Edmund Rathbun ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8}

   Cause of his death was The effect of drinking too much water while overheated from working..¹²

   Other names for Edmund were Edmund Rathbon,¹³ Edmond Rathbone, Edmund Rathbone and Edmond Rathbun.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Military: Pvt., French and Indian War, Between 1758 and 1759. ¹⁴ He fought at the Battle of Ticonderoga in 1758 and at the siege of Quebec in 1759 (the French & Indian War).

• Residence, Abt 1774, Tyringham, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. ¹

• Military: Military Service during American Revolution, 1776 To 1780. ¹⁵ 26 Apr 1777 to 20 May 1777: Edmund Rathbone. Private, Captain Lankton company, Col. Ashley's (Berkshire Co.) regiment; entered service 26 Apr 1977; discharged 20 May 1777; service, 25 days, at Saratoga by order of General Gates.

29 Jun 1777 to 26 Jul 1777: Edmund Rathbun, Tyringham. Private, Captain Ezekiel Hearick's company, Col Brown's (Berkshire Co.) regiment; entered service 29 Jun 1777; discharged 26 Jul 1777; service, 28 days, in Northern department, including 5 days (100 miles) travel home.

22 Jul 1777 to 14 Aug 1777: Edmund Rathbone. Captain Lankton's company, Col. John Ashley's (1st Bershire Co.) regiment entered service 22 Jul 1777; discharged 14 Aug 1777; service, 24 days; company marched to Kingsbury by order of Brig. Gen. Fellows; roll sworn to at Tyringham.

25 Oct 1780: Edmund Rathburn, Tyringham. List of men raised for the 6 months service and returned by Brig. Gen. Patterson, as having passed muster in a return dated Camp Totoway, 25 Oct 1780.

(Ancestry.com. Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the Revolutionary War, Vol. 1-17 [Vol. 12, page 977, 978], Boston, MA, W. Potter Printing, 1896-1908)

• Residence, Between 1780 and 1790, Little Hoosick, Albany, New York, United States. ¹

• Residence, After 1787, Delhi, Ulster, New York, United States. ¹²

• Residence, 1790, Harpersfield, Montgomery, New York, United States. ¹⁶

• Occupation: Miller, After 1790, Wheeling, Ohio, Virginia, United States. ¹

• Residence, 1796, , Ohio , Virginia, United States. ¹²

Edmund Rathbun

Extracted from The Rathbun, Rathbone, Rathburn Family Historian, Volume 2, Number 1, January 1982, Page 15.
Edmund Rathbun born December 8, 1737, at Exeter, R.I., and married there about 1759 Mercy Carpenter, possibly the daughter of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Reynolds) Carpenter, born March 13, 1739. They moved by 1774 to Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and in the 1780s to New York State. He was at Little Hoosick, Albany County, in 1787, when he sold land there, and later at Delhi, Delaware County, where he was among the first settlers.
Family tradition says he was a mill owner and moved in the late 1790sto the Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia area, where he died in the Summer of 1801 "from the effects of drinking too much water while overheated from working." A heart attack would be a more likely explanation, since he was then 64 years old. Mercy died May 7, 1827, aged 89, in Washington county, Ohio, where several of her children had settled.

Extracted from the Rathbun, Rathbone, Rathburn Family Historian Volume 3, Number 1, January 1983, page 9.
Edmund Rathbun (1737 - 1801) of Exeter, R.I., son of John Rathbun and Alice. He fought in the French and Indian War at the Battle of Ticonderoga in 1758 and at the siege of Quebec in 1759.

Extracted from The Rathbun, Rathbone, Rathburn Family Historian, Volume 5, Number 3, July 1885, Page 39.
One of the earliest western pioneers of whom we have record is EdmundRathbone (1737 - 1801). After serving in the Revolution, he moved about 1785 with his wife and eight children from Tyringham, Massachusetts, to Delhi, Delaware County, New York, where he operateda mill. About 1796, probably accompanied by his oldest son, John, and John's family, Edmund set out for the west in a horse drawn wagon.They probably followed the Susquehanna River valley south into Pennsylvania and then followed the Ohio River westward. On their trip, theyfell in with another west-bound immigrant, Isaac Taylor, and his family. They all continued together and settled near present-day Wheeling,West Virginia, then part of Ohio County, Virginia. They were joined the next year or two by Edmund's wife, Mercy, and younger children - Edmund Jr. and Lovica, both of whom married children of Isaac Taylor. Edmund died there in 1801, and his son John in 1802.

Edmund Jr. moved on down the Ohio River in 1805 and settled at Belpre on the Ohio side, where he manufactured grindstones and operated a cooper's shop for 10 years. In April 1815, he and his family loaded their belongings onto flatboats and started down the river for Illinois. Illness forced them to interrupt their journey for 14 months at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, but in July 1816 they took to the river again. At Little Pigeon River they disembarked. Edmund purchased a team and wagonand they traveled by land across southeast Indiana to Vincennes on the Wabash River, which was to be their home for 10 years. Edmund's brothers, Gideon and David, followed him to Ohio about 1806, and their older brother, Perry, moved to Belpre about 1815.

Edmund married Mercy Hannah Carpenter, daughter of Jeremiah Carpenter and Susannah Elizabeth Reynolds, in 1759 in Exeter, , Rhode Island, United States.¹ (Mercy Hannah Carpenter was born on 13 Mar 1738/39 in West Greenwich, Providence, Rhode Island, United States,¹⁷ died on 7 May 1827 in Belpre, Washington, Ohio, United States ^{1 18} and was buried after 7 May 1827 in Dunham, Washington, Ohio, United States ¹⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Alt. Marriage, Abt 1759, , Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.