Note: The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998. Subject numbers are HAP's originals. HAP's page divisions are shown: after subject page numbers are complete document page numbers in brackets and issue dates. The original text had generations indented in turn: here, generation numbers are added to each individual: the children of the title subject are "1/--". Subject 264. 2/2/1951 (244) THOMAS RUSHMORE. The following is from Hempstead Town Records: from the Genealogy of Long Island Families, by Charles J. Werner, New York, 1919: from Bunker's Long Island Genealogies: from Benjamin F. Thompson's History of Long Island: from the John "Rock' Smith Family, by Valentine W. Smith, Jamaica, N.Y., 1937. Thomas Rushmore was born in Wales, England, in 1609, and died at Hempstead, L.I., in 1682-3. He came to Hempstead in 1648, and us a blacksmith. The first mention of Thomas Rushmore is in Hempstead Town Records, Vol 1, p 28, in a list of cattle owned by the inhabitants of Hempstead on June 11/1657, together with the number of acres of land taken up by each of them in 1658. Instead of copying the literal spellings of the names, I have as far as possible used the spellings which later became standard. Acres Cows Acres Cows Lawrence Ellison 10 18 Ambrose Sutton 10 4 Thomas Ellison 10 Simon Seryn 10 6 John Ellison 10 John "Rock" Smith 10 14 Mary Pearsall 12 James Pine 10 5 Thomas Demyut 1 John German 10 6 Joseph Scott 3 Henry Livingstone 8 Adam Mott 3 Thomas Rushmore 10 1 Francis Weekes 3 John Sturgis 6 Richard Gildersleeve 10 1 Mr. Washburne 10 17 George Hewlett 10 4 Robert Ashnan 10 21 William Yeates 6 5 Jeremy Wood 10 5 Robert Marvin 10 7 John Simons 30 John Hicks 24 William Jaycocks 10 5 William Seeing 5 Mr. Strickline 8 Richard Wilis 10 0 Robert Jackson 10 20 Edward Raynor 10 7 William Smith 8 Jonas Ralstead 8 Thomas Jaycoeks 10 1 Timothy Halstead 6 13 Thomas Foster 10 Thomas Ireland 13 William Foster 10 Aaron Forman 3 Richard Valentine 10 Thomas Langdon 5 Thomas Southard 5 Thomas Carle 10 Hempstead was the first town in the East end of Long Island to be settled by the English, after the Dutch had made settlements on the western part of the island as early as 1636. In 1645, John Carman and the Reverend Robert Fordham, acting for their associates in Stamford, Conn., purchased from the Indians, title to the land at Hempstead, and on November 16/1644, procured a patent for the same from William Kieft, the Dutch Governor of the New Netherlands. The first actual settlement of the town was made in 1644 by between forty and fifty families from Stamford, Conn., among whom were:- Rev. Richard Denton. William Raynor. Richard Gildersleeve. John Coe. John Carman. Jonas Wood.- Robert Coe. Robert Jackson. Jeremy Wood. Benjamin Coe. Simon Searing. Rev. Robert Fordhsm. John Ellison Most of these families came originally from Wethersfield, Conn., and there is a tradition that they emigrated together from Hemel-Hempstead, a market town in Hertfordshire, England. On their arrival they were joined by John Hicks and Daniel Whitehead of Flushing, and subsequently by others, subject 264. P2 2/2/51 (246) amongst whom was Thomas Rushmore. In 1642, Captain John Seaman from the East end of Long Island, settled on land adjoining the eastern boundary of Hempstead, and had secured title to 12,000 acres of lend, which in 1685 became a part of the town of Hempstead. English colonists settled within the territory, over which the Dutch East India Company claimed jurisdiction, and were allowed to acquire land after taking the oath of allegiance to The Dutch Government. Hempstead, Gravesend, Jamaica, and Newtown were settled in this way. Hempstead was originally occupied by portions of the Indian tribes of Rockaway, Merokees, and Matinecocks, all belonging to the great Algonquin race of savages, which occupied the entire eastern seaboard of North America and extended west to the Rocky Mountain. The following items in Hempstead Town Records give details of Thomas Rushmore: there are many more which I have not copied. Vol 1, page 134, dated January 19/1663:- At a general town meeting held at Hempstead, the 4th day of February, was given and granted to John Smith and Thomas Rushmore, Thomas Champion, and Thomas Sonthard, each of them 8 acres apiece on the north side, bounded upon ye east by Hope Washburne's allotment at Herricks. In this Vol 1, various documents were signed by Thomas Rushmore as clerk of Hempstead town from 1666 to 1678. From 1664 to 1680 there are several deeds of sale of his land. On page 303 is an interestingly worded