Administered father's estate
Quartered Captain Suydam's soldiers
SOURCE: Genealogies of Long Island Families, Volume I, From the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, by Henry B. Hoff, (Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1987 [[Thomas & Richard Brush of Huntington, Long Island]] Contributed by Connlin Mann, Member of Publication Committee), Page 177 & 179-180.
Pages 179-180
"3. THOMAS BRUSH (Thomas 1), born about 1651/52, probably at Southold, L.I., first appears in Huntington, L.I., records on 3 July 1671 when the town voted him six or eight acres on the hill at rear of Samuel Titus' lot. He drew a share in lot No. 10 in the famous Ten Farms of Huntington in 1672, but exchanged it for a share in lot No. 8. He was assessed on a farm and stock in 1675, probably being credited with his father's undivided holdings, and in 1683 was assessed on Pound 129. He administered his father's estate in June, 1675, under conditions which prove him his father's eldest son. On 9 December 1680 he mortgaged important lands to George Baldwin, proprietor of Eaton's Neck, perhaps to pay the portion of his younger brother Edward Brush, as the mortgage was for Pound 50, the exact amount which would have been due a younger child of Thomas Brush under the terms of administration of his estate. He discharged this mortgage on 2 April 1683 by sale of the mortgaged land to Thomas Scidmore for Pound 60. The children of William Smith, deceased, on 25 June 1684 confirmed to Thomas Brush by deed the purchase of a house and lot which Brush had received from Smith. The town owed him 5s. 6p. on 5 October 1687 for quartering Captain Suydam's soldiers. It appears that this company from west of Huntington had been quartered in the town for a week or more. Thomas Brush was named on a town committee of eight men on 1 December 1693 to obtain a new charter from the Governor, and his name appears as a proprietor in the charter of 1694. He was a townsman in 1691 and in 1694 served on the first board of trustees under the new charter. He was assessed on Pound 250 right in commonage to pay for the charter.
Thomas Brush purchased the home and lands of David Scudder and his wife Mary on 26 June 1686 and witnessed the will of Phebe Platt, widow of Epenetus Platt, on 12 January 1696/97. He deeded a house and important rights and lands to Jacob Brush on 16 March 1692 for the nominal sum of Pound 29:10:00, perhaps in payment of Jacob's portion in the estate of their father Thomas 1st Brush. Thomas Brush held a Pound 300 right in commonage and in 1694 took up Pound 250 of it while Jacob Brush took up the remaining Pound 50. He was an important owner in the Naguntatogue Neck purchase from the Indians in 1691, and his estate appears among the owners of the Baiting Place purchase of 1698.
Thomas Brush died 16 April 1698, leaving a widow Sarah and a large family of children all under age. His will, dated 8 April 1698, probated 26 April 1699, mentions wife Sarah, makes his son Thomas, unmarried, his heir (including Great Bible, gun, sword and carpenter's tools). It mentions lands and cooper's tools for son Jacob. Mentions son Timothy and his own brother Joh Brush. One paragraph reads: "As yet not knowing whether my wife shall be with child with a son or with a daughter," etc. Mentions "my six or seven duahters" and names Rebecca, Sarah, Susannah, Elizabeth, Mary and Martha. The eldest daughter Rebecca to get iron pot and Book of Sermons that were her Grandmother's. Wife Sarah, John Wickes and brother John Brush, executors. Witnesses: John Brush, John Wickes and John Ketcham.
The widow Sarah Brush was a proprietor in the Baiting Place purchase on 4 October 1698. It is frequently stated in print that she was Sarah Wickes, daughter of Thomas 1st Wickes and a sister of John 2nd Wickes, one of the executors of Thomas 2nd Brush's will. The close associations of John Wickes and Thomas 2nd Brush, plus the names of Brush's children, form strong circumstantial evidence to support the statement.* The account books of Henry Lloyd prove that before 1711 the widow Sarah Brush had married Nathaniel Williams as several of her Brush daughters are carried on his account as his daughters in that year, i.e. "Elizabeth Brush daughter of Nathaniel Williams."
Children of Thomas 2nd Brush and Sarah (? Wickes) (Parentage established by father's will and town records):
15. i. Rebecca, b. 3 Apr. 1681; m. Thomas Brush (Richard 1st).
16. ii. Thomas, b. 16 Jan. 1682/83
17. iii. Sarah, b. say 1684. Perhaps m. Jeremiah Chichester, after 1711.
18. iv. Susanna, b. say 1686.
19. v. Jacob, b. cir. 1689, g.s.
20. vi. Elizabeth, b. say 1691, unm. in 1711 when she bought goods of Henry Lloyd.
21. vii. Mary, b. cir. 1692/3, unm. in 1711. She later m. David Corey, b. Southold, 16 Apr. 1690, High Sheriff of Suffolk Co. She d. 24 Dec. 1721 in her 30th yr.
***22. viii. Timothy, b. say 1694.
23. ix. Martha, b. say 1696. Nathaniel Williams deeded her lands in West Neck, 1 Jan 1717/18.
24. x. Eliphalet, b. 1698, after his father drew his will and presumably after his father's death. Mentioned in town land records in 1705 with brother Timothy as sons of Sarah Brush entitled to an interest in the 1698 Baiting Place purchase. Tow set aside eight acres for him adjoining his own land on 19 Mar. 1709/10. He evidently d. y. as his name does not appear again. His three brothers gave ratifying deeds among themselves for their land holdings in 1722 but his name is not mentioned.
AUTHORITIES: 1, 4, 5, 7, 17, 30.
* However, Brush and John Ketcham had even closer association and Bursh's wife may have been a Ketcham.
