(Continuing with the John Rector discussion.)
In the previous two Notes, we have examined Barbara Vines Little's research which found that a certain John Rector was actually two separate John Rectors. She identified the one which moved to North Carolina with his wife Rebecca. This John Rector was the son of the 1734 immigrant.
John Alcock, in the same issue of Beyond Germanna , identified the other John Rector. The present Note will clarify his identity. The language is taken from John Alcock's Note on page 432 of Beyond Germanna .
"How does the one [John Rector] who married Mary fit into the Rector lineage chart? As I will show below, he is the son of Harman Rector, Sr., and thus a grandson of John Rector, the 1714 immigrant.
"In the 1759 tithable list for the district which included Germantown, Harmon Rector has four tithes: Himself, John Rictor, Harman Rictor (Jr.), and one slave. In 1778, the next extant list that included the Germantown area, only Harman Rector was named, but both Harmon, Sr., and John are there in 1781, and John continued there at least until 1810. He died in Fauquier in 1815. Until 1799 when his son joined him, he was the only John Rector on the tax list for that part of the county. In the 1777 quit rent roll he is distinguished as John Rector G.T. (of Germantown). The land John and Rebecca Rector sold was some miles northwest of Germantown in another tax district, where the tax records before 1777 have been lost.
"John Rector, the son of Harman, Sr., can safely said to have been born about 1740 from his position on the 1759 tithable tax list under his father Harman, Sr., and above his brother, Harman, Jr. He made his first purchase of land in 1765, probably about the time of his marriage. He had six sons and three daughters. I can't tell whether his wife Mary, who relinquished her dower rights to land sold in 1795 and 1796, was the mother of all or any of them. She died before her husband did.
"We know from the will of Harman Rector, ,. that he had three sons. We now have identified John and Harman, Jr. An analysis of who the third son might have been will be the subject of a later article in this series."
(13 Sep 05)
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