Col Lewis Rush

• General Notes
  • Colonel Lewis Rush (1764-1836), son of Conrad Rush, was born January 16, 1764. He married Mary Marshall in 1792. He served as Captain of the Philadelphia militia in 1799, and later as Colonel of all the Pennsylvania militia in the war of 1812. He also served as treasurer of the Schuylkill Flat Rock Bridge Company. Lewis Rush and Mary Marshall had at least seven children: Ann, Mary, Lewis Shaw, Henrietta, John, William, and Thomas M. Lewis Rush died in late September 1836. Upon his death his estate was said to be worth about one hundred thousand dollars (F 48). The estate of Lewis Rush was set up in part to invest his money in the form of an endowment to benefit his children. His children were to receive stipends throughout their lives. At their deaths these stipends were to be divided among their children or individuals they designated. These investments were managed by the administrators of the estate, Jonathan K. Hassinger and George Fales. Their administration proved controversial, for their choice of investments were challenged in court in 1846 and on numerous other occasions. With the death of J.K. Hassinger, the administration of the estate was passed solely to George Fales, and in the 1870s to Alfred G. Baker.
    
    
    History: 1810: Genealogical Data contained in the Statutes at ...
    An act to authorize LEWIS RUSH of the city of Philadelphia, to sell and convey ... devised by the late GEORGE MARSHALL, dec., to the children of Lewis Rush, ...
    files.usgwarchives.org/pa/1pa/xmisc/1810laws.txt
    
    History: 1813: Genealogical Data contained in the Statutes at ...
    An act to authorize LEWIS RUSH to sell and convey a tract of land. Whereas, by the last will and testament of GEORGE MARSHALL, dec., dated 5 Nov 1798, ...
    files.usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/xmisc/1813laws.txt -
    
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