Aaron Rawlings

Aaron Rawlings II

DAR Ancestor #: A093450
Service: MARYLAND
Rank(s): PATRIOTIC SERVICE, PRIVATE
Birth: 6-28-1738 IN ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND
Death: 7-4-1798 IN ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND
Service Source: NARA M-804 BLWT #11626; MD STATE PAPERS, NO 4, PT 3; THE RED BOOKS PP. 22-23
Service Description: 1) REC BOUNTY LAND FOR SVC MD LINE; TOOK OATH OF FIDELITY

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Aaron Rawlings was born about 1667 in Anne Arundel, Maryland.

He married Susannah Jones. She was the daughter of Dr. William Jones. Dr. Jones often confused with the two other William Joneses.

Their son, Aaron Rawlings married Susannah Beard (daughter of Stephen).

Maryland Assembly Proceedings, April, 1707 - Aaron Rawlings of Anne Arundel Co., Planter, called before the Board, Acknowledged that he ordered his man and boy to go with his teame and assist Richard Clark's wife with her goods downe to the Landing which he says he did in his ignorance being told by her boy the Sloop had entered Annapolis and would clear there againe. His Excellency ask him if he did not know that Richard Clark was Outlawed. He said Yes, but did not intend to assist him, for the woman said she would pay him for the use of his teame.

His Excellency tells him he knew better. After which his Excellency and the Board ordered the said Rawlings should give very good security in 500 sterling to appear before the Council at any time within two months when called upon.

From The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland by Joshua Dorsey Warfield

Aaron Rawlings, of Anne Arundel County, in 1741, named his wife, Susannah, and sons, Jonathan, Aaron, William and Stephen. The last two inherited Darnan's Groves in Prince George County. "My lands in Baltimore County, called Brown's Adventure" to sons and daughter Ann. Aaron to hold the homestead.

This testator's wife was Susannah Beard, the daughter of Stephen. Her will closes the Rawlings previous to the Revolution. In 1762, she named her sons, Aaron, Moses, Richard, daughter Mary, and four married daughters, Ann, Susannah, Rachel and Elizabeth. Her son, Aaron, and son-in-law, Gassaway Watkins, executors.

The Society of Friends (Quakers) began in England in the 1650s, when they broke away from the Puritans. Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn, as a safe place for Friends to live and practice their faith.

The Affirmation of Susanna [Jones] Rawlings of Ann Arundel County widow taken at the house of Aaron Rawlings in the Afsd. County on Saturday the Sixth Day of Jly 1745 pursuant to the Adjournment of the Commissioners before mentioned.

Susanna Rawlings of Ann Arundel County Widow aged Sixty eighth years or thereabouts, [born about 1677] being one of the People called Quakers, a Witness produced and examined ?? in behalf of the Complt. affirmeth and declareth as followeth,

Item 1. To the first Intorrogatory this Affirmant solomnly [m?-es] & affirms, That She has known the Complt. Six or Seven years, and the Defendent from his childhood.

Item 2. To the second Interrog this affirmant saith That she hath heard of Richard Beard the Defendant’s Great Grandfather, but never knew him, and do not know when he died.

Item 3. To the third Interog this Affirmant Saith, That William Jones of Ann Arundel County surgeon was her Father, at whose Death she has been informed that she was one year and half old. That she hath been often informed by a certain Rebecca Nicholson deceased, who was Daughter of the Af.d. Richard Beard Afsd. Great Grandfather, that her this affirmant’s Aforesaid Father William Jones died first.

Item 5. [sic] To the fifth Interrogatory this Affirmant Saith, That her Father left a son who died as she believes when he was about eight or nine years old, altho her Sister Mary who was married to one Robert Kirkland, and her self who was married to Aaron Rawlings Senior deceased, and that she never knew or heard of any other Children that the af.d Wm. Jones had in Maryland but has heard he had one in England who died young.

Item 7. To the seventh Interrogatory this Affirmant Saith, That her sister Mary Jones did intermarry with a certain Robert Kirkland as abovesaid some time after her Father’s Death, and that there was a Division made between the Af.d Kirkland this wife and She this affirmant of their Afd. Father’s lands and that the Lands left her by her Father lying on Beard’s Creek fell to her This Affirmant’s Share or her part; That this affirmant afterword intermarried with a certain Aaron Rawlings Sr. deceased. with whom she joined in a sale of the lands unto one Charles Tilley
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Aaron Rawlings (the father of the subject of this profile) was born in 1667 and married in All Hallows' Parish on December 14, 1725, Susannah Beard, and died in 1741; their children were:

CHILDREN

(1) Jonathan, who married and had issue (a) Richard, (b) Gassaway, (c) Samuel;
(2) Aaron II, who married Mary Somers in 1760 or 1761;
(3) Ann, who married a Mr. Jones;
(4) William,
(5) Stephen, who married Elizabeth Tyler.

The children of Aaron and Mary (Somers) Rawlings were: (1) John, who died without issue; (2) Aaron, who had two daughters, Mary A. and Eliza Rawlings, neither of whom married; (3) Moses: (4 Richard, who died without issue; (5) Nathan, who died without issue; (6) Susannah, who married Stephen Beard; (7) Ann, who died without issue; (8) Elizabeth, who married William Atwell; (9) Mary, who married Mr. Lushy: (10) Rebecca, who married John Duval, of Marsh.

