Shadrach Wroten (1763 - abt. 1839)

Born 28 Nov 1763 in Sussex County, Delaware [uncertain]

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Died about 1839 at about age 75 in Ross County, Ohio, United States

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Shadrach Wroten was an early pioneer in Ohio.

Shadrach Wroten was an early settler in Maryland.

Shadrach Wroten was a Delawarean.

Sergeant Shadrach Wroten served with Delaware Militia during the American Revolution.

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:

• Rachel Wroten (?-1871), married a Jamison^[2]
• Eleanor Wroten (1784-1856), married Ananias Timmons^[5][6][2]
• Elizabeth Wroten (?-1860), married a Goldsberry^[6]
• Keziah Wroten ( 1781–1866), married a Willis
• Nathan Wroten (1791-?)
• Laban Wroten (1801–1886)

He (surname spelled Roton) married again to Mary Ann Forbes in Ross County, Ohio, on 2 June 1825, and had:

• Shadrach C Wroten ( 1836–1862)

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

Sources

1. ↑ "Maryland Births and Christenings, 1650-1995", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HYG8-ZGZM : 12 February 2020), Shadrach Wroughten, 1763.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33490115/shadrach-wroten: accessed 12 August 2023), memorial page for SGT Shadrach Wroten (28 Nov 1763–15 Mar 1839), Find a Grave Memorial ID 33490115, citing Twin Township Cemetery, Bourneville, Ross County, Ohio, USA; Maintained by AngloFreek (contributor 46937842).
3. ↑ Finley, Isaac J; Putnam, Rufus; Pioneer record and reminiscences of the early settlers and settlement of Ross County, Ohio; R. Clarke & Co., Cincinnati, 1871, page 42; Digitizing sponsor Sloan Foundation; Contributor The Library of Congress
4. ↑ SAR https://sarpatriots.sar.org/patriot/display/317174
5. ↑ Cozad, William Pearl, Genealogy and Brief History of the Descendants of Job and Hannah (Winmans) Cozad of Branchville, Sussex County, New Jersey; Cozad, William Pearl, privately printed (mimeographed), 1900 and related supplements, mostly undated, by Jenks, Truman P., and Robert C. Merrill, starting Jan 1973, Chillicothe, Ohio; (Mrs. Emma Hawk, Allensville, Ohio, had kept the 1900 booklet and allowed the use of it) number 24 III (surname spelled Rhoten and Wroten)
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/shadrack-wroten_35894868?geo_a=t&geo_s=uk&geo_t=ca&geo_v=2.0.0&o_iid=41017&o_lid=41017&o_sch=Web+Property (husband's first name not given)
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1800", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHRH-FY8 : Tue Oct 03 08:40:33 UTC 2023), Entry for Shadrach Rotton, 1800.

1. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33490115/shadrach-wroten

2. https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/shadrack-wroten_35894868?geo_a=t&geo_s=uk&geo_t=ca&geo_v=2.0.0&o_iid=41017&o_lid=41017&o_sch=Web+Property