Rev. Joseph Montgomery and Rachel Rush

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Husband Rev. Joseph Montgomery ¹

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           Born: 23 Sep 1733 - Paxtang Twp, Lancaster (later Dauphin) Co, PA 1
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           Died: 14 Oct 1794 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 2
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         Father: John Montgomery (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Martha [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 11 Jul 1770 3

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   Other Spouse: Elizabeth Reed (      -1769) 1 - 1765 3

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Wife Rachel Rush ³

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           Born: 1741 - Byberry, Philadelphia Co, PA 3
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           Died: 28 Jul 1798 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 3
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         Father: Thomas Rush (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Rachel [Unk] (      -      ) 3

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   Other Spouse: Angus Boyce (      -      ) 3 - Abt 1761

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Children

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1 M John Montgomery ³

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           Born: 23 Dec 1771 3
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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Joseph Montgomery

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He was educated at the College of New Jersey, from which he graduated in 1755, and was afterwards appointed master of the grammar school connected with the college. In 1760 the College of Philadelphia and Yale College conferred upon him the Master's degree. About this time he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Philadelphia, and soon after, by request, entered the bounds of the Presbytery of Lewes, from which he was transferred to that of New Castle, accepting a call from the congregations at Georgetown, over which he was settled from 1767 to 1769. He was installed pastor of the congregations at Christiana Bridge and New Castle, Delaware, on the 16th of August, 1769, remaining there until the autumn of 1777, when he resigned, having been commissioned chaplain of Col. Smallwood's (Maryland) regiment of the Continental Line. During the war his home was with his relatives in Paxtang. On the 23d of November, 1780, he was chosen by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania one of its delegates in Congress, and re-elected the following year. He was elected a member of the Assembly of the State in 1782, serving during that session. He was chosen by that body, February 25, 1783, one of the commissioners to settle the difficulty between the State and the Connecticut settlers at Wyoming. When the new county of Dauphin was erected, the Supreme Executive Council appointed him recorder of deeds and register of wills for the county, which office he held from March 11, 1785, to October 14, 1794, the date of his death. "Mr. Montgomery filled conspicuous and honorable positions in church and State in the most trying period of the early history of the country. In the church he was the friend and associate of men like Witherspoon, Rogers, and Spencer, and his bold utterances in the cause of independence stamp him as a man of no ordinary courage and decision. * * * He enjoyed to an unusual degree the respect and confidence of the men of his generation."

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General Notes: Wife - Rachel Rush

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She was full sister of the celebrated Dr. Benjamin Rush. [N & Q 1894] But other sources give his parents as John Rush and Susanna Hall.

1 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 248.

2 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 249.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 250.