Rathbone genealogy

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MATEBONE GENEALOGY.
Coffin, March 2$, 1761; she was born in Nantucket, Mass.,
Nov. 18, 1740, sue was the daughter of Robert and Susanna
Coffin. Her parents were Jonathan and Hepseby Harker
and Hepseby's mother was Patience Folger, sister of Dr.
Benjamin Franklin's mother; Mary died about 1768. He
married, second. Thankful Tripp; she died in Hawiey, Mass.,
Jan. 28, 1807, in her 58th year. She lived with her daughter
Caty Baxter and brother William Tripp at different times
and was well taken care of until her death. Robert Coffin
was the son of Jethro Coffin and Alary Gardner Coffin.
Robert was born April 11, 1704; Susanna was born Dec. 30,
1712, and was the daughter of Hepseby Harker Coffin.
Coggeshall Rathbone on Sept. 10, 1764, writes to Susan
Coffin at Nantucket, letter dated Sterling, informing her of
the birth of a "Stally" boy on the 7th and that she was
"bravely." This "stally" boy was Jonathan, father of Thomas
YV. Rathbone. After the war of 1782, Coffin Whippy and
Jonathan Coffin Rathbone were sailors "before the mast"
on the brig Fox, of Boston. They were cousins and of the
same age. About 1798, Robert Folger, David Coleman,
Latham Gardner and Jonathan C. Rathbone purchased the
ship. Federal George, and Jonathan C. Rathbone went in her
as captain. They went into the merchant service and visited
several ports in England: some were in the channel; they
were chased by an English-man-of-war. Captain Rathbone
ran his ship close into the French coast so that some of the
French war vessels captured the ship and held the officers
and crew prisoners. They confiscated ship and cargo, which
was a total loss to the owners. Thomas W. Rathbone has
tried for many years to collect the claim. The United States
government assumed all those claims, "but all men are not
more honest than they should be'' was the remark of one of
the heirs. In May, 1812, Jonathan and several others from
Xantucket and Martha's Vineyard started for the "Ohio" as
it was and is yet in many places in Massachusetts called.
They went via Xew York to Philadelphia, from which place
they hired teams to haul them to Pittsburg, Pa. ; thence by
flat boats to Cincinnati, where they arrived Sept. 1. rSi2,
making a quick trip: now it takes less than forty hours.
Thomas W. in one of his letter*, says. "For years 1 thought
I was the onlv Rathbone in the land, T could have been content
to have heard of another." Children: