Person:Joseph Rakestraw (3)

Watchers
m. 17 Nov 1757
  1. John Rakestraw
  2. Rebecca Rakestraw - Aft 1813
  3. _____ Rakestraw - 1764
  4. Justinian RakestrawAbt 1758 - 1762
  5. Joseph RakestrawAbt 1765 - 1810
  6. Hannah Rakestraw1768 - 1842
Facts and Events
Name Joseph Rakestraw
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1765 of Byberry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Marriage 29 Aug 1785 Third Presbyterian, Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniato Rebecca Gilbert
Death[2] 13 Sep 1810 Northern District, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ancestral File Number X2FW-7C

!QUAKER: "dismissed for marrying contrary to disipline - too near relative" 29 11th mo. 1785. Northern District.

Cheska notes - died Abt 1829 Pete's notes have him dying 1813/1819

!DOCUMENTATION - Pete Craig notes.

"The Encyclopaedia of Pennsylvania Biography" 16:62f "Joseph Rakestraw, Carpenter, wrongly called director of the Carpenters' Company 1770"

They had 11 children

References
  1. email from Cheska Wheatley;7 May 1997. (Richland MM (Bucks Co., PA) records by Watring).

    2. Joseph Rakestraw b. abt 1765 of Byberry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania m. Rebecca Gilbert 1785 Phila.

    [the following in all caps]
    Joseph Rakestraw 1758 settled Mahoning Valley, Northamption Co., PA
    Removed to Lancaster Co., PA
    D. Ca 1829
    Bur Friends Burying Ground, New Garden MM, Columbiana Co. Ohio
    m. 29 Aug 1785 Philadelphia
    to Rebecca Gilbert
    b. 1773 Byberry, Bucks Co., PA
    d. 23 8th Mo. 1842
    age 79 years Stark Co., Ohio
    d/o Benjamin Gilbert
    Children (eleven)
    1. Hannah
    2. George Rakestraw B. 1805 Lancaster Co., PA
    3. Elizabeth Rakestraw
    4. Abner Rakestraw
    5. William Rakestraw
    6. Charles Rakestraw
    7. Joseph Rakestraw

  2. George E. McCracken. Rakestraw On the Delaware. (The American Genealogist)
    Vol. 51, No.1; Jan. 1975.