Display Patriot - P-275779 - Wait RATHBONE/RATHBURN

Wait RATHBONE/RATHBURN

SAR Patriot #: P-275779

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State of Service: CT Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service

DAR #: A094729

Birth: 18 Aug 1744 Stonington / New London / CT
Death: 14 Nov 1832 Bergen Twp / Bergen / NJ

Qualifying Service Description:

Signed petition, Stonington

Additional References:

NSDAR cites CERTIFICATE FROM CT STATE LIBRARY, IN DOCUMENTATION WITH DAR #32737

Spouse: (1) Susannah Westerly Dodge; (2) Mary Brown Palmer
Children: William Palmer; Mary C;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child	View Application Detail
1998-01-26	TX	200259	Johnny Walker Finch (149704)	William
1998-05-21	TX	1228	Charles Boyd Finch (150350)	William

Burial:

Old Paramus Reformed Church (aka Paramus Reformed Church) Cemetery_(C-0372936)

Location:

Ridgewood / Bergen / NJ / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

1020828

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

n/a

Find A Grave Memorial #:

5836333

Marker Type:

Marble

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:

per Find-a-Grave
- Sailor, Ship Owner, Merchant & Innkeeper, Stonington, CT and Troy & Lansingburgh, NY
- Husband of Susannah Dodge and Mary Brown
- large inscribed monument

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: Henry Crittenden Livingston
Wait Rathbone was born on August 18, 1744, in Stonington, Connecticut, to Joshua Rathbone and Mary Wightman. He was raised in a devout baptist home at Long Point in Stonington, Connecticut. He married Susannah Dodge and they had four children together. He then married Mary Brown and they had six children together. He died on November 14, 1832, having lived a long life of 88 years, and was buried in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

Wait Rathbone was a Captain during the Revolutionary war. On September 20, 1778, Wait was listed as a "prize master" on the "Venus," a British ship captured by the American privateer "Eagle" and sent to Boston. Wait was an officer on the "Eagle" at this time.

Source:
The Rathbun-Rathbone-Rathburn Family Historian, Volume 4, Number 2, April 1984, p20.
DAR Ancestor # A094729

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