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Richard Oglethorpe

Richard Oglethorpe

Male 1670 - 1716  (46 years)


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  • Name Richard Oglethorpe 
    Birth 1670 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1716 
    Person ID I3265  MyTree
    Last Modified 15 Aug 2009 

    Family Johanna Little,   b. Abt 1671, prob London, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1716, Charleston, Berkeley District, South Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 46 years) 
    Marriage 5 Sep 1704  Charleston, Berkeley District, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Elizabeth Oglethorpe,   b. Abt 1705   d. Yes, date unknown
    +2. John Newman Oglethorpe,   b. Bef 1716, Charleston, Berkeley District, SC Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1795, Camden District, SC Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 81 years)
    Family ID F4617  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Jul 2017 

  • Notes 
    • Our earliest record of Richard is his marriage to Johanna Rogers in
      Charlestown. The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine,
      Vol. XII, October 1911, No. 4, page 208, Abstracts from records of the
      Court of Ordinary:
      "This is to Certify [to] whom it may Consearn that Mr. Richard
      Oglethorp & Johanna Rogers were Married according to ye Common prayer
      book of ye Church of England September ye 5th--1704 by Edward Marston,
      Minister de Charlestown. Entered this Ninth of September 1704 by Jno.
      Barnwell, D: S: (Page 92)"

      Prior to September 1704, Johanna Rogers' first husband, Tempest
      Rogers, died. From the above reference, page 214, we find: "July 19,
      1706, Richard Oglethorpe and Lieutenant-Colonel George Logan executed
      a bond to Governor Johnson for Oglethorpe's proper administration of
      the estate of Tempest Rogers (page 107)."

      In the Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, America and West
      Indies,1706-1708, item 53, we find: [Richard] Oglethorp wrote from
      'Caroliner' on January 27, 1706, a letter headed "An account of
      persons trading with pirates." The greater part was concerned with
      Captain Tempest Rogers, whom Oglethorp accused not only of voyaging
      with Captain Kidd but of becoming a naturalized Dane, so as to trade
      as a neutral with the French and Spaniards, whom the English were then
      fighting.

      According to Oglethorp, "Jno. Lucas, that lives in Antigua, went to
      St. Thomas [in the Danish Virgin Islands] and did macke up account
      wth. Capt. Rogers, he being Attorney for ye owners in London, and was
      paid to a penny and did give a discharge in full in behalfe of ye
      owners, which is contrary to law, when he knew what he was, etc. Lucas
      being a Justice at that time, Capt. Rogers drew a bill on Capt.
      Collihorne [another Antiguan whom Oglethorp accuses of trading with
      Rogers] which was excepted of Mr. Lucas, etc."

      For additional information, see John Ward's research on "Richard
      Oglethorp" (without the last e) in the Ancestry World Tree. John
      thinks this might be the same Richard who married first, Sarah
      Starkey, in 1699, Althorp,Lincolnshire,England. And he gives Richard's
      further ancestry.