FOR STARTERS: WILSONS and RUSTS
As has so often happened for me in my quest for
understanding our family roots, I stumbled upon a book by Ken Stevens, a New
Hampshire fellow who has undertaken to do all he can to gather information and
records about the Wilson family in America. His 1991 multi-volume work has one
volume dedicated to Descendants of John
Wilson of Woburn, Massachusetts. I will be depending on this well-documented
book, available online through the folks at Archive.org, for the Wilsons and
their wives.
There were many Wilsons in the Puritan Great Migration
between 1630-1650, and many more added when the Scots-Irish immigrants arrived in
droves during the early 1700s. By the time of the Revolutionary War, according
to Stevens, more than one-sixth of the population in the colonies was of
Scots-Irish origin, and the surname Wilson falls always into the top ten
surnames found in New England, especially in New Hampshire.
A few Ancestry trees give our immigrant ancestor
as the illustrious and deadly serious first pastor of the First Church of
Boston, Rev. John Wilson. In the early religious conflict over “works” vs.
“grace,” Wilson stood firmly for works and was backed by a government ready to
judge behavior and conduct stringently. After reading about the banishings (Wilson was deeply involved in banishing Ann Hutchinson) and
hangings of dissenters to Wilson’s and his faction’s strict Puritan views, I
have to say I was a little relieved that Stevens disagrees with those trees,
not to mention that that line of descendants just does not make sense with the
dates and facts we have. As an example of the strictness of Puritan beliefs,
Christmas celebrations were banned in 1659 in Massachusetts Bay Colony since
they are not detailed in the Bible.
John Wilson (1625-1687) 9xggf Our Immigrant Wilson Ancestor
There are no sound records of John’s birth or
English family, but we can calculate from his son’s age at death that John and
his wife Hannah and their infant son John arrived 1652, in Salem,
Massachusetts, which at that time was a port as busy as the port in Boston.
There is a record of John, a mason, purchasing two acres of land and a dwelling
in the Essex Deeds. They sold this
property in July, 1657 with an unusual deed that gave the Wilsons possession of
their garden through October, presumably to let them take advantage of the
harvest of what they had planted there. The family moved to Woburn,
Massachusetts in 1661, John being granted four acres of meadow land in Settle
Meadow as long as he lived in Woburn for five years. In 1666 John was elected
to care for the swine and fences, but this type of civic duty is uncommon in
John’s records. Stevens speculates that both Wilson’s location at the edge of
the settlement and his identification with the Baptist faith distanced the
family from their community. They were cited a number of times for non-attendance
at church. In 1668, though, John is listed as being one of fifty proprietors
entitled to share in the commons of Woburn. When John died in 1687, his heirs
had to post a rather large bond of 500£ that was at that time being imposed on
estates larger than 50 £ by Governor Andros. John’s estate was valued at 253£
John’s widow married Thomas Fuller of Salem as his third wife sometime after
1688. However, she was reported living with her children in Woburn before the
death of Thomas Fuller, in whose will she was not mentioned.
So those are the facts on record about John
Wilson of Woburn, Massachusetts. In the Stevens book’s appendix, however, there
is a section called “Grandmother Mighill’s Story,” a much more colorful tale
about John Wilson and his progeny. While we can’t depend completely on dates in
Margaret’s story, there are many points which can be checked with facts,
lending the whole tale some credence. Margaret died in 1820 at age 91. She was
known to have a good memory and to have been mentally alert up to her death.
About a year before her death, she told her grand-daughter the things she
learned about the family while living with her grand-parents for fifteen years.
