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Entries for Rathbun, Valentine Sr.

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Village:Hancock, MA Source:hsvcensus:995

id 995
lastname Rathbun
firstname Valentine Sr.
sex m
birth_date Hancock 1780
birth_place Clothier, 1768.
date_admitted Established a clothier works in west Pittsfield, 1768, History of Berkshire County, Massachusetts (NY: J.B. Beers, 1885) 2:294. Baptist preacher who joined 1780 but left by 1781; 'Pretended to confess his Sins but without Dout wickedley coverd his Most Dollfull abominations? who soon witherd away and became a bloodey Persicuter,' MPH.6140a p4,6,6b. Assaulted his son Valentine Jr, DeWint.821, p103. Wrote anti-Shaker pamphlet: An Account of the Matter, Form and Manner of a New and Strange Religion (Providence, R.I.: Bennett Wheeler, 1781).

	id	995
	lastname	Rathbun
	firstname	Valentine Sr.
	sex	m
	birth_date	Hancock 1780
	birth_place	Clothier, 1768.
	date_admitted	Established a clothier works in west Pittsfield, 1768, History of Berkshire County, Massachusetts (NY: J.B. Beers, 1885) 2:294. Baptist preacher who joined 1780 but left by 1781; 'Pretended to confess his Sins but without Dout wickedley coverd his Most Dollfull abominations? who soon witherd away and became a bloodey Persicuter,' MPH.6140a p4,6,6b. Assaulted his son Valentine Jr, DeWint.821, p103. Wrote anti-Shaker pamphlet: An Account of the Matter, Form and Manner of a New and Strange Religion (Providence, R.I.: Bennett Wheeler, 1781).

Village:New Lebanon, NY Source:sni_work:1518