Jacob Roudabush of Penn.

THE RAUDENBUSCH FAMILY

Second Generation

20A. Maria Margaretha Raudenbusch was born c. 1731, having been baptized
at the Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge September 21, 1731. She appears to have married Conrad Harpel since the latter was named the executor of her
brother, Peter's will, and Conrad is called Peter's brother- in-law in the will .

20. Peter Raudenbush, since he was baptized at the Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge on May 20, 1733, was born c. 1733. He must have married rather late in life because his wife, Sarah (nee Himmelwright), was born May 29, 1783, fifty years junior to Peter, and died October 28, 1856. After Peter's death in 1803, she married a second time to the Reverend John George Roeller, a Lutheran minister, on June 18, 1805. This latter person had been widowed on July 31, 1803, having been first married to Magdalena Wembend. Peter and Sarah lived in Springfield Township, Bucks county, where he operated a farm. He died between August 7, 1803 and November 24, 1803. In his will he appointed his father-in-law, Joseph Himmelwright, as guardian of his only child, William, and his brother-in-law, Conrad Harpel, as executor.

21. George M. Roudenbush: I have tentatively placed his birth as c. 1735 since he was confirmed at Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge between.1748 and 1758. He was warranted 400 acres in Northampton County in 1752, and was taxed in Salisbury Township of Northampton County from at least 1785 to 1788 for 200 acres. In the Revolutionary War, he served as a captain of seventeen men in George Brinigh's Battalion of Northampton County Militia from May of 1777 to May of 1778. Later, from 1781 to 1783, he served in Jacob Clater's company of the Third Battalion of Northampton County Militia. After the war, in 1784, he ran for office as Northampton County Coroner, but was defeated. In 1789, George Raudenbush of Salisbury Township, Northampton County, bought land in Lower Saucon Township of Northampton County from John Smith of Springfield Township, Bucks County. A John Smith was a witness to the will of Peter Raudenbush (#20) of Springfield Township book lists a transaction in which he was paid two shillings for mending shoes. Jeremiah's will, dated April 13, 1797 and proved March 25, 1805, leaves the homestead part of the farm to the south and east of the origina1, and containing 130 acres, to his son, George. His wife, Margaret, was to live in the homestead with George after Jeremiah's death. Peter was given the north and western part of the original farm containing 48 acres.
Margaret's will was proved December 11, 1820.

23. Michael Raudenbush was baptized October 17, 1746; but, since his brother, David, and his sister, Johanna, were also baptized on the same date, it is not certain what year he was born. I have estimated the year of his birth to be 1737, since he marricd Anna Maria Hoffman August 10, 1756. He was admitted to Holy Communion at the Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge between the years 1748 and 1758. He worked for David Shultze for five years, 1751 to 1756, and by 1769 he owned a 200 acre farm in Upper Hanover Township, and continued to be taxed there through 1783. He continued to live there all his life since his wills states that he is a yeoman of upper Hanover Township. Although at one point he is listed as a Non-Associator during the Revolutionary War, in 1780 he served in the Upper Hanover Militia. He died in 1799. His will, dated April 20, 1798, was proved February 25, 1799.

23A. Catarina Raudenbush was born August 9, 1741 and died October 15, 1822. She was buried at the Tohicken Reformed church. She was the sponsor for her brother, Michael's son, Heinrich. She apparently never married because the 1790 Pennsylvania census finds her living alone in Montgomery County, probably in Upper Hanover Township. (The census lists her in "remainder of County.")

23B. Anna Margretha Raudenbush married Antoni Hamfer between the years 1747 and 1758 (at the Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge) Nothing more is known about her, and it is not even certain that she is indeed George's daughter. I have estimated the year of her birth to be 1742.

23C Johanna Raudenbush was baptized at the Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge October 17, 1746. I have estimated the year of her birth to be 1744, but nothing more is known about her.

24. Daniel Raudenbush was baptized October 17, 1746 with Michael and Johanna, but nothing more is known about him. I have estimated his year of birth as 1746.

