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JOHN RATHBONE, SR., many years before his death, settled his sons on farms on Block Island, where they lived with their children. Their grandchildren, however, scattered, leaving, it is supposed, the descendants of Samuel alone, of the name, on the island. His grandson (32) Jonathan, son of his son (4) John, removed to Colchester, Conn. He is the ancestor of the RATHBONES of Albany, N. Y., and of Otsego county, N. Y. (34) Joshua, another son of (4) John, settled at Stonington, Conn., and is the ancestor of the RATHBONES in New York city. John, Benjamin, Nathaniel and Thomas, also sons of (4) John, settled in Exeter, R. I. (77) Elijah, son of (53) Samuel, settled in Groton, Conn., and had numerous descendants.
2. William, son of (1) John Rathbone and Margaret -, married Sarah - -, December 18, 1680, and had 1
10 William, b. November 12, 1681 ; m. SARAH MOTT, January 30, 1705-6.
11 Cora (?), b. December 8, 1682.
12 John, b. July 9, 1684 ; (by will of his grandfather he had half of the house at Newport, R. I.)
13 Thomas, b. July 21, 1686.
14 Jonathan, b. November 25, 1688.
15 Elizabeth, b. May 30, 1691.
16 Ann, b. July 9, 1693 ; m. WILLIAM DODGE, JR., June 20, 1728.
17 Dorcas, b. July 14, 1695 ; m. THOMAS WEAST, September 20, 1716.
18 Ebenezer, b. January 28, 1696-7.
19 Mary, b. July 5, 1699.
20 Eleanor, b. August 1, 1701.
William Rathbone was appointed by the Colony of Rhode Island as Constable for Block Island in 1688. He was ad-
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mitted freeman of the Colony by vote of the General Assembly May 5, 1696. To be capable of this franchise it was then necessary that a person should be of age, a " housekeeper," and recommended to the Assembly as a man of reliable character.
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Thomas (Capt.), son of (1) John Rathbone and Mar- garet , married Mary Dickens, April 21, 1685, and had
21 Margaret, b. January 17, 1686.
22 Mary, b. November 24, 1687 ; m. JOHN GARNER about 1717.
23 Patience, b. November 14, 1690.
24 Content, b. January 17, 1692.
25 Thomas, Jr., b. January 29, 1695 ; m. LYDIA MOTT, October 27, 1715.
26 Sarah, b. April 1, 1698.
27 Elizabeth, b. March 13, 1700 ; m. JOHN GAY, February 14, 1720. 28 Samuel, b. July 1, 1702.
29 John, b. May 29, 1705 ; m. EXPERIENCE -, January 1, 1726. 30 Sibea, b. March 16, 1707.
Capt. Thomas Rathbone made a will November 14, 1733; proved January 11, 1734-5, leaving his estate to his three sons. He was admitted a freeman of Rhode Island in. 1696, and in 1700 was a representative in the General Assembly from Block Island, also in 1704, 1712 and 1731. At the close of the French war, while deputy from New Shoreham, Block Island, he was found remonstrating in the Rhode Island As- sembly against the onerous taxation of the inhabitants of Block Island, considering the great charges they had been at in their own defense against His Majesty's enemies, the French. Being in an exposed position they had been obliged to main- tain a quota of men for the protection of the Island, to guard against the attacks of piratical vessels by which it was con- stantly threatened.
4. John, son of (1) John Rathbone and Margaret married Ann Dodge, January 10, 1688, and had
31 Mary, b. October 3, 1688,
32 Jonathan, b. May 22, 1691 ; m. ELIZABETH ; d. April 1, 1766.
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33 John, b. December 23, 1693 ; m. PATIENCE FISH, December 20, 1720.
34 Joshua, b. February 9, 1696 ; m. MARY WIGHTMAN, February 16, 1724.
35 Benjamin, b. February 11, 1701.
36 Annah, b. August 9, 1703.
37 Nathaniel, b. February 6, 1708.
38 Thomas, b. March 2, 1709.
John Rathbone was admitted a freeman by the Assembly of Rhode Island May 5, 1696. He received from his father just before his marriage a deed for sixty acres of land on Block Island, the nominal consideration for which was " one barrel of pork on demand." The farm was probably a wedding present.
