MOSHER
                            by Don Badger
                             2 May 1990
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Recent research identifies Nicholas MOSHER's wife Elizabeth as
Elizabeth RATHBUN, third daughter of John and Margaret (ACRES)
RATHBUN, born about 1670 on Block Island.  She probably married
Nicholas MOSHER about 1689 and they moved to Dartmouth, Mass. and
later to Tiverton, R.I. where Nicholas died Aug. 15, 1747.  Elizabeth
survived him but her death date is not known.

The newly discovered evidence is written up in "The Rathbun-
Rathbone-Rathburn Family Historian" published by Frank H. Rathbun of
Fairfax, Virginia, who has been publishing a series on Rathbun family
descendants for the past ten years.

In Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jan 1988) on pages 2 and 13, there is a listing of
the evidence supporting the theory that Elizabeth was a RATHBUN
rather than an AUDLEY.  In Vol. 8, No. 2 (Apr 1988) on page 30 there
is a listing of the children of Nicholas and Elizabeth (RATHBUN)
MOSHER.  The early issues give the RATHBUN ancestry in England and
disprove some of the early generations contained in Cooley's historic
work on the RATHBONE family done almost a hundred years earlier.  Let
me know if you want more details.

==Don Badger, P.O. Box 3773, Santa Rosa, CA 95402


Date:   Wed Nov 14 1990  14:39:43
From:   Bob Mosher
To:     All
Subj:   New Edition of MOSHER Genealogy Book
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I just received a publication announcement of the Revised Edition
of "Descendants of Hugh MOSHER and Rebecca MAXSON" by Mildred
(Mosher) Chamberlain and Laura (McGaffey) Clarenbach.  816 pp.,
indexed, hard cover, publication date 1 Dec 1990, price $39.50 ppd.
Available from Laura M. Clarenbach, 5009 Risser Road, Madison, WI
53705-1366.  I realize this is sort of a commercial, but hope it is
OK to make a single announcement like this as the original is the
best MOSHER book around and I am sure any MOSHER researchers would
like to know of the new edition.

Bob

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