When John Raines was born in 1796, in Knox, Kentucky, United States, his father, Thomas Rains, was 27 and his mother, Sarah Belue, was 32. He married Permilia Amelia Cox on 1 October 1829, in Bartholomew, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Platte, Missouri, United States in 1840 and Marion, Union, Oregon, United States in 1860.
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In 1796, the Wilderness Road opened up for wagon use. The route was used by colonial and early settlers to reach Kentucky from the East. It started in Virginia, and went southward to Tennessee and then went north to Kentucky. The main danger of this route was Native American attacks.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
English: variant of Raine , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: habitational name from Rayne (Essex), recorded in the Domesday Book as Raines in the 11th century. The etymology of the placename is uncertain, but it may derive from Old English hrægene ‘hut, shelter’ or from a pre-English river name for Pods Brook (a river on which Rayne lies), cognate with the German river name Regen (a tributary of the Danube), formed from the Indo-European root reg- ‘wet, moisten, water’.
English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Rennes in Brittany, France.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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