| Home Surname List Name Index Email Us | Tenth Generation548. Nathaniel RUST (*) was born on 16 November 1671 in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He lived in Coventry Township, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America after 1709. From Wikipedia.com: "The first house in Coventry was said to have been built near the shore of Wangumbaug Lake by Nathaniel Rust, a Hartford, Connecticut man, originally from Northampton, Massachusetts. The entire Rust family is said to have made their final move to Coventry from Massachusetts in a group of a dozen families in 1709. Along with Nathaniel Rust, the names of some of the earliest settlers were David Lee, Thomas Root, Samuel Gurley, Ebenezer Searl, Joseph Petty, Benjamin James and Benjamin Carpenter. The land was said to have originally been given to men from Hartford by Joshua, Indian sachem. The Connecticut General Assembly, held in Hartford in 1706, appointed William Pitkin, Joseph Tallcot, William Whiting and Richard Lord, as a committee with full power to lay out the bounds of the town and divisions of the land, to admit inhabitants. A 1711 revision added Nathaniel Rust to the committee and the task of procuring a minister of the gospel. Coventry was formally formed as a town in Hartford County in 1712. The first church was established in October 1714. Coventry became a town in Windham County on 12 May 1726, then became a town in Tolland County when it was originally formed on 13 October 1785." He died on 8 February 1762 at the age of 90 in Coventry Township, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. 549. Mercy ATCHINSON (*) was born on 30 October 1673 in Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 21 January 1754 at the age of 80 in Coventry Township, Tolland County, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. Children were:
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