The grand-daughter wrote down Grandmother Mighill’s story, which was passed down
and sometimes re-copied, but as Stevens points out, there is enough verifiable
fact in the story to let us assume that there is a lot of truth within. What
follows is James’ history according to Margaret Mighill:
John Wilson was Grandmother Mighill’s great grandfather. According
to her, he was in the English cavalry serving in Scotland where he is credited
with beating and beheading an insolent Scottish champion who had been harassing
the English troops for days, challenging any one of them to come forward and
fight. The English lost a decisive battle not long after, and Wilson was
captured. He knew his captor and gave his oath that he would never fight against the Scots
again if set free. During the peace that followed, Wilson married Hannah James,
a lady of fortune, and they had a son. Then came the dreaded summons to appear
for battle against the Scots. He could not go back to Scotland and risk capture
after his promise to them, nor could he escape service to the English army. So
he determined to take his family to the Colonies in New England. The story of
their voyage and arrival in Boston were unremarkable until they had sight of
land, and the boat crashed on the rocks. In the hurried escape by longboat,
Hannah forgot her tiny son who had been sleeping in their cabin. A sailor
tossed him to her in the boat, and she caught him in her apron.
Unable to save anything besides some of the baby’s clothing in a
small trunk, John and Hannah had to start over, John serving as a delivery
truckman, with only a wheel barrow for equipment. Hannah, unused to labor at
all, became a laundress, and cried many tears over the wash-tub. When a new town
was laid out, Woburn, hundreds of acres were offered to any venturing to settle
there. John and Hannah went along and soon realized that he now owned land but
had no means to clear or cultivate it. Even with all these hardships, the
Wilsons’ hard work helped them raise a family of ten children. John died in an
accident when a barn timber fell on him.
Map
showing Boston and its environs, including Woburn. Woburn is located just above
the E in MIDDLESEX (the county name). Salem is up the coast.
James Wilson (abt.1663-after 1750) 8xggf
Stevens places the birth
James, seventh child of John and Hannah, around 1663. He married in 1687 to
Deborah Pierce, b. 1666 in Woburn. Deborah’s parents were among the first
settlers in Woburn. She died in Dec. 1703, and her father Ensign Pierce left a
legacy to her children in a will recorded in 1716. Though James is listed in
1689 as a proprietor of Rehoboth where two of his brothers and a sister lived,
but he is termed “of Woburn” in 1692 when he and a brother-in-law Isaac
Hildreth made a trade of land for land in Cambridge Farms as recorded in deed
records of Middlesex County. He was taxed in Cambridge Farms in 1693, and he
and Deborah joined the church in Lexington in 1699. Deborah died, likely in
childbirth, in 1703. James married then a widow Margaret Russ Peters whose husband
was killed in 1696, details of which will continue Grandmother Mighill’s story
of her family.
Apparently James employed Margaret to help with his household of
several children and made the arrangement permanent in 1704. The Russ family
had been residents of Andover as had Margaret’s first husband William Peters. In
1715 James purchased a farm of over 200 acres in Killingly which later became
the town of Thompson, Massachusetts. He added to this holding another 100 acres
the same year as deeds in Killingly
Deeds, Vol. 1 records. In 1725 he gave his son James forty acres of land in
Killingly to be understood as his part of his father’s estate. He did the same
kind of arrangement for in 1737/8 for his three other sons. In 1738 James and
Margaret Wilson and their unmarried daughter Hannah switched churches from the
First Parish Putnam church to one nearer their home in Killingly. James’ sale
of land in Killingly in 1750 is the last record of James, and there are no
records of his death or mentions of Margaret after 1738.
Here is a continuation
of Grandmother Mighill’s story:
James Wilson was Grandmother
Mighill’s grandfather with whom she lived for fifteen years, so her knowledge
of this part of the story is likely very good.
James Wilson had twelve
children with Deborah Pearce [sic], most dying at birth or as infants. He
married for his second wife the daughter of a respectable man of Andover, Margaret
Russ. Margaret had suffered many of the hardships and dangers which the early
settlers faced. Andrew Peters, her first husband, had come from Holland
[Separatist?] and landed in Boston where the streets were more like country
roads. He was hopping from stone to stone to avoid the mud holes, when he looked
up and saw a young lady standing at a window. He thought to himself, I will
marry her if possible. She was looking at him with an eye of partiality. Her
name was Mercy Beamsley, and they did indeed marry and moved to Andover where Peters
established a distillery and became rich. All the settlers faced problems with
the Indians, with their houses burned, crops destroyed, and cattle driven away.
