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William Rhodes and his Descendants "1745 to 1825"

 William Rhodes, the man, who was he? What is known about him comes from his military, pension, obituary, and other related papers.  William was born in 1745, probably in Virginia.  Little to nothing is known about his early life, but it was said he had an extraordinary athletic ability in his youth and through his military life in the Revolution.  On September 1st , 1775 at Alexandria, Virginia he enlisted as a private soldier in the 2nd Virginia Regiment.   September 1779, he was promoted to Corporal, and near the end of the war he was promoted to Sergeant.  He fought in many of the major battles of the American Revolution, along with an untold number of skirmishes.  The battlefields ranged from north to New York, and as far south as Georgia.  During Williams’s tour of duty he was wounded many times in battle, five times severely.  William Rhodes was discharged in Richmond, Virginia, in the summer of 1783 after nearly eight years of loyal service to his country.  Read more about William Rhodes during the American Revolutionary War.  

 A month after his discharge William was issued a land bounty warrant from the state Virginia which entitled him to four hundred sixteen & two-thirds acres of land in Kentucky. Later he would received his back pay from the army.  William lived near some Rhodes relatives in Hampshire County (West) Virginia, where he only stayed for a few years.  In 1784 William would assigned his claim to bounty land to a John Foreman of Hampshire County Virginia.  William married Susannah ________, probably not a long after the war.   William was between fifteen or twenty older than Susannah, she would sire their children until he was in his mid-sixties.  William and Susannah where living in Mason Co. , Kentucky by 1790.  William, Susannah, and their family may have moved to Ohio in about 1800.  On December 31, 1804, while William was living in Greene Co.  Ohio, he made his first payment on 160-acre plot of land just south of present day Urbana, Ohio.  In the year 1816 William received a pension for the wounds he received during the Revolution; this was in arrears dating back to 1814, when he possibly applied for the pension.  In 1823 William received 100 acres of land from the US government for his service during the Revolution.  William Rhodes died August 22, 1825 in Urbana Ohio, and was buried on the 22rd of August with full military honors. William’s Virginia State Land Bounty Warrant.  Also see his Congressional Land Warrant of 1822,signatures of William Rhodes, and some Revolutionary War pension transcripts of William.   Read the obituary of William Rhodes.  Susannah died after 20 Oct 1831. 

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