Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father by Stephen Fried - 10-17-2018 by Rev
Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father by Stephen Fried - 10-17-2018 by Rev. Joe Dirt - Curmudgeon Alley - http://www.curmudgeon-alley.com Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father by Stephen Fried by Rev. Joe Dirt - Wednesday, October 17, 2018 http://www.curmudgeon-alley.com/rush-revolution-madness-and-benjamin-rush-the-visionary-doctor- who-became-a-founding-father-by-stephen-fried/ I’ve been fascinated by Benjamin Rush ever since as a grade schooler, I realized that there was a signature on the Declaration of Independence with the same last name as mine, Rush. Rush is not the commonest of last names. Of course, I fantasized that he might be a direct ancestor or other relation. At that time there had not been a lot of genealogy done on my family. Since then I have discovered that we are related, not closely, but related. We are 3rd cousins 6 generations removed. We share a common ancestor, Capt. John “Old Trooper” Rush. What is interesting about John Rush is that he was a captain in Oliver Cromwell’s army. If you remember your English history, Cromwell briefly established a republic in Great Britain in the 1650s. Capt. Rush later immigrated to the Pennsylvania colony. There are several reasons that Benjamin Rush has been assigned to the second tier of founding fathers. Stephen Fried in his book Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father, argues that this is an injustice.
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