Rathbone genealogy

HA THBONE GENEA LOO I. 91
powder was strewn and wet it with their blood. Hotmail
was found lying dead on the powder which he had saturated.
with his life's blood in a heroic though futile attempt to
save the fort. In this same narrative Mr. Rathbone gives
an account of the massacre of Americans by the English at
the capture of Fort Groton and Fort Griswold. It was his
melancholy duty to assist in the burial of his countrymen
who were the victims of the treachery of Benedict Arnold.
In 1782 Mr. Rathbone joined the State militia and went to
Fort Stanwix. at Stamford. Conn., where he remained one
year. The illness of his father, he says, was sufficient reason
for seeking a discharge, which he received in March,
1783. We are unable to give tht date of Mr. Rathbone's
death. His widow, who survived him a dozen years or
more, died at the home of her son Adams, in Montville,
Conn., Feb. 18. 1856. She was small in statute, and Dr.
Julian LaPierre. who was the son of her granddaughter,
Sarah Rathbone. says he well remembers her as an old lady
bent in form and wrinkled in face. Children;
1. Jonathan, b. March 10, 1791; d. Jan., 1835. He taught school
when a young man; later he located in New York city, where, in 1824,
he engaged in the wholsesale grocery and provision business; he became
wealthy, but afterwards lost a large part of his fortune- He -vas
once a part owner of what is now known as Castle Garden. He had
a son. Deming. b. July I, 1824. and three other children, names unknown.
2. Adams. Is. July 11, 1792: m. 1st, Phoebe Babcock: m. 2d,
Payne.
3. Christopher P.. b. .Vug. 2, 1795; m. Lydia Brown.
4. Deming I... b. July 2. 1796; m. 1st. Julia Howe Putnam; m.
2d, Catherine H. Putnam. (
5. Hiram G.. b. April 15. 1798; m. Tirzah ,
and
had eight
children, most of whom d. in infancy; living (i.) Josiah. (1,1/) Adeline,
(iii.) Julia Ann).
6. William, b. Aug. 30. 1800: m- Chapin, of Chicopee.
Mass.; he d June 27. 1839.
7. Hannah, b. Oct. 5. [802: m. Joshua Comstock.
8. Elizabeth L.. b. Salem. Conn.. July 9. 1805; m- May 17. 1836.
Lyman Coon, of Bernadotte. Fulton county. 111.: he d. Oct. 1. 1876.
Children: (1) Deming L. : < 2) D. R. ; (3) Benjamin Franklin, b. Bernadotte.
Aug. 7. i816: m. April 22. 1874. Clara Belle, dan. of David and
Sarah (Bennett) Kirkbridge: no issue.
ADAMS8 RATHBONE (Jonathan7 Isaiah .
John 4 , John' 5
. John 2 Richard .
. Jonathan
5 ,
1 ), born in Colchester. Conn.,
July ii, 1792, and died Sept. 26. 1858. Fie married Phoebe
Babock, Sept. 16. i8to: she died in 1836. and he married,