Each year they had to spend a great deal of time sheltered in the garrison,
leaving only bearing arms and ready to defend themselves. Nonetheless many were
killed, including sons of Andrew Peters.
In August,1696, Margaret
Russ Peters ventured outside the garrison to gather some vegetables from her
home garden. Indians came after she left and hid in the cornfield. Mr. Peters
decided after dinner to go to his home and tend to a lame horse. Mrs. Peters
wanted to go along, but it had begun to rain, and Mr. Peters would not allow her
to follow in case she might take cold. She felt an uncommon anxiety to go along,
but Mr. Peters said he was also going to his father’s farm and bring back a fat
lamb, and that he would bring the lame horse for her to see. He went to his
pasture, led the horse to the house and was examining its foot when the Indians
rushed him and a man who was inside the house making rope, Mr. Hoyt. The Indians
instantly knocked down Hoyt and scalped him. They gave Peters a pair of
moccasins and ordered him to put them on and come with them. Peters watched for
a chance to escape and tried to dash away while the Indians plundered his home.
He felt he could outrun the Indians because he had done so before.
Unfortunately Hoyt had stretched a pole in the doorway to help with the rope
making, and Peters hit his head on it and fell back. The Indians killed him
with their hatchets. The Indians told this story later and said they had washed
the men’s scalps in the rainwater standing on top of cider barrels by the doorway.
Mrs. Peters was uneasy
at the amount of time that had passed since her husband had left, but the other
residents just laughed at her fears. By sunset one of the young men from the
fort was sent to fetch the cows from pasture, and Mrs. Peters said she would go
too. When they came to fork in the path that would lead to the Peters’ home,
she said she was going to check on her husband. The young man decided to go and
took a place in front of her. They saw the hogs who would usually be in the
woods up around around the house, and one appeared to be feeding on something
in the doorway. The young man in front saw the front of the house,and screamed
in terror and ran. Mrs. Peters caught him and asked what he had seen. He said
that he saw blood on the barrel heads, and the hogs eating Mr. Hoyt’s head. Margaret
Peters had a glimmer of hope, but the young man told her he had seen a heap of cloth
inside. He carried Mrs. Peters back to the fort where she lay unconscious for
several days. Three men went to the house and found Mr. Hoyt’s partially eaten
body, and inside Peters lying on the floor where he had fallen. Thus was Mrs.
Peters left a young widow with one child. She was hired later by Mr. Wilson who
soon realized that he and the children were fond of her and they were married
over fifty years and had six children.
Grandmother Mighill’s
father was named Thomas, [so this is where our line diverges from hers] and her
story goes on with an exciting story of his exploits in the French and Indian
War up near the Canadian border and an encounter with a bear. He was in a party
set upon by Indians who killed all his fellow soldiers, but the coat he was
wearing had so many bullet holes in it that the Indians feared he was protected
by some magical force and let him live although they captured him and took him
to their village where they held a ceremony in which they gave him to an old
squaw who had lost her son. He lived with her and was treated with every
kindness for thirteen months. He escaped by telling her he was going to a
French village and make shoes for the settlers. He and four others in his party
were helped to escape by an old Dutchman who had intermarried with the Indians.
The escape adventure includes crossing a huge swamp on hands and knees, eating
only wild cucumbers for sustenance, and finally coming up on Fort Edward on the
Hudson River. He sent word ahead to his wife that he was returning so he would
not shock her into illness. Thomas lived nineteen years more and died on his
birthday in 1776.
Grandmother Mighill was
the oldest of Thomas’ children. Her mother being frail, she lived with her
grandparents until age eighteen, after which she “worked out,” meaning that she
worked in various places to earn wages. She said the first thing she bought with
her money was her Bible. She married at age twenty-four to Ezekiel Mighill who
served in the Revolutionary War under Montgomery in the expedition against
Quebec. They lived in Killingly, Massacusetts seventeen years, then moved to Vermont,
ending in Wallingford, Vermont where they lived for forty years and were
members of the Baptist church there. At the time of her death her children,
grandchildren, and great grandchildren numbered 102.
