1 BIRT
2 DATE 1601
2 PLAC England
2 SOUR S07120
MY NOTES: Thomas & Richard Brush may not have been brothers. It is assumed they are related in some manner, possibly cousins. As there is inter-marriage between the two families, I have listed them in this database as brothers to facilitate the entering of information. They were both immigrant ancestors, they owned land next to each other and were obviously very closely connected. They are not father and son due to only 10 years difference in age; therefore, the relationship has to be either brothers or cousins or Uncle & nephew. vlwwGenealogies 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 174.
"THOMAS AND RICHARD BRUSH OF HUNTINGTON, LONG ISLAND
Contributed by Connlin Mann - Member of the Publication Committee
Thomas and Richard Brush were the founders of two distinct lines of the Brush Family. Thomas Brush was in Southold, Long Island, probably as early as 1650 or 1651. Richard Brush was in Cambridge, Mass., in the spring of 1658. He was in Long Island waters by the summer of that year. Soon thereafter they owned adjoining lands in Huntington, Long Island. Though early Huntington town and land records mention both Thomas and Richard Brush many times, and their children and grandchildren were prominent in the town for a hundred years, no hint of the relationship existing between the two has been found. The intimacy between their families is so apparent in the records it may be assumed they were borthers or perhaps cousins. There is much evidence to show that a father and son relationship did not exist; a relationship frequently stated in print as a fact. It is indicated they were Englishmen.*
When the American Revolution came, descendants of Thomas or Richard Brush were to be found not only in central Long Island but also in Westchester, Orange, Ulster and Dutchess Counties, in several towns of Fairfield County, Conn., in Hunterdon and Gloucester Counties, N. J. and in Bennington, Vt. ....................... Astudy of the indices of the Index Library covering early wills and administrations in England shows two English strains with the name Brush, both apparently good yeoman stock. The earlier family centers in Tewkesbury and Brockworth Parishes, Gloucestershire. That family supplied six probates between 1558 and 1692, four of them being prior to 1620. Berkshire and Worcester, adjoining counties, supplied two and one respectively. Of these nine probates three are in the name Richard Brush and two in that of Thomas Brush. The second and more numerous family was in Cornwall, in the Parish of St. Germain, but appearing also in several other Cornwall parishes. Twenty-three probates for Cornwall Brushes are recorded between 1570 and 1683. Of those four are for John, three for Thomas and two for Richard Brush. Unfortunately parish records covering baptisms for the Glouchester and Cornwall Brushes either do not exist or are not available in American libraires, and the marriage reocrds, though mentioning numerous Brushes, throw no light on the parentage of the immigrants to the New World. It is indicated, however, that research in England might readily establish the progeniters of Thomas and Richard Bursh."
