Pulaski County, Georgia, 1808-1835: Official History. Comp. by
                    the Hawkinsville Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Atlanta:
                    W. W. Brown [c.1935]; Bicentennial Edition: Macon, GA: OmniPress, c.
                    1975. pp. 287, 289, 392-394, 542.

             Leonard, Cynthia Miller (comp). The General Assembly of Virginia, July
                    30, 1619-January 11, 1978: a Bicentennial Register of Members.
                    Richmond, VA: Published for the General Assembly of Virginia by the
                    Virginia State Library, 1978. P. 27, 33.

             Meyer, Virginia M. and John Frederick Dorman, (eds). Adventurers of
                    Purse and Person, Virginia (1607-1624/5). Third Edition.
                    Alexandria: Order of First Families of Virginia, 1987.

             Pate, John Ben. The American Genealogy of the Pate Family: From Their
                    Landing in Virginia, 1650 to the Present Time, in our Line of
                    Descent, Including a Sketch of Their Origin and History in England,
                    Back to the Fifteenth Century, with a Description of the Pate Coat
                    of Arms. Amboy, GA: [s.n. 1915?] p. 8, 17.

             Pecquet du Bellet, Louise. Some Prominent Virginia Families. [Lynchburg,
                    VA: J. P. Bell Col., 1907]; Baltimore, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1976. Vol.
                     4, p. 4-5, 8-10.

             Read, Alice (Mrs. Shelley Rouse). The Reads and their Relatives: Being
                    an Account of Colonel Clement and Madam Read of Bushy Forest,
                    Lunenburg County, Virginia, their Eight Children, their Descendants,
                    and Allied Families. Cincinnati: Johnson & Hardin Press, 1930.

             Sainsbury, W. Noel (ed). Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series,
                    1574-1660, Vol X. London: Preserved in the State Paper Department of
                    Her Majesty's Public Record Office, 1860-1969. 44v.

Sorley, Merrow Egerton. Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family,
Including the Genealogy of Descendants in Both the Male and Female
Lines, Biographical Sketches of Its Members, and Their Descent from
Other Early Virginia Families. Columbia, MO: Sorley, 1937; Baltimore:
Genealogical Pub. Co., 1979. P. 32, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 44.

Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Richmond, VA: Vol. 4 (1897).
p. 205-206.

Watson, Annah Robinson. A Royal Lineage: Alfred the Great, 901-1901.
Richmond, VA: AR Watson, 1901.

____________________. Some Notable Families of America. New York:
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             William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. Richmond, VA:
                    [1st Series]. Vol. 5 (1897) p. 279; vol. 12 (1904), p. 119; vol. 14 (1905),
                    p. 117-120, 123. Vol. 22 (1914) p. 75-76, 84-85, 242, 244.

Wilson, York Lowry. A California-Virginia Genealogy. Aldershot,
England: Gale & Polden Ltd., 1962.

             Young, Ida, Gholson, Julius & Hargrove, Clara Nell. History of Macon,
                    Georgia. Macon, GA: Lyon, Marshall & Brooks. p. 632-635.
                    Return to index.

READING, Governor John II (1686-1767) NJ

Fitzgerald, Thomas F., ed. Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey. Trenton, 1926. P. 140-144.

General Catalogue of Princeton University 1746-1906. Princeton, NJ: The University, 1908. P. 14.

            Leach, Josiah. Genealogical and Biographical Memorials of the Reading,
                    Howell, Veckers, Watts, Latham and Elkins Families. Philadelphia:
                    J.B. Lippincott Company, 1898.
                           (There is also information on his wife, Mary Ryerson.)

Nelson, William. New Jersey Civil List, 1664-1800; Compiled from Volumes of Commissions, Leaming & Spicer, New Jersey Archives and Journals of the Joint Meetings. [S.l.: s.n., 1800]. Liber AAA of Commissions, p. 198, 235.
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REDFORD, John (? - c1752) VA

Lindsay, Joyce H. Marriages of Henrico County, Virginia, 1680-1808. [Richmond]: J. H. Lindsay, 1960; Easley, SC: Southern Historical, 1983. P. 71.

Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Richmond: Virginia Historical Society. Vol. 32 (1924), p. 58.

Weisiger, Benjamin B. Colonial Wills of Henrico County, Virginia. [Richmond]:Weisiger, 1976-77. Vol. 2 (1737-1781). Return to index.

REED, Joseph (1741-1785) PA

            Reed, William B. Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed: military
                    secretary Washington, at Cambridge, adjutant-general of the
                    Continental Army, member of the Congress of the United States,
                    and President of the Executive Council of the State of Pennsylvania.
                    Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1847. Vol. I, II Return to index.

REED (REID), Samuel (1728-1810) NC

DAR Patriot Index. Washington: National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, 1966. (Centennial ed., 1994.) p. 560-61.

Knight, Lucian L. Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials and Legends. Atlanta: Byrd
Printing Co., 1913-14. Vol. 1, p. 868.

--------. Georgia's Roster of the Revolution. Baltimore: Genealogical
Pub. Co., 1967. p. 464.

Maddox, Joseph T. Information on Some Georgia Pioneers.
[Irwinton, GA]: J.T. Maddox, [1982]

Maddox, Joseph T., and Mary Carter. North Carolina Revolutionary Soldiers, Sailors, Patriots and Descendants. Albany, GA: Georgia Pioneers Publications, 1976. Vol. 2.

Smith, Clifford Lewis. History of Troup County. Atlanta, GA: Foote and Davis, 1933, 1935.

Wheeler, John H. Historical Sketches of North Carolina: from 1584 to 1851. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co., 1851; New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1925; Baltimore: Regional Pub. Co., 1964, 1970. P. 77. Return to index.