Stevens says of this
account that lacking evidence to the contrary, he considers it, especially
after the events at the beginning, to be “a reasonably accurate account of the
early generation of this family.”
John Wilson (1702-1773) 7xggf
John was born in
Cambridge Farms, now Lexington, Massachusetts to James and his first wife
Deborah Pierce Wilson. He was baptized there in September,1704, the seventh of
their children. John’s father is credited with moving the family to Tolland,
Connecticut. John married in Killingly, Tolland County, Connecticut to Dorothy
Barker who was born in Concord, called Mary in records of her family. Mary’s
family had deep roots in New England.
John was left a sum of 10£ by his uncle
Francis of Rehoboth, Massachusetts which was recorded in the Bristol Probate Records, Vol. 5. His
father had left him land in Killingly before he died, as he did for all his children.
Dorothy was admitted to the Putnam Church in Killingly on the same date their eldest
child was baptized. John signed his will in May 1768, and it was proved in October
of 1773. The will mentions his wife Dorothy and sons William and Joseph, daughter
Abigail, and heirs of his deceased son Francis.
A Bit about Killingly
Killingly, CT Church in
Early 1800s
Killingly is east of Tolland County, in Windham
County in the northeastern corner of Connecticut which shares a border with Rhode
Island. It was settled in 1700 and began as several mill villages sited on
abundant waterways. In the 1800s Killingly was the largest producer of cotton
goods in Connecticut. It later became known as the curtain capital of the
world.
Captain William Wilson (1729-1819)
6xggf A Revolutionary War Officer
William Wilson was born in Killingly, Connecticut,
and baptized in the Second Parish (Thompson) Church 6 July 1729, second of six
children born to John and Dorothy Barker Wilson. He married Sarah Rust born in
Coventry in neighboring Tolland County. [We will trace Sarah’s family next.] William’s
parents settled in Coventry before his marriage, and he remained a resident there
for life. The first national census in 1790 lists him heading a household comprised
of one male over sixteen years of age and two females. He was admitted to membership
in the Second Congregational [Separatist] church in 1801 and was still listed
as a member in 1819 before his death. He had nine children. The Stevens book
does not acknowledge that any military records demonstrate his service, but he
is mentioned in list Connecticut men involved in the French and Indian War, which
is in line with the service Grandmother Mighill reported for William’s brother
Thomas. He is also recorded as a member of the Connecticut Committee of
Correspondence, a group of elected representatives organized by the Patriots as
revolution began to become a possibility in the colonies. The Connecticut
Assembly also has records of William involved with the 5th Regiment
as Lieutenant of the 9th company in 1767, Captain of the 7th.
After the battle of Lexington, more than a hundred men volunteered from
Coventry, William among them, and labeled with the title Captain. William has a
stone placed by the state for Revolutionary War soldiers.
We have one DNA match with the common ancestor between our tree and the match’s tree being William Wilson and Sarah Rust.
We have one DNA match with the common ancestor between our tree and the match’s tree being William Wilson and Sarah Rust.
Jacob Wilson (1749-1826)
5xggf
Jacob was born to Captain William and Sarah Rust
Wilson, their first living son, in Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut in 1749. He
married Hannah Dimmock [lots more to come on Dimmocks] in Coventry in 1771. Hannah
died young, aged 27, after the birth of their fourth child. She is buried in
Coventry.
Stevens says that Jacob likely served in the
Revolutionary War since his father had been a captain of the Coventry Militia
and his brothers’ service is verified, but so far there has not been a record that makes it certain.
Jacob is shown in the 1790 census in Tolland
County, and Desire was admitted to membership in the Coventry Church in 1819. The
1800 census places them in Windham, Connecticut, as does the 1810 census.
Windham County is only a few miles from Coventry.
In 1818 Jacob and Desire moved from Coventry to
Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, where two sons lived. Their oldest son Jacob
taught school in a log cabin in Brooklyn, PA and became a Deacon of the church
there. Dimmock, named for his mother’s family, lived in Clifford, another
village in Susquehanna County, PA.