December 13, 1698, "Great James" and Jane, his wife (Indians), bound their daughter Betsey to JOHN RATHBONE and ANN, his wife, as an indented servant for eighteen years ; the consideration was one gallon of rum and one blanket in hand, and five years after one gallon of run, and thereafter yearly ; and if she remains five years, then the said RATHBONE to pay four blankets and one every third year thereafter.
5. Joseph, son of (1) John Rathbone and Margaret › married Mary Mosher, May 19, 1691, and had
39 Elizabeth, b. May 14, 1692.
40 Rebecca, b, March 1, 1694.
41 Grace, b. July 16, 1695.
42 Mary, b. March 6, 1697 ; d. y.
43 Margaret, b. November 29, 1700.
44 Mary, b. February 14, 1703.
45 Hannah, b. March 21, 1706.
46 Joseph, b. October 4, 1707.
47 Benjamin, b. February 6, 1710.
48 A son, b. April 1, 1712.
Joseph Rathbone was admitted a freeman in Rhode Island 1696.
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Samuel, son of (1) John Rathbone and Margaret was born August 3, 1672; married Patience Novem- ber 3, 1692, and had
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49 Thomas, b. May 3, 1695; d. 1733.
50 Patience, b. August 21, 1697.
51 Mary, b. September 11, 1700 ; m. (JAMES GOULD, June 6, 1723 ?) 52 Wait, b. December 30, 1702 ; m. THOMAS DICKENS, June 1, 1727. 53 Samuel, b. April 16, 1705 ; m. ELIZABETH DODGE, March 15, 1732 ; d. January 24, 1780.
54 James, b. April 10, 1707 ; m. MERCY DOWNING, September 7, 1732.
55 Abraham, b. November 23, 1709 ; m. MARY MOSHER, January 11, 1735.
56 Rebecca, b. January 9, 1713 ; m. JOHN RIDER, of Newport, Sep- tember 25, 1735.
Patience -, wife of SAMUEL RATHBONE, died August 3, 1747, æ. 78 years, less 10 days.
SAMUEL RATHBONE died on Block Island January 24, 1757.
SAMUEL RATHBONE's descendants are still to be found on the Island. At the time of his father's death he owned and re- sided on his own farm. When he died he left in his house a " table and cubbard " left to him by his father as an "heir- loom." One of the descendants of Samuel still possesses his old family Bible, Oxford imprint, 1725, in which is inscribed the family record, and during his life-time in his own hand- writing. This Bible, which tradition says was imported for him, he bequeathed "ye 4th day, A. D., 1743, to his son Samuel, and at his death to his grandson WALTER RATHBONE." WALTER RATHBONE at his death gave the Bible to his daughter Catharine Rathbone Mott, and at her death to his grandson Walter Rathbone Mott, who owned it in 1879.
The lands which the RATHBONE's and Mott's own are some of the most eligible for locality and for fertility on the Island, and are the same that the first RATHBONE settlers occupied. On the site of their ancient family dwelling, which disappeared . a century ago, there is still the hollow where the cellar once was, in which now grows the rankest grass.
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William, son of (2) William Rathbone and Sarah was born November 12, 1681 ; married Sarah Mott, January 30, 1705-6, and had
57 Daniel, b. October 30, 1706.
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Thomas, Jr., son of (3) Capt. Thomas Rathbone and Mary Dickens, was born January 29, 1695 ; married Lydia, daughter of Nathaniel Mott, of Block Island, October 27, 1715, and had
58 Nathaniel, b. August 22, 1719 ; m. ANN PECK, September 10, 1741. 59 Lydia, b. July 31, 1721 ; m. MARK DODGE, October 15, 1740.
60 Beersheba, b. November 10, 1725 ; m. JOHN PAYN, January 10, 1744.
61 Sibel, b. November 20, 1727.
62 Thomas, b. August 6, 1730.
63 Sarah, b. November 5, 1732.
64 Gamelion, b. February 21, 1737-8.
Thomas Rathbone was admitted freeman in 1720.
