Grace RATHBONE

Grace married Josiah GATES on 09 May 1714 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, USA. Josiah (son of Thomas GATES and Elizabeth FREEMAN) was born on 08 Mar 1681 in Stow, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died after 22 Aug 1763 in Prob. in Colchester, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary GATES was born on 03 Jul 1715 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 08 Sep 1755 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, USA.
2. Abigail GATES was born on 13 Aug 1719 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, USA.
3. Hannah GATES was born on 05 Sep 1721 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, USA.
4. Josiah GATES was born on 15 Jan 1722/23 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 22 Sep 1807 in Ontario County, New York.
5. Thomas GATES was born on 03 Jul 1724 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 12 May 1793 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Rathbone Graveyard in Salem, Connecticut.
6. Grace GATES was born on 08 Oct 1725 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, USA; died between 01 and 09 Mar 1765 in Lebanon, Connecticut; was buried in Old Yard Cemetery, Columbia, Tolland Co., Connecticut.
7. Elizabeth GATES was born on 08 May 1729 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, USA; died on 07 Aug 1787.
8. Samuel GATES was born on 26 Dec 1730 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, USA; died before 05 Mar 1810.
9. Sarah GATES was born on 12 Nov 1732 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut, USA.
10. Anna GATES was born on 31 Dec 1734 in Colchester, New London Co. Connecticut.

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He was admitted freeman in 1696, with his brothers Thomas, William and John by the Rhode island Assembly of the colony of Rhode Island. His father and mother deeded to Joseph seventy acres and house. He had 25 acres of land on Common Neck. His father and mother deed him, Dec. 28, 1688 thirty-nine acres of land, and six acres at Harbor Neck, and ten acres next to my fifty acre lot, and the meadow beyond the Harbor Neck, fence and the old harbor. Deeds signed, John and Margaret Rathbone. On april 30, 1734, he was made freeman of North Kingstown....

Joseph married Mary MOSHIER on 19 May 1691. Mary was born in Newport, Rhode Island; died in 1748 in Exeter, Washington, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Margaret DODGE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Tristram Dodge came from the north of England near the River Tweed.
J Roy Dodge, A History and Genealogy of the Dodge Family, (Dodge, LaFayette, NY (1971), pp 10 ? 11

It is believed that Tristram Dodge arrived in Massachusetts from England in 1660, having first stopped in Newfoundland, that he sailed April, 1661, from Taunton, Massachusetts, with the original fifteen settlers and their families who settled on Block Island, Rhode Island.
Block Island's first settlers were Baptists.
The first mention of Tristram Dodge in the records of Block Island appears in May, 1664, when he is listed as "Freeman." In 1672, [Block Island] was incorporated as the Town of New Shoreham (from the ancient town in Sussex, on the coast, nine miles west of Brighton), otherwise Block Island, and among its officers elected in 1676, were Tristram Dodge, Sen. Sergeant.
Robert Dodge, Tristram Dodge and His Descendants in America with Historical and Descriptive Accounts of Block Island and Cow Neck, L.I. Their Original Settlements, Press of JJ Little & Co, New York (1886) by Theron Royal Woodward

Tristram Dodge is named as one of the passengers in the "shallop" which sailed from Taunton, 1661; although he was not among the first purchasers, he was among the first party of settlers.
Reverend S.T. Livermore, A.M., History of Block Island (1876), p 17

The beautifully carved gravestone designates the final resting place of Trustrum Dodge, one of the original settlers who came to Block Island in 1661. His descendants, especially noted for their exploits on the seas, have been among Block Island's most illustrious citizens.
Donald A. D'Amato, Henry A. L. Brown, Block Island, Arcadia Publishing, (1999), p 96

The grave of the elder Tristram is not marked.
Edward Doubleday Harris, A Copy of the Old Epitaphs in the Burying Ground of Block-Island, R.I., BiblioLife (December 9, 2008), p 10

Tristram married Ann MANSFIELD. Ann was born in abt. 1619 in England; died in New Shoreham, Washington Co., Rhode Island; was buried in Island Cemetery, New Shoreham, Washington Co., Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Born in England c.1619, Ann Dodge, nee Mansfield, was the wife of early settler Trustrum Dodge, Sr. (1607-1683), an English mariner-fisherman who had initially emigrated to Newfoundland, then came to Block Island in 1661. According to several sources, the couple had wed in the early 1640's. Widowed in 1683, Mrs. Dodge is believed to have survived her husband by only a few years, dying on Block Island c.1684-5, when she was in her mid-60's. Her approximate gravesite is marked by a Victorian reproduction of an earlier headstone in the style of the noted Rhode Island carver Capt. John Bull of Newport. Unlike stones of the colonial period, the repro is 6" thick. The inscription states that Ann and Trustrum Dodge were the parents of children named John, Trustrum, William, Israel, Margaret, and Ann. A genealogy of successive generations of the Dodge Family, whose history has been intertwined with that of Block Island for over 300 years, continues on the back of the stone.