Julia Stockton

The New Netherland Ancestors of

JULIA STOCKTON,

the wife of BENJAMIN RUSH



- for Benjamin Rush

Continental Congress Delegate, Declaration of Independence Signer





		      __Richard Stockton1
		     |
		 __Richard Stockton2
		|    |
		|    |__Abigail (__)1
		|
	    __John Stockton3
	   |    |
	   |    |     __Robert Witham2
	   |    |    |
	   |    |__Susanna Witham2
	   |         |
	   |         |__Ann (__)2
	   |
       __RICHARD STOCKTON4
      |    |
      |    |          __Theophilus Phillips7,8
      |    |         |
      |    |     __Philip Phillips5,7
      |    |    |    |
      |    |    |    |     __Ralph Hunt8
      |    |    |    |    |
      |    |    |    |__Ann Hunt8
      |    |    |         |
      |    |    |         |__(__)8
      |    |    |
      |    |__Abigail Phillips3,5
      |         |
      |         |     __Richard Stockton1
      |         |    |
      |         |__Hannah Stockton5
      |              |
      |              |__Abigail (__)1
      |
JULIA STOCKTON6
the wife of BENJAMIN RUSH
      |
      |__Annis Boudinot4



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Biography of BENJAMIN RUSH

 
RUSH, Benjamin, a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born in Byberry Township, near Philadelphia, Pa., January 4, 1746; educated under private tutors and at a private school in Nottingham, Md.; was graduated from Princeton College in 1760; studied medicine in Philadelphia, Edinburgh, London, and Paris, and commenced practice in Philadelphia in August 1769; held several professorships in the Philadelphia Medical College; Member of the Continental Congress in 1776 and 1777; a signer of the Declaration of Independence; entered the Revolutionary Army as surgeon general of the Middle Department in April 1777; made physician general in July 1777; resigned in February 1778; resumed the practice of medicine; delegate to the Pennsylvania ratification convention, 1787; founder of the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia; president of the Philadelphia Medical Society; vice president and one of the founders of the Philadelphia Bible Society; one of the founders of Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pa.; assisted in the establishment of the Philadelphia dispensary in 1786; treasurer of the United States Mint at Philadelphia from 1799 until his death in that city April 19, 1813; interment in Christ Church Burying Ground.
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Stockton, Thomas Coates, The Stockton Family of New Jersey and other
       Stocktons.  Washington:  The Carnahan Press, 1911.  1-5.
   2.  Ibid., p. 5-7.
   3.  Ibid., p. 23-24.
   4.  Ibid., p. 33-45.
   5.  Ibid., p. 20.
   6.  Ibid., p. 78-80.
   7.  Riker, David M., Genealogical and Biographical Directory to Persons
       in New Netherland from 1613 to 1674.  CD-ROM. Cambridge: The
       Learning Company, 1999.  1356.
   8.  Ibid., p. 1128.

 

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