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John, son of (3) Capt. Thomas Rathbone and Mary Dickens, was born May 29, 1705 ; married Experience -, January 1, 1726, and had
65 Elizabeth, b. July 27, 1728.
66 John, b. August 7, 1730.
67 Simeon, b. June 27, 1732.
68 Miriam, b. May 16, 1736.
69 Payschence, b. January 22, 1742.
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Jonathan, son of (4) John Rathbone, Jr., and Ann Dodge, was born May 22, 1691; married Elizabeth and had
70 John, b. January 1, 1715 ; m. ANNA TENNANT, March 30, 1737 ; d. November 27, 1755 ; æ. 41 years.
71 Benjamin, m. MARY COHOON, November 11, 1742.
72 Jonathan, m. ABIGAIL, AVERY, November 8, 1744.
73 Joshua, - m. SARAH TENNANT, December 4, 1745.
b. September 7, 1723.
m. FANNY LAMPHEAR, May 9, 1764.
74 Isaiah, 741 Joseph.
74} Elizabeth.
And probably other children.
Jonathan Rathbone died April 1, 1766, æ. 75 years.
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Having the pioneering spirit which had so largely character- ized his ancestors, he removed, while a young man and before the year 1715, to that part of New London county, Conn., formerly called Colchester, now the town of Salem, and pur- chased from the Mohegan Indians a tract of land on which he settled, a portion of which has continued uninterruptedly in the possession of his descendants of the same name to this day. He was a member of the Baptist church there in 1726.
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Samuel, Jr., son of (6) Samuel Rathbone and Patience , was born April 16, 1705 ; married Elizabeth Dodge, of Westerly, Rhode Island, March 15, 1732, and had
75 Walter, b. June 16, 1734 ; m. HANNAH ROSE, March 4, 1756; d. January, 1818.
76 Samuel, b. July 10, 1736 ; m. SUSANNA REYNOLDS, November 19, 1758.
77 Elijah, b. May 28, 1740 ; m., 1st, BETSEY BURROWS, of Groton, Conn. ; 2d, DESIRE WALWORTH, a widow ; d. February 14, 1825. 78 Betsey, b. December 2, 1742 ; m. JAMES DODGE.
Samuel Rathbone, Jr., died on Block Island January 24, 1780.
ELIZABETH DODGE, widow of SAMUEL RATHBONE, JR., died August 8, 1793, in her 79th year.
The children of this generation began to spell their names " Rathbun."
SAMUEL RATHBONE, JR., in 1755, was a member of the Rhode Island Assembly as the representative from Block Island. He made a will November 26, 1777.
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James, son of (6) Samuel Rathbone and Patience was born April 10, 1707 ; married Mercy Downing, September 7, 1732, and had
79 Rebecca, b. April 27, 1735.
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Abraham, son of (6) Samuel Rathbone and Patience , was born November 23, 1709 ; married Mary Mosher, January 11, 1735, and had
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80 Catharine, b. December 29, 1736.
81 Coggeshall, b. July 16, 1738.
82 Mary, b. September 21, 1740.
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Nathaniel, son of (25) Thomas Rathbone, Jr., and Lydia Mott, was born Angust 22, 1719; married Ann Peck, September 10, 1741, and had
83 Ann, b. June 18, 1742.
84 Mary, b. September 7, 1744.
Nathaniel Rathbone, of Block Island, was admitted free- man in 1736.
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Walter, son of (53) Samuel Rathbone, Jr., and Eliza- beth Dodge, was born June 16, 1734; married Hannah Rose, March 4, 1756, and had
85 Abraham, b. February 22, 1757 ; d. y.
86 Lydia, b. November 29, 1758 ; d. 1780.
87 Tamar, b. February 15, 1761 ; d. 1809.
88 Hannah, b. December 22, 1764 ; m. ARCHIBALD MILLEKEN ; d. 1813.
89 Ezra, b. - -; d. y. m. WAITY LITTLEFIELD.
90 James, b. May 13, 1768. 1
91 Catharine, ) m. DANIEL MOTT.
Hannah Rose, wife of WALTER RATHBUN, died March 10, 1807, in her 79th year.
WALTER RATHBUN died January, 1818. He was for sixty years Town Clerk of New Shoreham. He was admitted freeman in 1757; in 1754 was Representative of Block Island in the Gen- eral Assembly, and in the same year was appointed by the Islanders, at a town meeting, as one of a committee "to give the closest attention to every thing which concerns the liberties of America." The committee " were to resist vigorously the duty on tea enforced by England." In 1780 his brother Samuel gave him a power of attorney. to manage his property on Block Island. Samuel then resided in Greenwich, Fairfield county, Conn.
