Person:John Roseborough (2)

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley's:

• Vol. 1 - ORDERS OF COURT. - Augusta, 1758. - To the Worshipful the Justices of Augusta: The humble petition of Terrence Carbarry sheweth: That your petitioner was brought a servant into this County from Pennsylvania by John Risk, who sold him to Francis Beattey, and was again sold by said Beattey to James Rosebrough with whom he served last of his time, and is now likely to be defrauded out of his freedom dues. May it therefore please your worships the premises to consider and to appoint unto your petitioner such freedom as ye law directs, either against Francis Beattey, or John Rosebrough, and your petitioner (as in duty bound) shall pray.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7} Family Recorded, in Clyde, John Cunningham. Rosbrugh, a tale of the Revolution, or, Life, labors and death of Rev. John Rosbrugh: pastor of Greenwich, Oxford and Mansfield Woodhouse (Washington) Presbyterian Churches, N.J., from 1764 to 1769, and of Allen Township Church, Pa., from 1769 to 1777 : chaplain in the Continental Army, clerical martyr of the Revolution, killed by Hessians, in the Battle of Assunpink, at Trenton, New Jersey, Jan. 2d, 1777. (Easton Pa.: New Jersey Historical Society, 1880).

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   ... John Rosbrugh was not a native born American but belonged to that sturdy class known as the Scotch-Irish, ... He was born in the year 1714, shortly before the family left Scotland, or shortly after they arrived in the North of Ireland, the exact date of the migration not being now attainable. Of the family to which he belonged we have no definite information further than that he had an older brother, William. ... They settled in New Jersey, but what particular part we are unable to decide. John's first marriage took place about the year 1733, when he was nineteen years of age. His wife's christian name was Sarah, but the surname has been lost. He has no descendants by this marriage, the wife dying at the birth of their first child, which also died at the same time.
   
   For the next twenty-seven or twenty-eight years we have very little information with regard to the family. The elder brother William, died, leaving two sons, Robert and John. The latter, after his father's death, and until he was of age, made his home with his brother John, for whom he was called. ...
   
   p 13 -
   ... Mr. Rosbrugh married the daughter Jane [Ralston] of this family, and took her to their home in the bounds of the congregation at Mansfield Woodhouse. The time at which the marriage took place we have not been able to learn, but conjecture it was in the early part of 1766. ...
   
   p 18 - [from church record book]
   ... "The Rev. John Rosbrugh accepted the call to Allentown congregation, the 3d. day of April, 1769; that is to allow the congregation two-thirds of his time for --- pounds per annum." ...
   
   pp 43-44 - [25 Dec 1776 letter to wife]
   p 55 - [27 Dec 1776 letter to wife from Bristol Ferry to Mrs. Jean Rosbrugh, Delaware Forks]
   
   p 60 -
   ... [supposedly Capt. Hays initially buried the body pf Rev. John Rosbrugh where it lay] ... Sometime afterward, Mr. Duffield, subsequently Dr. Duffield, pastor of the Old Pine-street Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, ... took up the body and reburied it. ... There have been various traditions as to the place where the body rests. A common one is that it lies in the burying-ground at the Old First Presbyterian church in Trenton. Another is that the widow and her daughter went to the scene of his death to identify the body, and that the second burial took place at Father Cooly's grave-yard, a few miles from Trenton. This is highly improbable, as the oldest daughter was at this time less than eight years of age. Beside, the oldest son - then nearly ten years of age - in after years testified that he knew nothing of this journey on the part of his mother, or the burial at this place. Mr. Rosbrugh's descendants believe that the body was taken to Philadelphia, but where buried they have no means of ascertaining. The patriot pastor having been laid in his last resting-place, on April 22d., 1777, the Presbytery of New Brunswick, to which he belonged, made the following record: "Rev. Messrs. Tennent and Rosborough have deceased since our last Presbytery." In like manner the Synod of New York and Philadelphia, of which he had been a member, convened in Philadelphia May 21st., place on the record the following: "New Brunswick Presbytery report, that the Rev. Mr. William Tennent, departed this life March 8th., 1777; and that the Rev. Mr. John Rosborough was barbarously murdered by the enemy at Trenton on January second." [Records of the Presyterian Church, p. 477.]

2. ↑ Will Abstract, in Clyde, John Cunningham. Rosbrugh, a tale of the Revolution, or, Life, labors and death of Rev. John Rosbrugh: pastor of Greenwich, Oxford and Mansfield Woodhouse (Washington) Presbyterian Churches, N.J., from 1764 to 1769, and of Allen Township Church, Pa., from 1769 to 1777 : chaplain in the Continental Army, clerical martyr of the Revolution, killed by Hessians, in the Battle of Assunpink, at Trenton, New Jersey, Jan. 2d, 1777. (Easton Pa.: New Jersey Historical Society, 1880)
   40-41.

   [Abstract by cos1776]
   ROSBRUGH, John. Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Rec: 19 Dec 1776. WB 1:149.
   Wife: "Mrs. Jean Rosbrugh"
   Children: provided for, but not named
   Nephews: "my deceased brother's sons" Robert Rosbrugh, John Rosbrugh
   Exe: Rev'd Mr. Alexander Mitchell, "dear brother-in-law" Mr. John Ralston
   Wit: John Walker, William Caruthers