bill of sale of his dwelling houses and home lot to Robert Marvin. Vol 1, page 363, dated December 2/1668, it is stated that at a Court of Constables and Overseers, by his Majesty's authority, and our honoured Governors, appointed under His Royal Highness the Duke of York, Martha Rushmore, wife of Thomas Rushmore, enters an action against John Tredwell, her son in law, for abusing her swine, and reasonable damages shall be thought met by the Court. Vol 1, page 392, of Oyster Hay Town Records, dated August 4/1680, Thomas and Martha Rushmore sold to Moses Mudge, one eighth part of a property at Hempstead Plains, the Hollows. This same sale is in Hempstead Records, Vol 2, page 25, dated 1680, reading:- Thomas Rushmore of Hempstead in the North Riding of New Yorkshire, sells to Moses Mudge of Musketa Cove, one sixth part of homestead plains, signed Thomas Rushmore and Meelber Rushmore. The name Meelber must be an error for Martha. Vol 2, page 71, dated June 23/1681, states that at a town meeting in Hempstead, Thomas Rushmore was made choice of by the major vote of the town, to present a petition to the next Governor that shall arrive at New York that is commissioned to be Governor over Yorkshire in America. Vol 2, page 271 reads:- William Yeates of Hempstead, sells to Thomas Rushmore of aforesaid place, "all my right and title" of howes and lands within limited bounds of Hempstead". Vol 1, page 421, dated February 23/1683, gives a valuation or apprisement of the estate of Thomas Rushmore of Hempstead, Queens County, deceased, made by Nathaniel Pearsall and Jonathan Smith, by order of ye Justice, all valued answerable to money, as follows:- Ffirst byOne Dwelling house valued at œ31.0O.O One lot of land which the house stands upon, containing 40 acres. More 150 acres Of land lying between a run called Johnsons run and Suckcess Pond More by a parole of land given by ye towns to Thomas Rushmore, lying southward of their sawmill, ye quantity being nott yett knowne, all vallued at - seven shillings an acker, which comes to œ66.l0.0 Subject 264.P3 22/4/53 (247) More One feather bed, one bowlster and case, two pillows, four pillow drawers, four blankets, one red rug, one sett curtains, at œ14.05.0 More One pair of bellows, one sledge, one hand hemmer and rivetting hammer, two air tongs one grett vice, &c, &c, valued at 9.00.0 More Half a hundred weight of iron 12.6 More One oxen, two cows, 2 three years old steers, two yeare olds, one year old, at 32.00.0 More One lot of meadow land, lying at a neck called Hixis (Hick's) neck, containing 15 ackers or thereabouts, vallued at 18.00.0 More Two rights of comnonage in ye township of Hempstead, but ye bigness we cannot yett know. One saw mill and a grist mill with all tackling belonging to them as the mill bills, ye doggs and bitch, ye can hooks end rope, ye crow, and a corn row, and all other tackling belonging to them, valued at 140.00.0 More Other articles, not copied out here 26.06.0 Total value of estate œ357.13.6 Thomas Rushmore married, 1st, Martha ---, said to have been a Hicks, but I cannot find the name of her parents, nor birth and death dates: she may have been a sister of John "Rock" Smith. Thomas Rushmore married, 2nd, Martha Smith, who died before 1695, daughter of John, "Rock" and Horod (Long) Smith, see subject 280, whose will proves this marriage, and also that after Thomas' death, Martha married, 2nd, Francis Chappelle, and bore him two sons, William and Stephen Chappelle. Francis was town clerk at Hempstead. Issue:- (by his first wife, Martha Hicks'?) 1/1. Thomas Rushmore. Dates of birth and death unknown, but he must have been born about 1650-1655, as H.T.R. says he was an ensign in the militia in 1665: in those days ensigns were appointod at the age of 16 years. He was called deceased in 1733. Werner says he married Sarah ----. His and Sarah's names were bracketed in the Hempstead Census of 1693. Some genealogies say Sarah was the daughter of Thormas and his second wife Mary (Doughty) Hicks, who were married in 1676, but this is doubtful as Thomas Hicks' will mentioned no daughter Sarah. However I carry this Hicks line on in this genealogy, to show the ancestry of Hartha Hicks who married James Poole, subject 16, page 1. See subject 132 for issue for further particulars. 1/2. Elizabeth Rushmore, Dates of birth and death unknown. There is no record of her having been married, but in the Hempstead Census at l698 her name and that of Thomas Ellison were bracketed: it might be that she was merely being his housekeeper. Thomas Ellison may have been the fifth child of Richard and Thomasin Ellison of Braintree Mass., born there January 1/1655, who came to Hempstead in 1657. (This is from "The Allison Family in America", by Leonard Allison Morrison, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1926. 