After the death of Hannah, Jacob married Desire Palmer
who was born in Windham, CT. They had one daughter Desire who married Daniel
Copeland. The Copelands lived in Ulster County, NY. Desire was given the administration
of Jacob’s estate when he passed in 1826. She left to live in New York with her
daughter and died there in 1848.
Jacob Wilson’s Tavern in
Coventry, Connecticut
Hannah Swinney/Swaney/Sweeny
Wilson (1772-abt. 1845) 4xggm wife of Stephen South, grandmother to Jesse
Columbus South
Hannah is a source of consternation to me and to
any South researcher with whom I have communicated. After discussing Hannah in emails with Betty
South, who has copied or recorded the documents on almost everyone in our tree (and
on many more Souths than ours), I have decided to agree with all the Ancestry
trees and other online trees from other companies who have Hannah South and to leave
Hannah as daughter of Jacob Wilson of Tolland, Connecticut, and his wife Hannah
Dimmock Wilson. I think I would throw in the towel on Hannah as a Wilson were it not
for our DNA matches to Hannah Wilson’s ancestors in more than one line. The
Stevens book documents that Jacob and Hannah Dimmock Wilson certainly had a
daughter Hannah, but Stevens leaves it at that. Betty, who has pledged to
provide access to her work sometime in the coming year, is troubled by the
distance between Grayson County, Virginia, where Stephen South and most of his New
Jersey brothers ended their lives, and Connecticut or even Pennsylvania where
Hannah’s brothers spent their lives. One way of rationalizing that problem is
to recall that during this time many people were on the move, that immigrant
spirit moving people to yet another frontier, just as it moved Stephen and his
brothers from New Jersey to Virginia, and just as it moved the Wilsons from
Connecticut to Susquehanna County in Pennsylvania. Betty has concluded that she
will leave Hannah in place as a Wilson until proof otherwise comes along. Recognizing
that better proof could come along, but until it does, in pencil, let us
continue…
Hannah Wilson was born in 1772 in Coventry,
Connecticut. She married Stephen South
in Grayson County, Virginia, in 1796. Stephen had recorded a deed for land on
the New River in 1794, the same year Grayson County was formed out of Wythe County,
Virginia. The family is listed on the 1820 census, and Hannah as head of family
in 1830 after Stephen’s death in 1828.
Hannah and Stephen had seven children, the fifth
being CE South’s grandfather, Jesse Columbus South. The third child, John, may
be the John who was the only South reported in Grayson County in the 1840
census.
The Rust Family
14th Century
Church in Hingham, England
Henry Rust (1613-1684)
10xggf
Henry Rust was born in Hingham, England in 1613.
Hingham is a village in Norfolk, County, England, and many people of Hingham
emigrated to the Colonies in the 1630s because of religious tension. Some
sources say Henry emigrated in 1633. The
New England Historical and Genealogical Register for April,1876 states that
“on the 26 of April, 1638, the ship Diligent
of England, of 350 tons burden, John Martin, Master, set sail from the mouth
of the Thames for Massachusetts Bay having on board nineteen families and six
or eight single persons, in all one hundred and thirty-three. Twelve of these
families, numbering eighty-four souls, were from old Hingham, the rest from the
immediate vicinity; and they had all embarked for the purpose of joining a
colony settled in Hingham, Massachusetts 1633-37 (consisting of ten families
and five single persons, in all forty-nine) who had been their friends and
neighbors in old Hingham The colony had been named Bare Cove but was
incorporated under the name Hingham. It lay in Suffolk County north of Plymouth
County. One bordering town in Scituate.
