From The Settlement of Prince Edward County by Nick and Helma Mika. Transcribed here by Linda Herman

Pioneers of Prince Edward County 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

MARTIN RUSH

Forced to leave New Jersey in 1783. 

The Rush family was among the first United Empire Loyalists to settle in Prince Edward County. Their origin was the Palatinate-on-the-Rhine area of Germany. The family of Martin Rush supported Britain in the American Revolution, and because of their loyalty to the Crown, they were forced to leave their New Jersey home in 1783.

Martin Rush settled just west of Rednersville, on a hundred acres of Crown land granted to him. Martin and his wife, Abigail Lockwood, had four children: John, James, Martin and Catherine. John Rush and Martin Rush also received land grants in the early nineteenth century. The second son, James, married Jemima Alley, and they became the parents of several children. The Alley family also had Loyalist beginnings in Prince Edward County.

The Rush family belonged to the Baptist Church. Members of the family who first settled in Prince Edward County were buried in the Old Pioneer Burying Ground.