25. David Raudenbush was admitted to holy Communion at the Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge between the year; 1748 and 1758, and it is estimated that his year of birth was 1748. This appears to be the same David, who, around 1779, began farming in Alsace Township of Berks County. He is not listed in the tax returns for Alsace Town ship prior to 1779, but we do find him taxed thereafter through 1785 in that township. The census of 1790 still shows him living there but the 1800 and 1810 censis list his residence as Reading.

40. John Ruebush: It is estimated that John Ruebush (the spelling used by most of his descendants) was born about l735, using his wife's date of birth as a criterion. In his father's will, he is called the oldest son. He married Anna Marie Keller, who was known as "Mollie". Mollie's father may have been the John Keller who arrived on the Ship Princess Augustis on September 16, 1736, but this has not been verified. John was a farmer and miller. He and his wife settled near Hagerstown, Maryland. In the Proceedings of the Committee of Observation for Elizabeth Town District, Washington County", he is listed on page 240 as app1ying for a licensing suit on September 18, 1775. John died in I787. The tradition is that John drowned. On May 27, 1788, Michael, John's brother, was appointed guardian of three of John's children: Margaret, Susannah and George. Mollie remained in Mary1and for a time. The 1790 Maryland census lists Mary Roudebush living with a male under 16 and another female, probably her children, in Washington County. In 1792, however, she reconveyed her land in Maryland back to Jonathan Hager. She then went to Rockingham County, Virginia, and scttled near Frieden's Reformed Church, which is about three miles east of Mt. Crawford, Va. Mollie, John and their children had been members of Zion Reformed Church in Maryland. When Mollie arrived in Virginia, Frieden's Church was a log building built in 1792. It is now a brick structure. Mollie is buried in Frieden's church yard, and her tombstone states that she was born in March, 1736 and died on July 20, 1815. Mr. Joseph K. Ruebush erected this stone.

40A. Elizabeth (or E1iza) Roudebush is mentioned in her father's will as the wife of John Baker. A John Baker, who was over 45, is listed in the 1800 Census in Berwick Township of Adams, Co., Pa.) along with his wife, who was also over 45 (So she was born before 1755).

40B. Catharine (or Caty) Roudebush married Christian Grove. On October 1, 1782) Henry sold 116 acres of land along the Great Conawago Creek to Christian Grove for four hundred pounds. A Christian Grove, who was over 45, is listed in the 1800 Census of Berwick Towship of Adams County, Pa., along with his wife who was also ever 45 (born before 1755).

41. Solomon Roudebush was one of the dispossessed sons mentioned in his father's will,  but nothing more is known about him.

42. Daniel Roudebush was born in 1749, and, in 1774, he married Christina Schnebley or Snively who was born in Pennsylvania in 1759.⁹⁸ She is said to have been of "Dutch" descent and a niece of Dr. Snively, a well known physician in the Colonies at that time.  He and Christina had a farm in Frederick County, Maryland, and he was an Associator in Frederick County during the Revolution- ary War. The following story is related about his participation in the events of that period :
In Frederick County three Tories were tried and found guilty of treason to the Colonies by the County Court of Oyer and Terminer, and Mr. Roudebush was one ef the jurymen to convict them and the youngest man on the panel, being then only twenty-seven years old. These Tories were sentenced under the old Maryland Colonial Statutes to be hanged, drawn and quartered, but the latter two forms were dispensed with at the execution. As there were rumors of Tories coming to Frederick to release the condemned men, the Court summoned a posse comitatus of three hundred men to be on duty at the jail until the hanging took place and to guard the same. Mr. Roudebush was the tenth man summoned and was on duty sixteen days and witnessed the execution. He was afterward called out for two weeks as a Militiaman to perform guard duty with his battalion at Frederick, Maryland. In 1796 Daniel, with his family, emigrated to Bryant's Station, Kentucky where they remained until 1799. Then he bought 500 acres fron General James Taylor of Newport, Kentucky in Stark's survey (No. 2755) in Clermont County,Ohio at two dollars per acre. Today, Goshen, Ohio stands on part of this grant. In December of 1803, Daniel became lost in the woods while searching for his horses. His neighbors became alarmed because of the density of the forest and its wild beasts. Searching parties were sent out in all directions for him but were unsuccessfu1 After wandering for three days without food, on the fourth day he found Ephraim McAdam's cabin near Williamsburg, Ohio, which was about seventeen miles from his home. After McAdam fed him (it is said that the hot bread he was given affected his mind; perhaps he ate it too voraciously), he lent Daniel a horse and he rode to his home, arriving five days after his original departure. He never completely recovered from the effects of this exposure. He died in the following October (1804). He is buried in Myers Cemetery, Goshen, Ohio, and his grave is marked as a Revolutionary War veteran.