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Elijah, son of (53) Samuel Rathbone, Jr., and Elizabeth Dodge, was born May 28, 1740; married, 1st, Betsey Burrows, of Groton, Conn., and had .
92 Benjamin, b. 1766; m. ELIZABETH PACKER; d. October 13, 1795. 93 Samuel, b. 1767 ; m. NABBY BURROWS ; d. April 3, 1840.
94 Lucretia, b. -; d. y.
95 Nancy, b. ; m. JAMES SAWYER ; d. 1831.
96 Betsey, b. -; m. ELISHA ROSE, of Block Island.
Betsey Burrows, wife of ELIJAH RATHBUN, died of small-pox. He married, 2d, DESIRE WALWORTH, widow of Ichabod Packer, and had
97 Desire, b. 1781 ; m. RICHARD BILL ; d. 1800.
98 Elisha, b, December 14, 1782 ; m. LUCRETIA PACKER; d. May 5, 1857
99 Hannah, b. -; m. Capt. SILAS BEEBE ; d. October 27, 1812.
Elijah Rathbun settled in Groton, Conn., where he died February 14, 1825.
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Joshua, son of (32) Jonathan Rathbone and Elizabeth , was born September 7, 1723 ; married Sarah Tennant, December 4, 1745, and had
100 Elizabeth, b. June 9, 1747.
- TREADWAY, and had 101 Tabitha, b. August 4, 1749; m., 1st,
1 Sarah.
2 Mary.
TREADWAY died. She married, 2d, - - HOLMES, in 1806, and had 3 Clarissa:
102 Joshua, b. May 7, 1751 ; m. EUNICE MARTIN.
103 Sarah, b. November 23, 1752 ; m. - - CHAMBERLAIN ; removed to Richfield Springs, N. Y.
104 Moses, b. November 12, 1754 ; m. OLIVE RANSOM.
105 Lucy, b. April 29, 1756.
106 Samuel, ) m. LYDIA SPARHAWK, March 1, 1785 ; d. February 16, 1831. b. September 12, 1758.
107 Anna, J m.
- - HOLMES.
Joshua Rathbone was a godly truth-seeking man, and was always known as DEACON RATHBONE.
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102.
Joshua, son of (73) Joshua Rathbone and Sarah Ten- nant, was born May 7, 1751; married Eunice Martin, of Narragansett, and had
108 Anderson.
109 Martin, m. BETSEY BROWN, of Colchester.
110 Horace, d. y.
111 Sarah, d. y.
112 Mary, d. y.
113 Eunice, m. AMASA HILL.
114 Lucy; m. - FITCH.
115 Penelope, m. - MCCHESNEY.
116 Bathsheba, m. - BUNNELL, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
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Moses, son of (73) Joshua Rathbone and Sarah Tennant, was born November 12, 1754 ; married Olive Ransom, and had
117 Amasa
118 Ransom.
119 Israel, m. the widow of John Ganson, of Leroy, N. Y.
120 John.
121 Elijah.
122 Betsey, m. - TUNNECLIFF.
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Samuel, son of (73) Joshua Rathbone and Sarah Ten- nant, was born September 12, 1758; married Lydia, daughter of Simon Sparhawk and Lydia Brown, March 1, 1785, and had
123 Samuel, b. August 8, 1786 ; d. October 9, 1787.
124 Valentine Wightman, b. September 13, 1788 ; m. NANCY FORSYTH, 1814 ; d. May 18, 1833.
125 Jared Lewis, b. August 2, 1791 ; m. PAULINE N. PENNEY, June 26, 1834; d. May 13, 1845.
126 Lydia, b. March 21, 1794 ; m. WILLIAM W. REED, November 17, 1819; d. August 7, 1873.
127 Samuel, b. November 6, 1796 ; d. s. October 17, 1818.
128 Sabria Lewis, b. July 3, 1799 ; m. CLARK RANSOM, February 10, 1818.
129 Anna, b. November 6, 1803 ; m. DAVID JEWETT : no ch .; d. No- vember 12, 1865.
130 Joel, b. August 3, 1806; m. EMELINE W. MUNN, May 5, 1829 ; d. September 13, 1863.
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Lydia Sparhawk, wife of SAMUEL RATHBONE, died July 13, 1825, æ. 60 years.
SAMUEL RATHBONE died at Colchester, Conn., February 16, 1831. He resided on a farm of several hundred acres be- queathed him by his father.
