Rathbone genealogy

804 RATHBONE GENEALOGY.
Thomas Worthington Rathbone. After the war of 1812^
Coffin Whippy and Jonathan Coffin Rathbone were saiiors
"before the mast" on the brig Fox of Boston; they were
cousins of the same age. About 1798. Robert Folger,David
Coleman. Latham Gardner and Jonathan C. Rathbone purchased
the ship Federal George; Jonathan C. Rathbone went
as captain or master; they went into the merchant
service and visited several ports in England. Somewhere
in the channel they were chased by an English man-ofwar;
England and France were at 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 as 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 the claims, but "all men are not
more honest than they should be" is the remark of one of
the heirs. In May, 1812. Jonathan and several others from
Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard went to Philadelphia
from which place they hired teams to haul them to Pittsburg,
thence by flat boats to Cincinnati where the,y arrived Sept." l,
1812; making a quick trip; now it takes about forty hours'
Thomas W. Rathbone in one of his letters says "for vears I
thought I was the only Rathbone in this land: I could have
been content if I could' have ever heard of another."
NANCY ANN RATHBONE (Erastus * * * ) r
born in Connecticut, ; married John V. Tannev. .
He died , she married, second. Manly. Children:
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1. Martha. 2. Anna. 3. Emma. 4. John Sylvester- 5. Mary.
DANIEL STERLING WENDALL (Mary, Erastus,
* * ), born in Sterlingville. Pa.. March 23, 1833; married
Martha Elizabeth Gordon, at Maquoketa. Iowa, Feb 12
1866. Children:
I- Olive Rebecca, b. Sept. 28. 1867-
2. Geo. Edwin, b. Dec- 25, 1870.
3- Ada Blanch, b. April 13. 1877.
MARY ROSETTA WENDALL (Mary. Erastus * * *),
born in Maquoketa, Jackson Co.. Iowa. March 23. 1830;
married Milton B. Clark. March 9. 1869. in Fairfield, Jack-