Capt. John Rush and Susanna Lucas

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Husband Capt. John Rush ¹

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       Marriage: 8 Jun 1648 - Harton, Oxfordshire, England 2

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Wife Susanna Lucas ²

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Children

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1 F Elizabeth Rush ¹

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         Spouse: Richard Collet (      -      ) 1

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2 F Susanna Rush ¹

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           Died: 27 Feb 1725 3
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         Spouse: John Hart (1651-1714) 1
           Marr: 1683 2

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3 M [Unk] Rush

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. John Rush

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During the Civil War in England, he commanded a troop of horse in the Parliamentary Army. He came to Pennsylvania in 1683, and settled on a plantation in Byberry township, Philadelphia County.

About 1660 he and his wife embraced the principles of Friends, and in 1682 emigrated to Pennsylvania, where he took up a tract of land, laid out for 500 acres, in Byberry township, Philadelphia county, adjoining that of his future son-in-law, John Hart. They were the ancestors of the well-known Rush family of Philadelphia, including the celebrated Dr. Benjamin Rush; Dr. James Rush, who founded the Ridgway Library, and to whom descended Capt. John Rush's sword and watch; Col. Richard Rush, of "Rush's Lancers," and many others prominent in affairs and in Philadelphia Society. The earlier generations of the Rush family were largely intermarried with the Harts, Crispins and Colletts, and continued to live many generations on the original tract taken up by Capt. John Rush in Byberry and some of them on the original Hart tract in that township. Many of them were buried in the Hart burial-ground. In his later years Dr. Benjamin Rush visited this graveyard, and his own birthplace nearby, and embraced a large tree which had been planted by his father; the incidents of which trip he described in a letter quoted by Watson, in his "Annals of Philadelphia," and others; which letter is of much local historical value, except that Dr. Rush woefully misinterpreted his grandfather's social position, because he had heard him called a "gunsmith."

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 361.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 373.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 374.