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• Hij is geboren rond 1634.Bron 1
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1702 in Block Island, RI.Bron 1
• Een kind van John Rathbone
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Gezin van John Rathbone

Hij is getrouwd met Margaret Dodge.

Zij zijn getrouwd

Kind(eren):

1. William Rathbone  
2. Thomas Rathbone  
3. John Rathbone  
4. Joseph Rathbone  ????-1748 
5. Samuel Rathbone  ????-1757
6. Sarah Rathbone  1659-????
7. Margaret Rathbone  
8. Elizabeth Rathbone  

Notities over John Rathbone

Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley
Cuyler Reynolds
Pg 1234-1235

(I) John Rathbone, of Block Island, was born about 1634, died there between February 12, 1702, the day on which he signed his will, and October 6, 1702, the date on which Simon Ray, warden, took oath that William Hancock, Jr., James Welch and Roger Dickens appeared before him to testify ''that they were testimony to the signing and sealing." It is an interesting family document, and a portion of it is worth citing:

I give and bequeath to my son Samuel Rathbone the table and cubbard which stand now in his house as for are lomes (heirlooms) to the house, and I leave my wife, Margaret Rathbone, my executrix of all my movable and household goods, houses and chattels, cattle, sheep and horse kind; and I leave the income of my house at Newport for her lifetime, and at her decease the westward (end?) of my house at Newport, and the leanto of that end so far as the post that the door hangs on, and the shop to be left for my son John Rathbone's son, John, and his heirs forever; and the eastward end of said house and the rest of the leanto to be left for my son William Rathbone's son, John, and his heirs forever, and the yard to be equally for their use. And I leave to my wife for her life-time the twenty acres of land which I bought of Henry Hall, and the running of two cows and a horse and the end of the house which I now live in; and I leave that my four sons shall pay to my wife during her life-time forty shillings apiece a year.
And I leave to my wife during her life-time my nigger man, and at her disposing, and at her decease to my son Thomas Rathbone for three years, and at the end of the three years, to give him as good clothes as his mistress leaves him, and then to set him free.

It may be said in this connection that the family lands at Newport greatly increased in value, as did the estate situate in Block Island, and while he gave evidence of abolition tendencies by his provision for his negro, he did not care to put his ideas into effect while he lived.

John Rathbone married Margaret Dodge.
Children:
1. William, married, December 18, 1680, Sarah .
2. Thomas, married, April 21, 1685, Mary Dickens.
3. John, see forward.
4. Joseph, married. May 19, 1691, Mary Mosher.
5. Samuel, married, November 3, 1692, Patience T. Coggeshall, and died January 24, 1757.
6. Sarah, born June 10, 1659; married (first) December 20, 1678, Samuel George; married (second) September 1, 1710, John Ball.
7. Margaret.
8. Elizabeth.

Genealogical and family history of southern New York and the Hudson River Valley
Cuyler Reynolds
Pg 1234

RATHBONE
The significance of the family name, which is derived from the Saxon, is "an early gift." It is reasonably certain that those who have spelled the name Rabone, Rabun, Rawsbone and Rathbun, since coming to this country, were of the same family when in England, because those of the first generation in America chose to follow those forms. The Rathbone arms consist of a shield argent, three doves azure. Crest: A dove proper, holding an olive branch. Motto: Suaviter el fortiter.

The earliest records which may be accepted as authentic point to the Rev. William Rathbone as the first of the name appearing in America, and an allusion may be found speaking of him in 1637, printed in the "Historical Collections of Massachusetts." It is shown that the doctrinal views he entertained as an author and preacher were not in accord with the members of the Massachusetts colony, and it is believed that he and his descendants were not admitted into the New England church, with the consequence that they were not permitted to participate in the general public affairs.

The Rhode Island colonial records mention John Rawsbone, of New Shoreham, as one who was admitted to full political rights as freeman, on May 4, 1664, being the same person whom the Block Island records name John Rathbone. The latter was one of those who met at the house of Dr. Alcock on August 17, 1660, to confer regarding the purchase of Block Island, and was one of the original sixteen purchasers of that island from Governor Endicott and three others, to whom it had been granted for public services, hence he will long continue to figure in the country's history.

John Rathbone was chosen, in 1676, one of the surveyors of highways. He occupied a place in the Rhode Island general assembly, in 1682-83-84, as representative from Block Island. He was one of the petitioners to the king of Great Britain in 1686, in reference to the "quo warranto," and was one of the Rhode Island grand jury in 1688. He had an interesting experience during the French and Indian wars which has been handed down with authenticity as family history. In the year 1689, in the month of July, Mr. Rathbone had a narrow escape from the French, who had come in three vessels and were then pillaging the island. They inquired of someone "who were the likeliest among them to have money." They told them of John Rathbone as the most likely. The French proceeded to capture him, as they supposed, and demanded of him his money. The captive denied having any but a trifling sum. They endeavored to make him confess that he had more and to deliver it to them by tying him up and whipping him barbarously. While they were doing all this to an innocent man whom they mistook for the moneyed John Rathbone, the latter made his escape with his treasure. They had mistaken the son for the father, who by submitting to this cruelty in the room of his father, saved him from being robbed.

That the lives of the early Rathbones who settled on Block Island were fraught with severe hardship and almost continuous danger may well be believed from all accounts. It is a matter of history and may be read by anyone interested in studying the persecutions of the American colonists, for they had a deadly foe in the aborigine.

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