Individual Details
William RUST
(Abt 1634 - Abt 25 Oct 1699)
[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 8, Ed. 1, Tree #0774, Date of Import: 1 Jun 1998]
!BIRTH: BOOK-VA-031 gives probably place of birth.
!MARRIAGE: IGI-VA, p. 27,927.
!DEATH: BOOK-VA-031 gives date will was proven.
RESI Yeocomico, Cople Parish, Westmoreland Co., VA
CHILDREN:
John
William
Samuel
George
William RUST appears to have been well educated for the time, for unlike many of his neighbors and intimates, he always signed documents with his signature, never by mark.
1650...His arrival in the Colony of VA appears to have been about 1650 or earlier.
1654...His first appearance upon official records is when he was witness, along with two others, to the will of Abraham Moone of Lancaster county, Virginia, april 24, 1654. It is clear that Abraham Moone was a man of large affiars...He had made a precvious will at the home of colonel Richare Lee, and he doubtless chose the witnesses to his will from long acquaintance and from first hand knowledge of their standing and character. Abraham Moone, who later became an active speculator in headrights and in lands, first appears in VA records in 1639, when on Jun 10, that year, Lieutenant Richard Popeley had a patent for the transportaion of twenty-five persons into the colony. The second name of that list is WILLIAM MEDCALFE and the third from the last is ABRAHAM MOONE...The plantation of Abraham Moone adjoined that of Sir Henry Chichley, and only one plantation separated his estate from that of Lady Lunsford...her late husband, Sir Thomas LUNSFORD, on August 7, 1649, received a pass for himself, his wife and their children to migrate to VA. He recruited a considerable company and not long after his arrival in the colony laid claim to sixty- five head rights for persons whose transportation he had paid on the ship with him. The patent was granted to him on Oct. 24, 1650, and in the list is found the name WILLIAM RUSH (PROBABLY RUST AS THE LIST WAS A COPY OF A COPY)
1699...The date of his death is uncertain. All but the opening paragraph of his will, proven in the county of his residence, November 29, 1699, is missing. This paragraph of his will and the record of its proof.
"In the Name of God Amen I William Rust of Youcomoco in the parish of Cople in the County of Westmoreland daily finding myself to decline in my health, yet praise by god of Perfect sound mind and memory, observing the fraelty & uncertainty of Life doe make this my last will and Testament:"
The court record reads:
"The last Will & Testament of Wm Rust decd was this day produced in Court And Jno Tanner & Simon Robins Severally deposed that they See the said Wm Rust Signe Seale and declare the same to bee his last Will & Testamt and that hee was of perfect sence & memory at the same tyme to the best of their Judmts. A probate was grtd Samll & George Rust Executors therein named And the Will ordered to be Recorded."
The scarcity of early records together with the appearance of identical names have occasioned much confusion as to the identity of several of the early members of the family. IE: 1-Wm Rust, and his son, 101-Wm, whose death occured before that of his father. 101-Wm had also a son, 200-Wm.
1662...1-Wm Rust married (1) prior to 17 May 1662, Ann Metcalf (Medcalfe) who died prior to May 1697, and who was without doubt the mother of all his children. He married (2), after May 1697, Mrs. Matilda EARLE, widow of Samuel Earle, Sr. (SAMUEL EARLE, Sr., was born in England in 1638, died in 1698. His father came to St. Marys, MD, in 1649, and removed to Northumberland county, VA, in 1652.) Matilda (Earle) Rust married (3) before July 26, 1705, John BENNETT.
1676...William Rust took part in Bacon's Rebellion, an uprising growning out of the annoying and oppressive conditions which surrounded the development of the Colony of Virginia. The Westmoreland records show in the succeeding months the action taken against the "rebels" of that county. Under dte of 13 Jun 1677, appears the following: "Mr. Tho: Kirton discharged from (During) Ye Good Behaviour & (to) pay Costs." Then follows the names of eleven men who were likewise discharged on the same terms. Among these eleven are William Rust and William Rush, the latter of whom lived in the extreme northern part of the large county. This is further convincing evidence that William Rush and William Rust are not identical. (p. 15)
1677...William RUST was one of the jury on the death of John LAMKING (LAMKIN). This was a coroner's jury to enquire into the circumstances of the death of John LAMKIN, concerning which it is reocrded that it was occasioned on his lifting his hat to a lady, when his horse taking sudden fright dashed under an overhanging limb of a nearby "saplingg" whereby he was knocked off his horse and killed.
1677...petition of George LAMKIN and William RUST to admin. estate of John LAMKIN...Vincent COX was one of the sureties on their bond.
