RATHBURN
                            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