President Lincoln’s immigrant ancestor Thomas
Lincoln also came from Hingham, England, around that time, and had land
adjoining Henry Rust. These men named their new settlement after their old village
of Hingham, so it was incorporated as Hingham, Massachusetts. Around the 1630s
the Church of England was cracking down on dissension. Both vicars in Hingham,
Rev. Hobart and Rev. Peck were seen as radical clerics. They emigrated to the
Colonies with many of their parishioners, but the price paid by those
emigrating was high as they sold their possessions and homes for about half
their value. Hingham, England, petitioned Parliament for aid saying that their
most prominent citizens had left, so it was a problem for the home village as
well. Like many stories of early settlements in the colonies, controversy soon
arose between the native Hingham people and those who had come from slightly
west of Hingham, England. And, like many of the conflicts of this time, the
leader of one of the factions moved away.
Henry is
mentioned in 1635 as having two acres for planting ground” in the Hingham Town Records, 1635-1700. Other
records of his land transactions were made in 1637 and 1638. In 1645 Henry was made the town clerk, responsible for recording
births and deaths. This indicates that Henry was considered literate and
responsible.
He must have moved to Boston soon afterward, for
there is a deed for property in Boston in 1651, on Summer Street and Hawley. He
had been made a freeman of Boston in 1651. There were approximately two
thousand settlers in Boston in 1650.
Henry conveyed this same property to his son
Nathaniel Rust of Ipswich and his son-in-law Robert Earle of Boston in 1684,
and in that deed he acknowledges that his son Israel Rust agrees to the
arrangement. He operated an inn called the Seven Star Inn but also was a glover
by trade. Henry died sometime between 1684 and 1685. He was alive to convey the
Boston property to his son Nathaniel and son-in-law Robert Earle, but he is
referred to as deceased in 1685 when Nathaniel conveys it to Earle.
Israel Rust (1643-1712) 9xggf
Israel Rust was born in 1643 to Henry and Hannah
Rust in Hingham, Massachusetts. He relocated to Northampton, MA as a young man
and in 1669 Israel married Rebecca Clark, daughter of William Clark, a
prominent military figure who fought in King Phillip’s War and other Indian
wars and who organized the first military company in Northampton. In 1678 there
is a record that he took the oath of allegiance required after the Restoration of
the English monarchy. In 1690 he took the freeman’s oath in Northampton. When
he died in 1712, he did not leave a will. His wife died in 1733. They had nine
children. Israel Rust has an entry in the AGBI.
Coventry,
Connecticut is due east of Hartford.
Captain Nathaniel Rust (1671-1762) 8xggf
Nathaniel was born in
Northampton, Massachusetts in 1671. He served in King William’s War in 1688 and
1689; this war was a colonial extension of tensions between France and England.
Its indecisive end lead to continuing conflicts between the French and British
in the Colonies. In 1700 Nathaniel Rust built
the first house in Coventry, Tolland County, Connecticut, on the west side of a
lake, but he did not move his family there until 1709. He was very prominent in
town affairs in Coventry. He was on the committee that first laid out the original
town in 1706. Nathaniel was on a
committee to select a minister in 1711. He was chosen as one of the first group
of selectmen in 1715. He was a tavern keeper, though the requirements at that
time were to own a stable with room for two horses and have an extra room. He
was chosen a moderator for town meetings in 1732 and 1733, selectman again in
1736, and moderator again in 1737. He was selected to committees to collect
back taxes and school taxes and to oversee the use of the school taxes. It is
likely that Nathaniel was in charge of the trainband, or informal militia,
because his title of Captain is always used before his name.
He married Mary or Mercy
Atchinson from Hatfield before he left Northampton and had ten children, and
most of them remained in Coventry. After Mercy died in 1754, he remarried to
Mary Rose, a widow, quite late in his life. He had a will dated 1760, and died
in 1762.
Captain Samuel Rust (1703-1773) 7xggf
Samuel was born before
his parents left Northampton in 1703. Like his father, Samuel was prominent in
community affairs and represented the town of Coventry in the Connecticut General
Assembly in the 1750s. He was commissioned an ensign in 1738 and a lieutenant
in 1746, and captain in 1767. These
military titles were related to the local trainband or militia in Coventry but
were given at the State Assembly. He was apparently involved frequently in the
laying out and maintenance of roads around Coventry. He was chosen selectman
and moderator at town meetings in 1748, 1749, 1750. He was on the school
committee in 1752. He served on the first jury ever empaneled in Windham,
Connecticut in 1726, a jury that heard a murder trial.