1697...aft May 1697 married 2nd Mrs. Mathilda Earle, widow of Samuel Earle, Sr. and she married 3rd bef 26 Jul 1705 John Bennett. p. 14--26 May 1697, estate of Samuel Earle, Sr., granted to his widow, Matilda Earle...William Rust was one of the appraisers of the estate. It was noted that Samuel Earle, Sr. had a wife Bridget living in 1693; that he later married Matilda, probably at the time a widow, since she is later referred to in the records, by Earle's son, as his father;s widow who "intermarried with one William Rust." William Rust's wife Ann, was living in 1693, when Earle deeded land to Rust and his wife, Ann. She probably died by May, 1697, since it appears it was between that date and July 1697, that William Rust married Earle's widow Mathilda. Neither the date of the marriage nor the identity of Anne, wife of William, is known, there is of recored in Northumberland on 23 Jul 1661, a William Ruske appears as he was made guardian of Jane Medcalfe, orphan child of William Medcalfe, deceased, William Ruske being described as having married the sister of the said Jane. William Medcalfe had died in 1655. The name William Rust frequently appears in the Northumberland county, VA records in law suits, as witness, and in other relations, and later on in westmoreland county records as a resident of the extremem south part of that county, which was made into Westmoreland county from former Northumberland County in 1653. William Medcalfe, supposed father of Ann, lived at Cherry Point Neck, formed by the confluence of the Yeocomico River with the Potomac, which is in westmoreland county.
1661...The property which William and Ann conveyed in 1661 was on Broad Creek, which empties into the Yeocomico River about two miles from the Potomac, thus this land was but three or four miles distant from the plantation of William Medcalfe. Ann received no land by her father;s will, an indication that she was a young widow, when, as it appears, she married William Rust. She may have been the widow of John Landman, who died about 1660 when a very young man. Color is given to the idea by the fact of Ann Rust giving power of attorney to Samuel Bonum to convey land to William Landman, who may have been residing on the family estate of the Landman's and a probable brother of John Landmand. (17 May 1662)
(BOOK-VA-031, p. 8-10) This book contains many land grants and purchases that could be researched. William Rust appears to have been well educated for the time, for unlike many of his neighbors and intimates, he always signed documents with his signature, never by mark.
!BIRTH: BOOK-VA-031 gives probably place of birth.
!MARRIAGE: IGI-VA, p. 27,927.
!DEATH: BOOK-VA-031 gives date will was proven.
RESI Yeocomico, Cople Parish, Westmoreland Co., VA
CHILDREN:
John
William
Samuel
George
William RUST appears to have been well educated for the time, for unlike many of his neighbors and intimates, he always signed documents with his signature, never by mark.
1650...His arrival in the Colony of VA appears to have been about 1650 or earlier.
1654...His first appearance upon official records is when he was witness, along with two others, to the will of Abraham Moone of Lancaster county, Virginia, april 24, 1654. It is clear that Abraham Moone was a man of large affiars...He had made a precvious will at the home of colonel Richare Lee, and he doubtless chose the witnesses to his will from long acquaintance and from first hand knowledge of their standing and character. Abraham Moone, who later became an active speculator in headrights and in lands, first appears in VA records in 1639, when on Jun 10, that year, Lieutenant Richard Popeley had a patent for the transportaion of twenty-five persons into the colony. The second name of that list is WILLIAM MEDCALFE and the third from the last is ABRAHAM MOONE...The plantation of Abraham Moone adjoined that of Sir Henry Chichley, and only one plantation separated his estate from that of Lady Lunsford...her late husband, Sir Thomas LUNSFORD, on August 7, 1649, received a pass for himself, his wife and their children to migrate to VA. He recruited a considerable company and not long after his arrival in the colony laid claim to sixty- five head rights for persons whose transportation he had paid on the ship with him. The patent was granted to him on Oct. 24, 1650, and in the list is found the name WILLIAM RUSH (PROBABLY RUST AS THE LIST WAS A COPY OF A COPY)
1699...The date of his death is uncertain. All but the opening paragraph of his will, proven in the county of his residence, November 29, 1699, is missing. This paragraph of his will and the record of its proof.
"In the Name of God Amen I William Rust of Youcomoco in the parish of Cople in the County of Westmoreland daily finding myself to decline in my health, yet praise by god of Perfect sound mind and memory, observing the fraelty & uncertainty of Life doe make this my last will and Testament:"
The court record reads:
"The last Will & Testament of Wm Rust decd was this day produced in Court And Jno Tanner & Simon Robins Severally deposed that they See the said Wm Rust Signe Seale and declare the same to bee his last Will & Testamt and that hee was of perfect sence & memory at the same tyme to the best of their Judmts. A probate was grtd Samll & George Rust Executors therein named And the Will ordered to be Recorded."
