Rotch-Wales papers

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Rotch-Wales papers

1789-1906

http://massillonmemory.org/the-rotch-wales-papers

Handwritten and typescript papers, re. Thomas Rotch, his wife Charity, and their founding of Kendal, Ohio. Includes the original correspondence and legal papers plus typed-copies of correspondence. Also biographies of Thomas and Charity Rotch, re. work as Quakers, with underground railroad, establishment of Kendal, agriculture, cattle, and sheep importation and breeding, founding of the Charity School in Kendal, etc. Thomas died in 1823 and Charity died in 1824.

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Ohio History Connection, Ohio Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8358138

Ohio History Connection, Ohio Historical Society

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Rotch, Charity Rodman, 1766-1824

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Charity Rodman Rotch (1767-1823) was a Quaker minister from Massachusetts who was an early settler of Massillon, Ohio. Rotch was born Charity Rodman on October 31, 1766, to Captain Thomas Rodman (1724-1766) and Mary Borden Rodman (1729-1798) of Newport, Rhode Island. Her father's ship was lost at sea mere weeks after her birth. In 1790 Charity married her brother-in-law Thomas Rotch, a merchant from the island of Nantucket. The new couple lived on the island for several months before moving t...

Evans, Joshua, 1731-1798

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Joshua Evans, a Quaker farmer, minister, and abolitionist, was born in 1731, the son of Thomas and Rebecca Evans of Haddonfield Monthly Meeting, New Jersey. In 1753, he married Priscilla Collins under the care of Haddonfield Monthly Meeting. About the year 1754, he experienced a religious conversion and thereafter, devoted his life to sharing his rigorous interpretation of the gospel through an ascetic and pious life style and simple ministry. Barely educated, he was nevertheless acknowledged...

Rotch, Thomas, 1767-1823

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Thomas Rotch (1767-1823) was a merchant, wool manufacturer, and Quaker minister from Massachusetts who was an early settler of Massillon, Ohio. Rotch was born July 13, 1767, to William Rotch Sr. (1734-1828) and Elizabeth Barney Rotch (1735-1824) of Nantucket. His father was part of a prosperous family mercantile firm, which Rotch joined upon coming of age. Soon thereafter, in 1790, he married his sister-in-law Charity Rodman of Newport, Rhode Island. In 1791 the Rotches left Nantucket for New...

Charity School (Kendal, Ohio)

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Rotch family.

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