RHETT, Colonel William (1666-1723) SC

            Smith, Arthur M. Some Account of the Smiths of Exeter and Their
                   Descendants. Exeter, England: William Pollard & Co., 1896.
                        (Arthur Morton. Printed for private circulation. Available from
                          Library of Congress: editions of 1896, 1900 and 1983; master
                          microfilm, two copies each printing. Also available from University
                          of Michigan Libraries, Ann Arbor, Michigan; photocopy, 1896
                          edition. Also available from Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown,
                          Connecticut; 1900 edition.) Return to index.

RICE, David (c.1737-c.1804) NC

            Saunders, William L. and Walter Clark (eds.). The Colonial Records of
                    North Carolina, Vol X, pp. 847, 355. Raleigh: P. M. Hale (and others),
                    Printer to the State, 1886-1890 [10v]. Published under the supervision of the
                    trustees of the public libraries by order of the General Assembly.
                    Reprinted, New York, AMS Press, 1968-78. 30v.

            Wheeler, John Hill. Historical Sketches of North Carolina, 1584-1851.
                    compiled from original records, official documents and traditional
                    statements with biographical sketches of her distinguished statesmen,
                    jurists, lawyers, soldiers, divines, etc...., p.160. Philadelphia: Lippincott,
                    Grambo and Co., 1851. Reprinted, New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock,
                    1925. 2v. Return to index.

RICE, Edmund (c.1594-1663) MA

Bennett, Archibald F. "Ancestry of the Wife of Edmund Rice". The American Genealogist. Vol. 26 (1949), p. 10.

Holman, Mary Lovering., et al. Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington stevens and His Wife Frances Helen Miller. Concord, NH: Privately Printed by the Rumford Press, 1948-1953. Vol. 2, p. 109-129.

____________________. "English Notes on Edmund Rice" The American Genealogist. Vol. 10 (1933), p. 133-137.

____________________. "The Wife of Edmund Rice". The American Genealogist. Vol. 15 (1938), p. 227.

            Hudson, Charles. History of the town of Marlborough, Middlesex County,
                    Massachusetts, from its first settlement in 1657 to 1861; with a
                    brief sketch of the town of Northborough, a genealogy of the families
                    in Marlborough to 1800, and an account of the celebration of the two
                    hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town. Boston:
                    Press of T. R. Marvin & Son, 1862. P. 431.

Rice, Franklin P. Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts: to the End of the Year 1849. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996, 1908. P. 384. (http://catalog.hathitrust.org)

Savage, James, Dexter, O.P. and John Farmer. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of the Farmer's Register. Boston: Little Brown, and Co., 1860; Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1965. Vol.3, p. 528. (www.archive.org; http://name.umdl.umich.edu/ABE2564; http://persi.heritagequestonline.com)

Smith, Elsie Hawes. Edmund Rice and His Family. [Boston: The Meador Press} 1938. P. 12, 13.

Torrey, Clarence Almon, and Elizabeth Petty Bentley. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1972-9; 2001, 2011; Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1992. P. 620.

            Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849.
                    Worcester, MA: Franklin. P. Rice, trustee of the fund, 1908. [Systematic
                    history fund (publications).]

Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903. P. 258, 323. (www.archive.org; http://catalog.hathitrust.org)

Ward, Andrew Henshaw. A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Who Came from Berkhamstead, England, and Settled at Sudbury, Massachusetts I 1638 or 9. Boston: C.B. Richardson, 1858; [New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1993]. P.1-5. (http://catalog.hathitrust.org) (Continuations of this title were published in 1967 and 1970 by the Edmund Rice (1638) Assoc. Return to index

RICHARDSON, Richard (1704-1780) SC

Clark, Chovine R. Lineage of Chovine Richardson Clark. Sumter, SC: Wilder
and Ward Offset Printing.

Hill, Lowick Johnson. The Hills of Wilkes County Georgia and Allied Families.
Atlanta, GA: Johnson- Dallas Company.

Transactions of the Hugenot Society of South Carolina. No. 81, pg. 47. 1976.
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RICHMOND, Captain Edward (1632-1696) RI and MA

            The Genealogical Encyclopedic History of the Wheeler Family in America.
                    Compiled by the American College of Genealogy. Boston: American
                    College of Genealogy, 1914.

            Richmond, Joshua Bailey. The Richmond Family 1594-1896. Boston: JB
                    Richmond, 1897. Denver: Colorado State Archives, 1972, microfilm.
                    Return to index.

RIDGELY, Nicholas (1694-1755) DE

Counties of New-Castle, Kent, and Sussex upon Delaware. Assembly. Minutes of the House of Assembly of the Three Counties Upon Delaware at Sessions Held at New Castle in the Years 1740-1742. [Dover, DE: Printed for the Public Archives Commission of Delaware, 1929] P. 33.

J.M. Runk & Co. Biographical and Genealogical History of the State of Delaware: Containing Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and Many of the Early Settlers. Chambersburg, PA: J.M. Runk, 1899. P. 787.

Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Delaware, 1609-1888. Philadelphia: L.J. Richards, 1888. Various reprintings. Vol. 1, p. 562. Return to index.

RINGO, Philip (1682-1757) NJ

            Ringo, David Leer and William K. Barnard. The Ringo Family History
                    Series, Book 2. Utica, KY: McDowell Publications for the Freeborn
                    Family Organization, -2001.

            Ringo, David Leer. The First Five Generations of the Ringo Family in
                    America. [Including as a supplement, "Early Collateral Families" by May
                    Ringo King.]   Alhambra, CA: Freeborn Family Organization, 1982.
                    Return to index.

RIVES, Timothy ( ? - 1773) VA

Childs, James Rives. Reliques of the Rives. Lynchburg, VA: J.P. Bell Co., Inc.,
1929. Return to index.