Susanna Morris

Susannah Hall

• b.Abt 1717 Tacony, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• d.2 Jul 1795
• F. Joseph Hall1686/87 - Bef 1731 & M. Rebecca Rutter 1688 - m. Abt 1707
• Marriage 1 - 18 Jan 1733 to Joseph Harvey
• Marriage 2 - Bef 1739 Pennsylvania to John Rush
• Marriage 3 - Abt 1755 to Richard Morris

Family

I child of Joseph Harvey and Susannah Hall:

1. daughter, married Mr. Willis

7 children of John Rush and Susannah Hall:

1. James Rush 1739 - . Died unmarried.
2. Rachel Rush 1741 - 1798. Married 1) Angus Boyce 2) Joseph Montgomery
3. Rebecca Rush 1743 - 1793. Married Thomas Stamper.
4. Dr. Benjamin Rush 1745 - 1813. Married Julia Stockton.
5. Hon. Jacob Rush 1747 - 1820. Married 1) Lydia Bell 2) Mary Rench.
6. Stevenson Rush Abt 1748 - died young.
7. John Rush Abt 1750 - died young.

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Notes

http://www.members.tripod.com/~lolson/syl-rush.htm

Another emigrant of this name was John Rush, with whom we are chiefly concerned, located on Poquessing Creek in Byberry Township, Pennsylvania, thirteen miles northeast of Philadelphia. He with his wife and a large family of children and grandchildren came over with the William Penn Colonists who settled Pennsylvania and West Jersey in 1682-3. He was an elderly Friend from Oxfordshire, England, and enjoyed the distinction of having been a favorite officer in Cromwell's Army. He was rated by his neighbors in 1686, a "rich Englishman." He acquired a good farm and his sons and grand-sons were farmers and mechanics. So far as is known neither he nor they took any part in the affairs of the colony. But for his distinguished descendants, Dr. Benjamine Rush, and brother, Judge Jacob Rush, who were always proud to trace their ancestry to him, his origin and settlement in this country might have remained veiled in as much obscurity as that of the Quaker, Isaac Rush. It was, however, the mother of Dr. Benjamine Rush, who, after the death of the father, placed the family on the map. She sold the farm, moved to Philadelphia and by her own efforts gave her sons a college education and inspired them with the courage and ambition to be in fact Sons of the Revolution; otherwise they possibly would have followed in the beaten path of the fathers and enjoyed the reputation of being industrious farmers or good mechanics.

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From Benjamin Rush’s “Autobiography” PDF

My mother's ancestors were all from England. Her grand father Solmn. HalP bought a large tract of land on the Delaware six miles from Tackony [Tacony], where he died. Her father Joseph Hall succeeded to it. He had the following children: Solomon, [Theo] Dorus, Jacob, John, Rebecca, Susanna, Sarah and Ruth. Rebecca married Isaac Leech9 by whom she had a number of children. She afterwards married the Revd. Mr. Richd. Treat/o Sarah married the Revd. Samuel Finley and had by him seven children. Ruth married Elisha Hall of Maryland by whom she had 5 sons and one daughter. She afterwards married the Revd. Mr. James Hune of Maryland by whom she had two sons. My' mother Susanna married Joseph Harvey1 by whom she had one daughter, who married - - - - Willis by whom she had several children. By my father she had the children hereafter named.

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My father left an estate consisting of three houses in the city of Philadelphia but the income from them being too small to educate six children, my mother removed from her own house, and opened a grocery shop in a public street in which she sold, among other things, liquors by wholesale and retaiL·· Her industry and. uncommon talents and address in doing business commanded success, so that she was enabled, not only to educate her children agreeably to her wishes, but to save money.1 She married, some years after the death of my father, Richd. Morris, a Distiller, whom she survived. My youngest brother [John] died soon after my father. My eldest brother, James Rush had been much affiicted with a nervous disease for which .his physicians advised a sea-life. He was perfectly cured by it, but died at sea in the 21st year of his age of a yellow fever taken a few days before in the Island of Jamaica. He was a young man of promising character. I well recollect my grief upon hearing of his death. It was the first time I ever felt that species of distress. My two sisters Rachel and Rebecca .married with good prospects and settled'in Philadelphia. The youngest died of the yellow fever under my roof in 1793. The eldest died in Harrisburgh in October 1798. She was then the widow of the Revd. Joseph Montgomery, the Register of Wills of Dauphin County. My only surviving brother, Jacob Rush,2 and myself were. sent to a country School in Nottingham, now in Cecil county in the State of Maryland,2 a few years after our father died.

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References

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Sep 22 2021, 17:02:26 UTC
• https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26413021/benjamin-rush-family-genea...
• https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Susannah_Hall_%2815%29 cites
  • Family Recorded, in Mackenzie, George Norbury, and Nelson Osgood Rhoades. Colonial families of the United States of America: in which is given the history, genealogy and armorial bearings of colonial families who settled in the American colonies from the time of the settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775. (New York, Boston: The Grafton Press, 1907) 6:407. JOHN RUSH, b. at Byberry, Pennsylvania, 1712 ; d. 26th July, 1751 ; m. Susanna HALL, d. 2d July, 1795, dau. of Joseph HALL of Tacony.
  • ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hall Family of Tacony, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania by Pleasants, J. Hall, in William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine. (Omohundro Institute) 22:145-158, No 3 (Jan 1914). ... 8. Susanna Hall; born 1717-1718; died July 2, 1795; married 1st Joseph Harvey, January 18, 1733, who died two or three years later; no issue. 2nd John Rush, ante 1743, who died 1751. (q. v.) 3rd, Richard Morris about 1755, who died 1771 ; no issue. ...