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Thomas Wilson Dorr Rathbun Tithe Swamptown Lawyer Thomas Wilson Dorr Rathbun (1844-1924) tiThe Swamptown Lawyer" July 1989 The Rathbun-Rathbone-Rathburn Family Historian Volume Nine • Number Three • July 1989 Letter from the Editor Family Reunion This issue of our Historian is dedi­ we gave up and bought a new, cheaper Plans All Set! cated to Rhode Island, site of our up­ printer for $226, and asked to have the Everything is ready for our Fourth Na­ coming family reunion in September. All old one returned. So now we are back in tional Reunion to be held September the major stories deal with our family's business, having been without a printer 11-15 in Rhode Island. Registrations long involvement in Rhode Island his­ for nearly two months. are still coming in, and it looks like we tory, including some present-day We have also become somewhat can expect well over 100 cousins to cousins. skeptical about Radio Shack's custo­ attend. There is good news on the mem­ mer-service policy, having been treated There is still time to sign up, but do it bership front. We have now reached a so shabbily, but we are willing to give quickly! new record high of 541 members, mak­ them the benefit of the doubt until the Our headquarters will be the Dutch ing us one of the largest family associa­ company's top management has the Inn at Point Judith, overlooking Block tions in the country. In addition to our opportunity to respond. Island Sound and the Atlantic Ocean. members, our Historian is sent to sev­ A copy of this Historian is being sent From there, we will make side trips to eral dozen of the nation's leading li­ with a cover letter to Radio Shack's main Block Island, Wickford Village, Smith's braries, including the Library of office in Texas. I will report on further Castle, Hammersmith Farm, Fort Congress. developments in the next Historian. A-dams and Newport. But there is a little bad news, finan­ But on to better things. Our reunion At Fort Adams, we will tour the recon­ cially, and a sorryi story to go with it. plans are completed (see story on this structed sloop Providence - the ship Early in April, our Radio Shack printer page). We are expecting a turnout of made famous by Captain John Peck broke down. A wire cord that moves the more than 100 cousins, and it should be Rathbun during the Revolution - and printing head back and forth had a fun-filled week. It is not too late to sign will be greeted by Rhode Island mili­ snapped in two. The printer still worked, up, but do it quickly. tiamen in Revolutionary regalia, led by but kept typing in the same spot over Some of our Rhode Island members, our member Colonel Robert Allan and over. led by Frank E. Rathbun and Ellen Ken­ Greene. We took it to the Radio Shack outlet yon, have been exploring the idea of a At the Dutch Inn, we will have plenty of where we purchased it and our com­ monument to Captain John Peck Rath­ time for greeting old friends and making puter four years ago. We were told by bun in the Veterans Cemetery at Exeter, new ones among the Rathbuns, Rath­ the manager that it could be fixed for where he was born. Cemetery officials bones and Rathburns attending. There, about $60 within a week or 10 days. We have suggested a stone bench in his also, we will have our traditional display told him to go ahead. memory, with the name "Rathbun" en­ of family heirlooms. Be sure to bring Over the next seven weeks, we graved on it. yours along. waited for the printer to be repaired, as I think that Captain John Peck Rath-: On the final evening, we will end the the price continued to climb with each bun deserves a more fitting memorial reunion with a new England Clambake, telephone call. The original $60 repair than a bench, and we plan to pursue the prepared the authentic, old-fashioned cost went to $125, then to $200, then to matter further while in Rhode Island this way in an outdoor pit with heated rocks $300 and finally to $375. At that point, fall. If you have any thoughts on the and fresh seaweed. matter, please let me know. It will be a wonderful family week of Mrs. Lewis Rathbun of North Carolina land and sea travel, exploring, talking, Past Issues has made the interesting suggestion eating and just having fun. that we establish a special, lower mem­ Are you coming? If not, why not? Still Available bership rate for young people, as a way of getting them interested in family his­ The Rathbun­ All issues, 1981-1988 ...... $125 tory. The rate, the age limit and other Rathbone-Rathburn All issues, 1981 .. .......... 22 questions are open for comment. For Family Historian Is All issues, 1982.... .... .. .. 