Adam Rhodes (1660 - 1745)

Born 30 Jun 1660 in Ripley, Derbyshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Katherine (Blunston) Rhodes — married 4 Nov 1691 in Darby Monthly Meeting, Delaware, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 13 Mar 1745 at age 84 in Darby, Chester, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Adam was a Friend (Quaker)

Birth

30th day of 6th month 1660, (old style) Ripley, Derbyshire, England as reported at the Chesterfield Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends ^[1]

Marriage

On the 4th day Ninth month (November) 1691 Adam Roads and Katherin Blunston registered their marriage intention at the Darby Monthly Meeting. ^[2]

Residencies and other events

In 1687 Adam Roades was one of those selected for jury duty in a Chester County court case involving one Thomas Colborne who was bound over by the last Court for "Selling ye Indians Rum...". ^[3]

In 1689 "'Adam Roades'" was again called for jury duty for the Chester County courts. ^[3] This case may have involved a debt issue.

On the twenty-fifth day of March 1696 John Bunstone, Attorney for John Roads acknowledged a deed to Adam Roads for one hundred acres of land lying in Darby [Chester County] the deed bearing the date 25 March 1696.^[4]

Death

13 March 1745, Darby, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Research Notes

Alternate death from merged profile Rhodes-2080:

10 December 1733, Whitemarsh, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013. Original data: General Register Office: Society of Friends' Registers, Notes and Certificates of Births, Marriages and Burials. Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, RG 6. The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England.
2. ↑ Marriage: "U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935"
   "Darby Monthly Meeting, Delaware, Pennsylvania; A Few Certificates and Marriage Intentions, 1684-1763" Marriage intention for Adam Roads & Katharin Blunston. See second paragraph from bottom of page.
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Image (accessed 7 Sep 2023)
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} “Records of the Courts of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1681-1697" Vol. 1: p.96, 156-7. (following the Upland Court Record, 1676-1681) Pub. Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, 1910. https://archive.org/details/recordofcourtsof01ches/page/342/mode/1up
4. ↑ Lapp, Miss Dorothy B., Archivist for Chester County Historical Society “Records of the Courts of Chester County, Pennsylvania, Vol. 2” p.1. Transcribed from original. Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, Pennsylvania. Published Danboro, Pennsylvania, USA: by Richard T. & Mildred C. Williams, 1972 Includes 1697-1710 period. https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/viewer/211870/?offset=&return=1#page=4&viewer=picture&o=search&n=0&q=Woodrow