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Israel, son of (104) Moses Rathbone and Olive Ransom, married the widow of John Ganson, of Le Roy, N. Y., and had
131 Elizabeth, m. EDGAR BACON.
132 William Palmer.
133 Harriet, m. WILLIAM LOVERING.
The wife of ISRAEL RATHBONE had by her first husband, JOHN GANSON : 1 John, Jr., m. MARY, daughter of Mark Sibley. JOHN GAN- SON, JR., was a brilliant lawyer, late of Buffalo, N. Y.
2 James M., President of Rich's Bank, Buffalo, N. Y.
3 Walter Ganson (M. D.), who m. - in Batavia.
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Valentine Wightman, son of (106) Samuel Rath- bone and Lydia Sparhawk, was born at Salem, Conn., Sep- tember 13, 1788; married Nancy Forsyth, in 1814, and had
134 Lewis, b. February 13, 1818 ; m., 1st, LAVINIA SILLIMAN ; 2d, MARY G. SMYTH, in 1855.
135 John Finley, b. October 18, 1819; m. MARY A. BAKER, June 10, 1844.
136 Harriet N., m. J. H. NICHOLS.
137 Julia H., m. 1st, JAMES KENNEDY, 1854 ; 2d, Rev. Dr. STARKEY, now Bishop of New Jersey, 1876 ; no ch.
Valentine W. Rathbone had four other children who died in infancy .. He died at Clarkson, May 18, 1833.
NANCY FORSYTH, widow of VALENTINE W. RATHBONE, died in Albany May 27, 1868.
VALENTINE WIGHTMAN RATHBONE was named after his rela- tive, the Rev. VALENTINE W. RATHBONE, a descendant of the Rev. Valentine Wightman who, in 1705, planted at Groton the first Baptist church in Connecticut, and who was lineally descended from the Rev. Edward Wightman, who was burned at the stake at Litchfield, Eng., in 1612, being the last man who suffered death for conscience sake in England.
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125.
Jared Lewis, son of (106) Samuel Rathbone and Lydia Sparhawk, was born August 2, 1791 ; married Pauline N., daughter of Joel Penney, of Buffalo, N. Y., June 26, 1834, and had
138 Charles, b. July 25, 1835 ; d. February 13, 1837.
139 Henry R., b. July 1, 1837 ; m. CLARA H. HARRIS, July 11, 1867. 140 Anna Pauline, b. September 10, 1840 ; d. December 13, 1842.
141 Jared Lawrence, b. September 28, 1844 ; m. MARIE ALEJANDRA ATIIERTON, February 20, 1871.
Jared L. Rathbone died at his residence in Albany, May 13, 1845.
PAULINE PENNEY, widow of JARED L. RATHBONE, married second Hon. Ira Harris, of Albany, and had one daughter, Pauline.
JARED L. RATHBONE was a successful merchant in Albany, N. Y. He established throughout the State and maintained for thirty years a deservedly high reputation. He was a di- rector in the State Bank at Albany and in the Albany Insur- ance Company. He was for several years elected to the Common Council and thrice called to fill the responsible posi- tion of chief magistrate of the city, being the last Mayor chosen by the council and the first elected by the vote of the people. Mr. RATHBONE belonged to a class of merchants to whose intelligence, enterprise and liberality Albany is greatly indebted for its prosperity, its improvements and its institu- tions.
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Lydia, daughter of (106) Samuel Rathbone and Lydia Sparhawk, was born in Salem, Conn., March 21, 1794 ; mar- ried William W., son of Daniel Reed (b. in Andover, Conn., October 31, 1757), November 17, 1819, and had
142 Henry, b. February 23, 1821 ; resides in Paris, France, single.
143 Edward, b. May 22, 18 -; m. FANNY MILLER; no ch.
144 Joel Rathbone, b. February 24, 1829 ; m. MARIANNA TOWNSEND, April 19, 1855; d. 1867.
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Lydia Rathbone, wife of WILLIAM W. REED, died in Albany August 7, 1873.
WILLIAM W. REED died in Albany, September 12, 1878.
