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Elizabeth Rotch Rodman letter to Charity Rotch
No full textThis letter posted from Nantucket from Charity Rodman Rotch's sister-in-law, Elizabeth discusses Betsey, a long time Rotch housekeeper, who is preparing to join Charity and Thomas Rotch in New Bedford in the late 1790s. 7.6" x 9.1" (19.4 by 23.2 cm
Elizabeth (Rotch) Rodman letter to Charity Rotch, New Bedford, 1st mo 10th 1808
No full textNews of New Bedford family to Charity Rotch in Hartford, Connecticut. Elizabeth Rotch (1759-1856) wife of Charity's brother Samuel Rodman, (1753-1835) reports that her brother, Benjamin, the Rotch business representative in England has gone to the city of Bath to seek relief from the gout in his stomach. 8.2" x 13" (21 by 34 cm
Elizabeth (Rotch) Rodman to Charity Rotch, Wakefield, 10th mo 31st 1808
No full textElizabeth Rotch Rodman writes to Charity Rotch in Hartford. She discusses her probable visit in mid November, 1808 and awaits her husband's approval of the planned dates. Hartford was 130 miles to the west of Bedford. Wakefield is north of Boston and not far from Lynn, Massachusetts. 7.7" x 9.7" (19.6 by 24.3 cm
Elizabeth Rodman Rotch letter to Charity Rotch, New Bedford, 6th mo 7th 1821
No full textElizabeth Rodman Rotch's husband contracted a fever, was bled three times, but recovered his health. Elizabeth makes a veiled reference without detail to 'Sister M' probably Mary Rotch, who joined the New Light Movement around 1822 and was disowned from her Bedford Meeting of Friends. 8" x 9.7" (20.4 by 24.6 cm
Elizabeth (Rotch) Rodman letter to Charity Rotch, New Bedford, 3rd mo 17th, 1809
No full textElizabeth (Rotch) Rodman is grateful that Charity's life has been spared after bouts of fever in 1808-1809. For fear of spreading the disease, Charity asked that none of her family make the journey to Hartford to care for her during her illness. Close friend Rachel Todd is also ill, Eunice Wells and her daughter have died and Dr. Todd is overwhelmed attending to his patients. he is also extremely fatigued. 7.95" x 9.95" (20.2 by 25.3 cm
Elizabeth (Rotch) Rodman to Charity Rotch, New Bedford, 3 mo 10, 1802
No full textNews of family in New Bedford to Charity Rotch in Hartford. Thomas Rotch left his father's whaling and shipping business to take up sheep farming and possibly missionary work in a state with few Quaker meetings in 1800. While the reasons for the decision to leave Bedford are unclear, the Rotches may have tired of the membership's turn toward materialism which followers of Elias Hicks viewed as spiritually corrupting. The writer is Charity's sister-in-law and a member of the Rotch family who married Samuel Rodman, Charity's brother around 1780. These inter-family marriages concentrated wealth and resources and provided security for the family's future. 8" x 9.8" (20.4 by 24.8 cm
Elizabeth Rodman Rotch letter to Charity Rotch, New Bedford, 5th mo 16, 1824
No full textThis is the last letter from Elizabeth Rotch to Charity Rotch who grew increasingly ill. Charity made out her own will in 1824, and with Rotch executors, Arvine Wales and Matthew Macy, she was in the process of settling Thomas Rotch's estate when she herself died in August 1824. 8" x 9.7" (20.4 by 24.6 cm
Elizabeth (Rotch) Rodman letter to Charity Rotch, New Bedford, 1st mo 21, 1810
No full textNews of family to Charity Rotch in New Bedford, shortly before she and Thomas Rotch left New England for Ohio. Elizabeth confirms that she lost a child to illness, also that she was aware that Charity was very ill in 1809. 7.95" x 9.5" (20.2 by 24.2 cm
Elizabeth (Rotch) Rodman letter to Charity Rotch, Wakefield, 10th mo 6th,1808
No full textNews of family from Charity Rotch's sister-in-law, Elizabeth Rodman. The writer describes a journey on horseback to Hartford to visit the Rotches in their home there. Elizabeth reports that rather than have his sheep killed by wild dogs, a brother of Coln. Humphreys, an importer of merino sheep into the US from Spain has sold his sheep for $15 each. 7.75" x 9.7" (19.7 by 24.6 cm
William Rotch, Sr. and Elizabeth Rotch letter to Mary Rodman, Nantucket 4th mo 20th 1790.
No full textWilliam and Elizabeth Rotch write to Mary Rodman in Newport, the mother of Charity Rodman who married Thomas Rotch, the third son of William and his wife in 1790. Welcoming Mrs. Rodman to the family, Rotch mentions a "triple alliance", probably acknowledging this marriage which will be the third between the Rodmans(of Newport) and Rotch clan (of Nantucket.) "triple" also might be read to mean "tribal" as prominent Quaker families commonly consolidated wealth and power through marriage. 7.45" x 8.75" (19 by 22.3 cm
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