Shadrack Wroughten (spelled Shredrick Wroten on his military tombstone and Shedrick with the SAR), was born 28 November 1763 Church Creek, Dorchester Parish, Dorchester, Maryland, probably the son of Thomas Wroten (spelled Wroughten on his birth record) and his wife Rachel Wheatley (surname not given on birth record).[1][2] He grew up on the border between Maryland and Delaware.
Shredrick Wroten was a Revolutionary War soldier who served five years and six months, attaining the rank of sergeant (probably of the Continental Army).[3]
Shedrick served as a sergeant in Company D, in the Delaware Militia, he served a total of five years and 6 months but the units he served in can not be identified. [4]
He married and had children:
He (surname spelled Roton) married again to Mary Ann Forbes in Ross County, Ohio, on 2 June 1825, and had:
He was enumerated on the 1800 census in the North West Fork Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware as Shadrach Rotton, with 3 males and 1 female under 10 years old, 2 females aged 10-15 and 1 male and 1 female aged 26-44.[7]
Shadrach moved from Delaware to Ross County, Ohio about 1806. He appears on the 1826 tax lists with one horse and one cow being taxed.
Source 1: Shadrach Wroten Birth 1763 Sussex County, Delaware, USA Death 1839 (aged 75–76) Ross County, Ohio, USA Burial Twin Township Cemetery Bourneville, Ross County, Ohio, USA Memorial ID 33490115 · View Source
Children: Rachel Wroten Jamison unknown–1871 Eleanor Wroten Timmons unknown–1856 Photo Elizabeth Wroten Goldsberry (is she the one who married 1 August 1827 to George Timmons in Ross County, Ohio?) unknown–1860 Keziah Wroten Willis 1781–1866 Nathan Wroten 1791 – unknown Photo Laban Wroten 1801–1886 Photo Shadrach C. Wroten 1836–1862
Source 2: Shadrack Wroten (1763 - 1840)
Born in Dorchester, Maryland, USA on 28 Nov 1763 to Thomas Wroughton and Rachel. Shadrack Wroten had 2 children. He passed away in 1840 in Ross, Ohio, USA.
Relatives of Shadrack Wroten Parents: Thomas Wroughton Rachel Children: Eleanor Wroten 1784 - 1856 Elizabeth Wroten
1. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33490115/shadrach-wroten
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