https://clintonvillehistory.com/eliza-rathbone-wetmore-1791-1853/ Fri, 03 Aug 2012 23:41:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://clintonvillehistory.com/eliza-rathbone-wetmore-1791-1853/#comment-223 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 23:41:50 +0000 https://clintonvillehistory.com/?p=88#comment-223 John Rathbone’s will is of some historic interest. Having acquired 4000 military land grant acres definitely made him a member in good standing of General Washiington’s club. He never came to the Ohio Country, but accumulated considerable wealth while living in Manhattan and had an extensive estate. He had no sons but a number of daughters, and he specified the division of his estate to them and not their husbands. He did however, grant his son-in-laws the rights to pursue by all means necessary, the recovery of parcels of land in Manhatten he claimed had been stolen from him by Aaron Burr. Those were the days!

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