Susanna Rush

 18.  Captain John4 Rush (Thomas3 Russhe, Thomas2, Thomas1) (Source: Rush Family File, Date of Import: Aug 4, 1999.) was born Bef. May 23, 1620 in Old Rectory, Boreham, Essex, England (Source: Rush Family File, Date of Import: Aug 4, 1999.), and died May 1699 in Byberry, Philadelphia, PA (Source: Rush Family File, Date of Import: Aug 4, 1999.). 

He married Susannah Lucas (Source: Rush Family File, Date of Import: Aug 4, 1999.) April 08, 1648 in Banbury, Hornton, Oxfordshire, England (Source: Rush Family File, Date of Import: Aug 4, 1999.), daughter of John Lucas and Ann.  She was born January 29, 1627/28 in Broughton, Banbury, Guilsborough, Northamptonshire, England (Source: Rush Family File, Date of Import: Aug 4, 1999.), and died 1710 in Byberry, Philadelphia, PA (Source: Rush Family File, Date of Import: Aug 4, 1999.).

• Notes for Susanna Lucas: AFN:4BF9-RC

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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.

Sources

• Irvine, James. “Descendants of John Rush.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 17, no. 3, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1893, pp. 325–35, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20083549
• https://www.newspapers.com/clip/26413021/benjamin-rush-family-genea...
• Descendants of Thomas Russhe
• https://journals.psu.edu/pmhb/article/download/45058/44779
• Keithian Quakers