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Rachel Solomon was born 1765 in
Philadelphia,PA. Her parents were a
Jewish man named Joseph solomon.
Family tradition is that he owned two ships
and traded between the dutch east india
company and the colonies. . He went into
sea in some war and never returned,. Her mother had surname of miller . She died when rachel was young. After her father died., she was taken in by a family of Joseph jenkins of botetourt county, Va
.She and John Dempsey were married in botetourt county on sept 6, 1788 by a
presbyterian minister edward crawfordThey later moved to Logan Virginia (Now known as West virginia) and had twelve children.one of them was my ancestor mark Dempsey. John dempsey died in 1830. rachel was still living with her son james Dempsey in a 1850 Logan county virginia census. I believed the solomons and millers came to us from germany
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