Samuel RATHBONE

Samuel married Patience COGGESHALL on 3 Nov 1692 in Newport, Rhode Island. Patience (daughter of Act.Gov Major John COGGESHALL and Patience THROCKMORTON) was born on 13 Aug 1669 in Newport, Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary RATHBONE was born on 11 Sep 1700 in New Shoreham, Rhode Island; died on 24 Aug 1779 in Newport, Rhode Island.

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.