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Sabria Lewis, daughter of (106) Samuel Rathbone and Lydia Sparhawk, was born in Salem, Conn., July 3, 1799; married Clark Ransom, of Lyme, Conn., February 10, 1818, and had
145 Samuel H., m. VIRGINIA SANFORD.
146 Lydia, m. JOSEPH P. SANFORD, U. S. N., January 7, 1846.
147 Albion, m., 1st, MARY DELAVAN ; 2d, CORNELIA C. NOTT.
Sabria Lewis Rathbone, widow of CLARK RANSOM, resides in Albany N. Y.
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Joel, son of (106) Samuel Rathbone and Lydia Sparhawk, was born in Salem, Conn., August 3, 1806 ; married Emeline, daughter of Lewis Munn (b. December 14, 1784; d. July 8, 1810), and Louisa Weld (b. April 1, 1791; d. December 6, 1808), May 5, 1829, and had
148 Jared Lewis, b. April 23, 1830 ; d. August 20, 1831.
149 Erastus Corning, b. January 1, 1832 ; d. February 2, 1832.
150 Joel Howard, b. June 11, 1835 ; d. s. March 29, 1865.
151 Sarah, b. December 5, 1837 ; m. Gen. FREDERICK TOWNSEND, November 19, 1863,
152 Albert, b. May 27, 1841; d. s. December 10, 1865.
153 Clarence, b. November 17, 1844 ; m. (1851 Talcott Ped .; 436 Shearman), ANGELICA B. TALCOTT, September 11, 1866.
154 Edward Weld, b. October 20, 1848 ; d. July 30, 1849.
Joel Rathbone died in Paris, France, on Sunday, September 13, 1863.
EMELINE W. MUNN, widow of JOEL RATHBONE, died in New- port, R. I., August 25, 1874.
Both were interred in the Albany cemetery. JOEL RATHBONE came to Albany to reside in the fall of 1822 as a clerk to his brother VALENTINE W. RATHBONE, who then kept a wholesale grocery store on the corner of Hudson and Quay streets, with whom two years after he became associated in business. In
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1827 as one of the firm of Hermans, Rathbone & Co., he com- menced the wholesale stove business, and by certain modifica- tions and improvements in the patterns of stoves made under his direction, secured a very large and lucrative business. In 1829, by the death of Mr. Hermans, he succeded to the entire business, which he continued in his own name until 1841, when at the early age of thirty-five, with a well earned fortune, he retired from active mercantile pursuits to the enjoyment of country life. He purchased a large estate, just below the city which he laid out and beautified, and " Kenwood " became his residence for many years. Although he so early retired from active mercantile business, MR. RATHBONE was connected with many of the public enterprises and institutions of the city. He was Vice-President of the New York State Bank, President of the Exchange Company, arid an active co-operator in, and a generous contributor to most of the benevolent enterprises of the day. He was a conscientious and consistent christian, and a gentleman of great taste and refinement.
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Lewis, son of (124) Valentine W. Rathbone and Nancy Forsyth, was born February 13, 1818 ; married, 1st, Lavinia Silliman; no ch .; 2d, Mary G., daughter of Charles Smyth, of Albany, and granddaughter of John Kane, of New York, 1855, and had
155 Lewis Sanford, d. y.
156 Cornelia Kane.
Mary G. Smyth, wife of LEWIS RATHBONE, died September 29, 1882.
LEWIS RATHBONE and family reside in Albany, N. Y.
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John Finley, son of (124) Valentine W. Rathbone and Nancy Forsyth, was born October 18, 1819; married Mary A., daughter of Ellis Baker, of Albany, June 10, 1844, and had
157 Marion, m. ROBERT SHAW OLIVER, November 17, 1870.
158 Lucy, m. EDWARD BOWDITCH, April 24, 1873.
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159 Grace Lennox, b. July, 1859.
160 Alice Emily, b. April, 1861.
161 John Henry, b. February 28, 1863.
They had five other children who died in infancy.
Gen. JOHN F. RATHBONE was educated in the Albany Academy and the Collegiate Institute at Brockport, N. H. When he was fifteen years old his father died. He im- mediately left school and accepted a clerkship at Rochester. At eighteen he returned to Albany. In 1860 he was ap- pointed Brigadier-General of the ninth Brigade of the National Guard of New York, and on the breaking out of the civil war was appointed Commandant of the Albany Depot of Volunteers, and organized thirty five Regiments. When John A. Dix was elected Governor of New York he appointed Gen. RATHBONE Adjutant-General with the rank of Major-General. Loyal to the faith of his ancestors, he united with the Baptist church at the age of seventeen, and founded, in connection with his brother Lewis, the RATHBONE Library of the University of Rochester.
