John Rathbone Jr. (1693 - 1752)

Born 29 Dec 1693 in Block Island or New Shoreham

Ancestors

Husband of Patience (Fish) Rathbone — married about 20 Dec 1720 in Block Island or Exeter, Rhode Island

Husband of Alice (Unknown) Rathbun — married 1722 in Block Island, Rhode Island

Descendants

Died 1752 at about age 58 in Exeter, Rhode Island

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Biography

John, (V) John (4),_son of John (3) Rathbun, was born December 29, 1693. at Block Island. He settled at Escoheag, Exeter county, Rhode Island. By the will of his grandfather, he was given sixty acres of land with a house thereon on Block Island. He was admitted freeman, 1732. of New Shoreham, 1734, of Exeter, Rhode Island, 1744. His will was dated January 18, 1752, proved March 10, 1752.

In 1723, John was left from his parents all their housing and land on Block Island. He sold this land in 1725 and moved to the mainland. He was admitted a freeman of North Kingstown in May of 1732.He was called "John Rathbun of Nesquaheague." His will was written Jan. 18, 1752, and probated in Exeter, Rhode Island on March 10, 1752. New data in 1984 changed the mother of John's children. John D. Bowen, a descendant, found the new information in land records in early Exeter, RI (the North Kingstown, RI).By 1731, land records indicates the wife of John as Alice. Patience, no doubt, had died by that time leaving a son, Joshua. In the will of John Fish (father of Patience) he left fifty pounds to "my grandson Joshua Rathbun, son of my daughter, Patience, deceased." Thus, Patience is now listed as the mother of only Joshua who died prior to 1741 when John had a second son named Joshua.

He married (first), December 20, 1720. Patience Fish. Children: Joshua, born after 1720, died before 1741

He married (second) Alice .

Children:

John. b. 1722, Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island, d. Bef. June 04, 1810, Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island. married (first), Olive Perkins, (second) Elizabeth Lawton, January 13, 1750;

Patience. b. 1725, Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island, d. 1750, West Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island. Married Elisha Reynolds;

Jonathan, b. October 01, 1734, Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island, d. 1800, Tryingham, Bershire County, Massachusetts. married March 2, 1757, Susannah Barber;

Gideon, (VI) b. 1735, Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island, d. Bef. 1820, Chenango County, New York. He settled in the eastern part of the town of Exeter at the foot of Escoheag Hill, King’s county. He sold land to his brother Jonathan, deed dated November 13, 1775. He married (first) Ann Nichols. He married (second) Joan Austin. Children of first wife: Green, married Sally Nichols; Cynthia, married Noice Leighton; Gideon, born April 10, 1768; Job, married Sarah Crooks; children of second wife: Paris, mentioned below; Daniel, married Patience Nichols; Newman, born in Exeter, December 10, 1779; Allen. married Betsey Barber; Joanna, married Timothy B. Nobles; Asa, died unmarried; Jonathan, married Sally Smith; Dorcas, married Nichols; no children; Stephen, married Louisa Kingsley.

Daniel, b. 1731, Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island, d. January 1759, Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island, married, May 25, 1758, Mary Foster, died 1759; Edmund, married Hannah Carpenter, of Tyringham, Massachusetts;

Edmund Rathbun, b. December 08, 1737, Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island, d. 1801, Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia.

Anna. b. 1739 in Exeter, married Joseph Nichols. of Plainfield, Connecticut, died January 13, 1757;

Lucy, married Joseph Lock.

John's will is dated 18 January 1752, and a codicil was written and proved on 10 March 1752.^[1] Inventory was taken on 10 March 1752.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9079/images/007650053_00149). Rhode Island, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1582-1932 [database on-line], image 149-151, Exeter Town Council and Probate, Book 1, 1746-1756, page 98-102. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

See also:

• FamilySearch Person: KCWC-5WT
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/114008547/john-rathbun: accessed 27 September 2023), memorial page for John Rathbun III (20 Dec 1693–1752), Find A Grave: Memorial #114008547, citing Ira Wilcox Lot, Exeter, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA; Maintained by David L Rathbun (contributor 47853168).
• My Genealogy Home Page:Information about John Rathbun

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Mary Wahl for creating WikiTree profile Rathbone-174 through the import of wahl20130526.ged on May 26, 2013.

WikiTree profile Rathbun-158 created through the import of Bierbrodt.GED on Jul 14, 2011 by Becky Bierbrodt.