Josiah/Josias Roten, Twin of Henry

When Josiah Rhoton was born in 1692, in Dorchester, Maryland, United States, his father, William Rhoton, was 29 and his mother, Hannah Mace, was 24. He married Rachel Cremeen in 1720, in Dorchester, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died in 1762, in his hometown, at the age of 70.

Family

http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~combsschwarzfamily/genealogy/rhoton....

Generation No. 4

4. *JOSIAH (WROUGHTON/ROTEN)4 RHOTEN (WILLIAM (II) (WROUGHTON)3, WILLIAM (I) (WROUGHTON)2, EZEKIAH (RAUGHTON)1) was born Abt. 1695 in Dorchester Co., MD, and died Aft. 1761. He married *RACHEL ? (W/O (JOSIAH WROUGHTON/ROTEN) RHOTEN.

Children of JOSIAH RHOTEN and RACHEL RHOTEN are:

• 5. i. *DAVID (ROUGHTON/ROTEN)5 RHOTEN, b. Abt. 1725; d. 1816, Surry Co.,NC.
• ii. JACOB (WROUGHTON/ROTEN) RHOTEN, b. Abt. 1730.
• iii. JOSIAH (RHOTEN/ROTEN) RHOTEN, b. Abt. 1738; d. Abt. 1774.

References

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152304649/josiah-josais_wroten-...
• https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/G37B-KKS/josiah-rhoton-1692-1762
  • *Biography

Josiah was born about 1695 in Dorchester Co, Maryland. He passed away after 1761, in either Maryland or Delaware. The latter seems most likely.

From Gregory Sweitzer Rootsweb site, quoting Danny Miller: "1697--8 Mar, William Wrotten Senr. and wife Johanna 'in consideration of the natural affection and fatherly love which I [William Sr.] bear unto my beloved sone William Junr...as also for other divers good causes and considerations' give to their son William Wrotten Junr. "Fathers Good Will" "lying on the east side of Chesapeake Bay in a River called Hungar River [on Wroten Island] ... being part of two patents of my island of Stonewick in the foresaid river. " Wit: John Cremeen, Richard North, Richard Tubman (5 Old/ 1 16) [This is the most important deed for us for we use it to determine that Josias/Josiah Wroten our ancestor was the son of William Wroten II. In 1738 Josiah Wroughton sold this land and states that the land was conveyed from William Wroughton Sr. to William Wroughton Junr (and obviously descended to Josiah from William II since there is no deed of sale from William to Josiah). Likewise, John Cremeen, probably his brother-in-law, witnesses this deed to William Wroten II.]"

• **Sources

- Gregory Sweitzer, Rootsweb, "Dr." [1]
- Maryland. Somerset County Deed Books, Land Patent Cetificate #1420, MSA S1206-1528, pp2-3. Lazy Hill, Josiah Wroughton, 85 1/2 acres. Surveyed 5 Mar 1723; patented 5 Nov 1728. [2]
- Danny Miller, Loveta Miller Schweers, Descendants of Ezekiah Raughton: Ashe County Rotens (Salisbury, Maryland: Loveta Miller Schweers, 2002).
- Peter Wilson Coldham, Settlers of Maryland 1679-1700, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1995, p. 190.
- William Wroughton's will, Liber 24, folio 419 - abstracted by Carson Gibbs.
- Mowbray, Calvin W., First Dorchester Families, Heritage Books, 2007, pp. 149, 186, 216.
- Jamestowne Society Application (Richmond, Virginia, Jamestowne Society,10 Nov 2013), Sara Douglas Burns, Application No. 9064, Files of Sara Burns, Raughton/Roughton/Wroughton family.