Richard Gaines

Abt 1610 -

• Name	Richard Gaines
  Birth	Abt 1610	Wales
  Gender	Male
  _UID	D44FD4708DEE044DB18BAD43E48261315797
  Person ID	I77848	sorrells
  Last Modified	26 May 2022

  
  

  Family	Rawlings
  Children	1. James Gaines,   b. 1630, VA
  Family ID	F30753	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Oct 2024

  
  

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• Notes

  History of the Gaines Family: First Generation Richard and Roger Gaines, two brothers, emigrated from Wales to Virginia soon after the establishment of the Colony of Jamestown, Virginia, perhaps about 1620. After stopping for a short time at the village they wandered on up the country where only a few white families had preceded them. They dropped in with the family of a Mr. Rawlins while journeying. Mr. Rawlins had two beautiful daughters, and of course, some love cases sprang up soon, and for a time loves's course ran smoother, but later was interrupted by the young ladies on account of some rudeness of the youn men. After repeated apologies and promises of reform, they were forgiven, and the two Gaines boys married the two Rawlins girls. An old colonial will shows where Mr. Rawlins, the father of Richard Gains' wife, gave her certain lands and a negro girl. Roger and Richard Gaines stared life in what is now Culpepper and Madiosn Counties, Virginia. Roger Gaines had two sons, and Richard Gaines had twelve sons. From these two families we think the majority, if not all of the Gaineses in the United States sprang. We spring from the Richard Gaines line.