1/3. John Rushmore. bate of birth unknown but he must have been born between l650 and 1660: he may have died after 1713, the last mention of him in Hempstead Town Records. Werner says he married Mary Carman daughter of John Carman, and that his son Carmen Rushmore was born in 1725. There is something wrong about this, as he would have been Subject 264. p4 22/4/1953 (248) way over 60 years old, if not over 70 years old, when this son was born. There is no record of his marriage and no record of any of his children, nor is there any record of his wife in any of the Hempstead Town Records about him. Werner must have mistaken this John Rushmore for his nephew John Rushmore, son of his older brother Thomas Rushmore. The Hempstead Census of 1698 brackets the names of this John Rushmore and Mary ---, Mary's surname not given. This Mary might just as well have been his half sister Mary. Beyond Warner's statement that this Mary was a Carmen, there is no evidence that he was married. Further, none of the Carman genealogies say that John Carmen had a daughter Mary, nor did he have any daughter who married a Rushmore. John Carmen's will didn't mention a daughter Mary, though she might have died before he made his will in 1684. The following are the only H.T.R. of this John Rushmore. May 2/1701. Signed as witness on documents. - February 5/1705. Earmark registered, Vol 2, p 124. March 15/1705-. Witnessed a will. December26/1705. Signed as witness on documents. January31/1708. Signed as witness on documents. March 28/1709. `Witnessed the will of Elias Nezreau. April 5/1709. `Vol 2, p 253, in a sale of land by Henry Allin, Henry states:- "I release the equal half of the Hollows, that was Thomas Rushmore's land, late of Hempstead, ye father of John Rushmore". See under subject 132 for Henry Allin's purchase of this land from Thomas Rushmore. May 2/1710. Signed as witness on documents. February18/1712. Vol 2, p 450. John Rushmore releases all his right and title to the fourth part of a parcel of swamp land, lying to Pine Hill, with upland adjoining it, unto Isaac Jarman of Hempstead, which had been allotted to John Rushmore and others. April 5/1712. Vol 2, p 435. John Rushmore chosen for assessor in the run of Thomas Langdon who refused to serve. April 7/1713. Vol 2, p 445. Jorm Rushmore chosen assessor. 1/4. Jacob Rushmore. Dates of birth and death unknown. Werner says he was the son of Thomas and his first wife Martha (Hicks?) Rushmore: others say he was the son of Thomas and his second wife Martha (Smith) Rushmore: that Werner was right is proved by John "Rock" Smith's will, which mentioned no Jacob as his daughter Martha's child. Jacob Rushmore married Mary Hicks, daughter of Thomas and his second wife Mary (Douphty) Hicks, see subject 266. This is confirmed in Thomas Hicks' will, which called her wife of Jacob Bushlar, a mis- spelling of Rushmore. Bunker says Mary Hicks was born about 1694, probably much earlier, and died May 5/1765. The only record of any of their children is in Thomas Hicks' will, as follows:- Issue:- 2/1. Sarah Rushmore, dates of birth and death unknown. Thomas Hicks' will called her his grand daughter Sarah Everitt, by his daughter Mary. She married at Jamaica, L.I., on June 10/1713 Richard Everitt of Fosters Meadow in ye parish of Hempstead, (this is from the Reverend Poyer's Jamaica Grace Church records), probably son of Richard and Elizabeth (Clare) Everitt. Subject 264. p5 (249) Issue:- (by his second wife Martha Smith) 2/1. Ann Rushmore. no data. 2/2. Mary or Martha Rushmore. No data. Werner, Bunker and many other genealogies and records, give varied and incorrect information of the children of Thomas and his second wife Martha (Smith) Rushmore, but they are clearly given in John "Rock" Smith's will, reading, in part, "œ20 to Ann and Mary Rushmore and the two Chappelle children of my daughter Mary". Note. In a will of Elizabeth Regnier, daughter of Colonel and Joanna Markham of Philadelphia, and wife of Jacob Regnier, dated July 2/1715, proved August 3/1716, she left something (not stated what), to Regnier Rushmore, nephew of Thomas Hicks of Long Islend. I have not been able to ascertain which Rushmore he was the son of. From the date of the will, he must have been a son of either of the three sons of Thomas and his first wife Martha (Hicks?) Rushmore.