Person:Henry Rust (4)

Henry's Birth

Until proper documentation is provided, Henry's birth date, birth place and parentage should be considered unknown.

Many undocumented sources state that Henry Rust was born in Hingham, Norfolk, England. There are over 100 submissions to FamilySearch's Ancestral File, Pedigree Resource File and Member submissions to the IGI, for example, with varying dates of birth, but listing Hingham as the place of birth. The same is true for submissions to WorldConnect, while Family Trees including Henry Rust submitted to Ancestry.com number in the thousands, again with varying birth dates, many with Hingham as the place of birth. If there is a documented record for either date or place, it has been lost in the multitudes. Since the proliferation of trees on Ancestry is usually the result of copious copying, it is unlikely that an actual documented record would remain unknown for long.

Efforts have been made to locate an actual record of Henry's birth.^[2] If he was born in Hingham, it was before 1600, as his birth does not appear in the Parish Registers after that date.^[1] The alternative is that he was not born in Hingham, as there seem to be very few Rusts in the community at the appropriate time period.

The assumption that Henry was born in Hingham, England seems to be based on his early residence in Hingham, Massachusetts, where many, but not all, early settlers came from Hingham, England. Some came from nearby villages, and a few came from other areas of England. And it is possible that he arrived in Massachusetts prior to 1635.^[3][4]

1. ↑ Church of England. Parish Church of Hingham (Norfolk). Parish registers, 1600-1912. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1987).

   No Henry Rust baptized between 1600-1620, no Rusts married between 1607-1635

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} Rust, Albert D. (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, Texas: The Author, 1891).

   p. ix - only Rusts found in early parish records of Hingham, Norfolk, Eng are a marriage for a Peter Rust and Mary Hubord (13 Oct 1655), and in North Lopham, Norfolk, Engl, Marriage of Johannes Rust and Elizabeth Womock, 7 Oct 1625.
   
   p. 1 – Henry(1) was in Hingham, MA by June 1635 when he was granted 2 acres of land [on Weary-All-Hill] for planting west of John Farran and east of Thomas Lincoln (Town Records)
   - March 5, 1637 – Henry Rust was one of 39 recipients of town meadow & upland of Nantascus Division – 1 acre of meadow and 5 acres of upland (Town Records)
   - March 23, 1637 – Henry Rust was one of nine freemen chosen to determine general business within the town except for making of Rates
   p. 3 - 1645 – Henry Rust appointed for recording births and burials in Hingham in the room of Mr. Peck
   - Henry Rust admitted an inhabitant of Boston, 31 March 1651
   p. 3 - purchase of property [full transcription of deed];
   p. 11 – descriptions of subsequent sales of this property indicate that it is in the southeast quarter of the block bounded by streets presently known as Washington Street [the broad street], Summer Street (formerly known as Seven Stars Lane), Hawley Street (formerly known as Bishops Lane), and Franklin Street.
   p. 12 – Henry Rust & wife admitted to the [First] church [of Boston] 20 of ye 12 mo 1669

3. ↑ Waters, John. Hingham, Massachusetts, 1631-1661 : an East Anglian oligarchy in the New World (1971).

   p. 59 - among the East Anglians, most of whom came from Hingham, in Norfolk, was Henry Rust, glover (came about 1633?).

4. ↑ Hingham, Massachusetts
   accessed 21 Sep 2012.

   "While most of the early Hingham settlers came from Hingham and other nearby villages in East Anglia, a few Hingham settlers like Anthony Eames came from the West Country of England."
   Source: History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Volume 1, Part 1

5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Lincoln, George; Thomas T. Bouve; Edward T. Bouve; John D. Long; Walter L. Bouve; Francis H. Lincoln; Edmund Hersey; Fearing Burr; Charles W. S Seymour; and Town of Hingham. History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts . (Hingham, Massachusetts: The Town, 1893)
   Volumes II and III; FHL #6048949.

   p. 142 - Rust, Henry, in Hingham 1635. Same yr. had land granted him on north side of Otis Hill. Name of wife unknown.
   p. 142 - Rust, Henry, removed to Boston before 1651

6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society).

   Volume 3, p. 95 (1849)
   - March 1637-8, Court Records, Vol. 1, p. 195 - Henry Rust made freeman
   Volume 8, 1854, UBC F1 N56 v.8
   p. 55-62 - pp. 60-61 (Inventories [The County of Suffolk, Mass])(January 1854)
   Capt. Bozone Allen, inventory taken 22 Sept 1652: Debts due to the estate: inc. Henry Rust of Boston

7. ↑ Suffolk County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds. Records of deeds, 1639-1885; indexes to deeds, 1639-1920. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969)
   Vol 1, pp. 313 & ff;FHL #0493932.

   Awdry Palmer of Boston, New England, widow
   in consideration of the sum of 18 pounds
   paid by Henry Rust of Boston, New England, glover
   has sold her cottage or Tenement with the Garden or Orchard thereto belonging, the land of Nathaniell Woodward Senior lying Northwest and the Highway East and South
   Signed 11 March 1652, Awdry Palmer (her mark)
   Witnesses James Johnson, John Hull, Witt M Blandon [his mark], James Hichcock
   Acknowledged by Awdry Palmer before Willm Hibbons 24th day 5th mon 1653

8. ↑ ^8.0 8.1 Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Records of Deeds, 1639-1885; Indexes to Deeds, 1639-1920
   Vol. 13, p. 264 & ff; FHL #0493936.

