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Two Centuries of Brothersvalley 1785,Kentucky BRETHREN-L Archives Archiver > BRETHREN > 1998-04 > 0892698237 From: "Merle C. Rummel" < cliffr@infocom.com>Subject: Captain Henry Rhoads, KY, 1785Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 20:43:57 I've had several requests and comments about the Kentucky Rhoads family.I found this material in Austin Cooper's "Two Centuries of Brothersvalley"pp192-212 (includes a section on the Boones)

Summarizing: Henry Roth Sr was an "exhorting Deacon" at Stony Creek inBrothers Valley. After George Adam Martin left, he became Presiding Elder.He was succeeded by his son, Henry Jr.In 1785, Henry Roth Jr/Henry Rhoads led 80 families from Pennsylvania toKentucky. He first went to Kentucky in 1784, and spent the first winter at Bardstown and Elizabethtown KY. He then moved to Rhoadsville (Vienna and Calhoun KY) on the Green River, but because of a mix-up in recording landgrants, the Dorsey heirs (MD) won a lawsuit for the site, most of the Pennsylvania settlers moved some seven miles south -Sacremento, Bremen and Pond Station. The community was called "Dutch Settlement". He served in the Kentucky Legislature in c1790, and was given the honor of naming the new county, -after his beloved Brigadier General, John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg. He "found time on the Lord's Day to stand before the congregation gathered from the sparcely settled neighborhood and read from his German Bible and translated it into the English language as he read, doing it better than most of the leaders in the Sacred Service did with an interpreter to assist". [Rothert "History of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky"]pp201-4) list of the heads of families(always be sure to check these out)Capt Henry Roth Jr/wife Elizabeth StonerSolomon Rhoth, a brother of Henry. Elder George Boone, brother of Daniel -elected Elder at Stony Creek PA, 1770(became a hermit, in cave on Ohio River, IN, d. 1819)Daniel Arnold --(probably NOT -to Beaver Run WVa)David Martin, son of George Adam Martin -became Elder in KYJacob Miller --(NO -to Beaver Dam MD, to Franklin Co VA, to Dayton OH)Jacob MaugenJohn Huber --(? -to Stony Creek Church, Logan Co OH)Jacob Landis --(? -to Rockingham Co VA)Daniel Leatherman Jr -became an Elder in KYGeorge Stoy -- near Louisville KYJohn Garver -- (? -to Beaver Dam MD, to Rockingham Co VA, to Clermont Co OH)John FrazerHenry Moore/Mohr --to Logan Co KY, then to Logan OHGeorge Stauffer --near Greenville KYJohn Sigler/Ziegler --? -to So OHGeorge Lehman -- ? -to So OHGeorge Noffsinger -- to TN, to Greenville KYGeorge Henry Long -- to Logan Co KYJacob Engle/wife Catherine -- to Logan Co KyJohn Bowman --minister --led group to Ky 1780, again in 1785John Meyers --? -to Flat Rock VAJacob Hertzler --to Logan Co KYGeorge Cassel -- to KY, then to So OHWilliam Knepper --to Muhlenberg Co KY areaGeorge BerkleyGeorge Newmoyer\_ claimed military landsPhilip Aswald / in SW Kentucky-Aswald went on to IndianaJacob Kimmel --to KY, to TN, 1805 to So OHHenry Winterberger -- Greenville KYSamuel Harshberger -- KY? -to So OHJacob NewmillerDavid Gebel --(became "Cable", in KY)David Berkley --on the Blood River, TN/KY lineHenry BerkleyWilliam Beeghley --Logan Co KY, to So OHGeorge Leatherman, son of Elder Daniel Leatherman, --to So OHPeter Becker/Baker -- Logan Co KYPeter Shaver -- Bremen, KYDaniel Stoner/Stover --Logan Co KYJacob Stoner/Stover /wife Barbara --bro of DanielPeter Schoel/Shull --"Squire", Logan Co KYJohn Vaught/Elizabeth Stump --Muhlenberg Co KY (Will Book I -1813)Gilbert Vaught/wife MaryElizabeth VaughtTobias PenrodJames Martin --son of Elder George Martin, Elder in KY, military landsJohn HahnDaniel Roth/Eva Faust/Elizabeth Newman -bro of Henry Jr,Jacob Studebaker --(? NO -to Miami River Valley)John Studebaker -- (NO to Miami River Valley)Henry Harshberger -- ? - to Donnel's Creek OHElder Francis Stump/Rachel Martin --in KY 1770, returned? 1785Solomon Roth/Rachel Boone (dau of Squire Boone)Andrew ShaverDavid Rhoads -bro of Capt Henry --married Elizabeth Vaught, 1798, aboveDaniel Kimmel/Catherine HunsakerAbraham Vaught --married Eliza Bell, 1808.to VA 1783, to KY 1785Simon Vaught --married Elizabeth Zimmerman, 1799. to VA 1783, to KY 1785John Vaught Jr/ wife EleanorHartman Hunsaker/ wife AnnaChristian Vaughtto VA 1783, to KY 1785Philip Myers/ wife MaryPeter Myers/ wife ElizabethThomas Grubbto VA 1783, to KY 1785Thomas Newman/ wife Mary (dau Elizabeth -married Daniel Roth, 2/w)George Funk --to Logan Co KYHenry PenrodBenjamin Biggs----From Roanoke Settlement (?), VA --band joined the partyJohn Dennis -- of NCThomas IrvinJesse McPherson --from Dunkard Bottom VAJohn HuntJames WoodJames Inman --to Calhoun KYCapt John HanleyHenry KeithMathew AdamsBenjamin TolbertJames WeirMerle C Rummel, Church Historian