From an old Bible inherited from Mary Somers, who married Aaron Rawlings, are taken the following records of the children of Aaron and Mary Rawlings (Somers), who were married in 1760 or 1761: (1) Susannah Rawlings, born June 30, 1762; (2) John Rawlings, born February 2, 1764; (3) Ann Rawlings, born April 15, 1765; (4) Elizabeth Rawlings, born July 15, 1766; (5) Aaron Rawlings III, born January 28, 1768; (6) Mary Rawlings, born May 13, 1769; (7) Moses Rawlings, born May 7, 1770; (8) Rebecca Rawlings. born October 21, 1772; (9) Richard Rawlings, born November 5, 1774 and (10) Nathan Rawlings, born December 31, 1776.

Rebecca Rawlings, born August 1, 1780, married John Duval of Marsh. The following deaths are also recorded Aaron Rawlings died in 1778, in the sixtieth year of his age; Rebecca, daughter of Aaron and Mary Rawlings, died on August 18. 1779; Richard Rawlings, son of Aaron and Mary Rawlings, on died August 11, 1800, in his twenty-sixth year of his age; Nathan, another son, died on December 17, 1800, in his twenty-fifth year of his age; Ann Rawlings, a daughter, died on December 10, 1802, in her thirty-eighth year of her age and Aaron Rawlings, a son, died on April 23, 1804, in the thirty-eighth year of his age, leaving only two daughters, who both died unmarried at an advanced age. Sophia Rawlings, consort of John Rawlings, died on May 21, 1810, and her husband, John Rawlings, son of Aaron and Mary Rawlings, died on January 8, 1812. Mary Lusby daughter of Aaron and Mary Rawlings. died on October 25, 1814.

Mary Rawlings, wife of Aaron Rawlings, died December 25, 1817, in the seventy-ninth year of her age Susannah Beard, consort of Stephen Beard, died on August 7, 1821, aged 60; Elizabeth Atwell died on December 31, 1824, in her fifty-eighth year of her age; Edward Lusby, son of Edward and Mary Lusby, died in May of 1822.

On another page of the Bible, in a different handwriting, is entered the death of Mary Rawlings, the wife of Aaron Rawlings and daughter of John and Mary Somers, December 26, 1817, in her seventy-ninth year. This Aaron Rawlings was a brother of General Moses Rawlings, and served with his brother in the Revolutionary War and was mustered out of service in 1783. He died July 4, 1798, in the sixtieth year of his age.

The Bible in which are these entries came from Mary Somers, and has no Rawlings records except such as refer to her family, and these are here given. The funeral sermon of Mary (Somers) Rawlings was preached by Rev. Mr. Duncan, the text being taken from Revelations, Hi, 21, beginning, "To him that overcomes. "Rebecca Rawlings, who married John Duval, of "Marsh," was the daughter of Aaron and Mary (Somers) Rawlings and granddaughter of Aaron and Susannah (Beard) Rawlings."

Her son, John Rawlings Duval, married Miss Elizabeth Warfield Rieman of Baltimore, and their children are:

(1) Henry Rieman Duval of New York, whose wife was formerly Miss Nannie Gordon Thomas of Baltimore, and whose children are (a) Hanson Rawlings Duval, (b) Rieman Gordon Duval, (c) Nannie Gordon Duval, all of New York.
(2) The late John Rawlings Duval.
(3) Miss Mary Rebecca Duval, who resides in the Duval homestead, on North Howard Street.

Name Aaron Rawlings
Rank Private
Number Acres 100
Issue Date 11 March 1791
Number Warrant 11, 626

Maryland Revolutionary War Records

Name Aaron Rawlings
Parish All Hallows Parish
County Anne Arundel
State Maryland
Other Residents: 1 white male, 1 white female, 9 white children, 1 black female, 7 black children, 2 taxable

Maryland, U.S., Colonial Census, 1776

Name Aaron Rawlings
Residence Date 1778
Residence Place Oath of Fidelity, Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA
Form type Fidelity Oath
Page 023
Database MD Early Census Index

Maryland, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1776-1890

Name Aaron Rawlings
Home in 1790 (City, County, State) Anne Arundel, Maryland
Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over 2
Free White Persons - Males - Under 16 2
Free White Persons - Females 6
Number of All Other Free Persons 1
Number of Slaves 13
Number of Household Members 24

1790 United States Federal Census

Name Aaron Rawlings
Record Type Burial
Death Date about 1798
Burial Date 5 Jul 1798
Burial Place Maryland, USA
URL https://msa.maryland.gov/msa/stagser/s1400/s1402/html/ssi1402r.html

Maryland State Archives, Index to Deaths and Burials, 1697-1800

Name: Aaron Rawlings
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 28 June 1738
Birth Place: Anne Arundel County Maryland
Death Date: 4 Jul 1798
Death Place: Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Spouse: Mary Somers

Geneanet Community Trees Index

Name: Aaron Rawlings
Probate Place: Maryland, United States
Death Place: Maryland, United States
Description: Wills, Vol 21-22, 1734-1742
Individuals Listed: Aaron Rawlings

Maryland, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1777

Rawlings, Aaron
Burial: July 5, 1798
Source: SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (All Hallow's Protestant Episcopal Church Collection) Parish Register 1711-1857, p. 69 [MSA SC 2458 M 221]