   Henry Rust of Boston with the county of Suffolk & Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Glover
   for & in consideration of the natural love good will & Affection which I have & bear unto my son Nathaniel Rust of Ipswich in New England aforesaid Glover & my Son in Law Robert Earle of Boston afores’d Cordweiner husband to my daughter Hannah
   and for repayment for their great love care dutifulness considerable charges & disbursments for several years past expended in the relief of myself & wife
   & in consideration of such farther charges & expenses as they or either of them shall further be at for my comfortable subsistence during my natural life & decent interment of my body after death,
   Have sold aliened unto them the said Nathaniel Rust & Robert Earle in equal halves all that my Messuage or Tenement Situate at the southerly end of the towne of Boston above sd,
   bounded southerly by the street or highway thatt leads from the broadstreet along the water side, on the westerly side by the land of John Marion senr part thereof was formerly ye land of Benjamin Briscoe & at the Reer or northerly end by the land of Thomas Wybourne, & on the Easterly side by a certain lane there commonly called and knowne by the name of Bishops lane,
   All my goods household stuffe implements & utensils of household & moveable estate whatsoever as well remaining in the abovesaid messuage as in any other place, the principall things thereof being mentioned and contained in a schedule hereunto annexed. . . . .
   And further whereas I have formerly given a double portion of my Estate unto my oldest son Samuel Rust dec’d I do by virtue of these presents utterly exclude and debar his wife & two children, namely Elizabeth Rust & Samuel Rust from having or claiming any right title or Interest of in & to the premises or any part thereof and likewise My son Israel Rust & his heirs.
   Henry Rust reserves to himself during the tearm of his natural life the use benefit & priviledge of the two Low roomes & chambers over the same in the within mentioned Tenement wherein he now lives.
   Signed 28 January 1684, Henry Rust
   Witnesses John Earle Eliezer Moody.
   Quiet & peaceable possession of all the movable estate as the same is mentioned & contained in this Deed was given by the within named Henry Rust unto the within mentioned Robert Earle in behalf of himself & the within named Nathaniel Rust by the delivery & Receipt of one Pewter Porringer Marked HRM in presence of the witnesses whose names are hereunto subscribed
   John Earle, Eliezer Moody
   Father Henry Rust personally appearing upon the 29th day Januy 1684-5 acknowledged this deed with Schedule annexed to be his voluntary Act before me Sam Sewall Asstnt
   A Schedule - - - - annexed
   4 prs of sheets 5 napkins 2 Tablecloaths 6 Towells 1 Blanket 3 Ruggs 4 blankets 1 flockbed 2 bolsters 1 straw bed 3 pillows 3 pillow beirs 1 pr Curtains & bedsted One flockbed more & Blanket 2 carpets 1 Towell & small Remnant of linen And Irons: 3 Chests 1 chair & small table 16 pocket handkerchiefs 2 double & 2 single neckhandkerchiefs one trunk 6 skeins of linen yarn 1 Gun 1 Chest 6 puter dishes smal & great 5 pewter pots smal & Great 2 puter basins 2 tin & 2 Iron Candlesticks, 4 porringers & Cullender, 4 Cups, 1 long table: 1 warming pan, 1 tin pan, 3 brass kettles, 3 Ironpots, 1 pestil & mortar tongs fire shovel 1 spit, 2 smoothing Irons 1 great & two smal bibles, 6 chaires 1 frying pan, 1 feather bed & bolster, 1 Stray bed & yellow coverlid Pillow & pillow bier. one great chair, 4 skillets 1 great chest & cupboard with Severalls in it, 2 trannells, 2 wedges, beetle, one pr sheets more, With sundry other things & Lumber remaining in Said Messuage or Tenement.

9. ↑ ^9.0 9.1 Suffolk County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds. Records of deeds, 1639-1885; indexes to deeds, 1639-1920. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969)
   Vol. 13, pp 473 & ff; FHL #0493936.

   Nathanael Rust senior of Ipswich within the Mattachusetts Colony of New England Glover and Mary his wife
   confirme unto Robert Earle his heires & assignes for ever
   One Moity or halfe part of all that Messuage or Tenement (wherein Henry Rust late of sd Boston deced dwelth)
   which was given by the sd. Henry Rust unto sd. Nathanael Rust and Robert Earle by deed of Sale under the hand and Seale of sd. Henry Rust deced. bearing date the 28th January Anno Domi 1684
   Signed the fifth day of September Anno Domi One thousand Six hundred Eighty & ffive Annoq RRs Jacobi Secundi Anglieae &a primo.
   Nathanael Rust Senr
   Witnesses: John Kilby, Eliezer Moody, Thomas Forty
   Entered 12 April 1686

10. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    3:595.

    RUST, HENRY,
    Hingham 1635, freem. Mar. 1638, rem. to Boston bef. 1651, on 31 Mar.
    of wh. yr. he was rec. to be an inhab