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Harriet N., daughter of (124) Valentine W. Rathbone and Nancy Forsyth, married J. H. Nichols, and had
162 A child ; d. in infancy.
163 Harriet, m. Capt. HENRY METCALFE, U. S. Army, April 21, 1870. They have one child, JULIA A.
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Henry R., son of (125) Jared L. Rathbone and Pauline N. Penney, was born in Albany, July 1, 1837 ; married Clara Hamilton, daughter of Hon. Ira Harris and Louisa Tubbs, July 11, 1867, and had
164 Henry Riggs, b. February 12, 1870.
165 Gerald Lawrence, b. August 26, 1871.
166 Clara Pauline.
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Jared Lawrence, son of (125) Jared L. Rathbone and Pauline N. Penney, was born in Albany, September 28, - .
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1844; married Marie Alejandra, daughter of Faxton B. Atherton, of Valparaiso Park, San Mateo Co., Cal., February 20, 1871 ; no ch. They reside in San Francisco and Menlo Park, California.
Capt. J. L. RATHBONE graduated from the U. S. Military Academy and was made a Second Lieutenant of the Twelfth Infantry, June 23, 1865. He was promoted to a First Lieu- tenantey and transferred to the First Artillery, March 5, 1869. He served for several years on the Military Staff of Maj. Gen. Schofield and resigned from the service, June 28, 1872.
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Joel R., son of (126) Lydia Rathbone and William W. Reed, was born at Andover, Conn., February 24, 1829; mar- ried Marianna, daughter of John Townsend and Laura Spencer, April 19, 1855, and had
167 William Howard.
168 Edward T.
169 Lydia. 170 Mary.
Joel Rathbone Reed died in Albany in 1867.
MARIANNA TOWNSEND, widow of JOEL RATHBONE REED, and family reside in Albany, N. Y.
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Samuel H., son of (128) Sabria L. Rathbone and Clark Ransom, was born in Lyme, Conn .; married Virginia, daughter of Alexander Sanford, December 11, 1846, and had
171 Jared Rathbone, d. July 20, 1859.
172 Alexander Sanford, d. October 22, 1850.
173 Joel Rathbone.
174 Walter Sanford, d. February 14, 1855.
175 Samuel H., d. August 20, 1861.
176 Virginia Sanford.
177 Samuel Howard.
178 Irene Emerson.
Samuel H. Ransom and family reside in Albany, N. Y.
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RATHBONE.
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Lydia, daughter of (128) Sabria L. Rathbone and Clark Ransom, was born in Lyme, Conn .; married Joseph P. San- ford, U. S. Navy, at Kenwood, near Albany, the residence of her Uncle Joel Rathbone, January 7, 1846, and had
179 Mary Adams, m. Rev. R. P. H. VAIL, of Troy, N. Y. 180 Walter, m. EMILIE JEWELL, of Hartford, Conn., September 1880.
181 Henry B.
Capt. Joseph P. Sanford was born in Winchester, Va. He was appointed a midshipman in the U. S. Navy in 1832. In active service on the coast of Brazil from 1832 to 1837, attached to the Wilkes Exploring Expedition from January, 1837 to July, 1842. On shore duty for a brief period. He was in the Mediterranean from 1843 to 1846, on board the Flag ship Cumberland, then on shore duty for a year, after which he was ordered to the Alleghany in 1848, and to the National Observatory in 1849. He cruised in the ship Mississippi in the Mediterranean from 1849 to 1851. He resigned from the Navy October 6, 1853, and was re-appointed April, 1861. Made a Commander June, 1861. Was Ordnance Officer under Admiral Foote, 1861, 1862 and 1863. He was appointed Fleet Captain of the Atlantic Squadron in 1863. He was in com- mand of the Neptune, and Senior Officer commanding Convoy Fleet to the West Indies in 1863, 1864 and 1865. He com- manded the steamer Vanderbilt in 1865 and 1866, promoted to captain September 27, 1866. Fleet Captain in North Pacific Squadron in 1866 and 1867. Executive Officer of the Norfolk Navy Yard in 1868 and 1869. Resigned from the Navy March 6, 1869, and has resided since with his family in Albany.
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