20 example, should it be available only to All issues, 1983 . .. 15 children or grandchildren of members? published quarterly by All issues, 1984 . 15 Should the Historian be sent to the the Rathbun Family All issues, 1985 . .. 15 young members, or to their sponsors? If Association at 11308 All issues, 1986 ....... ... 15 you have any suggestions or ideas, Popes Head Road, All issues, 1987 . 15 please let me know. Fairfax, Va. 22030. All issues, 1988 . 15 I hope to see many of you in Rhode Single copies of any 1983-1988 is­ Island. (703) 278-8512 sue are $4 each. Earlier single issues (some available only in xerox) range Frank H. Rathbun from $2 to $5, depending on our sup­ Editor & Publisher ply. Write if interested. ISSN 0737-7711 34 Rhode Island History Laced With Rathbuns and Rathbones hade Island, the site of our large textile mills in Woonsocket. He In the business field, Rathbuns still Fourth National Reunion in Sep­ later served in the state senate and in operate a family sawmill in West R tember, has a history that is lib­ 1882-3 was Rhode Island's lieutenant­ Greenwich, and our members, George erally sprinkled with the name Rathbun governor. (See our Historian of Jan. and Ruth Rathbun, own the Greenwood or Rathbone. 1987.) Hill Family Campgrounds in Hope Val­ Our immigrant ancestors, John and In the early 1900s, Elmer J. Rathbun, . ley. For many years, the Rathbone Fish Margaret (Acres) Rathbun, were among a young lawyer of West Greenwich, be­ Market has been a familiar landmark in the proprietors and first settlers in 1661 came a district court judge, later a supe­ Charlestown. of Block Island, which became part of rior court judge and then in 1919 was The Potter-Rathbun Organ Company the Rhode Island Colony in 1664. appointed to the Rhode Island Supreme in Cranston has been operated for 32 From 1681 to 1684, and again in Court, where he served for 16 years. years by our member, Arnold C. Rath­ 1696, John represented Block Island in (See our Historian of Jan. 1989). bun. (See story in this issue.) the Rhode Island General Assembly. During the past two centuries, others Our family is connected by marriage His son, Thomas Rathbun, held the in our family have made their marks in and descent with many of Rhode same post for 10 years in the early many fields. Island's most noted citizens. 1700s. Josephine Adams Rathbone of Provi­ Many of our members, including your In the later 1700s, our name is found dence was one of the nation's earliest editor, are descended from Roger Wil­ abundantly in the town records of Ex­ women librarians, and won national liams, founder of Rhode Island. recognition . (See our Historian of Jan. eter, North Kingstown, West Green­ Johnston, one of the state's largest 1986.) wich, Newport and Westerly, as the cities, was named for Augustus Johns­ George Sears Rathbone of Newport second and third generations moved ton, who married into our family. (See was a prominent merchant, city alder­ from Block Island to the mainland. story in this issue of our Historian.) man, member of the State Legislature, During the Revolutionary War, Cap­ and quartermaster of the Rhode Island Edward Green Malbone, one of the tain John Peck Rathbun , born in Exeter, Militia from 1828 to 1832. most talented portraitists in early Amer­ served with distinction as one of the Stephen Kilton Rathbone of Provi­ ica, was a Rathbun in-law. outstanding officers of the'fledgling Con­ dence was a merchant, banker and mili­ Reminders of our family's Rhode tinental Navy. (See our Historians of tia captain in the early 1800s, and an Island heritage' are found throughout the Oct. 1982, and Jan ., April and July active abolitionist in the pre-Civil War state. There is a Rathbun Pond in West 1983.) days. Greenwich, and Rathbun or Rathbone Captain Rathbun died in a British Thomas Wilson Dorr Rathbun was a streets in Providence, Newport, North prison, but his wife, Polly, and their in­ community leader in North Kingstown Kingstown, Woonsocket and probably fant child , lie buried in a quiet South for many years, and was widely known other towns. Kingstown Cemetery. as "The Swamptown Lawyer." (See In the village of Wickford, the 1802 After the war, many of our family story in this issue of the Historian.) home of Abraham Rathbun has been turned to the sea and helped put the Herbert Warren Rathbun of Westerly marked as, a historic dwelling, as are Rhode Island ports of Providence and was an attorney, law professor, town homes owned by two brothers-in-law of Newport in the forefront of international solicitor and local judge for many years Captain John Peck Rathbun - Imman­ trade.
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