Rathbone genealogy

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Newton. Feb. 17. 1825 at Hopkinton. K. I., ami went directly
to his home in Hartland, Conn., he was horn in Hartland.
Conn.. July 31, 1795. a,1( l (nc 'l Feb. °- l &4°- sri e died
Jan. 24. 184^. His parents. Ahiather and Anna (Cowles)
Newton. He died March 2. 1841 : she died Dec. 18, 1S43
aged 88 years. Children:
1. Flavel C. Newton, 1>. fan. -'7. 1826. in Hartland. Ct
2. Sarali Ann Newton, b. April 16. I&27.
3. Harriet Theresa Newton, b. March 5. 1829:
4 Clarinda Augusta Newton, b. Feb. 22. 1834.
5. Joseph Lester Newton, b. July 20. 1837.
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VALENTINE WIGHTMAN' RATHBONE (Joshua 5 .
John 4 . John 3 , John-. Richard 1
), born Dec. 23. 1724. Wed-
nesday, 2 o'clock P. M.: married Tabatha Brown, daughter
of Humphrey, whose father was Daniel, who emigrated from
England about 1620. He had a son Daniel who had seven
children, one of whom Samuel had a daughter Mary who
married, first. William Palmer, who died . she then
married Captain Wait Rathbone. brother of Rev. Valentine
Rathbone. Rev. John Rathbone another hrother ot Valentine's
married Content, sister of Tabatha and Mary Brown.
Lydia. another sister of Tabatha married Simeon Sperbank,
who was lost at sea. His daughter Lydia married Samuel
Rathbone, son of Joshua, the son of Jonathan, the son of
John and Ann Dodge. Valentine R. left Rhode Island and
settled at Pittsfield in 1769, and became the minister of the
Baptist Church which he founded in \~~±- He carried on
the clothing business in Pittsfield. On Feb. 12, 1770.
Henry Wan Schaack sold to Valentine Rathbone lands. Deed
dated June 10. 1701. witness Ruth Longworthy. In 1779
he was teaching elder of the Shaker- at Pittsfield. Mass He
deeded lands to Joseph Dart in 1800: Reuben Rathbone.
witness. Valentine, then of Pittsfield. Mass.. deeded to
Rufus Coggeswell of Richmond, dated Nov. 5. i8or. book
40. page 12. He built clothier works in Pittsfield. 1769.
Elder Valentine Rathbone the pastor of the Baptist church
organized in 1772. was no less ardent in his patriotism, than
his congregational brothers. A clothier by trade he had
without abandoning that pursuit and without the advantages
of a classical education founded the church to which he min-
istered from proselytes made by his own preaching in his
own house. The results of his speaking indicate that its