Roderick Terry

William Bradford of Mayflower and Plymouth Colony fame as well as Continental Army Col. Nathaniel Terry.

[8] He graduated from Yale University in 1870 and from Union Theological Seminary in New York City five years later in 1875.

[8] Shortly after graduating from Seminary, he was ordained in the Presbyterian ministry and his first church was in Peekskill in Westchester County, New York.

Shortly after 1881, he became minister of the South Reformed Presbyterian Church in New York, later disbanded, which he held for twenty-four years until his retirement in 1905.

Upon his son's death in 1951, many of the items retained by him were left to the Redwood Library, including a number of letters.

[12] Together, they lived at 169 Madison Avenue in New York City and were the parents of:[13] They inherited his father-in-law's home in Newport, Rhode Island, known as Linden Gate, on the corner of Rhode Island Avenue and Old Beach Road.