AUTHORITIES:
1. Huntington town, land and miscellaneous records, either published or in town clerk's office.
4. N. Y. Wills, published by N. Y. Hist. Soc. Also on record in Surregate's Office Hall of Records, N. Y. City.
5. Southold, L. I., Town Records (published).
7. Suffolk County Probate Records, Riverhead, L. I. (unpublished). Also abstracts by Mrs. DeWitt Van Buren in library of N. Y. Gen. and Biog. Soc.
17. Documentary History of N. Y.
30. Account Books of Henry Lloyd (unpublished). These books, six in number, are the property of The Long Island Historical Society. Henry Lloyd, second Lord of the Manor of Queens Village, evidently kept a store at Lloyd's Neck from 1711 until about 1744. Many Oyster Bay as well as Huntington families ran open accounts on his books. Apparently this source has been drawn upon but little for genealogical data."
1 NAME Sarah /Ketcham/
1 NAME Sarah /Weeks/
Proprietor in the Baiting Place PurchaseSOURCE: Genealogies of Long Island Families, Volume I, From the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, by Henry B. Hoff, (Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1987 [[Thomas & Richard Brush of Huntington, Long Island]] Contributed by Connlin Mann, Member of Publication Committee), Page 177 & 179-180.
"Thomas Brush died 16 April 1698, leaving a widow Sarah and a large family of children all under age. His will, dated 8 April 1698, probated 26 April 1699, mentions wife Sarah, makes his son Thomas, unmarried, his heir (including Great Bible, gun, sword and carpenter's tools). It mentions lands and cooper's tools for son Jacob. Mentions son Timothy and his own brother Joh Brush. One paragraph reads: "As yet not knowing whether my wife shall be with child with a son or with a daughter," etc. Mentions "my six or seven duahters" and names Rebecca, Sarah, Susannah, Elizabeth, Mary and Martha. The eldest daughter Rebecca to get iron pot and Book of Sermons that were her Grandmother's. Wife Sarah, John Wickes and brother John Brush, executors. Witnesses: John Brush, John Wickes and John Ketcham.
The widow Sarah Brush was a proprietor in the Baiting Place purchase on 4 October 1698. It is frequently stated in print that she was Sarah Wickes, daughter of Thomas 1st Wickes and a sister of John 2nd Wickes, one of the executors of Thomas 2nd Brush's will. The close associations of John Wickes and Thomas 2nd Brush, plus the names of Brush's children, form strong circumstantial evidence to support the statement.* The account books of Henry Lloyd prove that before 1711 the widow Sarah Brush had married Nathaniel Williams as several of her Brush daughters are carried on his account as his daughters in that year, i.e. "Elizabeth Brush daughter of Nathaniel Williams. .............. * However, Brush and John Ketcham had even closer association and Bursh's wife may have been a Ketcham."
Deeded lands in West Neck by Nathaniel Williams
Mentioned in town records
SOURCE: Genealogies of Long Island Families, Volume I, From the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, by Henry B. Hoff, (Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1987 [[Thomas & Richard Brush of Huntington, Long Island]] Contributed by Connlin Mann, Member of Publication Committee), Page 177 & 179-180.
" 24. x. Eliphalet, b. 1698, after his father drew his will and presumably after his father's death. Mentioned in town land records in 1705 with brother Timothy as sons of Sarah Brush entitled to an interest in the 1698 Baiting Place purchase. Tow set aside eight acres for him adjoining his own land on 19 Mar. 1709/10. He evidently d. y. as his name does not appear again. His three brothers gave ratifying deeds among themselves for their land holdings in 1722 but his name is not mentioned."
Daughter of John Adams & Abigail Smith.
Daughter of Isaac Platt & Elizabeth Wood.
Naomi married a Samuel (Unknown Surname) Before 1721.
Son of Benjamin Hubbard.
1 BIRT
2 DATE 2 APR 1670
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1660
2 SOUR S07120
SOURCE: Owen & Related Families by Calvin Owen (CalOwen@attbi.com); Ancestry World Family Tree Project; 29 January 2003.
1. Daughter of Jonathan Rogers & Rebecca Unknown.
2. "The will of Mary Rogers Brush was dated 23 Sep 1745, and probated 5 Nov 1745. She named her children: Jonathan Brush; Ruth, wife of Nathan Brown; Ann, wife of Nathaniel Brown; Keziah, wife of Daniel Weed; grandchidlren: Jacob Brush, son of Jonathan Brush; and the children of Rebecca Slason, a deceased daughter."
MY NOTES: Where was this Will filed and probated??????? vlww
SOURCE: Owen & Related Families by Calvin Owen (CalOwen@attbi.com); Ancestry World Family Tree Project; 29 January 2003.
"The will of Mary Rogers Brush Bell was dated 23 Sep 1745, and probated 5 Nov 1745. She named her children: Jonathan Brush; Ruth, wife of Nathan Brown; Ann, wife of Nathaniel Brown; Keziah, wife of Daniel Weed; grandchidlren: Jacob Brush, son of Jonathan Brush; and the children of Rebecca Slason, a deceased daughter."
SOURCE: Owen & Related Families by Calvin Owen (CalOwen@attbi.com); Ancestry World Family Tree Project; 29 January 2003.
"The will of Mary Rogers Brush Bell was dated 23 Sep 1745, and probated 5 Nov 1745. She named her children: Jonathan Brush; Ruth, wife of Nathan Brown; Ann, wife of Nathaniel Brown; Keziah, wife of Daniel Weed; grandchidlren: Jacob Brush, son of Jonathan Brush; and the children of Rebecca Slason, a deceased daughter."
