Henry Rust (abt. 1613 - aft. 1684)

Born about 1613 in Hingham, Norfolk, England

Descendants

Died after Jan 1684 after about age 71 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

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Henry Rust migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 292) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Henry Rust emigrated from Hingham, Norfolk, England before 1635.^[1] He and his wife (maybe Hannah^[2]) had 6 children, 5 boys and 1 girl,^[3] in New England. Henry's year of birth was estimated assuming an age of 25 at the birth of his first child, Samuel. Henry died between 1684-1685.^[4]

Ethnicity/Relig.: Protestant

Occupation: Civil Servant, Inn Keeper, Farmer

Freeman: March 1638

5 March 1637 Henry Rust rec'd one acre of Meadow and 5 acres upland. Earlier in 1635 he was to have 2 acres of planting ground next to John Farrah and Thomas Lincoln.

23 March 1637 freeman of the town along with Clement Bates, Nicholas Jacob, Henry Tuthill, Edmond Hubbard. Note: to be a Freeman one must be a member of the Congregational Church.

14 August 1637. "Great lots" were given by the freemen as follows : "Henry Rust received 14 acres."

18 February 1638. "Henry Rust with five others was chosen to make rates." Henry Rust by joynt consent have five acres to his house lot which he bought of George Russell next to Clement Bate on the east side and three acres of planting ground upon Weary All Hill which he bought with his house lot and next John Farrah ; and three acres to a planting lot, upon the neck to the west of the ware. And two acres of marsh at Layford's lying next to John Smart and is to have all these several parcels of land to be and to his heyeres for ever, be it more or less as it is measured."^[5]

As to his home in the old world, the following, ^[6], is submitted as conclusive : "On the 26 of April, 1638, the ship 'Dilligent, of Ipswich,' 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, Mass., 1633-37 (consisting of ten families and five single persons, in all forty-nine) who had been their friends and neighbors in old Hingham."

Marriage

Henry Rust & wife, married by 1638, were admitted to the church 20 12th mo 1669. And a deed of conveyance to Nathaniel Rust and Robert Earle refers to "my wife", but nowhere in the records is the given name of Henry's wife mentioned and her maiden name is totally unknown. It has been surmised because the couple had a daughter Hannah that Hannah might be his wife's name.^[7]

A name of "Hannah Appleton" has been suggested as the wife of Henry Rust based on the book "700 Ancestors..." by Lewis Keeler Leonard.^[8] Leonard asserts, without source, that the wife of Henry Rust was Hannah Appleton, a daughter of Samuel Appleton and "Mary Everard" (Samuel's wife was actually Judith Everard) and that Hannah was born about 1616 at Little Waldingfield, Essex where Samuel & Judith's other children were christened at that time. This is not supported by parish registers or any other primary or vetted secondary source. Leonard gave as sources for this entry "NEHGR VII" (presumably meaning the 1853 death notice of Samuel Appleton on page 97 which only asserts that he was the son of 1635 immigrant Samuel but says nothing about the children of this immigrant) and Vol. 5 of George Norbury Mackenzie's "Colonial Families of the United States", a series of books that is known to be problematic, especially as it relates to English origins of early immigrants. In fact, Mackenzie in his entry on Samuel the immigrant shows only one child (John) and lists Samuel's wife as "Mary Everard" instead of Judith so clearly was not accurate with this family.^[9] Leonard also shows this information in his chapter on the Rust family, but with no further primary sources for the wife of Henry Rust as Hannah Appleton. So why he thinks Hannah Appleton was the name of Henry Rust's wife, and why he associated her with Samuel Appleton & Judith Everard is a bit of a mystery although pretty clearly Mackenzie was his main source given that he also mistakenly called Samuel Appleton's wife "Mary". Given all this, no support is seen for "Appleton" as a surname for the wife of Henry Rust (or for "Hannah" as her first name) in Leonard's work.

Children^[7][10]

1. Samuel bpt Hingham, Massachusetts, 5 Aug 1638; m. Elizabeth Rogers
2. Nathaniel bpt Hingham 2 Feb 1639/40; m. Mary Wardell
3. Hannah bpt Hingham 7 NOv 1641; m. (1) Robert Earle
4. Israel bpt Hingham 12 Nov 1643 m. Rebecca Clark
5. Benjamin bpt 5 Apr 1646
6. Benoni d. 23 Oct 1649.

Sources

1. ↑ Rust: p.1
2. ↑ Rust: p.12
3. ↑ Rust: p.12-13
4. ↑ Rust: p.12
5. ↑ Henry Rust and His Descendants by A D. Rust published Waco, TX 1891. https://archive.org/details/recordofrustfami00rust
6. ↑ from the NEHGR for April, 1876
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Rust: pp. 12, 13
8. ↑ Leonard, Lewis Keeler.. Seven hundred ancestors. unknown: unknown, 1975. Ch. 4 p. 12 $subscription and free image courtesy of ancestry.com
9. ↑ Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775 for Samuel Appleton Colonial Families of the United States of America, Volume V Appleton Family Vol 5. p. 13 $subscription and image courtesy of ancestry.com
10. ↑ Bouvé, Thomas Tracy, et al. (ed) History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts ([Hingham] Pub. by the town, 1893) Vol III p. 142

• Rust, Albert Dexter. Record of the Rust Family, Embracing the Descendants of Henry Rust, who Came from England and Settled in Hingham, Mass., 1634-1635. Waco, TX: Albert Dexter Rust (self published), 1891. (ebook available online) See https://archive.org/details/recordofrustfami00rust

• Stearns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (Lewis Publishing Company, 1908) Vol. 2, Page 735