Month: December 2008
Rhodes’ in the Revolution from Lynn, Massachusetts
http://www.rhodesfamily.org/lynn_mass_soldiers.php
Taken from the book “Lynn in the Revolution”, by Howard Kendall Sanderson, Part II, Published in 1909, by W. B. Clarke Company, Boston, page 218-221.
The following Rhodes’ were Revolutionary War soldiers that served from Lynn, Massachusetts. This is some of the information that may be found on this web page: their parents, spouses, children, some biographical information, along with their military records.
The soldiers:
JESSE RHODES
JOHN RHODES,-son of Ignatius and Sarah (Merrian) Rhodes
JOHN RHODES,-son of Hezekiah and Abigail
JOSIAH RHODES
SAMUEL RHODES
THOMAS RHODES
WILLIAM RHODES
The link: http://www.rhodesfamily.org/lynn_mass_soldiers.php
Follow-up on the William and Sophia Rhodes Family Bible
Below is what I found on William and Sophia Rhodes in the FamilySearch? International Genealogical Index v5.0, at http://www.familysearch.org/
William Rhodes
Birth: About 1764
New York, New York, New York
Marriage: 25 JUL 1791
, New York, New York
Death: SEP 1813
New York, New York, New York
Spouse:
Sophia Rohrbach
Birth: 1770
New York, New York, New York
Death: About 1896
New York, New York, New York
The Virginia Military Institute Register of Former Cadets
http://rhodesfamily.org/v…tute_cadets.php
Thanks to Wayne Rhodes of the Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia for bringing us the following data. Check out their website at www.jmlibrary.org.
This new page lists twenty Rhoads/Rhodes/Rodes men who where former cadets in the the Virginia Military Institute of prior to 1984. Some dating back to the 1840’s. It shows name, class, place from which the cadet matriculated, period of cadetship, degree/s, military service and awards (if any), occupation and place, death date (if any).
http://rhodesfamily.org/virginia_military_institute_cadets.php
George Washington’s Boyhood Home Found
FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON ? The archaeologists were delighted to at last find the remains of George Washington?s boyhood home but got stumped when they looked for evidence of the cherry tree and rusty hatchet.
??This was the setting for many important events in Washington?s life,?? David Muraca, director of archaeology for The George Washington Foundation, announced Wednesday.
Most biographies offer little detail of the first president?s youth, so the discovery may provide insight into Washington?s childhood, he said. The site is located at Ferry Farm, just across the Rappahannock River from Fredericksburg, Va., about 50 miles south of Washington.
Philip Levy, associate professor of history at the University of South Florida, found evidence that the house was a one-and-a-half-story residence perched on a bluff overlooking the river. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080702-gw-house.html ??If George Washington did indeed chop down a cherry tree, as generations of Americans have believed, this is where it happened,?? said Levy. The researchers said the artifacts they have recovered did not include a hatchet.
Check it out here: http://news.nationalgeographic.com
/news/2008/07/080702-gw-house.html
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http://www.jacobboerema.nl/en/Freeware.htm
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More ways to creating and managing Portable Document Format (PDF) files
After my last post about PDFs I received an email from Mike, the creator of http://carputers.net, and his blog at
http://newsandtips.carputers.net. I visiting his site and following some of his links, I was inspiration to make an additional post in regard to managing Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
In in the last post I mentioned a PDF maker named CutePDF Writer. Another PDF producer, doPDF, is much like CutePDF, and its also freeware. Unlike the latter, doPDF is a self-contained program, doesn?t require 3rd party software to create PDF files as CutePDFs requires an installation of Ghostwriter. Here is the link to doPDF: http://www.dopdf.com/
Do you need to convert PDF to Word DOC? Then check out this link: How to convert PDF to Word DOC for free: a comparative test
http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/03/28/how-to-convert-pdf-to-word-doc-for-free-a-comparative-test
William Rhodes’ Revolution War Land Warrant
The following document grants William Rhodes four hundred sixteen & 2/3 acres of land for serving as a corporal, and for his seven years of service in the American Revolution. You can learn more about William and his descendants at: http://wm.rhodesfamily.org.
The front of Wm Rhodes’ Rev War Land Warrant
The back of Wm Rhodes’ Rev War Land Warrant
William Rhodes’ signature from warrant
Biography of Samuel Rhodes, Clark Co., OH
http://rhodesfamily.org/bio_samuel_rhodes.php
From: THE HISTORY of CLARK COUNTY, OHIO, CONTAINING Biographies of Early Settlers and Prominent Men (and Women) CHICAGO, W. H. BEERS & CO., 1881:
Samuel RHODES, retired farmer; P.O. Springfield. Samuel Rhodes is one of eight children – seven sons and one daughter-of Jacob and Barbara Rhodes. of Lancaster Co., Penn., and was born in Chambersburg, Penn., on Nov.11, 1812; his ancestors on his mother’s side were from Holland . . .
See the biography in its entirety here: http://rhodesfamily.org/bio_samuel_rhodes.php
Biography of Henry F. Rhodes, Bollinger Co. MO
http://rhodesfamily.org/bio_henry_f_rhodes.php
From Goodspeed’s History of Southeast Missouri, page 843: Henry F. Rhodes was born in 1835, on the old homestead of his father, Jacob Rhodes. The latter settle in Bollinger County, Mo., in 1818, coming from Lincoln Co, N.C. For more follow this link: http://rhodesfamily.org/bio_henry_f_rhodes.php