The scarcity of early records together with the appearance of identical names have occasioned much confusion as to the identity of several of the early members of the family. IE: 1-Wm Rust, and his son, 101-Wm, whose death occured before that of his father. 101-Wm had also a son, 200-Wm.
1662...1-Wm Rust married (1) prior to 17 May 1662, Ann Metcalf (Medcalfe) who died prior to May 1697, and who was without doubt the mother of all his children. He married (2), after May 1697, Mrs. Matilda EARLE, widow of Samuel Earle, Sr. (SAMUEL EARLE, Sr., was born in England in 1638, died in 1698. His father came to St. Marys, MD, in 1649, and removed to Northumberland county, VA, in 1652.) Matilda (Earle) Rust married (3) before July 26, 1705, John BENNETT.
1676...William Rust took part in Bacon's Rebellion, an uprising growning out of the annoying and oppressive conditions which surrounded the development of the Colony of Virginia. The Westmoreland records show in the succeeding months the action taken against the "rebels" of that county. Under dte of 13 Jun 1677, appears the following: "Mr. Tho: Kirton discharged from (During) Ye Good Behaviour & (to) pay Costs." Then follows the names of eleven men who were likewise discharged on the same terms. Among these eleven are William Rust and William Rush, the latter of whom lived in the extreme northern part of the large county. This is further convincing evidence that William Rush and William Rust are not identical. (p. 15)
1677...William RUST was one of the jury on the death of John LAMKING (LAMKIN). This was a coroner's jury to enquire into the circumstances of the death of John LAMKIN, concerning which it is reocrded that it was occasioned on his lifting his hat to a lady, when his horse taking sudden fright dashed under an overhanging limb of a nearby "saplingg" whereby he was knocked off his horse and killed.
1677...petition of George LAMKIN and William RUST to admin. estate of John LAMKIN...Vincent COX was one of the sureties on their bond.
1697...aft May 1697 married 2nd Mrs. Mathilda Earle, widow of Samuel Earle, Sr. and she married 3rd bef 26 Jul 1705 John Bennett. p. 14--26 May 1697, estate of Samuel Earle, Sr., granted to his widow, Matilda Earle...William Rust was one of the appraisers of the estate. It was noted that Samuel Earle, Sr. had a wife Bridget living in 1693; that he later married Matilda, probably at the time a widow, since she is later referred to in the records, by Earle's son, as his father;s widow who "intermarried with one William Rust." William Rust's wife Ann, was living in 1693, when Earle deeded land to Rust and his wife, Ann. She probably died by May, 1697, since it appears it was between that date and July 1697, that William Rust married Earle's widow Mathilda. Neither the date of the marriage nor the identity of Anne, wife of William, is known, there is of recored in Northumberland on 23 Jul 1661, a William Ruske appears as he was made guardian of Jane Medcalfe, orphan child of William Medcalfe, deceased, William Ruske being described as having married the sister of the said Jane. William Medcalfe had died in 1655. The name William Rust frequently appears in the Northumberland county, VA records in law suits, as witness, and in other relations, and later on in westmoreland county records as a resident of the extremem south part of that county, which was made into Westmoreland county from former Northumberland County in 1653. William Medcalfe, supposed father of Ann, lived at Cherry Point Neck, formed by the confluence of the Yeocomico River with the Potomac, which is in westmoreland county.
1661...The property which William and Ann conveyed in 1661 was on Broad Creek, which empties into the Yeocomico River about two miles from the Potomac, thus this land was but three or four miles distant from the plantation of William Medcalfe. Ann received no land by her father;s will, an indication that she was a young widow, when, as it appears, she married William Rust. She may have been the widow of John Landman, who died about 1660 when a very young man. Color is given to the idea by the fact of Ann Rust giving power of attorney to Samuel Bonum to convey land to William Landman, who may have been residing on the family estate of the Landman's and a probable brother of John Landmand. (17 May 1662)
(BOOK-VA-031, p. 8-10) This book contains many land grants and purchases that could be researched. William Rust appears to have been well educated for the time, for unlike many of his neighbors and intimates, he always signed documents with his signature, never by mark.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1634 | Suffolk, England, United Kingdom | |||
| Marriage | May 1662 | Cople Parish, Westmoreland County, VA - Ann METCALFE | |||
| Marriage | Aft May 1697 | Mathilda Earle SAMUEL | |||
| Death | Abt 25 Oct 1699 | Cople Parish, Westmoreland County, VA |
Families
| Spouse | Ann METCALFE (1642 - 1697) |
| Child | Samuel RUST (1665 - 1715) |
| Child | John RUST ( - 1686) |
| Child | William RUST (1675 - 1697) |
| Child | George RUST (1682 - 1710) |
| Spouse | Mathilda Earle SAMUEL ( - ) |