Will

Henry Rhoads 1774

Source: Bedford Co., Pennsylvania Wills 1:5-7; FHL microfilm 0.331.358

Note: This Henry Rhoads is the father of Capt. Henry Rhoads of Muhlenberg. In the Name of God amen. I Handry [sic] Roads of the County of Bedford and Province of Pennsylvania, being weak in health but of sound mind & memory do this Twenty Eight Day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy fore [sic] [28 January 1774] make and ordain this my last will and testament in following manner.

First, I order all my just debts to be paid and next that my two sons John Roads & Joseph Roads are to deliver unto my wife Catarina yearly and every year as long as she is a withe [sic - wife, widow] the sum of fourteen bushels of gut [good] and clear wheat and to sow or cause to be sown for her use one quarter of an acre of flax and also to plant for her use one quarter of an acre of potatoes and I do further will in this my last testament that the said John & Joseph Roads shall keep and feel(?) tow(?) cause for her use allso as long as she liveth and provide for [per? her?] ____(?) cause the same to be done and let her live where I live now during her lifetime. But in case she marries again then all the above articles are to be void and I do further order in this my last will and Testament that all my children shall have one equal part of my estate of the sum of sixty pounds before my wife Catarina shall come in for her third and I do further order in this my will and testament that if all my children are of one equal share of the sixty pounds to each of them then John Roads and Joseph Roads is to take no more in share with the rest of my children because the Plantation is not a present(?) for them and I do further will and make over to my son Joseph Roads one plow and all the gears and one Boll [Bull?] Horse or gelding and one Boll ___(?) mare with the colt and the Harrow and all the tacklines thereunto belonging with the said Joseph Roads is to have and has lot to the Plantation in his Bargain of Buying the same and I do make and order in this my last will and testament that the Executors of this my will shall buy a piece of land for my son Daniel Roads out of the first payment of my plantation as for as his equal share with the rest of my children will alow [allow?] for the same and I do hereby make, ordain and appoint Michael Lyll and Abraham Both of the County of Bedford to be the Executors of this my last Will and Testament and lastly, I do hereby revoke and mack void all former and other wills by me heretofore made, declaring this to be my last will and testament. In witness whereof I the said Handry Roads have to this my last will and testament set my hand and seal the day and year above written.

Signature: [illegible]

Written, Signed, Sealed, Published, and declared by the said Handry Roads the Testator as for his last will and testament in the presence of us who in his presence have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto Abraham Cable Johannes Gross Jacob Cable

Bedford County Before me, Thomas Smith, Esquire, Deputy Register for the Probate of Wills and Granting Letters of Administration in and for the County of Bedford in the Province of Pennsylvania, personally came the within named John Gross and Jacob Cable, two of the subscribing witnesses to the within instrument of writing and on their solemn affirmation, they conscientiously scrupling the taking of an oath, do declare and affirm that they were personally present and heard & saw the within named Henry Rhoads sign, seal, publish & declare the within instrument of writing as and for his last will & testament. That at the time of the doing thereof the said Henry Rhoads was of sound & disposing mind & memory to the best of these affirmants knowledge & belief, that they subscribed their names as witnesses to the same in the presence of the said Testator & as his request & that they saw Abraham Cable the other subscribing witness sign his name as a witness to the same in the presence & at the request of the said Testator. Johannes Gross Jacob Cable Affirmed & subscribed at Bedford this 12th day of April 1774 before me Thomas Smith Depy. Regt.

Be it remembered that on the day and year last before mentioned the last will and testament of Henry Rhoads deceased in due form of law as proved before me and probate and letters testamentary thereof were granted to Michael Lyll and Abraham Cable Executors in the said will named being first duly affirmed (they conscientiously scrupling the taking of an oath) well and truly to administer the said Deceased's Estate and Exhibit an Inventory thereof unto the Deputy Register Office at Bedford on or before the 12th day of May next and render a true & just account of the said Administration on or before the twelfth day of April next. Given under the seal of the said office Thomas Smith Depy. Regt.