43. Jacob Roudebush  (my relative) was born in 1752, and married Anna Rickstacker of Pennsylvania. He had a farm of 100 acres in Berwick Township of York County, at least during the years 1779 through 1782. It appears that he bought another farm in Cumberland Township (or did this part of Berwick Township become Cumberland Township?) in 1783 since a Jacob Roudebush was taxed there in that year.  He may have been the Jacob Rodpouch who was a member of the York County Militia Company in Dover Township under Captain John Sharp in the years 1787 and 1788.
Sometime between 1793, when his daughter, Susannah, was born in York County, Pennsy1vania, and 1795, when his son, Jesse, was born in Virginia, Jacob and his family moved to Rockingham Country, Virginia. There is a reference to a deposition being taken on December 2, 1806 in the house of Jacob Roudebush "at the sign of the Cross Keys" in Rockingham County. This may refer to the town of Cross Keys, Va.--one of John's(#40) sons, George is said to have lived near Cross Keys, Va.--or it may mean that Jacob had an inn there. The date doesn't appear to allow this reference to be applied to Jacob and his "inn", but it is interesting to note that George Washington, on his way home from the Ohio Valley, spent several days in Rockingham County "at one Rudiborts."
By 1810, Jacob had moved his family to Strabane Township in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and, in 1821, he came to what was then Columbiana County (now Carroll County), Ohio. He put up a rude log cabin on his farm in Washington Township. He lived there the rest of his life, dying in 1837. He and his wife are buried in unmarked graves on this farm. He was a member of the Whig Party and the Disciples of Christ Church. 

44. Michael Roudebush was born November 21, 1753.  His first wife's name was Juliana, and her maiden name may have been Bigler. Mark Bigler arrived in Pennsylvania in 1733, settling on a farm of 200 acres in Lancaster County. Later he moved to Frederick County, Maryland, and his will, which was proved in 1787, names eleven children, and the eighth listed married a person named "Randabush." A great-grandson of Michael was named, "W. Bigler Roudebush."
In the Spring of 1785, Michael is listed on the muster roll of the Eighth Company, Seventh Battalion of the York County Militia. He received depreciation pay as a member of the Continental Line. 
He was taxed in Berwick Township of York County from 1779 to 1783. According to the terms of his father's will, which was probated March 25, 1784, Michael was given the plantation that Henry had settled. Later, on May 27, 1788, he was appointed guardian of three of the children of his brother John: Margaret, Susannah and George. 
On June 7, 1794, Michael and Juliana sold their farm in Berwick Township to Anthony Deardorff of Reading Township for 1200 pounds. We find references to him in Bedford County in the years 1797 and 1798, and the Pennsylvania census for the years 1800 to 1830 list him in Woodbury Township of Bedford County. In 1804 he was taxed for 300 acres, three horses and three cows in Bedford County. On June 2, 1807, Michael bought 200 acres of land in what was then Cumberland County, but which became Bedford County, from Daniel Beecher and his wife, Catherine. In 1804 he was patented 200 acres and warranted 100 acres in Bedford County, and in 1811 he was patented another 200 acres there.
By 1816, it appears that he had married a second time. He was warranted 100 acres of land in that year, and his wife is called Margaret in the Deeds Book. She had apparently been married first to a man named Kenney since Michael named his "stepson Alexander W. Kenney of Martinsburg" to be the executor of a conveyance of land to John Kirschman and Nicholas Strayer.
In 1817 he was the lowest bidder for land in Bedford County that had been confiscated from Benjamin J. Newman, but by 1826, Michael appears to have fallen on lean times since 200 acres of his land was sold to satisfy a very small debt of $20.26 to John Teiter.
Michael died about 1733 in Bedford County since a caveat to the land transaction with Kirschman and Strayer mentioned above, dated 1733, says that Michael is deceased.