Samuel married Sarah
Hawkins in 1722 in Coventry. She had been born in Preston, New London, Connecticut.
They had seven children.
Sarah Rust (1732-1804) 6xggm
Sarah was baptized in
June,1732 as recorded in church records. She married Captain William Wilson in
1749. He was of Killingly, Windham, Connecticut and died in Coventry Tolland,
Connecticut where Sarah’s family resided. Since his son Jacob is identified as
owning the tavern from Sarah’s family, it seems likely that he also ran the tavern/inn.
As noted before, we have a DNA match with the common ancestor being William Wilson and Sarah Rust.
As noted before, we have a DNA match with the common ancestor being William Wilson and Sarah Rust.
We will move on to other interesting families in Hannah Wilson's tree, and see some more DNA matches when we do.
Resources
I found many of the resources available through
Ancestry.com membership helpful with these New England families: Massachusetts, Compiled Census and Census
Substitutes, Millennium Files, North America: Family Histories 1500-2000,
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index 1500s-1900s, The New England Historical
and Genealogical Register, U.S. and International Marriage Records 1560-1900,
Connecticut Deaths and Burials Index
1650-1934, Massachusetts Marriages
1633-1850, Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1780 (Barbour Collection),
Connecticut Church Records Abstracts 1630-1920, Killingly Vital Records, U.S.,
New England Marriages Prior to 1700 with this last reference proving to be quite
helpful.
https://archive.org/details/descendantsofjoh00stev/page/n3 online version of Ken Stevens’ Descendants of James Wilson of Woburn, Massachusetts. Published in
Walpole, N.H. 1991.
Rolls of Connecticut Men
in the French and Indian War, 1755-1762 by
Albert C. Bates. Published by the Connecticut Historical Society, 1903. Available
online through Ancestry.com post by Jan Ramos 2009.
Roots of Coventry, by the Coventry 275th Anniversary Committee 1987.
History of Tolland
County, Connecticut, by J.R. Cole, published by
W.W. Preston Co.,1888.
Hale Collection of
Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934. Lists William and his wife; notes William’s Revolutionary War
stone.
https://books.google.com/books?id=QrZOAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=henry+rust+hingham+massachusetts&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiX0Oyh66TfAhVLC6wKHT0GBVUQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=henry%20rust%20hingham%20massachusetts&f=false
online version of Record of the Rust Family:
Embracing the Descendants of Henry Rust, Who Came From England and Settled in
Hingham, Massl, 1634-1635.by Albert D. Rust published in Waco, Texas, in
1991.
https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ricrhode&id=I2558
Rootsweb Tree for the Rhode Family.
https://books.google.com/books?id=dNYqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA165&lpg=PA165&dq=israel+rust&source=bl&ots=fHL3_bOn5B&sig=u9YSMjRpADtj2IUKztD-2NmipXs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjr7qmpuaXfAhUOS6wKHRLGAl0Q6AEwCnoECBQQAQ#v=onepage&q=israel%20rust&f=false
online version of John Jordan’s Genealogical
and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Vol. I.
http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~geneajan/genealogy/RustDesc.html
site about the Rusts
files.usgwarchives.net/ct/newlondn/history/families/richardson-amos.txt
online version of Amos Richardson of Boston, MA and Stonington, CT with a Contribution to
the History of His Descendants and the Allied Families of Gilbert, Edwards,Yarrington,
and Rust. New York, 1906.
Public Records of the
Colony/State of Connecticut published in Hartford,
CT, 1897. Has records of Samuel Rust.
http://www.old-maps.com/ct/CDROM_PDF/Tolland_1857_web.pdf
nice old maps of Connecticut; scroll down to Coventry.
https://www.newrivernotes.com/index.htm
Good source of information about Grayson and Washington counties in Virginia.
Love it. Thanks, Dana, for a fascinating post!
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