Notes for Claiborne Rothwell.

Claiborne Rothwell and descendent information extracted from:

1. Cheryl Rothwell posted on Ancestry.com Rothwell message board on November 2, 2001.
2. World Family Tree Volume 18, Tree 1800, submitted by Robert L Coto .
3. Family Tree File of Homer Rothwell Ficken, to whom I am indebted for so much information.

Some of the information for Claiborne Rothwell's descendents was extracted from Family Tree Makers® "Home Page Genealogy Report: Descendents of Claiborne Rothwell."

Claiborne Rothwell birth/death dates and wife's first name from Laurel Taffe Carr.

Claiborne Rothwell is thought to be the first Rothwell of Albemarle County, Virginia

Claiborne Rothwell was apprenticed to Nathan Watson, a Louisa County, Virginia Planter, beginning July 29, 1847 by his Mother Elizabeth Rothwell according to Ancestry.com database Virginia Apprentices, 1623 - 1800 which gives a source as Fredericksville Parish Deeds, 1742 - 1787.

Claiborne Rothwell purchased a tract of land containing 390 acres, in 1787, from William Sandridge.

Claiborne Rothwell was in the service of the Volunteer Rangers of Virginia, under Captain William Phillips, from 1773 until his discharge on February 14, 1789.

Claiborne Rothwell is thought to have two brothers:

Peter Rothwell, who immigrated to Pennsylvania,
Thomas Rothwell, who was in the 1800 census of Bladen County, North Carolina.

Claiborne Rothwell was possibly married in Albemarle County, Virginia, however, all Albemarle County, Virginia records were destroyed by the British General Tarleton and his raiders.