Capt. Isaac Roach1

#19581, (1748 - August 1818)
Father*Isaac Roach2 (c 1710 - )

Family

Martha Scanlan
Child 1.Maj. Isaac Roach Jr.+1 (1786 - 1848)
Birth*1748He was born in 1748 at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.3 
Marriage*25 January 1775He married Martha Scanlan on 25 January 1775 at St. Paul's Church, S. 3rd Street, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaG.3,1 
Death*August 1818He died in August 1818 at Southwark District, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.3 

Citations

  1. [S1781] Lineage Book of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (Washington, D.C., Vol. 5 (1893), p. 122-123. Mary Roach Archer, b. PA, wife of Pierce Archer, dau. of Joseph Huddell Roach and Eliza Walter Jones, grand dau. of Maj. Isaac Roach and Mary Huddell, gr. grand dau. of Isaac Roach and Martha Scanlan. "Isaac Roach, during the [Revolutionary War], commanded the Hancock, Franklin, Congress, Delaware and Chatham, which were chiefly engaged in protecting the Delaware river, and took part in the defense of Fort Mifflin.", online Ancestry.com.
  2. [S1021] George Norbury Mackenzie, editor, Colonial Families of the United States of America, Seven Volumes (New York and Boston: The Grafton Press, 1907 et al), VI:385-389; "he was sailing master of a British ?eet sent from England in 1740 to determine the boundary line between Delaware and Maryland; he settled at Rehoboth, Delaware, in the same year."
  3. [S1021] George Norbury Mackenzie, Colonial Families of the United States, VI:385-389.